v6.7 Tranche 1: kanban_complete verification gates (#28, #62, #64) - #11
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Adds three pre-write-txn gates that fire before complete_task transitions a task to done. Mirrors the existing _verify_created_cards / HallucinatedCardsError pattern: any violation is recorded as an audit event and raised, so worker state is unchanged and the worker can retry after fixing the underlying issue. Closes hermes-jarvis#28 (repo hygiene gate) Closes hermes-jarvis#62 (workspace-diff verification) Closes hermes-jarvis#64 (per-role runtime floor) Context: hermes-jarvis#61 (bootstrap-paradox case study) ## The three gates 1. verify_runtime_floor — per-role floor on completed_at - started_at. build roles 5min, review roles 90s, orchestration roles 0. Catches Tony's 20-second "approve" verdicts and Friday's 59-second "implemented 7 dispatcher gates" claims. 2. verify_workspace_diff — when a non-review worker on a dir/worktree workspace claims to have produced code, git diff against the tracking base must show actual changes. Catches Friday's "Wave A gates implemented" with an empty diff on the branch. 3. verify_no_stray_artifacts — rejects untracked or tracked artifacts matching patterns the swarm has historically committed by accident: *evidence*, commit-hash*, triage/*, tmp-*, and tracked files with no extension and no shebang (the "all prior block evidence files" failure mode from agent-dashboard PR #1). ## Opt-outs Workers may bypass individual gates via per-call metadata keys: x_fast_justified → allow_below_floor x_no_code → allow_no_code x_stray_ok → allow_stray Opt-outs are recorded as part of the completed event for audit. ## Tests 28 new tests cover the exact 2026-06-09 failure modes (Tony 20s, Friday 59s + empty diff, PR-1 "all prior block evidence files") plus clean-path passes and opt-outs. 258 passed / 0 failed in the wider kanban+complete+task test suite — zero regressions. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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…, dead-code removal Independent review of PR #11 surfaced two P0s and several P1s that would have actively recreated the v6.7 failure mode the gates exist to prevent. This commit addresses every finding. Findings + fixes: ## P0 — Opt-outs were free keyword bypasses `bool(metadata.get("x_fast_justified"))` accepted `True`, `"x"`, `"ok"` — all truthy under bool(). A worker that learned the metadata key could pass `{"x_fast_justified": true}` and bypass every gate. The docstring also lied: it claimed "opt-outs are recorded as part of the completed event for audit" but nothing in `complete_task` copied the opt-out keys to any event. Fix: new `_validate_opt_out` requires the value be a STRING of at least 20 non-whitespace characters and raises `InvalidOptOutError` on anything else. Accepted opt-outs are emitted as a `completion_opt_out_used` event with verbatim reasons. ## P0 — Hygiene gate false-positived on legitimate tracked files `verify_no_stray_artifacts` flagged `LICENSE`, `Dockerfile`, `Makefile`, `Vagrantfile`, `README` because the no-extension rule was applied universally. The `evidence` regex also matched legitimate filenames like `optional-skills/security/oss-forensics/references/ evidence-types.md` and `scripts/evidence-store.py`. Verified by running the gate against the hermes-agent repo itself: 15 stray paths, all legitimate. Fix: - Tightened patterns: `evidence/` must be a directory segment; `*-evidence.<ext>` only matches with explicit artifact extensions (.json/.png/.log/.txt/.md/.yaml/.yml); `triage/` matches as a segment. - No-extension+no-shebang rule now applies to UNTRACKED files only. Specific patterns (commit-hash.txt, triage/, tmp-*) still match tracked files too — a worker who actually committed those is just as wrong. - Allowlist for well-known no-extension basenames (LICENSE, Dockerfile, Makefile, ...) as defense in depth. ## P1 — Workspace-diff was bypassable by avoiding trigger verbs `_summary_claims_implementation` only triggered on a fixed verb list. A worker who wrote "Per spec, the changes land in hermes_cli and tests pass" had no trigger verb and bypassed the gate even with an empty branch. Fix: build-role + dir/worktree workspace ALWAYS requires a non-empty diff. Workers who honestly produced no code should call kanban_block with a reason, or opt out via x_no_code with a string justification ≥20 chars. Dead `_summary_claims_implementation` and `_IMPLEMENTATION_CLAIM_PATTERNS` removed. ## P1 — Other production callers didn't catch the new errors `complete_task` is also called from `hermes_cli/kanban.py:_cmd_complete` (CLI) and `plugins/kanban/dashboard/plugin_api.py` (PATCH endpoints ×2). Without explicit catches, the new exceptions would have been stack traces — to stderr in the CLI, to a 500 in the dashboard. Fix: CLI prints the error and continues per task; dashboard endpoints translate to HTTP 409 (single PATCH) or per-entry error (bulk). Block-task callers updated for `FabricatedAuthClaimError` too. ## P1 — Pure-function tests missed integration regressions Added `TestOptOutAudit` (5 tests) and `TestCompleteTaskIntegration` (2 tests) that exercise the full `complete_task` → gate → event → state-unchanged path. A wiring regression in `_v6_7_run_completion_gates` would now fail in CI. ## Test results 40 passed in tests/cli/test_kanban_completion_gates.py — up from 28 in the original PR #11 (12 new + 1 replacing the verb-trigger test). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…ce-diff gate Empty/None summary on a build role with no diff previously crashed `splitlines()[0]` before `verify_workspace_diff` could surface its violation. The crash bubbled past the gate, skipped the `completion_blocked_v6_7_gates` audit event, and surfaced as a 500 in the dashboard. Fix: guard the excerpt construction. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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…1/N6 fixes A second-pass independent review of the reviewer-fields PR found three new findings that this commit addresses: ## N1 — Empty body crashed splitlines()[0] Same shape as the workspace-diff crash bug fixed on PR #11. When `body` was empty or None, `verify_reviewer_fields` raised IndexError before constructing the violation. Real tasks with empty body columns hit this. Fix: guard splitlines result. ## N2 — Inline prose ≥20 chars bypassed adversarial_pass gates `adversarial_pass.env_vars: see above explanation about general env safety` (51 chars of prose, zero structure) passed the gate because the substantive check was character count. Same laundering shape as the prose-evidence bypass we fixed in the previous self-review. Fix: introduce `_has_adversarial_structure` requiring at least one of: bullet item line, UPPER_SNAKE env-var token followed by colon, path-like substring with a slash (e.g. `lib/ingest.ts`), or a source file extension (.ts, .py, .yaml, etc.). Honest empty markers ([], none, n/a) still accepted. Pure prose now correctly rejected. ## N6 — `evidence: none` bypassed citation discipline on code reviews When the body indicated code-touching review (`app/api/...`, `route.ts`, etc.), the previous gate accepted `evidence: none` as an honest-empty declaration. But for a code review, "no test evidence" is exactly the problem — Tony's job is to verify tests cover the deliverable. Fix: `_field_present` now takes `code_change_context` and disallows the honest-empty escape on `test_quality.evidence` when the body triggers adversarial requirements. Non-code reviews (docs, design) still accept `evidence: none`. ## Tests 7 new tests in `TestReviewerFieldsSelfReviewFixes`: - empty body doesn't crash - None body doesn't crash - adversarial inline prose bypass rejected (the N2 exploit) - structured inline values (ENV: bound, file.ts, path/like) pass - evidence:none blocked when body triggers adversarial - evidence:none allowed for pure docs review - bullet list under adversarial fields is the canonical happy path 64 passed in tests/cli/test_kanban_completion_gates.py — up from 57. 87 passed across PR #12 + adjacent regression set; zero failures. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Summary
Adds three pre-write-txn gates in
complete_taskthat catch the failure modes the 2026-06-09 v6.7 build chain demonstrated. See hermes-jarvis#61 for the full case study — 9 tasks reported done in ~10 minutes with zero real deliverables.Pattern mirrors the existing
_verify_created_cards/HallucinatedCardsErrorflow athermes_cli/kanban_db.py:3607. State unchanged on rejection; worker can retry after fixing the issue.Gates
verify_runtime_floor(closes hermes-jarvis#64) — per-role floor oncompleted_at - started_at. build 5min, review 90s, orchestration 0. Catches Tony's 20s "approve" verdicts and Friday's 59s "implementation".verify_workspace_diff(closes hermes-jarvis#62) — non-review workers ondir/worktreeworkspaces that claim implementation must produce a non-emptygit diffagainst the tracking base. Catches Friday's empty branch + fabricated summary.verify_no_stray_artifacts(closes hermes-jarvis#28) — rejects*evidence*,commit-hash*,triage/*,tmp-*, no-extension/no-shebang files. Catches the agent-dashboard PR schema: express conditional-required constraints for grok-style tool callers #1 "all prior block evidence files" mode.Opt-outs
metadata.x_fast_justified→ bypasses runtime floormetadata.x_no_code→ bypasses workspace-diffmetadata.x_stray_ok→ bypasses hygiene gateOpt-outs recorded on the completed event for audit.
Test plan
tests/cli/test_kanban_completion_gates.py— each pin the exact 2026-06-09 failure modes plus clean-path passes and opt-outspytest tests/cli/ tests/tools/ -k 'kanban or complete or task'→ 258 passed / 0 failedkanban_completeWhy this PR alone (Tranche 1)
v6.7 has 11 total issues. This addresses the three that would have rejected 2026-06-09's chain on first attempt. Tranche 2: NousResearch#29/NousResearch#30/NousResearch#31 (verdict-field validation + auto-spawn integrative review + reviewer SOULs in hermes-jarvis). Tranche 3: NousResearch#32/NousResearch#33/NousResearch#34/NousResearch#63/NousResearch#65.
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