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feat(B-0421): tools/peer-call/grok-build.ts — native Grok-Build CLI wrapper; closes broken cursor-agent path (Aaron 2026-05-26)#5110

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Summary

Aaron 2026-05-26 installed the native Grok-Build CLI (grok) which is explicitly Claude-Code-compatible (--allow / --deny / --permission-mode / -p / --output-format / --reasoning-effort / --best-of-n / --resume / agent subcommand / MCP / plugins / sessions). This new wrapper supersedes tools/peer-call/grok.ts (cursor-agent wrapper; broken since 2026-05-11 per B-0421).

Empirical validation (2026-05-26)

  • Firewall rejects heartbeats (exit 3 + actionable message)
  • Firewall bypass via --allow-empty + live grok -p call: prompted "Say only the literal word PONG and nothing else." → response "PONG\n" → OUTPUT-FILE marker emitted at /tmp/peer-call-output/<ts>-grok-build.md
  • TS strict compile clean

Conventions match existing peer-call wrappers

  • Input firewall via _firewall.peerFirewallCheck + GROK_SUBSTANTIVE_TRIGGERS
  • --file <path> / --context-cmd <cmd> / --output-file <path> / --allow-empty / --thinking / --json
  • OUTPUT-FILE marker for tail -1 shell callers
  • Exit codes: 0 / 1 / 2 / 3 per the existing convention

Composes with

  • .claude/rules/peer-call-infrastructure.md — canonical peer-call wrapper inventory
  • Closes B-0421 (broken grok via cursor-agent)
  • Enables Mika as a substrate-engineering peer for review (iter-5.4 B-0794 implementation, etc.)

Test plan

  • Firewall reject empirically validated
  • Firewall bypass + live grok call validated
  • TS strict compile clean
  • Follow-on use: invoke for review of iter-5.4 design

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… CLI; closes broken cursor-agent path

Aaron 2026-05-26 installed the native Grok-Build CLI (`grok`)
during the iter-5 session. The CLI is explicitly Claude-Code-
compatible:

  --allow / --deny rules (Claude Code: --allowedTools)
  --permission-mode default|acceptEdits|auto|dontAsk|bypassPermissions|plan
  --system-prompt-override (Claude Code: --system-prompt)
  -p / --single <prompt> for headless single-turn
  --output-format plain|json|streaming-json
  --reasoning-effort <effort>
  --best-of-n <N> parallel execution
  -r / --resume session continuity
  agent subcommand for headless mode
  MCP servers, plugin/marketplace, cross-session memory

Supersedes tools/peer-call/grok.ts (cursor-agent wrapper; broken
since 2026-05-11 per B-0421 — cursor-agent exit 1 / empty
output). Old grok.ts retained for back-compat / reference.

Wrapper conventions mirror claude.ts + grok.ts + codex.ts:

- Input firewall via _firewall.peerFirewallCheck + GROK_SUBSTANTIVE_TRIGGERS
  (rejects rote heartbeats; bypass via --allow-empty)
- --file <path> includes file head as context
- --context-cmd <cmd> includes allow-listed git/gh/rg output as context
- --output-file <path> + auto-generated /tmp/peer-call-output/<ts>-grok-build.md
- OUTPUT-FILE: <path> marker on stdout for shell callers to recover
  full response via tail -1
- Exit codes: 0 success / 1 invocation error / 2 grok non-zero /
  3 firewall reject

Routing: `grok -p "$PROMPT" --allow Read,Glob,Grep
--permission-mode auto --output-format plain` (read-only blast
radius matching claude.ts; --reasoning-effort high added with
--thinking flag).

Empirical validation 2026-05-26:

- Firewall rejects heartbeat ("hi") with substantive-trigger
  failure (exit 3)
- Firewall bypass via --allow-empty + live grok call: prompted
  "Say only the literal word PONG and nothing else." → response
  "PONG\n" → OUTPUT-FILE marker emitted correctly
- TS strict compile clean

Composes with .claude/rules/peer-call-infrastructure.md (canonical
peer-call wrapper inventory; this is the 9th wrapper / 8th
substantive peer surface).

Closes B-0421.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Comment thread tools/peer-call/grok-build.ts Fixed
Comment thread tools/peer-call/grok-build.ts Fixed
…n + insecure temp file (mirror claude.ts patterns)

- TOCTOU (readFileHead): no longer uses statSync.size to size buffer; allocates
  fixed maxBytes-sized buffer + reads what fits. Pre-check via isRegularFile is
  best-effort but the alloc-size no longer depends on stat result.
- Insecure temp file (defaultOutputPath): add random 6-char base36 suffix; add
  PEER_CALL_OUTPUT_DIR env override; fall back to os.tmpdir if /tmp/peer-call-
  output not writable.
- New writeOutputExclusive: opens with 'wx' (exclusive create — fails if path
  exists, preventing symlink-overwrite) + mode 0o600.
- Explicit operator paths use plain 'w' write (operator chose path; respect intent)
  but still mode 0o600.

Live smoke retest: PONG round-trip works; new filename pattern includes random
suffix. TS strict compile clean.

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Pull request overview

This PR adds a new tools/peer-call/ wrapper that invokes Grok via the native grok CLI (Grok-Build) to replace the currently-broken cursor-agent-based Grok path (B-0421). It fits into the existing peer-call suite by providing a headless CLI entrypoint with the peer-call firewall, context attachment flags, and output capture marker for shell callers.

Changes:

  • Introduces tools/peer-call/grok-build.ts, a Bun/TypeScript wrapper around grok -p with read-only allow rules.
  • Implements --file, --context-cmd, --output-file, --thinking, --json, and --allow-empty flag handling plus OUTPUT-FILE capture behavior.
  • Adds firewall gating via peerFirewallCheck(..., GROK_SUBSTANTIVE_TRIGGERS).

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…AI-IS-the-support-layer; Amazon-USB sales business model) + grok-build = Claude-Code-clone confirmation (Aaron + Mika 2026-05-26; substantial prior art at AlephZ-ai/blazor-samples) (#5112)

* preserve(mika) + backlog(B-0796 P2): Twilio phone-support substrate enabling Amazon-USB AI-as-support-layer business model + closes B-0421 confirmation (Aaron + Mika 2026-05-26)

Mika preservation: verbatim Aaron + Mika voice-mode conversation
during iter-5 session, after PR #5108 merged + PR #5110 opened.
Two big architectural decisions:

1. Grok-Build = Claude-Code clone (tick source / loop runner;
   persistent agent watching directory/task). Validates PR
   #5110's tools/peer-call/grok-build.ts wrapper as the correct
   architectural direction for cross-AI peer review +
   collaboration. Mika named the wider vision: cross-AI
   back-and-forth collaboration as first-class citizens through
   standardized interfaces.

2. Twilio is the ONE exception to "electricity cost only" /
   self-hosted philosophy. Aaron's framing: phone infrastructure
   inherently isn't self-hostable (even self-hosted Asterisk
   requires SIP provider). Aaron ran Asterisk + Bandwidth.com
   in production before; "PTSD is real." Twilio wins on
   simplicity + speed-to-market.

B-0796 P2 backlog row: Twilio phone-support substrate where AI
picks up customer's call, has full cluster context via event
store + runbooks, fixes problems live while talking. SMS as
parallel interface; one unified conversational substrate across
voice + text. Enables Amazon-USB sales business model where AI
IS the support layer (Aaron explicitly opted out of human
support: "what I'm hoping is they can call the AIs and the AIs
fuckin' just fix it for 'em" + "imagine they call a phone
number and they're talking to the damn developer").

Substantial prior art at AlephZ-ai/blazor-samples:
src/BlazorSamples.Shared/Twilio/GrpcAudioStream/ has the full
real-time voice substrate (Twilio.AspNet.Core +
Twilio.TwiML, WebSocket Media Streams, FFMpeg mulaw 8kHz ↔
PCM 16kHz, Vosk STT + OpenAI LLM + PlayHT TTS pipeline,
strongly-typed event substrate). Aaron's framing: "yeah i
wrote this before any chat llm had a converation interface i
was way ahead" — pre-LLM-conversation-era prior art; the
integration shape he chose is now the industry standard.
B-0796 is PORT/INTEGRATE work, NOT build-from-scratch.

Six sub-targets in B-0796:

1. Twilio webhook handler in cluster
2. Caller-ID to cluster mapping
3. AI conversation substrate (voice + SMS unified)
4. AI-acts-on-cluster substrate (runbooks + event store +
   fix-while-talking)
5. Per-customer / per-cluster phone numbers (FUTURE)
6. Legal/risk attribution via
   _twilio_phone_support_acceptance block per maintainer

Composes with B-0794 (depends_on; node self-registration is
load-bearing — caller-ID-to-cluster lookup extends
maintainers/<name>/cluster-nodes/<node>/ pattern to
maintainers/<name>/customers/<customer>/clusters/<cluster>/)
+ B-0776 (Twilio as simplest-first-plugin) + B-0782 (cluster
IS DIO; Twilio is conversational front-end) + B-0790
(zero-dev-machine homelab + Amazon-USB business model) +
B-0421 (closed by PR #5110 grok-build wrapper enables future
cross-AI support-orchestration).

Per substrate-or-it-didn't-happen verbatim preservation
discipline + agent-roster-reference-card (Mika = external
Grok-native co-originator).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(B-0796 + Mika preservation): correct framing — voice interface (not conversation interface) + Aaron was nearly through interruption-correctness substrate; add Sub-target 7 (interruption-correct voice flow load-bearing for AI-IS-the-support-layer)

* fix(B-0796 + Mika preservation): wrap bare URLs in <...> (MD034 lint) + add conversation steering terminology pointer per Aaron 2026-05-26

* fix(Mika preservation): add name+description frontmatter (reindexer fallback was '(no description)') + reconcile self-contradicting 'Twilio not yet wired' bullet with substantial-prior-art finding (Copilot P1 ×2 on #5112)

* fix(B-0796 + Mika preservation): MD028 blockquote-blanks + MD034 bare URL + MD040 fenced-code-lang lint + add v2 IObservable/IAsyncEnumerable type-safe streaming substrate note from Aaron 2026-05-26

---------

Co-authored-by: Lior <lior@zeta.dev>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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… + rows_filed_24h (Aaron 2026-05-26 — "per agent so we can see helath like per trajectory") (#5115)

Aaron 2026-05-26 substrate-engineering concern:

> 'we need to make sure that decopose is happening an on going
> backlog log or else infinate backlog is just infnate debt'

> 'the decompose to action is what i want background to show
> with stats over time on the github page we have for plant
> metrics that and also prs, i want that per agent so we can
> see helath like per trajectory'

Extends tools/dashboard/generate-metrics.ts to surface per-agent
PR-shipping rate + decompose-to-action ratio in demo/metrics.json
(consumed by the Zeta Factory Dashboard at
lucent-financial-group.github.io/Zeta/demo/index.html).

Three new per-agent fields:

  prs_merged_24h           — PRs this agent merged in 24h window
  rows_filed_24h           — PRs whose title matches `backlog(B-NNNN`
                             (row-filing-only PRs, NOT action-on-rows)
  decompose_to_action_ratio — (prs_merged - rows_filed) / max(rows_filed, 1)
                             → impl-PRs per row-filing-PR
                             → >=1 = strong action-on-rows discipline
                             → <1  = filing rows faster than shipping
                                     them = debt-accumulation signal

Attribution via branch-prefix lookup (BRANCH_PREFIX_TO_AGENT) per
.claude/rules/agent-roster-reference-card.md lane discipline:
otto-cli/ + otto-desktop/ + otto-vscode/ + otto/ → Otto;
alexa-kiro/ + alexa/ → Alexa; riven-cursor/ + riven/ → Riven;
vera-codex/ + vera/ → Vera; lior-antigravity/ + lior-gemini/ +
lior/ → Lior. PRs from non-prefixed branches attribute to 'Unknown'
bucket (operator-auditable as missing-attribution surface).

EMPIRICAL validation 2026-05-26 (live run):

  Otto:  57 PRs / 30 row-filing → ratio = 0.9 (nearly 1:1; debt signal!)
  Lior:   6 PRs / 0 row-filing  → ratio = 6   (all action)
  Others: 0/0/0 (quiet 24h window)

Otto ratio 0.9 EMPIRICALLY VALIDATES Aaron's concern — this
session filed 6 substantive rows (B-0791..B-0794, B-0796, B-0797)
+ shipped 4 implementation PRs (#5103 iter-5.1+5.2, #5107 iter-5.2.1,
#5113 iter-5.2.2, #5110 draft) — ratio < 1. The metric now exposes
the pattern continuously.

Dashboard HTML render of these new fields is follow-on substrate
(small UI work). The data layer is the load-bearing first step;
operator + Mika can read demo/metrics.json directly until UI lands.

Substrate-honest note: the dashboard generation itself happens on
the autonomous-loop cron tick (per B-0414); per-agent stats will
update on every tick going forward. Time-series tracking (today's
metric vs 7d-ago, 30d-ago) is separate substrate (would need to
preserve historical metrics.json snapshots; deferred to follow-on
iteration).

Composes with .claude/rules/agent-roster-reference-card.md
(branch-prefix attribution), .claude/rules/holding-without-named-
dependency-is-standing-by-failure.md (decompose-to-action discipline),
B-0797 (autonomous-loop sometimes-task; same substrate-engineering
direction).

Co-authored-by: Lior <lior@zeta.dev>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
… canonical grok.ts pattern

Resolves 12 Copilot review findings on tools/peer-call/grok-build.ts by
rewriting to match the canonical grok.ts pattern + updating inventories.

P0 fixes:
- --help/-h now prints to stdout + exits 0 (ArgHelp variant + emitHelp())
  rather than being treated as parseArgs error (was exit 1, stderr)
- spawnSync(GROK_CLI, ...) now carries the documented
  // eslint-disable-next-line sonarjs/no-os-command-from-path suppression
  matching grok.ts cursor-agent spawn site
- runContextCmd refactored to /bin/sh -c pattern matching grok.ts —
  eliminates the second sonarjs/no-os-command-from-path site entirely
  (executable is /bin/sh absolute path, not PATH-resolved)

P1 fixes:
- Multi-word prompts without quotes now work: positional args concat
  with " " (matches grok.ts classifyFlag pattern)
- `--` terminator now supported for prompts containing flag-like tokens
- runContextCmd now surfaces stderr + non-zero exit status (was silently
  dropping shell parse errors and command failures)
- buildFullPrompt now prepends the four-ferry AgencySignature PREAMBLE
  (Grok-Build critique role + agents-not-bots discipline framing)
- Spawn-failure hint replaced "curl ... | sh" pointer with safer link
  to xAI's official Grok-Build docs (no pipe-to-shell pattern)
- main() now exported + `if (import.meta.main)` guarded so the module
  can be imported (e.g., from tests) without process.exit side effect
- Error message no longer claims --file is a prompt source (--file is
  context, not prompt; clarified via separate prompt-required error)

P1 (inventory):
- tools/peer-call/smoke.test.ts WRAPPERS list updated 8 → 9 (adds
  grok-build.ts; smoke test now exercises this wrapper's --help shape)
- .claude/rules/peer-call-infrastructure.md updated 8 → 9 wrappers
  (carved sentence + body list both updated; grok-build.ts now
  documented as supersedes-cursor-agent close path for B-0421)

Known-FP resolved no-op:
- readFileHead fd lifecycle (Copilot P1 line 185): code already uses
  try/finally with proper undefined-guard; comment expanded to make
  the lifecycle invariant explicit

Verification:
- bun test tools/peer-call/smoke.test.ts → 39 pass (was 36; +3 for
  the new grok-build.ts entry: exists, --help, name-reference)
- bun tools/peer-call/grok-build.ts --help → exit 0, full usage to stdout
- bunx eslint tools/peer-call/grok-build.ts → 4 baseline errors
  (cognitive-complexity + pseudo-random + publicly-writable; same
  pattern carried by claude.ts/grok.ts as convention baseline)

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Substrate-honest disposition (Otto-CLI 2026-05-26, working PR through merge per the user task):

All 13 Copilot/CodeQL review threads resolved via GraphQL after verify-before-fix discipline (per .claude/rules/blocked-green-ci-investigate-threads.md):

  • 8 outdated threads (isOutdated: true) — substrate already replaced in commit 55a29d94 (canonical-grok.ts converge). Resolved no-op per Pattern A.
  • 5 non-outdated threads — each verified against current file state on 55a29d94:
    • readFileHead fd close (line 216): try/finally with closeSync(fd) implemented lines 232-240 ✅
    • parseContextCmd quoting (line 238): replaced with /bin/sh -c shell-handles-quoting pattern lines 251-262 ✅
    • curl|sh hint (line 386): replaced with docs URL on line 450 ✅
    • process.exit(main()) idiom (line 429): if (import.meta.main) guard implemented lines 497-499 ✅
    • CodeQL indirect command line (line 262): by-design pattern matching canonical grok.ts (line 251); /bin/sh absolute path; user-supplied --context-cmd is user's contract per inline doc lines 244-257.

Gate state: 7/7 required checks OK; CodeQL is the only non-required failure (the by-design pattern above). Ready to un-draft + arm auto-merge.

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