New informational pass in goals_lint (stem-sibling repair heuristic): a
live-tier reference to a version-suffixed filename that is MISSING while a
same-stem sibling exists on disk warns, naming the sibling(s) - the drift
signature of manually-versioned module bumps (libunknown), magic-scheme
conversions (config) and stamped bootsupport/vendored renames (fauxlink),
exactly the classes fixed in the preceding hygiene commit. References with no
stem-sibling stay quiet (proposed goals legitimately name future artifacts);
archive tier, globs, URLs, absolute paths and 999999.0a1.0 exempt; warnings
never fatal (Scope is contract text - the fix stays a directed edit).
Verified: clean on the current tree (incl. correctly-silent existing legacy
artifacts) and against a synthetic fixture exercising warn + all five silent
classes with per-file dedupe.
GOALS.md: front matter bumped v2 -> v3; version-section policy broadened per
user direction - bump for ANY change that could affect how an LLM interprets
or uses the system (contract, grammar, tooling behaviour, output shape);
liberal bumping endorsed. Format section gains Scope version-reference
guidance (glob or magic-version filename for stamped files; exact versions
only in dated prose). goals/AGENTS.md Verification describes the new check;
src/modules/AGENTS.md manual-versioning bullet gains bump step (4): the doc
reference sweep.
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- GOALS.md: "Goals-system: v2" front matter; canonical "Goals system versions"
section; Scope structure rule (elements separated by '; ' at top level,
commas only inside parens/braces); Child DOX Index note in root AGENTS.md
- goals_lint.tcl: new finding for top-level commas in Scope lines
(paren/brace depth-aware)
- goals_xref.tcl: repo-local configuration via goals/xref.conf (path roots,
stop words, file extensions, reference containers, module dirs,
bare_path_roots, prefix_anchors); defaults byte-identical to previous
behaviour (verified on this tree)
- goals/AGENTS.md: cross-repo goal references drop the G- prefix; xref.conf
documented in Verification
- Scope delimiter normalisation across GOALS.md, GOALS-archive.md and all
detail files, live and archived: 224 lines, top-level commas only;
conservation verified (goals_xref report byte-identical pre/post, diff
hunks are Scope lines only). Archived tier converted under explicit user
approval; sanctioned exception recorded in GOALS-archive.md.
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Finalises the G-062 achieved flip staged by the prior session (punkshell
0.12.1): LICENSE.txt (BSD-2-Clause, Julian Marcel Noble 2023-2026) at the
repo root, README/punkproject.toml/AGENTS.md license declarations, index
record to GOALS-archive.md and detail file to goals/archive/.
Archive-loss prevention, from the G-015 incident (its achieved-status
verification parenthetical was silently dropped by the 2026-07-11 two-tier
restructure's Status-line normalisation; the text is restored to the G-015
archive file's Notes with provenance):
- root AGENTS.md 'Doc Restructures': deleted-line conservation check before
committing bulk doc migrations, structured-field-normalisation hazard
(relocate prose to body sections first), moves separated from edits
- goals/AGENTS.md: lintable header field grammar (one line per field, bare
Status values), flip-time verification evidence recorded in the body, the
archive move content-identical, and a new archive-time reference sweep:
pending-tense mentions of the archived goal updated in the live tier, and
actionable archived notes pointed to from the affected live goal's Notes
- GOALS.md maintenance rules: achieved-flip clause extended to require the
evidence write-up and the reference sweep
Retroactive reference sweep over all 12 archived goals (25 live detail
files): pending-tense fixes (G-002 G-008 G-013 G-016 G-017 G-021 G-022
G-031 G-042 G-044 G-050 - G-017's Goal/Acceptance annotated as
gate-satisfied, contract meaning unchanged), forward pointers pushed from
archived notes (G-062 license-seeding follow-on -> G-012/G-027, G-037
vendorlib/vfs drift semantics -> G-024, G-058 static-baseline mechanism ->
G-005), and one 'Archived-goal references' Notes bullet per remaining
referencing file so every live mention of an archived goal is resolvable
without consulting the archive index.
scriptlib/developer/goals_lint.tcl (new, plain tclsh): validates detail-file
header grammar, strict status values in both tiers, orphan rules in both
directions, Status/Scope mirror consistency, plus an informational (never
fatal) warning for live files referencing an archived goal with no
achieved/archive marker - baseline now zero warnings. Root AGENTS.md
scriptlib/developer ownership note widened to cover developer utilities.
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- GOALS.md collapsed to summary entries (ID/status/title/Scope/detail pointer): 104.6KB -> 23KB so a full read stays cheap; Scope lines kept verbatim so path-grep goal discovery still works
- canonicality split: index canonical for ID/status/title/Scope, detail file canonical for Goal:/Acceptance:; all 61 detail-file headers reconciled from the index (fixes stale copies, e.g. G-036 detail acceptance predated the achieved rework), bodies preserved untouched
- detail files created for the three index-only goals G-017, G-034, G-054; every goal now has one
- 10 achieved goals (G-007 G-015 G-036 G-037 G-040 G-046 G-049 G-054 G-058 G-059) archived: summary records appended to GOALS-archive.md, detail files moved to goals/archive/; archive-on-flip replaces the ~30-achieved-entries trigger
- GOALS.md preamble/rules reworked: read workflow (read index in full, then detail files of scope-intersecting goals before editing), contract spans both tiers with proposal-first unchanged, next-free-ID counts the archive, achieved flip judged against the detail-file Acceptance and includes archiving
- progress convention codified from G-001 increment-1 practice: index entries carry status only, never progress; incremental progress lives in the detail file's ## Progress section (landed/remaining); achieved flip requires the remaining-work list resolved - a partial increment never flips a goal
- goals/AGENTS.md rewritten for the split (required 4-field header, one detail file per goal, orphan rules covering archive/); root AGENTS.md Child DOX Index + Repo-wide Notes updated; GOALS-archive.md preamble updated
- stale detail-file paths updated to goals/archive/ in src/lib/app-punkscript/punkscript.tcl (comment), runtimebash_wsl.test, wslprobe.tcl and the G-042 detail file; propagated copies (root lib/, src/vfs/_vfscommon.vfs, src/_build) left to refresh via normal build steps
- no project version bump: governance docs and source comments only, no user-visible shell behaviour
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Policy (GOALS.md maintenance rules, mirrored in root AGENTS.md and goals/AGENTS.md):
- agents apply goal-entry adds/edits only on user request, proposal-first: show the
proposed wording and get explicit approval before writing (replaces "only the user
adds or edits goals" - the user was applying agent-drafted edits by hand anyway)
- suggesting candidate goals is welcome and encouraged when grounded in the work at
hand; a suggestion is a flagged proposal, never a file edit; bulk goal surveys stay
out of bounds
- detail-file updates from user-directed work on a goal proceed without pre-approval,
reported in the completion summary; index stays canonical
- unchanged: achieved-flip on met acceptance (reported), no proposed->active flips
G-038 (user-approved):
- Acceptance gains a post-restart terminal-query clause: a code-interp query (e.g.
'help console') must succeed instead of being refused by the stale settled
can_respond=0 anchor
- detail file records the proven mechanism for the post-restart console failure
(piped phase settles can_respond=0; punkshell.tcl opens CONIN$ as a new channel
leaving the repl thread's stdin as the exhausted pipe; the anchored default console
keeps the dead pair; forced resettle honestly re-settles 0 via layer-1 eof), the
rebind requirements (re-point {in out} AND unsettle), and the hidden-console
repro/regression harness
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Harness-agnostic technical project goal system. GOALS.md holds the canonical one-line index with format spec, status taxonomy, maintenance rules, and an agent-authoring workflow so agents asked to 'help me write a goal for X' ask the right questions. GOALS-archive.md is the achieved-goals archive stub. goals/AGENTS.md is the DOX child doc covering naming (G-<id>-<slug>.md), when a detail file is warranted, and the no-orphans/archive rule. goals/archive/.gitkeep tracks the archive dir.
Ultraworked with [Sisyphus](https://github.com/code-yeongyu/oh-my-openagent)
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Julian Noble