d/ documented -choices on the v argument with -choiceprefix defaulting
to true, but the manual parser uses an exact string comparison. PUNKARGS
now declares -choiceprefix 0 so documented behaviour matches the
implementation (exact match required).
Assisted-by: harness=opencode; primary-model=openrouter/z-ai/glm-5.2; api-location=openrouter.ai
renderspace -bias and -format, renderline -info and -overtext_type all
documented -choices with -choiceprefix defaulting to true, but the manual
switch-based parsers accept arbitrary values with no prefix matching.
PUNKARGS now declares -choiceprefix 0 so documented behaviour matches
the implementation (exact match required).
Assisted-by: harness=opencode; primary-model=openrouter/z-ai/glm-5.2; api-location=openrouter.ai
console_fact_get and console_fact_set documented -choices on the key
argument with -choiceprefix defaulting to true (prefix matching promised),
but the manual positional parser feeds key directly into a dict lookup
with no prefix normalization. PUNKARGS now declares -choiceprefix 0 so
documented behaviour matches the implementation (exact match required).
Assisted-by: harness=opencode; primary-model=openrouter/z-ai/glm-5.2; api-location=openrouter.ai
The testinterp replaces auto_path wholesale (project src/lib dirs, root
lib_tcl<N>/<arch>, [info library] + parent). Under a kit executable that
parent is e.g //zipfs:/app, and tclPkgUnknown scans only an entry plus its
immediate children - so kit-bundled packages under //zipfs:/app/lib_tcl<N>/
<pkg> (e.g tcllib's tcl::chan::fifo2, required by the shellrun harness at
testinterp setup) were unreachable. Unnoticed in punkshell because the
project's own root lib_tcl9/win32-x86_64 carries tcllib2.0; projects
without that payload (e.g tomlish) failed every file at
'package require shellrun' when run under a punk kit exe.
Now the kit's internal lib/lib_tcl<N> dirs are appended when present,
mirroring the internal-path classification in src/vfs/_config/punk_main.tcl:
zipfs app mount, tclkit ::tcl::kitpath exe dir-shadow, cookfs //cookit:/
volume (default mount name only, as per punk_main.tcl). No-op under native
tclsh. Verified: punk902z + tclsh902z suites pass; classification probed OK
under tclkit 8.6.17, punk9cook (cookit), punk91 (zipfs 9.1), native Tcl903;
tomlish suite under punk902z/punk91 goes 0 -> 149/149 with the same edit.
Assisted-by: harness=claude; primary-model=claude-fable-5; api-location=anthropic.com
makeFile/makeDirectory output previously landed in the working directory -
aborted core exec.test runs littered src/tests with untracked helper files
(cat, echo, gorp.file ...). Unless -tcltestoptions supplies -tmpdir, a
fresh directory from 'file tempdir' (TMPDIR/TEMP/TMP + pid fallback for
tcl 8.6) is configured and deleted before exit; a hard-aborted run now
leaves litter in the OS temp area rather than the source tree.
Takes effect in single-process mode; multi-process mode still does not
forward tcltest options to child processes (pre-existing todo).
Contract documented in src/tests/AGENTS.md.
Assisted-by: harness=claude; primary-model=claude-fable-5; api-location=anthropic.com
TIP 746 (Tcl 9.1) removed lseq's expr-operand behaviour. punk::lib::range
(lseq branch) now normalizes int[+-]int offsets via offset_expr so callers
like `range 0 [llength $list]-1` keep working (punk::ansi::grepstr broke
under 9.1b0, taking example-block highlighting and the punk::args
examples.test with it). The lseq branch is also aligned with the tcl8
fallback contract: default 'by' now infers direction (descending ranges
previously returned empty under tcl9) and 'by 0' returns empty (Tcl 9.1
lseq changed by-0 to return one element).
Direct lseq expression operands expr-wrapped: punk::lib lzipn_tcl9b/c,
cols, cols2; punk::args zero_based_posns.
check::has_tclbug_safeinterp_compile falls back to interp invokehidden
tcl:unsupported:disassemble - Tcl 9.1 safe interps hide tcl::unsupported::*.
New modules/punk/lib range.test pins the range contract on 9.0 and 9.1;
core tests AGENTS.md documents native-tclsh vs punk-exe exec.test baselines.
Assisted-by: harness=claude; primary-model=claude-fable-5; api-location=anthropic.com
Tests-first coverage pass (user-directed) before any changes to the
definition-parsing/indentation machinery. punk/args suite: 128 tests, 15 files.
- rendering.test (15): nesting independence (plain + tstr definitions render
identically regardless of source-block indentation), relative-indent
preservation (2-space help and 1-space choicelabel conventions, single and
multiline - preservation, not enforcement), -unindentedfields (arg -help
works left-margin; @cmd accepts-but-ignores it - GAP pinned), constructed
(string-built) definition absolute-indent characterization ('constructed'
to avoid confusion with the @dynamic directive), multiline ${[cmd]}/${$var}/
resolved_def insertions (aligned at insertion column, nesting-independent),
and @dynamic ${$DYN_X} double substitution: stable across repeated
resolutions, provider refresh honoured in help text, choice display and
parse acceptance, textblock::frame-style art choicelabels byte-aligned -
but multiline -help insertions land lines 2+ at insertion-4 (GAP pinned:
the second-round subst path lacks paramindent re-alignment)
- choicegroups.test (5): group/-choices union parsing, cross-group prefixes,
duplicate-entry dedup, per-group titled choice tables (the punk::imap4
multi-table display), imap4-style {\Deleted}/{$MDNSent} values with labels
incl. through tstr-bearing blocks; GAP pinned: prefix-normalization
list-quotes special-character choices (exact '\Deleted' stores the plain
string, prefix '\De' stores a one-element list) - value shape depends on
input style
- defquoting.test (3): container quoting rules pinned - braced values fully
literal ($, [], two-char \n, bare backslashes), quoted values get Tcl
backslash semantics (\n -> newline, \ -> \) with $/[] still literal, and
\$\{...\} renders a literal ${...} in tstr-processed blocks
- examples.test (6): helpers::example box/title/-tstr toggle (no-dedent
direct-call contract pinned), ${[example ...]} insertion into @cmd help
(bars at insertion column, content +2, automatic 'Example: eg <id>' row),
@examples -> punk::args::eg with #<nodisplay>/@#<nodisplay> stripping
(ANSI-tolerant), strip_nodisplay_lines unit, live tclcore ::lseq smoke
- punk::args 0.3.1: helpers::example -title path called bare [a] (resolvable
only where a punk shell's global alias exists - errored under plain tclsh);
now punk::ansi::a. Found by examples.test in the runtests environment.
- investigated punk::ansi::mark_columns first-call slowness (3.94s first,
60us after): argdoc -help calls a proc that calls mark_columns, whose parse
resolves the same still-resolving definition - hazard already documented
in-source with candidate fixes; recorded in CHANGELOG for goal
consideration, deliberately not patched
- project 0.4.11 (CHANGELOG entry)
Assisted-by: harness=claude; primary-model=claude-fable-5; api-location=anthropic.com
Activated and completed under user direction (2026-07-08). Aliases for choice
values are now first-class: accepted at parse, normalized to their canonical
choice in results, folded into the canonical entry in usage display, and
resolved identically by the punk::ns doc-lookup walk.
- punk::args 0.3.0:
* -choicealiases {alias canonical ...} on argument lines; dict shape
validated in the option switch, alias->existing-choice and no-collision
cross-validated after spec merge (surfaces at resolve time - define is
lazy)
* the choice-word matching chain extracted from get_dict into the shared
resolver punk::args::choiceword_match {word nocase allchoices
choicealiases choiceprefix denylist reservelist} -> {matched exact
canonical}; get_dict delegates to it (writeback/lset logic stays at the
call site) - one implementation for parser and doc walk
* exact aliases match under any -choiceprefix/-nocase setting; alias names
join the prefix-calculation pool when -choiceprefix is true; deny applies
to the matched NAME (denied alias requires the full alias; a canonical
reached via its alias is exempt from the canonical's own deny entry)
* display: aliases fold into the canonical entry as an '(alias: x)' /
'(aliases: x|y)' label note (single convergence point covers all render
paths); alias names join the display prefix calculation so highlighted
minimal prefixes stay truthful
* define doc gains the -choicealiases section
- punk::ns 0.1.2: cmd_traverse resolves subcommand words via choiceword_match
- -choiceprefixdenylist/-choiceprefixreservelist now honoured in doc lookup
(the two pinned parity GAP tests flipped to agreement), aliases normalize
before choiceinfo lookup, -nocase honoured in the walk
- punk 0.2.3: punk::help adopts the feature - 'i help' lists one entry per
registered topic (topics+help, tcl, env+environment, console+term|terminal);
topic words accept aliases and unique prefixes with the user-decided
minimum-prefix policy recorded in ::punk::helptopic: denylist {help}
(h/he/hel stay command words), reservelist {c to tc} (fall through to
command lookup; e/en and te/ter fall through naturally as ambiguous).
Argless 'help' output byte-identical to the strict-80 baseline.
- tests: choices.test +5 (alias exact/prefix normalization, noprefix exact-
only, nocase, the punk::help policy matrix, resolve-time validation);
cmdflow.test parity tests flipped from GAP to agreement + alias-traverse and
display-fold assertions (+flowaliased fixture)
- suites: punk/args 98 pass + 1 skip, punk/ns 28 pass, punk/lib 21 pass
- G-040 flipped active -> achieved 2026-07-08; detail file records
implementation and verification
- project 0.4.10 (CHANGELOG entry)
Assisted-by: harness=claude; primary-model=claude-fable-5; api-location=anthropic.com
From interactive review of the help restructure: 'i help' / 'i help <topic>'
usage tables rendered ~160 columns wide. Only the argless 'help' overview is
strictly 80-column - but the rest should stay reasonable, and the usage tables
do not yet wrap to terminal width, so punk::args source line lengths directly
set table width.
- helptopic argdoc help texts manually folded at ~70 columns ('help tcl' was
the worst offender at ~230 chars on one line)
- generated ::punk::help/::punk::help_chunks definitions: basehelp/topichelp/
chunks-note folded; topic choice grid rendered with -choicecolumns 2 (the
largest width contributor)
- dynamically built definitions don't get the file-sourced indentation
normalization - topichelp's continuation over-indented, fixed with an
explicit \n join
- results: i help 68 cols, per-topic 61-65; argless 'help' output byte-
identical to the strict-80 baseline; punk/ns 26 and punk/args 93+1 suites
pass
- future improvement noted in CHANGELOG: automated (potentially language-
dependent) wrapping of help text to available width, e.g. via tcllib's
text-adjust facilities
- project 0.4.9 (CHANGELOG entry)
Assisted-by: harness=claude; primary-model=claude-fable-5; api-location=anthropic.com
New 'make.tcl vfslibs' step (also run inside 'make.tcl project' before kit vfs
assembly): propagates declared vendored platform-library packages into kit vfs
lib_tcl<N> trees, ending the hand-copying that let kits ship a known-buggy
tcludp through three make invocations (the G-036/G-037 motivating case).
- declaration: src/runtime/vendorlib_vfs.toml, parsed with bootsupport tomlish
(no ad-hoc parsing; G-024's mapvfs toml conversion NOT required first - this
file is recorded as a candidate for absorption into it). [install.<name>]
entries: source (relative to src/), targets (kit vfs lib folders relative to
src/vfs/), optional supersedes (folder names removed from each target before
install - explicit, no silent mixed-version provision per G-035 concerns).
- participation is per-package per-kit; authority is the declaration - nothing
syncs undeclared, so the known vendorlib/kit twapi drift is deliberately
untouched (resolves the direction/authority design question).
- punkcheck provenance at src/vfs/.punkcheck (gitignored, outside kit
payloads); skip-if-unchanged proven (rerun: 0 copied, 9 skipped per target);
malformed/unresolvable entries fail the build naming the entry (exit 3).
- 8.6 kits upgraded (the G-036 loose-end decision, recorded): tcludp 1.0.13 is
dual-generation (pkgIndex selects tcl9udp1013.dll on 9+, udp1013t.dll on
8.5+) so the single vendorlib_tcl9 source serves punk8win.vfs/lib_tcl8;
superseded udp1.0.12 removed.
- verified on rebuilt kits: punksys/punkbi (8.6.13) and punk902z (9.0.2) all
report package require udp == 1.0.13 loading the generation-appropriate dll
from their vfs; no udp1.0.12 remains under src/vfs; punksys piped-shell exit
smoke clean.
- G-037 flipped proposed -> achieved 2026-07-08 under user direction (no
intermediate active stop).
- includes project-build byproducts via established channels: bootsupport
snapshots refreshed to punk-0.2.1 / punk::lib-0.3.0 (from today's version
bumps) and make.tcl synced into layout copies.
- project 0.4.8 (CHANGELOG entry)
Assisted-by: harness=claude; primary-model=claude-fable-5; api-location=anthropic.com
Completes G-036's remaining acceptance item - version-based detection of the
vulnerable combination (tcludp < 1.0.13 on Tcl 9 Windows: the per-thread exit
handler closes the process-global sockListLock/waitForSock events, silently
freezing every other udp-using thread's event loop after any udp-loaded thread
exits; root-caused and fixed-by-upgrade in 0.4.3).
- punk::lib 0.3.0: has_libbug_udp_threadexit gathers live facts (loaded udp
version, else best available registered version discovered without loading
the binary via an unsatisfiable package require triggering the index scan)
and delegates the verdict to the pure classifier
libbug_udp_threadexit_applies (facts in, verdict out - testable). has_libbug_*
is the new check family for bundled/vendored library bugs; buginfo dicts may
carry a full 'url' reference key for non tcl-core trackers.
- punk 0.2.1: 'help tcl' scans has_libbug_* alongside has_tclbug_*, renders the
url key when present, and no longer errors on a triggered check carrying a
reference without a description (latent unset-indent fix).
- new checkbugs.test: classifier combination matrix, live-check dict shape and
classifier consistency, and a buginfo-contract test across all existing
check procs.
- verified: current kit (udp 1.0.13) reports bug=0 with no warning; a simulated
triggered has_libbug_* check renders description + url in the help tcl
warning block. Suites: punk/lib 21 pass, punk/ns 26 pass.
- G-036 flipped to achieved 2026-07-08 (index acceptance REMAINING annotated
DONE; detail file gains the Detection section). Open non-gating decisions
recorded in the detail file: punk8win (8.6) kit udp 1.0.12 swap; optional
upstream tickets for residual tcludp trunk weaknesses.
- project 0.4.7 (CHANGELOG entry)
Assisted-by: harness=claude; primary-model=claude-fable-5; api-location=anthropic.com
- commented out five development trace puts in the doc-lookup machinery:
"PROC auto def"/"ENSEMBLE auto def" (generate_autodef) were emitted on STDOUT
and polluted 'i'/'s' output in script/exec contexts (agent-facing per the
G-015 piped-call pattern); "cmd_traverse - skipping to documented subcommand"
(space-form id path), "---> cmd_traverse ensembleparam" (ensemble -parameters
traversal) and "cmd_traverse 10 ... - review" (fallthrough return) were
stderr noise. No functional change.
- cmdflow.test: 8 new tests characterizing ensemble -parameters handling in the
doc-lookup flow (the punk::netbox::man pattern - leading apicontextid before
the subcommand at every ensemble level):
* generate_autodef models each -parameters entry as a -ensembleparameter 1
leader with @leaders min/max = nparams+1 (single- and two-param fixtures)
* cmd_traverse consumes parameter words and resolves the subcommand's
explicit or autodef docid, re-presenting the parameter in args_remaining
so the subcommand's own leader-based definition (as punk::netbox::man's
explicit defs model the curried parameter) can parse it
* nested sub-ensembles with their own -parameters re-consume the curried
parameter at each level
* punk::args::parse treats -ensembleparameter leaders as ordinary named
leaders; cmdhelp renders a documented subcommand's usage through the
parameter (end-to-end smoke)
- suites: punk/ns 26 pass (was 18), punk/args 93 pass + 1 skip (unchanged)
- project 0.4.6 (CHANGELOG entry)
Assisted-by: harness=claude; primary-model=claude-fable-5; api-location=anthropic.com
- fixed "@opts -any 1" (arbitrary/adhoc option passthrough): an option not in
the definition crashed get_dict with "can't read argname" at the name-mapping
stage - adhoc opts now fall back to their raw supplied name, under which
argstate/arg_checks were already populated at scan time (real consumers:
vendored tomlish definitions declare -any 1)
- commented out a debug puts stderr (">>>_get_dict_can_assign_value NOT
alloc_ok...") that fired on every failed clause type assignment (visible on
any multiform parse miss; its happy-path twin was already commented)
- new forms.test (8 tests): @form spec structure (form_names, shared
{a b}-prologue blocks), explicit -form by name/index with cross-form
rejection, multiform synopsis rendering, and GAP pins for G-041 - default
parse is effectively form-0-only, -form rejects the documented list-of-forms
usage, and @form -synopsis overrides are stored in the spec but ignored by
synopsis rendering
- new validation.test (11 tests): -type validation matrix, -range/-minsize/
-maxsize, -nocase choice normalization, option -multiple accumulation,
required-option enforcement, unknown-option rejection vs -any adhoc
passthrough (the bugfix's regression test), -- end-of-options marker,
@values -max enforcement, received-key clause ordinals, solos list, and
default-vs-received distinction
- src/tests/AGENTS.md: note that tcltest compares the -body return value -
bodies ending in a loop must end with an explicit 'set result'
- suites: punk/args 93 pass + 1 skip (was 70+1), punk/ns 18 pass; full
source-tree run 569/581 with only the known exec-14.3 baseline failure
- project 0.4.5 (CHANGELOG entry)
Assisted-by: harness=claude; primary-model=claude-fable-5; api-location=anthropic.com
- GOALS.md: G-040 punk::args choice aliasing with parse normalization, display
folding, and doc-lookup parity (user-approved); detail file records the
prefix/deny/reserve collapse analysis from the punk::help work, the
cmd_traverse divergence, the c/to/tc minimum-prefix policy question, and the
test-first sequencing
- new punk/ns cmdflow.test (10 tests): cmdwhich/cmdinfo/cmd_traverse docid
flow - direct, via-alias and subhelp-choiceinfo resolution (exact + unique
prefix), unknown-word fallback to parent docid, -choiceprefix 0 exact-only,
space-delimited ids, cmdhelp -return string smoke; the parse-vs-doc-walk
divergence (deny/reserve lists honoured by punk::args::parse, ignored by the
cmd_traverse walk) pinned as GAP tests pending G-040
- choices.test: 4 new unrestricted-mode (-choicerestricted 0) tests - prefix
normalization to the canonical choice, unknown/ambiguous passthrough,
denylist and reservelist passthrough, and the punk::help collapse recipe
(prefix+deny+reserve on a -multiple leader)
- punk::args 0.2.2 (doc-only): define doc -choice* fields now state the
-choicerestricted 0 passthrough semantics, -choiceprefix result
normalization + minimal-prefix display highlighting, denylist behaviour for
shorter prefixes in both restricted modes, and the reservelist phantom-entry
idiom for per-choice minimum-prefix control
- suites: punk/args 74 pass + 1 skip (was 70+1), punk/ns 18 pass (was 8)
Assisted-by: harness=claude; primary-model=claude-fable-5; api-location=anthropic.com
- each topic (topics|help, tcl, env|environment, console|term|terminal) is a
handler proc returning {channel text} chunks, with its own punk::args
definition (id ::punk::helptopic::<topic>) so 'i help <topic>' renders
documented usage
- registering a topic (re)generates the ::punk::help / ::punk::help_chunks
definitions, so 'i help' shows a documented topic table that always matches
the registry (previously an autogenerated stub); the registry is the seam
for future subshell-declared topics
- 'help topics' derived from the registry (all aliases listed, fits 80 cols)
- no-arg overview and command-fallthrough output byte-identical to before;
80-column layout preserved; verified on tcl 9 and 8.6 kits via the script
and shell subcommands
- 'help env' degrades to a one-line notice when punk::config is not
initialised (e.g. script contexts) instead of an error stack + exit 1
- shared table_block helper destroys table objects after print (previously
leaked several per help invocation)
- project 0.4.4 (CHANGELOG entry)
Assisted-by: harness=claude; primary-model=claude-fable-5; api-location=anthropic.com
The version-mismatch and missing-header warning branches interpolated the
literal [X.Y.Z] inside double-quoted puts strings, so Tcl attempted command
substitution and the check died with `invalid command name "X.Y.Z"` the
first time a warning branch actually fired (surfaced by a manual
projectversion check during the 0.4.2 bump, whose CHANGELOG entry was
missing at the time). Brackets now backslash-escaped. Layout copies of
make.tcl synced by the project build included.
Assisted-by: harness=claude; primary-model=claude-fable-5; api-location=anthropic.com
Piping a script into shell mode then exiting the restarted interactive repl
intermittently froze the shell: shellfilter::run's teardown made a bare
synchronous thread::send (settings-reset in shellthread::manager::unsubscribe)
to the shellfilter-run syslog log worker, whose event loop had silently
stopped servicing events (G-036: Tcl 9-only console+udp worker wedge -
root-cause tracked separately).
- shellthread 1.6.3: unsubscribe settings-reset send is now -async (sends to
a thread are FIFO, so a later reuse still sees the reset applied first);
shutdown_free_threads keeps its timeout timer armed across all vwait
iterations (was cancelled on the first response, leaving later waits
unbounded); get_tag_config's bare sync send flagged as same hazard class.
- shellfilter 0.2.4: shellfilter::run honors its -syslog option (default
empty -> noop runtag log worker, no thread created) instead of the
hardcoded 127.0.0.1:514 debug leftover. Syslog remains supported when
explicitly configured.
Verified: automated repro (hidden console, piped script scheduling a delayed
::punk::repl::exit in the restarted repl) hung before, exits cleanly after -
including with syslog force-enabled against a genuinely wedged worker.
Assisted-by: harness=claude; primary-model=claude-fable-5; api-location=anthropic.com
New suite src/tests/modules/punk/libunknown/testsuites/shadowing/
(7 tests, all pass) pins the .tm same-version shadowing rules verified
experimentally 2026-07-06/07: tcl:™️:add PREPENDS each argument (last
arg ends at the head of tcl:™️:list); the head of tcl:™️:list wins
exact-version ties (single and separate add calls); a higher version
wins from any position (order only arbitrates exact ties); and
punk::libunknown preserves all of it (scanner parity). Shipped behaviour
depends on these rules - the runtests testinterp tm ordering (bootsupport
over vendormodules) and punk_main''s package-mode block precedence that
G-033''s proj:/kit-first design builds on - so a Tcl or libunknown change
that shifts the tie-break now goes red here instead of silently
mis-resolving.
Goal G-035 (proposed): characterise mixed .tm / pkgIndex.tcl provision of
the same package - same or differing versions, under standard package
unknown, punk::libunknown and punk::packagepreference, across
scan-trigger orderings, forget/re-require crossing forms, and 8.6/9.
Converts the standing informal rule ("avoid mixing provision forms for
one package - unexpected behaviour even with libunknown''s improvements")
from folklore into either substantiated AGENTS.md guidance with named
failure modes, or retirement if mixing proves predictable. Discovery
work, so goal-specified rather than written now; extends the shadowing
suite when implemented.
Assisted-by: harness=claude; primary-model=claude-fable-5; api-location=anthropic.com
Adds src/tests/shell/testsuites/punkexe/scriptexec.test (12 tests, all
pass) covering app-punkscript / the script subcommand (G-015): piped
execution and honest exit codes, error->exit 1, exitcode propagation,
stdin result echo, default-env dev alias present without boilerplate,
file-form argv passing, the lib:<name> scriptlib mechanism (subpath,
extensionless, bare-arg reclassification, not-found location listing),
and the tclsh-matching Tk main-loop behaviour (0.4.1): a serviced
after-callback runs and exits, a no-exit GUI script stays alive, an
errored GUI script exits promptly without hanging.
Reuses the shellexit.test built-exe harness pattern (pipe stdin,
half-close for EOF, timeout+force-kill) so runs are hang-proof; Tk cases
gated by an auto-detected punktk constraint (probes whether the kit loads
Tk). Full shell suite: 19 pass / 2 skip (console-only punkgoals) / 0 fail.
lib:/Tk cases resolve committed fixtures under scriptlib/_punktest/ - a
lib:-resolvable fixture cannot live in a tcltest temp dir since resolution
only searches scriptlib locations relative to the exe. The subfolder is
test-owned (README + do-not-edit fixture headers); root AGENTS.md carves
it out as the one agent-manageable exception to scriptlib being
user-only. No project version bump - tests/docs/fixtures only, no shipped
shell behaviour change.
Assisted-by: harness=claude; primary-model=claude-fable-5; api-location=anthropic.com
Root cause: Tk registers a main loop (Tcl_SetMainLoop); tclsh''s Tcl_Main
services it after the script, so `tclsh gui.tcl` behaves like wish. The
script subcommand sourced-then-exited, so a Tk script''s after-callbacks
never ran (scriptlib/tktimer.tcl flashed and died; shell was the
workaround). Confirmed: native tclsh tktimer 1 blocks ~1.35s; script did
0.38s.
Fix: after the script body (success paths only), if a Tk main loop is
registered (info exists ::tk_version && winfo exists .), tkwait window .
services the event loop until the main window closes, then exit - the
script-level equivalent of Tcl_Main. A script that exits from a callback
(tktimer countdown) terminates directly. Console scripts have no main
loop and exit at once; a script error exits at once (no hanging window).
Verified both generations: tktimer via script now blocks the countdown
(punk902z 1.49s, punksys 1.57s - Tk present in both) exit 0; tkhello_exit
immediate; tk-script-that-errors exit 1 in 0.37s (no hang); tkhello (no
self-close) blocks like wish; console script unaffected. Enables G-020
GUI automation via `script` instead of `shell` (noted in G-020 detail).
Project version 0.4.1.
Assisted-by: harness=claude; primary-model=claude-fable-5; api-location=anthropic.com
app-punkscript accepts lib:<name> (with or without .tcl - extensionless
appends it) as the shell subcommand does: `punkexe script lib:hello` or
bare `punkexe lib:hello` via reclassification. The prefix always wins; a
literal path beginning lib: (pathological - colon is illegal in Windows
filenames) is reachable via ./lib:... Not-found errors list every
searched location; only .tcl runs via the script subcommand.
Resolution policy is factored into punk::path::scriptlib_resolve
(PUNKARGS-documented) rather than copied inline: kit-internal
app/scriptlib first and deliberately not externally overridable, then
scriptlib dirs relative to the executable - the same policy
app-punkshell encodes inline (todo noted: refactor the shell path onto
the shared proc). Share definitions via modules, not launcher control
flow.
Verified on both generations (punk902z, punksys): lib:hello
extensionless and explicit, bare-arg reclassification, not-found
candidate listing (bin/scriptlib then <root>/scriptlib for a bin/ exe).
Project version 0.4.0 (backward-compatible behaviour addition).
Assisted-by: harness=claude; primary-model=claude-fable-5; api-location=anthropic.com
app-punkscript loads punk::args::moduledoc::tclcore (catch-guarded,
mirroring the punk::repl code-interp setup) so core Tcl commands are
documented in script runs as at the repl: `''i list'' | punkexe script`
now renders the doc table instead of "Undocumented command". Cost ~40ms;
kit script startup ~0.33s. REVIEW note added: the default-punk-shell
package set is now expressed in app-punkscript AND the repl codethread
setup - consolidation into one shared definition is the G-015-noted
follow-on.
punk::packagepreference 0.1.1: moduledoc auto-load success notice moved
stdout -> stderr (stdout must stay machine-clean for script/exec
contexts; the failure branch already used stderr).
Verified on both generations (punk902z, punksys): i list doc table on
stdout, notice on stderr, timing unchanged. Build-order footnote: lib
changes need make.tcl libs before vfscommonupdate - the modules-only
first rebuild shipped a stale app-punkscript payload.
Project version 0.3.1.
Assisted-by: harness=claude; primary-model=claude-fable-5; api-location=anthropic.com
New lean app package src/lib/app-punkscript behind the (previously stub)
script subcommand in punk_main.tcl:
- `<commands> | <punkexe> script` runs piped stdin to EOF - no trailing
exit needed; `<punkexe> script <file> ?args?` runs a file with
conventional ::argv0/::argv (bare non-subcommand first arg still
reclassifies to the file form). Script may itself read stdin in the
file form.
- Default punk shell environment via shared definitions (package punk
registers deck aliases e.g dev; punk::aliascore::init adds the utility
aliases) - no local alias lists, no boilerplate in piped one-liners.
- Honest exit codes: 0 success, 1 on error with errorInfo on stderr,
script''s own exit honoured. No shellfilter stacks/transforms, no
logging side effects, no interactive fallback (terminal stdin with no
scriptname is a usage error, never a blocking read or shell).
- Stdin form echoes the script''s final result when non-empty (one-shot
eval ergonomics: return-value commands like `dev projects.work <glob>`
emit their table without a puts wrapper); file form keeps pure script
semantics.
Verified on both generations (punk902z/tcl9 from _build - bin deploy was
file-locked; punksys/tcl8.6 from bin): piped success/error/exit-code,
file form with args and stdin passthrough, missing-file error, motivating
one-liner `dev projects.work *tomlish*` emitting the project table with
exit 0, `src` mode combination (dev modules load), and `shell` subcommand
regression smoke. G-015 flipped to achieved 2026-07-07 per GOALS.md
rules; goal detail records the verification and the manual console
spot-check item. Project version 0.3.0 (new user-visible shell
capability - minor bump).
Assisted-by: harness=claude; primary-model=claude-fable-5; api-location=anthropic.com
vendorupdate pulls tomlish 1.1.10 from a clean tomlish checkout: the
library API punk::config will consume now carries punk::args (PUNKARGS)
documentation - from_toml, to_dict, from_dict, to_toml,
update_tomlish_from_dict - completing the G-014 precondition
(documentation added upstream in the tomlish project, landed here by
re-vendoring, never by editing src/vendormodules copies). 1.1.10 also
carries the explicit tomlish::cmdline_main entry point (wrapped-exe
startup fix; the load-time argv side effect is gone).
vfscommonupdate refreshes the punkshell kit payload to the current built
modules: shellfilter 0.2.3 (channel-restoration try/finally), shellrun
0.1.4, punkboot::utils 0.1.1, punk::console 0.7.1 content catch-up, and
tomlish 1.1.10.
Project version 0.2.7.
Assisted-by: harness=claude; primary-model=claude-fable-5; api-location=anthropic.com
shellfilter::run now wraps everything between tee-stack add and removal in
try/finally so the callers stdout/stderr are always restored, and the
decorative stack-status table rendering in log::critical blocks is
catch-guarded. Previously an error there aborted the run after diverting
the channels and before restoring them, leaving process stdout/stderr
broken with all subsequent output silently lost - observed when a stale
same-version textblock snapshot (old option-value syntax) called the new
punk::ansi sgr_merge_singles inside the stack-status render during tomlish
test runs.
runtests.tcl:
- testinterp tm path order: bootsupport moved to last test_tmlist element
so it wins same-version module ties over vendormodules. Rules verified
experimentally on Tcl 9.0.3 (identical under standard package unknown
and punk::libunknown): tcl:™️:add prepends each argument, head of
tcl:™️:list wins same-version ties, so the last element of a
single-call add list wins.
- testinterp auto_path gains the parent of [info library] so binary
packages such as Thread (needed by shellrun) resolve in projects
without a root lib_tcl<N>/<arch> payload.
Project version 0.2.6. Verified: full shellspy suite at baseline (517
pass / exec-14.3 known); tomlish ported suite 184/184; reconstructed
stale-module scenario now completes with captured results and live
stdout instead of silent loss.
Assisted-by: harness=claude; primary-model=claude-fable-5; api-location=anthropic.com
Move vendor_source_dirty_warnings out of make.tcl into punkboot::utils as
vcs_dirty_warnings (PUNKARGS-documented, caller-label param so the
bootsupport update path can share it per G-026). make.tcl now uses a
guarded lazy require and degrades to skipped-with-warning if the
bootsupport snapshot lacks the proc - a stale/broken snapshot must never
brick the make.tcl commands used to repair it.
Chicken-and-egg-safe ordering used and now documented in
src/bootsupport/AGENTS.md ("Moving make.tcl functionality into
punkboot::utils"): edit src module + bump buildversion, make.tcl modules,
make.tcl bootsupport, only then repoint make.tcl call sites. Boot-phase
code (path setup, punkboot::lib prompts, package-availability checks)
stays self-contained in make.tcl.
Bootsupport snapshot refresh from the sanctioned pipeline: punkboot::utils
0.1.0->0.1.1, shellrun 0.1.2->0.1.4 (punk::args require fix catch-up),
punk::console 0.7.1 content catch-up; layout mirrors via the
punkcheck-tracked sync steps.
New tests: src/tests/modules/punkboot/utils/testsuites/utils/vcsdirty.test
(git fixture: dirty/clean/dedupe/label/unversioned/missing) - 25/25 across
punkboot suites; vendorupdate verified end-to-end through the module path.
Assisted-by: harness=claude; primary-model=claude-fable-5; api-location=anthropic.com
make.tcl vendorupdate now walks up from each vendor source path to the
nearest fossil and/or git root and warns (non-fatal, once per VCS root)
when the checkout is dirty - vendored artifacts built from uncommitted
source have no committed provenance. Silent for unversioned or missing
locations; dual git+fossil roots report each VCS separately. First real
run flagged 8 dirty source projects (the tomlish 1.1.7/1.1.8 incident -
vendored content whose source history ended at 1.1.6 - motivated this,
remedied upstream by tomlish checkin 37b71e82).
Goal G-026 (proposed) carries the enforcement follow-on: abort with
explicit override, warn-only as configured mode, shared coverage of
bootsupport_localupdate, and a recorded decision on the residual
staleness gap. Abort-by-default now would block routine work given the
dirty-project count.
Project version 0.2.5; vendorupdate doc note in src/AGENTS.md.
Assisted-by: harness=claude; primary-model=claude-fable-5; api-location=anthropic.com
Goal G-022: scriptable safe fossil move/rename in dev repo (all checkouts
repointed, no phantom central config-db entries, no dangling old repo db,
project-name renamable with project-code preserved), then rename this
project fossil repo shellspy -> punkshell through that mechanism via a
G-015 piped script call.
New tests src/tests/modules/punk/mix/testsuites/repo/fossilmove.test pin
current behaviour in a FOSSIL_HOME-isolated sandbox with an isolation
guard: the file-copy + fossil test-move-repository sequence repoints the
checkout but leaves the old db file on disk, a phantom repo: entry in the
central config-db, and a stale ckout: back-reference; file moves never
touch project-name. GAP-marked tests flip when G-022 lands.
shellrun 0.1.4: add missing package require punk::args - the 0.1.3
migration left run/runout/runerr/runx calling punk::args::parse without
requiring it, which broke shellrun in bare interps and made every
src/tests/runtests.tcl run fail at test-file invocation. Full suite now
back to baseline (523 tests: 508 pass, 14 skip, exec-14.3 known failure).
Project version 0.2.4 (changelog entry for the shellrun fix).
Assisted-by: harness=claude; primary-model=claude-fable-5; api-location=anthropic.com
On a tcl 8.6 windows console in cooked (line) mode with a readable handler
armed on stdin - the idle-at-a-line-mode-prompt condition, e.g. a query
fired from an after-script or worker thread while the shell waits for
input - the 8.6 channel driver has a blocking cooked-mode ReadConsole
parked (arming posts it; driver reads sample the console mode at issue
time), so a terminal query's response is swallowed until Enter and then
leaks to the line reader as phantom input. This is the one remaining
hostage window after the 0.7.1 detection fixes and repl 0.2.2 read
discipline: it is the reader legitimately doing its job, so no repl-side
change can remove it (and line mode remains supported for user
scripts/mini-apps even once raw becomes the default).
get_ansi_response_payload now detects the condition before emitting
(cooked + no -inputmode key + twapi console handle + armed readable
handler) and refuses fast with errorcode
{PUNK CONSOLE QUERY HOSTAGE_COOKED_READ} - no emission, no ~500ms timeout,
no input corruption. Mid-command queries (repl reader disarmed) and raw
mode are unaffected. Best-effort by design: a parked read can outlive a
removed handler, so the guard catches the systematic case only. The G-007
routing wrapper now preserves the owner-side errorcode so brokered callers
can discriminate the refusal.
Tests: constraint-gated guard test in probes.test (engages on a real 8.6
console, self-skips on 8.7/9 via the -inputmode key and in piped runs);
ownerrouting.test passes with the errorcode-preserving wrapper. Full suite
at baseline (exec-14.3 only) under Tcl 9.0.3; probes suite also verified
under Tcl 8.6. Project version bumped to 0.2.2 with CHANGELOG entry per
the versioning policy (user-visible failure-mode change).
Assisted-by: harness=claude; primary-model=claude-fable-5; api-location=anthropic.com
Move project-version helper procs (parse_punkproject_version,
read_punkproject_version, read_changelog_latest_version) out of make.tcl
inline definitions into a loadable punkboot::utils module so the parsing
logic is unit-testable.
- src/modules/punkboot/utils-999999.0a1.0.tm: new module (0.1.0) with
the 3 procs in punkboot::utils namespace, PUNKARGS argdoc blocks.
- src/modules/punkboot/utils-buildversion.txt: initial 0.1.0.
- src/tests/modules/punkboot/utils/testsuites/utils/utils.test: 19 tests
covering section tracking, missing fields, wrong sections, whitespace,
quote styles, changelog header parsing, pre-release suffixes. All pass.
- src/make.tcl: inline procs removed; projectversion block now does
package require punkboot::utils and calls punkboot::utils:: procs.
- Layout make.tcl files (punk.shell-0.1, punk.project-0.1): same edit;
punk.basic keeps inline procs (no bootsupport tree).
- include_modules.config: added punkboot::utils entry (main + 2 layouts).
- Bootsupport snapshots propagated via make.tcl bootsupport.
- AGENTS.md: project version bump 0.2.0 -> 0.2.1 (patch: new make.tcl
projectversion subcommand is part of the product surface); added
clarifying line that make.tcl command interface warrants at least a
patch bump; src/project_layouts/ added to directories agents should
not directly modify.
- CHANGELOG.md: 0.2.1 entry.
Assisted-by: harness=opencode; primary-model=openrouter/z-ai/glm-5.2; api-location=openrouter.ai
The projectversion commit accidentally removed the
'if {$::punkboot::command eq "shell"} {' guard line, orphaning the
shell command body (package require punk/repl, repl::start) at top-level
scope. This broke every command whose if-block lives after line 1942
(vfscommonupdate, vendorupdate, bin, project, modules, libs, packages,
vfs) — they would hit the orphaned shell body and attempt to start a
REPL instead of running their intended function.
No behaviour change beyond restoring the guard; diff vs pre-projectversion
make.tcl is now purely additive.
Assisted-by: harness=opencode; primary-model=openrouter/z-ai/glm-5.2; api-location=openrouter.ai
Add a project-level version bumping mechanism for punkshell, tracked in
punkproject.toml, independent of individual module versions.
- root AGENTS.md: new 'Project Versioning' section with change-driven
SEMVER bump policy (patch/minor/major triggers), CHANGELOG.md requirement,
advisory enforcement contract, and independence from module versions.
- src/AGENTS.md: cross-reference to root Project Versioning section so
agents working in src/ discover the rule during their DOX chain walk.
- CHANGELOG.md: new repo-root file with initial 0.2.0 entry; latest
'## [X.Y.Z]' header must match punkproject.toml version.
- src/make.tcl: new 'projectversion' subcommand — read-only, advisory check
that warns on CHANGELOG/punkproject.toml version mismatch and on src/
commits since the last punkproject.toml change. Exempt from bootsupport
staleness abort (same as 'check'). Self-contained Tcl, no punk deps.
Assisted-by: harness=opencode; primary-model=openrouter/z-ai/glm-5.2; api-location=openrouter.ai
Four project-layout template README.md files were untracked because the
layout templates' own nested .gitignore files are honoured by git as
nested ignores of the outer repo (fossil, which reads no nested ignore
files, already manages them). Two vendored critcl TODO.txt files were
swallowed by the unanchored 'todo.txt' ignore pattern matching
case-insensitively on Windows (core.ignorecase). All six force-added so
git's tracked set matches fossil's view; note force-adds protect only
these existing files - future files under the layout templates or new
vendored TODO.txt files will drop silently again unless the underlying
patterns are revisited.
Assisted-by: harness=claude; primary-model=claude-fable-5; api-location=anthropic.com
get_size on tcl 8.6 returned 'columns 1' (real size e.g. 260x49): with the
0.7.1 console-detection fixes in place, 8.6 takes the ANSI size mechanism
(no -winsize shortcut) for the first time under G-007 routing - and that
mechanism is compound: the far-corner cursor move was written unflushed
into the calling thread's stdout channel instance while the routed position
query executed and flushed in the console-owning thread's separate instance
of the same OS handle. The terminal answered before the move reached it.
Pre-routing this was masked because emit and query shared one channel
instance, so the query's own flush pushed the emissions too.
All compound emit-then-query operations now flush their emissions before
querying: get_size_using_cursormove and get_size_using_cursorrestore (the
far-corner move), test_char_width (both the positioning emission and the
measured test emission - the latter would silently corrupt character-width
results), and test_string_cursor (alt-screen/move/erase). Error paths flush
their cursor-restore emissions likewise.
Interactively verified on punksys (tcl 8.6.13, src launch): get_size
reports the true terminal dimensions and test_char_width \t returns 8.
Full suite passes at baseline (exec-14.3 only) under Tcl 9.0.3.
Assisted-by: harness=claude; primary-model=claude-fable-5; api-location=anthropic.com
Two wiring-order holes surfaced during the G-007 interactive verification:
1. Calling ensure_object_integration before opunk::console is loaded errored
into the nonexistent namespace (can't set "::opunk::console::
waiting_chunks_arrayvar": parent namespace doesn't exist). It now returns
0 as a graceful no-op without latching object_integration_done, so a
later call after opunk::console loads still performs the wiring; the
wired/latched path returns 1.
2. 'package require opunk::console; opunk::console::create ...' with no
intervening punk::console object operation left the created console
without a registered owner: the lifecycle callback that records
ownership is only installed by ensure_object_integration, which is wired
lazily from punk::console's object-spec paths. Behaviour was unaffected
for the owning thread (share qualifiers fall back to the calling thread)
but other threads could not address that console's facts. On wiring the
callback, ensure_object_integration now retro-registers ownership for
anchors already present in the interp - anchors are per-interp/per-thread
so the anchoring context is the calling thread. Only empty registry
entries are filled; existing live registrations are preserved (and the
default console keeps first-registration-wins semantics).
Tests: new objectintegration.test covers the no-op return (unlatched),
retro-registration of a pre-wiring anchor with lifecycle forget clearing
the entry, idempotency of the latched path, and normal post-wiring
registration - passing under Tcl 9.0.3 and 8.6. Full suite at baseline
(exec-14.3 only).
Assisted-by: harness=claude; primary-model=claude-fable-5; api-location=anthropic.com
Companion to punk::console 0.7.1 (three-site 8.6 console misdetection fix).
The line-mode waiting-chunks path in repl_handler performed an unsized read
that, entered via 'after idle' with the channel drained, made the tcl 8.6
windows console driver park a blocking cooked-mode ReadConsole (driver reads
sample the console mode at issue time - a later raw flip cannot cancel one).
After typed-ahead was stashed during a terminal-query raw window, that
parked read swallowed every subsequent query response in the session until
Enter, with the responses later leaking to the reader.
On hostage-prone consoles (windows, no -inputmode configure key, real twapi
console handle) the path now consumes only data already in the Tcl channel
buffer (chan pending input + sized read - no driver probe). With nothing
buffered it processes the stashed complete lines directly - preserving the
recovered-typeahead execution order - and arms the readable handler for any
remaining partial line, replacing an after-idle reinvoke that, without the
read, could never have progressed; the parked read that arming creates is
the reader legitimately waiting for the user to finish typing. Behaviour on
tcl 9/8.7 (-inputmode consoles) and in raw mode is unchanged.
Interactively verified on punksys (tcl 8.6.13, src launch): the previously
failing case - typing a full command during a line-mode brokered query loop
- now runs with all queries answering, the typed line executing after the
loop, and no timeouts, response leakage or chan-blocked diagnostics; the
session remains healthy afterwards. Full suite passes at baseline
(exec-14.3 only) under Tcl 9.0.3.
Assisted-by: harness=claude; primary-model=claude-fable-5; api-location=anthropic.com
Tcl 8.6 windows console channels expose no -inputmode configure key, so
punk::console guards testing -inputmode/-mode classified a real 8.6 console
as a pipe. A twapi console handle for stdin is now treated as definitive
console detection at all three affected sites (stdin only - pipe probes
still never touch the process console; mintty-as-pipes has no console
handle and falls through to the env heuristics as before):
1. get_ansi_response_payload's raw-cycling gate (introduced 0.1.5) skipped
the raw cycle for 8.6 line-mode queries.
2. is_input_console_or_tty returned a false negative, making
settle_can_respond's layer-2 heuristic settle a real 8.6 console as
unable to respond.
3. input_at_eof (introduced 0.1.2) took the pipe branch and performed its
probe read on the drained console channel. This was the line-mode query
killer: verified empirically against clean tclkits 8.6.13 and 8.6.17,
a read on a drained 8.6 console channel makes the channel driver park a
blocking cooked-mode ReadConsole; driver reads sample the console mode
when issued, not when data arrives, so the query's subsequent raw flip
cannot rescue it and the terminal response is swallowed until Enter.
Since get_ansi_response_payload calls input_at_eof immediately before
its raw cycle, every 8.6 line-mode query timed out (~500ms) with the
response later leaking to the line reader as phantom input - also the
source of increased ANSI artifacts (e.g. 'help env') once 0.7.0
brokering made code-interp queries actually reach the terminal.
Interactively verified on punksys (tcl 8.6.13, src launch): line-mode
get_cursor_pos and dec_get_mode succeed mid-command, brokered query loops
run clean, and typed-ahead lines are recovered without phantom input.
Known residue (documented in the G-007 detail notes): queries fired while
the repl reader is armed and idle at a line-mode prompt (including some
repl-init detection queries) still hit the parked-read limitation on 8.6 -
repl init ordering is a follow-up; raw mode is unaffected.
Tests: probes.test gains constraint-gated wiring tests for the twapi
console branch of is_input_console_or_tty and input_at_eof (skip in piped
runs, engage on a real console). Full suite passes at baseline (exec-14.3
only) under Tcl 9.0.3; probes suite also verified under Tcl 8.6.
Assisted-by: harness=claude; primary-model=claude-fable-5; api-location=anthropic.com
