Readonly reference checkout of the community Tcl 9 port of classic
Expect (alpha, Linux-tested, unix-pty only - no ConPTY/windows
backend). Full assessment in the G-061 notes: reference for expect
primitive semantics, candidate unix-backend tool at arm's length,
pty-allocation reference. G-020/G-044 get pointers, plus stale
"candidate goal drafted" phrasing updated to name G-061.
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In-place closeout edits ahead of the archive move (per the goals/AGENTS.md
pure-rename discipline): detail-file Status flipped to achieved 2026-07-20
(all amended acceptance clauses verified - see the detail file's Progress
record), the console-attachment finding pushed to live G-061's Notes as part
of the archive reference sweep, and punkproject.toml patch-bumped 0.17.0 ->
0.17.1 for the punk::path 0.4.0 pathglob addition shipping in kit payloads
(user-directed). goals_lint transiently red until the archive-move commit.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BNUVVkYq9vHa6G3S9a3XTZ
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Three tests fail only under a half-attached console (stderr=console,
stdout=file): grepstr highlight tests emit empty SGR and nslist marking
loses its markers - punk::console process-global colour state under
mixed tty-ness. Fully-piped and -jobs runs green; fully-interactive
unverified. Recorded on G-061 (user direction) as a concrete
context-matrix workload for the pseudoconsole harness, alongside the
interim Start-Process selective-redirection repro technique and a
pointer to the related capture_stderr utf-16le fix (913ea749).
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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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- ConPTY (windows) + pty (unix) expect-like harness: spawn a built punkshell on a size-controlled pseudo-terminal, send keys incl control/arrow sequences, await patterns in the rendered ANSI byte stream with timeouts and forced teardown, full transcript capture
- the durable byte-accurate tier of the repl verification model recorded in goals/G-044 detail: pure layer (commandcomplete.test, done), console-seam unit tier (G-001 as enabling refactor), rendered tiers (G-020 screen capture near-term windows bridge; this goal headless + cross-platform)
- first verification targets = preserve-list behaviours: the in-proc {set x "{*}{"} continuation-hint sequence, raw-mode tab-marker rendering/deletion, up-arrow recall + edit of a multiline history entry
- detail file records open implementation questions (driving ConPTY from tcl: twapi surface vs helper exe; harness/shell synchronisation incl the inter-subshell beep-protocol idea vs prompt sentinels) and the G-059 WSL / G-060 QEMU-guest execution extensions
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Julian Noble