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docs: trim CHANGELOG and FEATURES bloat, drop ledger ids - #1017
CHANGELOG [Unreleased]: 139 entries / 5.1k words → 64 / 2.1k. Fixes to features that never shipped (tickets mode, v7 sweeps, OpenCode 2.x, permission modes, the parked-prompt latch; checked against v0.13.2) are folded into their Added entries. Features spread over several entries are merged (plugin trust, tickets, the parked-prompt work, TUI control-window claims, tmux/psmux fixes). Test-only and release-tooling entries are dropped, mechanism detail is cut, and Codex --no-daemon moves to Changed as a version requirement.
CHANGELOG released sections: internal DW-<n> ledger ids stripped (433 → 12; the 12 left are ledger-format syntax such as DW-<n> and --only DW-1,DW-3). Ids woven into prose are reworded; public #NNN issue refs are kept.
FEATURES.md: properties that had grown mechanism detail since the catalog rewrite are shortened back to short guarantees (8.1k → 7.3k words). No entries removed.
Docs only, no behavior change.
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trunk check CHANGELOG.md docs/FEATURES.md
uv run python scripts/release.py check
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Documentation
Updated ticket-tree guidance to explain shared story budgets, parent previews, per-ticket pauses, and resume behavior.
Clarified when retries pause for human input, how stalled sessions are handled, and how quota waits work.
Revised guidance for resolving escalated stories, restoring pauses after aborted resumes, and closing epics.
Expanded environment-fault and validation documentation, including provider outages, usage limits, and reset-time handling.
Updated guidance for ticket workflows, run-directory checks, CLI validation, and permission prompts.
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- Line 106: Update the session behavior bullet in the feature documentation to
replace the incomplete phrase “a non-blocking workflow's is journaled” with
wording that clearly identifies the journaled event, such as a non-blocking
workflow failure, while preserving that the run continues.
- Line 143: Update the epic-boundary pause description to qualify the
committed-folder requirement: it applies to versioned T1, T3, and T4 stores, not
unversioned T2 or T6 stores. Preserve the existing resume conditions and
paused-run behavior.
- Line 361: Qualify the worktree-isolation commit guarantee in the Codex feature
documentation: state that committing requires both write grants and that
adapter.extra_args must not override the sandboxed mode arguments.
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The pull request revises docs/FEATURES.md across ticket workflows, session handling, CLI support, and operator controls. It also removes several prior implementation details and claims from the documentation.
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Ticket workflow documentation docs/FEATURES.md
Updates descriptions of ticket-tree execution, resolving escalated stories, ticket checkpoints, and retrospectives.
Session and run-state documentation docs/FEATURES.md
Updates descriptions of retry and quota handling, environment-fault classification, run-directory identity checks, and operator parking.
CLI and sandbox documentation docs/FEATURES.md
Updates descriptions of OpenCode and Codex support, including commit grants for worktree-isolated Codex sessions.
TUI and validation documentation docs/FEATURES.md
Updates descriptions of TUI prompt controls and tickets-mode validation. Removes the statement about JSON fields and schema-versioning.
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Minor · Qualify the store-marking sentence in docs/FEATURES.md:60 with mark_done. · FEATURES.md:49
docs/FEATURES.md:49 Minor · Data Integrity & Integration · Quick win
Qualify the store-marking sentence in docs/FEATURES.md:60 with mark_done.
The sentence says a checkout-tracked store is marked inside the unit's commit, and any other store is marked after the code lands. That holds only under [tickets] mark_done = "auto", the default. Under "never", an accepted ticket gets no done mark in any store. Shared T2 and T6 stores get none. A store that is its own repository (T3 and T4) commits only the built plan the session wrote there. A park still marks the plan blocked under either setting, so the qualifier covers only the accepted-ticket mark.
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- - A store tracked in the checkout is marked inside the unit's commit; any other store is marked after the code lands.+ - Under `mark_done = "auto"`, a store tracked in the checkout is marked inside the unit's commit, and any other store is marked after the code lands. Under `mark_done = "never"`, an accepted ticket is not marked; a store that is its own repository commits only its `built` plan.
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Review comment at @docs/FEATURES.md at line 49:
Update the store-marking sentence in the FEATURES documentation to qualify
accepted-ticket marking under mark_done = "auto" and state that mark_done =
"never" leaves accepted tickets unmarked; clarify that a store that is its own
repository commits only the session’s built plan. Keep the qualifier scoped to
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Minor · Correct the validate --probes scope at line 108. · FEATURES.md:90
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Correct the validate --probes scope at line 108.
The sentence at line 108 says validate --probes launches each role's CLI once. The code launches per distinct effective launch, and it skips some roles and profiles:
Roles with the same profile, model, launch_args, and effective bypass args share one launch.
Roles whose adapter is not generic are skipped.
Roles whose permission mode has no profile mapping are skipped. adapter.permission-mode-unsupported reports them instead.
A profile without parked_prompt_patterns is not launched. Its finding reports that nothing was launched.
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- - `validate --probes` launches each role's CLI once with no prompt and fails when its first screen shows a startup dialog that would park an unattended session.+ - `validate --probes` launches one session per distinct effective launch of each `generic`-adapter role whose permission mode maps to a profile. Roles that share the profile, model, and args share one launch. Other roles and profiles without `parked_prompt_patterns` are not launched. It fails when the first screen shows a startup dialog that would park an unattended session.
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Review comment at @docs/FEATURES.md at line 90:
Update the `validate --probes` description in FEATURES.md to say it launches
once per distinct effective launch, sharing launches when profile, model,
launch_args, and effective bypass args match. Specify that non-generic roles,
roles without a permission-mode profile mapping, and profiles without
parked_prompt_patterns are not launched, and preserve the stated failure
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Review comments at @docs/FEATURES.md:
- Line 106: Update the session behavior bullet in the feature documentation to
replace the incomplete phrase “a non-blocking workflow's is journaled” with
wording that clearly identifies the journaled event, such as a non-blocking
workflow failure, while preserving that the run continues.
- Line 143: Update the epic-boundary pause description to qualify the
committed-folder requirement: it applies to versioned T1, T3, and T4 stores, not
unversioned T2 or T6 stores. Preserve the existing resume conditions and
paused-run behavior.
- Line 361: Qualify the worktree-isolation commit guarantee in the Codex feature
documentation: state that committing requires both write grants and that
adapter.extra_args must not override the sandboxed mode arguments.
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Review comments at @docs/FEATURES.md:
- Line 49: Update the store-marking sentence in the FEATURES documentation to
qualify accepted-ticket marking under mark_done = "auto" and state that
mark_done = "never" leaves accepted tickets unmarked; clarify that a store that
is its own repository commits only the session’s built plan. Keep the qualifier
scoped to accepted-ticket marks so the blocked-plan behavior for parked tickets
remains accurate.
- Line 90: Update the `validate --probes` description in FEATURES.md to say it
launches once per distinct effective launch, sharing launches when profile,
model, launch_args, and effective bypass args match. Specify that non-generic
roles, roles without a permission-mode profile mapping, and profiles without
parked_prompt_patterns are not launched, and preserve the stated failure
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- A permission-prompt latch clears once the transcript is written after it, so a session that was approved and then went silent gets the stall nudge instead of ending `stalled` and parked.
- A session whose window is alive when the timeout fires ends `timeout` marked parked, and pauses instead of retrying, when a parked hook signal is latched and the transcript has not been written since it, or when a parked-prompt pane pattern is present and the transcript is idle. A latch the transcript has been written past is no evidence, at any idle age.
- While the visible pane shows the coding CLI waiting out a usage-limit reset and the transcript is idle, the session timeout is frozen and the stall nudge held, for at most `[limits] quota_wait_max_min` (default 300; 0 = off) cumulative minutes per session; past the cap, or when the parsed reset lies beyond it, the session pauses with a usage-limit reason.
- A session that did no work, or is still parked on a prompt only a human should answer when it stalls or times out, pauses the run instead of being charged; a non-blocking workflow's is journaled and the run continues.
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Minor · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win
Fix the incomplete sentence.
a non-blocking workflow's is journaled is ungrammatical and does not identify what is journaled. Use wording such as “a non-blocking workflow failure is journaled only, and the run continues.” (raw.githubusercontent.com)
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Review comment at @docs/FEATURES.md at line 106:
Update the session behavior bullet in the feature documentation to replace the
incomplete phrase “a non-blocking workflow's is journaled” with wording that
clearly identifies the journaled event, such as a non-blocking workflow failure,
while preserving that the run continues.
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- In tickets mode the re-arm moves the ticket's plan through `tickets.py mark` and clears its `blocked_*` fields; a refused move puts the plan back byte for byte.
- On a tickets `epic-boundary` pause, resolve opens bmad-agent-po on the paused epic (`--no-interactive`: no session), then resumes only when the epic reads `done` or `dropped` and its epic folder has no uncommitted change; the session's exit code is never trusted, and a failed check exits 1 with the run still paused.
- In tickets mode the re-arm moves the ticket's plan through `tickets.py mark` and clears its `blocked_*` fields.
- On a tickets `epic-boundary` pause, resolve opens bmad-agent-po on the epic and resumes only when the epic reads `done` or `dropped` with its folder committed; otherwise it exits 1 with the run still paused.
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Qualify the epic-folder commit requirement for unversioned stores.
The check applies to all versioned layouts, including T1, T3, and T4. It does not check uncommitted changes in unversioned T2/T6 stores.
Suggested fix
--- "a/docs/FEATURES.md"+++ "b/docs/FEATURES.md"@@ -140,7 +140,7 @@
- Re-arming resets the story to `pending` with fresh dev-attempt and review-cycle budgets.
- `--reverify` re-runs `[verify]` on a deferred or environment-fault story's kept work without a dev session; on a finished run it replays a kept worktree unit in a new run.
- In tickets mode the re-arm moves the ticket's plan through `tickets.py mark` and clears its `blocked_*` fields.
- - On a tickets `epic-boundary` pause, resolve opens bmad-agent-po on the epic and resumes only when the epic reads `done` or `dropped` with its folder committed; otherwise it exits 1 with the run still paused.+ - On a tickets `epic-boundary` pause, resolve opens bmad-agent-po on the epic and resumes only when the epic reads `done` or `dropped` with its folder committed in a versioned T1, T3, or T4 store; otherwise it exits 1 with the run still paused.
- **Config:** `bmad-loop resolve --story`, `--no-interactive`, `--restore-patch`, `--adopt-branch`, `--reverify`, `--resume` / `--no-resume`, `--force`, `--abandon`, `--at-reset`, `--margin-min`
- **Tested by:** `tests/test_engine.py`, `tests/test_cli.py`, `tests/test_escalation.py`, `tests/test_resolve.py`, `tests/test_runs.py`, `tests/test_tui_app.py`, `tests/test_tickets_source.py`, `tests/test_tickets_e2e.py`
- **Docs:** [Escalations](escalations-guide.md#escalations), [Resolving an escalation](escalations-guide.md#resolving-an-escalation), [Replay a finished run's kept unit](escalations-guide.md#resolve-reverify-finished), [Abandon a replay run](escalations-guide.md#abandon-a-replay-run), [Resolve in tickets mode](escalations-guide.md#resolve-in-tickets-mode), [Epic closure in tickets mode](escalations-guide.md#epic-closure-in-tickets-mode), [resolve CLI reference](reference/cli.md#resolve)
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- On a tickets `epic-boundary` pause, resolve opens bmad-agent-po on the epic and resumes only when the epic reads `done` or `dropped` with its folder committed; otherwise it exits 1 with the run still paused.
- On a tickets `epic-boundary` pause, resolve opens bmad-agent-po on the epic and resumes only when the epic reads `done` or `dropped` with its folder committed in a versioned T1, T3, or T4 store; otherwise it exits 1 with the run still paused.
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Review comment at @docs/FEATURES.md at line 143:
Update the epic-boundary pause description to qualify the committed-folder
requirement: it applies to versioned T1, T3, and T4 stores, not unversioned T2
or T6 stores. Preserve the existing resume conditions and paused-run behavior.
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- `validate` reports each role's permission posture as `adapter.permission-mode`, suggesting `sandboxed` for an unsandboxed role without worktree isolation when the profile maps it. The note is advisory: a worktree is not a security boundary.
- A sandboxed Codex session in a linked worktree (`scm.isolation = "worktree"`) gets exact-path write grants for that worktree's gitdir and the main repo's shared `.git`, so git add and commit work. `validate` warns only when the grant cannot ride: an `extra_args` override replaces the mode's args and drops it, or the profile's mode declares no `linked_worktree_args` or a grant missing `{gitdir}` or `{common_dir}`.
- `tickets.store-sandbox` also warns when a sandboxed role writes a ticket store outside its cwd.
- A sandboxed Codex session under worktree isolation can commit: it gets write grants for the worktree's gitdir and the main repo's `.git`.
When adapter.extra_args overrides the sandboxed mode arguments, it drops the grants required for the linked worktree gitdir and the main repository’s .git. git add and git commit then fail in the isolated session.
Suggested documentation fix
--- "a/docs/FEATURES.md"+++ "b/docs/FEATURES.md"@@ -358,7 +358,7 @@
- A stage inherits the base mode even when it switches client; `[adapter.<stage>] permission_mode` overrides it.
- `bmad-loop resolve` sessions, where a human is present, keep the bypass flags whatever the mode.
- `validate` reports each role's permission posture as `adapter.permission-mode`, suggesting `sandboxed` for an unsandboxed role without worktree isolation when the profile maps it. The note is advisory: a worktree is not a security boundary.
- - A sandboxed Codex session under worktree isolation can commit: it gets write grants for the worktree's gitdir and the main repo's `.git`.+ - A sandboxed Codex session under worktree isolation can commit when both write grants are present and `adapter.extra_args` does not override the sandboxed mode arguments.
- **Config:** `[adapter] permission_mode`, `[adapter.dev]` / `[adapter.review]` / `[adapter.triage]` / `[adapter.retro]` `permission_mode`; profile table `[permission_modes.<mode>]`
- **Tested by:** `tests/test_policy.py`, `tests/test_profile.py`, `tests/test_runsetup.py`, `tests/test_cli.py`, `tests/test_codex_trust.py`, `tests/test_install.py`
- **Docs:** [Configuration reference: [adapter]](reference/configuration.md#adapter), [Permission modes](adapter-authoring-guide.md#permission-modes), [validate check ids](reference/cli.md#validate-checks)
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- A sandboxed Codex session under worktree isolation can commit: it gets write grants for the worktree's gitdir and the main repo's `.git`.
- A sandboxed Codex session under worktree isolation can commit when both write grants are present and `adapter.extra_args` does not override the sandboxed mode arguments.
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Review comment at @docs/FEATURES.md at line 361:
Qualify the worktree-isolation commit guarantee in the Codex feature
documentation: state that committing requires both write grants and that
adapter.extra_args must not override the sandboxed mode arguments.
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[Unreleased]: 139 entries / 5.1k words → 64 / 2.1k. Fixes to features that never shipped (tickets mode, v7 sweeps, OpenCode 2.x, permission modes, the parked-prompt latch; checked againstv0.13.2) are folded into their Added entries. Features spread over several entries are merged (plugin trust, tickets, the parked-prompt work, TUI control-window claims, tmux/psmux fixes). Test-only and release-tooling entries are dropped, mechanism detail is cut, and Codex--no-daemonmoves to Changed as a version requirement.DW-<n>ledger ids stripped (433 → 12; the 12 left are ledger-format syntax such asDW-<n>and--only DW-1,DW-3). Ids woven into prose are reworded; public#NNNissue refs are kept.Docs only, no behavior change.
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