Phase B: verify-phase timeout ladder + diff-injection hardening - #48
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C-3: the codex-verify branch only wrapped in GNU timeout, leaving the
phase most prone to hanging unbounded on stock macOS. The 3-tier
runner selection (timeout/gtimeout/perl) now lives in lib as
select_timeout_runner/run_with_timeout_runner, consumed by both
invoke_agent_with_timeout and the verify branch — one source, since
copy-paste divergence is how C-1 happened.
C-4: raw diffs substituted into a bare 3-backtick fence could close
it early and inject verifier instructions ('output APPROVED'). The
fence is now computed longer than the diff's longest backtick run,
both templates frame the diff as untrusted data, and all prompt
builders substitute through run-unique nonce sentinels — ordering
alone cannot stop earlier-substituted values from re-injecting the
{DIFF} placeholder (found by cross-vendor review). Reliability sim
17->28 scenarios incl. CRLF, stat/plan/retry injection round-trips.
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In the Claude Code skill workflow, Step 7 still tells the renderer to fill only {TASK}, {DIFF}/{DIFF_STAT}, and the plan context from review-prompt-opus.md (checked skills/dev-review/SKILL.md lines 647-651). With this new placeholder, that path will leave literal {DIFF_FENCE}diff/{DIFF_FENCE} in the prompt instead of a Markdown fence, so users who invoke the skill rather than dev-review.sh lose the diff containment this change relies on. Please add the fence computation/substitution to the skill contract before changing the shared templates.
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macOS has gtimeout but no bare timeout, so the stub had nothing to delegate to and the scenario loud-FAILed instead of testing anything. Detect real gtimeout directly and only fabricate a wrapper when it's absent (Linux/Git Bash, which have timeout but no gtimeout). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
PR #48's dual review (Claude adversarial + gpt-5.5) voted REJECT on correctness/reliability gaps. Close them so a runner failure can never be mistaken for a passing review and untrusted git output can never stall or escape its fence: - compute_diff_fence was O(N^2) (31.6s for a 20k-backtick line): a crafted diff could wedge the verifier. Rewrite as a single awk pass with a doubling fence build; semantics unchanged (run+1, min 3). - The perl timeout leg killed only the direct child, orphaning the hung codex/claude grandchild behind a `bash -c` wrapper. setpgrp the child and TERM/grace/KILL the whole group on alarm. - The same leg reported exit 0 for a child killed by a signal outside the alarm path, laundering a crash into success. Propagate 128+signum. - A runner infra failure (fork=125, exec 126/127) fell through the verify path's 124-only guard toward verdict parsing. Abort hard, logged, without parsing the verdict file. - PHASE_TIMEOUT was used unvalidated on the codex-verify path, where 0 or garbage silently disables the bound. Route both paths through one shared validator (require_phase_timeout). - {DIFF_STAT} is the same untrusted source as {DIFF} but was unfenced. Fence it too, over the combined max, in both review templates. - Soften an overstated nonce comment; the scheme was verified sound. - reliability-simulation gains guards for each fix and a counted SKIP so macOS CI (no GNU timeout/gtimeout) goes green on the perl leg instead of a permanent FAIL. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Executes Phase B of
.planning/notes/2026-07-07-audit-improvement-plan.md(loop:.planning/notes/2026-07-07-execution-loop.md).What this fixes
select_timeout_runner/run_with_timeout_runner) so there is exactly one copy.{DIFF}in the stat, a plan discussing the{DIFF}placeholder, a verdict field on the revise loop) could re-inject the raw diff outside the fence.Verification
pr-emitter-simulation.shScenario C is flaky, not a regression — its eval cache keys on a hash of the livegit diff, and concurrent progress-file writes flipped the key mid-run, exposing a pre-existing broken fallthrough (root-caused by an isolated agent; 12/12 on rerun; fix spun off as a separate task). Phase B touches none of the scoring path.🤖 Generated with Claude Code