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fix(review): provide additive next_action for approved acknowledgement (#1371) - #1374

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Fixes #1371.

  1. Additive next_action on Approved Closure & STATUS:
    In extensions/gentle-ai.ts, approved last-event closure envelopes (mapLastEventClosure) and approved bound STATUS mappings (mapNativeTargetStatus) previously republished only the raw provider acknowledgement continuation with its positional arguments (cwd, lineage, target, expected-revision, token). Machine callers passed these back into the acknowledge-approved facade operation, which refused them with controller-only-input because the facade re-derives the one-time token from native status internally and only accepts lineageId (and workspaceRoot).

    Now, approved closure envelopes and approved bound STATUS mappings provide an additive next_action naming the exact facade invocation:
    gentle_review {"operation":"acknowledge-approved","lineageId":"..."}
    alongside the untouched raw continuation for native CLI usage.

  2. Workspace Root Propagation:
    When a review targets a worktree or workspace root distinct from process.cwd(), next_action dynamically includes "workspaceRoot": "..." to prevent cross-worktree authority burn failures.

  3. Self-Healing Refusal Hint:
    Updated the controller-only-input refusal on acknowledge-approved to return the exact next_action invocation rather than an opaque text slug, allowing callers to recover immediately in a single step.

Testing

  • Strict Regression Tests (tests/review-controller-native-routing.test.ts):
    • Verified STATUS on approved target renders additive next_action naming the exact gentle_review {"operation":"acknowledge-approved","lineageId":"..."} call.
    • Verified STATUS on approved target preserves workspaceRoot in next_action when distinct from process cwd.
    • Verified approved capture closure envelope carries additive next_action alongside untouched raw acknowledgement continuation.
    • Verified approved capture closure envelope preserves workspaceRoot in next_action when distinct from process cwd.
  • Suite Verification:
    • node --experimental-strip-types --test tests/review-controller-native-routing.test.ts (77/77 passed)
    • npm run typecheck (0 regressions, 195 baseline diagnostics)
    • npm run check:provider-contract (passed)

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  • New Features

    • Approved status and closure responses now include a ready-to-use acknowledgement action. It preserves a selected workspace root when that root differs from the current directory, including in capture responses.
    • Invalid acknowledgement input with valid lineage now provides a continuation action; invalid lineage still prompts resubmission. Provider-issued acknowledgement details remain unchanged.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for acknowledgement actions in status and closure responses, workspace-root handling, and preservation of provider acknowledgement details.

Gentleman-Programming#1371)

In extensions/gentle-ai.ts, approved closure envelopes and approved bound
STATUS mappings republished the raw provider acknowledgement continuation,
inviting automated callers to pass positional CLI arguments to the facade
which rejected them with controller-only-input.

Provide an additive next_action field naming the exact facade invocation
gentle_review {"operation":"acknowledge-approved","lineageId":"..."}
while preserving the untouched raw continuation for native CLI usage.
Dynamically propagates workspaceRoot when distinct from process cwd, and
improves the controller-only-input refusal to return the self-healing
invocation.
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Approved STATUS and closure outputs now include facade acknowledgement guidance. The guidance preserves a distinct workspace root. Invalid acknowledgement input returns lineage-aware retry guidance. The provider acknowledgement remains unchanged.

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Approved acknowledgement guidance

Layer / File(s) Summary
Approved STATUS guidance
extensions/gentle-ai.ts, tests/review-controller-native-routing.test.ts
The STATUS mapper adds an acknowledge-approved next_action and includes a distinct workspaceRoot. Tests cover both output values.
Closure and retry guidance
extensions/gentle-ai.ts, tests/review-controller-native-routing.test.ts, odd/tasks/fix-1371-approved-acknowledgement-next-action.md
Approved closure results include next_action at the top level and inside closure. Invalid acknowledgement input with valid lineage returns acknowledgement retry guidance. Tests verify the output and unchanged provider acknowledgement. The task record describes the feature and verification.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~12 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Low

Suggested reviewers: alan-thegentleman

Fixed issue severity: <fixed_issue_severity>Low</fixed_issue_severity>

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to b8268

Machine callers can receive an unusable retry command or guidance targeting the session worktree rather than the selected repository. These are bounded issues in generated guidance, so merge risk is low with follow-up.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to b8268

The change preserves existing acknowledgement checks, but recovery guidance can omit the selected workspace and accepted lineage values are not safely serialized. These issues affect actionable guidance; unauthorized authority consumption has not been established.

Retained concerns

  • Low · security · observed: New executable guidance interpolates lineageId directly into JSON-style arguments. The reachable controller-only refusal accepts quote-bearing lineage values, so its continuation can be malformed or contain caller-injected argument members. The original request remains blocked; downstream execution or privilege escalation is not established.
  • Medium · security · inferred: Mutation-failure reconciliation receives the selected target cwd but does not forward it to the newly actionable STATUS mapper. Following that continuation without remembered lineage state selects the caller's session workspace instead. This can strand recovery or potentially select another repository-local authority with the same lineage text. Fresh STATUS checks constrain mutation within the newly selected workspace, but do not preserve the original recovery workspace. A wrong-workspace burn remains unverified.
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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The supported exposure is review authority in local Git workspaces accessible to the caller. Losing recovery workspace identity can extend the action to the caller's session workspace when lineage memory is absent. No tenant-wide, service-wide, IAM, or credential expansion is established by the inspected paths.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • inferred — A caller able to submit acknowledgement input can supply a canonical lineage containing JSON-sensitive characters and a forbidden controller field. The refusal returns that lineage inside executable guidance without escaping. A downstream consumer following the guidance may encounter malformed or altered arguments. This is newly exposed output behavior, not demonstrated native command execution or a permission bypass.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Controller-only fields are rejected before acknowledgement mutation. Normal acknowledgement requires current-target applicability, exact lineage, approved state, and the provider's acknowledgement operation, then validates execution against the selected cwd, target identity, and revision. Closure mapping also rejects lineage and target drift.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — Confirmed acknowledgement completion is kept separate from cleanup failures, which are reported as deferred cleanup rather than failed mutation. Outer bookkeeping is guarded by session identity and epoch. Ambiguous mutation failures trigger STATUS reconciliation, but the newly produced recovery action does not retain its workspace.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Serialize the complete facade argument object consistently and carry the selected canonical workspace through reconciliation-produced actions. Validate recovery round trips with absent lineage memory and JSON-sensitive lineage values.
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Linked Issues check ✅ Passed Issue #1371 requires additive next_action guidance on approved STATUS mappings and closure envelopes. mapNativeTargetStatus and mapLastEventClosure add the exact lineage-only gentle_review inv…
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- Line 8042: Update the invalid-input retry in the `gentle_review` flow to
compare `parameters.workspaceRoot` with the retry’s implicit root, resolved
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`nextAction` when implicit resolution is unavailable or differs; omit it only
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- Line 8655: Pass the selected workspace root to every mapNativeTargetStatus
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Reviewed against #1371's acceptance criteria; all three hold.

  • next_action lands on both approved surfaces with the exact lineage-only shape ({"operation":"acknowledge-approved","lineageId":...}, plus workspaceRoot only when it differs from cwd). The workspaceRoot propagation is a good catch beyond the issue text: it prevents burning authority against the wrong worktree.
  • The raw continuation stays untouched: the closure test deep-equals closure.acknowledgement against the provider vector, and the new STATUS branch returns exactly the old fallthrough shape (operation, status, result: status.raw, requested_lineage_id) plus next_action, so no field is dropped. Purely additive, as the issue required.
  • Both placements (top-level envelope and closure.next_action beside the raw arguments) are pinned by tests. That directly serves the original complaint: the hint now travels with the continuation instead of arriving only after a refusal.

One non-blocking ask: the third deliverable, the self-healing refusal hint (controller-only-input returning the exact invocation when the lineage is canonical, keeping the slug otherwise), has no test. Given this repo's strict-TDD norms, a small assertion for both branches would close that gap; marking it out of scope is also fine. The fix for #1371 itself is complete from my side.

… test self-healing (Gentleman-Programming#1371)

1. Compare workspaceRoot against the implicitly resolved root in
   acknowledge-approved invalid-input refusal, ensuring workspaceRoot is
   serialized in next_action when distinct.
2. Propagate workspaceRoot across mapNativeTargetStatus and
   staleConsentBindingOutcome calls so worktree boundaries are respected.
3. Add strict regression tests in tests/review-controller-native-routing.test.ts
   covering self-healing next_action for canonical lineages (with and without
   workspaceRoot) and fallback slug for invalid lineages.

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const implicitRoot = resolveReviewControllerWorkspaceRoot(undefined, sessionCwd, candidateViews, parameters.lineageId);
const needsExplicitWorkspaceRoot = parameters.workspaceRoot !== undefined && parameters.workspaceRoot !== implicitRoot;
const nextAction = isCanonicalProcessString(parameters.lineageId)
? `gentle_review {"operation":"acknowledge-approved","lineageId":"${parameters.lineageId}"${needsExplicitWorkspaceRoot ? `,"workspaceRoot":${JSON.stringify(parameters.workspaceRoot)}` : ""}}`

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

JSON-encode lineageId in the recovery invocation.

If a caller submits lineageId: 'review"one' with controller-only input, the lineage passes isCanonicalProcessString, but Line 8046 returns invalid JSON in next_action. The caller cannot follow the self-healing invocation. Use JSON.stringify(parameters.lineageId) instead of inserting the value between literal quotation marks.

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In `@extensions/gentle-ai.ts` at line 8046, Update the recovery invocation that
builds next_action to JSON-encode parameters.lineageId with JSON.stringify,
rather than interpolating it between literal quotation marks, so lineage IDs
containing quotes still produce valid JSON.

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Preserve native committed-range selection and explicit workspace-root acknowledgement guidance.

Local verification: 14 acknowledgement cases and 1 isolated ordinary START case passed. Full affected routing file reached its 120-second timeout; invalid-lineage omission, remote CI and live provider behavior remain unverified. Human explicitly accepted narrowed evidence for local merge completion.

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- Line 5670: Update the acknowledge-approved invocation at
extensions/gentle-ai.ts:5670-5670 and the closure’s capture-root invocation at
extensions/gentle-ai.ts:6755-6755 to include the selected STATUS root whenever
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Retain selected workspace roots in approved STATUS and capture closure guidance, including grouped capture. Add caller-relative and grouped wire-format regressions.

Verified: 17 focused tests passed under independent validation; diff and root/acknowledgement readback passed. Full routing-file verification remains incomplete after its earlier timeout; live provider and native review were not run.
Keep the grouped capture fixture lens values as a const tuple to satisfy the artifact-subject literal union without changing runtime values or assertions.

Verified independently: CI type gate passed with 187 existing diagnostics and no regressions; grouped caller-relative regression passed. Baseline and configuration unchanged. Full routing-file verification remains incomplete; no live provider or native review ran.
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bug(review): approved closure envelope offers acknowledgement input the facade refuses, with no lineage-only hint

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