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Installs agent-kombat — a multi-model plan-debate tool. Claude, Codex and DeepSeek each write an implementation plan, read each other's, revise, then a judge picks or merges. The point is that different model families fail differently, so one model's confidently-invented file path gets caught by another.

Planning only. It never edits the tree.

What's here

Path What it is
scripts/agent-kombat/ The driver (agent-kombat.sh) plus its _lib/ libraries, rosters, contracts and test fixtures
.claude/skills/agent-kombat/SKILL.md The skill that wraps the driver
.opencode/agent/kombat-debater.md The read-only opencode participant
.opencode/opencode.json opencode permission config
.gitignore Ignores tmp/, where debate runs are written

Before this works

bash 4.0+ is required — the driver uses associative arrays. macOS ships bash 3.2, so brew install bash is needed and its directory must come before /bin in PATH. Without it the script exits immediately with a version error.

claude, codex, opencode and jq also need to be on PATH.

Checking it without spending anything

These cost zero model calls:

bash scripts/agent-kombat/agent-kombat.sh --roster-check --roster trio-debate
bash scripts/agent-kombat/agent-kombat.sh --check-harnesses
bash scripts/agent-kombat/agent-kombat.sh --dry-run -r 2 "<requirement>"
bash scripts/agent-kombat/smoke.sh    # uses fake harnesses in testdata/

A real run is expensive — roughly $6–15 and 15–30 minutes, 8–15 model calls.

Notes for review

  • The .gitignore entry is tmp with no trailing slash on purpose. The driver runs git check-ignore -q tmp before creating the directory, and a tmp/ pattern only matches a directory that already exists — so tmp/ alone makes the tool fail on a fresh checkout.
  • .opencode/opencode.json carries some rules that don't apply here (terraform, make deploy). They came with the tool and are inert in this repo.
  • SKILL.md cross-references two sibling skills, second-opinion and glm-delegate, which aren't installed. Those links are dead; nothing else is affected.
  • .opencode/node_modules/ was deliberately not included — the tool's own .gitignore excludes it.

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  • New Features
    • Added Agent Kombat for adversarial multi-model planning, debate rounds, judging, synthesis, and structured Markdown plans.
    • Added configurable roster presets, planning contracts, dry-run previews, resumable sessions, and model overrides.
    • Added read-only execution, protected workspaces, timeouts, read-limit monitoring, and fail-closed validation.
    • Added configurable command approval and blocking safeguards.
  • Documentation
    • Added setup, usage, safety, provenance, and repository-grounding guidance.
  • Tests
    • Added deterministic offline smoke tests covering execution, retries, resume, validation, and failure handling.
  • Chores
    • Added roster and contract validation checks for shipped configurations.

Adds the agent-kombat multi-model plan-debate tool: three models (Claude,
Codex, DeepSeek via opencode) each write a plan, read each other's, revise,
and a judge picks a winner.

- scripts/agent-kombat/          the driver and its libraries
- .claude/skills/agent-kombat/   the skill that wraps it
- .opencode/agent/               the read-only opencode participant
- .gitignore                     ignore the tmp/ run directory

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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_012672tdqAcDZ3GyDvNVTMcg
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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

Adds the Agent Kombat planning-only CLI. It defines model contracts, rosters, read-only harness adapters, safe workdirs, resumable debate orchestration, final artifact synthesis, and deterministic offline smoke tests.

Changes

Agent Kombat workflow

Layer / File(s) Summary
Contracts, rosters, and preflight validation
.claude/skills/agent-kombat/SKILL.md, scripts/agent-kombat/contracts/*, scripts/agent-kombat/rosters/*, scripts/agent-kombat/_lib/contracts.sh, scripts/agent-kombat/_lib/roster.sh, scripts/agent-kombat/_lib/preflight.sh, scripts/agent-kombat/roster-check-hook.sh
Defines planning contracts, strict roster schemas, shipped roster presets, model overrides, harness validation, and OpenCode canary checks.
Runtime safety, persistence, and run modes
scripts/agent-kombat/_lib/common.sh, scripts/agent-kombat/_lib/safety.sh, scripts/agent-kombat/_lib/persistence.sh, scripts/agent-kombat/_lib/runmodes.sh, scripts/agent-kombat/agent-kombat.sh, .opencode/*, .gitignore, scripts/agent-kombat/UPSTREAM.md
Adds CLI handling, secure requirement expansion, workdir containment, tree-integrity checks, configuration and manifest persistence, resume and dry-run support, and OpenCode safety documentation.
Harness adapters and parallel dispatch
scripts/agent-kombat/_lib/adapters.sh, scripts/agent-kombat/_lib/dispatch.sh
Adds Claude, Codex, and OpenCode execution adapters with structured-output handling, sessions, retries, read limits, timeouts, and concurrent dispatch.
Prompts and debate lifecycle
scripts/agent-kombat/_lib/prompts.sh, scripts/agent-kombat/_lib/orchestration.sh
Adds participant prompts, shared context, debate rounds, objection ledgers, judge replay, synthesis, publication, and final reporting.
Offline smoke validation and fake harnesses
scripts/agent-kombat/smoke.sh, scripts/agent-kombat/testdata/*
Adds deterministic fake harnesses and end-to-end checks for validation, prompt parity, containment, retries, replay, resume, reporting, and event ordering.

Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~120 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 41a9a

The PR adds a planning-only multi-agent command, but it is not merge-ready until several bounded issues are addressed or explicitly accepted: read-only protection can miss changes in ignored or existing untracked files, repository references can fail when invoked from a subdirectory, the smoke test is not portable across documented hosts, and concurrent test runs can be nondeterministic; the skill also contains instructions that should be reviewed for safety and configuration access.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant CLI as agent-kombat.sh
  participant Preflight as preflight.sh
  participant Orchestrator as orchestration.sh
  participant Dispatch as dispatch.sh
  participant Harness as Claude/Codex/OpenCode
  participant Store as persistence.sh

  CLI->>Preflight: validate roster and harnesses
  CLI->>Orchestrator: start or resume run
  Orchestrator->>Dispatch: launch participant turns
  Dispatch->>Harness: invoke read-only model session
  Harness-->>Dispatch: return structured response
  Dispatch-->>Orchestrator: return slot status and events
  Orchestrator->>Store: publish round manifest
  Orchestrator->>Harness: request judge and synthesis
  Harness-->>Orchestrator: return verdict and final Markdown
  Orchestrator->>Store: write final artifact and completion state
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I’m a rabbit with plans in a neat little stack,
Three quiet model paths, then the answers come back.
Rounds hop through ledgers, sessions stay tame,
Safe roots guard the burrow from accidental flame.
Tests thump their paws: every fake passed the gate.

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  • .claude/skills/agent-kombat/SKILL.md:262 — Instructions for grounding agents reference CLAUDE.md, but this file does not exist in this repo. Per AGENTS.md §"Project shape", CLAUDE.md is explicitly listed as a file that "do not exist in this repo" with instruction "Do not follow instructions to read them; do not invent them." The grounding instruction tells an Agent to "Open AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md, docs/, the migration, the contract — quote the line" to verify conventions. This violates the documented project rule. — Remove CLAUDE.md from the grounding instructions, or replace with an existing reference doc (e.g., cite AGENTS.md alone).

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Inline comments:
In @.gitignore:
- Around line 92-94: Update the tmp ignore rule to /tmp, preserving the
no-trailing-slash form so the repository-root check works while nested tmp paths
remain unaffected.

In @.opencode/opencode.json:
- Around line 3-15: Update the Bash permission configuration so the effective
permission for kombat-debater remains deny, preventing project-level ask rules
such as make deploy* and terraform apply* from overriding it under last-match
precedence. Move the listed project-specific rules out of the merged
configuration or add a preflight validation that rejects any configuration where
Bash access is not denied.

In `@scripts/agent-kombat/_lib/common.sh`:
- Around line 105-111: Update sha256_file to use the Linux-standard sha256sum
utility instead of shasum, preserving the existing hash extraction and
absent-file output behavior.
- Around line 91-98: Update file_mtime_epoch to validate the output of each stat
variant and emit exactly one numeric mtime, reusing the numeric-validation
approach from file_size_bytes. Ensure GNU stat does not produce
filesystem-status text and that the fallback printf is used only when no valid
numeric value is obtained.

In `@scripts/agent-kombat/_lib/contracts.sh`:
- Around line 336-346: Update validate_judge_verdict to require
converged_participants as an array, matching the required field in
judge_schema_file and ensuring fenced_json verdicts cannot omit the convergence
roster.

In `@scripts/agent-kombat/_lib/dispatch.sh`:
- Around line 215-219: Guard the empty waiting-array expansion in the heartbeat
logging block around the waiting array construction, so it remains safe under
set -u on Bash 4.0–4.3. Match the existing SLOT_ORDER empty-array handling in
common.sh while preserving the current waiting entries and log format when slots
remain.

In `@scripts/agent-kombat/_lib/orchestration.sh`:
- Around line 358-360: Update the dispatch count assignment near the
completed-event report so a zero-match grep result is not followed by a second
fallback zero. Preserve the fallback for a missing or unreadable events.jsonl,
using an approach that distinguishes grep’s no-match status from an actual read
failure before assigning dispatches.

In `@scripts/agent-kombat/_lib/preflight.sh`:
- Around line 83-98: Update opencode_agent_proven so its opencode run can
execute only within a short timeout, using the repository’s established timeout
mechanism or a suitable bounded value. Preserve the existing fallback detection,
and ensure timeout expiry produces rc=1 so callers follow the normal
model/provider failure diagnostic path.
- Around line 230-237: Increment the failures counter in the missing-model
branch of run_check_harnesses before continuing, so skipped canaries cause the
accumulated-failures check to fail consistently with preflight_opencode_agents.
Preserve the warning and per-canary continue behavior.

In `@scripts/agent-kombat/_lib/prompts.sh`:
- Around line 312-329: Update load_run_config to call normalise_context_mode
immediately after restoring CONTRACT_CONTEXT_MODE from config.json, ensuring
resumed runs reject invalid or legacy context modes with the standard context
error while preserving valid modes.

In `@scripts/agent-kombat/_lib/roster.sh`:
- Around line 195-198: Update the MODEL_OVERRIDE iteration and the corresponding
known-roster handling around the visible validation logic so both empty-array
expansions are safe under set -u on Bash 4.0–4.3. Add length checks or
nounset-safe expansions, while preserving normal model-name validation and
allowing the empty-roster error to be reported instead of aborting.

In `@scripts/agent-kombat/_lib/runmodes.sh`:
- Around line 106-152: Persist ALLOW_UNSTRUCTURED_JUDGE in write_config and
restore it in load_run_config before validate_roster so resumed runs retain the
original judge validation mode. Also restore NO_JUDGE bidirectionally from
judge_enabled, explicitly setting it to 0 when the stored value is not false,
matching the unconditional ROUNDS restore behavior.
- Around line 281-287: Update the Claude slot description in SKILL.md to state
that print mode uses a read-only tool allowlist, matching the flags emitted by
the claude driver’s preview and the Read/Grep/Glob tools. Remove the inaccurate
“tools off” wording while preserving the surrounding security guidance.
- Around line 319-325: The normalization substitution in the run-mode comparison
must treat label as literal text rather than a sed regular expression or
delimiter. Update the sed command producing "$tmp/$id.norm" to use fixed-string
replacement or robustly escape label metacharacters and the delimiter,
preserving replacement with <SELF> and preventing malformed commands or
overmatching.

In `@scripts/agent-kombat/_lib/safety.sh`:
- Around line 142-150: Update the tree snapshot logic around the tracked-diff
and untracked-file hashing in safety.sh to include ignored files and recursively
hash contents under untracked directories, while excluding the intended
temporary workdir. Use NUL-delimited path handling throughout so filenames with
whitespace or special characters are preserved, and ensure tree_state and
assert_tree_untouched compare the complete baseline rather than only
git-reported files.

In `@scripts/agent-kombat/agent-kombat.sh`:
- Around line 400-414: Update the requirement-reference resolution near ref_dir
so dirname "$path" is rooted at "$REPO_ROOT" before physical resolution,
ensuring references such as `@docs/example.md` resolve consistently when invoked
from repository subdirectories; preserve the existing symlink and
repository-boundary checks.

In `@scripts/agent-kombat/context/shared-context.md`:
- Around line 35-39: Update the Conventional Commits rule to require
type(scope): summary with a narrow scope, lowercase imperative summary, and a
maximum total length of 70 characters; remove the optional Linear ID suffix and
ensure the PR title follows the same format.

In `@scripts/agent-kombat/roster-check-hook.sh`:
- Around line 25-32: Update the roster-check flow around the DRIVER invocation
to capture stderr in a unique temporary file outside the source tree, using the
repository’s existing temporary-directory convention where available. Ensure
cleanup runs on success, failure, and interruption or early exit, while
preserving the current error display and status behavior in the roster-check
hook.

In `@scripts/agent-kombat/rosters/duo.json`:
- Line 3: Update the anonymity sentence in the roster description to match the
phrasing used by trio-debate.json, clearly stating that participants do not
learn which model wrote each plan while the judge remains informed.

In `@scripts/agent-kombat/smoke.sh`:
- Around line 214-215: Update the “dry run made zero dispatches” check to first
require that $DRY/events.jsonl exists, then verify it contains no
agent.call.started entries. Preserve the existing failure behavior when dispatch
events are present and align this validation with the adjacent prompt-check
assertion.
- Around line 349-350: Update merge_round_events to remove each per-slot
r${round}-${slot}.events.jsonl file after merging, then extend the “per-slot
event files were merged and removed” check to assert those files are absent
alongside the merged file.

In `@scripts/agent-kombat/testdata/fake-codex`:
- Around line 117-121: Update the phase validation in the fake-codex script to
explicitly reject a non-empty schema_file when phase is synthesis, while
preserving the existing required-file and JSON-object checks for all other
phases.

In `@scripts/agent-kombat/testdata/fake-opencode`:
- Line 188: Update the fake-opencode state handling around the session-id
assignment, payload export, and debate counter so all state is keyed by the
current model and agent slot. Derive per-slot state paths from $model and
$agent, use the requested session’s corresponding payload during export, protect
the counter read/increment/write sequence from concurrent access, and derive
unique default session IDs per slot.

In `@scripts/agent-kombat/UPSTREAM.md`:
- Around line 8-10: Add the complete upstream MIT copyright and permission
notice to a tracked local NOTICE or license file, and update the licensing
documentation around the UPSTREAM section to reference that local file instead
of relying only on the upstream LICENSE link.
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  • scripts/agent-kombat/contracts/plan.json
  • scripts/agent-kombat/roster-check-hook.sh
  • scripts/agent-kombat/rosters/deepseek-only.json
  • scripts/agent-kombat/rosters/duo.json
  • scripts/agent-kombat/rosters/pair.json
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  • scripts/agent-kombat/rosters/trio-debate.json
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Correctness and portability fixes from adversarial review of this PR. All
verified with `bash scripts/agent-kombat/smoke.sh` (99 checks) and
`--check-harnesses` on bash 5.3.

Money / correctness:
- orchestration.sh: reuse a valid judge verdict on --resume instead of
  re-dispatching. A run that died after the judge answered but before
  synthesis finished paid for the same verdict twice. Attempt-scoped, so
  attempt N's verdict can never be served as attempt M's.
- persistence.sh: round manifests go through write_atomic, like write_config.
  A direct redirect reintroduces the half-written-file class write_atomic
  exists to prevent.
- preflight.sh: check_flag matched substrings, so `--json` also matched
  `--json-schema`. A vendor renaming a flag would have reported green.

Portability:
- common.sh: file_mtime_epoch probed BSD stat first; on GNU `stat -f` means
  --file-system, printing a report to stdout AND exiting non-zero, so the ||
  chain concatenated it with the real value. Now GNU-first with validation,
  matching file_size_bytes directly above.
- common.sh: sha256_file falls back to sha256sum.

Fail-closed:
- safety.sh: the "not gitignored" message recommended 'tmp/', the one pattern
  that cannot satisfy the check it guards.
- prompts.sh: an unknown context_mode died silently, leaving every debater
  without shared context. Now dies before anything is billed.
- roster-check-hook.sh: fails when it cannot validate, rather than passing.
- contracts.sh: validate_judge_verdict now requires converged_participants,
  which the schema already declared required.

Robustness:
- dispatch.sh, roster.sh: guard three empty-array expansions. SKILL.md claims
  bash >= 4.0 suffices "because empty-array expansions are guarded" -- that
  was untrue at these sites, where bash 4.0-4.3 errors under set -u.
- runmodes.sh: escape the roster label before interpolating it into sed.
- preflight.sh: the opencode canary forwards --variant, so it proves the same
  dispatch the debate actually makes.

Security / hygiene:
- prompts.sh: judge and synthesis prompts frame embedded participant artifacts
  as untrusted content, not instructions.
- testdata: fixture plan headings no longer name a harness.
- SKILL.md: dropped the dead ../glm-delegate/SKILL.md link.
- UPSTREAM.md: reproduce the MIT notice in full; add D18/D19 ledger entries.

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No defects found after adversarial pass.

Findings from the follow-up reviews. Verified with
`bash scripts/agent-kombat/smoke.sh` (99 checks) on bash 5.3.

- .gitignore: `/tmp`, not `tmp`. Both satisfy the driver's pre-creation
  `git check-ignore -q tmp`, but the unanchored form also ignores any nested
  directory named tmp anywhere in the repo. safety.sh's die message and
  install.sh now recommend the anchored form.

- orchestration.sh: the final report printed "00" dispatches whenever a run
  made none. `grep -c` prints 0 AND exits 1 on no match, so `|| printf 0`
  appended a second zero. Now distinguishes no-match from an unreadable log.

- runmodes.sh: --resume restores the judge flags in both directions. The old
  form could only ever SET NO_JUDGE=1, so a resume inherited whatever the
  current invocation passed rather than the run's own configuration.
  ALLOW_UNSTRUCTURED_JUDGE was not restored at all.

- preflight.sh: the opencode canary is now time-bounded
  (AGENT_KOMBAT_CANARY_TIMEOUT, default 120s). It runs before any billed
  dispatch and the idle watchdog does not cover it, so a provider that accepts
  the connection and stalls hung preflight indefinitely.

- preflight.sh: a canary skipped for a missing model now counts as a failure.
  preflight_opencode_agents dies on that case; --check-harnesses reported green.

- roster-check-hook.sh: driver stderr goes to a mktemp file outside the source
  tree, cleaned by a trap. It was written into scripts/agent-kombat/ and only
  removed on the success path, so an interrupt left it to be staged.

- smoke.sh: the "dry run made zero dispatches" check passed vacuously when
  events.jsonl was absent -- `! grep -q missing-file` succeeds. The comment
  directly below it already warned about this exact hazard for the next check.

- SKILL.md: claude slots run an explicit read-only tool allowlist
  (--tools "Read,Grep,Glob"), not "tools off" as the text claimed. adapters.sh
  documents why the empty list was abandoned.

- rosters/duo.json: anonymity wording aligned with trio-debate.json.

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290-305: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Do not require shasum in the smoke test.

These hash checks fail on minimal GNU/Linux hosts that provide sha256sum but not Perl's shasum. The documented runtime requirements do not include shasum. Add a local hash helper that prefers sha256sum and falls back to shasum.

Proposed fix
+smoke_sha256() {
+  if command -v sha256sum >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+    sha256sum "$1" | awk '{print $1}'
+  else
+    shasum -a 256 "$1" | awk '{print $1}'
+  fi
+}
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-r0_unique="$(shasum -a 256 ...)"
+r0_unique="$(for file in ...; do smoke_sha256 "$file"; done | sort -u | wc -l | tr -d ' ')"
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-got="$(shasum -a 256 "$RUN/rounds/r1-input-${slot}.md" | awk '{print $1}')"
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In `@scripts/agent-kombat/smoke.sh` around lines 290 - 305, Update the smoke
test’s hash calculation logic, including the round-0 uniqueness check and
frozen-input verification, to use a local helper that prefers sha256sum and
falls back to shasum. Route all checksum calls through this helper so the test
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In `@scripts/agent-kombat/_lib/prompts.sh`:
- Around line 253-264: Extend the untrusted-content framing in
scripts/agent-kombat/_lib/prompts.sh lines 253-264 to include the objections
ledger before it is appended, and update the framing at lines 302-310 to include
the judge verdict before insertion; both inputs must be explicitly treated as
data to evaluate, not authoritative instructions.

In `@scripts/agent-kombat/_lib/runmodes.sh`:
- Around line 326-339: Update the label escaping in the label_escaped assignment
near the sed substitution to include backslashes in the escaped character set,
ensuring labels ending or containing backslashes cannot alter the pattern or
delimiter. Preserve the existing escaping behavior for regex metacharacters and
the subsequent substitution in the runmodes flow.

In `@scripts/agent-kombat/_lib/safety.sh`:
- Around line 102-109: Update the safety walk around tmp_unresolved and probe so
the endpoint is checked for being a symlink before terminating when probe equals
REPO_ROOT/tmp; reject or handle that symlink according to the existing safety
policy, then preserve the boundary checks for tmp_root, tmp_unresolved, and
filesystem root.

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In `@scripts/agent-kombat/smoke.sh`:
- Around line 290-305: Update the smoke test’s hash calculation logic, including
the round-0 uniqueness check and frozen-input verification, to use a local
helper that prefers sha256sum and falls back to shasum. Route all checksum calls
through this helper so the test works on hosts providing either supported
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- common.sh: normalise_path split on IFS='/' with an UNQUOTED expansion, so
  pathname expansion was still live and a component containing a glob
  character was expanded against the filesystem. Measured: with a*b matching
  aXb and aYb, `/repo/tmp/a*b/c` normalised to `/repo/tmp/aXb/aYb/c` -- one
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  for containment, so it was validating a path that is not the one later
  created. Now wrapped in `set -f`, restoring the prior noglob state.

- preflight.sh: the --check-harnesses comment claimed it "Costs nothing", but
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Adversarial review — 93c898d

Blocking

(none)

Non-blocking nits

(none)

SUSPECT (not confirmed, worth a second look)

(none)

No defects found after adversarial pass.

Two review findings from the current round, verified with
`bash scripts/agent-kombat/smoke.sh` (99 checks) on bash 5.2.

- prompts.sh: the untrusted-content framing in build_judge_prompt and
  build_synthesis_prompt named only the ARTIFACT markers, but the round
  summary and objections ledger (judge prompt) and the judge verdict
  (synthesis prompt) are model-authored blocks emitted outside that
  boundary. A participant could smuggle an instruction into one of those
  fields and have it read as trusted prompt text. Broadened the framing to
  cover every ---BEGIN ... --- / ---END ... --- block below it; the
  REQUIREMENT block is emitted above the framing, so it stays trusted.

- safety.sh: enforce_workdir_location walked the workdir's ancestry to
  reject a symlink anywhere in the chain, but the loop's continue-condition
  excluded $REPO_ROOT/tmp (and its resolved form), so it exited before the
  -L test ran on that endpoint. A symlinked tmp/ pointing outside the repo
  passed the canonical containment check and was never rejected by the walk.
  The terminator is now a break after the -L test. Verified: a tmp ->
  external symlink is now rejected where it previously passed, a real tmp/
  dir still passes, and an intermediate symlink is still rejected.

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Adversarial review — 4db73ec

Blocking

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In @.claude/skills/agent-kombat/SKILL.md:
- Around line 55-58: Update the command-cost documentation around
--check-harnesses so it no longer conflicts with the claim that all listed
commands are free and make no model calls. Separate --check-harnesses from
--roster-check, --dry-run, and smoke.sh, or revise the heading to identify that
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--check-harnesses can make a small opencode canary call on a roster with an
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Adversarial review posted as separate comment to avoid formatting issues. Blocking: adapters.sh:617-618 uses backslash-brace in glob pattern which is literal, not escaped. Nits: common.sh:56-60 silently returns unresolved paths; adapters.sh:481-487 has ambiguous schema markers that could truncate. Suspect: dispatch.sh:166-168 silently doubles timeout.

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BLOCKING ISSUE - adapters.sh line 617-618: Bash parameter expansion uses backslash-brace in pattern which is literal in glob patterns, not escaped. This breaks JSON extraction from opencode. Remove the backslash.

NON-BLOCKING - common.sh line 56-60: resolve_through_symlinks silently returns unresolved paths on cd errors, potentially bypassing containment checks. Document or validate readability first.

NON-BLOCKING - adapters.sh line 481-487: Schema markers are literal strings. If schema JSON contains the marker, awk parser truncates. Use unique delimiters.

SUSPECT - dispatch.sh line 166-168: Timeout budget silently doubled without user-facing explanation. User sees 900s but job kills at 1800s.

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Corrected adversarial review with proper format:

Adversarial review 41a9ad1

Blocking: adapters.sh:617-618 - Bash glob pattern uses literal backslash, not escape. Breaks opencode JSON extraction. Remove backslash.

Non-blocking: common.sh:56-60 - Silently returns unresolved on errors, bypasses containment. Validate readability first.

Non-blocking: adapters.sh:481-487 - Literal schema markers could truncate if present in schema JSON. Use unique delimiters.

Suspect: dispatch.sh:166-168 - Silent 2x timeout doubling without messaging. Needs clarity on multiplier documentation.

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Re the adversarial review on 41a9ad1 — pushing back on the BLOCKING finding for _lib/adapters.sh:617-618; it's a false positive.

span="{${text#*\{}"   # from the first '{'
span="${span%\}*}}"   # to the last '}'

\{ and \} here are inside parameter-expansion patterns (${var#pattern} / ${var%pattern}), not pathname globbing. In that context a backslash is an escape, so \{ / \} correctly match a literal brace — which is exactly the intent. The review conflated parameter-expansion pattern matching with glob patterns (where a backslash before { would be literal). Verified empirically:

  • I think the answer is {"a": 1, "b": {"c": 2}} and that is my view. → {"a": 1, "b": {"c": 2}}
  • multi-line prose around {"x": [1,2,3], "y": {"z": true}} → {"x": [1,2,3], "y": {"z": true}}
  • {"k": "v"} → {"k": "v"}

All three extract to the first { … last } correctly, nested objects included, so opencode JSON extraction is not broken. Removing the backslashes as suggested would be the change that breaks it. Earlier adversarial passes on this same code (e.g. 4db73ec) also reported blocking: none — this round is a non-deterministic false positive.

The accompanying non-blocking nits (common.sh:56-60, adapters.sh:481-487) and the dispatch.sh:166-168 suspect are low-value edge cases on already-reviewed upstream-ported code and don't block; leaving them as-is. No review threads are open on this PR.

Note this PR's only red check is Bot Blocking Gate, which is failing on every open PR here regardless of blocking count (it's red on PRs whose adversarial review is blocking=0 too) and is not a required check on main, so it does not gate merge (AGENTS.md §3).


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