New scaffold.ts replaces the managed-block installer. One-time additive copy
into the user's repo via copyArtifacts; refuses to overwrite existing files
(user owns them). Partial-state policy: copies missing paired sources even
when the skill dir already exists.

bundle.ts extended with loadSkillSources + enumerateScaffoldEntries — paired
source files declared in each SKILL.md's frontmatter sources: array, not in
openclaw.plugin.json. Single source of truth, co-located with the skill.

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reference is the read-only diff lens with an agent-readable framing line. Pure-JS
unified-diff producer + parser + applier (no patch(1) dependency). Two-way merge
with documented limitation: without scaffold-time base tracking, applied hunks
align everything to gbrain. The agent dry-runs reference first, then decides.

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migrate-fence is the one-shot transition from the pre-v0.36 managed-block model.
Strips begin/end markers and the cumulative-slugs receipt comment; preserves
fence rows verbatim as user-owned routing during the transition to frontmatter
discovery. Receipt-then-row fallback (F-CDX-8) covers stale/missing receipts.

scrub-legacy-fence-rows is the opt-in cleanup after migrate-fence. Two-condition
gate: removes a row only when skills/<slug>/ exists AND that skill's frontmatter
declares non-empty triggers (proof frontmatter discovery covers it).

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The inverse loop: lift a proven skill from a host repo (~/git/wintermute, etc.)
back into gbrain so other clients can scaffold it. --from <host-repo-root> is
symmetric with scaffold's --workspace.

Security: symlink rejection + canonical-path containment (mirrors validateUploadPath).
Privacy: default-on linter scans harvested files against ~/.gbrain/harvest-private-patterns.txt
plus built-in defaults (Wintermute, email, Slack channel patterns). Any match
rolls back the copy and exits non-zero. --no-lint bypasses for the editorial
workflow after a manual scrub.

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autoDetectSkillsDir now walks up from cwd looking for any skills/ directory,
ahead of the implicit ~/.openclaw/workspace fallback. cd ~/git/wintermute &&
gbrain skillpack scaffold ... finds wintermute automatically without requiring
a RESOLVER.md/AGENTS.md to exist yet.

R5 regression preserved: $OPENCLAW_WORKSPACE still wins when explicitly set.
+5 test cases in test/repo-root.test.ts pin the new tier order and the R5 guard.

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… T10)

skillpack.ts dispatcher rewritten for the v0.36 contract: scaffold, reference
(+ --apply-clean-hunks), migrate-fence, scrub-legacy-fence-rows, harvest, plus
the existing list / diff / check.

install and uninstall are gone — both exit non-zero with a hint pointing at
scaffold / migrate-fence. Clean break, no deprecated alias.

skillpack-check gains --strict for CI gating. When invoked as the subcommand
`gbrain skillpack check`, default is informational (exit 0 even with drift);
--strict opts back into the cron-friendly exit-1-on-issues behavior. Top-level
gbrain skillpack-check preserves its existing exit semantics for backwards compat.

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…(T8)

The companion editorial skill for the gbrain skillpack harvest CLI. Walks the
genericization checklist (scrub fork names, generalize triggers, lift fork-
specific conventions to references) before the CLI runs. Routing-eval fixtures
use paraphrased intents to avoid the intent_copies_trigger lint.

Wires the new slug into openclaw.plugin.json#skills, skills/manifest.json, and
skills/RESOLVER.md.

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Spawns gbrain as a subprocess against tempdir workspaces. Covers: scaffold
first-run + re-run no-op, reference diff + --apply-clean-hunks, migrate-fence,
scrub-legacy-fence-rows, harvest privacy-lint catch + --no-lint bypass, and
the install removed-error path. No DATABASE_URL needed — skillpack is
filesystem-only.

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Skillpacks as scaffolding, not amber.

v0.36 retires the managed-block install model. Six new subcommands replace
install + uninstall: scaffold, reference (with --apply-clean-hunks), migrate-fence,
scrub-legacy-fence-rows, harvest, plus the existing list / diff / check
(check gains --strict for CI gating). Routing comes from each skill's
frontmatter triggers — gbrain does not touch your RESOLVER.md or AGENTS.md.

Companion editorial skill skillpack-harvest drives the genericization
checklist; default-on privacy linter catches Wintermute / email / Slack
references before they leak into gbrain core.

New docs guide at docs/guides/skillpacks-as-scaffolding.md walks the model
and the migration path for pre-v0.36 installs.

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…a-v1

# Conflicts:
#	CHANGELOG.md
#	VERSION
#	package.json

…acing fork-name references

CI's check-privacy.sh and check-test-real-names.sh both flagged the literal
fork name across the v0.36 skillpack diff. Two failure modes, two fixes:

1. **Meta-rule-enforcement files** added to both allow-lists. The harvest
   privacy linter's whole job is to catch the banned literal leaking into
   gbrain; its source has the regex pattern, its tests verify the linter
   fires by feeding it the banned string, and the skill markdown documents
   the substitution policy. Same exception status as check-privacy.sh and
   check-proposal-pii.sh themselves. Files allow-listed:
   - src/core/skillpack/harvest-lint.ts
   - test/skillpack-harvest-lint.test.ts
   - test/skillpack-harvest.test.ts
   - test/e2e/skillpack-flow.test.ts
   - skills/skillpack-harvest/SKILL.md

2. **User-facing references** swapped for canonical phrasing per CLAUDE.md's
   responsible-disclosure rule. README + new docs guide + 4 src docstrings
   + 1 test now say 'your OpenClaw' / 'host agent repo' / 'agentRepo' var
   name. Behavior unchanged — only documentation strings touched.

Verify gate (the script CI runs) passes locally: EXIT=0.
Tests still pass: 60/60 across the affected files.
llms-full.txt regenerated.

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Sister fix to the test/repo-root.test.ts update in commit a31418e. The new
v0.33 cwd_walk_up tier fires before repo_root when running from inside the
gbrain repo — same skills/ dir matched, different source label. Behavior
unchanged; the legacy repo_root tier is now functionally subsumed (kept in
the type union for back-compat).

CI shard 3 failure: test/check-resolvable-cli.test.ts:171.

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The 24h and 72h exact-boundary tests scheduled last_sync_at relative to
Date.now() at construction time, then let the check call Date.now() again
internally. CI scheduler jitter between the two reads pushed ageMs past
the strict > thresholds by microseconds, dropping the 72h-boundary case
into the fail branch instead of warn.

Fix: add an optional `opts.now` test seam to checkSyncFreshness. The two
boundary tests now capture t0 once and pass it both to the timestamp
constructor and to the check, making ageMs deterministically equal to
the boundary. The non-boundary tests (4d, 30h, 2h, etc.) don't need
pinning — they're comfortably away from the > comparison.

CI shard 1 flake: test/doctor.test.ts:479. Locally 48/48 doctor tests pass.

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…a-v1

# Conflicts:
#	CHANGELOG.md
#	VERSION
#	package.json

… CLI surface (DX review)

DX audit of the v0.36 scaffold model surfaced one structural gap and four
output gaps. When scaffolded files land on a downstream agent's disk, the
agent had no agent-facing manifest telling it what to do — no routing
contract, no upgrade flow, no two-way merge warning at the right surface.

Fixes:

1. **New shared dep: skills/_AGENT_README.md.** Lands on every scaffold +
   migrate-fence alongside the existing _brain-filing-rules.md and
   _output-rules.md. Short, agent-readable contract: walk *.SKILL.md
   frontmatter triggers: for routing, gbrain is reference not law on
   upgrade, no managed-block fence anymore, two-way merge has known
   limitations. Single source of truth for the agent operating contract.

2. **scaffold stdout** prints a next-action hint pointing at the readme
   (with absolute path) and the reference --all upgrade-sweep command.

3. **reference stdout** adds per-category decision policy:
   - missing → scaffold again
   - differs → was edit intentional? keep it. Accidental? patch by hand or
     apply-clean-hunks after reading the two-way warning.

4. **reference --apply-clean-hunks** prints the two-way merge WARNING
   BEFORE the apply (to stderr, survives stdout redirect). Spells out
   that gbrain has no scaffold-time base and local edits in differing
   sections WILL be aligned to gbrain. Skipped in --json mode for
   machine consumers. On conflicts, prints how to inspect and patch.

5. **migrate-fence stdout** tells the agent its routing model just
   changed (fence gone, walk frontmatter now) and points at
   scrub-legacy-fence-rows as the eventual cleanup. References the new
   _AGENT_README for fresh-install agents.

Smoke verified end-to-end: 16 files land (was 15, +1 for _AGENT_README),
hint prints with absolute path, readme lands on disk. Tests + verify gate
pass clean.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>

…sion filter (DX deferred items)

Closes the last two DX gaps from the v0.36 audit:

1. **Post-upgrade reference sweep.** New `postUpgradeReferenceSweep`
   helper called at the end of `gbrain post-upgrade`. After migrations
   apply, auto-runs `reference --all` against the detected host
   workspace and prints a one-line-per-skill summary of drift. Five
   gates: GBRAIN_SKIP_REFERENCE_SWEEP env-var bypass, no detected
   workspace (silent), workspace IS gbrain repo (dev-mode silent),
   zero drift (silent), and pure-missing skills the host never
   scaffolded are filtered out as noise. All errors swallowed —
   never blocks post-upgrade. Helper accepts test-seam opts
   (gbrainRoot, targetWorkspace) for unit testability.

2. **`reference --all --since <version>`.** Filters the sweep to
   skills whose source actually changed in gbrain between
   <version> and HEAD, using a new `changedSlugsSinceVersion`
   helper in bundle.ts. Pure-JS git wrapper (spawnSync), no deps.
   Accepts bare '0.X.Y.Z' or 'v0.X.Y.Z' or commit SHA. Falls back
   loudly to full sweep when git can't resolve the ref (tarball
   install, missing tag).

Test coverage added — total +32 new test cases:

UNIT (15 cases):
- test/skillpack-changed-since-version.test.ts (9 cases): git-aware
  filter against a fixture git repo. Covers null on non-repo,
  null on bad tag, empty array on no changes, single + multi-slug
  drift (deduped + sorted), bare + v-prefix version forms, non-
  skills/ path filtering, SHA-prefix ref form.
- test/upgrade-reference-sweep.test.ts (6 cases): gate logic.
  Covers env-var bypass, zero drift, empty-host suppression,
  drift-detected output shape, dev-mode workspace==gbrain guard,
  error-swallowing contract.

E2E (8 new cases in test/e2e/skillpack-flow.test.ts):
- 10: scaffold lands skills/_AGENT_README.md
- 11: scaffold stdout prints the Next: hint
- 12: scaffold re-run (skipped-existing) suppresses the hint
- 13: reference stdout prints per-category decision policy
- 14: --apply-clean-hunks WARNING on stderr, not stdout
- 15: --apply-clean-hunks --json suppresses the WARNING (bug fix
  surfaced here: code originally printed unconditionally, now
  gated on !json)
- 16: migrate-fence stdout points at the new routing model
- 17: --since with a bad tag falls back to full sweep with warn

Local sweep: 579/579 pass across 18 affected test files, verify
gate EXIT=0, llms regenerated.

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…a-v1

# Conflicts:
#	CHANGELOG.md
#	VERSION
#	package.json

Two fixes in one:

1. **Markdown bug fix.** The OAuth 2.1 paragraph had `+ PKCE,` on a line
   start (column 1), which GitHub-flavored markdown interprets as a list
   marker — the line break before it broke the paragraph and rendered as
   an orphan first line followed by a bullet. Rewrote the OAuth 2.1
   capabilities as inline-comma-separated, escaped the `+` semantics.
   Swept the whole file for the same bug class — no other instances.

2. **Maximum-sell mode for evals.** Surveyed every published benchmark
   in both this repo and ~/git/gbrain-evals. Strongest evidence pulled
   to the top:

   - **97.60% R@5 on the public LongMemEval _s (500 questions).** No LLM
     in the retrieval loop. $0.50 per 1000 queries. Beats MemPalace raw
     by a point on the same dataset, beats every academic dense
     retriever (Stella, Contriever, BM25). Mastra/Supermemory measure
     a different metric (QA accuracy with LLM judge) — flagged honestly.

   - **+31.4 points P@5 from the self-wiring knowledge graph** on
     BrainBench v0.20.0 (240-page rich-prose corpus, 145 relational
     gold queries). Separable, measured, load-bearing. Zero retrieval
     regression across seven releases (v0.16 → v0.20).

   New '## Benchmarks' section after Install:
   - Public benchmark table with cross-system comparison
   - In-house BrainBench scorecard with per-adapter Δ vs gbrain
   - Source-swamp resistance result (93.3% top-1 vs 80% grep-only)
   - Skill/prompt compression: 25KB → 13KB AGENTS.md, +13-17pp accuracy
     across Opus 4.7 / Sonnet 4.6 / Haiku 4.5
   - 'Run your own evals' subsection with copy-pasteable commands for
     every eval surface (longmemeval, cross-modal, eval capture/replay,
     BrainBench)

   Tightened the lead's cost-comparison claim to what's defensible per
   the underlying eval doc (MemPal LLM-rerank $0.001/q vs gbrain
   $0.0005/q; dropped the overstated '6x' I'd written initially).

Privacy + verify gate + build-llms test all pass.

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…o 'Receipts on the evals'

Previous lead dumped metric acronyms (R@5, P@5, P@5 deltas, MemPalace,
Stella, Contriever, BM25) before the reader knew what gbrain does. A
'somewhat technical' reader hits the wall of jargon and bounces.

Rewritten:

**Lead (jargon-free, 3 paragraphs)** — describes the value in plain
English, with two anchor numbers:
- 'right answer in top 5 results 97.6% of the time' (not 'R@5 97.60%')
- 'roughly 4x more relevant than plain vector RAG' (not '+31.4 pts P@5')
- 'better than every comparable system that doesn't pay for a language-
  model call on every retrieval' (the load-bearing honest framing,
  without naming the competitors mid-hook)
- ends with '[Receipts on the evals →]' linking down

**'## Benchmarks' renamed '## Receipts on the evals'** with a glossary
at the top defining R@5, P@5, and 'no LLM in the loop' in one line each.
Then the full tables: LongMemEval cross-system (with the metric-mismatch
flag for Mastra/Supermemory), in-house BrainBench scorecard, source-swamp
resistance, and prompt compression. The competitor names + metrics stay
here where readers who want the receipts can find them, with the
glossary so the acronyms don't tax cold readers.

Net: lead reads as 'here's what it does and the proof' instead of 'here
are the benchmark numbers, figure out what they mean.' Comparison facts
unchanged.

Privacy + verify gate + build-llms test all pass.

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…a-v1

# Conflicts:
#	CHANGELOG.md
#	VERSION
#	package.json
#	src/commands/doctor.ts
#	test/doctor.test.ts

Two specific edits from user feedback:

1. 'the standard public benchmark for AI memory systems' → 'LongMemEval'
   (linked to the HuggingFace dataset). The benchmark has a name; use it.

2. 'Built by the President and CEO of Y Combinator to run his own AI
   agents' (passive third-person) → 'I'm the President and CEO of Y
   Combinator, and I use this 16 hours a day' (active first-person).
   Carried the voice change through the rest of the README — the
   downstream 'Garry's personal agent' line and the Origin section's
   'Garry Tan needed... he'd ever drafted... so he built one' all flip
   to first person ('my personal agent', 'I needed', 'I'd ever drafted',
   'so I built one'). The README is now consistently first-person from
   the author's voice instead of a hagiographic third-person framing.

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Three deployment patterns documented:

1. Single GBrain server + thin MCP clients (recommended). Tailscale
   private networking, OAuth scope, source-scoped clients, exhaustive
   what-clients-can/cannot-do lists.
2. Local PGLite + GStack for per-worktree code search.
3. Federated repos (advanced) — multiple servers indexing the same
   brain repo.

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…ceral query example

Self-eval as a cold reader surfaced four gaps blocking a 10/10 first read:

1. Lead never says WHAT it is technically — CLI? service? cloud? local?
   Added a "What it is, technically" block right after the hook: open-source
   MIT, Bun CLI + MCP server, local-first, data stays on disk, MCP-native.
2. Install path optimized for committed users not evaluators. The old
   "recommended" path (deploy OpenClaw on Render, 8GB RAM) blocked anyone
   trying gbrain for the first time. Reordered into 3 paths by commitment:
   60-second standalone CLI first, MCP for Claude Code / Cursor second,
   full agentic install third.
3. No example output showing what success looks like. Added a real sample
   `gbrain query` invocation with the hybrid-search result format so a
   reader can feel the experience before they install.
4. Privacy / data-locality unaddressed in lead. Now stated up front:
   embedding calls only hit external APIs if you configure them.

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