src/commands/doctor.ts: extract buildChecks(engine, args, dbSource):
Promise<Check[]> from runDoctor. The check-building logic moves into
the new exported function; existing exported computeDoctorReport(checks)
at line 78 stays untouched. runDoctor becomes a thin wrapper:
buildChecks → computeDoctorReport → render + process.exit. All 10
process.exit sites stay in place. The two early-return paths drop
their inline outputResults+process.exit calls and return the partial
check list; the wrapper still produces identical observable output.

test/doctor-behavioral.test.ts (13 cases): pure pure-aggregation cases
pin computeDoctorReport math (3 fails → -60 points, score clamped at 0,
mixed outcome → unhealthy with fail dominating). Orchestrator cases
assert --fast flag honors the skip set, --json doesn't alter the list,
no-engine path returns partial without process.exit, and the snapshot
of load-bearing check names catches accidental drop-outs during
future refactors.

test/doctor-cli-smoke.serial.test.ts (1 case): subprocess smoke spawning
'bun run src/cli.ts doctor --json' against a fresh PGLite tempdir brain.
Catches render-path bugs that buildChecks-only tests miss — the class
the v0.38.2.0 partial-scan wave exposed. Quarantined as .serial because
PGLite write-locks don't play well with parallel runners; skippable via
GBRAIN_SKIP_SUBPROCESS_TESTS=1.

…guard

test/operations-trust-boundary.test.ts (14 cases): hybrid design per
plan D7. Pure assertions over all 74 ops cover the drift-detection
win (every op has a scope; every mutating op has a non-read scope;
hasScope(['read'], op.scope) correctly rejects 'admin' or 'write').
Plus the canonical filter contract: every localOnly: true op is
excluded from operations.filter(op => !op.localOnly). Plus targeted
handler-invocation cases for the two historically-broken HTTP-callable
classes: submit_job(name='shell', ctx.remote=true) MUST reject (F7b
HTTP MCP shell-job RCE class), and search_by_image(image_path,
ctx.remote=true) MUST reject (D18 P0 image-leak class). file_upload
and sync_brain are deliberately omitted from handler-invocation tests
because they're localOnly — calling their handlers directly tests an
impossible production path (codex CMT-3). All 7 localOnly ops are
snapshot-pinned by name to catch future flag-flips.

scripts/check-operations-filter-bypass.sh: greps src/ for any module
that imports the 'operations' value from core/operations.ts outside
the canonical filter site. Three import shapes detected: destructured,
aliased ('as ops'), namespace ('import * as'). Explicit allow-list of
10 known-safe importers with one-line rationale per entry. Plus a
filter-presence check on serve-http.ts that fails if the canonical
filter expression is refactored out. Codex /ship adversarial review
caught the original narrow regex missed aliased + namespace bypasses;
the expanded regex closes that class. Type-only imports of sibling
exports (sourceScopeOpts, OperationContext) are not flagged.

package.json: wires check:operations-filter-bypass into the verify
chain alongside check:jsonb and check:progress.

…ests

src/core/cycle.ts: adds 'export' keyword to two existing phase
functions so behavioral tests can drive them without going through
runCycle's full setup cost. No body changes; no behavior change.
Documented as internal helpers exposed for test-only consumption —
downstream code should NOT take a dependency on them; existing
plan-eng-review D9 explicitly accepted the API-widening tax for
testability.

test/cycle-legacy-phases.test.ts (11 cases): combined file with two
describe blocks per plan D5 (DRY — shared setup, future phase
wrappers land as additional describes). Narrowed to result-mapping
+ error envelope per codex CMT-1 (legacy phases don't extend
BaseCyclePhase and don't take a progress reporter or AbortSignal
directly, so the contract surface is counter → status enum + try/catch
envelope). Cases: clean run → status='ok', partial fix → status='warn'
with dryRun in details, dry-run path doesn't write, throw-from-lib
→ status='fail' with envelope populated (no exception escape).
Verified runLintCore and runBacklinksCore both throw on missing dir,
so the throw-from-lib cases are deterministic.

E2E + unit test gap coverage wave. Closes 4 audit gaps with new
behavioral coverage (doctor orchestrator + subprocess smoke, operations
trust-boundary contract + filter-bypass guard, cycle phase wrapper
result-mapping). Verifies 3 audit gaps were already covered (ingestion
dedup/daemon/skillpack-load, phantom-redirect, ingestion test-harness).
Root-causes 2 pre-existing master flakes (gateway state leak, header-
transport cross-shard race). Files 5 follow-up TODOs from codex
adversarial-review findings.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

…DE.md

Adds three Key-files entries pinning the v0.40.4.1 test-wave additions:
- doctor.ts extension: buildChecks seam + behavioral tests (13+1 cases)
- cycle.ts extension: runPhaseLint + runPhaseBacklinks exports (11 cases)
- operations-trust-boundary contract + check-operations-filter-bypass.sh

Regenerates llms-full.txt to match (CLAUDE.md edits require build:llms per
project rule, otherwise test/build-llms.test.ts fails in CI shard 1).

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

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

…ed in CI

CI failure mode: 9 tests in test/ingestion/put-page-write-through.test.ts
failed with `AIConfigError: [embed(zeroentropyai:zembed-1)] Unauthorized`
because put_page's handler at src/core/operations.ts:622 computes
`noEmbed = !isAvailable('embedding')`. When the gateway state has been
configured by a sibling test (or by the cli.ts module-load path reading
.env.testing) with a fake/stale ZEROENTROPY_API_KEY, isAvailable returns
true → put_page tries to embed → the real ZeroEntropy API returns 401.

Local dev passes because real ZE keys are present; CI doesn't have them.

Fix: call resetGateway() in beforeEach so isAvailable('embedding')
returns false → put_page's noEmbed path activates → no network call.
Also reset in afterAll to avoid leaking the cleared state to sibling
files in the same bun shard (the v0.40.4.1 gateway state-leak class
that motivated the earlier gateway.test.ts fix).

The test exercises write-through behavior, not embedding. No need for
a real or fake embed transport — bypass entirely.

# Conflicts:
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#	VERSION
#	package.json

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

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

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…ndary)

CI failure recurred: same "hanging COUNT does not exceed deadline" test
failed again at 588ms (past my previous 500ms deadline + 2500ms bound
widening). The root cause isn't test timing — it's an off-by-one in
the source.

src/core/brain-writer.ts had two deadline checks using strict `>`:
- line 445 (between-source abort)
- line 503 (post-COUNT-await re-check)

The Promise.race setTimeout resolves null at exactly `remainingMs` from
now, so post-await Date.now() OFTEN equals the deadline within
integer-ms precision. With `>`, the check skipped → scanOneSource ran
on the source whose budget had just been eaten → that source got
status='scanned' instead of 'skipped'. The test's `expect(firstSource
.status).toBe('skipped')` failed.

Fix: both checks now use `>=`. When Date.now() equals deadline exactly,
the budget IS exhausted — proceeding would let the next source eat its
own budget on top of what's already spent. Matches the boundary the
Promise.race's remainingMs <= 0 immediate-null path uses (line 481).

This is the real fix for the v0.40.x CI flakes; my earlier test-budget
widening papered over the symptom without closing the boundary. Kept
the wider 500ms deadline for headroom but added a comment pointing at
the operator fix as the load-bearing change.

Verified: 20/20 stress runs green locally after the operator fix.