Quality Playbook Progress
May 31, 2026 · View on GitHub
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Started: 2026-05-30T21:17:09Z Project: quality-playbook (self-bootstrap, Mode A) Skill version: 1.5.7 Runner: claude-code (claude-opus-4-8) With docs: yes (Tier-4 reference_docs/; no Tier 1/2 cite docs → Spec-Gap run)
Scope declaration
In-scope source: 470 git-tracked files (role map). Excluded: repos/ (vendored benchmark targets), quality/ + previous_runs/ (playbook output / archives), git internals. Exploration focused on the highest-risk + most-recently-churned subsystem: the Test Harness (bin/harness/) plus the quality gate and run-state/registry libraries. Deferred to follow-on iterations: bin/run_playbook.py Mode-B orchestration internals beyond the launch/collect path, tui.py, build_channel_package.py, install_skill.py (rationale: the last 8 commits all touch bin/harness/, making it the live-defect surface; the install/packaging paths are comparatively stable).
Phase completion
- Phase 1: Exploration — completed 2026-05-30T21:30:00Z (8 findings, 6 patterns evaluated / 3 FULL deep-dives, 5 candidate bugs)
- Phase 2: Artifact generation — completed 2026-05-30T21:43:20Z (12 REQs / 6 UCs, 9 core artifacts + manifests + test_functional.py; both Phase-2 validators PASS; functional suite 8 pass / 5 xfail confirming F1-F5)
- Phase 3: Code review + regression tests — completed 2026-05-30T21:52:00Z (5 confirmed bugs, 5 regression-test patches, 4 fix patches; all apply cleanly)
- Phase 4: Spec audit + triage — completed 2026-05-30T21:56:00Z (3 independent-lens auditors + triage; triage_probes.sh all CONFIRMED exit 0; 0 net-new bugs; incomplete-council gate satisfied via mechanical proof)
- Phase 5: Post-review reconciliation + closure verification — completed 2026-05-30T22:00:00Z (challenge gate: all 5 CONFIRMED; TDD 4 verified + 1 confirmed-open; terminal gate counts match 5=5+0)
- TDD logs: red-phase log for every confirmed bug (5/5), green-phase log for every bug with fix patch (4/4)
- Phase 6: Verification benchmarks — completed 2026-05-30T22:04:30Z (fresh-context auditor: AUDITOR VERDICT PASS; gate 0 FAIL, validator phase-6 PASSED)
- Phase 7: Present, Explore, Improve (interactive)
Documentation depth assessment
reference_docs/cite/ is empty → 0 Tier 1/2 formal docs (Spec-Gap run). Top-level reference_docs/*.md (TOOLKIT, BENCHMARK_PROTOCOL, requirements_pipeline, council_of_three, the v1.5.7 implementation + harness chronicles) are Moderate-to-Deep Tier-4 context — they describe QPB's own architecture and the recent harness instructions (158–166). Used for orientation; requirements derived primarily from code (Tier 3) since the harness defects live below the doc layer.
Artifact inventory
| Artifact | Status | Path | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| EXPLORATION.md | done | quality/EXPLORATION.md | 196 lines, 8 findings, 3 pattern deep-dives |
| exploration_role_map.json | done | quality/exploration_role_map.json | 470 files; 61 code / 265 test / 35 skill-reference; provenance git-ls-files |
| formal_docs_manifest.json | done | quality/formal_docs_manifest.json | empty records[] (Spec-Gap) |
| run metadata | done | quality/results/run-2026-05-30T21-17-09.json | |
| QUALITY.md | generated | quality/QUALITY.md | 8 fitness scenarios |
| REQUIREMENTS.md | generated | quality/REQUIREMENTS.md | 12 REQs / 6 UCs, rendered from manifest |
| CONTRACTS.md | generated | quality/CONTRACTS.md | 20 behavioral contracts (C-01..C-20) |
| COVERAGE_MATRIX.md | generated | quality/COVERAGE_MATRIX.md | 12/12 REQs mapped to functional tests |
| COMPLETENESS_REPORT.md | generated (baseline) | quality/COMPLETENESS_REPORT.md | verdict deferred to Phase 5 |
| Functional tests | generated | quality/test_functional.py | 8 pass / 5 xfail under real pytest |
| RUN_CODE_REVIEW.md | generated | quality/RUN_CODE_REVIEW.md | 3-pass; Pass-2 verdicts seeded |
| RUN_INTEGRATION_TESTS.md | generated | quality/RUN_INTEGRATION_TESTS.md | 8 groups, UC-mapped |
| BUGS.md | pending | Phase 3 | |
| RUN_TDD_TESTS.md | generated | quality/RUN_TDD_TESTS.md | real-pytest invocation documented |
| RUN_SPEC_AUDIT.md | generated | quality/RUN_SPEC_AUDIT.md | Council of Three; Spec-Gap |
| requirements_manifest.json | generated | quality/requirements_manifest.json | 12 REQ records |
| use_cases_manifest.json | generated | quality/use_cases_manifest.json | 6 UC records |
| bugs_manifest.json | generated (empty) | quality/bugs_manifest.json | records[] populated in Phase 3/5 |
| tdd-results.json | pending | quality/results/ | Phase 5 |
| integration-results.json | pending | quality/results/ | optional |
| Bug writeups | pending | quality/writeups/ | Phase 5 |
Cumulative BUG tracker
| # | Source | File:Line | Description | Severity | Closure Status | Test/Exemption |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BUG-001 | Code Review | plan_runner.py:2606,2123-2146 | Collector grades still-PENDING/pid=None run FAILED | HIGH | TDD verified (FAIL→PASS) | test_bug_001_pending_pidless_not_graded_failed |
| BUG-002 | Code Review | plan_runner.py:2509-2545 | Retry-launch omits update_pid → phantom pid=0 slot → cap breach | HIGH | TDD verified (FAIL→PASS) | test_bug_002_retry_launch_calls_update_pid |
| BUG-003 | Code Review | plan_runner.py:1844-1872,2538 | Relaunched entry keeps state=PENDING | MEDIUM | TDD verified (FAIL→PASS) | test_bug_003_launch_entry_sets_running_state |
| BUG-004 | Code Review | status.py:285-316 | _PHASE_ARTIFACTS misattributes Phase-2 outputs to P4/P5 | MEDIUM | TDD verified (FAIL→PASS) | test_bug_004_phase2_artifacts_resolve_to_phase2 |
| BUG-005 | Code Review | inflight_registry.py:343-345 | pid=0 + malformed started_at active forever | MEDIUM | confirmed open (xfail) | test_bug_005_pid0_malformed_started_at_not_active_forever (fix deferred — Human Gate) |
| BUG-006 | Iteration 2 (gap) | council_semantic_check.py:319-343 | Greedy JSON-array extraction drops Council response with trailing bracketed prose | MEDIUM | TDD verified (FAIL→PASS) | test_bug_006_council_response_trailing_bracket_parses |
| BUG-007 | Iteration 3 (unfiltered) | plan_runner.py:582-610 | capture_phase_yn marks P3-P6 complete from Phase-2 artifacts | MEDIUM | TDD verified (FAIL→PASS) | test_bug_007_capture_phase_yn_no_false_completion |
Terminal Gate Verification
BUG tracker has 7 entries (5 baseline + 2 iteration). 7 have regression tests, 0 have exemptions, 0 are unresolved. Code review confirmed 5 bugs; spec audit confirmed 0 net-new; iterations confirmed 2 net-new (BUG-006 gap, BUG-007 unfiltered). Expected total: 5 + 0 + 2 = 7. ✓ (counts match)
TDD: 6 TDD verified (FAIL→PASS: BUG-001..004, BUG-006, BUG-007), 1 confirmed open (BUG-005, red-phase confirmed, fix deferred to Human Gate). Red logs present for all 7; green logs present for the 6 with fix patches. Runner: real pytest 8.4.1 (quality/results/phase5_env.log, exit 0).
Iterations (gap → unfiltered → parity → adversarial) ran inline; gap+unfiltered yielded 2 net-new TDD-verified bugs, parity+adversarial yielded 0 net-new (diminishing-returns convergence). See ITERATION_PLAN.md + EXPLORATION_ITER2..5.md + EXPLORATION_MERGED.md.
Mechanical verification: NOT APPLICABLE — no dispatch/registry/case-label extraction contracts in scope. The one enumeration check (BUG-004, _PHASE_ARTIFACTS) was verified via quality/spec_audits/triage_probes.sh (source extraction, exit 0) + executed test_bug_004, not a quality/mechanical/ verify.py. No quality/mechanical/ directory created.
Contradiction gate: no contradictions — executed TDD logs (RED→GREEN) agree with BUGS.md and the triage; no prose artifact claims a bug is fixed/absent that an executed result refutes.
Version stamps: all generated Markdown carries v1.5.7; all sidecar JSON skill_version: "1.5.7". Matches SKILL.md metadata.version.
Exploration summary
Target is QPB itself. Architecture: a six-phase AI-orchestration system (Mode A skill walkthrough + Mode B run_playbook runner) with a Test Harness (bin/harness/) that benchmarks runs via a detached collector, a per-provider concurrency registry, a quality gate, and run-state/role-map/archival libs. Highest-risk surface = the manifest.json ⇄ inflight_registry ⇄ status.json triangle (three independently-written files, no spanning lock). Phase 1 surfaced 3 substantive harness defects (all in recently-shipped code, all untested at the integration level): (F1) still-PENDING runs graded FAILED on the same collect sweep, defeating the starvation deadline; (F2) the collector retry-launch path omits update_pid, leaving a phantom pid=0 slot that ages out at 300s and breaks the provider cap; (F3) _PHASE_ARTIFACTS misattributes Phase-2 Generate artifacts to Phases 4/5, so a Phase-2-complete run is reported as Phase 5. Five candidate bugs (CB-1..CB-5) hand off to Phase 3/4.
Recent events (last 10)
- 2026-05-30T21:30:00Z — phase_end phase=1 (8 findings, 6 patterns)
- 2026-05-30T21:29:00Z — artifact_written quality/exploration_role_map.json
- 2026-05-30T21:28:00Z — artifact_written quality/EXPLORATION.md
- 2026-05-30T21:17:20Z — phase_start phase=1
- 2026-05-30T21:17:09Z — run_start runner=claude