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xarmian da6ce642da feat(push): pad push — user-authored instruction dispatch to agent sessions (IDEA-2544 Phase 1) (#1090)
* feat(push): add pad push <ref> -m vertical (IDEA-2544 Phase 1)

Self-addressed, human-to-harness dispatch over the existing watch-events
bus/stream: CLI -> POST .../items/{itemSlug}/push -> a new KindPush
Notification (carrying the generalized TargetUserID addressed-to field
KindAsk will later share) -> watchNotificationVisible delivers it back
to the pushing user's own connected monitor sessions. Transient,
fire-and-forget by design (no migration, no durable inbox) since
assignment already covers the durable-notification case and this is
meant to be the explicit, no-inference dispatch verb instead.

* docs(plugin): document the push notification contract (IDEA-2544 Phase 1)

Push is the one notification kind that IS an instruction rather than a
passive fact, so it gets its own lead bullet in the plugin skill's
notification-etiquette section (ahead of the read-only/park default,
which it explicitly lifts) and a mention in the monitor's description.
The embed-source skills/pad/SKILL.md has no notification section to
mirror this into (the two files diverge by design) and is left
untouched.

* fix(push): reject over-long push messages instead of unbounded Summary

Comments truncate their notification Summary to a preview (the full
body is still fetchable), but a push message IS the payload — silently
truncating it would corrupt the instruction with nothing to recover it
from. Add maxPushMessageLen (4096, measured post-collapse) and reject
anything over it with a 400 rather than truncating; state the same
bound in `pad push --help` so it's discoverable before a 400, not only
from one.

* fix(push): close the watch-fallthrough leak, disambiguate SKILL.md exceptions

Codex round 1 P1: watchNotificationVisible's push branch only returned
early on a MATCH — a non-target caller fell through to the watch-map
check below it, so anyone holding an unconditional (or predicated)
watch on the item received every push addressed to every OTHER user,
instruction text included. Push is addressed private dispatch, not an
item-level fact watchers have a legitimate claim on (unlike assignment,
which watchers are expected to see per `pad watch --help`) — the branch
now returns unconditionally for KindPush, gating strictly on
TargetUserID and never reaching the watch-map fallback either way.
Pinned explicitly since Phase 4's session targeting is expected to
inherit this same exclusivity.

Also (codex P2): reworded the SKILL.md notification-etiquette bullets —
the new push exception and the pre-existing assignment/ask exception
literally contradicted each other ("the ONE narrow exception" claimed
singularity after push had already claimed exception status). Now
explicitly enumerated as the first and second exceptions to the
never-write rule.

* test(cli): pin that PushItem inherits X-Pad-Agent (BUG-2542 rebase)

Verified, not assumed: PushItem builds its request via c.post ->
c.newRequest like every other mutating client method (CreateWatch
included), so the attribution fix's client.agentName wiring covers it
for free with zero code changes needed on this branch. Adds a live
httptest assertion rather than trusting the code-path read alone —
the same shape as TestClientSendsResolvedAgentHeader, scoped to
PushItem specifically since that's the one method this PR added.

* fix(push): disambiguate workspace in the monitor line and skill contract

Codex round 2 P1: the watch-events stream is user-scoped ACROSS every
workspace a caller has watches in, but formatMonitorLine printed only
ItemRef/Kind/Actor/Summary and dropped the Workspace field the wire
payload already carried — a session linked to workspace A receiving a
notification for workspace B would resolve the wrong item (or 404) with
no signal in the line that anything was off.

Fixed universally, not push-only: grepped plugin/ and skills/ for
anything parsing "PAD ..." lines and found none — the Claude Code
plugin host ingests the stdout line as free-text notification prose,
formatMonitorLine's only real consumer is its own fmt.Println, so there
is no wire-format consumer a workspace prefix could break. The
ambiguity predates push (any watched item across workspaces already had
it); push just makes the consequence sharper because it carries an
instruction rather than a passive fact.

SKILL.md's push bullet now tells the agent to resolve with
`pad --workspace <workspace> item show <ref>` using the slug read off
the notification line, not a bare `pad item show <ref>`.

* fix(push): respect --format json instead of hardcoding plain text

Codex round 2 P2: pushCmd's RunE ignored the global format flag and
always printed "Pushed <ref>", silently discarding --format json.

- server.pushResponse replaces the bare map the handler wrote before —
  a typed {ref, workspace, pushed, message} shape, with workspace
  resolved to the CANONICAL slug via s.getWorkspace (not merely echoed
  from whatever the URL contained), matching the same disambiguation
  need the round-2 P1 fix addressed for the monitor line.
- cli.PushItem now returns (*PushResult, error) instead of discarding
  the response body.
- pushCmd checks formatFlag == "json" and calls cli.PrintJSON, mirroring
  runCreateWatch's existing pattern.

internal/cli/agent_identity_test.go's TestPushItemSendsResolvedAgentHeader
needed a one-line update for PushItem's new two-value return — caught by
`go vet ./...`, not `go build ./...` (which doesn't compile test files);
folding vet into my own pre-flight going forward.
2026-08-13 18:41:46 -04:00
xarmian 212d59e7c6 fix(cli,server): make agent attribution actually happen (BUG-2542) (#1088)
* fix(cli,server): make agent attribution actually happen (BUG-2542)

Agent CLI writes were recorded as the human whose credentials they used.
Three independent defects, each verified by reading the path AND by
probing a live instance — the item deliberately held the mechanism open,
so none of this is inherited.

1. THE HEADER WAS NEVER SENT. actorFromRequest sets actor="agent" on one
   signal: the X-Pad-Agent header. The only code that sets it took the
   value from `agent_name` in .pad.toml and nowhere else — no
   environment detection, no session detection. This repo's .pad.toml
   has only `workspace`, so the header has never been sent from here and
   every agent write has looked human. ResolveAgentName now resolves
   .pad.toml → $PAD_AGENT → detected runtime.

2. ITEM CREATE DISCARDED THE ACTOR. createItemChecked called
   actorFromRequest and kept only the source (`_, src :=`), never
   setting input.CreatedBy, so store.CreateItem fell through to its
   "user" default — even for an agent that DID send the header.
   Comments have always stamped it correctly; item creation silently did
   not, which made the skill's own contract false on its own terms.

3. SINGLE-ITEM PATCH NEVER STAMPED LastModifiedBy. Bulk ops do
   (handlers_items_bulk.go); the single-item path did not, so an item
   edited only by agents read as human-edited.

Only entries VERIFIED against a live session belong in the runtime
detection table, so it has exactly one: Claude Code exports CLAUDECODE=1
to child processes, confirmed by reading a pad subprocess's environment
inside one. Guessing at Cursor/Windsurf/Aider variable names would put
unverified claims in a shipped binary and misattribute silently when
wrong; those set $PAD_AGENT until someone confirms a signature.

WHAT THIS DOES NOT DO, stated in the code and the skill rather than left
for someone to assume: the header is client-supplied and self-declared.
An agent that omits it is indistinguishable from the human it borrows
credentials from, and a human running `! pad ...` inside an agent's
terminal inherits that environment and is attributed to the agent. This
makes the trail HONEST, not VERIFIED — it is not a basis for
machine-verifiable human-approval provenance, which needs a channel the
agent cannot author at all. The incident behind this item is exactly
that distinction: an agent's relay of a human's words was recorded
indistinguishably from the human typing them.

Contract corrected in both skill copies, since the item's first question
was which of contract and behavior was wrong. It was the contract: it
promised automatic agent attribution that only ever applied to
workspaces that had opted in.

Tests, each mutation-tested against its own defect reverted alone:
- TestResolveAgentName — precedence plus the negative that makes it mean
  something: a plain human shell must still resolve to "". Fails 2/5
  reverted.
- TestItemAttribution_AgentVsHuman — agent and human legs for create,
  update and the create-stamp-survives-edit invariant. Fails on the
  create stamp reverted; fails 2/2 on the update stamp reverted.
  The update leg deliberately uses the OTHER writer: insertItemTx seeds
  last_modified_by FROM created_by, so a same-writer edit passes whether
  or not the PATCH stamps anything — the first version of this test did
  exactly that and passed its own counterfactual. Caught only because
  each fix was reverted separately.
- TestItemAttribution_ExplicitBodyValueWins — an explicit body value
  still beats the header.

End-to-end on a live instance through the real CLI, no .pad.toml opt-in:
agent session → created_by/last_modified_by/comment all `agent`; same
binary with CLAUDECODE stripped → all `user`.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01QGbUKZBAZoWdEgiTNWsXag

* fix(server): artifact import wrote a UUID into created_by (BUG-2542)

Found by Codex while reviewing the attribution fix. handleImportArtifact
set `input.CreatedBy = u.ID`, which is the wrong DOMAIN for the field
rather than merely the wrong value: created_by holds the role — "user"
or "agent" — and consumers compare it against those literals
(CommentThread.svelte, TimelineVersionCard.svelte). An imported item
matched neither and rendered as neither.

It also would have defeated the fix in the parent commit at this path: a
non-empty CreatedBy suppresses the actor stamp, so imports would have
kept a UUID while every other create path started recording the actor.

The line contradicted the comment directly above it, which said Source
was being left blank precisely so createItemChecked could stamp it "like
every other create path". Now both fields are left blank and stamped
together.

The user's identity has its own home — the items.created_by_user_id
column — which no create path currently populates. That is a separate
gap and is not widened into this change.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01QGbUKZBAZoWdEgiTNWsXag

* fix: close the remaining attribution bypasses Codex found (BUG-2542)

Review found no P1s and three P2 families beyond the artifact-import bug
already fixed in 6fac5dec. Two are closed here; two are deliberately not,
and the reasons matter more than the diff.

CLOSED — paths that asserted "user" and so SUPPRESSED the new stamp,
which made them worse after the parent commit rather than merely stale:

- cmd/pad/notes.go sent CreatedBy/LastModifiedBy = "user" from the
  CLIENT on all four note/decision writes. An explicit body value beats
  the header by design, so every agent note claimed a human wrote it,
  and would have kept claiming it. The client shouldn't assert an
  attribution it cannot know; all four now leave it to the server.
- handlers_item_versions.go hardcoded LastModifiedBy "user" / Source
  "web" on restore, so an agent-driven restore recorded itself as a
  human web edit. Now stamped from the request.

Also closed Codex's nit that the tests injected X-Pad-Agent directly and
never proved the resolver reaches the wire — TestClientSendsResolvedAgentHeader
runs the real client against an httptest server and asserts the header,
with a human-shell leg asserting its ABSENCE. Fails when the client wiring
is reverted. And the Source assertion now pins "web" rather than
merely non-empty.

NOT CLOSED, on purpose:

- Collab flush. An agent PATCH stamps `agent`, then the browser's later
  ?source=collab-snapshot PATCH stamps `user`. Codex reads that as lost
  attribution; I'm not convinced it's wrong — the browser really is the
  writer of that flush, and the agent's edit is already recorded on the
  PATCH that carried it. Deciding whose name belongs on a
  human-flushed doc containing agent edits is a semantics call about
  what last_modified_by MEANS, not a bug I should settle inside a fix
  commit. Filed rather than guessed.
- Move paths don't touch last_modified_by at all. That predates this
  change and is the same question (is a move an edit?), so it goes with
  the above.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01QGbUKZBAZoWdEgiTNWsXag

* fix(cli): note/decision entries self-declare instead of going authorless

Self-caught regression from the previous commit, found by checking the
thing I changed rather than assuming it behaved like its neighbours.

I removed the CLI's hardcoded CreatedBy: "user" from note and decision
entries on the reasoning that applies to every OTHER write in that file:
an explicit value suppresses the server's stamp, so the client should
stay quiet and let the request context decide. That reasoning does not
reach these two. The entries live INSIDE the item's fields JSON, which
the server stores as an opaque blob and never parses for attribution —
so nothing downstream fills the gap, and blanking it would have written
authorless notes. Worse than the bug I was fixing: "user" was at least
right half the time.

They now carry cli.ActorKind() — the same self-declared signal as the
header, reduced to the user/agent enum the field holds. Its doc says
plainly that this is the ONE place a client should assert attribution,
and why, so the next person doesn't generalise it back the wrong way.

The item-level LastModifiedBy in the same functions stays server-stamped;
that half of the previous commit was right.

TestActorKind covers agent, explicit PAD_AGENT, and human-shell legs.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01QGbUKZBAZoWdEgiTNWsXag

* fix(server): stamp the actor on non-parent item links (BUG-2542)

Last P2 from the review. Parent links pass the actor to SetParentLink;
every other link type (blocks / blocked-by / relates / implements) goes
through CreateItemLink, which the CLI calls without created_by, so the
store defaulted it to "user" and an agent's `pad item block` recorded a
human. Same one-line shape as the create path, explicit body value still
wins.

TestItemLinkAttribution_AgentVsHuman covers both writers; fails on the
agent leg when the stamp is reverted, control passes either way.

That closes every actor-dropping path the review found except the two
filed as IDEA-2549 (collab flush, move), which are semantics questions
about what last_modified_by means rather than defects — Codex agrees the
deferral holds if the field means content author, and flags that they
become real follow-ups if we decide it means sender-of-write.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01QGbUKZBAZoWdEgiTNWsXag

* test(server): table-drive every non-parent link type (BUG-2542)

Codex nit: the link regression only covered `blocks`, and "shared routing
makes the other types fine" was doing the work. It cost nothing to stop
assuming, and the table earned itself on the first run — my initial list
included `blocked-by`, which is CLI surface sugar that inverts
source/target into a `blocks` row rather than a stored link type. The API
rejects it with a 400, on BOTH writer legs, which is also how that failure
reads differently from an attribution one.

Now covers blocks / related / implements / supersedes / split_from
against both writers.

One precision fix owed on 06938079's message: it says "THE HEADER WAS
NEVER SENT". Not true in general — a workspace with agent_name in
.pad.toml did send it, which is exactly how I probed the behaviour before
fixing it. Accurate version: the header was absent for anything that had
not opted in, which is every workspace I can see, including this repo's.
The body of that commit says it correctly; the headline overstates.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01QGbUKZBAZoWdEgiTNWsXag

* style: gofmt notes.go after the attribution edit (BUG-2542)

Removing the hardcoded LastModifiedBy from the two ItemUpdate literals
left the surviving fields aligned to a column that no longer had a
member, so gofmt disagreed and CI's golangci-lint failed the Go job in
42s.

The real fault is upstream of the whitespace: my gates line for #1088
read "go test ./... green · Codex to CLEAN" and lint was simply not in
it. The omission in the report and the failure in CI are the same fact —
I reported a matrix that did not include the axis that broke. `make lint`
runs the pinned suite CI runs and takes seconds; it belongs in every
report I make, alongside test and build.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01QGbUKZBAZoWdEgiTNWsXag
2026-08-13 16:21:10 -04:00
xarmian d8627968d0 feat(plugin): pad Claude Code plugin — nested layout, monitors, skills (PLAN-2469 Phase 2) (TASK-2534) (#1085)
* feat(plugin): assemble Phase-0 scaffold v3 into a nested plugin layout — PLAN-2469 Phase 2 (TASK-2534)

Drops scaffold v3 (plugin.json, marketplace.json, monitors.json, the pad/
status/capture/onboard skills) in under plugin/, verbatim, rather than at
repo root. Repo root already embeds skills/pad/SKILL.md into the binary
as the surface-agnostic `pad agent install` source (embed.go); loading
the plugin flat at repo root would register BOTH that copy and the
plugin's Claude-Code-only trimmed copy as separate skills in the same
session (confirmed empirically via --plugin-dir) and would ship the
whole repo as the marketplace install payload (confirmed via a real
marketplace add + install + cache inspection). Nesting under plugin/
with marketplace.json's source: "./plugin" scopes both discovery and
the install payload to exactly the plugin's own files, with zero
content changes to the scaffold itself.

The stale minimal .claude-plugin/plugin.json at repo root is removed —
superseded by the real one at plugin/.claude-plugin/plugin.json; repo
root's .claude-plugin/ now holds only marketplace.json, which is what
`/plugin marketplace add PerpetualSoftware/pad` needs to find there.

`claude plugin validate --strict` passes clean on both the repo root
(marketplace) and plugin/ (plugin manifest) independently.

* fix(plugin): round-1 review fixes — invocation reality, degradation ordering, confirm-by-default, license (TASK-2534)

Six findings from codex round 1 + dispatcher's shallow pass:

- pad/SKILL.md's "How This Works" claimed a literal `/pad <anything>`
  command, but under plugin namespacing this skill registers as
  `pad:pad`, not a bare `/pad`. Rewrote to state the true DR-1 model
  (contextual trigger by description, not typed) and defined the
  document's own `/pad <anything>` notation as shorthand for "what the
  user said," not literal syntax. Fixes the earlier /pad:pad cosmetic
  note at its root and the two "onboarding" sections that repeated the
  same wrong dual-syntax framing.

- status/SKILL.md and capture/SKILL.md invoked `pad` before stating
  their missing-CLI fallback; reordered so the failure modes are
  handled as part of the same instruction, not an afterthought.
  monitors.json's command had no guard at all — a padless machine
  would hit a raw spawn error, not silence. Added a `command -v pad`
  shell guard (verified live, both branches: silent when pad is
  absent, invokes correctly when present) and re-verified the two
  original degradation legs (no .pad.toml, unreachable padd) through
  the exact guarded command string, not just the bare binary.

- `pad bootstrap` hard-exits ("no workspace linked...") when unlinked
  (cmd/pad/main.go's getWorkspace()), but the skill assumed it always
  succeeds and the onboarding NL routing tried to load the onboard
  PLAYBOOK before a workspace — and therefore that playbook — could
  exist. Added the unlinked-workspace branch to Context Loading and
  taught onboarding routing to run `pad workspace init` first in that
  case, matching what skills/onboard/SKILL.md already did correctly.

- capture/SKILL.md's "no ceremony" immediate-create contradicted the
  main skill's "always confirm before creating/modifying." Made
  confirm-first the default, with an explicit opt-out for workspaces
  whose conventions declare autonomous capture.

- Two `open "$IMG"` examples were macOS-only; added the Linux
  (xdg-open) alternative and a describe-the-path fallback.

- plugin.json declared MIT; the repo is Apache-2.0 (LICENSE,
  web/package.json). Corrected.

`claude plugin validate --strict` clean on both the repo root
(marketplace) and plugin/ (plugin manifest) after the fixes.

* fix(plugin): make DR-4's no-write default unmistakable (TASK-2534)

Second independent dogfood run found the etiquette text underdetermined
behavior: one run correctly parked a context nudge, another interpreted
"fold it in" as license to run pad item comments and post a real reply
to the watched item — a write action from a context notification, which
DR-4 never intended and the plugin's noise-discipline promise depends on
never happening. Rewrote the section: read-only one-line park-and-summarize
is now the explicit default for every watch notification and any addressed-
to-you event the model isn't certain about; writing to Pad in reaction to a
notification is called out as prohibited by name (no more "fold it in"
euphemism), with a single narrow exception (an assignment/ask explicitly
addressed to the session's user, where acting is unambiguously expected)
and an explicit "when in doubt, park" tiebreaker.

claude plugin validate --strict clean on both repo root (marketplace) and
plugin/ (plugin manifest).

* fix(plugin): loop the pad-missing monitor guard instead of a one-shot sleep (TASK-2534)

Verifying the finding-2 guard through Claude Code's REAL monitor spawn
path (--bg --plugin-dir, not a manual `sh -c` test) surfaced a real gap
the manual test couldn't: the runner does NOT relaunch a monitor command
after it exits. The round-1 guard (`command -v pad && exec ... || sleep
3600`) is a single check-then-sleep-then-exit — once that one hour
elapses, the process exits and, per this observed behavior, is never
restarted, leaving the session permanently monitor-less for the rest of
its life on a machine where pad wasn't yet on PATH at session start.
That silently breaks DOC-2479's "sleep-retry hourly" contract, which the
Go binary's own `pad watch --stream --for-session` loop honors correctly
for its two conditions (no .pad.toml, padd unreachable) via an actual
internal retry loop — this shell guard needs the same shape for its one
condition (pad binary absent).

Wrapped the check in `while ! command -v pad; do sleep 3600; done` so it
keeps re-checking indefinitely instead of dying after one interval, then
falls through to the same `exec pad watch --stream --for-session` once
pad becomes resolvable. Verified live through the real spawn path with a
shortened sleep interval on a throwaway plugin copy: a fresh sleep child
appears every cycle (confirms the loop keeps running, not one-shot), then
re-verified the actual committed command (real sleep 3600) resolves a
live `pad watch --stream --for-session` process when pad is present and
sits in a healthy, silent, no-error `sleep 3600` loop when it's absent —
both through claude --bg --plugin-dir, not manual shell invocation.

claude plugin validate --strict clean on both repo root (marketplace)
and plugin/ (plugin manifest).

* fix(plugin): probe watch capability, not just binary existence, in the monitor guard (TASK-2534)

Codex round 2, P1: the round-1 fix looped on `command -v pad`, but an
old pad binary predating `pad watch` resolves on PATH fine and then
dies non-zero the moment `exec pad watch --stream --for-session` runs
— and the previous commit already established the runner never
relaunches an exited monitor command, so that death is permanent for
the session. `command -v` only proves the binary exists, not that it
has the subcommand this guard needs.

Changed the loop condition to `pad watch --help`, which probes the
actual capability in one call: covers both missing-binary (no such
command) and old-binary-without-watch (unknown subcommand, non-zero
exit) with a single condition. Verified first that `--help` is safe to
call as a probe — it succeeds (exit 0) with no `.pad.toml` anywhere
and padd unreachable, so it can't deadlock a legitimate unlinked-
project or padd-down user behind the guard.

claude plugin validate --strict clean on both repo root (marketplace)
and plugin/ (plugin manifest).

* fix(plugin): round-2 doc fixes — capture routing, confirm scope, invocation wording, CLI accuracy (TASK-2534)

Findings 2-8 from codex round 2:

- capture/SKILL.md: no unlinked-workspace branch — would fail opaquely
  on `pad collection list` without .pad.toml. Mirrors the same routing
  fix the main skill already has: run `pad workspace init` first.

- pad/SKILL.md's notification write-exception didn't say whether the
  confirm-always principle (Key Principles #3) still applies inside it.
  It does — the exception only lifts never-write, not confirm-first —
  now stated explicitly where the exception lives, same rule as
  capture's autonomous-capture opt-out.

- The `/pad` shorthand disclaimer scoped itself to "the playbook-routing
  and examples sections below," missing Context Loading's "on every
  `/pad invocation`" a few lines above it. Widened to cover the whole
  document. plugin.json's own description repeated the bare "/pad
  conversational surface" claim; reworded to name the real typed
  shortcuts instead, and synced marketplace.json's plugin-entry
  description to match (was already a paraphrase, now identical).

- Ideation example passed both `--content` and `--stdin` to the same
  `pad item create` call — verified --stdin wins and hangs on ReadAll
  with no piped input. Dropped --stdin, kept --content.

- Plan-retro example was missing the mandatory `--comment` this same
  doc teaches elsewhere. Key Principles #2's status enumeration listed
  "blocked" as a task status — verified against
  internal/collections/templates.go: the tasks schema's actual options
  are open/in-progress/done/cancelled, no "blocked". Fixed both.

- Two role-board pointers claimed `pad server open` lands on
  `/{workspace}/roles` directly; verified cmd/pad/cmd_server.go's open
  command only appends the workspace slug, never a sub-path. Reworded
  both to describe navigating to Roles from the opened UI rather than
  asserting an unverified deep-link.

claude plugin validate --strict clean on both repo root (marketplace)
and plugin/ (plugin manifest).

* fix(plugin): safe (non-hanging) unlinked-workspace self-heal, onboarding offer in status, ask-events wording (TASK-2534)

Codex round 3, findings 1-3:

- The routing added in rounds 1-2 told the skill to run bare
  `pad workspace init` whenever bootstrap reported "no workspace
  linked." Verified live this can HANG INDEFINITELY: with pad
  configured (mode/URL set) but no admin account created yet /
  session not authenticated, `pad workspace init` calls a
  browser-based setup/login flow with no TTY guard and no
  non-interactive fallback — unlike `pad init`, which has an explicit
  `!canPromptForConfig()` check at the same step and fails fast with a
  headless-bootstrap hint instead. Bootstrap's own two failure
  signatures ("Pad is not configured" vs "no workspace linked") don't
  fully disambiguate this either — verified live that "no workspace
  linked" fires even when the deeper problem is "no admin account
  exists yet," which is exactly the state that hangs.

  Fixed by adding a `pad auth whoami` preflight (verified live: fast,
  safe, never blocks, in all three states — unconfigured, configured-
  but-unauthenticated, and fully set up) before ever attempting
  `pad workspace init`. Only self-heal when whoami reports a real
  user; otherwise tell the user to run `pad init` themselves in an
  interactive terminal (Claude Code: suggest `! pad init`). Applied
  consistently across pad/SKILL.md's Context Loading and Onboarding
  routing, onboard/SKILL.md, and capture/SKILL.md's unlinked-workspace
  branch (round 2 addition, same hang risk).

- status/SKILL.md ran `pad project dashboard --format json` but never
  checked its `needs_onboarding` field (verified present on that
  response too, not just bootstrap's — internal/server/handlers_
  dashboard.go's NeedsOnboarding), so the mandated onboarding offer
  couldn't fire via `/pad:status`. Added the same offer wording the
  main skill uses.

- monitors.json's description claimed the stream delivers "asks for
  your role" alongside assignment; verified against
  internal/watchevents/watchevents.go: KindAsk is contract-reserved
  with no Phase 1 producer. Reworded to describe what ships today,
  noting ask-events as reserved-not-yet-emitted.

Filed docapp TASK-2537 for the fourth finding (embed-source
skills/pad/SKILL.md has the same --content/--stdin bug and has
drifted from these corrections) — selective port, out of this diff's
scope per the two skills' by-design framing divergence.

claude plugin validate --strict clean on both repo root (marketplace)
and plugin/ (plugin manifest).

* fix(plugin): --full on body-promising queries, capture loads always-on conventions, onboard's already-set-up path (TASK-2534)

Codex round 4, findings 1-3:

- Every `pad item list conventions|playbooks --format json` example whose
  surrounding prose promises "bodies" was missing `--full` — verified
  against cmd/pad/cmd_item.go: the flag exists specifically because JSON
  output defaults to a token-light summary shape with no content.
  Without it, all 8 of these calls (the Context Loading bootstrap-field
  description at :41, the 7 trigger-query examples under "Before
  Performing Work") would return exactly what the surrounding text says
  they're loading bodies to avoid: metadata with no content. Added
  --full to all 8, not just the block the finding cited — the "Template"
  lines carry the identical "pull their bodies" promise as the
  "Concrete examples" lines a few lines below them, so leaving one set
  fixed and the other not would just move the inconsistency.

  Swept the rest of the file's `item list ... --format json` examples
  (Ideation load-context, Status Check role queue, Daily Standup) —
  left those alone; their surrounding prose asks for enumeration/counts
  ("3 items in your queue", "Yesterday/Today/Blockers"), not body
  content. The one exception found: Retrospective's task-load line
  promises "what shipped, what was deferred, lessons learned" — that
  needs actual task content to synthesize, so it got --full too, with
  a one-line note explaining why (the other fixed lines didn't need
  one; their promise was already explicit in the surrounding prose).

- capture/SKILL.md never loaded conventions at all. Per the dispatcher's
  ruling: low ceremony means skipping bootstrap's dashboard/playbook/
  role weight, not skipping mandatory project rules (trigger=always
  conventions exist precisely to be small and always-applied). Capture
  now runs the always-on conventions query (with --full) before
  creating and applies whatever it returns; the autonomous-capture
  exception now checks the SAME load instead of running its own
  separate (previously --full-less) query. One sentence documents the
  tradeoff as deliberate: always-on rules yes, full bootstrap no.

- onboard/SKILL.md only defined the needs_onboarding=true branch. Added
  the false branch: say the workspace is already set up, summarize what
  exists (collection/convention counts from the bootstrap payload
  already in hand), and offer extend/audit instead of re-running
  first-time setup — same confirm-first rule as everywhere else.

claude plugin validate --strict clean on both repo root (marketplace)
and plugin/ (plugin manifest).
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