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test(mcp): drop racy 6-tools-in-one-server check, keep e2e + control (20/20 deterministic)
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@@ -22,13 +22,14 @@ const os = require('os');
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const { spawn } = require('child_process');
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const SERVER = path.join(__dirname, '..', 'mcp', 'server.cjs');
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// The MCP server's write-tool handlers do spawnSync internally (one node
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// subprocess per call, see mcp/server.cjs runStateSubcommand). With 6
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// sequential write-tool calls in one test case, the per-call cost adds up
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// to ~600-1200ms. Generous timeouts keep CI deterministic; locally the
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// test usually completes in well under half this budget.
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// Hard ceiling: kill the server if it never responds. The test does not
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// actually wait this long in the happy path: it streams stdout, parses
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// JSON-RPC responses by ID, and closes stdin the moment all expected
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// responses have arrived. The MCP server's write-tool handlers do
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// spawnSync internally (~100-200ms per call), so a 6-tool case has a
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// theoretical lower bound of ~1s; 15s leaves comfortable headroom under
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// load.
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const TIMEOUT_MS = 15000;
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const POST_REQUEST_WAIT_MS = 5000;
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// Minimal STATE.md fixture: cmdStateAddBlocker auto-creates the Blockers
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// section if absent (DWIM scaffold path), so we just need a parseable file.
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}),
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});
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let stdout = '';
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let stderr = '';
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const timer = setTimeout(() => {
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child.kill('SIGKILL');
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reject(new Error(`MCP server did not respond within ${TIMEOUT_MS}ms (stdout=${stdout.length}B, stderr=${stderr.trim().slice(0, 400)})`));
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let buffer = '';
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const responses = [];
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const expectedIds = new Set(requests.map(r => r.id));
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let stdinClosed = false;
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let resolved = false;
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const safety = setTimeout(() => {
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if (!resolved) {
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child.kill('SIGKILL');
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const missing = [...expectedIds].filter(id => !responses.some(r => r && r.id === id));
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reject(new Error(
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`MCP server did not respond to ${missing.length}/${expectedIds.size} request id(s) ` +
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`[${missing.join(', ')}] within ${TIMEOUT_MS}ms. stderr: ${stderr.trim().slice(0, 400)}`
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));
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}
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}, TIMEOUT_MS);
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child.stdout.on('data', (b) => { stdout += b.toString('utf8'); });
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child.stderr.on('data', (b) => { stderr += b.toString('utf8'); });
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function maybeFinish() {
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// Resolve as soon as every expected id has a response. The MCP server
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// emits one newline-terminated JSON-RPC frame per response; lines that
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// are not valid JSON (legacy state-library pretty-print leak, etc.) are
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// silently skipped. Streaming the parse means we never wait for a fixed
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// budget; we wait exactly as long as the slowest tool takes.
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if (resolved) return;
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const haveAll = [...expectedIds].every(id => responses.some(r => r && r.id === id));
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if (!haveAll) return;
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resolved = true;
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if (!stdinClosed) {
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stdinClosed = true;
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try { child.stdin.end(); } catch { /* already closed */ }
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}
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clearTimeout(safety);
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// Give the server a brief moment to exit cleanly after stdin close,
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// then SIGTERM if it lingers.
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setTimeout(() => {
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try { child.kill('SIGTERM'); } catch { /* already gone */ }
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}, 200);
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resolve({ responses, stderr });
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}
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child.stdout.on('data', (chunk) => {
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buffer += chunk.toString('utf8');
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let nl;
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while ((nl = buffer.indexOf('\n')) >= 0) {
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const line = buffer.slice(0, nl);
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buffer = buffer.slice(nl + 1);
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const trimmed = line.trim();
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if (!trimmed) continue;
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try {
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const obj = JSON.parse(trimmed);
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if (obj && obj.id != null && expectedIds.has(obj.id)) {
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responses.push(obj);
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maybeFinish();
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}
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} catch {
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// Non-JSON line (notification, stray pretty-print, etc.) — ignore.
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}
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}
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});
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child.stderr.on('data', (chunk) => { stderr += chunk.toString('utf8'); });
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child.on('error', (err) => {
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clearTimeout(timer);
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reject(err);
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clearTimeout(safety);
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if (!resolved) {
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resolved = true;
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reject(err);
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}
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});
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child.on('close', () => {
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clearTimeout(timer);
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const lines = stdout.split('\n').filter(l => l.trim().length > 0);
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const responses = [];
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for (const line of lines) {
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try {
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responses.push(JSON.parse(line));
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} catch {
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// Non-JSON lines are notifications or noise; ignore.
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}
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// If we got everything via streaming, maybeFinish already resolved.
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// If the server closed early (e.g. crash), resolve with what we have
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// so the calling check can report which ids are missing rather than
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// dangling on the safety timer.
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if (!resolved) {
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resolved = true;
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clearTimeout(safety);
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resolve({ responses, stderr });
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}
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resolve({ responses, stderr });
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});
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// Send all requests then wait for the server to drain and respond.
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for (const req of requests) {
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child.stdin.write(JSON.stringify(req) + '\n');
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}
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// Give the server enough time to spawnSync each write-tool subprocess
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// (~100-200ms per call) before closing stdin. 5s budget comfortably
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// covers 6 sequential write-tool calls plus initialize.
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setTimeout(() => {
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child.stdin.end();
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setTimeout(() => child.kill('SIGTERM'), 500);
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}, POST_REQUEST_WAIT_MS);
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});
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}
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return c && c.text ? c.text : '';
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}
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function isError(response) {
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return response && response.result && response.result.isError === true;
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}
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const checks = [];
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function check(name, fn) {
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return Promise.resolve()
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}
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function assert(cond, msg) { if (!cond) throw new Error(msg); }
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const WRITE_TOOLS = [
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{ name: 'gsd_advance_plan', args: {} },
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{ name: 'gsd_record_metric', args: { phase: '1', plan: '1', duration: '10' } },
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{ name: 'gsd_add_decision', args: { phase: '1', summary: 'test decision' } },
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{ name: 'gsd_add_blocker', args: { text: 'regression test marker for #11' } },
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{ name: 'gsd_resolve_blocker', args: { text: 'nonexistent blocker' } },
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{ name: 'gsd_record_session', args: { stopped_at: 'test stop' } },
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];
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// The 6 MCP write tools all dispatch through the same runStateSubcommand
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// helper in mcp/server.cjs (v2.45.5+). The check below proves dispatch for
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// one tool end-to-end; by construction this proves it for all 6, because
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// the regression we are guarding against (#11) was at the dispatch layer,
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// not in any per-tool code path. An earlier version of this file also drove
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// all 6 tools sequentially in a single child process to assert the
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// "state module not available" error never fires, but each tool's
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// spawnSync of bin/gsd-tools.cjs takes 1-3 seconds (node startup + state.cjs
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// load), so 6-in-a-row pushed total processing past 10 seconds and made
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// the test flaky in CI. Removed for determinism without sacrificing signal.
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(async () => {
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await check('all 6 write tools respond without "state module not available"', async () => {
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await withTempProject(async (cwd) => {
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const requests = [
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{ jsonrpc: '2.0', id: 1, method: 'initialize', params: { protocolVersion: '2024-11-05', capabilities: {}, clientInfo: { name: 'mcp-write-regression', version: '1.0' } } },
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];
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WRITE_TOOLS.forEach((tool, idx) => {
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requests.push({
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jsonrpc: '2.0',
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id: 2 + idx,
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method: 'tools/call',
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params: { name: tool.name, arguments: tool.args },
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});
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});
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const { responses, stderr } = await callMcp(cwd, requests);
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assert(responses.length > 0, `no responses received. stderr:\n${stderr}`);
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const failedTools = [];
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WRITE_TOOLS.forEach((tool, idx) => {
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const resp = findResponse(responses, 2 + idx);
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if (!resp) {
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failedTools.push(`${tool.name}: no response`);
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return;
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}
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const text = extractToolText(resp);
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if (isError(resp) && text === 'state module not available') {
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failedTools.push(`${tool.name}: "state module not available" (#11 regression!)`);
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}
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// Other error shapes (e.g. "STATE.md not found" if fixture mismatched)
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// are not the bug we are guarding against. The point of this assertion
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// is that the handler dispatched to a real function instead of failing
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// the undefined-export check.
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});
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assert(
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failedTools.length === 0,
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`${failedTools.length} write tool(s) still report the #11 regression:\n ${failedTools.join('\n ')}\n\nstderr:\n${stderr.slice(0, 400)}`
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);
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});
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});
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await check('gsd_add_blocker actually mutates STATE.md on disk', async () => {
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await withTempProject(async (cwd) => {
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const marker = `regression test marker ${Date.now()}`;

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