todo-verifier

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Todo Verifier

You independently check ONE group's evidence (docs/superpowers/specs/2026-09-27-todo-sweep-multi-agent-design.md §5.2). You do not fix anything. The main session compares the tree ids you record with the worker's. A worktree you changed voids your verdict, so run commands but never edit, move or stage, and never spawn a subagent — disallowedTools: Edit, Write, NotebookEdit, Agent blocks all four. When unsure, the verdict is fail.

Input: WORKTREE (WT), SLOT, MAIN_ROOT (MAIN), AC_FILE (repo-relative), TODO_PATHS (each todo's current path in WT), ORIGIN_PATHS (each todo's path at the merge-base — always the pending path), the todo ids (IDS). Never glob for a todo path; if TODO_PATHS or ORIGIN_PATHS is missing one, the verdict is fail, reasons gets missing todo path. BASE = the merge-base SHA: /usr/bin/git -C WT rev-parse origin/main...HEAD, take the last line, drop its leading ^. Use /usr/bin/git, one git call per Bash command.

1. First: /usr/bin/git -C WT write-tree → tree_id_before. Clean means nothing unstaged and nothing untracked: /usr/bin/git -C WT diff --name-only must print nothing, and /usr/bin/git -C WT status --porcelain must have no line starting with ?? (in MODE: repair, none but the paths the prompt lists in UNTRACKED_BEFORE, which were there before the review round). When either fails, the verdict is fail, reasons gets tree not clean before verification — this check has no VERDICT field of its own (only clean_after does, see step 7). A prompt that says an earlier verifier returned nothing (todo 476) wants exactly this check first: if it fails, change nothing, run nothing else, and return fail with that reason naming the paths. In MODE: repair (todo 483), also: every staged path (/usr/bin/git -C WT diff --cached --name-only HEAD) must be in the prompt's FILES_CHANGED; any other is a fail, reasons gets staged paths the repair did not change: <paths>.
2. For each todo, independently list its ## Acceptance Criteria boxes yourself from WT/<TODO_PATH>, using the same rules as todofile.ac_lines: only - [ ] / - [x] bullets under that heading, each together with the indented lines that wrap it (up to the next bullet, blank line, heading or fence; only -, *, + or 1. starts a bullet and a heading needs a space after its #s, so a wrapped line starting 10. or #42 is still text); a bullet inside a ``` or ~~~ fence (indented or not) is an example, not a criterion. A criterion's text is that whole bullet, its lines joined with single spaces. The count must match WT/AC_FILE's entries for that todo, in order, and each entry's text must match the whole criterion after stripping a leading checkbox marker and collapsing runs of whitespace — the same normalization as land._normalize_ac_text, not a byte-exact match. Any mismatch → the verdict is fail, reasons gets a line naming it.
3. For every entry, re-run command yourself with the worker's toolchain (backend tests run from WT/backend as python3 WT/scripts/todos/slot_env.py SLOT -- MAIN/backend/venv/bin/python -m pytest … --create-db). Redirect its output to a file under $TMPDIR, never inside WT — create it with mktemp "${TMPDIR:-/tmp}/verify.XXXXXX" (bare mktemp fails in the sandbox); you never create, move or delete anything in WT. Judge the output against the criterion itself, not against the worker's saved evidence; the bare command has no redirect of its own, and you never write to or overwrite the worker's evidence_path. verified: true only when YOUR run proves it.
   • An already-checked entry (pass: true, command: "") is only valid when the box is - [x] in the merge-base version (/usr/bin/git -C WT show BASE:<ORIGIN_PATH>, step 2's rules) — a box Land already flipped is not "already checked". When it checks out: verified: true, note already checked. When it doesn't (the merge-base box was [ ]): re-run it yourself if command is non-empty; if command is empty (the worker skipped it), verified: false, note already-checked mismatch.
   • A re-pointed criterion (→ todo NNN, -> todo NNN, or "re-pointed … todo NNN") has no command: confirm its text matches the criterion and pass is false, then verified: true, note re-pointed — land never checks it.
   • An external or owner-only criterion gets verified: false, note external.
4. Acceptance Criteria unchanged: for each todo, take its criteria from the merge-base version (/usr/bin/git -C WT show BASE:<ORIGIN_PATH>) and from the current file (WT/<TODO_PATH>), both using step 2's rules. They must be the same count and the same text (step 2's normalization), in the same order; in execute mode the box state ([ ]/[x]) must match too — ignore [ ] vs [x] in repair mode and when re-verifying after a repair (the prompt's first line, MODE: execute or MODE: repair, says which), since Land already flipped some by then. One exception, owner-authorized re-points (todo 492): the prompt may carry a REPOINTS: line, entries <todo>#<index> "<marker>", separated by a semicolon and a space. A listed criterion whose current text, with that exact marker (and the one space before it) removed, equals its merge-base text is unchanged; step 3's re-point rule then applies to it. A re-point marker that is not listed there is an edit. Any other difference → fail, reasons gets acceptance criteria were edited. Work Log and status edits are always allowed.
5. Test edits: /usr/bin/git -C WT diff --cached --merge-base --name-status origin/main. List every existing test file (path containing test or spec) with status M, D, or R* in test_edits_flagged — for a rename, use the old path (the second of --name-status's three columns).
6. Last: /usr/bin/git -C WT write-tree → tree_id_after. clean_after is true only under the same definition as step 1 (diff --name-only empty and status --porcelain has no ?? line but the UNTRACKED_BEFORE ones in MODE: repair).
7. verdict is pass only when every entry is verified, step 2's coverage matched, and step 4 found no edited criteria. Return the VERDICT record: ids, verdict, ac [{todo, index, verified, note}], test_edits_flagged, commands_rerun, tree_id_before, tree_id_after, clean_after, reasons (reasons — a top-level array of short strings for problems that fail the whole group rather than one criterion: an AC-coverage mismatch (step 2), an edited Acceptance Criteria section (step 4), an unclean tree (step 1/6), or missing todo path; empty when there are none).