feat!: close 7 feature-toggle gaps (user-scope-only, clean-break major version)

[dean0x]

Summary

Closes all 7 gaps from the feature-toggle audit where "disabled" didn't fully disable (or there was no off switch). One PR, clean-break major version, user-scope-only — no local-scope writes or <gitRoot>/.devflow resolution anywhere in these changes.

The 7 gaps

Gap 1 — Security deny list: full lifecycle (the careful one)

• New devflow security command: --status (none/user/managed/both + derived entry count + location), --enable [--user|--managed] (add-to-target-first → verify → strip-the-other; self-heals an interrupted switch), --disable (strips user + removes managed, reports exactly which entries were removed, hard-fails on unparseable settings.json).
• Fresh user-mode init now actually installs the deny list via a dedicated, atomic, user-dir step that runs after the managed-install resolves. Re-init injects/updates it (fixes the early-return skip).
• Managed-write failure now really falls back to a user-settings write + warn (the old fallback was a hollow message with no write).
• Version drift handled by a frozen DEVFLOW_HISTORICAL_DENY superset — detection + removal use the historical set; enable adds the current template. Entry count is always derived, never hardcoded.
• Manifest↔reality conflict: prompt in TTY / keep detected reality + warn in non-TTY / explicit flag always wins.
• init --no-security flag; uninstall has a unified security-removal prompt (TTY-confirm default-keep / non-TTY preserve).
• User-scope-only, machine-global — always targets ~/.claude/settings.json, never a project file.

Gaps 2 & 4 — Decisions/curation runtime gates

• Shell hooks now gate on config OR sentinel (dual-signal), folded once in dream-evaluate. eval-decisions, eval-curation, dream-capture (usage scanner), and dream-collect-tasks (curation sweep) all honor it. Disabling no longer stamps .curation-last (no 7-day suppression after re-enable).

Gap 3 — HUD hard-disable

• hud --disable removes the Devflow statusLine from settings.json (surgically — a non-Devflow statusLine survives) AND sets hud.json enabled:false. Self-healing under drift.

Gap 5 — Dead memory sentinel removed

• getWorkingMemoryDisabledSentinel removed from all copies + the .cjs export; new ENOENT-tolerant per-project migration purge-dead-working-memory-sentinel-v1; CLAUDE.md updated to config-only (per ADR-001).

Gap 6 — Manifest sync + list surfacing

• ambient/decisions/hud/memory --enable/--disable update manifest.features.* (only when a manifest already exists — never created as a toggle side-effect). devflow list surfaces security + safe-delete as tri-state (on/off/unknown).

Gap 7 — safe-delete toggle + queue drain

• New devflow safe-delete --enable/--disable/--status (state lives in the shell-profile block; no-trash-CLI warns + writes nothing; upgrade replaces in place — no duplicate blocks; $SHELL unset → "unknown"). init --no-memory now drains the pending-turns queue. .claudeignore unchanged (user-owned scaffold).

Cross-cutting

• All settings.json writes now go through writeFileAtomicExclusive (temp+rename) — no more truncate-on-crash of the file Claude reads every turn.
• New syncManifestFeature helper deduplicates toggle→manifest sync across 5 commands.

Breaking / behavioral changes

• HUD disabled loses the version-update badge (surfaced via devflow list instead).
• eval-decisions now honors the .disabled sentinel (consistency).
• Curation now depends on decisions being enabled.
• SecurityMode gains 'none'.
• No local-scope handling anywhere (clean break).
• Aggressive deny-list removal can strip a user entry that exactly matches a historical Devflow entry — the --disable/uninstall removal report lets them re-add.

Testing

• Full suite green: 1856 tests (excl. the worker integration file) + 42 (worker file, run in isolation) = ~1898 tests, 0 failures. (The worker-test timeouts seen mid-run were pre-existing machine-load flakiness — those tests are byte-identical to main and pass cleanly in isolation.)
• New coverage: stripUserDenyList / detectDenyState / resolveSecurityAction contracts, manifest security round-trip, safe-delete command, list tri-state, shell-hook dual-signal gating, HUD self-healing.
• Snyk code scan: 0 issues across src/cli.

Note

• The standalone security --enable --managed errors (with guidance) on managed-write failure rather than auto-falling-back — honoring "explicit flag wins". The init path auto-falls-back to user mode. This asymmetry is intentional.

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[dean0x]

BLOCKING: Security deny list not written on declined-sudo fallback

File: src/cli/commands/init.ts:1287-1337
Confidence: 95% (Security)

The Bug

The write step for the managed-mode securityMode uses an if/else if/else if chain with no terminal else:

• Line 1287: if (securityMode === 'managed' && managedSettingsConfirmed)
• Line 1315: else if (securityMode === 'user')
• Line 1325: else if (securityMode === 'none')

When a user selects "Managed settings" but then declines the sudo prompt (line 848), managedSettingsConfirmed = false is set while securityMode stays 'managed'. At the write step:

• Line 1287 branch: false (managedSettingsConfirmed is false)
• Line 1315 branch: false (securityMode is still 'managed', not 'user')
• Line 1325 branch: false (securityMode is 'managed', not 'none')
• No branch executes → deny list written to neither managed nor user settings

The manifest is then written as security: 'managed' (line 1417), falsely recording managed mode while nothing exists on disk.

Why This Matters

The UI explicitly offers a labeled fallback: "No, fall back to settings.json" (line 839). The user actively selected this, yet receives zero deny-list protection and a manifest/reality mismatch.

Fix

Route the declined-sudo path to the user-settings write. Either:

Option A: Flip the mode at decline time (init.ts:848):

managedSettingsConfirmed = sudoChoice === 'yes';
if (!managedSettingsConfirmed) {
  securityMode = 'user'; // "fall back to settings.json" must actually write to settings.json
}

Option B: Add the terminal branch at the write step:

} else if (securityMode === 'managed' && !managedSettingsConfirmed) {
  // User declined sudo and chose the settings.json fallback — honor it.
  if (templateDeny.length > 0) {
    try {
      await applyUserSecurityDenyList(userSettingsPath, templateDeny);
      securityMode = 'user'; // keep manifest in sync with reality
    } catch (e) {
      p.log.warn(\`Could not write deny list to user settings: ${e instanceof Error ? e.message : e}\`);
    }
  }
}

Either approach fixes the reachable gap and keeps the manifest in sync.

[dean0x]

Should-Fix Summary

Testing Gaps (HIGH confidence — established patterns not followed)

1. New migration purge-dead-working-memory-sentinel-v1 has no test (migrations.ts:1037, 95% confidence)

• Every other file-removing migration in migrations.test.ts has a describe block with behavioral .run() tests
• This migration lacks all three behavioral assertions: success path, ENOENT idempotency, rethrow-on-other-errno
• Fix: Add a describe('purge-dead-working-memory-sentinel-v1 migration', ...) block following the purge-stale-memory-markers-v1 pattern

2. applyUserSecurityDenyList has zero direct tests (post-install.ts:634, 90% confidence)

• The function has a read-then-merge-then-atomic-write flow with ENOENT-default-to-{} branch — completely untested
• This is the only function that writes the user deny list and is exercised in two critical init outcomes (normal user mode + managed-write fallback)
• Fix: Add a describe('applyUserSecurityDenyList') block with tmpdir tests covering success path, missing-file ENOENT branch, and idempotency

3. security.ts command handler and pure helpers entirely untested (220-line file, 92% confidence)

• No tests/security-command.test.ts exists
• countDenyEntries and loadTemplateDenyEntries (two pure, easily-testable helpers) lack any coverage
• Fix: Add a tests/security-command.test.ts covering the two pure helpers (parse error → 0/[], non-array → 0/[], happy path)

4. syncManifestFeature no-op-when-no-manifest guard is untested (manifest.ts:113, 85% confidence)

• Documented invariant: "No-op when no manifest exists" — if it regresses to write-anyway, toggles would fabricate partial manifests on un-inited projects
• Fix: Two-line test pair in manifest.test.ts: (1) no-op when manifest.json absent, (2) updates field when present

Structural/Maintainability Issues

1. TypeScript: SecurityMode union lacks never exhaustiveness guard (init.ts:1287/1315/1325, 88% confidence)

• The if/else-if chain compiles fine but if a 4th mode is ever added it silently falls through
• The codebase already establishes the pattern at migrations.ts:1380 (const _exhaustive: never = ...)
• Fix: Convert to a switch (securityMode) with a default: { const _exhaustive: never = securityMode; } guard

2. Complexity: resolveSecurityAction duplicates mode→target logic 3 times (post-install.ts:340-410, 88% confidence)

• Lines 380, 386-393, and 407-408 encode the same precedence (both/user → user, managed → managed, none → none/user) but inconsistently
• Fix: Extract one named helper keepTargetFor(m: DetectedMode) and call from all three sites, dropping function complexity by ~10 lines

3. Reliability: security --disable throws unguarded on corrupt managed JSON (security.ts:210-211, 90% confidence)

• The disable path carefully guards user-settings parse (try/catch, graceful exit), but managed-settings removal has no guard
• When managed file is corrupt, removeManagedSettings runs and executes JSON.parse(...) at post-install.ts:534 with no try/catch → raw crash
• detectDenyState already returns managed=false for corrupt files, but disable ignores that signal and uses raw file existence instead
• Fix: Gate on the parsed signal or wrap the managed removal to degrade instead of throwing

4. Performance: dream-capture adds jq subprocess before cheap grep gate (scripts/hooks/dream-capture:91-96, 88% confidence)

• Dual-signal gate calls json_field_file (spawns jq/node) on every turn, before the cheap citation grep
• Pre-PR the gate was zero subprocesses; this regresses the D29 design intent ("skip Node spawn when no ADR/PF citations present")
• Fix: Reorder — grep first. Move the in-process citation grep ahead of the config parse so expensive parse only runs when a citation is actually present

5. Consistency: security and safe-delete diverge from toggle-command conventions (security.ts/safe-delete.ts, 90% confidence)

• New commands treat "no flag" as show-status; all four pre-existing toggles treat it as show-Usage and return
• New commands hard-exit on operational failures; siblings degrade with warn + return
• Fix: Pick one convention (safest: make new commands match incumbents on no-flag behavior)

6. Architecture: SecurityMode union declared in 7 places instead of 1 (post-install.ts:624 + 6 others, 90% confidence)

• Exported canonical type exists but inlined in resolveSecurityAction signature, manifest.ts, and InitOptions
• Adding a 4th mode would require touching ~7 sites with no compiler enforcement of consistency
• Fix: Use the single exported SecurityMode type everywhere (import + reuse)

7. Documentation (HIGH): CLI reference missing two new commands and init flag (docs/cli-reference.md, 96% confidence)

• No ## Security or ## Safe-Delete sections in the canonical reference
• Init Options table missing --security <user|managed|none> flag
• Fix: Add two sections with usage examples + one table row for the init flag

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Note on PR Description Claim

The PR states "all settings.json writes are now atomic," but this is broader than reality:

• ✅ All security-path writes use writeFileAtomicExclusive
• ❌ Five pre-existing plain fs.writeFile remain on HUD/viewMode init+uninstall paths (lines 251, 1173, 279, 382, 399 — not introduced here)

This PR correctly establishes the invariant for the security seam; a follow-up PR should extend it repo-wide.

[dean0x]

Additional Should-Fix & Lower-Confidence Findings

Additional Type-Safety Issues (MEDIUM, 82-88% confidence)

1. resolveSecurityAction recomputes DetectedMode from same booleans (post-install.ts:358-362, 82% confidence)

• The 4-way ternary deriving detectedMode embeds boolean logic mid-function that callers already compute
• Fix: Lift the mapping to a tiny named function classifyDetected(detected): DetectedMode and reuse it

2. TriState unions lack never exhaustiveness (list.ts:38-42, safe-delete.ts:74-80, 82% confidence)

• triLabel and the SafeDeleteStatus chain use trailing-else defaults instead of checked exhaustiveness
• If TriState gains a 4th state they'll silently render as unknown with no compiler signal
• Fix: Use switch with default: { const _exhaustive: never = state; ... } or add const _: never = state assertion

Reliability & Fault Tolerance (MEDIUM, 85-90% confidence)

1. Strip-path duplication: 4 near-identical read-strip-write blocks (init.ts + security.ts, 80% confidence)

• The sequence read user settings → stripUserDenyList → guard changed → writeFileAtomicExclusive → swallow ENOENT appears verbatim in 4 places
• The merge side got applyUserSecurityDenyList helper; the strip side wasn't given the same treatment
• Fix: Extract stripUserSecurityDenyList(settingsPath) helper alongside applyUserSecurityDenyList and reuse everywhere

2. Template deny-list loading duplicated in 4 places (security.ts + init.ts + post-install.ts ×2, 88% confidence)

• loadTemplateDenyEntries helper exists in security.ts but isn't reused by the 3 other inline copies
• Fix: Move loadTemplateDenyEntries to post-install.ts alongside other deny-list helpers and import everywhere

3. stripUserDenyList / mergeDenyList throw on corrupt input (latent) (post-install.ts, 85% confidence)

• Both pure helpers call JSON.parse(...) with no try/catch
• Documented as "PURE + idempotent" but not as partial functions that throw
• All current callers pre-validate or wrap in try/catch (safe), but future callers will trust the comment and skip the guard
• Fix: Either document the throw explicitly in JSDoc or return a Result/null-on-parse-failure shape per the parse-at-boundaries rule

Pre-Existing Issues Surfaced by New Code

1. HUD --enable not hardened against corrupt settings.json (hud.ts, pre-existing but adjacent to hardened disable path, 88% confidence)

• The NEW hud --disable self-heal correctly wraps its call in try/catch
• But hud --enable calls hasHudStatusLine(...) outside any try/catch — malformed settings makes it crash with raw stack
• Inconsistent with this PR's theme of never crashing on settings.json
• Fix (optional, mirrors disable hardening): wrap the settings parse in try/catch in the enable path

2. Uninstall security comment misleads about hard-fail behavior (uninstall.ts:461 comment vs :464-468 code, 90% confidence)

• Comment claims "hard fail if unparseable — mirrors security --disable"
• But code does NOT hard-fail — detectDenyState sets user=false for unparseable input, so strip is skipped (no-op, no error)
• This is opposite of security --disable (which calls process.exit(1))
• Fix: Either correct the comment to accurately describe the no-op-on-corrupt behavior, or add explicit hard-fail to match the comment

Documentation Gaps (MEDIUM-HIGH, 85-96% confidence)

1. README omits new public commands (README.md:111-123, 88% confidence)

• Lists existing toggles like rules --status and decisions --enable but not security or safe-delete
• Fix: Add two lines to the ## CLI Reference block

2. CLAUDE.md migrations enumeration incomplete (CLAUDE.md:68, 85% confidence)

• Lists 4 existing migrations but omits the new purge-dead-working-memory-sentinel-v1
• Fix: Append to the migrations list

Lower-Confidence Observations (60-79% range)

• Dynamic import of already-static module (init.ts:895, 78%) — imports getManagedSettingsPath from ../utils/paths.js which is already statically imported; unnecessary async hop
• SecurityMode re-declared in 7 places (90% reported separately above)
• Template-deny loading not hoisted (88% reported separately above)
• Dual-signal gate split across two logic branches (session-start-context:47 vs :122-132, 70%) — acceptable in practice (both paths set the signals), but latent inconsistency if a future change sets config-only

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Summary of Issues by Category

Type	Count	Severity
BLOCKING	1	Security deny list not written on declined-sudo
Should-Fix (Testing)	4	Missing test coverage for new paths
Should-Fix (Type-Safety)	3	Missing never exhaustiveness guards + union redeclaration
Should-Fix (Maintainability)	7	Duplication, structural issues, consistency divergences
Should-Fix (Reliability)	3	Unguarded throws, insufficient fault tolerance
Should-Fix (Documentation)	2	CLI reference and CLAUDE.md gaps
Pre-Existing	2	HUD enable, uninstall comment (adjacent to new code)
Low-Priority	3	Style and minor structural nits

No findings block merge once the BLOCKING security issue is fixed. Most should-fixes are low-effort consolidations (extract helpers, add guards, fix comments).

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Reviewed with: security.md, reliability.md, performance.md, complexity.md, consistency.md, testing.md, typescript.md, documentation.md, architecture.md, regression.md