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Fixes from the 2026-10-25 fresh-install verification, in priority order: no data loss and no deleting across workspaces, one consistent meaning of .meta, then small CLI fixes. Task: [[tasks/harmony-2793]].
Merge together with (same branch fix/meta-stable-dotmeta, so CI builds them together):
meta init claude no longer destroys settings.json (incident verify-2026-10-25-meta-init-settings). It merges meta's hooks only into the shape Claude Code documents (an object whose hooks is an object of arrays). Anything else, such as a JSON array, hooks as an array, PreToolUse as an object, or invalid JSON, stops the command with an error naming the file and the key. This happens before anything is written, skills and rules included. --force now merges as well; it no longer replaces the file. Hook groups are compared whole, matcher included, so an agent guard hook on Read no longer hides the missing Bash one. The file is written atomically. The output reports only what happened (created / added these hooks / already there). A flat meta-safety.md file or symlink kept at a skill name is reported.
Marketplace: made opt-in by not running it.meta init claude no longer calls claude plugin marketplace add gitkb/claude-plugins. It prints that command and claude plugin install meta@gitkb instead. Why: a project-local init shouldn't write the user's global Claude config on every run, and a printed hint is less code than a flag.
Prune and remove stay inside the workspace (incident verify-2026-10-25-stateless-shared-worktrees-dir). This makes the approved design of meta#126 true. A set belongs to this workspace only when every worktree in it comes from one of the workspace's repos. Those repos are the workspace root and every repo in its .meta tree. The root is found by climbing only through parent configs that list the child; an unlisted nested workspace is its own workspace.
prune finds sets only through records in those repos' git dirs, and only those whose record names a project in this workspace. A shared or foreign META_WORKTREES adds nothing.
Two workspaces can share a repository: a second one made with git worktree add of the root shares the root's git directory. So a worktree also counts as another workspace's when its record names a project in another workspace.
remove refuses another workspace's set, also with --force, and names that workspace:
Error: Refusing to remove worktree 'bother': it is not a set of this workspace (…/A):
.: its repository …/B/.git is not one of this workspace's; its record names the workspace at …/B
Inside a worktree set meta made, a set lays its repos out as the workspace does (each repo at its path, so relative references such as Cargo workspace members hold, and --tag/--include inside a set work as in the workspace), and each checkout stands for <project from meta's record>/<its place in the set> (normally; when a branch link put it elsewhere, the workspace's project with the same repository). A set created from inside a set records the checkout it stands for, so it doesn't depend on the outer set. meta git worktree commands find sets where that checkout keeps them (so create inside a set no longer nests a new set inside it, and its .gitignore entry goes to that checkout); plugin discovery reads the set's own meta dirs, then those of the checkout it stands for and its workspace; an absolute worktrees_dir in a set's copy of a config is read as that checkout's. The set comes from the project in meta's record of that checkout, never from git's main checkout, so a hand-made second workspace keeps its own identity. A worktree made by hand is a checkout of its own.
In a set meta made, a worktree without a record (one added with plain git worktree add) blocks remove and makes prune keep the set. Create's own rollback is exempt.
Removed: prune's "orphaned (all source repos removed from project)" reason. Under the rule above, such a set is no longer the workspace's, so the reason could never fire. It also compared set paths with project names, so a project with a custom path looked removed. Clean those sets up with git worktree remove. Only "orphaned (missing directory)" remains: a set whose project is gone or was moved is no longer the workspace's either, so neither prune nor remove takes it (remove says so and points to git worktree remove).
By design, not changed: a record that is a symlink to a file outside .git is still trusted. Checking it would be the symlink trust check that meta#125 removed on purpose. Whoever can put a link in .git/worktrees/<id>/ can already write that repo's hooks.
2. One meaning of .meta
One config per directory..meta.yaml, .meta.yml, .meta.json or the legacy .meta file. Two in one directory is an error naming them, so precedence no longer matters. The names live in one constant (META_CONFIG_NAMES), and every error and hint uses it. The orphan hint names the parent's actual file.
A bare .meta/ folder is not a workspace. Before, the global ~/.meta/ was taken for one, so its plugins loaded as "project" plugins anywhere under your home directory.
Plugin discovery reads .meta/plugins next to the nearest meta config, then next to each parent config whose own project list names it (one workspace), then META_DATA_DIR/plugins, then PATH. It never reads above the workspace. Inside a worktree set, the checkout's own .meta/plugins comes first, then those of the workspace the set was made from. A legacy .meta file simply means no project plugins. If the config can't be used (say two configs), discovery warns and skips project plugins, so --help still prints.
F7: an unreadable plugins dir is skipped with a warning naming it. A plugin that doesn't answer --meta-plugin-info within 5 s is killed and skipped with a warning. The probe runs in its own process group, so a wrapper's background child dies too.
--local: outside a workspace it fails with "Not in a meta workspace" (JSON included). plugin list --local prints the real path (not cwd-based) and the version the binary reports. plugin install --local writes .meta/plugins/.gitignore (*), so untracked plugin binaries stay out of git.
Docs and skills teach .meta.yaml/.meta.json, describe .meta as legacy (git mv .meta .meta.json), and document plugin locations, --local, init's settings merge, the marketplace hint, and the worktree scope. Stale text is fixed: the store line in meta-safety, the prune scope, hand-made worktrees, rollback, and the old .meta-plugins/ paths. The three skill copies stay identical (tests/init.bats checks it).
API change (meta_core):
// beforepubfnfind_meta_config(start:&Path,name:Option<&PathBuf>) -> Option<(PathBuf,ConfigFormat)>;pubfnfind_root_meta_dir(meta_dir:&Path) -> PathBuf;// afterpubfnfind_meta_config(start:&Path,name:Option<&PathBuf>) -> anyhow::Result<Option<(PathBuf,ConfigFormat)>>;pubfnfind_root_meta_dir(meta_dir:&Path) -> anyhow::Result<PathBuf>;pubfnfind_parent_meta_config(dir:&Path) -> anyhow::Result<Option<(PathBuf,ConfigFormat)>>;// was Optionpubfnnearest_meta_dir(start:&Path) -> anyhow::Result<Option<PathBuf>>;// newpubfnworkspace_meta_dirs(meta_dir:&Path) -> Vec<PathBuf>;// new: nearest first, root lastpubfnworkspace_root(meta_dir:&Path) -> PathBuf;// new (moved from meta_git_lib)pubfnset_source(dir:&Path) -> Option<PathBuf>;// new: the checkout a set checkout stands forpubfnrecorded_project(dir:&Path) -> Option<PathBuf>;// new: the workspace in meta's worktree recordpubfnrecorded_set(dir:&Path) -> Option<PathBuf>;// new: the set in meta's worktree recordpubfngitfile_target(dir:&Path) -> Option<PathBuf>;// new: the git dir a `.git` file namespubfnmeta_config_at(dir:&Path,name:Option<&PathBuf>) -> anyhow::Result<Option<(PathBuf,ConfigFormat)>>;// new: one directory's configpubconstWORKTREE_RECORD_FILE:&str = "meta-worktree.json";// moved from meta_git_libpubconstMETA_CONFIG_NAMES:[&str;4];// new
meta_cli gains meta_cli::args::{parse, escaped_error} (argument errors rendered from the escaped arguments), used by meta's host and the worktree plugin.
3. Small fixes
F5 (meta-mcp): meta_build detects the build system per repo, as meta_test does, so a Makefile-only repo runs make. Comma-separated tag values work as with meta --tag. npm runs as npm.cmd on Windows. meta_list_plugins runs meta plugin list --json.
F8: user-given and filesystem names are escaped wherever messages are built: worktree names (also for exec/status/diff), --repo aliases including nested and recursive ones, --include/--exclude, unknown commands and subcommands (meta, worktree, project), --config, commit-ish values, --branch, --meta, --from-pr specs and PR branches, durations, git's own error text, plugin names, prune's kept names, and the dry-run preview. Argument errors from meta, the worktree plugin and loop are rendered from the escaped arguments; clap then describes the escaped text, so an error about a control character may name its escape instead. escape_lines is unchanged.
F12:
meta exec -- seq 1 20000 | head -1 ends quietly with exit 141 (as a shell reports SIGPIPE, so a failure cut off by the closed pipe isn't reported as success), as do plugin output and meta's own output (meta plugin list --json | head -1; a panic hook covers every built-in print); a plugin that closes its stdin (or answers without reading the request) doesn't kill meta: the plugin's output and exit status decide the result.
--help lists only commands plugins claim (cargo, not rust).
--all --recursive covers every nested level.
Duplicate project keys are an error (JSON and YAML).
project list refuses --include/--exclude (in the project plugin).
add doesn't print ✓ Added before a failed record write.
A bad --ttl prints one error.
Prune lists a kept set once.
The data_dir test flake: the tests no longer set the process-global META_DATA_DIR.
JSON that atc reads
meta git worktree list --recursive --metadata-only --json and meta project list --recursive --json, run on the real harmony workspace: the output of this branch is byte-for-byte the same data as the installed main build.
How it was verified
cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets -D warnings is clean. cargo test --workspace passes, with 8 threads, an isolated HOME/XDG/GIT_CONFIG_GLOBAL/META_DATA_DIR, and ~/.cargo/bin off PATH. The meta_core tests were run several times at 8 threads.
The full bats suite (427+ tests) passes the same way, after each review round. The suites now isolate HOME, XDG dirs, META_DATA_DIR, git config, META_WORKTREES and RUST_LOG themselves (isolate_user_env).
New tests cover each finding: two workspaces sharing META_WORKTREES, a mixed-workspace set, an unlisted nested workspace, a record-less member, init's four refused shapes plus the matcher and kept-skill cases and the marketplace hint (a fake claude that records calls), the plugin timeout with a wrapper and a background child (no process left), an unreadable plugins dir, ~/.meta/plugins with a scratch HOME, a nested listed and an unlisted parent, list --local from a subdirectory, the .gitignore, duplicate keys, EPIPE, help without rust, --all --recursive two levels deep, and F8 escaping.
The incident repros were run live with the built binaries in scratch dirs. A shared META_WORKTREES prune and remove: before, Pruned 1 worktree(s): bexp and ✓ Removed worktree 'bother'; after, nothing pruned and the remove refused, naming B. F8: one line, 0 ESC bytes.
Review rounds
Rounds of six reviewers (Claude Opus 5.5, Codex Sol, Codex Astra; rotated perspectives). Every blocking finding was fixed, with a test, except the points below, where the reasons are in the task (tasks/harmony-2793):
On Windows, a plugin probe that times out kills the plugin process only; a process the plugin started can outlive it. meta itself never waits for it (and reads at most 1 MiB of a probe's output).
A plugin hung during its 5 s probe survives Ctrl-C (it runs in its own process group so the timeout can kill a wrapper's children).
Not checked
macOS and Windows locally; CI covers them.
Real Claude Code reading the merged settings.json; tested on the file only.
Performance: meta --help in a nested harmony repo takes 57 ms on a debug build, against 9 ms for the installed release build. Not benched like-for-like.
README, FAQ, architecture, advanced usage, plugin development and the
Claude Code skills guide: one config per directory (.meta.yaml,
.meta.yml, .meta.json, legacy .meta), plugin discovery from the
workspace root's .meta/plugins, --local, how init merges settings.json
and the marketplace hint. Skill copies synced (make skills).
[[tasks/harmony-2793]]
Keep config-free help fixtures available through PATH and isolate plugin tests.
Record the Unix process-group dependency in the lockfile.
[[tasks/harmony-2793]]
…fixes
Two workspaces sharing META_WORKTREES: prune in one leaves the other's
expired set, remove refuses its set (also with --force) and names it,
and the owning workspace still prunes it. A set mixing both workspaces'
worktrees is kept by prune and refused by remove from either side. An
unlisted workspace nested in another can't prune or remove its sets. A
record-less worktree in a recorded set blocks remove and prune.
Also: create rolls back when a record write fails after other worktrees
were recorded; add doesn't print "✓ Added" for an unrecorded worktree; a
bad --ttl gives one error; prune lists a kept set once; create --all
--recursive includes a second nesting level. Tests that relied on prune
deleting sets of repos removed from the project now expect them kept.
[[tasks/harmony-2793]]
The umask and deleted-project tests put plugins where their workspace
reads them. Docs and skills say where project plugins are found.
[[tasks/harmony-2793]]
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The pull request updates documentation and tests for workspace configuration, plugin discovery, worktree cleanup, and Claude initialization. It also adds CLI regression coverage for output handling and argument validation.
Documentation describes workspace-relative plugin lookup, eligible parent workspaces, worktree checkout ordering, home and PATH locations, and warnings for unreadable folders or plugins that time out.
Local install and listing .meta/skills/meta-plugins/SKILL.md, claude-plugin/skills/meta-plugins/SKILL.md, README.md, docs/advanced_usage.md, tests/plugin_install.bats, claude-plugin/.claude-plugin/plugin.json
Guides add local install and list examples. Tests cover workspace setup, local plugin listing, and behavior outside a workspace. The Claude plugin version changed to 0.2.2.
Workspace configuration formats
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Summary
Configuration filenames and project entries .meta/skills/meta-workspace/SKILL.md, claude-plugin/skills/meta-workspace/SKILL.md, README.md, docs/architecture_overview.md, docs/faq_troubleshooting.md
Documentation covers YAML and JSON config formats, legacy .meta behavior, project entries, and duplicate-config errors.
Worktree ownership and cleanup
Layer / File(s)
Summary
Set creation and cleanup scope .meta/skills/meta-worktree/SKILL.md, claude-plugin/skills/meta-worktree/SKILL.md, tests/worktree_edge_cases.bats
Documentation and tests describe --from-pr failure behavior, workspace-scoped cleanup, retained sets, and commands run from worktree sets.
Worktree records and rollback .meta/skills/meta-safety/SKILL.md, .meta/skills/meta-worktree/SKILL.md, claude-plugin/skills/meta-safety/SKILL.md, claude-plugin/skills/meta-worktree/SKILL.md, tests/worktree_edge_cases.bats
Documentation and tests cover missing or unusable records, record-write rollback, retained sets, and strict-mode error reporting.
Claude initialization
Layer / File(s)
Summary
Settings and hook handling docs/claude_code_skills.md, tests/init.bats
Documentation and tests cover settings validation, hook merging, preservation, and initialization output.
Skill preservation and marketplace commands README.md, claude-plugin/.claude-plugin/plugin.json, docs/claude_code_skills.md, tests/init.bats
Documentation and tests cover skill and link preservation, marketplace command hints, and the plugin version update.
CLI regression tests
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Process I/O and escaped output tests/exec.bats, tests/help.bats, tests/worktree.bats, tests/plugin_install.bats, tests/project_list.bats
Tests cover closed output pipes, plugin stdin closure, control characters in CLI errors, and command help output.
gitkb/meta#102: Updates Claude skill installation layout; this pull request continues that initialization work.
gitkb/meta#126: Moves worktree records and uses them for ownership; this pull request updates workspace-scoped cleanup and record handling.
gitkb/meta#113: Changes include/exclude validation; this pull request adds escaped-error coverage for the same CLI interface.
Merge Risk: Low · previous review 7dcc2
The changes are mergeable with bounded follow-up: strengthen the regression assertions and correct cleanup instructions for worktrees whose source repositories were deleted. The surviving findings do not establish a production regression.
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Major · Clear OTHER in setup() before teardown. · worktree_edge_cases.bats:78
tests/worktree_edge_cases.bats:78 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Clear OTHER in setup() before teardown.
teardown() runs rm -rf "${OTHER:-}". If the test process inherits OTHER as an existing directory, teardown can irreversibly delete that caller-owned directory. Add unset OTHER at the start of setup(). The tests that need OTHER assign it after setup, so this preserves their behavior.
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Review comment at @tests/worktree_edge_cases.bats at line 78:
Update setup() in the worktree edge-case tests to unset OTHER before teardown()
can use it for cleanup. Preserve the tests’ existing behavior by allowing cases
that need OTHER to assign it after setup().
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Minor · Keep legacy .meta in the JSON validation step. · faq_troubleshooting.md:76
The validation step at docs/faq_troubleshooting.md:76 now runs jq . .meta.json only. The same answer lists the legacy .meta file as a supported config. A workspace that has only .meta gets a missing-file error from jq and cannot validate its config with this step. The base revision ran cat .meta | jq ., so this PR removed coverage that existed before.
Cover both file names in the step, and keep the comment that explains which file to check:
📝 Suggested fix
# Validate JSON
-jq . .meta.json+# Run the line that matches your config file.+jq . .meta.json+# Legacy .meta file:+# jq . .meta
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Review comment at @docs/faq_troubleshooting.md at line 76:
Update the “Validate JSON” step in the FAQ troubleshooting guide to support both
`.meta.json` and legacy `.meta` configs; retain the current command and add the
legacy-file validation alternative with a comment clarifying which command to
use.
Minor · Create ~/.meta/plugins before copying the plugin. · plugin_development.md:462
The integration-testing example runs cp meta-docker ~/.meta/plugins/ with no earlier step that creates that directory. On a machine where ~/.meta/plugins does not exist, cp fails and the plugin is not installed. The subsequent meta docker build --dry-run then cannot discover it.
Suggested fix
# Place plugin in discovery path
+mkdir -p ~/.meta/plugins
cp meta-docker ~/.meta/plugins/
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Review comment at @docs/plugin_development.md at line 462:
Update the integration-testing example before the `cp meta-docker
~/.meta/plugins/` command to create the `~/.meta/plugins` directory if it does
not exist, so the plugin can be copied and discovered.
Assert the preserved value, not only the key name.
The test seeds {"custom": true} but only checks that custom appears. A merge that changes the value to false would still pass. Assert the value:
Suggested fix
- run grep "custom" .claude/settings.json+ run grep '"custom": true' .claude/settings.json
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Review comment at @tests/init.bats around lines 389 - 390:
Update the assertion in this test to verify that `.claude/settings.json`
preserves `custom` as `true`, rather than merely checking that the key appears.
tests/worktree_edge_cases.bats: 2
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Assert that both retained worktrees still exist.
The test checks only .worktrees/removed-repos/backend. Add an assertion for .worktrees/removed-repos/frontend. The existing Pruned output assertion does not detect a silent deletion.
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Review comment at @tests/worktree_edge_cases.bats at line 248:
In the test that checks retained worktrees, add an assertion that
.worktrees/removed-repos/frontend exists alongside the existing backend
directory assertion.
Add strict-mode coverage for unreadable prune records.
The test covers only non-strict pruning. Add a strict variant for this malformed-record case that checks the documented nonzero exit and expected kept-set output after confirming the implementation’s exact behavior.
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Review comment at @tests/worktree_edge_cases.bats around lines 1175 - 1176:
Extend the malformed-record test around the `git worktree prune` invocation with
a strict-mode variant. Confirm the implementation’s behavior, then assert the
documented nonzero exit status and the expected kept-set output while preserving
the existing non-strict coverage.
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Test gap: matching whitespace around cargo anywhere in help output does not verify that cargo appears in the command list.
The new test passes while top-level help omits the cargo command.
This can occur when: Command registration drops cargo, but help prose or a description still contains the word cargo.
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Test gap: the rust exclusion rejects only a command line starting with exactly two spaces. It could accept a top-level rust command rendered with different indentation.
The test passes despite listing rust as a top-level command.
This can occur when: Help formatting changes to four-space indentation while a registration regression exposes rust as a command.
.meta/skills/meta-safety/SKILL.md-81-81: 1
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The new guidance, mirrored in the Claude plugin skill, promises that strict prune errors on sets it cannot check or whose records it cannot read; the unseen prune implementation may instead keep those sets and return success.
The public guidance leads the job to treat incomplete cleanup verification as successful.
This can occur when: An automation job invokes meta --strict git worktree prune while a set has an unreadable record or cannot be checked.
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Review comments at @docs/plugin_development.md:
- Line 499: Update the manual-distribution step and the “Plugin Not Detected”
troubleshooting entry to use `$META_DATA_DIR/plugins/`, noting that it defaults
to `~/.meta/plugins/`; preserve the alternative of placing plugins on PATH.
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Review comments at @tests/worktree_edge_cases.bats:
- Line 78: Update setup() in the worktree edge-case tests to unset OTHER before
teardown() can use it for cleanup. Preserve the tests’ existing behavior by
allowing cases that need OTHER to assign it after setup().
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Review comments at @docs/faq_troubleshooting.md:
- Line 76: Update the “Validate JSON” step in the FAQ troubleshooting guide to
support both `.meta.json` and legacy `.meta` configs; retain the current command
and add the legacy-file validation alternative with a comment clarifying which
command to use.
Review comments at @docs/plugin_development.md:
- Line 462: Update the integration-testing example before the `cp meta-docker
~/.meta/plugins/` command to create the `~/.meta/plugins` directory if it does
not exist, so the plugin can be copied and discovered.
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Review comments at @tests/init.bats:
- Around line 389-390: Update the assertion in this test to verify that
`.claude/settings.json` preserves `custom` as `true`, rather than merely
checking that the key appears.
Review comments at @tests/worktree_edge_cases.bats:
- Line 248: In the test that checks retained worktrees, add an assertion that
.worktrees/removed-repos/frontend exists alongside the existing backend
directory assertion.
- Around line 1175-1176: Extend the malformed-record test around the `git
worktree prune` invocation with a strict-mode variant. Confirm the
implementation’s behavior, then assert the documented nonzero exit status and
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Give the META_DATA_DIR plugin path in manual distribution.
The manual-distribution step tells users to place plugins in ~/.meta/plugins/ with no condition. The Plugin Discovery section in the same file says that path is "moved by META_DATA_DIR". A user who sets META_DATA_DIR and follows this step puts the binary where meta does not look. Meta then skips the plugin, and the troubleshooting list at line 507 repeats the same unconditional path.
Replace the step with the relocated path:
📝 Suggested doc fix
--- "a/docs/plugin_development.md"+++ "b/docs/plugin_development.md"@@ -496,7 +496,7 @@
1. Build for target platforms
2. Distribute binaries or packages
-3. Users place in `~/.meta/plugins/` or PATH+3. Users place in `$META_DATA_DIR/plugins/` (default `~/.meta/plugins/`) or PATH
## Troubleshooting
Apply the same change to the ~/.meta/plugins/ entry in the "Plugin Not Detected" list at line 507.
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3. Users place in `~/.meta/plugins/` or PATH
3. Users place in `$META_DATA_DIR/plugins/` (default `~/.meta/plugins/`) or PATH
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Update the manual-distribution step and the “Plugin Not Detected”
troubleshooting entry to use `$META_DATA_DIR/plugins/`, noting that it defaults
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Bats suites get their own HOME, XDG dirs, META_DATA_DIR and git config
(isolate_user_env). Tests for prune/remove inside a set, escaped
worktree errors, plugin output to a closed stdout. Docs: --force merges
settings.json, which hook events init checks, plugins inside sets.
[[tasks/harmony-2793]]
Assert the forwarded plugin output in the broken-pipe test.
The loop at tests/exec.bats:702-704 checks only the pipeline exit status (0 or 141) and that the stderr file is empty. It never reads $output. If meta chatty or meta chatty go exits 0 without writing the plugin's stdout, head -1 receives no input. The pipeline then exits 0 with empty stderr, and both assertions pass. The closed-pipe write path is not exercised. No other test in the suite asserts stdout from meta-chatty.
The plugin fixture writes seq 1 200000 for any argument other than --meta-plugin-info, so the first forwarded line is always 1. Add an assertion for that line:
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Review comment at @tests/exec.bats around lines 702 - 704:
In the broken-pipe test loop, add an assertion that `$output` is exactly `1`
after running `META_BIN` through `head -1`. Keep the existing pipeline status
and empty-stderr assertions unchanged.
Add a rootless-set case to the inside-set cleanup test.
The test at tests/worktree_edge_cases.bats:1142-1159 creates inside with --repo backend and without --no-deps. Its root checkout is asserted by .meta.json at line 1146. It runs prune and remove only from that root and from its backend member. No test in the suite runs prune or remove from a member checkout of a --no-deps set. A regression in how a member checkout resolves its originating workspace would not fail any test in the suite.
🧪 Suggested test
@@ tests/worktree_edge_cases.bats (after the existing "prune and remove from inside a worktree set act on the workspace's sets" test)
+@test "remove from inside a rootless worktree set acts on the workspace's set" {+ "$META_BIN" git worktree create rootless --repo backend --repo frontend --no-deps++ cd "$TEST_DIR/.worktrees/rootless/backend"+ META_WORKTREES="$TEST_DIR/.worktrees" run "$META_BIN" git worktree remove rootless+ [ "$status" -eq 0 ]+ [ ! -e "$TEST_DIR/.worktrees/rootless" ]+}
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Extend the inside-set cleanup tests with a rootless worktree-set case: create a
set with `--no-deps`, run `git worktree remove` from its `backend` member
checkout, and assert the command succeeds and removes the workspace set.
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- Around line 702-704: In the broken-pipe test loop, add an assertion that
`$output` is exactly `1` after running `META_BIN` through `head -1`. Keep the
existing pipeline status and empty-stderr assertions unchanged.
Review comments at @tests/worktree_edge_cases.bats:
- Line 1146: Extend the inside-set cleanup tests with a rootless worktree-set
case: create a set with `--no-deps`, run `git worktree remove` from its
`backend` member checkout, and assert the command succeeds and removes the
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Tests for a hand-made second workspace, escaped argument errors from
meta and loop, remove's unreadable-parts message, remove from inside a
set without META_WORKTREES. isolate_user_env unsets META_WORKTREES and
RUST_LOG. Docs: a set checkout's own plugins come first.
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Root-only sets and removal from inside a set in a hand-made second
workspace; escaped recursive alias errors. Skills: what strict prune
fails on, which commands understand the current set; plugin docs.
[[tasks/harmony-2793]]
Require non-empty output in the argument-error test.
The test passes when meta or loop exits nonzero and prints nothing. Its three checks (nonzero status, no raw ESC byte, no raw \nFORGED newline) are all satisfied by empty output. The test therefore does not confirm that the argument diagnostics are printed. Adding a non-empty check to each case closes this gap. The check does not pin the diagnostic wording, so it remains valid if the message text changes.
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Update the argument-error checks in the test cases for `"$META_BIN"` and
`"$LOOP_BIN"` and for `--depth` to assert that `$output` is non-empty. Preserve
the existing status and unsafe-output checks.
Assert the recursive alias diagnostic in the escaping test.
The test checks only that the command exits nonzero and that the raw ESC byte and FORGED are absent from the output. Any nonzero exit that omits those bytes passes. This includes a generic failure that occurs before recursive alias resolution. The test does not confirm that the unknown-alias diagnostic ran. The sibling test worktree create with unknown repo alias fails does check its error text.
Add a positive assertion that the output contains the diagnostic text emitted by the recursive alias path. Match that path's actual wording. The sibling test's non-recursive wording is not confirmed for the recursive path.
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Review comment at @tests/worktree.bats around lines 575 - 578:
In the recursive `worktree create` escaping test, add a positive assertion that
the output contains the unknown-alias diagnostic emitted by the recursive
alias-resolution path. Use that path’s actual wording rather than assuming the
sibling non-recursive test’s message, while preserving the existing failure and
escaping assertions.
Assert the set's record survives a refused removal.
The test at tests/worktree_edge_cases.bats:1142-1158 checks the nonzero exit status, the two error messages, and that the checkout directory still exists. It does not check the set's meta-worktree.json record. A regression that deleted the record before the duplicate project key failure would still pass this test. The record is what remove and prune use to manage the set, and a set without one is refused. Add a record check so the test covers the refused-removal behavior in full:
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Review comment at @tests/worktree_edge_cases.bats at line 1157:
Extend the refused-removal test in tests/worktree_edge_cases.bats to verify the
worktree set’s metadata record remains after removal fails. Alongside the
existing checkout-directory assertion, check that record_file for
.worktrees/unread/backend exists.
Add a status check to the second-workspace plugin list test.
Bats run records the exit status but does not fail the test. The following [[ "$output" != *"hello"* ]] check passes for any output without hello, including an error message from a failed plugin list. The other run calls in this test assert [ "$status" -eq 0 ], and this one does not. Adding the same check makes a failed listing visible instead of passing silently. This is a coverage gap. It does not show that plugin list currently fails in workspace B.
🧪 Suggested test change
run "$META_BIN" plugin list
+ [ "$status" -eq 0 ]
[[ "$output" != *"hello"* ]]
If plugin list exits nonzero in workspace B, the new check exposes that exit. The hello check then confirms that workspace A's plugin is not listed.
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Review comment at @tests/worktree_edge_cases.bats around lines 1186 - 1187:
Add a successful-exit assertion after the second-workspace `run "$META_BIN"
plugin list` call, checking that `$status` is zero before asserting that the
output does not contain "hello".
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Review comments at @tests/help.bats:
- Around line 198-206: Update the argument-error checks in the test cases for
`"$META_BIN"` and `"$LOOP_BIN"` and for `--depth` to assert that `$output` is
non-empty. Preserve the existing status and unsafe-output checks.
Review comments at @tests/worktree_edge_cases.bats:
- Line 1157: Extend the refused-removal test in tests/worktree_edge_cases.bats
to verify the worktree set’s metadata record remains after removal fails.
Alongside the existing checkout-directory assertion, check that record_file for
.worktrees/unread/backend exists.
- Around line 1186-1187: Add a successful-exit assertion after the
second-workspace `run "$META_BIN" plugin list` call, checking that `$status` is
zero before asserting that the output does not contain "hello".
Review comments at @tests/worktree.bats:
- Around line 575-578: In the recursive `worktree create` escaping test, add a
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A hand-made second workspace leaves the first one's gone-set records and
passes --strict prune; the mixed set's prune expectations.
[[tasks/harmony-2793]]
Assert that the kept mixed set retains its creation records.
The test checks only that each member's .git file exists and that prune prints the kept message. Neither check reads meta-worktree.json. A prune change that deletes a member's record while keeping its checkout can still pass. Meta uses that record to recognize its own sets, and remove refuses a set that holds a worktree with no record. Add a record check for each member after prune:
🧪 Suggested test assertion
for member in . backend frontend; do
[ -e "$META_WORKTREES/mix/$member/.git" ]
+ [ -f "$(record_file "$META_WORKTREES/mix/$member")" ]
done
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Review comment at @tests/worktree_edge_cases.bats at line 1143:
In the mixed-set prune test, verify after pruning that each retained member has
a creation record, in addition to checking its .git file; use the existing
record_file helper for every member.
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- Line 1143: In the mixed-set prune test, verify after pruning that each
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Escaped create values (normal and strict), prune inside a set with an
absolute worktrees_dir, meta's own output to a closed stdout, exit 141
for a failure cut off by a closed stdout.
[[tasks/harmony-2793]]
Nested meta repos in sets, list inside a set with an absolute
worktrees_dir, a moved second workspace, escaping for exec/status/diff,
--branch, project and plugin uninstall.
[[tasks/harmony-2793]]
Sets made from inside sets, custom project paths, gh failure escaping,
diff --base and loop --verbose escaping; resolved temp dirs in every
suite. Skills: --from-pr failures and an existing branch always fail.
[[tasks/harmony-2793]]
Assert the supplied plugin name in the uninstall error.
This test's title says the plugin name in the uninstall error is escaped. Its assertions do not require the name to appear. Any output that contains is not installed passes, including a generic message that omits the name. The test therefore does not check the escaped name it is meant to cover. Add a positive assertion for a printable part of the supplied name:
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Review comment at @tests/plugin_install.bats at line 275:
Update the uninstall error test to assert that the output includes a printable
part of the supplied plugin name, such as “bad,” in addition to the existing “is
not installed” check.
Add a positive preview assertion to the dry-run loop.
The dry-run loop checks only that raw ESC bytes and a raw FORGED newline are absent from $output. Empty output satisfies both checks, so a preview that prints nothing, or fails without output, passes this test. The loop also does not check that any preview shows its supplied value in escaped form.
Add an assertion that each preview prints its escaped value. Derive the expected strings from the preview's actual output. Do not add [ "$status" -eq 0 ] without confirming it. The same bad\033[2J\nFORGED ref fails with a non-zero status in the non-dry-run loop, so a successful dry-run status is not established. The o/r#1 and k=v expectations for --from-pr and --meta also need confirmation against real preview output.
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Review comment at @tests/worktree.bats around lines 593 - 599:
In the dry-run loop, add a positive assertion for each `probe`, `--from-pr`, and
`--meta` case that `$output` contains the supplied value in the preview’s
escaped form, using the established preview format to determine each expected
representation. Keep the existing raw-control-character checks and do not assume
dry-run status must be zero.
The git worktree diff based --base "$E" call at tests/worktree.bats:623 is followed only by two negative output checks. Those checks still pass when diff exits 0 with empty output, or when it ignores --base. A regression that accepts an invalid base would not fail this test. The sibling calls at lines 617-619 use the check helper, which asserts a nonzero status before the same output checks. The --base call should use it too.
This assumes that rejecting an unknown base is the intended behavior. The implementation is not in this checkout, so its current behavior is not established here. If diff accepts an unknown base, the added assertion fails, and that behavior needs its own decision.
🧪 Suggested test change
- run "$META_BIN" git worktree diff based --base "$E"- [[ "$output" != *$'\033'* ]]- [[ "$output" != *$'\nFORGED'* ]]+ run "$META_BIN" git worktree diff based --base "$E"; check
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Review comment at @tests/worktree.bats around lines 623 - 625:
Update the `git worktree diff based --base "$E"` test in the `worktree.bats`
diff check to invoke the `check` helper after `run`, matching the sibling calls’
nonzero-status assertion. Keep the existing output checks.
Require the echoed config path in the verbose --config check.
The block at lines 205-207 asserts only that the raw \033[2J and \nFORGED sequences are absent from $output. Empty output satisfies both checks. The block also has no status check. The test can therefore pass when loop --verbose prints nothing, so it cannot detect a change that stops the config path from being echoed. The fixture path starts with bad, and that plain prefix survives escaping, so the test can require it:
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Review comment at @tests/help.bats around lines 205 - 207:
Update the verbose --config test block to assert that $output contains the
fixture path’s plain “bad” prefix, while retaining the checks that the control
sequences are absent.
Assert the exit status in the unknown-subcommand test.
The test an unknown project subcommand is escaped on one line runs run "$META_BIN" project $'bad\033[2J\nFORGED'. Its assertions check only $output. Bats run records the status but does not fail the test on a nonzero status, so the test passes whenever the output checks pass. A handler that printed unrecognized command and exited 0 would not fail this test. The other error-path tests in this file assert the status with [ "$status" -ne 0 ], so this test leaves a gap in the invalid-command behavior it covers.
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Review comment at @tests/project_list.bats around lines 365 - 368:
In the test “an unknown project subcommand is escaped on one line,” assert that
`$status` is nonzero immediately after the `run` call. Keep the existing output
checks unchanged.
Assert which repositories exec touches, not only its exit status.
The nested-set test at tests/worktree_edge_cases.bats:1196-1197 checks only [ "$status" -eq 0 ] after exec -- true. true exits 0 in any directory, so this assertion cannot detect a wrong project selection. If nested discovery fell back to the outer workspace's projects, the test would still pass.
Check a side effect in the outer repositories. Do not assume the command runs in the nested checkout, because the nested config lists no projects.
Suggested fix
- run "$META_BIN" exec -- true+ run "$META_BIN" exec -- touch exec-marker
[ "$status" -eq 0 ]
+ for dir in backend frontend common actual; do+ [ ! -e "$TEST_DIR/$dir/exec-marker" ]+ done
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Review comment at @tests/worktree_edge_cases.bats around lines 1196 - 1197:
Strengthen the nested-set test around `exec -- true` to verify which
repositories the command touches, not just its exit status. Check that no
`exec-marker` side effect appears in the outer workspace repositories, and do
not assume the nested checkout is selected because its config lists no projects.
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Review comments at @claude-plugin/skills/meta-worktree/SKILL.md:
- Around line 99-100: Update the worktree-removal guidance in the paragraph
beginning “or the checkout it was made from” so it recommends `git worktree
remove` only when the member’s source repository still exists; describe manual
recovery for members whose source repository was deleted. Keep the mirrored
guidance in `.meta/skills/meta-worktree/SKILL.md` consistent.
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Nitpick comments:
Review comments at @tests/help.bats:
- Around line 205-207: Update the verbose --config test block to assert that
$output contains the fixture path’s plain “bad” prefix, while retaining the
checks that the control sequences are absent.
Review comments at @tests/plugin_install.bats:
- Line 275: Update the uninstall error test to assert that the output includes a
printable part of the supplied plugin name, such as “bad,” in addition to the
existing “is not installed” check.
Review comments at @tests/project_list.bats:
- Around line 365-368: In the test “an unknown project subcommand is escaped on
one line,” assert that `$status` is nonzero immediately after the `run` call.
Keep the existing output checks unchanged.
Review comments at @tests/worktree_edge_cases.bats:
- Around line 1196-1197: Strengthen the nested-set test around `exec -- true` to
verify which repositories the command touches, not just its exit status. Check
that no `exec-marker` side effect appears in the outer workspace repositories,
and do not assume the nested checkout is selected because its config lists no
projects.
Review comments at @tests/worktree.bats:
- Around line 593-599: In the dry-run loop, add a positive assertion for each
`probe`, `--from-pr`, and `--meta` case that `$output` contains the supplied
value in the preview’s escaped form, using the established preview format to
determine each expected representation. Keep the existing raw-control-character
checks and do not assume dry-run status must be zero.
- Around line 623-625: Update the `git worktree diff based --base "$E"` test in
the `worktree.bats` diff check to invoke the `check` helper after `run`,
matching the sibling calls’ nonzero-status assertion. Keep the existing output
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Correct the removal advice for a deleted originating checkout.
The new sentence in claude-plugin/skills/meta-worktree/SKILL.md says that when the checkout a set was made from is moved or deleted, the set should be removed with git worktree remove. That command cannot remove a member whose Git administrative record was in the deleted checkout. Git does not register that worktree, and the worktree's .git file points to a missing directory. The instruction should not promise git worktree remove for that case. Describe manual recovery for those members, or limit the advice to the cases where the source repos still exist. Apply the same change to .meta/skills/meta-worktree/SKILL.md, which mirrors this text.
Scope of the failure
Each member's admin record is in its own source repo's .git/worktrees/<id>/. A member whose source repo survives can still be removed with git worktree remove run in that repo. The failure applies only to a surviving member whose source repo was deleted with the originating checkout. This happens when META_WORKTREES places that member outside the workspace.
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Review comment at @claude-plugin/skills/meta-worktree/SKILL.md around lines 99 -
100:
Update the worktree-removal guidance in the paragraph beginning “or the checkout
it was made from” so it recommends `git worktree remove` only when the member’s
source repository still exists; describe manual recovery for members whose
source repository was deleted. Keep the mirrored guidance in
`.meta/skills/meta-worktree/SKILL.md` consistent.
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Set layout follows paths (nested alias at its path, second set from
inside it), hostile command names in loop's lines, a moved workspace
with sets outside it, project list trailing filters, clone URL, init
messages; the symlink-destination test follows the new layout.
[[tasks/harmony-2793]]
Tags and --include inside a set with aliased paths, hidden-path
members, a repo named by name and path, add and dry-run placement,
loop's no-directory line; resolved BATS_TEST_TMPDIR.
[[tasks/harmony-2793]]
Agent worktrees in a set, parents by path, linked project paths,
rootless set names, short filters, meta --verbose and real clone
escaping.
[[tasks/harmony-2793]]
Hidden members by record (sibling under .claude, a set elsewhere),
--config tags, broken nested config, one branch per place, names in a
set elsewhere, parents from places.
[[tasks/harmony-2793]]
Negated checks run anywhere in a test (if cmd; then false; fi). Bats for a moved set, link paths in filters and their ambiguity. .context docs: config names and plugin locations.
Implements [[tasks/harmony-2793]]
A workspace with a separate git dir keeps a set made inside its set; the hostile-gitdir test checks the escaped text.
Implements [[tasks/harmony-2793]]
Hooks from inside a removed/pruned set; an unreadable record in a moved set; an unreadable directory in recursive listing.
Implements [[tasks/harmony-2793]]
A set checkout whose .git names nothing; loop's UTF-8 error; the relative-links test skips where git writes absolute links.
Implements [[tasks/harmony-2793]]
A workspace with its own worktrees_dir under .worktrees; a set with an unreadable part; a broken sibling config in the fallback; files in add's way.
Implements [[tasks/harmony-2793]]
refactor!: drop the .meta and .meta.json config names
meta discovers its config only as .meta.yaml (and, until Matt confirms its removal, .meta.yml). Tests, docs and skills follow: fixtures write .meta.yaml, the legacy .meta text is gone, and the tests for the legacy .meta file refusal are deleted. The meta-worktree skill no longer says git worktree remove works for a member whose repo went with its originating checkout (CodeRabbit on #128).
BREAKING CHANGE: rename a .meta or .meta.json config to .meta.yaml (same content).
[[tasks/harmony-2878]]
docs(plugins): META_DATA_DIR moves the global plugins folder
The manual distribution step, the integration test example and the troubleshooting list named ~/.meta/plugins/ unconditionally (CodeRabbit on #128).
[[tasks/harmony-2878]]
refactor!: drop the .meta.yml config name
Matt approved dropping .meta and .meta.json; .meta.yml was not in his note, so it goes in its own commit to keep or drop. With one name a folder can no longer hold two configs, so the "Multiple meta config files" error and its tests go too.
BREAKING CHANGE: rename a .meta.yml config to .meta.yaml.
[[tasks/harmony-2878]]
test: fixtures that still test something after the rename
Review round 1. The unrelated nested config is broken YAML again (the rename had left two valid writes), removals that only avoided the two-configs error are gone, and the README's --config line and the VISION_PLAN box are fixed.
[[tasks/harmony-2878]]
docs: the last .meta config mentions; init stops on a .meta file
Review round 2. The meta-workspace skill description and the architecture diagram said .meta/.meta.yaml; the meta-worktree skill says to copy out files before deleting a member git can no longer remove; a bats test shows init claude stops on a .meta file where its folder goes and writes nothing.
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Fixes from the 2026-10-25 fresh-install verification, in priority order: no data loss and no deleting across workspaces, one consistent meaning of
.meta, then small CLI fixes. Task:[[tasks/harmony-2793]].Merge together with (same branch
fix/meta-stable-dotmeta, so CI builds them together):1. No data loss, no deleting across workspaces
meta init claudeno longer destroys settings.json (incident verify-2026-10-25-meta-init-settings). It merges meta's hooks only into the shape Claude Code documents (an object whosehooksis an object of arrays). Anything else, such as a JSON array,hooksas an array,PreToolUseas an object, or invalid JSON, stops the command with an error naming the file and the key. This happens before anything is written, skills and rules included.--forcenow merges as well; it no longer replaces the file. Hook groups are compared whole, matcher included, so anagent guardhook onReadno longer hides the missingBashone. The file is written atomically. The output reports only what happened (created / added these hooks / already there). A flatmeta-safety.mdfile or symlink kept at a skill name is reported.Marketplace: made opt-in by not running it.
meta init claudeno longer callsclaude plugin marketplace add gitkb/claude-plugins. It prints that command andclaude plugin install meta@gitkbinstead. Why: a project-local init shouldn't write the user's global Claude config on every run, and a printed hint is less code than a flag.Prune and remove stay inside the workspace (incident verify-2026-10-25-stateless-shared-worktrees-dir). This makes the approved design of meta#126 true. A set belongs to this workspace only when every worktree in it comes from one of the workspace's repos. Those repos are the workspace root and every repo in its
.metatree. The root is found by climbing only through parent configs that list the child; an unlisted nested workspace is its own workspace.prunefinds sets only through records in those repos' git dirs, and only those whose record names a project in this workspace. A shared or foreignMETA_WORKTREESadds nothing.git worktree addof the root shares the root's git directory. So a worktree also counts as another workspace's when its record names a project in another workspace.removerefuses another workspace's set, also with--force, and names that workspace:path, so relative references such as Cargo workspace members hold, and--tag/--includeinside a set work as in the workspace), and each checkout stands for<project from meta's record>/<its place in the set>(normally; when a branch link put it elsewhere, the workspace's project with the same repository). A set created from inside a set records the checkout it stands for, so it doesn't depend on the outer set.meta git worktreecommands find sets where that checkout keeps them (socreateinside a set no longer nests a new set inside it, and its.gitignoreentry goes to that checkout); plugin discovery reads the set's own meta dirs, then those of the checkout it stands for and its workspace; an absoluteworktrees_dirin a set's copy of a config is read as that checkout's. The set comes from theprojectin meta's record of that checkout, never from git's main checkout, so a hand-made second workspace keeps its own identity. A worktree made by hand is a checkout of its own.git worktree add) blocksremoveand makesprunekeep the set. Create's own rollback is exempt.pathlooked removed. Clean those sets up withgit worktree remove. Only "orphaned (missing directory)" remains: a set whose project is gone or was moved is no longer the workspace's either, so neither prune nor remove takes it (remove says so and points togit worktree remove)..gitis still trusted. Checking it would be the symlink trust check that meta#125 removed on purpose. Whoever can put a link in.git/worktrees/<id>/can already write that repo's hooks.2. One meaning of
.meta.meta.yaml,.meta.yml,.meta.jsonor the legacy.metafile. Two in one directory is an error naming them, so precedence no longer matters. The names live in one constant (META_CONFIG_NAMES), and every error and hint uses it. The orphan hint names the parent's actual file..meta/folder is not a workspace. Before, the global~/.meta/was taken for one, so its plugins loaded as "project" plugins anywhere under your home directory..meta/pluginsnext to the nearest meta config, then next to each parent config whose own project list names it (one workspace), thenMETA_DATA_DIR/plugins, then PATH. It never reads above the workspace. Inside a worktree set, the checkout's own.meta/pluginscomes first, then those of the workspace the set was made from. A legacy.metafile simply means no project plugins. If the config can't be used (say two configs), discovery warns and skips project plugins, so--helpstill prints.--meta-plugin-infowithin 5 s is killed and skipped with a warning. The probe runs in its own process group, so a wrapper's background child dies too.--local: outside a workspace it fails with "Not in a meta workspace" (JSON included).plugin list --localprints the real path (not cwd-based) and the version the binary reports.plugin install --localwrites.meta/plugins/.gitignore(*), so untracked plugin binaries stay out of git..meta.yaml/.meta.json, describe.metaas legacy (git mv .meta .meta.json), and document plugin locations,--local, init's settings merge, the marketplace hint, and the worktree scope. Stale text is fixed: the store line in meta-safety, the prune scope, hand-made worktrees, rollback, and the old.meta-plugins/paths. The three skill copies stay identical (tests/init.batschecks it).API change (meta_core):
meta_cli gains
meta_cli::args::{parse, escaped_error}(argument errors rendered from the escaped arguments), used by meta's host and the worktree plugin.3. Small fixes
meta_builddetects the build system per repo, asmeta_testdoes, so a Makefile-only repo runs make. Comma-separatedtagvalues work as withmeta --tag. npm runs asnpm.cmdon Windows.meta_list_pluginsrunsmeta plugin list --json.exec/status/diff),--repoaliases including nested and recursive ones,--include/--exclude, unknown commands and subcommands (meta, worktree, project),--config, commit-ish values,--branch,--meta,--from-prspecs and PR branches, durations, git's own error text, plugin names, prune's kept names, and the dry-run preview. Argument errors from meta, the worktree plugin andloopare rendered from the escaped arguments; clap then describes the escaped text, so an error about a control character may name its escape instead.escape_linesis unchanged.meta exec -- seq 1 20000 | head -1ends quietly with exit 141 (as a shell reports SIGPIPE, so a failure cut off by the closed pipe isn't reported as success), as do plugin output and meta's own output (meta plugin list --json | head -1; a panic hook covers every built-in print); a plugin that closes its stdin (or answers without reading the request) doesn't kill meta: the plugin's output and exit status decide the result.--helplists only commands plugins claim (cargo, notrust).--all --recursivecovers every nested level.project listrefuses--include/--exclude(in the project plugin).adddoesn't print✓ Addedbefore a failed record write.--ttlprints one error.META_DATA_DIR.JSON that atc reads
meta git worktree list --recursive --metadata-only --jsonandmeta project list --recursive --json, run on the real harmony workspace: the output of this branch is byte-for-byte the same data as the installed main build.How it was verified
cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets -D warningsis clean.cargo test --workspacepasses, with 8 threads, an isolated HOME/XDG/GIT_CONFIG_GLOBAL/META_DATA_DIR, and~/.cargo/binoff PATH. The meta_core tests were run several times at 8 threads.META_WORKTREESandRUST_LOGthemselves (isolate_user_env).META_WORKTREES, a mixed-workspace set, an unlisted nested workspace, a record-less member, init's four refused shapes plus the matcher and kept-skill cases and the marketplace hint (a fakeclaudethat records calls), the plugin timeout with a wrapper and a background child (no process left), an unreadable plugins dir,~/.meta/pluginswith a scratch HOME, a nested listed and an unlisted parent,list --localfrom a subdirectory, the.gitignore, duplicate keys, EPIPE, help withoutrust,--all --recursivetwo levels deep, and F8 escaping.META_WORKTREESprune and remove: before,Pruned 1 worktree(s): bexpand✓ Removed worktree 'bother'; after, nothing pruned and the remove refused, naming B. F8: one line, 0 ESC bytes.Review rounds
Rounds of six reviewers (Claude Opus 5.5, Codex Sol, Codex Astra; rotated perspectives). Every blocking finding was fixed, with a test, except the points below, where the reasons are in the task (
tasks/harmony-2793):Not checked
meta --helpin a nested harmony repo takes 57 ms on a debug build, against 9 ms for the installed release build. Not benched like-for-like.