Extract shared bash from the agent-turn composites into actions/claude.lib

[gingur]

Context

The three agent-turn composites — actions/claude.plan, actions/claude.implement, actions/claude.review — duplicate their shell almost verbatim:

• The Instructions step: the claude.agent.md escaping pipeline (backslashes → quotes → $), the prompt-file heredoc writes to $GITHUB_ENV, TURN_STARTED, and the CLAUDE_EXEC host-install probe (~20 lines × 3).
• The Verify comment-contract step (bot must post ≥1 comment per turn) in plan and implement.

Every flow refinement currently lands three times (see #96 for the latest example).

Approach (operator-decided — do not re-litigate)

Extract the duplicated bash into a shared lib, e.g. actions/claude.lib/turn.sh, sourced from each composite as . "${GITHUB_ACTION_PATH}/../claude.lib/turn.sh". This is version-safe because GitHub ships the whole repo at the action's pinned ref — the existing ${GITHUB_ACTION_PATH}/../claude.agent.md reference is the precedent — so the lib always matches the composite's ref, including on PR branches.

Explicitly out of scope: abstracting the yaml (with: blocks, step layout) — self-contained yaml is load-bearing readability when debugging a turn. Rejected alternatives, for the record: nested composite (uses: gingur/devkit/actions/claude.turn@main resolves at run time → PR changes unexercised until merged); codegen/template rendering (machinery overkill for three files).

Also include

• README enrollment runbook: add the review.yml caller (the runbook predates claude.review; infra and hooks already carry the caller — copy from there).
• README enrollment runbook: the Infisical OIDC boundSubject must be repo:gingur/<repo>:* (repo-scoped glob), not repo:gingur/<repo>:ref:refs/heads/main — pull_request-triggered review jobs present subject repo:gingur/<repo>:pull_request and 403 against the exact-ref binding (bit us: hooks#19 review turn, 2026-07-10; all three live identities already patched).
• README enrollment runbook: note that a PR opened before review.yml existed on main will not fire pull_request: assigned until the PR is refreshed (close/reopen) — GitHub caches the PR'''s workflow set.

Sequencing

Blocked on #96 merging — it touches the same three composites. Plan now; implement only after #96 is in main (fresh turns branch from the post-merge main).

Acceptance criteria

• Behavior-identical turns: the sourced lib produces byte-identical $GITHUB_ENV content vs today's inline bash (assert by running both paths on a fixture).
• All four action YAMLs still parse; a plan or implement turn runs green end-to-end on a real issue after merge.
• The escaping pipeline's contract comments move with the code, not get lost.

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Plan

Ask (restated): Deduplicate the ~20-line bash shell that actions/claude.plan, actions/claude.implement, and actions/claude.review repeat in their Instructions steps (agent-md escaping pipeline, prompt-file heredocs, TURN_STARTED, CLAUDE_EXEC host-install probe) and that plan + implement repeat in their Verify steps, by extracting it into a sourced lib actions/claude.lib/turn.sh — approach operator-decided, yaml abstraction explicitly out of scope. Plus: add the missing review.yml caller to the README enrollment runbook.

Current state: Verified against #96's head (efaf1f9), since implementation branches from post-#96 main:

• The three Instructions steps share verbatim: the sed escaping pipeline over ${GITHUB_ACTION_PATH}/../claude.agent.md → AGENT_MD, the prompt.md heredoc (var name differs: PLAN_MD vs TASK_MD), TURN_STARTED, and the CLAUDE_EXEC probe. Composite-specific extras: implement resolves BOT_ID; review derives TASK from HEAD_REF.
• Plan and implement Verify steps are byte-identical (≥1 bot comment since TURN_STARTED). Review's Verify is structurally different (review or comment on the PR) — per the ask, it stays inline.
• actions/claude.handoff shares none of this bash — checked, out of scope.
• README: the claude.review section + copy-paste block already exist (added with #89), but the enrollment runbook's step 4 (Caller workflows) still lists only plan/implement/wake. Two adjacent drifts found: (a) step 4's three anchor links are all wrong today — the rollback section's earlier ### Consumer workflow (copy-paste) heading shifted GitHub's duplicate-heading slugs, so each link lands one section too early; (b) the review copy-paste block shows infisicalIdentity: <machine identity UUID> and omits runner: ${{ vars.RUNNER }}, contradicting step 4's own "every caller must pass runner" rule and the real callers in gingur/hooks and gingur/infra (both pass only runner).

Approach: Two tasks. Task 1 is the lib extraction exactly as the ask prescribes (sourced turn.sh, contract comments move with the code, fixture-diff proof); it is blocked on #96 merging. Task 2 is the README runbook fix, independent of #96 — implementable immediately. Rejected (per the ask, for the record): nested composite (run-time ref resolution), codegen (overkill).

What you might be missing:

• The ask's "byte-identical $GITHUB_ENV" criterion is unsatisfiable literally — TURN_STARTED is a wall-clock timestamp. Task 1 amends it to: identical under a date shim (or after normalizing that one line). Everything else must be byte-equal.
• The runbook anchor drift (found while scoping the README task) means the existing plan/implement/wake links are broken today, not just missing review — Task 2 fixes all four and switches to the stable per-workflow section anchors so the next added copy-paste heading can't break them again.
• Review's Verify stays inline per the ask's scoping; if you'd rather the lib own a turn_verify_review too, say so and I'll fold it in.

Proposed tasks

1. Extract shared turn shell into actions/claude.lib/turn.sh and rewire the three agent-turn composites

• Depends on: nothing in this plan — but hard-blocked on PR #96 merging (touches the same three composites). Do not branch until fix(claude): turn-failure hardening — host claude install + Retry panel #96 is in main.

• Body:

  Context

  The three agent-turn composites — actions/claude.plan/action.yml, actions/claude.implement/action.yml, actions/claude.review/action.yml — duplicate their step shell almost verbatim, so every flow refinement lands three times. Operator-decided approach (do not re-litigate): extract the duplicated bash into a shared sourced lib. This is version-safe because GitHub ships the whole repo at the action's pinned ref — the existing ${GITHUB_ACTION_PATH}/../claude.agent.md reference is the precedent — so the lib always matches the composite's ref, including on PR branches.

  Precondition: PR #96 must be merged before you start. If it is still open, stop and report on this issue instead of implementing. Branch from post-fix(claude): turn-failure hardening — host claude install + Retry panel #96 main.

  What to build

  Create actions/claude.lib/turn.sh, sourced from each composite's step as . "${GITHUB_ACTION_PATH}/../claude.lib/turn.sh". Two functions:

  1. turn_instructions <PROMPT_VAR> — appends to $GITHUB_ENV exactly what the current inline Instructions blocks emit, in the same order:

     • AGENT_MD heredoc: sed -e 's/\\/\\\\/g' -e 's/"/\\"/g' -e 's/\$/\\$/g' "${GITHUB_ACTION_PATH}/../claude.agent.md" (heredoc delimiter EOF_9c4e1b)
     • <PROMPT_VAR> heredoc (caller passes PLAN_MD or TASK_MD): cat "${GITHUB_ACTION_PATH}/prompt.md"
     • TURN_STARTED=$(date -u +%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ)
     • CLAUDE_EXEC=$([[ -x "$HOME/.local/bin/claude" ]] && echo "$HOME/.local/bin/claude")

     Note GITHUB_ACTION_PATH still points at the sourcing composite's directory when the lib runs, so ../claude.agent.md and prompt.md resolve per-composite — that is the load-bearing trick; document it in a comment at the top of the lib.

  2. turn_verify — the comment-contract check currently inline in plan's and implement's Verify steps: count the bot's issue comments since TURN_STARTED via gh api "repos/$REPO/issues/$ISSUE/comments" --paginate; on zero, echo "::error::agent turn ended without posting any comment (contract: at least one per turn)" and exit 1. Reads env: GH_TOKEN, REPO, ISSUE, BOT, TURN_STARTED.

  Rewire (compare against the current files on main — they are the source of truth for the exact text being replaced):

  • claude.plan Instructions → source + turn_instructions PLAN_MD; Verify → source + turn_verify (keep the step's env: block).
  • claude.implement Instructions → keep the inline BOT_ID resolve (and its comment), then source + turn_instructions TASK_MD; Verify → source + turn_verify.
  • claude.review Instructions → source + turn_instructions TASK_MD, keep the inline TASK=${HEAD_REF#claude/task-} append (and its comment). Review's Verify step stays inline unchanged — its review-or-comment contract is unique, out of scope.

  Comments move with the code

  The contract comments migrate into turn.sh next to the code they explain (the yaml steps keep at most a one-line pointer): the escaping-pipeline rationale (backslashes → quotes → $; claude-code-action's shell-quote parse runs env-less; no line of claude.agent.md may start with #), the CLAUDE_EXEC shared-HOME race rationale (devkit#92 + hooks#18, 2026-07-10), and the verify-contract rationale (silent success burns quota; fail so the handoff posts the failure comment).

  Out of scope

  • Abstracting any yaml (with: blocks, step layout) — self-contained yaml is load-bearing readability.
  • actions/claude.handoff — shares no bash with the turn composites.
  • Review's Verify step.

  Acceptance criteria

  • actions/claude.lib/turn.sh exists with turn_instructions and turn_verify; all three Instructions steps and the plan+implement Verify steps source it; review's Verify is untouched.
  • Fixture proof: for each of the three composites, run the pre-change inline Instructions block and the new sourced path with GITHUB_ACTION_PATH set to the composite dir, GITHUB_ENV pointing at two temp files, identical HOME. The diff must be empty — run both under a date shim (e.g. a PATH-front date wrapper printing a fixed instant) so even TURN_STARTED matches byte-for-byte. Paste the (empty-diff) evidence in the PR description.
  • All four actions/claude.*/action.yml files (plan, implement, review, handoff) still parse — e.g. python3 -c 'import yaml,sys; [yaml.safe_load(open(f)) for f in sys.argv[1:]]' actions/claude.*/action.yml.
  • The migrated contract comments are present in turn.sh (mechanical check: grep -l 'shell-quote' actions/claude.lib/turn.sh and grep -l 'devkit#92' actions/claude.lib/turn.sh both match) and the duplicated blocks are gone from the three yamls.
  • Post-merge (operator-verified, note it in the PR): one plan or implement turn runs green end-to-end on a real issue.

2. README enrollment runbook — add the review.yml caller and fix the drifted copy-paste links/block

• Depends on: nothing (independent of PR fix(claude): turn-failure hardening — host claude install + Retry panel #96; implementable now).

• Body:

  Context

  README.md → "Enrolling a repo in the agent flow" → step 4 (Caller workflows) predates claude.review: it tells enrollers to add three callers (plan / implement / wake) and never mentions review.yml, even though the claude.review reusable exists and both enrolled repos (gingur/hooks, gingur/infra) already carry the caller. Two adjacent drifts to fix in the same pass:

  1. Stale anchors. Step 4 links the copy-paste blocks as #consumer-workflow-copy-paste, -1, -2. But the README now has five ### Consumer workflow (copy-paste) headings (rollback ≈ line 417, plan ≈ 617, implement ≈ 713, review ≈ 794, wake ≈ 888), so GitHub's duplicate-heading slugs are: plain → rollback, -1 → plan, -2 → implement, -3 → review, -4 → wake. Every existing step-4 link lands one section too early.
  2. Inconsistent review copy-paste block. The block under "claude.review — PR-review agent turn" passes infisicalIdentity: <machine identity UUID> and omits runner: ${{ vars.RUNNER }} — contradicting step 4's own rule ("Every caller must pass runner: ${{ vars.RUNNER }}" — omitting it silently runs GitHub-hosted; bit us: gingur/hooks, 2026-07-10) and the real enrolled callers. Both gingur/hooks and gingur/infra review.yml pass exactly runner: ${{ vars.RUNNER }} and nothing else (identity comes from the repo's INFISICAL_IDENTITY variable fallback).

  Changes (README.md only)

  • Step 4: list four callers — .github/workflows/{plan,implement,review,wake}.yml — each linked to its copy-paste block. Prefer the stable per-workflow section anchors (#claudeplan--issue-driven-planning-agent, #claudeimplement--issue-driven-implementation-agent, #claudereview--pr-review-agent-turn, #claudewake--comment-driven-turn-triggers) over the numeric consumer-workflow-copy-paste-N slugs, which have already drifted once and break whenever a copy-paste heading is added earlier in the file.

  • Update the claude.review copy-paste block to match the enrolled repos: replace infisicalIdentity: <machine identity UUID> with runner: ${{ vars.RUNNER }} (workflow name/trigger/permissions in the block are already correct):

    jobs:
      review:
        uses: gingur/devkit/.github/workflows/claude.review.yml@main
        with:
          runner: ${{ vars.RUNNER }}

  Acceptance criteria

  • Step 4 of the enrollment runbook names all four caller files including review.yml.
  • All four step-4 links resolve to the correct sections (verify each slug against the actual rendered heading text — GitHub slug = lowercased heading, punctuation stripped, spaces → hyphens, -N suffix for duplicates in document order).
  • The claude.review copy-paste block passes runner: ${{ vars.RUNNER }} and no longer shows the infisicalIdentity placeholder.
  • No content changes outside the enrollment runbook step 4 and the claude.review consumer-workflow block.

Sequencing: Task 2 can be implemented immediately. Task 1 waits for #96 to merge — its body carries a hard precondition check so a premature turn stops instead of colliding.

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This turn: studied the three composites at #96's head, claude.handoff, the README runbook, and the hooks/infra callers; posted this plan. Next: tick Approve to materialize the two tasks, or reply with corrections.

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✔ Approved — 2026-07-10 (plan materialized as #99 and #100)

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Tasks created ✅

The approved plan is materialized — two claude-task sub-issues:

• #99 — Extract shared turn shell into actions/claude.lib/turn.sh and rewire the three agent-turn composites. ⛔ Hard-blocked on PR #96 merging; its body carries a stop-and-report precondition so a premature turn won't collide.
• #100 — README enrollment runbook: add the review.yml caller, fix the four drifted step-4 anchors, and correct the review copy-paste block (runner: ${{ vars.RUNNER }} instead of the infisicalIdentity placeholder). Independent — implementable immediately.

This turn: created #99 and #100 with the plan bodies verbatim, linked both as sub-issues of this ask, and retired the consumed Approve panel.
Next from you: merge #96 then kick off #99; #100 can start any time. Reply here if the task set needs adjusting.

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