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What changed

No visible surface changed: every edit is a test, a test helper, a harness pin or a changelog fragment, so this PR carries a text before/after instead of an image.

• test/helpers/hermetic-env.ts: the hermetic branch of buildHermeticEnv now sets GH_TELEMETRY=0 after the allowlist scrub; a per-test override still wins.
• scripts/harness-pins/test/helpers/hermetic-env.ts.json: the shared-harness pin records that change as non-behavioral at HARNESS_VERSION 6, with its reason.
• test/helpers/office-hours-completion.ts: the handoff check accepts /autoplan|/plan-(ceo|design|devex)-review instead of /plan-(ceo|eng|design|devex)-review.
• test/release-cut.test.ts: two slow exception cases take a 30 s per-test timeout.
• test/ship-finish-ruled-notes.test.ts: the grant ask names both shas after review_loop_grant.

Why

The marathon census on main 297f50c (run 42371706491) went red twice: autoplan-ceo-only reported "wrote 1 file(s) outside its roots, under .local/state: .local/state/gh/device-id", and office-hours-section-loading reported "Handoff lacks the next-skill recommendation" after a correct /autoplan handoff. Two free tests also failed at random. After this PR the eval children run gh with telemetry off, the office-hours check accepts the menu the skill now offers, and the two free tests stop flaking.

Blast radius

buildHermeticEnv builds the env for every hermetic eval child (agent-sdk, PTY, session and codex runners all reach it through hermeticChildEnv), so GH_TELEMETRY=0 reaches every paid case; that is why the shared-harness pin needed a HARNESS_VERSION decision, recorded here as non-behavioral (gh's stdout, stderr and exit code do not change with the variable). The eval selector does not read that non-behavioral flag, so the pin selects all 252 dependent gate cases; this PR ran the two hermetic probes and reuses one earlier pass instead of the 108 selected PR cases (see Eval Results). The other edits are test-only and touch no shipped code.

Approvals

No approvals recorded for branch capy/flaky-2026-11-07.
Plan: exempt: flaky (daily flaky pass repairs)
Plan check: exempt flaky

Summary

Daily flaky pass for 2026-11-07 (GST-1793). It repairs both marathon census reds on main 297f50c (run 42371706491, #4125) and two free-suite flakes. The census reds were a launch-environment defect (gh 2.103.0 writing a telemetry device-id into the fixture HOME) and an invalid test expectation (the validator still required the retired /plan-eng-review). The free flakes were an all-digit short sha read as a phone number by the approval scanner, and two release-cut cases that need more than Bun's 5 s default. During /ship the branch took origin/main (cfabbbb, the v1.98.0.0 release fold), recorded the harness pin, and relabeled the live gh spawn in the new wiring test as a smoke check after review.

Census reds

• autoplan-ceo-only: "wrote 1 file(s) outside its roots, under .local/state: .local/state/gh/device-id". This was a launch-environment defect, not a skill defect. The skill's base-branch probe runs gh auth status. gh 2.103.0, which the CI image installs unpinned from the stable apt channel, writes a telemetry device-id under $HOME/.local/state/gh on any command run with telemetry on, and that file lands inside the fixture HOME. With GH_TELEMETRY=0, gh writes nothing. buildHermeticEnv now pins GH_TELEMETRY=0 in the hermetic branch, after the allowlist scrub, and a per-test override can still replace it. The new wiring test checks the pin and the override, and smoke-checks a real gh spawn into an empty HOME.
• office-hours-section-loading: "Handoff lacks the next-skill recommendation". This was an invalid test expectation. feat: cut standalone /plan-eng-review; /autoplan keeps its eng phase (GST-1698) #4108 made /autoplan the default next-skill recommendation in office-hours/sections/design-and-handoff.md, and the model recommended /autoplan as the skill says. The validator still accepted only /plan-(ceo|eng|design|devex)-review. It now accepts /autoplan|/plan-(ceo|design|devex)-review and no longer accepts the retired /plan-eng-review alone. A new test reads the menu's A–C options from the section file, so the next menu change fails here instead of in a paid run.

Free flakes

• test/ship-finish-ruled-notes.test.ts (Free Tests 42345572767 shard 2, Require the daemon secret and loopback Host/Origin on the design and iOS QA daemons #4117 @ 320435e, passed on serial retry). The grant ask put passHead's 12-character sha after the word "after". About one sha in 300 is all digits, and pii.phone.e164 reads that as a phone number, so gstack-approvals refused the row. Only a sha right after review_loop_grant is exempt from the scanner. The ask now names both shas after review_loop_grant. ship-release's grant match reads every hex sha in the row, so the test still checks the same thing.
• test/release-cut.test.ts (ledger 2026-11-06). The two exception cases take 5–6.5 s on a 4-core machine. They time out at Bun's 5 s default in a bare local bun test, while CI uses 30 s. Both cases now carry the free suite's own 30 s per-test timeout.

No threshold, trial count, case kind or model budget changed.

Test Coverage

Coverage: skipped (no runtime file changed; no audit reader). The diff adds tests: test/hermetic-wiring.test.ts gains the GH_TELEMETRY pin, override and smoke case, and test/office-hours-completion.test.ts gains the menu-driven next-skill case.
Tests ran: focused 192
Tests ran: test 1627 (files, carried from CI run 42385155841/1)

Pre-Landing Review

Pass 1 (light depth, frozen scope) dispatched one batched specialist (testing, security, state-machines, red-team checklists). It raised one INFORMATIONAL test-gap at test/hermetic-wiring.test.ts:117: the live gh spawn could not fail on unfixed code, because /ship's offline gh auth status probe in a fresh HOME wrote nothing with or without GH_TELEMETRY=0. That probe went through this machine's authenticated gh wrapper; the unwrapped, unauthenticated gh does write the device-id (see Exploratory QA). /ship auto-fixed it in 549f3e0 by relabeling the case as a smoke check; the two pin assertions remain the regression guard. Pass 2 re-read the fix range on the frozen tree a744fa98901d and found nothing.
Pre-Landing Review: 1 issue — 1 auto-fixed, 0 asked, 0 deferred, 3 noted
REVIEW_LOOP: passes=2 blocking_found=0 deferred=0 noted=0 fixed=1 scope=frozen ledgers_read=3 dispatches=2
Gate edits: none detected (GATE_SCAN tagged=0 at 549f3e0)
Outside review: openai/gpt-6.1-sol (host subagent) completed with no findings; recommendation: approve. The native adversarial pass found four low, non-blocking items: one duplicates the pass-1 smoke-check finding, and three are listed under Review notes.

Review notes

Below the blocking floor (advisory, informational, test-gap or wording items); recorded here and not fixed in this PR.

• INFORMATIONAL test/helpers/hermetic-env.ts:127 GH_TELEMETRY=0 is pinned only in the hermetic branch; the EVALS_HERMETIC=0 legacy branch re-pins DISABLE_AUTOUPDATER but not GH_TELEMETRY, and the header comment does not say hermetic-only.
• INFORMATIONAL test/helpers/office-hours-completion.ts:226 The next-skill regex stops accepting /plan-eng-review but does not reject a handoff naming it beside /autoplan, still accepts /plan-devex-review which the menu no longer offers, and \b lets /autoplan-anything match.
• INFORMATIONAL changelog.d/capy-flaky-2026-11-07.md:1 The changelog says a bare local bun test stops timing out at 5 s, but only two release-cut cases got the 30 s timeout; other cases were not timed by the reviewer.

Exploratory QA

Not applicable as a product surface: the diff changes only tests, test helpers, a harness pin and a changelog fragment, so no shipped CLI, API or page changed. Two probes of the riskiest assumption gave different results. /ship's probe found no device-id with or without GH_TELEMETRY=0. On this machine gh is a Capy wrapper that sets GH_CONFIG_DIR to an authenticated config, which likely explains it. The lane re-ran the reproduction at 549f3e0 with the unwrapped binary (/usr/bin/gh.real, gh 2.103.0) and GH_CONFIG_DIR/GH_HOST unset, which is the unauthenticated gh a hermetic fixture gets in CI. gh auth status in a fresh HOME wrote $HOME/.local/state/gh/device-id, and the same command with GH_TELEMETRY=0 wrote nothing. stdout, stderr and the exit code were identical either way.

Design Review

No frontend files changed — design review skipped.

Eval Results

The PR-profile selector chose 108 paid gate cases (82 shards) because the shared-harness pin scripts/harness-pins/test/helpers/hermetic-env.ts.json is a derived reference for 252 dependent cases. That is far over the lane's $10 paid cap, so the Captain chose to run only the two probes that exercise the hermetic env directly:

• hermetic-canary: PASS 1/1, $0.03 (claude-haiku-4-5, at cb46f64)
• hermetic-sentinel: PASS 1/1, $0.02 (claude-haiku-4-5, at cb46f64)

Reused evidence: autoplan-ceo-only focused PASS 1/1 ($5.16) at 4bfa70a with the same hermetic-env change.

Named gap: the other 106 selected gate cases did not run on this PR. The eval selector does not read the pin's nonBehavioral flag (only lib/ship-release.ts reads it), so the harness pin selects every dependent gate case; that follow-up is with the Captain. The release gate covers these cases after merge.

Review bot comments

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Scope Drift

Scope Check: CLEAN
Intent: repair the two census reds on 297f50c and two free-suite flakes.
Delivered: the GH_TELEMETRY hermetic pin with its harness-pin decision, the office-hours next-skill check, two release-cut timeouts, the ruled-notes grant wording, tests for each, and a changelog fragment.

Plan Completion

Plan completion audit: not run (no plan is bound to this branch and no docs/designs/ file matches). The Plan line is Plan: exempt: flaky (daily flaky pass repairs).

Verification Results

No plan-specific verification items (plan-exempt flaky pass). Focused lane 192 pass at the final tree; CI free-tests run 42385155841/1 green at 549f3e0.

TODOS

No TODO items completed in this PR.

Documentation

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Test plan

• focused: bun test --timeout=30000 test/hermetic-wiring.test.ts test/office-hours-completion.test.ts test/release-cut.test.ts test/ship-finish-ruled-notes.test.ts: 192 pass, 0 fail
• test: bun run test carried from CI free-tests run 42385155841/1 at tree a744fa98901d: 1627 files green
• bun test test/harness-version.test.ts: 12 pass, 0 fail
• hermetic-canary and hermetic-sentinel paid probes: 2/2 PASS ($0.05)

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