* fix(continuous-learning-v2): observer background process crashes immediately
Three bugs prevent the observer from running:
1. Nested session detection: When launched from a Claude Code session,
the child process inherits CLAUDECODE env var, causing `claude` CLI
to refuse with "cannot be launched inside another session". Fix: unset
CLAUDECODE in the background process.
2. set -e kills the loop: The parent script's `set -e` is inherited by
the subshell. When `claude` exits non-zero (e.g. max turns reached),
the entire observer loop dies. Fix: `set +e` in the background process.
3. Subshell dies when parent exits: `( ... ) & disown` loses IO handles
when the parent shell exits, killing the background process. Fix: use
`nohup /bin/bash -c '...'` for full detachment, and `sleep & wait`
to allow SIGUSR1 to interrupt sleep without killing the process.
Additionally, the prompt for Haiku now includes the exact instinct file
format inline (YAML frontmatter with id/trigger/confidence/domain/source
fields), since the previous prompt referenced "the observer agent spec"
which Haiku could not actually read, resulting in instinct files that
the CLI parser could not parse.
* fix: address review feedback on observer process management
- Use `env` to pass variables to child process instead of quote-splicing,
avoiding shell injection risk from special chars in paths
- Add USR1_FIRED flag to prevent double analysis when SIGUSR1 interrupts
the sleep/wait cycle
- Track SLEEP_PID and kill it in both TERM trap and USR1 handler to
prevent orphaned sleep processes from accumulating
- Consolidate cleanup logic into a dedicated cleanup() function
* fix: guard PID file cleanup against race condition on restart
Only remove PID file in cleanup trap if it still belongs to the
current process, preventing a restarted observer from losing its
PID file when the old process exits.
- Add try-catch around readFileSync in validate-agents, validate-commands,
validate-skills to handle TOCTOU races and file read errors
- Add validate-hooks.js and all test suites to package.json test script
(was only running 4/5 validators and 0/4 test files)
- Fix shell variable injection in observe.sh: use os.environ instead of
interpolating $timestamp/$OBSERVATIONS_FILE into Python string literals
- Fix $? always being 0 in start-observer.sh: capture exit code before
conditional since `if !` inverts the status
- Add OLD_VERSION validation in release.sh and use pipe delimiter in sed
to avoid issues with slash-containing values
- Add jq dependency check in evaluate-session.sh before parsing config
- Sync .cursor/ copies of all modified shell scripts
Core library fixes:
- session-manager.js: wrap all statSync calls in try-catch to prevent
TOCTOU crashes when files are deleted between readdir and stat
- session-manager.js: use birthtime||ctime fallback for Linux compat
- session-manager.js: remove redundant existsSync before readFile
- utils.js: fix findFiles TOCTOU race on statSync inside readdir loop
Hook improvements:
- Add 1MB stdin buffer limits to all PostToolUse hooks to prevent
unbounded memory growth from large payloads
- suggest-compact.js: use fd-based atomic read+write for counter file
to reduce race window between concurrent invocations
- session-end.js: log when transcript file is missing, check
replaceInFile return value for failed timestamp updates
- start-observer.sh: log claude CLI failures instead of silently
swallowing them, check observations file exists before analysis
Test fixes:
- Fix blocking hook tests to send matching input (dev server command)
and expect correct exit code 2 instead of 1
