[dnlrsls]

Problem and result

Keep Windows Bash startup TMP/TEMP parent-lived instead of tying shared MSYS startup state to a removable fixture. Restore fixture-private child TMP/TEMP only after the existing trusted startup gate. POSIX behavior, security/ownership gates, error/exit/stderr and HTTP assertions, the two-second adapter guard and other deadlines remain unchanged. No warning filtering, formatter correction, production changes or budget increases.

File	Change	+/-
plugin/codex_bash_temp_test.go	Startup lifetime and child privacy regressions	+85/-0
plugin/codex_session_handoff_test.go	Parent-lived startup; private post-gate child temp	+10/-1
plugin/codex_url_intent_test.go	Capture process-start temp; Windows-only startup selection	+17/-1

Linked issue (required)

Closes #2190

• type:bug (the only requested type label)

Verification

Existing offline Go 1.26.10 evidence, reused only for identical frozen source bytes:

• Native RED and GREEN used the same command:
  go test -mod=readonly -buildvcs=false ./plugin -run '^TestCodexBashTemp(StartupLifetime|HandoffChildPrivacy)$' -count=1 -timeout=2m -json
  RED: startup lifetime FAIL, child privacy PASS, exit 1. GREEN: both PASS, exit 0; regression bytes unchanged.
• Native recovery plugin command (16 selected leaves PASS, exit 0):

go test -mod=readonly -buildvcs=false ./plugin -run '^TestLifecycleScriptsUseCanonicalProjectResolution$/^(claude-code_uses_configured_project_instead_of_git-derived_name|claude-code_fails_closed_when_canonical_resolution_is_unavailable|claude-code_fails_closed_when_canonical_resolution_is_malformed|claude-code_fails_closed_when_canonical_resolution_is_empty|claude-code_fails_closed_when_canonical_resolution_is_ambiguous|claude-code_fails_closed_when_canonical_resolution_is_invalid|claude-code_fails_closed_when_canonical_resolution_is_error_hint|claude-code_accepts_a_process_override_from_canonical_resolution|codex_uses_configured_project_instead_of_git-derived_name|codex_fails_closed_when_canonical_resolution_is_unavailable|codex_fails_closed_when_canonical_resolution_is_malformed|codex_fails_closed_when_canonical_resolution_is_empty|codex_fails_closed_when_canonical_resolution_is_ambiguous|codex_fails_closed_when_canonical_resolution_is_invalid|codex_fails_closed_when_canonical_resolution_is_error_hint|codex_accepts_a_process_override_from_canonical_resolution)$' -count=1 -timeout=2m -json

• Native recovery scripts command (11 selected leaves PASS, exit 0):

go test -mod=readonly -buildvcs=false ./scripts -run '^TestPerfRatchetAgainst$/^(equal_suites_still_compare_with_bootstrap_enabled|cleans_up_after_significant_comparison_regression|bootstraps_a_strict_subset_across_host_configurations|bootstraps_an_empty_reference_suite|rejects_a_subset_without_bootstrap_permission|rejects_renamed_reference_benchmarks|rejects_different_same-runner_configurations|rejects_bootstrap_outside_the_versioned_suite|rejects_an_empty_bootstrap_baseline|cleans_up_after_reference_benchmark_failure|cleans_up_after_candidate_benchmark_failure)$' -count=1 -timeout=2m -json

• Portable Linux controls used Go arguments test ./plugin -run '^TestCodexBashTemp(StartupLifetime|HandoffChildPrivacy)$' -count=1 -timeout=2m -json in the existing isolated offline environment: 2 PASS, exit 0.
• Recovery recorded exactLeaves=true for all three phases, zero unexpected tests/skips/warnings, sourceAndRefsUnchanged=true and targetRemoved=true. Earlier full-package/selected runs and preparation attempts failed. Those failures remain historical, not passes; the successful bounded recovery does not retroactively qualify them. No full-package local PASS is claimed.
• Preflight recorded remote main a6f66c2ea21f6ec2fcec4b4d6d54c576bb069897; candidate parent 36c20bba95bc94585b44dfdda4b4cc6efff7d928 is its ancestor. Go helpers and go.mod/go.sum were unchanged between those revisions. Exact candidate commit: c422c53de23230189957b9e2e89b2eb84b56e1b9, three files, +112/-2.
• Existing independent local S1-S9 review: PASS on the frozen sources. Committed-candidate independent artifact/evidence audit: PASS, no blocking findings; the parent separately confirmed the exact commit/tree and clean diff/status. This audit reused byte-identical functional evidence and did not rerun tests. Native committed-range assessment: reviewDue=false, under_budget; no native approval claimed.
• No additional source changes or functional reruns during publication. Full-package success, native macOS and hosted CI remain unqualified locally.

Automated checks

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E2E Tests	Pending
Plugin Tests	Pending
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Contributor checks

• Approved, assigned issue verified in publication preflight.
• Regression and scoped recovery outcomes recorded with limitations.
• Documentation N/A: tests-only fixture correction, no user-facing behavior change.
• Delivery excludes local evidence/publication artifacts and unrelated changes.
• Commit follows Conventional Commits; no Co-Authored-By trailer.
• Hosted checks and maintainer review complete.

Risk (if applicable)

Fixture privacy/guard ordering and shared MSYS lifetime are the bounded risks. The accepted issue scope preserves trusted validation before private child temp exports; startup ownership and real child privacy are separately exercised. Controlled native-runtime and constructor evidence establish a qualified lifetime cause, not proof that every hosted failure shares it. No all-Windows, HTTP, timeout-budget, release or merge guarantee is made. Other PRs, six required checks and merge queue remain untouched.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Tests
  • Expanded automated coverage for temporary-directory behavior on Windows and POSIX, including startup settings and child-process handoffs.
  • Updated test fixtures to account for platform-specific temporary-directory handling.
  • Strengthened checks for race-test cache policies and workflow conditions.
• Documentation
  • Added guidance on race-test cache behavior, validation, and limitations.
• Chores
  • Updated CI to restore compatible Go caches and save them only under defined conditions.

Current-main verification

Current candidate: bbc7c07, integrated with canonical main 7cf4ed2 without rewriting history. Original three-file scope retained.

Fresh native Windows Go 1.26.10 RED/GREEN: the identical startup-lifetime and handoff-child-privacy regressions failed before integration (startup TMP/TEMP lifetime), then both passed with the fix (1.194s). Privacy passed in both phases. This constructor contract exposes the invalid lifetime without claiming a deterministic reproduction of MSYS warning emission.

Affected packages: go test -mod=readonly -json -count=1 -timeout=10m ./plugin ./scripts passed, exit 0. Plugin: 431.748s; scripts: 46.440s. This candidate contains neither the separate HTTP shell-selection patch nor #2195's CLI-reuse optimization. Existing assertions and standard package budget retained. This is a local two-package result, not a full-module hosted pass or proof every intermittent Windows failure is repaired.

Fresh current-head hosted CI and review remain pending; no merge or rollout activation is included.

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Walkthrough

The changes update Codex Bash test fixtures to set temporary-directory variables by platform. New tests check startup environment values and verify temporary and private directory behavior in a Bash process and its jq child.

Changes: Codex Bash temporary-directory handling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Platform-specific fixture mapping plugin/codex_session_handoff_test.go, plugin/codex_url_intent_test.go	The fixtures use the process-start temp directory for TMP and TEMP on Windows. The cygpath startup script restores those variables to the fixture tmp directory after startup checks.
Startup and child-process checks plugin/codex_bash_temp_test.go	New tests check fixture environment values and run Bash with a native jq child. They assert directory identity, successful exit, empty stderr, and exact stdout.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~12 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Possibly related issues

• Gentleman-Programming/engram#1891 — This issue includes Windows full-suite failures involving non-portable test fixtures; this change updates Windows Bash temp-directory fixture behavior.

Possibly related PRs

• Gentleman-Programming/engram#2185 — This PR records Windows Codex child temporary-context observations, which relate to the temporary-directory behavior checked here.
• Gentleman-Programming/engram#2180 — This PR collects Windows Bash temporary-path diagnostics for the Codex suite, in the same temporary-path area addressed by these changes.

Suggested reviewers: gentleman-programming

Merge Risk: Low · up to bbc7c

The change is mergeable with awareness that Race cache storage may grow across main-branch pushes. Monitor cache usage and adjust the save policy if it displaces useful caches.

Pre-merge checks: 3 · 1

Failed checks: 1 warning

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Out of Scope Changes check		The pull request also changes the Race cache workflow and its contract tests, plus the workflow baseline test and docs/ci-go-race.md. The changes include explicit cache ownership, cache identity, sa…	Remove the unrelated Race cache changes from this pull request, or move them to a separate pull request. Keep this pull request limited to the three Codex fixture/test files and changes required for #2190.

Passed checks: 3 passed

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check		Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check		The title clearly identifies the main change: preserving the lifetime of Windows Bash startup temporary paths. It is concise and directly related to the pull request changes.
Linked Issues check		Issue #2190 is open and directly linked. The Windows fixture now keeps TMP and TEMP on the process-start native temp path. The startup script restores fixture-private TMP and TEMP only after t…

Full details: Linked Issues check

Explanation

Issue #2190 is open and directly linked. The Windows fixture now keeps TMP and TEMP on the process-start native temp path. The startup script restores fixture-private TMP and TEMP only after the existing trusted startup checks. TestCodexBashTempStartupLifetime provides a deterministic lifetime regression. TestCodexBashTempHandoffChildPrivacy checks Bash and jq child privacy, exact stdout, and empty stderr. The relevant diff preserves the existing gate and does not add warning filtering, production changes, or timing changes.

Full details: Out of Scope Changes check

Explanation

The pull request also changes the Race cache workflow and its contract tests, plus the workflow baseline test and docs/ci-go-race.md. The changes include explicit cache ownership, cache identity, save guards, and related documentation. These files are unrelated to issue #2190 and are not part of the stated Windows Bash temporary-state fix.

Resolution

Remove the unrelated Race cache changes from this pull request, or move them to a separate pull request. Keep this pull request limited to the three Codex fixture/test files and changes required for #2190.

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Nitpick comments: 1

.github/workflows/ci.yml: 1

119-127: Trivial · Performance & Scalability

Monitor cache storage. Each main push writes a new full Race cache archive.

The exact key ends with github.sha. Every push to main therefore misses the exact key and runs actions/cache/save. Each archive contains the full GOMODCACHE and the -race GOCACHE. These directories can reach hundreds of MB or more. When main gets many pushes, these archives can fill the repository cache quota. Least-recently-used eviction can then remove caches that other jobs depend on.

The save predicate is correct for its purpose, so this does not block the merge. Track the Race cache entry size and the eviction rate after the merge. If eviction affects other jobs, take one of these actions:

• Delete older race-v1- entries.
• Save only when the compatibility prefix changes or on a schedule.

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Track the size and eviction rate of Race cache entries created by the “Refresh
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- Around line 119-127: Track the size and eviction rate of Race cache entries
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Complete native Windows integration qualification is now available for the two complementary fixture repairs, with #2195 already in canonical main.

• Canonical base: f616a7efe37c920a2c9113746abe3664dedc0c47.
• Source PR2199: bbc7c0787afbec093d32de5120ceb10300803249 (114 changed lines against current canonical ancestry).
• Source PR2209: b4a7a1ec191896656719fd01c8a45abdb1f3b852 (128 changed lines).
• Qualified combined checkout: 76073c4838f31fc0de1c85b640953ee8372d9fe1, only five Go test files changed (+230/-12); original production, workflow, modules, native1.5s/public2s/package10m contracts are unchanged.

Run: https://github.com/Alan-TheGentleman/engram-ci-qualification-01a19147/actions/runs/41242480587

All 17 original CI jobs succeeded, including complete Windows, race, vulnerability, Unit/E2E/Plugin, native macOS/adapter, Windows setup/wrapper, lint, Postgres and performance checks. The original CI was used byte-for-byte, not a reduced harness.

Actual Windows Server2025 x64 image 20261021.278.1, Go1.26.10, Node24.22.1; original Go exit0. Native JSON inventory: 8603 PASS / 127 SKIP / 0 FAIL, 8730 unique test paths, every run/terminal once, zero unfinished/duplicate cases. All 38 original packages are accounted for (34 passed, four contain no tests); no original case disappeared after the explicitly reviewed Bash-layout renames and temp-derived name correspondence. The 127 skip identities are unchanged from the recorded main baseline, not additional coverage exemptions. All 50 prior Windows fixture/security paths and all 17 added lifetime/guard/layout cases passed.

Fresh independent review separately inspected both work-unit slices: no local blockers; focused46PASS, affected593PASS/10localplatformSKIP/0FAIL/empty stderr, exported952files unchanged. It confirmed all eight exact type/path guards and private child temp after the trusted startup gate. Parent check-only spot check passed. Legacy macOS process-count evidence was not claimed; the native Windows guard regression above exercises it.

Limits: this is one complete native integration success, not independent causal attribution of every historical intermittent failure, not a latency guarantee, and not proof that either standalone old branch was already green. Earlier failed runs remain failed; their statuses are not replaced. The fork run does not impersonate canonical required contexts. Required six checks and the normal merge queue remain mandatory. No timeout, assertion, skip, label/rules/approval or human-responsibility attestation was weakened or inferred. Contributor source/history/body remain intact.

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Final canonical main verification — Windows repair complete

Both complementary source PRs merged through the mandatory native queue at 2026-10-31T21:47:37Z, with exact reviewed heads and no administrative bypass:

• fix(plugin): preserve Windows Bash startup temp lifetime #2199 → 9b7afe389b580efc79a8cccd0923c11247634553
• perf(tests): reduce Codex fixture startup overhead #2209 → d1b5dcdff35d9160e71cf276db9fcbecd371733a

The final canonical tree 47de8548e3452d855ca6e4f92c7daad558dc35b3 is byte-identical to the independently/native-qualified integration. Both root issues #2190 and #2208 closed through their existing references; no approval/ownership/label mutation was used.

Post-merge exact-main CI: https://github.com/Gentleman-Programming/engram/actions/runs/41245230929

All 17 jobs succeeded. Final native Windows JSON independently checked against the qualified inventory: 8603 PASS / 127 unchanged SKIP / 0 FAIL, 8730 unique paths, original exit0, no missing/extra cases, changed outcomes, duplicates or unfinished tests. All 38 package outcomes match (34 passed, four have no tests). Exact checkout d1b5dcdff35d9160e71cf276db9fcbecd371733a; Windows2025 x64 image 20261021.278.1, Go1.26.10, Node24.22.1.

Production, workflow, native1.5s deadline, public2s assertion, package10m budget and all executable/path/ownership guards remain unchanged. No filtering, new skip, forced success, status substitution, or required-check/queue/settings change was needed. Earlier failed baseline/local checks remain failed historical evidence; final green is an observed result at this exact source, not a claim that every intermittent failure was explained or a stable whole-CI speed guarantee. The wider #1891 required-check rollout is not activated or closed by this repair.