CI failed on the guard added in 0c3729b, which passed locally. Both were
right: docs/TODO.md sent readers to
`.superpowers/sdd/2026-09-02-versioned-allocation-rules/`, a tool-managed
ledger whose own .gitignore is `*`. It existed on the machine that wrote
the reference and has never been in the repository, so the guard saw a
real file locally and nothing at all in a fresh checkout.
Two fixes, because there were two faults:
- TODO.md now points at the four commit messages that actually record why
those surfaces work as they do — de128e3, 1cb91d3, e3023d0, f94e458 —
and says plainly that the fuller ledger was never committed. Three of
the four brief defects it described are in those messages.
- The guard now checks a path is git-TRACKED, not merely present. That is
the invariant it was always meant to enforce: a path only the author
can follow is exactly the reference a reader cannot. It degrades to a
filesystem check when git cannot answer, and `.superpowers/` joins
docs/superpowers/specs/ as a declared exception — both are named in the
docs precisely because they are not in the repository.
A fresh clone is now the standard the check measures against, so it means
the same thing on a laptop and in CI.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
