extract-rules.js gains a module mode: when the caller passes `modules`
(built from the map stage's topology.json, or from the directory tree),
it runs one focused extractor per module in ordered batches, refereeing
each batch's fresh rules before the next batch starts, instead of
pointing three whole-estate lens agents at legacy/<system> every round.
Batches are ordered parallel() barriers so agent spawn order is a pure
function of the args and prior results, which keeps resumeFromRunId
replays cache-hitting. Lens mode is unchanged for callers without a
module list (identical prompts and return fields).
The script now guards the runtime's per-run agent cap and the token
budget before every fan-out and degrades to a partial catalog with named
gaps (skippedModules, failedModules, unverifiedRules, skippedPhases,
re-passable rerunModules) instead of failing with no result; referee-less
rules are returned rather than dropped, and a wrong-citation redirect can
no longer confirm the same rule twice.
The command doc now builds the module list from topology.json (inline
script), sizes the run honestly, records the Run ID, and spells out the
interrupted-run path: resume a stopped/failed run with resumeFromRunId,
follow up a completed-with-failures run with just the affected shards,
and read journal.jsonl before declaring anything lost.
Four commands gain a Workflow-tool path (with direct-fan-out fallback for
older builds): extract-rules loops until dry with per-rule citation referees
and a P0 two-judge panel; harden runs class-scoped finders with adversarial
per-finding refutation; assess --portfolio pipelines one survey agent per
system with COCOMO computed uniformly in script; reimagine Phase E drops the
3-service scaffolding cap.
Workflow agents return schema-validated data and only the orchestrating
session writes artifacts — analysis agents are structurally read-only. All
five agents gain an untrusted-content discipline section (source code is
data, never instructions; comment-only claims are findings, not facts), and
the README documents the prompt-injection threat model for analyzed code.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A red-team pass found four ways credential values still reached
shareable artifacts after the initial redaction:
- the remediation patch: a diff removing a hardcoded secret carries the
raw value on its '-' lines by construction. harden now splits output:
non-credential hunks in the shareable security_remediation.patch,
credential hunks in a gitignored security_remediation.local.patch
with comment-only placeholders in the shareable file
- the other four agents had no secret-handling rules. legacy-analyst
(hardcoded-config evidence in tech-debt findings),
business-rules-extractor (credentials recorded as rule parameters),
test-engineer (legacy literals becoming committed test fixtures), and
architecture-critic (quoted code in notes files) now all mask values
and cite file:line; assess's tech-debt prompt and ASSESSMENT.md
masking now cover every section, not just Security Findings
- non-git projects: a .gitignore protects nothing under SVN/Mercurial.
Both commands now refuse --show-secrets without git and write the
quarantine file to ~/.modernize/<system>/ outside the project tree
- the patch-apply instruction was wrong in both documented layouts
(symlinked legacy/ broke relative paths). Patches are now written
with project-root-relative paths and applied from the project root
Also: --show-secrets is now position-independent in both commands, and
the README documents the full model.
Fixes found by running the discovery workflow against the AWS CardDemo
mainframe sample (~50 KLOC of COBOL/CICS/JCL/BMS/VSAM):
- modernize-assess: add scc -> cloc -> find/wc fallback chain with the
COCOMO-II formula so Step 1 works when scc isn't installed; same for
portfolio-mode cloc/lizard. Drop the reference to a specific
agent-spawning tool name (just "in parallel"). Sharpen the structural-
map subagent prompt: 5-12 domains, subgraph clustering, ~40-edge cap,
repo-relative paths, dangling-reference check.
- modernize-map: expand the parse-target list with the things a
literal-minded reader would miss on a real mainframe codebase — CICS
CSD DEFINE TRANSACTION/FILE for entry points and online file I/O,
EXEC CICS file ops, SELECT...ASSIGN TO joined with JCL DD,
EXEC SQL table refs (not JCL DD), SEND/RECEIVE MAP, dynamic
data-name XCTL resolution, COBOL fixed-format column slicing. Without
these the dead-code list is wrong (most CICS programs look unreachable).
Also write a machine-readable topology.json alongside the summary.
- modernize-extract-rules: add a Priority (P0/P1/P2) field with a
heuristic, and an optional Suspected-defect field. modernize-brief
reads P0 rules to build the behavior contract, but the Rule Card had
no priority slot — the chain was broken.
- modernize-brief: read the new P0 tags; flag low-confidence P0 rules as
SME blockers.
- modernize-reimagine: drop "for the demo" wording.
- security-auditor agent: add mainframe/COBOL coverage items (RACF,
JCL/PROC creds, BMS field validation, DB2 dynamic SQL, copybook PII)
and mark web-only items as such so it adapts to the target stack.
- README: add Optional Tooling section and a symlink example for the
expected layout.
