Claude Code rejects "Bash(:*)" with "Prefix cannot be empty before :*" —
the rule is silently skipped, which since 5b48f0d0 left no Bash entry
in the allowlist at all. Every coder agent's Bash call has been
auto-denying since that commit landed (~840 of 1.4k denials in the sled
log).
The canonical form for "allow all bash commands" is the tool name alone:
"Bash" (no parens). Apply it in three places that 5b48f0d0 touched:
- .claude/settings.json (project root, inherited by new worktrees)
- server/src/io/fs/scaffold/templates.rs (huskies init template)
- server/src/io/fs/scaffold/tests.rs (assertion now checks "Bash")
The gateway settings.json at ~/Desktop/huskies/.claude/settings.json and
the four live worktrees (810, 888, 890, 894) were also corrected — not
in this commit since they live outside the repo.
Surfaced via /doctor; reported with rule "Invalid permission rule
Bash(:*) was skipped: Prefix cannot be empty before :*".
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The per-command allowlist (Bash(cargo:*), Bash(git:*), …) misses any tool
a coder agent reaches for outside the curated set — ./script/*, make, curl,
jq, docker, test, [, etc. Each miss hits prompt_permission, which auto-denies
on the sled because no listener holds perm_rx (the matrix bot lives in the
gateway). 1,377 such denies in the sled log over the past week, accounting
for most of the recent throughput slowdown.
Replace the curated list with a single Bash(:*) wildcard in:
- .claude/settings.json (project root, picked up on git worktree add)
- server/src/io/fs/scaffold/templates.rs (used only by huskies init when
no .claude/settings.json already exists)
Update scaffold/tests.rs to assert the wildcard rather than a fixed set
of patterns; the per-command gate offered no real safety in this trusted
single-user deployment, since the prompt was never going to reach a human
anyway (that's the bug).
Stopgap until story 898 lands the proper sled→gateway permission
forwarding — at which point the wildcard can be narrowed back if desired.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude Code 2.1.123+ honours wildcard Bash allowlist patterns only in
the canonical form `Bash(cmd:*)`. The space form `Bash(cmd *)` falls
through to prompt_permission and gets auto-denied in agent mode,
breaking spawned coders.
- Rewrite all `Bash(cmd *)` patterns in STORY_KIT_CLAUDE_SETTINGS to
the colon form.
- Replace separate `Bash(cargo build:*)` / `Bash(cargo check:*)` with
a single `Bash(cargo:*)`.
- Add commonly-needed patterns: python3, node, npm, which, sed, awk,
rg, diff, sort, uniq.
- Patch the live project-root .claude/settings.json so the running
system picks up the fix immediately (rebuilt scaffolds will match).
- Add regression test asserting no `Bash(... *)` patterns survive and
required common commands are present.
Five files in server/src/ exceeded 1500 lines, with 50–75% of the line
count being inline `#[cfg(test)] mod tests { ... }` blocks. Agents
working on these files have to navigate huge buffers via Read calls,
costing turn budget that could go toward actual work.
Pattern: convert `foo.rs` to `foo/mod.rs` + `foo/tests.rs`.
Rust resolves `mod foo;` to either form, so no parent-module changes
needed.
Before / after (production-code lines, what an agent has to navigate
when editing the module):
crdt_sync.rs: 3672 → 1003 (mod.rs) + 2667 (tests.rs)
crdt_state.rs: 2122 → 1263 (mod.rs) + 854 (tests.rs)
io/fs/scaffold.rs: 2045 → 702 (mod.rs) + 1342 (tests.rs)
http/mcp/mod.rs: 1882 → 1410 (mod.rs) + 472 (tests.rs)
http/mcp/story_tools.rs: 1864 → 725 (mod.rs) + 1137 (tests.rs)
Side change: scaffold/mod.rs's include_str! paths got an extra `../`
because the file moved one directory deeper.
Tests: full `cargo test` suite passes (2635 passed, 0 failed).
Formatting: cargo fmt --check clean.
Motivation: today's agent thrashing on 644 / 650 / 652 was partly due to
cumulative-counting (now fixed by 650) but also genuinely due to file
size — sonnet's 50-turn budget barely covers reading these files plus
making the change. Smaller production-code files mean more turn budget
left for the actual work.
Committed straight to master because this is an enabling refactor for
agent autonomy work; running it through the normal pipeline would
require an agent that has to navigate the very files it's about to
split, defeating the purpose.
TimmyandClaude Opus 4.7
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