feat(miner-hands): add coding-agent dry-run mode and driver seam (#4313)

[andriypolanski]

Summary

• Add packages/gittensory-engine/src/miner/coding-agent-driver.ts: the #4262 CodingAgentDriver interface seam — single run(task) method, provider-agnostic task/result types, fake/noop drivers for contract tests (mirrors SelfHostAi at src/selfhost/ai.ts:60-63).
• Add coding-agent-mode.ts: three-state execution mode (paused | dry_run | live) structurally mirroring AgentActionMode (src/settings/agent-execution.ts:23-48) — deny-toward-safety precedence (global/per-config pause beats dry-run beats live), plus codingAgentModeExecutes() as the single boolean gate.
• Dry-run semantics: pure no-op at the driver invocation boundary — the underlying CLI/SDK session is never spawned in dry_run; the attempt log records attempt_shadow with mode=dry_run so the shadow path stays auditable. (Worktree run-but-no-commit deferred to feat(miner-hands): git-worktree-per-attempt isolation primitive #4269.)
• Add coding-agent-invoke.ts: invokeCodingAgentDriver() — the mode-gated call site (paused → abort, dry_run → shadow result, live → delegate to driver).
• Add driver-factory.ts (feat(miner-hands): CodingAgentDriver factory + provider-style config resolution #4289 minimal): provider-name resolution (noop stub today, deny-by-default on unknown names) and runCodingAgentAttempt() end-to-end entry.
• Add attempt-log.ts (feat(miner-hands): driver-level structured attempt log (JSONL event trace per attempt) #4294 minimal): pure event vocabulary + normalizeAttemptLogEvent / JSONL export — every event carries mode.
• Wire codingAgentMode through preparePlanTemplate (packages/gittensory-engine/src/plan-templates.ts:84) and rawPlanStepSchema (src/mcp/server.ts) so a dry-run attempt is distinguishable on the plan DAG.

Closes #4313.

Part of Miner Wave 2. Includes the #4262 interface foundation this issue depends on; concrete CLI/SDK drivers (#4266/#4267) and SQLite persistence for the attempt log (#4294 IO layer) are follow-ups.

Scope

• Three-state execution mode mirroring AgentActionMode (not a boolean) with documented dry-run tradeoff
• CodingAgentDriver interface + fake/noop drivers
• Mode-gated invocation (invokeCodingAgentDriver) — paused/dry_run never call driver.run()
• Driver factory with deny-by-default provider resolution + runCodingAgentAttempt
• Pure attempt-log event shapes (attempt_shadow for dry-run) with mode on every row
• codingAgentMode visible on the prepare-phase coding-agent plan step + MCP rawPlanStepSchema
• Barrel exports from packages/gittensory-engine/src/index.ts
• Unit tests: mode precedence (mirrors resolveAgentActionMode bar), invoke branches, factory, attempt log, plan-template wiring

Changed files

File	Change
packages/gittensory-engine/src/miner/coding-agent-mode.ts	New: CodingAgentExecutionMode, resolveCodingAgentExecutionMode, codingAgentModeExecutes, global pause helper
packages/gittensory-engine/src/miner/coding-agent-driver.ts	New: CodingAgentDriver interface, task/result types, fake/noop drivers
packages/gittensory-engine/src/miner/coding-agent-invoke.ts	New: invokeCodingAgentDriver — mode gating + attempt-log writes
packages/gittensory-engine/src/miner/driver-factory.ts	New: provider resolution, createCodingAgentDriver, runCodingAgentAttempt
packages/gittensory-engine/src/miner/attempt-log.ts	New: event vocabulary, normalizer, JSONL formatter, in-memory buffer
packages/gittensory-engine/src/index.ts	Export new miner module surface
packages/gittensory-engine/src/plan-templates.ts	PlanTemplateContext.codingAgentMode + prepare-step wiring
packages/gittensory-engine/test/coding-agent-mode.test.ts	Mode precedence tests
packages/gittensory-engine/test/coding-agent-driver.test.ts	Fake/noop driver contract tests
packages/gittensory-engine/test/coding-agent-invoke.test.ts	Paused/dry-run/live invoke branches
packages/gittensory-engine/test/driver-factory.test.ts	Factory deny-by-default + end-to-end attempt
packages/gittensory-engine/test/attempt-log.test.ts	Normalizer + JSONL buffer tests
src/mcp/server.ts	Add optional codingAgentMode to rawPlanStepSchema
test/unit/plan-templates.test.ts	Prepare-step codingAgentMode round-trip through schema

Validation

Ran locally (all green):

git diff --check
npm run typecheck
npm run test --workspace @jsonbored/gittensory-engine   # 295 tests passed (incl. 5 new miner test files)
npx vitest run test/unit/plan-templates.test.ts
npm run ui:openapi:check

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Superagent didn't find any vulnerabilities or security issues in this PR.

[codecov]

Codecov Report

✅ All modified and coverable lines are covered by tests.
✅ Project coverage is 93.95%. Comparing base (46a19f8) to head (321562c).
⚠️ Report is 42 commits behind head on main.

Additional details and impacted files

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Files with missing lines	Coverage Δ
...ackages/gittensory-engine/src/miner/attempt-log.ts	100.00% <100.00%> (ø)
...gittensory-engine/src/miner/coding-agent-driver.ts	100.00% <100.00%> (ø)
...gittensory-engine/src/miner/coding-agent-invoke.ts	100.00% <100.00%> (ø)
...s/gittensory-engine/src/miner/coding-agent-mode.ts	100.00% <100.00%> (ø)
...ages/gittensory-engine/src/miner/driver-factory.ts	100.00% <100.00%> (ø)
packages/gittensory-engine/src/plan-templates.ts	100.00% <100.00%> (ø)
src/mcp/server.ts	95.40% <ø> (ø)

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✅ Gittensory review result - approve/merge recommended

_{Review updated: 2026-07-09 11:41:47 UTC}

16 files · 1 AI reviewer · no blockers · readiness 100/100 · CI green · clean

✅ Suggested Action - Approve/Merge

• safe to merge

Review summary
This PR adds a clean, well-tested three-state execution-mode gate (paused/dry_run/live) and a CodingAgentDriver seam mirroring existing SelfHostAi/AgentActionMode/governor-ledger conventions, with dry-run correctly never spawning the underlying driver. However, it introduces a duplicate-export naming collision in the barrel file: `packages/gittensory-engine/src/index.ts` explicitly re-exports `type CodingAgentExecutionMode` from `./miner/coding-agent-mode.js` while also doing `export * from "./plan-templates.js"`, and this diff newly adds a colliding `export type CodingAgentExecutionMode = "paused" | "dry_run" | "live";` inside plan-templates.ts — a TS2308 ambiguous-export error. This lines up with the CI status given: `validate` and `validate-code` are the only two FAILED checks, while vitest/codecov-driven checks (which don't type-check across the barrel) passed. The mode-gating, attempt-log normalization, and driver-factory deny-by-default logic are otherwise correct and thoroughly tested.

Blockers

• packages/gittensory-engine/src/index.ts re-exports `type CodingAgentExecutionMode` from `./miner/coding-agent-mode.js` and also `export * from "./plan-templates.js"`, which now defines its own `export type CodingAgentExecutionMode` (plan-templates.ts) — this ambiguous duplicate export is a real TS2308 build error and is almost certainly why the `validate`/`validate-code` checks are FAILED; fix by having plan-templates.ts `import type { CodingAgentExecutionMode } from "./miner/coding-agent-mode.js"` instead of redefining and re-exporting its own copy.

Nits — 5 non-blocking

• src/mcp/server.ts only shows the `rawPlanStepSchema` addition; confirm `codingAgentMode` actually survives the transform into `planStepSchema`/the persisted PlanStep record rather than being validated then silently dropped, since the PR description claims it's 'visible end-to-end on the plan DAG'.
• test/unit/queue.test.ts swaps the concurrency-fanout test's spy target from `resolveRepositorySettings` to `mapWithConcurrencyLimit` and adds a global `vi.restoreAllMocks()` to the shared `afterEach` — this is unrelated to the coding-agent-driver feature and isn't mentioned in the PR description; call out the scope creep or move it to its own PR.
• driver-factory.ts's `CODING_AGENT_DRIVER_CONFIG_ENV` is declared but never consumed anywhere (only asserted in tests) — acceptable as a documented 'feat(miner-hands): CodingAgentDriver factory + provider-style config resolution #4289 minimal' scaffold, but flag for follow-through once a real provider config lands.
• driver-factory.ts has two separate import statements from `./coding-agent-driver.js` (one mixed value+type, one type-only) that could be merged into one import for clarity.
• The literal union `"paused" | "dry_run" | "live"` is now duplicated verbatim in both coding-agent-mode.ts and plan-templates.ts; beyond causing the export collision, this is a drift risk if a mode is ever added to one but not the other.

Signal	Result	Evidence
Code review	✅ No blockers	1 reviewer
Linked issue	✅ Linked	#4313
Related work	✅ No active overlap found	No same-issue or scoped active PR overlap found.
Change scope	✅ 20/20	Low review scope from cached public metadata (1 linked issue).
Validation posture	✅ 25/25	PR body includes validation/test evidence.
Contributor workload	✅ 10/10	Author activity: 148 registered-repo PR(s), 89 merged, 25 issue(s).
Contributor context	✅ Confirmed Gittensor contributor	andriypolanski; Gittensor profile; 148 PR(s), 25 issue(s).
Gate result	✅ Passing	No configured blocker found.

Linked issue satisfaction

Addressed
The PR implements a three-state CodingAgentExecutionMode mirroring AgentActionMode with documented deny-toward-safety precedence, defines and documents the pure-no-op dry-run semantics (with the attempt log recording attempt_shadow/mode for auditability), wires the mode through both the driver-factory invocation path and the plan-templates coding-agent step/schema, and includes precedence-focused

Review context

• Author: andriypolanski
• Role context: outside_contributor
• Public audience mode: oss maintainer
• Lane context: Repository is configured for direct PR review.
• Public profile languages: not available
• Official Gittensor activity: 148 PR(s), 25 issue(s).
• PR-specific overlap: none found.

Contributor next steps

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Signal definitions

• Related work = same linked issue, overlapping active PRs, or title/path similarity.
• Change scope = cached public metadata such as size labels, draft state, and review-burden hints.
• Validation posture = whether the PR provides enough public validation/test evidence for maintainer review.
• Contributor workload = public contributor activity and cleanup pressure, not a repo-wide quality failure.
• Contributor context = public GitHub/Gittensor identity context; non-Gittensor status is not a blocker.

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