T-F1WJ-quality-run-resolves-superproject-baseline

Status: closed/superseded · Impact: high · Complexity: small

Goal

sdlc quality run --diff-against-baseline mis-resolves --baseline-dir when invoked from inside a git worktree: it points at the worktree’s own .sdlc/ rather than the superproject (main checkout) .sdlc/quality-baselines/ where the baseline was actually written. The gate fails baseline not found even though a valid baseline exists, forcing the operator to pass --baseline-dir explicitly. This task closes that gap so the documented /sdlc:task-work Step 7 quality run invocation works as-is from a worktree.

From T-CCLI-catalog-cli in https://github.com/sksizer/markdown-contract: When sdlc quality run --diff-against-baseline is invoked from inside a git worktree, it resolves --baseline-dir against the worktree’s own .sdlc/, but the baseline is written by task-work Step 3a under the main checkout’s .sdlc/quality-baselines/, so the gate fails ‘baseline not found’ until --baseline-dir <main-repo>/.sdlc/quality-baselines is passed explicitly. Fix: task-work Step 7’s documented quality run invocation (or the verb’s baseline-dir resolution) should resolve the superproject’s .sdlc/quality-baselines/ when run from a worktree.

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Discovery context

Spawned by /sdlc:spawn-task-pr on 2026-06-30 UTC from T-CCLI-catalog-cli in https://github.com/sksizer/markdown-contract.

Dedup search (spawn-from-post-mortem)

Bullet: Step 3a captured the quality baseline into the main repo’s .sdlc/quality-baselines/ but Step 7’s gate defaulted to the worktree’s .sdlc/ and errored baseline not found — task-work Step 7 should pass --baseline-dir <main-repo>/.sdlc/quality-baselines by default since .sdlc/ is per-worktree and the baseline is captured in the superproject. Keywords searched: quality-baselines, baseline-dir, per-worktree, superproject, defaulted, task-work, main-repo, baseline Excluded: T-NLKF-converge-obsidian-bases Top candidates (score / status / headline):

• 352 / closed/obsoleted / T-44OO-plugin-scripts-self-discover-project-root — Plugin scripts self-discover project root from cwd
• 160 / closed/done / T-TWZD-normalize-baseline-diff-nondeterministic-output — run_quality_checks —diff-against-baseline masks ephemeral tmpdir paths and transient SHAs before line-diffing
• 135 / closed/superseded / T-5X6Y-task-work-step7-explicit-baseline-dir — task-work Step 7 must pass —baseline-dir explicitly to defeat silent fallback in worktree
• 82 / closed/done / T-BQRU-quality-normalize-ports-pids-timings — normalizeFinding masks ephemeral ports, PIDs, and timing tokens before baseline-diff
• 79 / closed/done / T-H69K-run-quality-checks-isolates-pre-existing-drift — run_quality_checks.py only fails on drift the current branch introduced Decision: LINKED-EXISTING T-F1WJ-quality-run-resolves-superproject-baseline Rationale: Overrode the script’s SPAWNED. All of the script’s top-5 candidates are closed/* (T-44OO obsoleted, T-TWZD done, T-5X6Y superseded), so the script returned SPAWNED; the open planning/draft task T-F1WJ — which fell below the top-5 due to differing vocabulary — is a verbatim match: sdlc quality run --diff-against-baseline mis-resolves —baseline-dir to the worktree’s own empty .sdlc/ instead of the superproject’s .sdlc/quality-baselines/, failing baseline not found. Linked to T-F1WJ to avoid a 4th duplicate in the baseline-dir cluster. Linked from the post-mortem of T-NLKF-converge-obsidian-bases on 2026-07-19.

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