Track closed per user direction with PARTIAL completion (17 of 31
tasks done; 13 deferred to followup tracks).
TRACK_COMPLETION_test_suite_cleanup_gemini_cli_removal_20260705.md
records the 12-VC status (7 PASS, 5 NOT DONE / NOT VERIFIED), the
phase-by-phase breakdown, branch state, risks, and hand-off notes.
conductor/chronology.md: Active row updated to 'Partially Completed'
with the commit range + summary of completed/deferred work.
state.toml: status = 'superseded'; current_phase kept at 1 (mid-Phase 1)
to reflect actual stopping point; new [followup_tracks] section
records the two upcoming tracks:
- vendor_ai_client_track (Front C metadata work)
- test_de_crufting_track (Front B cruft work)
Per user direction: use real minimax/M2.7 instead of fabricating a
mock provider. 10 sim test files rewritten (3b55bdff).
t1.9 also marked completed (includes the sim test rewrites).
t1.11 (Phase 1 batch checkpoint) still pending until full test suite
is run with API access.
Total Front A tasks: t1.1-t1.6, t1.8, t1.9, t1.10 = 9 of 11 done.
t1.7 cancelled. t1.11 pending.
4 phases, 11 tasks: (1) full grok->xai rename across 5 layers, (2) per-vendor
registry sync for 7 vendors against models.dev, (3) cost_tracker verification +
full suite batch, (4) docs sync. TDD red-first per task. Per-vendor commits
in Phase 2 for safe rollback.
Spec for renaming the grok vendor to xai (xAI is the vendor; Grok is a
model brand) across all 5 layers, plus a full model registry sync for
all 7 models.dev-mapped vendors against canonical model lists. Hard
cutover on credentials key. gemini_cli untouched.
phase_1.status = in_progress_partial_6_of_11; tasks 1.1-1.6 marked completed with SHAs. Tasks 1.7 (mock provider) through 1.11 (batch run) remain pending. Phases 2 and 3 entirely untouched. current_phase advanced from 0 to 1 to reflect Front A mid-execution.
Tasks 1.1-1.6 cover the bulk of Front A: the gemini_cli adapter module
plus all importer edits (ai_client, app_controller, gui_2,
project_manager, api_hooks) and the 7 dedicated gemini_cli test files.
Remaining Front A tasks (1.7-1.11) cover the mock provider, the 11 sim
test rewrites, the minor test edits, the doc updates, and the batch
checkpoint.
3 fronts, 3 phases, 31 tasks, 12 verification criteria. Based on 3
parallel explore-agent audits of the live codebase.
Front A — Gemini CLI Adapter Removal: delete src/gemini_cli_adapter.py
+ 7 test files; edit ai_client.py (3 functions + 8 dispatch branches +
PROVIDERS 8->7); edit app_controller.py (~11 sites) + gui_2.py (2 blocks)
+ project_manager.py + api_hooks.py; introduce a mock provider that
routes to tests/mock_gemini_cli.py so the 9 live_gui sim tests switch
from gemini_cli to mock without losing their mock-LLM mechanism; update
7 docs + 5 conductor docs.
Front B — Test Suite Cleanup (410 files, 2,133 tests, ~45-60 files
downsizable): delete 2 guaranteed-broken chronology tests (import from
deleted scripts.audit.*); consolidate 7 test_scavenge_*.py tautologies
into 1 test_directive_structure.py; review deprecated-module tests;
consolidate ~15 test_*_phase*.py one-offs; migrate 27 src.models shim
importers to direct subsystem imports; extract shared mock_controller
fixture from ~8 boilerplate-patch files; fix 3 fix-not-skip candidates
(Gemini 503 in summarize.summarise_file); audit the 120KB
test_gui_2_result.py (9.4% of suite line count in one file).
Front C — Metadata-Type Reduction: flip the 38-site MCP dispatch
inversion (dispatch()+22 consumers still call str wrappers, not the
_result variants); migrate app_controller.py's ~40 in-memory Metadata
state sites to typed per-aggregate dataclasses; fix aggregate.py
file_items: list[Metadata] -> list[FileItem]; delete dead code
(openai_schemas.to_legacy_dict, app_controller._push_mma_state_update).
Out of scope: GEMINI_CLI_HOOK_CONTEXT env var + cli_tool_bridge.py +
mma_exec.py (meta-tooling, not the provider — separate follow-up if
user wants to purge naming).
download_media now shells out to gallery-dl (handles X.com auth/403/video->mp4) instead of urllib, returns the downloaded files, + media_files_for_post glob helper + --cookies CLI. render_markdown embeds images with  and videos with an HTML <video controls> tag (were plain links). extract_corpus uses the package download_media (one download path). Tests rewritten for the gallery-dl API. Corpus: 4 threads, 33 media (32 img embeds + 1 video), 0 missing.
Replaced convert_cookies.py + run_corpus.py + dedupe_corpus.py (+ the scratch merge_corpus.py) with a single extract_corpus.py that: converts cookies, fetches each URL's full conversation, MERGES overlapping conversations into one thread (union of posts, no duplicate threads/media), downloads ALL media (images + video/mp4) via gallery-dl itself (plain urllib 403'd on pbs.twimg.com and never fetched videos), and renders. Result: 4 merged threads, 33 media files (incl mp4), 0 missing links. cookies_netscape.txt gitignored.
fetch_thread_from_url now passes -o conversations=true (full threads, not single tweets), sorts posts chronologically, and sets root_post_id to the URL's target tweet. render_markdown builds front-matter from the target (root_post_id) post, not the earliest conversation tweet (fixes wrong @handle). Added dedupe_corpus.py: keeps deepest thread per conversation, deletes duplicates, keeps+marks unique branches (branch_of) + writes threads_index.json. 33 tests pass.
Scripts + workflow for extracting Twitter/X posts and threads into
Markdown with associated media. Mirrors the scripts/video_analysis/
pattern. Standalone requirement: zero imports from src/, conductor/,
or scripts.video_analysis — copy-pasteable to another repo with only
gallery-dl as the external dep.
5 modules: __init__.py, error_types.py (Result[T, ErrorInfo] +
ThreadData/PostData typed dataclasses), fetch_thread.py (gallery-dl
subprocess for URLs + html.parser fallback for local HTML),
download_media.py (stdlib urllib, idempotent), render_markdown.py
(YAML front-matter + per-post sections + ./media/ links).
Reference project: C:\projects\forth\bootslop — the corpus feeds
bootslop's scripts and reference-generation pipeline. Acceptance
corpus: 8 threads (@NOTimothyLottes x6 + @VPCOMPRESSB x2) extracted
to tests/artifacts/twitter_threads_corpus/. The ?s=20 quote-share
suffix on the @VPCOMPRESSB URLs must be stripped by fetch_thread.py
before acquisition (added to FR2 as URL normalization).
5 phases / 23 tasks. 8 verification criteria (VC1-VC8). TDD red-first
on the pure-function modules (render_markdown, types, media naming).
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