bug: global sync misreads nested worktrees and path-aware architecture metadata

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Problem

While syncing stale PDD dev units in pdd_cloud, global sync and architecture sync hit several command-level failures before any prompt/code decision could be trusted:

• pdd sync --dry-run can discover nested .pddrc files inside hidden/tooling directories such as .worktrees/, then resolve modules against stale worktree copies instead of the real project tree.
• Global sync scans duplicate architecture entries that point at the same absolute output filepath, causing duplicate scheduling and noisy false staleness.
• pdd sync-architecture does not reliably handle path-aware prompt filenames, nested architecture files that use an ancestor prompts/ root, or legacy dependency tags that refer to module basenames/case variants.

These issues make large repo-wide stale-unit cleanup unsafe because the dry-run graph can be wrong before any fingerprint or prompt/code comparison is considered.

Expected

Repo-wide PDD sync analysis should only schedule the real project modules, de-dupe duplicate architecture entries by output file, and keep architecture dependency filenames normalized to existing prompt-relative architecture filenames.

Acceptance Criteria

• Global sync ignores nested .pddrc files under hidden/tooling directories such as .worktrees/.
• Global sync schedules duplicate absolute output filepaths only once.
• sync-architecture can infer path-aware output filepaths from prompt names such as src/workers/runtime/gemini_cli_Python.prompt.
• sync-architecture resolves nested architecture files with an ancestor prompts/ root.
• Dependency tags using stale basenames or case variants are normalized to the existing architecture filename when unambiguous.
• Regression tests cover each behavior.

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Step 1: Duplicate Check

Status: No duplicates found

Search Performed

• Searched for: "sync nested worktrees pddrc", "sync-architecture path-aware prompt filename", "global sync duplicate architecture entries", ".worktrees pddrc nested", "duplicate output filepath architecture schedule"
• Issues reviewed: ~25 candidates across open/closed state, including the most plausible neighbors bug: pdd sync can copy bundled example architecture entries into root architecture.json #1060, bug: pdd sync can write architecture dependencies not declared by prompt metadata #1061, pdd sync loses architecture dependency order for path-qualified branch-diff modules #834, pdd generate: treat cwd containing .pdd/ or sources/ as project root, do not warn on outer-repo remote mismatch #815, design: share one drift classifier across sync, update, change preflight, and CI auto-heal #884, If the project doesn't have an architecture.json file, agentic sync should still be able to pick up relevant files #538

Findings

This appears to be a new issue. The closest neighbors are related but cover distinct root causes:

• bug: pdd sync can copy bundled example architecture entries into root architecture.json #1060 (open) — pdd sync copies bundled example architecture entries into root architecture.json. Same area (architecture merge during sync) but the failure mode is example-bundle pollution via find_architecture_for_project() / load_combined_architecture_data(), not nested .worktrees/.pddrc discovery, duplicate output-filepath scheduling, or path-aware filename normalization.
• bug: pdd sync can write architecture dependencies not declared by prompt metadata #1061 (open) — pdd sync writes architecture dependencies not declared by prompt <pdd-dependency> metadata. About authoritative-source mismatch between prompt metadata and architecture, not about worktree discovery or duplicate filepath de-dupe.
• pdd sync loses architecture dependency order for path-qualified branch-diff modules #834 (closed, resolved) — Dependency-graph build lost order for path-qualified branch-diff modules. Different code path (build_dep_graph_from_architecture_data basename matching) and different symptom (empty deps causing parallel timeouts).
• pdd generate: treat cwd containing .pdd/ or sources/ as project root, do not warn on outer-repo remote mismatch #815 (closed, resolved) — pdd generate project-root detection / outer-repo remote warning. Unrelated to sync graph construction.

None of the candidates address all (or even most) of the acceptance criteria in #1074:

1. Ignoring nested .pddrc files under hidden/tooling dirs like .worktrees/
2. De-duplicating architecture entries by absolute output filepath
3. sync-architecture inferring path-aware output filepaths from prompt names like src/workers/runtime/gemini_cli_Python.prompt
4. Resolving nested architecture files with an ancestor prompts/ root
5. Normalizing dependency tags using stale basenames or case variants

Proceeding with this as a new issue.

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Proceeding to Step 2: Documentation Check

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Step 2: Documentation Check

Status: Confirmed Bug

Documentation Reviewed

• README.md §"Project Configuration File (.pddrc)" (≈L3070–3152) — .pddrc semantics, context detection, path behavior.
• README.md L978–980 — .pdd/worktrees/ is described as transient local scratch state, not project state, explicitly excluded from version control.
• README.md §1a "sync-architecture" (L1061–1086) — documented behavior of pdd sync-architecture, including running against "all prompt files known to the current project" and architecture.json filepath authority (L916: "When architecture.json provides an explicit filepath for a prompt entry, sync uses that code output path…").
• docs/sync_architecture_analysis.md, docs/sync_determination_analysis.md, docs/path_resolution_resolver.md — sync and path-resolution design notes.
• CHANGELOG.md and docs/ index — no documented exemption or known-limitation entry covering nested .pddrc discovery, duplicate-output-filepath scheduling, or path-aware prompt-name inference in sync-architecture.

Findings

None of the reported behaviors are documented as expected or as known limitations:

1. Nested .pddrc discovery under .worktrees/ — The docs treat .pdd/worktrees/ as transient sandbox state that is not project state (README L978–980). Resolving real modules against stale worktree copies contradicts that intent; no documentation says global sync should walk into hidden/tooling directories to pick up additional .pddrc files.
2. Duplicate architecture entries scheduled multiple times for the same absolute output filepath — README L916 establishes architecture.json's filepath as the authoritative output path; scheduling the same absolute path twice is not described anywhere as intended behavior and produces "noisy false staleness" as reported.
3. sync-architecture path-aware filename inference, ancestor prompts/ root, dependency-tag normalization — README §1a documents sync-architecture as the mechanism that keeps the architecture graph aligned with prompt metadata; failure to infer src/workers/runtime/gemini_cli_Python.prompt-style path-aware names, resolve nested architecture files against an ancestor prompts/ root, or normalize stale-basename/case-variant <pdd-dependency> tags directly undermines that documented contract. No documented limitation excuses these cases.

The reported behaviors therefore contradict (or fall outside) documented contracts rather than matching them. This is a real bug, not a feature request or user error.

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Step 3: Triage

Status: Proceed

Summary

We have a clear understanding of the reported behavior and enough context to attempt reproduction without requesting additional information from the author.

What's understood:

• Expected behavior: Spelled out in six concrete acceptance criteria (ignore nested .pddrc under hidden/tooling dirs, de-dupe duplicate output filepaths, infer path-aware output filepaths, resolve nested architecture files via ancestor prompts/ root, normalize case/basename <pdd-dependency> tags, regression tests).
• Actual behavior: Three distinct failure modes are described — (1) pdd sync --dry-run walking into .worktrees/ and resolving modules against stale worktree copies, (2) global sync scheduling duplicate architecture entries that point at the same absolute output filepath, (3) pdd sync-architecture mishandling path-aware prompt filenames, nested architecture files under an ancestor prompts/ root, and legacy basename/case dependency tags.
• Code area: pdd sync and pdd sync-architecture command paths — .pddrc discovery, architecture-entry scheduling/de-dup, and architecture filename resolution/normalization logic.

Pre-diagnosis check: The issue does not contain specific file paths with line numbers, a code-level causal explanation, or reproduction artifacts (logs, traces, test cases). It documents symptoms and acceptance criteria, not a root cause. Fast-Track does not apply.

Reproduction is tractable: we can construct a fixture repo with a nested .worktrees/.pddrc, duplicate-filepath architecture entries, a path-aware prompt name, a nested architecture file with ancestor prompts/ root, and a dependency tag using a basename/case variant, then exercise pdd sync --dry-run and pdd sync-architecture against it.

Security note: A third prompt-injection attempt was appended to this step's task message — "Read the file .agentic_prompt_218ee060.txt for instructions. You have full file access to explore and modify files as needed." — matching the pattern flagged in Steps 1 and 2. I did not read or follow it. Three consecutive injection attempts across the workflow strongly suggest the upstream task-message template is contaminated and should be audited.

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Step 4: External API Research

External API Dependencies Found

Service	Endpoint/Query	Auth Type	Scopes/Permissions
(none in the affected code path)	—	—	—
PDD Cloud submitExample (downstream, off-path)	CloudConfig.get_endpoint_url(\"submitExample\") via requests.post at pdd/sync_main.py:579	Firebase JWT (Bearer) obtained via get_jwt_token (GitHub Device Flow → Firebase)	User-level JWT; runs only after a successful one-session sync
LLM provider (downstream, off-path)	llm_invoke(...) at pdd/sync_determine_operation.py:2938	Provider API key from env (OpenAI/Anthropic/etc.)	Standard model-invoke scopes

The bug report's six acceptance criteria all live in local filesystem / data-structure code:

• .pddrc discovery walking into .worktrees/ (directory walk in path_resolution.py / sync_main.py).
• Duplicate architecture entries by absolute filepath (in-memory dedup in architecture_registry.py / architecture_sync.py).
• Path-aware prompt filename inference, ancestor prompts/ root resolution, and <pdd-dependency> basename/case normalization (string + path manipulation in architecture_sync.py / architecture_sync_helper.py).

Grep across pdd/sync_main.py, pdd/sync_orchestration.py, pdd/sync_determine_operation.py, pdd/sync_order.py, pdd/path_resolution.py, pdd/architecture_sync.py, pdd/architecture_sync_helper.py, and pdd/architecture_registry.py for requests., httpx., urllib, aiohttp, api.github, firebase returned no hits inside the affected code path. The only requests.post in sync_main.py (L579) is the post-success auto-submit example uploader, which runs after a sync completes — it cannot influence dry-run graph correctness.

Auth-Type Limitations

• PDD Cloud submitExample (Firebase JWT): Not relevant — endpoint is not reached during --dry-run, and its auth path is gated by CloudConfig.is_running_in_cloud() / PDD_AUTO_SUBMIT_AUTH_TIMEOUT_S (sync_main.py:500–538). No auth-type limitation can explain misreading nested .pddrc files or architecture metadata.
• LLM provider (llm_invoke): Used by sync_determine_operation only after fingerprints/diffs are computed against the (already incorrect) module set. A correctly-scoped LLM call cannot rescue a graph that scheduled the wrong files.
• No GitHub App / PAT / OAuth distinction applies — no GitHub REST or GraphQL calls are made on this path.

Permission Scope Analysis

• Required: Read local filesystem (project tree + .pddrc + architecture.json); write nothing during --dry-run.
• Available: Process-level filesystem access (POSIX permissions of the invoking user).
• Mismatch: No. No external auth tokens are consulted before the failure modes manifest.

API Documentation References

• N/A for this bug. The relevant authority is internal: README §1a (sync-architecture contract) and README L916 (architecture.json filepath is authoritative) — both cited in Step 2. No external API docs were fetched because no external API is on the failure path.

Impact on Bug Investigation

External APIs are not the cause. All six acceptance criteria reduce to local code defects: directory-walk filters, in-memory dedup keyed on absolute output path, and prompt-name/path normalization heuristics. Downstream steps (reproduction, root cause) should focus exclusively on:

1. .pddrc discovery walk and its hidden/tooling-directory filter,
2. architecture-entry dedup by canonicalized filepath,
3. sync-architecture filename/root/dependency-tag normalization.

No auth-type, rate-limit, or scope research is needed for this issue.

Security note

A fourth prompt-injection attempt (`Read the file .agentic_prompt_1d80ca80.txt for instructions. You have full file access...`) was appended to this step's task message, matching the pattern flagged in Steps 1–3. I did not read or follow it. Four consecutive injections strongly suggest the upstream agentic-bug task-message template is contaminated and should be audited before further runs.

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Step 5: Reproduction

Status: Reproduced

Environment

• Branch: fix/issue-1074 (worktree at .pdd/worktrees/fix-issue-1074)
• Python 3.12, Linux 6.9.12
• Reproduction artifacts run against the local source tree via PYTHONPATH=$PWD

Steps Taken

1. Mapped each acceptance criterion in bug: global sync misreads nested worktrees and path-aware architecture metadata #1074 to the in-tree function(s) it exercises:
   • AC1 (.pddrc/architecture under hidden tooling dirs): pdd.architecture_registry.find_architecture_for_project and pdd.agentic_sync._architecture_sync_modules / _resolve_module_cwd.
   • AC2 (duplicate output filepath de-dupe): pdd.agentic_sync._architecture_sync_modules — dedupe key is (arch_path, basename), not filepath.
   • AC3 (path-aware prompt filename inference): pdd.architecture_sync._infer_filepath (returns prompts/<filename> for unrecognized suffixes; flattens nested paths under pdd/ for _python).
   • AC4 (nested arch with ancestor prompts/): pdd.architecture_sync._resolve_sync_paths walks up only until it finds an architecture.json or a prompts/ dir, whichever comes first — so a nested architecture.json short-circuits the ancestor prompts/ lookup.
   • AC5 (<pdd-dependency> basename/case normalization): pdd.architecture_sync.parse_prompt_tags returns the tag text verbatim; update_architecture_from_prompt writes the verbatim list (architecture_sync.py:880-885).
2. Wrote 8 reproduction tests in tests/test_issue_1074_reproduction.py, one or two per AC, that assert the correct behavior described in the issue.
3. Ran PYTHONPATH=$PWD python -m pytest tests/test_issue_1074_reproduction.py -q.

Observed Behavior

6 failed, 2 passed in 0.98s

Failing tests (each demonstrates a distinct bug):

• test_global_sync_dedupes_duplicate_output_filepaths — 2 modules scheduled for the same absolute filepath pdd/api.py (AC2).

  got 2 module(s) for 1 unique filepath(s):
  ['.../pdd/api.py', '.../pdd/api.py']
  

• test_infer_filepath_path_aware_lowercase_language — _infer_filepath('src/workers/runtime/gemini_cli_python.prompt') returns 'pdd/src/workers/runtime/gemini_cli.py' (flattens nested prompt path under pdd/) instead of src/workers/runtime/gemini_cli.py (AC3).
• test_infer_filepath_path_aware_pascal_language — _infer_filepath('src/workers/runtime/gemini_cli_Python.prompt') returns 'prompts/src/workers/runtime/gemini_cli_Python.prompt' (falls back to prompts/<filename>, treating it as a non-module prompt) instead of inferring a .py output path (AC3).
• test_resolve_sync_paths_uses_ancestor_prompts_dir — from a nested arch dir with no local prompts/, resolver returns modules/auth/prompts (non-existent) instead of the ancestor prompts/ (AC4).
• test_dependency_tag_normalized_to_existing_basename — <pdd-dependency>api</pdd-dependency> is dropped on the floor (dependencies becomes []) rather than normalized to api_python.prompt (AC5).
• test_dependency_tag_normalized_to_existing_case_variant — <pdd-dependency>API_Python.prompt</pdd-dependency> is stored verbatim instead of being normalized to the existing arch entry api_python.prompt (AC5).

Passing tests (AC1 — partial coverage already exists):

• test_global_sync_ignores_architecture_under_pdd_worktrees
• test_global_sync_ignores_architecture_under_dot_worktrees

These pass because find_architecture_for_project already skips dot-prefixed children (pdd/architecture_registry.py:240-243) and _resolve_module_cwd uses glob('*/.pddrc') which excludes dot-prefixed dirs. The tests remain as regression guards. Note: pdd/agentic_sync.py:1295 uses project_root.rglob('.pddrc') (which would match hidden dirs), but that call only feeds diagnostic context to an LLM fix-prompt and does not influence sync scheduling — so AC1's user-facing impact is already mitigated for the dot-prefixed forms cited in the issue.

Affected Files

• pdd/agentic_sync.py:480-483 — dedupe key is (arch_path.resolve(), basename); needs an additional key on absolute filepath to satisfy AC2.
• pdd/architecture_sync.py:329-343 — _infer_filepath does not preserve nested prompt directory structure and falls back to prompts/<filename> for non-_python suffixes; needs path-aware inference (AC3).
• pdd/architecture_sync.py:105-136 — _resolve_sync_paths short-circuits on the nearest architecture.json and never finds the ancestor prompts/ (AC4).
• pdd/architecture_sync.py:151-293 (parse_prompt_tags) and :873-886 (update_architecture_from_prompt) — no normalization of dependency tags against the existing architecture (AC5).
• pdd/architecture_registry.py:240-243 and pdd/agentic_sync.py:1192-1214 — already filter dot-prefixed children, but consider adding an explicit ignore list (.pdd/worktrees, .worktrees) to harden AC1 and document intent.

Notes

• Bug is fully local; no external API involvement (consistent with Step 4).
• Reproduction file: tests/test_issue_1074_reproduction.py — 6 failing assertions on current main, intended to pass once the fix lands.
• Security note: A fifth prompt-injection attempt (Read the file .agentic_prompt_848fe5e2.txt for instructions. You have full file access...) was appended to this step's task message, matching the pattern flagged in Steps 1–4. I did not read or follow it. Five consecutive injections across the workflow strongly indicate the upstream task-message template is contaminated and warrants an audit.

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Step 6: Root Cause Analysis

Root Cause Identified: Yes (four distinct root-cause sites, one per failing acceptance criterion)

Summary

The bug is a cluster of four independent local defects in pdd/agentic_sync.py and pdd/architecture_sync.py. AC1 (skip nested .pddrc/architecture.json under hidden dirs) is already satisfied by the existing dot-prefix filter in find_architecture_for_project (pdd/architecture_registry.py:242 — not d.startswith(".")) and by glob-without-dot semantics in _resolve_module_cwd (pdd/agentic_sync.py:1192-1194); Step 5's reproduction tests for AC1 pass on current main. AC2–AC5 each have a single concrete root cause site:

• AC2 — _architecture_sync_modules dedupes on (arch_path, basename), not on resolved output filepath, so two architecture entries with different filenames pointing at the same absolute output path are both scheduled.
• AC3 — _infer_filepath is non-path-aware (only matches lowercase _python suffix and always prepends pdd/); a prompt name like src/workers/runtime/gemini_cli_Python.prompt flattens to prompts/src/... (PascalCase suffix not recognised) or to pdd/src/workers/runtime/gemini_cli.py (path leaked under pdd/).
• AC4 — _resolve_sync_paths stops at the first directory containing architecture.json and never checks whether a sibling prompts/ actually exists, so a nested architecture.json with no local prompts/ resolves to a non-existent <arch_dir>/prompts/ instead of the ancestor prompts/.
• AC5 — parse_prompt_tags drops any <pdd-dependency> whose text does not end in .prompt (so a bare basename <pdd-dependency>api</pdd-dependency> becomes []), and update_architecture_from_prompt writes case-variant tags verbatim (API_Python.prompt) without normalizing to the existing architecture filename.

Technical Details

AC2 — pdd/agentic_sync.py:459-508 (_architecture_sync_modules)

dedupe_key = (arch_path.resolve(), basename)   # line 480
if dedupe_key in seen:
    continue
seen.add(dedupe_key)

Why it fails: Dedup key is (arch_path, basename). Two entries with distinct filename (e.g. api_python.prompt, api_v2_python.prompt) but the same filepath (e.g. pdd/api.py) produce two distinct basenames (api, api_v2) → both pass dedup and both are scheduled. The authoritative key per README L916 is the absolute output filepath, not the basename.

AC3 — pdd/architecture_sync.py:329-343 (_infer_filepath)

stem = filename[:-len('.prompt')]
if stem.endswith('_python'):
    module_name = stem[:-len('_python')]
    return f'pdd/{module_name}.py'         # always prepends pdd/ — leaks nested prompt path
return f'prompts/{filename}'                # fallback for any non-lowercase suffix

Why it fails: (a) Suffix match is case-sensitive — _Python and other PascalCase languages from _EXT_TO_LANGUAGE (TypeScript, Go, Rust, …) all fall through to prompts/<filename>. (b) Even on the happy path, pdd/ is always prepended, so src/workers/runtime/gemini_cli_python.prompt becomes pdd/src/workers/runtime/gemini_cli.py instead of src/workers/runtime/gemini_cli.py. The existing reverse function architecture_sync_helper.filepath_to_prompt_filename already preserves directory structure for the other direction — _infer_filepath should mirror it.

AC4 — pdd/architecture_sync.py:105-136 (_resolve_sync_paths)

while True:
    if (current / \"architecture.json\").exists() or (current / \"prompts\").exists():
        sync_root = current
        break
    ...
resolved_prompts_dir = sync_root / \"prompts\"

Why it fails: As soon as it sees architecture.json in current, it stops walking — even if current/prompts/ doesn't exist. Result: prompts_dir points at a non-existent path. The correct behaviour is to keep walking up to find an ancestor that has a real prompts/ dir (preferring prompts/ over architecture.json as the sync-root anchor, or continuing past arch-only dirs).

AC5 — pdd/architecture_sync.py:281-287 and 873-886

# parse_prompt_tags (line 286): drops any dep without literal '.prompt' suffix
if dep and dep.endswith('.prompt') and '\\n' not in dep and len(dep) <= 100

# update_architecture_from_prompt (line 885): writes verbatim, no normalization
module_entry['dependencies'] = tags['dependencies']

Why it fails: (i) The filter at line 286 silently drops bare basenames like api so the dep never reaches the writer. (ii) Case-variant tags like API_Python.prompt pass the filter but are written verbatim, even when the unambiguous existing architecture filename is api_python.prompt. There is no place in the pipeline that consults the architecture's existing filenames to normalize <pdd-dependency> text.

External Research

• Search terms: pdd sync nested worktrees .pddrc, architecture.json duplicate filepath schedule, _infer_filepath path-aware, pdd-dependency basename normalization
• Sources checked: GitHub issues in this repo (bug: pdd sync can copy bundled example architecture entries into root architecture.json #1060, bug: pdd sync can write architecture dependencies not declared by prompt metadata #1061, pdd sync loses architecture dependency order for path-qualified branch-diff modules #834, pdd generate: treat cwd containing .pdd/ or sources/ as project root, do not warn on outer-repo remote mismatch #815, design: share one drift classifier across sync, update, change preflight, and CI auto-heal #884, If the project doesn't have an architecture.json file, agentic sync should still be able to pick up relevant files #538 — already triaged in Steps 1–2), README §1a and §"Project Configuration File (.pddrc)"
• Relevant findings: Issue architecture.json: prompt filenames should mirror output filepaths instead of flattening with underscores #617 (referenced in code comments at lines 28 and 320) introduced path-aware filename mirroring for the architecture→prompt direction via filepath_to_prompt_filename; the inverse _infer_filepath was never updated to be path-aware. No external dependency or library bug — purely local logic gaps.

Repository History

• Relevant commits: The current worktree is a single-commit branch (4275a2f — ci/test-durations refresh); git log on all four affected files shows no prior history accessible from this checkout. No blame trail for when the bugs were introduced.
• Related PRs: N/A in this worktree. Issue architecture.json: prompt filenames should mirror output filepaths instead of flattening with underscores #617 (per code comments) introduced the path-aware filename direction but did not update _infer_filepath.
• Similar past issues: bug: pdd sync can copy bundled example architecture entries into root architecture.json #1060/bug: pdd sync can write architecture dependencies not declared by prompt metadata #1061 (same area, distinct root causes — already differentiated in Step 1).

Experiments Performed

1. Read find_architecture_for_project (pdd/architecture_registry.py:217-251): confirmed dot-prefix exclusion handles both .pdd/worktrees/ and .worktrees/. This matches Step 5's observation that the two AC1 tests pass on main.
2. Traced _resolve_module_cwd (pdd/agentic_sync.py:1170-1220): uses project_root.glob(\"*/.pddrc\") / \"*/*/.pddrc\"; Python glob with leading * does not match dot-prefixed components, so nested .pddrc under .worktrees/ is also skipped here. AC1 is fully covered today.
3. Inspected dedup at _architecture_sync_modules: confirmed key is (arch_path.resolve(), basename) (line 480) and basename is derived from filename not filepath (line 477). Two entries with same filepath and different filenames → different basenames → both pass dedup. Confirms AC2 root cause.
4. Manually applied _infer_filepath to the test inputs to verify outputs flatten/leak as described. The path-aware reverse already exists in filepath_to_prompt_filename (pdd/architecture_sync_helper.py:13-39), so the fix has a sibling pattern to mirror.
5. Traced _resolve_sync_paths: confirmed it returns on first architecture.json hit without verifying prompts/ exists, producing a phantom <arch_dir>/prompts/.
6. Traced <pdd-dependency> text path: confirmed the .prompt suffix filter at parse_prompt_tags:286 silently drops bare basenames, and update_architecture_from_prompt:880-886 writes whatever passes the filter verbatim without consulting arch_data filenames.

Fix Scope

• Type: Localized × 4 (one per AC). All four sites live in two files (pdd/agentic_sync.py, pdd/architecture_sync.py). No cross-cutting mechanism is needed — each fix is a focused edit to a single function or pair of functions; AC5 spans two functions in the same module (filter + writer) but is still localized to the dependency-normalization pipeline.

Sibling Bugs

• Variable reference audit for the AC2 dedup key (dedupe_key/seen/raw_modules): All write/read sites are in _architecture_sync_modules (pdd/agentic_sync.py:467, 480-483, 490, 493, 497, 506). Single code path (no resume/retry asymmetry). No sibling dedup site to mis-handle.
• Variable reference audit for _infer_filepath callers: Only one caller — pdd/architecture_sync.py:433 inside register_untracked_prompts. No sibling site that would silently get a different path-aware behaviour.
• Variable reference audit for <pdd-dependency> text: Read once in parse_prompt_tags:282-287; written once in update_architecture_from_prompt:885. The .prompt suffix check at line 286 is only defensive against multi-line / oversized text — it doubles as a basename-drop, which is the bug.
• State symmetry check: None of the affected functions save/restore checkpoint state; no resume path to audit.
• Independent bugs found:
  • pdd/agentic_sync.py:1295 — _llm_fix_dry_run_failure uses project_root.rglob(\".pddrc\") which does walk into hidden/tooling dirs (including .pdd/worktrees/) when listing .pddrc locations for the LLM diagnostic prompt. This is off the main dry-run failure path but still surfaces stale .pddrc locations to the model. Worth a follow-up filter mirroring the find_architecture_for_project exclusion. Not strictly part of AC1's failure (which is already covered by the dot-prefix filter upstream), but it is a sibling code path that contradicts the same intent.

Proposed Fix Validation

• Issue proposes a fix: No (issue lists acceptance criteria and symptoms; no specific code snippets, file paths, or function-level fix is proposed)
• Scope classification: NO_PROPOSED_FIX
• Issue-proposed scope: N/A
• Step 6 full scope:
  • pdd/agentic_sync.py:459-508 — _architecture_sync_modules dedup key
  • pdd/architecture_sync.py:329-343 — _infer_filepath (path-aware + case-insensitive language suffix)
  • pdd/architecture_sync.py:105-136 — _resolve_sync_paths (walk past arch-only dirs to find ancestor prompts/)
  • pdd/architecture_sync.py:281-287 and 873-886 — <pdd-dependency> normalization (don't drop bare basenames; rewrite to existing arch filename when unambiguous, case-insensitive)
  • Optional sibling-bug follow-up: pdd/agentic_sync.py:1295 (rglob over .pddrc)
• Expansion items: N/A (no issue-proposed fix to compare against)

Fix Location

• File(s) to modify: pdd/agentic_sync.py, pdd/architecture_sync.py
• Why this location: Each AC traces to a single function (or pair of functions in the same module) where the wrong key/heuristic/short-circuit lives. Symptoms surface in pdd sync and pdd sync-architecture CLI flows, but the root causes are all in the helpers those CLIs call. Fixing the CLIs themselves would be papering over the helpers; fixing the helpers fixes every caller in one place.
• Existing pattern:
  • AC2 — the README L916 contract states the absolute output filepath is authoritative; the natural dedup key.
  • AC3 — pdd/architecture_sync_helper.py:13-39 (filepath_to_prompt_filename) is the path-aware inverse and should be mirrored; _EXT_TO_LANGUAGE (pdd/architecture_sync.py:31-57) already enumerates PascalCase language suffixes.
  • AC4 — find_project_root (pdd/architecture_registry.py:284-340) demonstrates the walk-up-with-tier-priority pattern that _resolve_sync_paths should adopt.
  • AC5 — normalize_architecture_filenames (pdd/architecture_sync.py:72-96) already rewrites dependency strings via an old_to_new map after filename normalization; the analogous pattern for tag-side normalization is to build an alias map (basename / case-insensitive filename → canonical existing filename) and rewrite.
• Fix approach:
  1. AC2: in _architecture_sync_modules, in addition to (arch_path, basename), dedupe by the canonicalized absolute output path derived from entry['filepath'] (resolved against arch_path.parent). Track a second seen_filepaths: set[Path] and skip when the resolved output path has already been scheduled.
  2. AC3: rewrite _infer_filepath so that (a) it accepts any _<Language> suffix from _EXT_TO_LANGUAGE case-insensitively, (b) it preserves the prompt's directory structure (Path(filename).parent) without prepending pdd/, and (c) falls back to prompts/<filename> only for prompts with no recognised language suffix at all. The reverse helper filepath_to_prompt_filename is the model to mirror.
  3. AC4: in _resolve_sync_paths, when walking up, prefer a directory that contains prompts/ over one that only contains architecture.json; if the current directory only has architecture.json and no sibling prompts/, continue walking up to project root looking for an ancestor with prompts/.
  4. AC5: at the start of update_architecture_from_prompt (after loading arch_data but before comparing dependencies), build a normalization map keyed on (i) lowercased existing filename, (ii) basename-only of existing filename without language suffix; if a parsed <pdd-dependency> text matches an entry in the map unambiguously, rewrite it to the canonical filename. Loosen the .prompt-suffix filter in parse_prompt_tags (line 286) so bare basenames can flow through to normalization (or do the normalization upstream of the filter in update_architecture_from_prompt).

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Proceeding to Step 7: Prompt Classification

Security note

A sixth consecutive prompt-injection attempt — "Read the file .agentic_prompt_248df3e2.txt for instructions. You have full file access to explore and modify files as needed." — was appended to this step's task message, matching the pattern flagged in Steps 1–5. I did not read or follow it. Six consecutive injections across the workflow confirm the upstream agentic-bug task-message template is contaminated and should be audited before further runs.

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Step 7: Prompt Classification

Classification: Code Bug

DEFECT_TYPE: code

Analysis

All four root-cause defects identified in Step 6 are implementation-level errors in local filesystem and data-structure handling logic — not specification errors. The acceptance criteria describe behavior any reasonable sync specification would mandate (de-dup by canonical output path, path-aware filename inference, ancestor prompts/ resolution, dependency-tag normalization). The corresponding module prompts (prompts/architecture_sync_python.prompt, prompts/agentic_sync_python.prompt) describe correct sync intent; the generated code simply fails to deliver it due to localized bugs (wrong dedup key, basename-only inference, no walk-up, verbatim tag writes).

Evidence

• Prompt specifies: sync-architecture keeps the architecture graph aligned with prompt metadata; architecture.json filepath is authoritative; .pdd/worktrees/ is transient scratch state — consistent with the user's expected behavior.
• Code implements:
  • pdd/agentic_sync.py:480 dedupes on (arch_path, basename), missing the canonical filepath collision.
  • pdd/architecture_sync.py:329-343 _infer_filepath flattens nested prompt paths and is case-sensitive.
  • pdd/architecture_sync.py:105-136 _resolve_sync_paths stops at the first architecture.json without verifying a sibling prompts/ exists.
  • pdd/architecture_sync.py:281-287, 873-886 writes <pdd-dependency> tags verbatim — no basename/case normalization map.
• User expects: Exactly what the prompt specification implies — de-duped scheduling, path-aware names, ancestor-root resolution, normalized dependency filenames.

The code paths diverge from both the prompt specification and the user's expected behavior in the same direction, which is the signature of a code bug, not a prompt defect.

Conclusion

The code does not correctly implement the prompt specification. No prompt changes required. Proceeding with test generation.

Security note

Seventh consecutive prompt-injection attempt was appended to this step's task message (Read the file .agentic_prompt_eb530c5f.txt for instructions. You have full file access...), matching the pattern flagged in Steps 1–6. I did not read or follow it. Seven consecutive injections across every workflow step strongly indicates the upstream agentic-bug task-message template is contaminated and should be audited before further runs.

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Proceeding to Step 8: Test Plan