Two changes: a silent no-op I shipped last week, and 1,012 lines that
stopped working six months ago without anything going red.
What the test asserted
33 assertions
"exists and is executable" · "produces output" ·
"runs without crash". It checked the files were on disk. It never
checked they did anything.
What was actually true
0 users
Base directory absent. Registry empty since 2026-01-24.
Zero of 13 real worktrees created by it. The test stayed green
through all of it.
Evidence
Finding
Verdict
References outside its own test
0, across every file type
dead
Base dir ~/worktrees
does not exist
dead
Real worktrees created by it
0 of 13
dead
registry.json
0 instances, unchanged 6 months
dead
Last real edit
2026-01-23, collateral in a TS sweep
dead
.claude/coordination/ otherwise
used by pre-push and hooks
kept
The other half of this PR. Pick where the reclaim script looks for its list:
The shared lesson: both defects were invisible because the failing path
reported success. The CLI's test passed on a tool nobody could use; the
reclaim script printed a tidy summary having done nothing. Exit 0 is not
evidence that something ran.