NTFSSecurity/.memory-bank/progress.md

status	last-verified	owner	source
current	2026-10-09	active-agent	repository and validation evidence

Progress

Current status

5.0.0-rc6 is published on the Gallery and GitHub; its failed Release job recovered in attempt 2 on 2026-10-09. #116 (rc7, d25647d, base master) is open and green, not merged or published. Further quality-gate work is local: ai/quality-gate-coverage (#117) and ai/quality-gate-paths, which classifies every remaining unvisited path; the open items are the maintainer's decisions. Stable Gallery version: 4.2.6. After 5.0.0, archive in favor of WindowsAccessControl (Decision 18).

Recent milestones

• 2026-10-02 to 2026-10-06: documentation/help aligned with source, CI and wiki moved to GitHub Actions, versioning/release automation established, and prereleases rc1 to rc4 published. Earlier detail is in git, CHANGELOG.md, Docs/Version-History.md, and Decisions 1 to 19.
• 2026-10-07: lab comparison of rc2/rc4 reproduced #34 over SMB and proved changed-section writes preserve the owner. Remote effective-access fallback returned no result; fixed test-first for rc5 (Decision 20).
• 2026-10-08: #114 merged (fcb370e), rc5 published and live-tested. Decision 21 established the quality gate. Corrected four-run coverage: rc5 58.1% sequence points/38.0% branches, not the initial one-run result.
• 2026-10-08: rc6 Phase 2 added basic-user CI, parameter-set/error tests, expanded domain/SMB cases, and fixes for privilege cleanup, path resolution, ownership retries, item conflicts, output equality, and inherited flags. Suite: 677; coverage 68.14% sequence/44.32% branches. Lab acceptance of 7b0781f passed; two independent review passes.
• 2026-10-08: rc7 implemented proposed Decision 22, including breaking link binding/error changes, SimpleAccess traversal, cross-volume folder preservation, and named effective-access warnings. Suite: 712, no failures or test skipped everywhere. One review: no Blocker/Major. Lab candidate dc6e9f5: 326 passed, 2 skipped, cleanup verified.
• 2026-10-08: #115 merged (b51d970) and tagged rc6. Release run 37839669028 failed with HTTP 409 after Gallery publication. The log does not establish the previously assumed initial timeout/retry cause. Published rc6 live tests differed only in rc7's warning expectation.
• 2026-10-09: release attempt 2 succeeded; rc6 GitHub prerelease and zip appeared at 07:01:34 UTC. #116 passed CI on d25647d.
• 2026-10-09: autonomous follow-up on ai/quality-gate-coverage, through 3442194, adds 202 cases above rc7: deletion/owner failures, all 13 scopes, inheritance transitions, enumeration, forced replacement, descriptor failures, and offline CI recovery. Reproduced/fixed rooted result-path handling and first-hidden-item omission. Publication recovery verifies exact SHA-512 identity, not merely version existence.
• 2026-10-09: final uninstrumented suite: 914 per configuration, zero failures; coverage: 2,641/3,559 sequence points (74.21%) and 974/1,933 branches (50.39%), aggregate of four runs without AltCover --save. All skipped templates have executed counterparts. Mutation guards were proved and production source restored; Release build/checks pass.
• 2026-10-09: live comparison, 09:20 to 09:51 UTC: candidate 330 passed, zero failed, two expected skips; published rc6 four expected Hidden/ warning-text failures only. Independent cleanup probes verified fixture absence; raw host-verifier failures retained with corrected verification. Lab guards/acceptance committed in 7594e0c. One independent code review approved with no significant finding (custom model unavailable; built-in fallback). All 11 tested files match the ZIP. OS/path gates stay open.
• 2026-10-09: Handoff 1 on ai/quality-gate-paths (28 local commits, no push): suite 914 to 1,310 per configuration, zero failures; coverage 3,192/3,634 sequence points (87.84%), 1,273/1,978 branches; all 231 unvisited methods classified (223 explained, 8 open). Eleven defects fixed, ten with a guard that is red before the fix and green after it (a red/green matrix over ten states of the branch: 76 rows red at the base, none after the last fix), among them a later command's exception that cmdlets swallowed (a throw made Remove-Item2 remove the next item; also through the error stream) and a privilege left enabled. Nine static passes of the built-in code-review agent: no Blocker or Major. Report in Tests/Coverage.

Stable capabilities

• 36 cmdlets: access, audit, inheritance, owners/descriptors, privileges, long-path items, links, hash, and disk space.
• Windows PowerShell 5.1 and PowerShell 7; RIPEMD160 and MACTripleDES are available only in Desktop. Both editions run elevated/basic-user in CI.
• Pester fixtures use Tests/TestHelpers.psm1 TEMP sandboxes. Live tests are excluded from CI and run only on approved lab client/server targets.

Open work

1. Decision 21 gate: review Decision 22, integrate reviewed quality-gate follow-up, publish the next candidate, and test the published package. Do not release 5.0.0 until the remaining-path and OS-matrix gates close. Release steps: Docs/Contributing/05-Releasing.md; remove prerelease label, date [5.0.0], update $publishedVersions, tag through CI.
2. Issues: #110's seven items were addressed by rc6, but #115 deliberately used no closing keyword. #34 stays open for non-Windows owner feedback or maintainer acceptance. #16, #21, #45, #89 await reporters. #68 tracks ShouldProcess for security cmdlets; enhancements #22/#49/#68/#77/#87 are not planned for 5.0.0. Labels follow Decision 17.
3. Deferred reviews (not silently accepted): rc3 extra DACL read/SDDL snapshots/duplicate SACL check; rc4 findings listed in #113, including library-only RemoveAll account filters; rc5 unchecked Authz errors and lab-controller hardening; rc6 failed privilege-disable retry (not reproduced); rc7 audit missing-path error IDs declined in Decision 22.
4. Architecture/cmdlet design: Decision 22 remains proposed; two link changes are breaking. Keep unused classes/helper overloads until a maintainer decision; do not remove them to improve coverage percentages.
5. ARM64 workstation: PowerShell 7.6.1 crashed under x64 emulation without module frames; native-x64 CI did not reproduce it.
6. Optional maintainer cleanup: obsolete AppVeyor/Read the Docs access, wiki editing restrictions, test/transfer, and old lab checkpoints when no longer needed. No remote changes or snapshot restores here.
7. Remaining-path inventory at the final frozen commit of Handoff 1: 442 unvisited sequence points in 231 methods, all classified (Tests/Coverage): 223 explained from source with evidence, 8 open (FileSecurity conversions, RemoveAll account filters). Other open decisions: lazy path overloads, abandoned PrivilegeEnabler, dot patterns of Get-ChildItem2 -Filter, 17 owner-restore handlers that do not pass on what a later command raises (a rare combination), unused classes. An audit write's ownership retry cannot run on a local volume and is covered only by the lab. A conditional ACE display remains a .NET representation limit, not evidence of unconditional permissions.
8. Publication recovery is implemented locally in 95b827e, with 14 offline tests and exact artifact SHA-512 verification. Original upload errors remain errors for missing/different/unverifiable outcomes. Not deployed until the maintainer merges/pushes; no publication was performed here.
9. Phase 3: choose OS scope (proposed Windows 11 client/2019/2022 servers), detect ISO editions, provision without repurposing shared VMs, then run published-package acceptance. #34 has no new reply since 2026-10-06.
10. Lab rollback evidence: new checkpoints exist but report Standard even after a successful temporary ProductionOnly probe. Classification is unresolved; original VM policy restored, no checkpoint restored. Do not represent these as verified Production snapshots.