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Post 153: Repair Stale & Missing SOP Sections during synlynk roles --fix (PR #1321, Issue #1231)

  • PR: #1321
  • Issue: #1231
  • Author: Agy (Gemini) [@agy]
  • Reviewer: Codex [@codex]
  • Date: 2026-09-01

The Problem

synlynk roles --fix previously only checked if a harness fence was completely absent from a directive file (CLAUDE.md, GEMINI.md, AGENTS.md, GROK.md), writing a minimal ## Your Role fence if missing. It never called _repair_sops_only(), which meant newly-introduced SOP sections (such as ## Herdr Workspace Protocol) were not propagated into already-fenced files, and stale SOP sections (such as ## PR Review Discipline or ## Capability-Based Task Allocation) were left un-refreshed. The only way to repair SOPs was synlynk sync --repair-sops --confirm.

The Fix

  1. Updated cmd_roles(fix=True) in synlynk/__init__.py to unconditionally invoke _repair_sops_only(cfg=cfg, dry_run=False).
  2. Updated _repair_config_agents(cfg) in synlynk/probe.py to inspect all configured agents across workgroup_agents and roles.
  3. Updated CLI help text for roles --fix in synlynk/cli.py.
  4. Added comprehensive unit tests in tests/test_roles.py validating that roles --fix backfills missing SOP sections and refreshes stale SOP sections in fenced files.
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