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Summary

Verified the new syntax against gc session peek --help:

Flags:
  -h, --help        help for peek
      --lines int   number of lines to capture (default 50)

Testing

  • ~/cities/test-series/bin/lint-pack ~/wrk/gascity/examples/gastown/ --check command-syntax — 6 errors before fix, 5 after; the witness:188 violation is the one removed. Remaining 5 are covered by other open PRs (fix(packs): replace removed gc agent peek/list/drain in templates #1743 fixes the gc agent peek/list/drain errors at boot:39/49 and mayor:205) or other open beads (the boot:55 gc mail inbox --address/--json flag errors are tracked separately).
  • make lint — 0 issues.
  • make vet — clean.
  • go test ./examples/gastown/... — only the pre-existing TestReaperScopesIssueAutoCloseToCityBeadsDir failure (documented in the EXPECT-FAIL list below; not caused by this change — it's a /var → /private/var symlink resolution issue fixed by open PR fix(test): canonicalize cityDir to make reaper scope test pass on macOS #1759).
  • make check — full suite not run. The change is a prose-only one-line edit to a pack prompt template; no Go code is exercised by the diff. lint-pack is the static check that covers the surface of this change, and go test ./examples/gastown/... exercises the embedding/loading path.
  • make check-docs — not applicable (no docs/ changes).
  • make test-integration — not run (per cities CLAUDE.md, deferred while the suite times out without saving partial output).

Pre-existing macOS test failures (per bd list --label=expect-fail --status=open,in_progress in cities):

Committed with --no-verify because the macOS pre-commit hook is currently blocked by these pre-existing failures until #1729 lands.

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Same bug class as gastownhall#1743 (boot), gastownhall#1744 (deacon), gastownhall#1753 (dog): `gc session
peek` takes one positional and the line-count is now a flag, not a second
positional. Without `--lines`, runtime fails with `accepts 1 arg(s),
received 2`. Surfaced by the pack-aware command-syntax linter.

Filed separately because the witness agent's prompt template was missed
when the boot/deacon/dog fixes went out — neither bundled into those PRs
nor pre-emptively listed anywhere; only caught when the linter ran
against examples/gastown/ on main.

--no-verify used because the macOS pre-commit hook is currently blocked
by pre-existing test failures (see TRACK-PR gastownhall#1729). `make lint` and
`make vet` were run separately and pass clean.

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@eric-jones eric-jones requested a review from julianknutsen as a code owner May 6, 2026 23:43
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… (boot) (#1769)

## Summary

- Replace the broken pipeline `gc mail inbox --address=deacon --json
2>/dev/null | jq length` with `gc mail count deacon 2>/dev/null` in
`examples/gastown/packs/gastown/agents/boot/prompt.template.md` line 55.
- `gc mail inbox` accepts `[session]` as a positional and has no
`--json` flag — the original line failed at runtime with two flag errors
(`--address` not recognized, `--json` not recognized). The intent (count
deacon's unread mail to triage idle state) is exactly what `gc mail
count [session]` reports directly.
- No new API surface — `gc mail count` is already part of the documented
`gc mail` command set; this is a swap from the broken inbox-pipeline
pattern to the count subcommand that exists for this purpose.

Verified via `--help`:
```
$ gc mail count --help
Show total and unread message counts for a session alias or human.
The recipient defaults to $GC_SESSION_ID, $GC_ALIAS, $GC_AGENT, or "human".
Usage:
  gc mail count [session] [flags]
```

## Testing

- [x] `~/cities/test-series/bin/lint-pack
~/wrk/gascity/examples/gastown/ --check command-syntax` — boot:55's two
violations (one for each invalid flag) are removed by this change.
Remaining errors on main are covered by other open PRs (#1743 fixes `gc
agent peek/list/drain` at boot:39/49 and mayor:205; #1768 fixes the
witness `gc session peek` positional at witness:188).
- [x] `make lint` — 0 issues.
- [x] `make vet` — clean.
- [x] `go test ./examples/gastown/...` — only the pre-existing
`TestReaperScopesIssueAutoCloseToCityBeadsDir` failure (documented in
the EXPECT-FAIL list below; not caused by this change — fixed by open PR
#1759).
- [ ] `make check` — full suite not run. Prose-only one-line edit to a
pack prompt template; no Go code is exercised by the diff. lint-pack is
the static check covering this surface.
- [ ] `make check-docs` — not applicable.
- [ ] `make test-integration` — not run (per cities CLAUDE.md, deferred
while the suite times out without saving partial output).

**Pre-existing macOS test failures** (per `bd list --label=expect-fail
--status=open,in_progress` in cities):

- `TestBuiltinDoltDoctorBoundsVersionProbe` — fixed by #1729
- `TestBuiltinDoltDoctorReportsTimedOutVersionProbe` — fixed by #1729
- `TestExecCommandRunnerTimeoutKillsChildProcess` — fixed by #1729
- `TestReaperScopesIssueAutoCloseToCityBeadsDir` — fixed by #1759
- `TestCityRuntimeManualReloadPanicAfterReloadKeepsReloadReplyAndClears`
— fixed by #1741
- `TestStartLongSocketPathUsesShortSocketName` — no fix-PR yet (flakes
under make check parallel load on macOS)

Committed with `--no-verify` because the macOS pre-commit hook is
currently blocked by these pre-existing failures until #1729 lands.

## Checklist

- [x] Linked an issue, or explained why one is not needed — internal
bead `stg-xin` (cities)
- [ ] Added or updated tests for behavior changes — not applicable
(one-line prompt-template fix; no Go behavior changed; the static
lint-pack check catches this bug class)
- [x] Updated docs for user-facing changes — the prompt template *is*
the user-facing artifact
- [ ] Called out breaking changes or migration notes — none (the broken
syntax was already failing at runtime)

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