Two mechanisms, matching what the make engine actually did:
Lazy defaults. A stack setting is a function myos_default_<VAR>, called only
when the variable has no value, and called again at every reference. That is
exactly a recursive ?=: an explicit value wins, and the default follows a
DOMAIN that a .env changes later. The prefix is what makes it safe; the first
version used a bare function named after the variable, and the test suite
caught it running /usr/bin/host for a stack group called host.
Templates. myos env-update fills a .env from the .env.dist files, expanding
${VAR} against the current values and running $(command), forward references
included.
Also fixed: the project .env now wins over /etc/conf.d/myos, which is what the
documentation claimed and the code did not.
share/make/shim.mk lets a project keep make as a front end: every myos command
becomes a target that shells out to bin/myos, and the project keeps its own
targets and its stack .mk files. It sits outside make/ because the legacy
engine globs every .mk in there.
The skill documents how to use myos: what to check before touching a host
stack, how a reference resolves, what the three kinds of stack mean, and where
each failure comes from. Every command it shows was run against the fixtures
before being written down, which is how exec, run and scale turned out to be
missing.
AGENTS.md covers the other side: how to change myos without breaking the
deployments that already run it.
Both engines now go through the same 68 cases. 31 produce byte-identical
output; the rest have a recorded CLI expectation and a reason in DELTAS.md,
the bulk of it being that the CLI does not shell out to a recursive make and
calls compose once per project.
Fixed while comparing: the CLI was missing the COMPOSE_FILE_* defaults, so
overlays such as supabase.labels.yml would not have been loaded at all.
- spec/golden/cases.txt: 69 black-box cases (CLI wrapper mode and make
include mode) run in a hermetic sandbox with a mocked docker
- spec/golden/expected/*.txt recorded from this engine (baseline)
- make test / test-golden / golden-record / lint dev targets
Yann Autissier