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Magellan Pilot — magellan-backups v1.0.0 (Sonnet manager+planner, Haiku testers, playwright-cli-headless) 2026-04-30

Magellan Pilot Report — magellan-backups v1.0.0

Run ID: 2026-04-30T16-07-43_magellan-backups Date: 2026-04-30 Duration: 31m 26s (16:07:43Z → 16:39:09Z) Model stack: Manager Sonnet 4.6 · Planner Sonnet 4.6 · Testers Haiku 4.5 · Meta-reviewer Sonnet 4.6 Browser driver: playwright-cli-headless Plugin: Magellan Backups v1.0.0 (local, blind greybox — ISSUES.md stripped) Phase 1.5 static analysis: skipped (no source_path)


PQIP Summary

Category Count
Problems 17
Questions 3
Improvements 17
Praises 8

Severity breakdown

Severity Count
Critical 3
Major 11
Minor 3
Trivial 0

Problems (all 17)

CRITICAL

# Title Session
P01 Backup ZIP files are publicly accessible without authentication — information disclosure of password hashes and database backup-artifact-andlist
P02 Full Backup ZIP excludes wp-content/uploads/ — inconsistency with "Full Backup" label claim backup-artifact-andlist
P03 Schedule cron event fires regardless of Enable toggle state — always registered on activation schedule-settings-cluster

MAJOR

# Title Session
P04 Backup filename uses minute-precision timestamp — collision when two backups triggered in same minute backup-artifact-andlist
P05 Backup creation loads entire database tables into PHP memory without LIMIT — guaranteed OOM on large databases backup-artifact-andlist
P06 Backup directory not cleaned up on plugin deactivation — sensitive backup files left on disk indefinitely backup-artifact-andlist
P07 Progress bar hardcoded to 100% — misleading UI indicates backup is complete before it starts backup-artifact-andlist
P08 No confirmation dialog on upload-and-restore flow restore-destructive-cluster
P09 No pre-restore snapshot created before site overwrite restore-destructive-cluster
P10 Users export includes password hashes — information disclosure vulnerability selective-export-artifact-cluster
P11 Options export includes WordPress security keys — information disclosure selective-export-artifact-cluster
P12 Export uses unbounded SELECT * without LIMIT — scale-sensitive memory exhaustion vulnerability selective-export-artifact-cluster
P13 Schedule email setting silently lost due to option-key name mismatch (magellan_backups_email written, magellan_backup_email read) supplement-schedule-cron
P14 Cron event registered unconditionally on plugin activation (confirmed by supplementary session) supplement-schedule-cron

MINOR

# Title Session
P15 No persistent mode indicator on non-schedule tabs when schedule is enabled schedule-settings-cluster
P16 No server-side MIME-type validation on uploaded backup file restore-destructive-cluster
P17 Schedule plugin deactivation does not clean up schedule option keys schedule-settings-cluster

Session Coverage

Session Charter type Priority Status Duration Tokens Problems
backup-artifact-andlist andlist critical complete 301s 106,315 6
delete-destructive-andlist andlist high complete 340s 79,549 0
restore-destructive-cluster hypothesis-cluster high complete 374s 86,550 3
schedule-settings-cluster hypothesis-cluster high complete 317s 89,405 3
selective-export-artifact-cluster hypothesis-cluster high complete 233s 92,439 3
supplement-schedule-cron hypothesis-cluster (supplementary) high complete 323s 67,869 2
concurrent-trigger-cross-feature cross-feature medium pending
breadth-tour breadth medium pending

Recon (haiku, headless): 6 turns / 80,293 tokens · recon.md written, primary write-path verified N (backup creation broken on recon site — environment-specific; contradicted by fresh-site probe in backup-artifact-andlist)


Phase-by-phase flow

Phase What ran Duration (approx) Cost
0 — dep check check-deps.sh <1s
1 — mission intake + run dir Local <5s
2 — recon Haiku tester (background) ~2m $0.53
3 — charter generation Sonnet planner ~7m $1.96
3 — recon→charter validation validate-recon-handoff.mjs <1s
3 — charter render generate-charter-files.mjs <1s
3.5 — write-path gate Manager override (all depends_on_primary_write → false)
4 — wave dispatch (5 testers, parallel) Haiku testers ~7m $3.71
5 — aggregation capture-run-tokens + aggregate-reports <10s
5.4 — meta-review Sonnet general-purpose ~5m $1.31
4 (supp) — supplementary tester Haiku tester ~5m $0.57
5 — re-aggregation Scripts <10s
5.5 — escape analysis Sonnet general-purpose (classifier) ~2m included in manager
Total ~31m 26s $13.09

Token Consumption & Cost

Total cost: $13.09

By role

Role Model Messages Output tokens Cache-create (5m) Cache-read Cost
Manager (main conversation) Sonnet 4.6 93 65,362 0 5,969,461 $4.47
Planner (charter gen) Sonnet 4.6 20 22,944 373,751 562,794 $1.96
Testers × 6 (haiku) Haiku 4.5 553 114,308 1,005,817 35,135,359 $5.34
Meta-reviewer Sonnet 4.6 45 14,291 126,496 2,063,360 $1.31
Recon scout Haiku 4.5 53 6,995 156,039 3,023,044 $0.53
Escape analysis Sonnet 4.6 included in meta
Total 764 223,900 1,662,103 46,754,257 $13.09

By cost category

Category Cost %
Fresh input tokens $0.05 0.4%
Output tokens $2.11 16.1%
Cache-create 5min $3.13 23.9%
Cache-create 1hr $1.70 13.0%
Cache-read $6.09 46.5%

Cache-read dominates at 46.5% — 47M+ tokens read from cache across 9 subagents, confirming the cache-sharing efficiency of the Haiku tester wave.


Escape Analysis — 8/10 Recall (80%)

Answer key: tests/plugins/magellan-backups/ISSUES.md (10 planted issues)

# Issue Verdict Session
1 Progress bar always shows 100% caught-exact backup-artifact-andlist
2 Schedule time format mismatch (24h→12h→00:00) missed
3 Notification email key mismatch caught-exact supplement-schedule-cron
4 User export includes hashed passwords caught-exact selective-export-artifact-cluster
5 wp-content/uploads/ missing from backup caught-exact backup-artifact-andlist
6 No pre-restore backup caught-exact restore-destructive-cluster
7 Backups publicly accessible via URL caught-exact backup-artifact-andlist
8 Corrupt restore truncates database tables missed
9 Large database OOM (unbounded SELECT *) caught-exact backup-artifact-andlist + selective-export-artifact-cluster (both)
10 Concurrent backups corrupt zip (minute-precision filename) caught-exact backup-artifact-andlist

Miss 1 — Issue 2: Schedule time format mismatch

Root cause: Seed-data masks defaults. SC1 roundtrip probe used Time=09:00 — safe in both 12h and 24h formats. The 24h→12h conversion bug only fires for values ≥13:00. Morning seed value masked the defect entirely.

Proposed amendment (skills/tester-mindset-forms/SKILL.md):

Time-format boundary probe — When a form contains a time picker or dropdown, the roundtrip MUST exercise at least one value ≥ 13:00. Morning values (00:00–12:00) are safe in both formats and will not detect 24h→12h conversion bugs.

Miss 2 — Issue 8: Corrupt restore truncates database tables

Root cause: Absence-of-feature blind spot. Restore charter probed upload safety (R3 MIME, R4 zip-slip) but never constructed the critical boundary artifact: a valid zip with a truncated SQL file that causes DROP TABLE to fire without the subsequent CREATE TABLE completing.

Proposed amendment (skills/tester-mindset-andlist-destructive/SKILL.md):

b5 — Import atomicity / partial-failure state — For any operation that issues destructive SQL (DROP TABLE, DELETE FROM, TRUNCATE) as part of an import, probe the partial-failure boundary: craft a structurally valid but truncated input. Verify the system state after failure — original data intact (transaction-wrapped), or clear recovery path.

Both miss classes are first occurrences.


Meta-review Findings (pre-escape-analysis)

2 high-severity gaps, 4 low-severity gaps — one supplementary Tester dispatched, closing both high-severity gaps:

Gap Severity Resolution
SC2 vs a5 contradiction: cron registers before or after Enable+Save? HIGH Supplementary tester confirmed: cron always registers on activation
SC1 missing magellan_* prefix search (Pilot 18 miss class) HIGH Supplementary tester found real bug: email key mismatch → P13
Toggle-state-leak probe silently dropped LOW Noted, not re-dispatched
Uninstall path not probed LOW Noted, not re-dispatched
Export tab missing from mode-toggle surface tour LOW Noted
Coverage-note literal format non-compliance (paraphrased strings) LOW Amendment proposed for future runs

Notable highlights

  • Issue 9 (OOM / unbounded SELECT) caught independently by two sessions (backup-artifact-andlist a7 + selective-export-artifact-cluster SE4), confirming the c2 scale-pattern rule fires across code surfaces.
  • Email key mismatch (Issue 3) found only because the supplementary Tester explicitly searched the magellan_* prefix — the initial wave's SC1 probe only confirmed mb_* keys. This was the Pilot 18 miss class; meta-review caught the gap.
  • Recon S1 (backup creation broken) was environment-specific on the recon site; backup-artifact-andlist on a fresh instance proved backup creation works — demonstrating the value of per-charter site isolation.
  • Delete flow (0 problems) — nonce validation, path-traversal sanitization, and capability checks all passed empirically. Clean surface.

Pending coverage

2 charters not dispatched (medium priority, skipped per wave policy):

  • concurrent-trigger-cross-feature — manual-trigger × cron-trigger collision
  • breadth-tour — full-surface breadth pass

Resume: magellan resume 2026-04-30T16-07-43_magellan-backups

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