---
id: "bug-1856"
status: "wontfix"
status_updated: "2026-10-02"
status_note: "upstream OpenWolf defect; mitigated durably by auto_detect=false (kept by openwolf update) and the pre-commit stale-index check; fix belongs in OpenWolf"
component: "unknown"
severity: "unknown"
timestamp: "2026-09-24T09:39:50Z"
last_seen: "2026-09-24T09:39:50Z"
occurrences: 1
files: [".wolf/hooks/post-write.js", ".wolf/config.json"]
tags: ["openwolf", "buglog", "upstream"]
related: ["bug-1630"]
legacy: true
gitea_issue: 89
gitea_synced_status: "wontfix"
gitea_synced_hash: "7cb91d8459cb"
---

# bug-1856: OpenWolf post-write hook numbers auto-detected bugs bug-<count+1>, duplicating ids in a sparse buglog

## Description
OpenWolf 2.5.0 post-write hook would create a duplicate bug id: autoDetectBugFix numbers new entries bug-<len(bugs)+1> (next: bug-1194), but ids run to bug-1854 and bug-1194 already exists

## Environment
_Not recorded (migrated from buglog.json)._

## Reproduction
_Not recorded (migrated from buglog.json)._

## Root cause
Upstream OpenWolf hook (.wolf/hooks/post-write.js autoDetectBugFix, nextId = bugLog.bugs.length + 1) assumes ids are dense and never renumbered; this buglog's ids are sparse after renumbering/consolidation (see bug-1630). The hook also never sets the project's status field.

## Fix
Not fixed here -- upstream defect, closed wontfix 2026-10-02 (user decision). Reviewed against OpenWolf 2.5.0 (nix `openwolf-2.5.0`, built from the npm tarball): `.wolf/hooks/post-write.js` `autoDetectBugFix()` still numbers new entries `bug-<bugs.length + 1>` (line 337) and appends them straight to `buglog.json`. This repo's copy is the package's file unchanged (only a trailing source-map comment differs), and `openwolf update` (`dist/src/cli/update.js`, `copyHookScripts`) overwrites `.wolf/hooks` on every update, so a local patch would be silently reverted.

Mitigation, durable in this repo:
- `.wolf/config.json` `openwolf.buglog.auto_detect: false` -- `autoDetectBugFix()` returns before touching the log (`bugAutoDetectEnabled()`); `openwolf update` only adds missing config keys (`mergeConfigDefaults`), never overwrites this one.
- bug records are `.wolf/bugs/<id>.md`, created only by `scripts/buglog.py new`; `buglog.json` is a generated index, and the pre-commit hook rejects a stale index ("buglog.json is stale: run `python3 scripts/buglog.py index`", seen 2026-10-01), so any entry a hook did append would be caught before commit.
The fix belongs in OpenWolf: derive the next id from the highest existing id (or let the project own numbering) and leave status to the project.

## Verification
- Test: n/a (no code change); reviewed `post-write.js` lines 290-350 and `update.js` 2026-10-02 against the installed 2.5.0 package
- Suites: n/a
- Live: `auto_detect: false` present in `.wolf/config.json`; of the 537 records, 3 carry the `auto-detected` tag (bug-1462, bug-1463 from 2026-07-23; bug-1841 from 2026-09-22) -- all real, fixed records with unique ids, no duplicate id among them

## References
- Related: bug-1630
- Gitea: #89