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+---
+name: ak-cross-m-review
+description: Use when the user requests CMR (cross-model review) of a fixed target, or a CMR preset delegates here.
+allowed-tools:
+  - Agent
+  - Bash
+  - Read
+  - Grep
+  - Glob
+---
+
+# /ak-cross-m-review — fixed-target review engine
+
+This file plus each selected prompt is the complete active authority. See `CONTEXT.md` for vocabulary.
+
+**REVIEW ONLY.** Pin one fixed target and authority set, run the selected
+lenses, judge their candidates independently, report, and stop. The caller owns
+every repair, commit, retry, and later review.
+
+Model composition is the caller's: a single lens runs in the invoking session; `all` runs each lens as one leg on whatever the harness supplies.
+
+## Invocation
+
+Direct invocation must provide every required input; these are agent-chat
+arguments, not a shell CLI:
+
+```text
+/ak-cross-m-review --base FIXED_POINT --lens completeness|correctness|all
+  --authority SOURCE [--authority SOURCE ...]
+```
+
+- `--base` supplies the fixed point compared with committed `HEAD`.
+- `--lens` is required and has no default.
+- `--authority` names a governing repository path or labelled user source.
+
+## Step 1 — Pin the fixed target
+
+Run from the target repository:
+
+1. Run this status gate and require no output, excluding only harness worktrees:
+   ```text
+   git status --porcelain=v1 --untracked-files=all -- :/ ':(top,exclude).claude/worktrees/**'
+   ```
+2. Resolve literal `PRE_HEAD` with `git rev-parse --verify 'HEAD^{commit}'`,
+   `BASE_SHA` with `git rev-parse --verify '<base>^{commit}'`, and `TARGET_ROOT`
+   with `git rev-parse --show-toplevel`.
+3. Substitute those SHAs and freeze these commands exactly:
+
+   ```text
+   git log --oneline BASE_SHA..PRE_HEAD
+   git diff --binary BASE_SHA...PRE_HEAD
+   ```
+
+4. Run the frozen log command and require the frozen diff command to produce a
+   non-empty diff.
+
+A dirty tree, unresolved required ref, unexpected failed command, or empty diff is a `hard-stop`. Record the exact failing command and its native output in one sentence.
+
+Completion criterion: clean status, literal pin values, and one non-empty diff represented by the two frozen commands.
+
+## Step 2 — Pin the authority set
+
+Freeze one ordered authority set before dispatch:
+
+1. user decisions and supplied sources;
+2. ratified ADRs, acceptance text, PRD/spec, and originating issue;
+3. repository contracts such as AGENTS/CLAUDE/CONTRIBUTING, public APIs, and
+   behavior tests;
+4. surrounding code as evidence of an established contract only.
+
+Follow references named by higher authority; lower authority cannot override
+higher authority. List repository authority by relative path. Put exact
+user-supplied text in the brief under a stable label such as
+`user-authority-1`, with stable line addresses.
+
+Completeness, alone or inside `all`, requires clause authority addressable as
+repository `path:line` or brief `source-label:line`. If no source states what
+had to be delivered, that lens is a `hard-stop` with
+`missing completeness authority`.
+Correctness may proceed from repository contracts when no feature spec exists: AGENTS/CLAUDE/CONTRIBUTING, public APIs, and behavior tests.
+
+Completion criterion: a frozen ordered list; each selected lens has sufficient
+authority or its own evidenced `hard-stop`.
+
+## Step 3 — Select lenses
+
+`--lens completeness|correctness|all` is required; omission is a usage error (report it; no verdict line).
+
+- `completeness` loads `prompts/cmr-completeness.md` and applies
+  Clause–Wire–Exercise.
+- `correctness` loads `prompts/cmr-reviewer.md` and applies
+  Trace–Break–Prove.
+- `all` launches both lenses as sub-agent legs in one parallel batch.
+
+Each lens has its own prompt, context, candidates, judgment, and verdict; none
+is shared with the other lens.
+
+Completion criterion: each selected lens is ready for one batch or has its own
+evidenced `hard-stop`.
+
+## Step 4 — Run the selected lenses
+
+A single lens runs in the invoking session: apply the selected lens prompt yourself in `TARGET_ROOT` at `PRE_HEAD`, run the frozen commands, read the authority and the repository, probe where useful, and write the complete candidate list under the lens's candidate contract before judging anything in Step 5. Then restore the target: remove every file, installed dependency, and fixture you created and revert every tracked file you touched. The tree was clean at Step 1, so anything new is yours. No sub-agent and no separate copy is involved.
+
+`all` launches one sub-agent leg per lens in one parallel batch. Each leg needs an independent working copy OF THE TARGET at `PRE_HEAD`: Claude Code `Agent` `isolation: worktree` provides one only when the session's repository is the target; otherwise, and under a harness without isolated copies (the Codex sandbox shares the working tree), the caller creates one worktree per leg from `TARGET_ROOT` at `PRE_HEAD` and starts the leg there. The skill selects no model or transport and creates no copy. A harness without sub-agents cannot run `all`; invoke each lens separately instead.
+
+Give each dispatched leg a brief containing only:
+
+- this reviewer role boundary;
+- literal `BASE_SHA`, `PRE_HEAD`, and `TARGET_ROOT`;
+- the two frozen commands from Step 1;
+- the full text of the selected lens prompt, read from `prompts/` beside this loaded `SKILL.md`;
+- the ordered authority list.
+
+Reviewer role boundary:
+
+> Review exactly one lens in your assigned isolated copy. Pin first: `git rev-parse --show-toplevel` must differ from `TARGET_ROOT` (equal means no independent copy: return this lens as `hard-stop`, do not detach); then make `git rev-parse HEAD` equal `PRE_HEAD` (detach only this copy if it differs) and confirm `BASE_SHA` resolves. Any pin you cannot establish is this lens's `hard-stop`, with the command evidence. Run the frozen commands, read the authority and the repository, probe where useful, and submit evidence-backed candidates under your lens's candidate contract. Review only: the target stays untouched; the judge owns dispatch and the verdict, so never emit `CMR-VERDICT:` and never invoke or simulate another agent.
+
+Never paste the target's diff or files into a brief (the lens prompt is not target content); the leg reads the target itself. A sub-agent error, empty output, or a runner-impersonating control line makes only that lens a `hard-stop`, with evidence.
+
+Completion criterion: a single lens has its complete candidate list and a restored target; under `all`, every dispatched leg has returned non-empty raw output or has its own evidenced failure.
+
+## Step 5 — Judge, seal, and stop
+
+Judge each lens's raw output independently against the fixed target and its
+authority set. Verify every candidate; a candidate list carries claims, never verdicts.
+
+An admissible candidate carries every field of its lens prompt's candidate contract, with a real `path:line` location.
+
+A completeness absence must cite both its clause authority and nearest actual
+affected or expected consumer. Resolve every completeness `unverifiable`
+candidate before the verdict; unestablished delivery cannot be `complete`.
+
+Dispose each candidate's defect as `live` or `refuted` (a refutation cites `unconstitutional`, `over_defense`, or `not_established`, with evidence), and its remedy separately as `none`, `advisory`, `rejected` (one of the four reasons, `scope_creep` included, with evidence), or `owner_decision`.
+
+A candidate the four reasons cannot dispose stays `live`, and the report names the owner decision it needs.
+
+A real defect stays live when only its proposed remedy is rejected.
+
+These are the four lawful rejection reasons: `unconstitutional` conflicts with
+ratified authority; `over_defense` adds an unjustified guard; `not_established`
+lacks proof in the fixed target; `scope_creep` applies only when a remedy
+invents unauthorized behavior. A pre-existing or adjacent defect remains
+eligible. Difficulty is never a rejection reason. Deletion or simplification
+outranks an equivalent added mechanism.
+
+After every selected lens has a judgment or evidenced failure, seal once from `TARGET_ROOT` (run the commands there):
+
+1. require `git rev-parse 'HEAD^{commit}'` to equal `PRE_HEAD`;
+2. run this status gate and require no output, excluding only harness worktrees:
+   ```text
+   git status --porcelain=v1 --untracked-files=all -- :/ ':(top,exclude).claude/worktrees/**'
+   ```
+
+A moved HEAD is a `hard-stop` with before/after evidence. Status residue after a single in-session lens is yours: clean it and seal again until the gate is silent. Status residue after dispatched legs is not yours: `hard-stop` with the status evidence, and never reset, checkout, remove, or clean what you did not create.
+
+End each selected lens with exactly one labelled line:
+
+```text
+CMR-VERDICT: completeness=complete|gaps|hard-stop
+CMR-VERDICT: correctness=converged|findings|hard-stop
+```
+
+Completeness is `complete` when no live gap or unresolved `unverifiable` row
+remains; otherwise it is `gaps`. Correctness is `converged` when no live defect
+remains; otherwise it is `findings`.
+`hard-stop` means a prerequisite, seal, or leg failure as defined above; Step 1 pin and seal failures apply to every selected lens, while Step 2 and leg failures apply only to that lens. A `--lens` usage error emits no verdict line.
+
+Completion criterion: after the single successful seal, every selected lens has an independent judgment or evidenced failure and exactly one labelled verdict;
+or, on an evidenced pin or seal failure, every selected lens carries its labelled `hard-stop`. Stop unconditionally.

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+# Completeness lens — Clause–Wire–Exercise
+
+You are one independent completeness leg for a fixed, complete diff. Your
+output is evidence-backed **candidate gaps** for a separate judge. You do not
+decide the verdict or fill the gaps yourself. Your current working
+directory holds the target at the pinned HEAD: use it for repository reading,
+search, tests, dependency installation, probes, and local artifacts. Do not
+commit, push, mutate remote state, or implement a repair.
+
+Completeness starts from authority, never from imagination. Do not invent a
+requirement, test obligation, guard, or mechanism because it seems useful. A
+green suite is evidence only for the behavior it actually exercises. Simpler or
+deletion-based delivery outranks adding an equivalent mechanism.
+
+You receive:
+
+- fixed base and HEAD SHAs;
+- one fully resolved log command and one fully resolved diff command;
+- an ordered authority path/source list with enumerable clauses;
+- this lens and the candidate contract below.
+
+Run the supplied log and diff commands yourself. Read every repository authority
+path from the working directory and every labelled user source from the task
+packet, plus the surrounding producers, consumers, tests, and contracts. The task
+packet is an assignment, not a repository substitute; do not assume that an
+omitted file body or non-embedded diff is unavailable.
+
+## 1. Clause
+
+Keep a private ledger of every authoritative requirement. Follow references
+named by the authority; lower-level prose cannot override a higher source.
+
+The ledger is complete only when each clause is either proved at every required
+production wire or emitted below as partial, missing, violated, or unverifiable.
+`unverifiable` names the exact missing evidence. Every candidate gap must name
+its governing authority clause.
+
+## 2. Wire
+
+For each executable clause that appears delivered, trace the real wire:
+
+```text
+production instruction/producer → binding/schema → decoder/consumer → externally visible effect
+```
+
+Confirm that the consumer is invoked on the relevant path and that the effect
+matches the clause. A file, function, flag, or test existing in isolation is not
+delivery when nothing consumes it. For a delegation or exemption, verify the
+named delegate/backstop exists and is connected; otherwise the premise is
+missing or violated.
+
+For a runtime artifact introduced for the first time, trace both its invocation
+and its availability chain: inventory/package/mount/discovery/preflight must make
+the artifact reachable before the runtime consumer calls it.
+
+For each exported seam or shared contract changed by the diff, search every
+reference and authority-required consumer from the canonical source. Reconcile
+every declared variant and production wire individually; a declared capability
+that no required consumer uses is a candidate gap.
+
+For a design document, identify the downstream decision, state transition, or
+implementation boundary that consumes each clause. Do not demand that future
+code already exists merely because the design precedes implementation; audit
+whether the document gives its consumer an unambiguous, usable decision.
+
+## 3. Exercise
+
+Exercise only a **load-bearing** gate, guard, or state machine: a mechanism the
+authority relies on to reject, route, or transition behavior. Do not require a
+probe for ordinary prose, passive data, or a non-load-bearing helper.
+
+When safe and runnable:
+
+1. choose the input/state the mechanism is required to handle;
+2. run the real entry path or the narrowest faithful probe;
+3. observe whether the required rejection, route, or transition occurs;
+4. record the command, injected condition, and result.
+
+Static shape and author-written happy-path tests do not prove a load-bearing
+mechanism works. If it cannot be exercised, record `unverifiable` and the exact
+missing evidence unless other evidence establishes the required behavior. Do
+not manufacture a gap beyond the authority.
+
+A test is required only when the authority requires one or when it is the
+available evidence for a claimed behavioral wire.
+
+## 4. Candidate gaps
+
+Create a candidate for a ledger row proved partial, missing, violated, or hollow
+at its real consumer. Also create one for every `unverifiable` row so the judge
+can resolve it; claim only that delivery is not established and name the missing
+evidence, not that the behavior is absent. Each candidate contains:
+
+```text
+location: nearest actual affected or expected consumer path:line
+claim: what required delivery is absent, contradicted, hollow, or not yet established
+failure scenario: trigger → consumer/path → wrong effect, or required path/effect still unproved
+authority: repository path:line or task-packet source-label:line + governing clause
+evidence: ledger row, files read, commands/probes, and observed result
+severity_hint: impact if the judge establishes the gap
+remedy: optional; omit when uncertain
+```
+
+Even an absence needs both real anchors: the authority repository `path:line` or
+task-packet `source-label:line` that requires the behavior, and the nearest
+affected/expected consumer `path:line`. A proposed filename, stable symbol, or
+unlocated summary is not admissible evidence.
+
+Check the project's constitution as authority. A mechanism that conflicts with
+a ratified ADR or owner decision can be a gap-by-violation even when fully
+implemented; prefer identifying the unnecessary mechanism over proposing more
+machinery around it.
+
+## Output
+
+Return every proved candidate gap and every unverifiable candidate. If none
+exist, state that outcome. Keep the private clause ledger and coverage work
+internal. The judge owns the terminal verdict and every later action.

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+# Correctness lens — Trace–Break–Prove
+
+You are one independent correctness leg for a fixed, complete diff. Your output
+is evidence-backed **candidate findings** for a separate judge. You do not
+decide the verdict or repair what you find. Your current working directory
+holds the target at the pinned HEAD: use it for repository reading, search,
+tests, dependency installation, probes, and local artifacts.
+Do not commit, push, mutate remote state, or implement a repair.
+
+A finding is a counterexample to claimed behavior, not advice. Style preference,
+speculation, generic hardening, and refactoring ideas without wrong observable
+behavior are not findings. Simpler or deletion-based behavior outranks adding
+an equivalent mechanism, and repository authority overrides general taste.
+
+Scan stock as well as flow: an existing mechanism, guard, or validation that
+conflicts with pinned authority (a ratified ADR or owner ruling) is itself a
+defect — report it as a candidate with demolition as the remedy direction. Do
+not self-censor because the mechanism predates the diff or removing it exceeds
+the change's scope; admissibility is the judge's call, not yours.
+
+You receive:
+
+- fixed base and HEAD SHAs;
+- one fully resolved log command and one fully resolved diff command;
+- an ordered authority path/source list;
+- this lens and the candidate contract below.
+
+Run the supplied log and diff commands yourself. Read the authority paths,
+surrounding code, callers, consumers, and tests directly from the working
+directory. The task packet is an assignment, not a repository substitute; do not
+assume that an omitted file body or non-embedded diff is unavailable.
+
+## 1. Surface map
+
+Start with the tests. Then map the behavior changed by the diff:
+
+- public or operational entry points;
+- values, state, and control flow changed behind them;
+- real consumers and externally visible effects;
+- tests that claim to cover those effects;
+- boundaries touched by the change: invalid input, empty state, error return,
+  concurrency, retries, resource cleanup, authorization, or persistence.
+
+Do not stop at the changed line. Read enough callers and consumers to know
+whether the changed behavior is reachable and observable.
+
+Treat the surface map as a bounded review worklist. A proved candidate accounts
+only for the behavior and boundary it demonstrates; then return to the next
+unexamined item. Submit only after every mapped item has either yielded a proved
+counterexample or been checked without one. Stop on coverage, not finding count.
+Do not add speculative surfaces or lower the proof bar to make the worklist look complete.
+
+## 2. Trace
+
+For each material behavior, trace:
+
+1. a real entry point;
+2. the normal successful path;
+3. at least one failure boundary relevant to this change;
+4. the observable result promised by the authority.
+
+Follow shared types, constants, interfaces, and state transitions across the
+whole diff. A claim about a symbol or contract must be checked at its actual
+consumers, not inferred from one hunk.
+
+When a comment, commit, or authority claims the change matches or follows
+another implementation, open that referenced source and compare the behavior
+directly; the claim itself is not evidence.
+
+## 3. Break
+
+Try to produce a concrete counterexample:
+
+- choose an input or state allowed by the authority;
+- follow it through the traced path;
+- when runnable, execute the narrowest useful test or safe probe;
+- compare the actual observable result with the required one.
+- distinguish malformed data or upstream failure from a legitimate empty result;
+  submit only if collapsing those states makes a real consumer observe an
+  outcome contrary to the authority;
+- when a field is absent, trace which source supplies the fallback and what state
+  it is anchored to; submit only if that provenance makes a real consumer
+  observe an outcome contrary to the authority.
+
+If execution is unavailable, prove the path from source and state that limit.
+Do not promote a hypothetical risk into a candidate without a reachable trigger
+and wrong outcome.
+
+Tests deserve first suspicion. A test candidate is valid only with evidence
+that, for example:
+
+- the wrong behavior remains green;
+- the system under test is mocked or bypassed;
+- a material assertion was deleted or relaxed;
+- the test never reaches the changed branch;
+- the relevant failure path cannot make the test red.
+
+A missing test alone is not a correctness defect. First demonstrate concrete
+wrong behavior that the suite still accepts.
+
+## 4. Prove
+
+For every candidate, provide all fields below in clear prose:
+
+```text
+location: actual affected path:line
+claim: what is wrong
+failure scenario: trigger → execution path → wrong observable outcome
+authority: exact clause, invariant, API contract, or test promise violated
+evidence: files read, commands/probes run, and what they showed
+severity_hint: impact if the judge establishes the claim
+remedy: optional; omit when uncertain
+```
+
+Evidence must point to the fixed target. Quote only the minimum needed. If the
+same trigger creates distinct wrong outcomes, report distinct candidates; if
+multiple observations merely restate one counterexample, one candidate is
+enough. A symbol, hunk header, or path without a real line number is not a
+location and must not be submitted.
+
+Severity describes consequence, not confidence. Do not raise it because a
+claim is well grounded.
+
+## Output
+
+Return the surface map briefly, then every proved candidate. If no
+counterexample survives Trace–Break–Prove, state that outcome. There is no
+required remedy. The judge owns the terminal verdict.

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+---
+name: diagnosing-bugs
+description: Diagnosis loop for hard bugs and performance regressions. Use when the user says "diagnose"/"debug this", or reports something broken/throwing/failing/slow.
+---
+
+# Diagnosing Bugs
+
+A discipline for hard bugs. Skip phases only when explicitly justified.
+
+When exploring the codebase, read `CONTEXT.md` (if it exists) to get a clear mental model of the relevant modules, and check ADRs in the area you're touching.
+
+## Phase 1 — Build a feedback loop
+
+**This is the skill.** Everything else is mechanical. If you have a **tight** pass/fail signal for the bug — one that goes red on _this_ bug — you will find the cause; bisection, hypothesis-testing, and instrumentation all just consume it. If you don't have one, no amount of staring at code will save you.
+
+Spend disproportionate effort here. **Be aggressive. Be creative. Refuse to give up.**
+
+### Ways to construct one — try them in roughly this order
+
+1. **Failing test** at whatever seam reaches the bug — unit, integration, e2e.
+2. **Curl / HTTP script** against a running dev server.
+3. **CLI invocation** with a fixture input, diffing stdout against a known-good snapshot.
+4. **Headless browser script** (Playwright / Puppeteer) — drives the UI, asserts on DOM/console/network.
+5. **Replay a captured trace.** Save a real network request / payload / event log to disk; replay it through the code path in isolation.
+6. **Throwaway harness.** Spin up a minimal subset of the system (one service, mocked deps) that exercises the bug code path with a single function call.
+7. **Property / fuzz loop.** If the bug is "sometimes wrong output", run 1000 random inputs and look for the failure mode.
+8. **Bisection harness.** If the bug appeared between two known states (commit, dataset, version), automate "boot at state X, check, repeat" so you can `git bisect run` it.
+9. **Differential loop.** Run the same input through old-version vs new-version (or two configs) and diff outputs.
+10. **HITL bash script.** Last resort. If a human must click, drive _them_ with `scripts/hitl-loop.template.sh` so the loop is still structured. Captured output feeds back to you.
+
+Build the right feedback loop, and the bug is 90% fixed.
+
+### Tighten the loop
+
+Treat the loop as a product. Once you have _a_ loop, **tighten** it:
+
+- Can I make it faster? (Cache setup, skip unrelated init, narrow the test scope.)
+- Can I make the signal sharper? (Assert on the specific symptom, not "didn't crash".)
+- Can I make it more deterministic? (Pin time, seed RNG, isolate filesystem, freeze network.)
+
+A 30-second flaky loop is barely better than no loop; a 2-second deterministic one is tight — a debugging superpower.
+
+### Non-deterministic bugs
+
+The goal is not a clean repro but a **higher reproduction rate**. Loop the trigger 100×, parallelise, add stress, narrow timing windows, inject sleeps. A 50%-flake bug is debuggable; 1% is not — keep raising the rate until it's debuggable.
+
+### When you genuinely cannot build a loop
+
+Stop and say so explicitly. List what you tried. Ask the user for: (a) access to whatever environment reproduces it, (b) a captured artifact (HAR file, log dump, core dump, screen recording with timestamps), or (c) permission to add temporary production instrumentation. Do **not** proceed to hypothesise without a loop.
+
+### Completion criterion — a tight loop that goes red
+
+Phase 1 is done when the loop is **tight** and **red-capable**: you can name **one command** — a script path, a test invocation, a curl — that you have **already run at least once** (paste the invocation and its output), and that is:
+
+- [ ] **Red-capable** — it drives the actual bug code path and asserts the **user's exact symptom**, so it can go red on this bug and green once fixed. Not "runs without erroring" — it must be able to _catch this specific bug_.
+- [ ] **Deterministic** — same verdict every run (flaky bugs: a pinned, high reproduction rate, per above).
+- [ ] **Fast** — seconds, not minutes.
+- [ ] **Agent-runnable** — you can run it unattended; a human in the loop only via `scripts/hitl-loop.template.sh`.
+
+If you catch yourself reading code to build a theory before this command exists, **stop — jumping straight to a hypothesis is the exact failure this skill prevents.** No red-capable command, no Phase 2.
+
+## Phase 2 — Reproduce + minimise
+
+Run the loop. Watch it go red — the bug appears.
+
+Confirm:
+
+- [ ] The loop produces the failure mode the **user** described — not a different failure that happens to be nearby. Wrong bug = wrong fix.
+- [ ] The failure is reproducible across multiple runs (or, for non-deterministic bugs, reproducible at a high enough rate to debug against).
+- [ ] You have captured the exact symptom (error message, wrong output, slow timing) so later phases can verify the fix actually addresses it.
+
+### Minimise
+
+Once it's red, shrink the repro to the **smallest scenario that still goes red**. Cut inputs, callers, config, data, and steps **one at a time**, re-running the loop after each cut — keep only what's load-bearing for the failure.
+
+Why bother: a minimal repro shrinks the hypothesis space in Phase 3 (fewer moving parts left to suspect) and becomes the clean regression test in Phase 5.
+
+Done when **every remaining element is load-bearing** — removing any one of them makes the loop go green.
+
+Do not proceed until you have reproduced **and** minimised.
+
+## Phase 3 — Hypothesise
+
+Generate **3–5 ranked hypotheses** before testing any of them. Single-hypothesis generation anchors on the first plausible idea.
+
+Each hypothesis must be **falsifiable**: state the prediction it makes.
+
+> Format: "If <X> is the cause, then <changing Y> will make the bug disappear / <changing Z> will make it worse."
+
+If you cannot state the prediction, the hypothesis is a vibe — discard or sharpen it.
+
+**Show the ranked list to the user before testing.** They often have domain knowledge that re-ranks instantly ("we just deployed a change to #3"), or know hypotheses they've already ruled out. Cheap checkpoint, big time saver. Don't block on it — proceed with your ranking if the user is AFK.
+
+## Phase 4 — Instrument
+
+Each probe must map to a specific prediction from Phase 3. **Change one variable at a time.**
+
+Tool preference:
+
+1. **Debugger / REPL inspection** if the env supports it. One breakpoint beats ten logs.
+2. **Targeted logs** at the boundaries that distinguish hypotheses.
+3. Never "log everything and grep".
+
+**Tag every debug log** with a unique prefix, e.g. `[DEBUG-a4f2]`. Cleanup at the end becomes a single grep. Untagged logs survive; tagged logs die.
+
+**Perf branch.** For performance regressions, logs are usually wrong. Instead: establish a baseline measurement (timing harness, `performance.now()`, profiler, query plan), then bisect. Measure first, fix second.
+
+## Phase 5 — Fix + regression test
+
+Prefer writing the regression test **before the fix** when there is a **correct seam** for it. This ordering is diagnostic guidance, not a retrospective delivery gate: disclose a sequence deviation, then assess the fix from current code, behavior, and evidence.
+
+A correct seam is one where the test exercises the **real bug pattern** as it occurs at the call site. If the only available seam is too shallow (single-caller test when the bug needs multiple callers, unit test that can't replicate the chain that triggered the bug), a regression test there gives false confidence.
+
+**If no correct seam exists, that itself is the finding.** Note it. The codebase architecture is preventing the bug from being locked down. Flag this for the next phase.
+
+If a correct seam exists:
+
+1. Turn the minimised repro into a test at that seam.
+2. When practical, observe it fail before applying the fix.
+3. Apply the fix.
+4. Verify that it passes.
+5. Re-run the Phase 1 feedback loop against the original (un-minimised) scenario.
+
+## Phase 6 — Cleanup + post-mortem
+
+Required before declaring done:
+
+- [ ] Original repro no longer reproduces (re-run the Phase 1 loop)
+- [ ] Regression test passes (or absence of seam is documented)
+- [ ] All `[DEBUG-...]` instrumentation removed (`grep` the prefix)
+- [ ] Throwaway prototypes deleted (or moved to a clearly-marked debug location)
+- [ ] The hypothesis that turned out correct is stated in the commit / PR message — so the next debugger learns
+
+**Then ask: what would have prevented this bug?** If the answer involves architectural change (no good test seam, tangled callers, hidden coupling), record that architectural finding in the Fixer report for the caller to dispose. Do **not** launch `/improve-codebase-architecture`, architecture Grill, or any other role-external Skill chain from this method. Make the recommendation **after** the fix is in, not before — you have more information now than when you started.

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