@antoneeo/agentic-sdlc-skill 1.32.0 → 1.34.0

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@@ -45,12 +45,50 @@ below — so it needs no separate dispatch hook.)
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  ## Model tiers (client-relative, no provider names)
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- - Default dispatch: **economy** implementer tier.
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+ - Default dispatch: **economy** implementer tier. This is legal precisely
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+ because a dispatched task carries `task.verify` — the threshold signal that
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+ makes a wrong cheap answer visible. **The floor that governs every role, and
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+ the rule that a tier may be lowered only where such a signal exists, is
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+ `review.md` §The capability floor** — cited, never restated here.
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  - After **two** consecutive `verify_result: fail` on the same task: escalate
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  to the **deep** tier for the retry (ADR 2026-07-02). Do not escalate on the
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  first failure — a single fail is often a brief or environment issue, not a
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  capability gap.
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+ ## What may be delegated at all
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+ The sections above govern the opt-in PLAN loop; **this one is family-wide** and
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+ applies to any pass, at any level, dispatch or no dispatch. Delegation is not a
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+ token-saving technique — a second context re-reads, re-briefs and reports back,
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+ so the total spend goes UP. What it buys is a main context that stays clean, and
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+ independence where independence is the point. Judge a pass on two axes:
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+ | | output falsifiable cheaply (`file:line`, an assertion result, a diff) | output is judgement |
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+ |---|---|---|
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+ | **reads ≫ report** | **delegate** — the whole win lives here | **never**: the biggest apparent win is where plausible-but-wrong enters |
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+ | **reads ≈ report** | keep it: the brief costs more than the pass | keep it |
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+ - **Delegate**: locating and verifying (a pass that returns citable facts and
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+ discards its exploration trace), executing a probe or battery and reporting
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+ the assertion table, and every independent review — the last for correctness,
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+ not economy, and it is mandatory regardless of what it costs.
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+ - **Never delegate**: authoring a governed artifact (Vision, ANALYSIS/E-ISP,
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+ threat model, use cases, the Interface Contract), the triage level and router
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+ verdict, a reconciliation or scope decision, and any pass whose result the
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+ orchestrator must hold across many later turns — delegating that one just
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+ moves the reading into the main context via the report.
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+ - **The delegability condition**: a task whose brief cannot be expressed as
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+ **pointers** — paths, ids, a command — is **not delegable** yet; a brief that
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+ must carry the content pays those tokens twice, once to write it and once to
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+ read it. `plan brief` is this rule already realized for the PLAN loop (it
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+ prints `guides` as paths, never pasted content); the condition generalizes it.
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+ **Declared residual**, so the silence is not read as prohibition: this section
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+ settles the CLASSIFICATION. *When* to reach for a delegated search or
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+ orientation pass — the trigger, its brief format and its output contract — is a
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+ separate unit and is not answered here; until it lands, reaching for one is the
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+ orchestrator's judgement against the table above, not a rule.
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  ## Review slots — one-shot, not iterative
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  Exactly three review touches per task, never a loop:
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+ # The Hybrid Seam — coexistence with devPNT
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+ **For whom**: the agent working a project where the `devpnt_*` tools are available
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+ and point at this project.
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+ **Answers**: "which mode am I in, who owns what when both authorities are live,
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+ and how do the two vocabularies map onto each other".
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+ **Does not answer**: the process itself — triage, the phases, the gates and the
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+ write triggers are `SKILL.md`'s, and they are identical in both modes.
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+ Moved out of `SKILL.md` by F-051 so a Standalone session stops paying for a seam
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+ it cannot reach. **The content below is unchanged**: this file is a relocation,
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+ not a rewrite.
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+ <!-- moved-block-sha256: f11e6d5b9cd4710849fa9d3701f16ff0da39f2d163e8ffdb8adbff6a119b3614 -->
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+ ### Hybrid in symbiosis with devPNT
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+ Use this mode when the `devpnt_*` tools are available and point at the current project.
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+ Authoritative hierarchy:
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+ 1. **devPNT M-VISION**: strategic beacon of the milestone. Before design or code, read it and verify benefits, success signals, scope-in and non-goals.
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+ 2. **devPNT Master Plan**: strategic roadmap and milestones.
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+ 3. **devPNT Action Plan**: current tactical work for the active goal.
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+ 4. **devPNT governed artifacts**: `D-UC`, `P-TM`, `E-ISP`, `E-TDD`, `E-TP`, ADR.
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+ 5. **Local `ai_docs/`**: readable context, Standalone fallback, local handoff or shadow/mirror when useful.
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+ Hybrid rules:
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+ - devPNT is the governed source for plans and artifacts; do not create a second truth in `ai_docs/`.
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+ - The skill stays autonomous: if devPNT is not there, switch to Standalone without losing capability.
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+ - If the user request, the local Vision and the M-VISION diverge, stop and make the conflict explicit.
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+ - Do not create or modify milestones without respecting the M-VISION.
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+ - Never auto-accept devPNT proposals: present the preview and wait for explicit confirmation.
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+ - If the local devPNT protocol imposes stricter bootstrap, plans or gates, follow them.
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+ ## Coexistence with devPNT (the Hybrid seam)
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+ This section is the single authoritative answer to "who owns what" when both the
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+ skill and devPNT are active. The skill owns the **process** (triage, phases, Vision
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+ Gate, lifecycle); devPNT owns the **machinery** (governed storage, versioned
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+ proposals, semantic analysis, independent reviewers). devPNT strengthens the
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+ process; it never replaces it.
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+ ### Ownership matrix
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+ | Artifact | Standalone master | Hybrid master | Mirror rule |
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+ |---|---|---|---|
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+ | Product vision | `vision/project_vision.md` | `vision/project_vision.md` (product scope) | devPNT KL vision is regenerated from it, never edited independently |
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+ | Milestone vision | `vision/roadmap.md` milestones | devPNT M-VISION | `roadmap.md` may reference the M-VISION key; it never restates its content |
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+ | Feature design | `solutions/ANALYSIS_[feature].md` | devPNT E-ISP/E-TDD (+ D-UC/P-TM) | shadow exported from the ACCEPTED DB version as `SHADOW_[doc_key]_vX.Y.md`; on divergence the DB wins and the shadow is regenerated |
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+ | Plans | `## Action Plan` inside the ANALYSIS | devPNT Master/Action Plan | none |
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+ | Feature state | ANALYSIS frontmatter `status` | Action Plan node status | mapping table below; at closure both must move together |
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+ | ADR | `architecture/` (canonical dir) | devPNT DB (`adr_YYYY-MM-DD_slug`) | optional filesystem shadow `SHADOW_adr_*` exported at closure for grep-ability |
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+ | Audit / freshness | `audit/audit_plan.md` + `stale`/`mark` | devPNT KL coverage + summary status | run `check --hybrid` (skips audit-plan staleness) |
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+ | Design review (pre-implementation) | `review.md` moment 1, on the ANALYSIS | devPNT §4.5 gate on `E-ISP`/`E-TDD` | same slot, richer backend — run ONE of them, never both |
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+ | *(mode is per unit of change, not per project)* | a Hybrid-capable project may work one feature Standalone: the slot follows the ARTIFACT the design lives in, and the mode is declared in that artifact. `validate --hybrid` suppresses the Standalone design-review backstop, since devPNT owns the slot there | | |
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+ | Review log | `audit/reviews/REVIEW_LOG.md` | devPNT `REVIEW_LOG.md` (same path) | always filesystem |
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+ | Operative guides | `ai_docs/reference/` | `ai_docs/reference/` — **filesystem-first even in Hybrid** | devPNT bootstrap may point at their index; it never copies their content |
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+ | Handoff | `audit/handoff.md` | `audit/handoff.md` | always filesystem |
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+ ### Triage equivalence (one threshold, two vocabularies)
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+ devPNT's "significance threshold" and the skill's triage are the SAME test. Do not
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+ run two classifications:
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+ | Skill triage | devPNT equivalent | Governed artifacts |
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+ |---|---|---|
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+ | L1 Trivial | trivial exempt | none |
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+ | L2 Small | localized obvious edit | none — but see escalation |
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+ | L3 Significant | governed unit of change | D-UC/P-TM/E-ISP/E-TDD per the devPNT trigger policy |
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+ | Spike | exempt (non-mergeable) | `SPIKE_[topic].md` only |
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+ Escalation triggers (any one of these makes it L3, in BOTH vocabularies): touches
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+ more than one module, changes a public API/contract/message format, changes a data
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+ model or state machine, has a security surface, risks duplicating existing logic,
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+ or the design choice is non-obvious. An L2 that trips one of these is not an L2.
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+ ### Feature state mapping
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+ | ANALYSIS frontmatter | devPNT plan node |
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+ |---|---|
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+ | PLANNED | READY (or BLOCKED / ON_HOLD while waiting) |
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+ | IN_PROGRESS | PROGRESS |
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+ | COMPLETED | DONE |
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+ | CANCELLED | CANCELLED |
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+ Closure discipline: never mark the node DONE while the shadow/ANALYSIS still says
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+ IN_PROGRESS, or vice versa. They move in the same closure step.
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+ ### Shadow discipline (Hybrid)
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+ - Shadow filename: `SHADOW_[doc_key]_vX.Y.md`, first line
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+ `<!-- SHADOW generated from devPNT (doc_key vX.Y) - do not edit by hand -->`.
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+ Never save a shadow under an `ANALYSIS_*` name: that name means "authoritative
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+ Standalone document" and the validator treats it as such.
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+ - **Export the approved E-TDD shadow BEFORE implementation** (not only at closure).
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+ It gives context-free subagents their design input, unlocks `gate --hybrid`, and
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+ guarantees the filesystem fallback if devPNT becomes unavailable mid-feature.
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+ - At closure, refresh all shadows from the accepted DB versions.
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+ ### Validator in Hybrid
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+ Pass `--hybrid` explicitly (never auto-detected — an explicit flag beats a guessed
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+ mode): `check --hybrid` and `stale --hybrid` skip audit-plan staleness (mapping is
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+ delegated to devPNT/KL) — guide-drift checking still runs (`ai_docs/reference/`
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+ is filesystem-first even in Hybrid, see the ownership matrix above); `gate --hybrid`
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+ also unlocks on the presence of an E-TDD shadow in `solutions/` (the Hybrid design
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+ gate) instead of requiring an IN_PROGRESS ANALYSIS.
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  Use a different model from the author's where the client allows it.
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+ **The capability floor — which tier may run this role.** Independence says the
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+ reviewer must not be the author; it says nothing about whether the reviewer *can
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+ do the job*. A gate run below the capability its judgement needs produces the
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+ myopia the gate exists to catch, **while reporting as an independent review** —
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+ worse than no gate, because it certifies. So each role carries a minimum tier.
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+ Tiers are **client-relative capability levels, never provider names** (a name
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+ rots at the next model release; the tier→model binding lives in the client's own
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+ agent definition, never in this file):
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+
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+ | Role | Floor | Why there |
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+ |---|---|---|
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+ | **authoring a governed artifact** (Vision, the analysis/design, use cases, the Interface Contract, threat model — `dispatch.md`'s never-list owns the enumeration) | **deep** | the purest case of the rule below: the output is judgement, nothing scores it, and `dispatch.md`'s never-list forbids moving it elsewhere — so the session's own capability IS this work's capability |
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+ | design review, closure review, any verdict on judgement | **deep** | the output is a judgement whose wrongness no check can see |
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+ | a light conformance or consistency pass (schema, coverage, citation resolution) | **light** | the criterion is stated and mechanical |
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+ | implementer dispatch, probe execution, anchor resolution, index regeneration | **economy** | a threshold signal catches a wrong cheap answer |
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+ The rule underneath the table: **a tier may be lowered only where a threshold
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+ signal exists** — `task.verify`, a test, a diff against a spec, an assertion
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+ harness — because that is what makes a wrong cheap answer visible instead of
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+ plausible. Where the output is judgement and nothing scores it, there is no
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+ signal to lower against, and the floor is the whole policy.
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+ **A session's floor is the highest floor among the roles it performs itself.** The
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+ table above binds reviewers and dispatched subagents, chosen per call — but the
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+ session doing the authoring was chosen by the USER before the agent existed, and
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+ an agent cannot re-tier itself mid-session. So the rule that reaches it is not
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+ routing, it is **disclosure**: where a session can determine that it is below the
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+ floor for a role it performs itself, it says so **once per session, at the first
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+ such role** — not once per unit — and the disclosure is repeated in the review
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+ row's existing `reviewer` cell (Hybrid: `notes`), which is what makes the pair
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+ below visible without adding a column.
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+ **Say plainly how thin this reach is.** A session knows its model NAME; tiers here
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+ are deliberately client-relative and this file maps no name to a tier, so the
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+ antecedent is satisfiable only where a session can recognize its own tier — which
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+ is also the session least likely to run the check. Where a session **cannot
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+ determine its own tier**, it owes nothing: the rule binds what an agent can know
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+ and say, never a capability it cannot acquire. **The reliably working half of this
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+ rule is the one addressed to the user, not to the agent** — which is why the
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+ package READMEs carry the tier-selection guidance, and why that is not a footnote.
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+ **Never both below the floor on the same unit — except when nothing better
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+ exists.** Where the authoring session ran below floor, the independent review's
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+ floor becomes non-negotiable and the same unit should not ALSO run a below-floor
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+ review. **The exception is the case *When independence and capability conflict*
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+ governs below**: where no independent rung at or above the floor exists at all,
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+ that rule wins, the review still runs, BOTH disclosures are recorded, and the
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+ result is not a violation but the worst admissible state — honestly labelled.
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+ Forbidding it outright would push the agent toward the abstention that rule
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+ explicitly rejects.
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+ **When independence and capability conflict, independence wins.** A client whose
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+ only independent rung is bound below the floor (a single-model client, or a
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+ subagent facility whose agent definition fixes a cheap model) still runs the
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+ gate: a below-floor *independent* reviewer catches the class the author is
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+ structurally blind to, while a self-pass catches none of it. What the floor then
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+ requires is **disclosure, not abstention** — the row records the tier that
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+ actually ran (`below floor: <reason>`), and that record IS the remedy. Where a
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+ higher-capability path exists but is permission-gated, nothing new applies: *The
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+ gated rung* above already governs, one question per gate per intact context.
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+ Where the client exposes no capability choice at all, the row says
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+ `single (client exposes no choice)` and the floor is satisfied by construction —
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+ it is a routing rule, and a routing rule with one route is not a failure.
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  **Rounds are capped at 3.** FAIL → revise → re-review. If findings still stand
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  after the third, stop and surface them to the user with the artifact — a gate that
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  can block forever gets removed. **Log one row per completed review, PASS or FAIL**
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  — a FAIL surfaced to the user is the highest-value outcome the gate produces, and
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  logging only passes would erase exactly that evidence. The row goes in
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- `| date | doc_key | tier | reviewer | findings_raised | findings_real | verdict | revise_rounds |`,
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- with `tier` = `design` or `closure` in Standalone. One schema for both modes: a
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- Hybrid project's devPNT gates write to the same file.
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+ `| date | doc_key | tier | model | reviewer | findings_raised | findings_real | verdict | revise_rounds |`,
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+ with `tier` = `design` or `closure` in Standalone. **`model` records the capability
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+ tier that actually ran** — `deep`, `light`, `economy`, `single (client exposes no
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+ choice)`, or `below floor: <reason>` — never a provider name in doctrine (a project
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+ may of course write its own model names in its own log). Without it the floor above
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+ is a belief: the row would say a gate ran and never whether it could do its job, and
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+ the correlation with `revise_rounds` and `findings_real` — the only evidence the
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+ policy pays — could not be drawn.
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+ **One schema for both modes**, meaning one required CORE plus each mode's own
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+ **mode-specific** realization columns. The core is what both modes actually share: `date`, `doc_key`,
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+ `tier`, `model`, `findings_raised`, `findings_real`, `verdict`, `revise_rounds`.
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+ Around it, Standalone adds `reviewer` and Hybrid adds `instrument` and `notes` —
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+ a devPNT row carries no `reviewer` column at all, so "one identical column list"
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+ was never true of the two modes. This costs nothing for the reason `templates.md`
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+ §`ai_docs/audit/reviews/REVIEW_LOG.md` owns and states.
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  import sys
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  from pathlib import Path
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+ "routing.md", "hybrid.md", "ENFORCEMENT.md"),
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+ # The process's central claim is that it makes divergence visible BEFORE
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+ # implementation. That claim lived in prose for four months while the evidence
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+ # for it sat unread in REVIEW_LOG. This reads it.
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+ #
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+ # that contract ("extra or reordered columns are fine -- but the header must
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+ # say `tier`") and three widths are legal today: the original 8, Standalone's 9
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+ # (F-048 added `model`), and Hybrid's 10 (`instrument` + `notes`, and no
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+ # `reviewer` at all). A width whitelist reads none of the last, and silently
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+ # reports a devPNT-governed project as having no data at all.
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+ #
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+ # Two honesty rules, both learned from this unit's own review: whatever cannot
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+ # be read is COUNTED and NAMED, at the row level AND at the cell level. A ratio
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+ # over a silently shrunken denominator is worse than no ratio.
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+ hand-kept log still reads. A row whose cell count does not match the
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+ header's is unparsed and named -- never dropped."""
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+ rows, unparsed, names = [], [], None
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+ for n, line in enumerate(text.splitlines(), 1):
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+ cells = _table_cells(line)
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+ if cells is None:
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+ continue
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+ lowered = [c.lower() for c in cells]
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+ if names is None and "tier" in lowered and "verdict" in lowered:
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+ names = lowered # the header IS the column map
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+ continue
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+ # The header supplies the map -- that is what makes reordered and extra
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+ # columns readable. But a log legitimately carries MIXED widths (F-048
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+ # widened the schema and did not rewrite history), so a row that does
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+ # not match the header is read by the positional map for its own width
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+ # before it is given up on. Only a width no map knows is unparsed.
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+ if names is not None and len(cells) == len(names):
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+ else:
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+ positional = REVIEW_POSITIONAL.get(len(cells))
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+ if positional is None:
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+ % len(names) if names else "no header, and no map fits")))
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+ continue
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+ if missing:
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+ continue
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+ return rows, unparsed
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+ like `R1 4 BLOCK + 8 WARN` does not yield a confident 4."""
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+ m = re.match(r"^(\d+)\b", (value or "").strip())
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+ return int(m.group(1)) if m else None
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+ def _is_fail(verdict):
2146
+ """FAIL as a WORD, so `PASS (no failures)` is not counted as a failure."""
2147
+ return re.search(r"\bFAIL\b", (verdict or "").upper()) is not None
2148
+
2149
+
2150
+ def _is_pass(verdict):
2151
+ return re.search(r"\bPASS\b", (verdict or "").upper()) is not None
2152
+
2153
+
2154
+ def _print_read_cost():
2155
+ """The cost side, printed with the benefit and NEVER without it: a catch
2156
+ rate with no cost term justifies unbounded doctrine, and a cost term with
2157
+ no catch rate justifies deleting the process. When it cannot be measured
2158
+ the line still prints, saying so -- silence here IS the catch rate quoted
2159
+ alone, which is the thing this report exists to prevent."""
2160
+ skill_dir = Path(__file__).resolve().parent.parent
2161
+ contract = skill_dir / "SKILL.md"
2162
+ print()
2163
+ if not contract.is_file():
2164
+ print("Read cost: unavailable -- SKILL.md not found beside this "
2165
+ "validator (%s)" % skill_dir)
2166
+ return
2167
+ files = [p for p in sorted(skill_dir.glob("*.md")) if p.name != "SKILL.md"]
2168
+ support = sum(p.stat().st_size for p in files)
2169
+ head = contract.stat().st_size
2170
+ # The TOTAL, and the files itemised. Printing only the two terms lets the
2171
+ # one that fell be quoted while the one that grew stays lumped -- which is
2172
+ # exactly how a -7.8% headline coexisted with a read surface that grew.
2173
+ print("Read cost of %s: SKILL.md %d bytes (every session) + %d bytes "
2174
+ "across %d support files (read on trigger) = %d bytes total"
2175
+ % (skill_dir.name, head, support, len(files), head + support))
2176
+ for p in files:
2177
+ print(" %-24s %8d" % (p.name, p.stat().st_size))
2178
+
2179
+
2180
+ def cmd_benefit(root):
2181
+ """Report what the process caught, beside what it costs to read.
2182
+
2183
+ ALWAYS exits 0 and emits no warning or advisory. This number is the
2184
+ criterion future units are judged by; a measurement that can fail a build
2185
+ becomes a target, and a targeted measurement stops measuring."""
2186
+ log = root / review_log_rel()
2187
+ print("=== benefit: what the process caught, and what it costs to read ===")
2188
+ if not log.is_file():
2189
+ print("[info] no %s yet: nothing to report. The number appears once "
2190
+ "reviews are logged." % review_log_rel())
2191
+ _print_read_cost()
2192
+ return 0
2193
+ rows, unparsed = parse_review_log(read_text(log))
2194
+ # `tier` carries the MOMENT in Standalone (design / closure) and the
2195
+ # reviewer WEIGHT in Hybrid (deep / light / code / guide / vision). A
2196
+ # Hybrid row is a real review whose moment this column does not state, so
2197
+ # it is counted and named, never folded into a moment by guesswork.
2198
+ moments = {"design": [], "closure": []}
2199
+ unstated = {}
2200
+ unstated_found = unstated_code = unstated_uncounted = 0
2201
+ for r in rows:
2202
+ tier = r["tier"].lower()
2203
+ if tier.startswith("design"):
2204
+ moments["design"].append(r)
2205
+ elif tier.startswith("closure"):
2206
+ moments["closure"].append(r)
2207
+ else:
2208
+ unstated[tier] = unstated.get(tier, 0) + 1
2209
+ n = review_findings(r["findings_real"])
2210
+ if n is None:
2211
+ unstated_uncounted += 1
2212
+ else:
2213
+ unstated_found += n
2214
+ if tier.startswith("code"):
2215
+ unstated_code += n
2216
+ classified = moments["design"] + moments["closure"]
2217
+ print("rows parsed: %d rows unparsed: %d%s"
2218
+ % (len(rows), len(unparsed),
2219
+ (" -> " + "; ".join("line %d: %s" % u for u in unparsed[:5]))
2220
+ if unparsed else ""))
2221
+ print("reviews with a stated moment: %d moment not stated by `tier`: %d%s"
2222
+ % (len(classified), sum(unstated.values()),
2223
+ (" (" + ", ".join("%s x%d" % (t, n) for t, n
2224
+ in sorted(unstated.items())) + ")")
2225
+ if unstated else ""))
2226
+ if not classified:
2227
+ _print_read_cost()
2228
+ return 0
2229
+ dates = sorted(r["date"] for r in classified)
2230
+ print("span of the reviews counted below: %s -> %s" % (dates[0], dates[-1]))
2231
+
2232
+ print()
2233
+ print("%-9s %6s %10s %11s %10s" % ("moment", "rows", "findings",
2234
+ "FAIL verdict", "per review"))
2235
+ totals, uncounted = {}, 0
2236
+ for m in ("design", "closure"):
2237
+ rs = moments[m]
2238
+ counts = [review_findings(r["findings_real"]) for r in rs]
2239
+ uncounted += sum(1 for c in counts if c is None)
2240
+ found = sum(c for c in counts if c is not None)
2241
+ failed = sum(1 for r in rs if _is_fail(r["verdict"]))
2242
+ totals[m] = found
2243
+ print("%-9s %6d %10d %11d %10.1f"
2244
+ % (m, len(rs), found, failed, (found / len(rs)) if rs else 0.0))
2245
+ total = sum(totals.values())
2246
+ if uncounted:
2247
+ print("findings cells stating no number: %d (counted as unknown, "
2248
+ "never as zero)" % uncounted)
2249
+ if total:
2250
+ print()
2251
+ print("Caught BEFORE the code existed: %d / %d findings = %.0f%%"
2252
+ % (totals["design"], total, 100.0 * totals["design"] / total))
2253
+ # The residue, stated as a BOUND rather than as a direction. The
2254
+ # sentence this replaces claimed the share was "a floor, not a
2255
+ # ceiling" because `code` rows are post-implementation -- which is
2256
+ # backwards, since folding them LOWERS the design share. But the fact
2257
+ # was right and only the direction wrong, so `code` findings sit on
2258
+ # the closure side of the upper bound instead of being discarded with
2259
+ # it. No direction is printed at all: the unstated set pushes both
2260
+ # ways, and only an interval is true of all of it.
2261
+ if unstated_found:
2262
+ denom = total + unstated_found
2263
+ print("Bounded by the %d findings in rows whose moment `tier` "
2264
+ "does not state: %.0f%%-%.0f%% (`code` rows are "
2265
+ "post-implementation by definition, so their findings sit "
2266
+ "on the closure side of the upper bound)"
2267
+ % (unstated_found, 100.0 * totals["design"] / denom,
2268
+ 100.0 * (totals["design"] + unstated_found - unstated_code)
2269
+ / denom))
2270
+ if unstated_uncounted:
2271
+ print("%d unstated rows state no findings count (`all`, `VOID`): "
2272
+ "neither zero nor countable, so they lie outside both "
2273
+ "bounds" % unstated_uncounted)
2274
+ failed_all = sum(1 for r in classified if _is_fail(r["verdict"]))
2275
+ inconclusive = sum(1 for r in classified if not _is_fail(r["verdict"])
2276
+ and not _is_pass(r["verdict"]))
2277
+ print("Reviews whose verdict contains FAIL: %d / %d = %.0f%%%s"
2278
+ % (failed_all, len(classified), 100.0 * failed_all / len(classified),
2279
+ (" (+%d inconclusive)" % inconclusive) if inconclusive else ""))
2280
+ print("(both figures are over the %d reviews whose moment `tier` states)"
2281
+ % len(classified))
2282
+ _print_read_cost()
2283
+ return 0
2284
+
2285
+
2055
2286
  def cmd_orient(args):
2056
2287
  """SessionStart hook: emit a bounded, repo-sourced ai_docs/ orientation to
2057
2288
  stdout and ALWAYS return 0 (fail-open, P-TM T8) -- a session hook must never
@@ -2315,6 +2546,11 @@ def main(argv=None):
2315
2546
  gp.add_argument("--file", help="file path to evaluate (alternative to --hook)")
2316
2547
  gp.add_argument("--protected", default="", help="protected prefixes separated by ';' (e.g. \"src/auth;src/crypto\")")
2317
2548
 
2549
+ sub.add_parser("benefit", parents=[common],
2550
+ help="report what the review gates caught (and what the "
2551
+ "doctrine costs to read) -- a report, never a gate: "
2552
+ "always exits 0")
2553
+
2318
2554
  sub.add_parser("orient", parents=[common, hybrid_opt],
2319
2555
  help="SessionStart hook: emit docs-root orientation to stdout (fail-open, zero-execution)")
2320
2556
 
@@ -2374,6 +2610,8 @@ def main(argv=None):
2374
2610
  return cmd_stale(root, hybrid=args.hybrid)
2375
2611
  if args.cmd == "mark":
2376
2612
  return cmd_mark(root, args.paths)
2613
+ if args.cmd == "benefit":
2614
+ return cmd_benefit(root)
2377
2615
  if args.cmd == "migrate":
2378
2616
  return cmd_migrate(root, args)
2379
2617
  if args.cmd == "plan":
@@ -499,16 +499,18 @@ Date: 2026-06-11 (UTC)
499
499
 
500
500
  One row per completed review (`review.md` §When a review is due). Append-only; it
501
501
  is the record that the gate ran and what it was worth. **One schema for both
502
- modes** — a Hybrid project's devPNT gates write to this same file, so Standalone
503
- adds values to the existing columns rather than a second table.
502
+ modes** — one required CORE (`date`, `doc_key`, `tier`, `model`, `findings_raised`,
503
+ `findings_real`, `verdict`, `revise_rounds`) plus each mode's own realization
504
+ columns: Standalone adds `reviewer`, a Hybrid devPNT row adds `instrument` and
505
+ `notes` and carries no `reviewer` at all. Both modes write this same file.
504
506
 
505
507
  ```markdown
506
508
  # Independent Review Log
507
509
 
508
- | date | doc_key | tier | reviewer | findings_raised | findings_real | verdict | revise_rounds |
509
- |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
510
- | 2026-06-11 | ANALYSIS_login_sso.md | design | subagent (opus, fresh ctx) | 4 | 3 | FAIL → PASS | 2 |
511
- | 2026-06-12 | diff feature/sso-login | closure | self-pass (declared; absent) | 2 | 2 | PASS with findings → corrections re-reviewed, PASS | 2 |
510
+ | date | doc_key | tier | model | reviewer | findings_raised | findings_real | verdict | revise_rounds |
511
+ |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
512
+ | 2026-06-11 | ANALYSIS_login_sso.md | design | deep | subagent (fresh ctx) | 4 | 3 | FAIL → PASS | 2 |
513
+ | 2026-06-12 | diff feature/sso-login | closure | deep | self-pass (declared; absent) | 2 | 2 | PASS with findings → corrections re-reviewed, PASS | 2 |
512
514
 
513
515
  ## Notes
514
516
  <!-- One short paragraph per review that found something worth remembering: what
@@ -520,9 +522,14 @@ adds values to the existing columns rather than a second table.
520
522
 
521
523
  `tier` is the moment plus, in Hybrid, the reviewer weight: `design`, `design (late)`
522
524
  and `closure` (Standalone); `deep`, `light`, `code`, `guide`, `vision` (devPNT gates
523
- and the Vision blind check). The validator reads this column by its header name, so
525
+ and the Vision blind check). `model` is a different question about the same review: `tier` says WHICH GATE ran,
526
+ `model` says WHAT CAPABILITY ran it (`deep`, `light`, `economy`,
527
+ `single (client exposes no choice)`, `below floor: <reason>` — the floor and its
528
+ arbitration are `review.md` §The capability floor). The two columns share the words
529
+ `deep`/`light` and mean different things by them, which is why they are read by
530
+ header and never by position. The validator reads this column by its header name, so
524
531
  extra or reordered columns are fine — but the header must say `tier`. `reviewer`
525
- records the realization actually used — fresh subagent, one-shot client run, or a
532
+ also carries the AUTHORING session's own below-floor disclosure where one is owed (the log has no column for the authoring tier, so `review.md` §The capability floor routes it here; Hybrid rows use `notes`). Otherwise it records the realization actually used — fresh subagent, one-shot client run, or a
526
533
  **declared** self-pass — and, for any rung below rung 1, WHY the rung(s) above did
527
534
  not run, in the ladder's reason words (`review.md`): `absent` — the client has no
528
535
  such facility (a claim about the client, never about a policy); `gated, declined` —