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+# Readable Output Cookbook — Owner-Surface vs Gate-Surface Patterns
+
+> Loaded by `aria-readable-output`. Companion to `aria-harness-output-discipline` (substance) — this skill governs layout/scannability.
+
+## 1. The Two-Surface Convention
+
+Every emission has TWO surfaces. Both must exist when both are required; owner surface first.
+
+### Owner surface
+- Markdown, decision-first
+- ≤5 second scannability
+- What Hamza actually reads
+- Goes FIRST in the response
+
+### Gate surface
+- Substrate-anchored XML cognition blocks
+- Regex-checkable by runtime gates
+- What the doctrine map / skill autoload gate / live runtime gates evaluate
+- Goes SECOND, optionally collapsed in `<details>` / `<gate>` blocks
+
+## 2. The 4-Part Owner-Surface Skeleton
+
+Every owner-facing emission follows this:
+
+```
+1. HEADLINE   — one sentence; decision or finding; no hedging
+2. WHY        — 2-4 bullets; evidence-anchored; named not vague
+3. NEXT       — concrete action(s); measurable predicate
+4. (optional) — collapsed gate block for substrate-anchored cognition
+```
+
+### Anti-patterns to avoid
+- ❌ Leading with `<cognition>` or `<verify>`
+- ❌ "Let me think about this…" / "Here's my analysis:"
+- ❌ "I'll do X, then Y, then Z" (process narration)
+- ❌ Bullets with adjectives instead of evidence
+- ❌ Walls of text > 4 paragraphs without heading
+
+## 3. The Headline Rule (≤1 line)
+
+The answer, recommendation, or finding. NOT a question, NOT meta-commentary.
+
+### Bad headlines
+- "I'll analyze this for you."
+- "Here's what I think:"
+- "Let me look into this."
+- "After consideration…"
+
+### Good headlines
+- "Raise the price to $79 — your churn signal is in the discount cohort, not the price."
+- "Don't deploy yet — admission policy missing for hospital-service."
+- "$42K MRR; 14% MoM growth; 3.2-month payback."
+- "Activation is the constraint; day-7 first-action drop is killing CAC payback."
+
+### Headline formula
+- **For decisions**: "[Action verb] [object] — [the load-bearing reason in plain language]"
+- **For findings**: "[Subject] [state with number] — [implication]"
+- **For diagnostics**: "[Constraint name]; [the dominant cause]; [the action]"
+
+## 4. The Why Bullets (2-4, evidence-anchored)
+
+Each bullet:
+- Names a specific source, number, or prior decision
+- Uses buyer/owner language, not vendor language
+- Cites where to verify
+
+### Bad bullet
+- "Higher price would generate more revenue"
+
+### Good bullet
+- "ARPU lift +38% on the same conversion rate (sample: last 90 days, n=412 paid signups, [stripe export](evidence://stripe-2026-05-08))"
+
+### Bullet patterns
+- **Number bullet**: "[Metric] [delta] [comparison] ([source, dated])"
+- **Cohort bullet**: "[Cohort] [behavior] [evidence] ([interview/log/ledger ref])"
+- **Risk bullet**: "[Risk surface] [magnitude] [mitigation] (per [doctrine ref])"
+- **Predictor bullet**: "[Predicate] [target] [confidence interval] (95% CI from [source])"
+
+## 5. The Next Line (concrete + measurable)
+
+A specific next step. Approve / reject / further-information ask.
+
+### Bad next
+- "Let me know how to proceed"
+- "Want to dive deeper?"
+- "Thoughts?"
+- "We could do A or B"
+
+### Good next
+- "Approve to push the price page live tonight; auto-revert if 7-day signup count drops > 12% vs trailing 7-day baseline"
+- "Run `bash scripts/deploy-service.sh hospital-service` AFTER admission policy applied — verify with `kubectl get validatingadmissionpolicy hospital-service-policy`"
+- "Apply the 3 high+medium findings, run the probe, re-emit corrected diff"
+- "Want me to draft a 3-message activation sequence for day 3-7, or audit the paid CAC blowout first?" (binary follow-up after delivery)
+
+## 6. The Gate Block Convention
+
+Place gate-surface AFTER owner-surface. Wrap in `<details><summary>cognition</summary>...</details>` for renderers that support it; otherwise plain `<gate>...</gate>`.
+
+### Example: deploy with full harness blocks
+```xml
+<details><summary>cognition</summary>
+<gate>
+<verify>
+  target: StatefulSet hospital-service in aria namespace
+  role: hospital canonical proto host (verified via kubectl describe)
+  verified: tsc --noEmit exit=0 (apps/hospital-service)
+  rollback: kubectl rollout undo statefulset/hospital-service
+  axiom: truth_over_deception, reflection_before_action
+  commit: a4f2c91
+  files changed: apps/hospital-service/src/server.ts, k8s/aria-core/hospital-service-policy.yaml
+  deploy pattern: Pattern A baked-image
+  hive deploy path: /deployments/aria/hospital-service
+  tsc evidence: exit=0
+  admission policy: hospital-service-policy
+  admission policy verification: kubectl get validatingadmissionpolicy hospital-service-policy → MISSING
+  doctrine refs: feedback_admission_policy_verification.md
+</verify>
+<cognition>
+  nur: kubectl returns empty for validatingadmissionpolicy
+  mizan: deploy without policy = same shape as 2026-04-22 incident
+  hikma: gate exists to prevent the exact failure currently in front of us
+  tafakkur: Pattern A baked-image without admission gate reintroduces stale pin risk
+  tadabbur: if deployed: hospital traffic regresses to stale proto, manifold breaks
+  ilham: same pattern as 2026-04-22 catastrophe — recognition, not analysis
+  wahi: owner asked to deploy NOW; protection lens says NOT YET
+  firasah: speed pressure should not bypass admission policy verification
+</cognition>
+<expected>
+  predicate: kubectl get validatingadmissionpolicy hospital-service-policy returns Active
+  measurable_type: state_string
+  threshold: Active
+</expected>
+</gate>
+</details>
+```
+
+## 7. Layout examples by emission type
+
+### Type 1: Recommendation
+```markdown
+## [Decision]: [in one line]
+
+- [Why bullet 1 with evidence]
+- [Why bullet 2 with evidence]
+- [Why bullet 3 — usually risk or alternative]
+
+**Next:** [concrete action with measurable signal]
+
+<details><summary>cognition</summary>
+[gate block]
+</details>
+```
+
+### Type 2: Diagnostic
+```markdown
+## [Diagnosis in one line]
+
+### Funnel skeleton (current)
+| Stage | Current | Benchmark | Gap |
+|---|---|---|---|
+| ... |
+
+### The constraint
+- [Named with evidence]
+
+### Leverage if fixed
+- [Numeric prediction]
+
+### Fix shape + 30/60/90
+- [Plan]
+
+**Next:** [first concrete action]
+```
+
+### Type 3: Information answer
+```markdown
+## [Answer in one line]
+
+- [Number / fact 1 with source]
+- [Number / fact 2 with source]
+- [Caveat / context]
+
+**Next:** [follow-up question or action]
+```
+(No gate block needed for informational answers without commitment.)
+
+### Type 4: Decision packet (owner-must-decide)
+```markdown
+## OWNER DECISION REQUIRED — [decision name]
+
+### Type & Reversibility
+- Type 1 / Type 2; reversibility cost summary
+
+### Option A: [name]
+- Commitment / win / loss / reversibility / lens flags / second-order
+
+### Option B: [name]
+- (mirror)
+
+### Pre-mortem
+- Top failure modes; mitigations
+
+### What only you know
+- [Owner context]
+
+### What I (LLM) believe with confidence
+- [LLM view, separated from the call]
+
+**Your call.**
+```
+
+### Type 5: Code audit findings
+```markdown
+## [N findings; recovery contract granted]
+
+### Critical
+1. **`file:line`** — [issue + fix]
+
+### High
+2. ...
+
+### Medium
+3. ...
+
+### Recovery contract granted
+- Written to ~/.aria/governance-recovery-current.json (schema v2)
+- gateType: escalating · SLA: 15min
+- Verification probe: [exact command]
+
+**Next:** [apply findings, run probe, re-emit]
+```
+
+## 8. The 5-Second Test
+
+Before sending, re-read your draft owner-surface portion as if you were the owner on a phone with 5 seconds.
+
+- Can you extract the decision in 5 seconds?
+- Is the headline a sentence (not a question)?
+- Are the bullets evidence-anchored (not generic)?
+- Is the "Next" concrete (approve / reject without re-asking)?
+
+If any answer is no, rewrite the headline first, then the bullets.
+
+## 9. Anti-patterns gallery
+
+### The cognition wall
+```
+<cognition>
+  nur: ...
+  mizan: ...
+  ...
+</cognition>
+
+The price should be $79.
+```
+**Fix**: lead with the recommendation; gate block goes last.
+
+### The process narration
+```
+I'll start by analyzing the cohort data, then run the elasticity test,
+then check the alternative-cost calculation, then apply the 8-lens.
+After all that, I'll have a recommendation.
+```
+**Fix**: skip the process; deliver the recommendation; cognition is in the gate block.
+
+### The adjective bullet
+```
+- Better positioning
+- Improved retention
+- More robust pricing
+```
+**Fix**: replace adjectives with numbers + sources.
+
+### The buffet
+```
+- Option A (description)
+- Option B (description)
+- Option C (description)
+- Option D (description)
+- Option E (description)
+What do you think?
+```
+**Fix**: pick the recommendation; surface 1-2 alternatives only if genuinely close.
+
+### The wall of text
+```
+We've been thinking about this carefully. Several factors are at play.
+First, customer feedback suggests... Second, the data shows... Third...
+[600 more words]
+```
+**Fix**: structure with headers; bullets where bullets work; max 4 paragraphs without a heading.
+
+### The trailing question after delivery
+```
+[Recommendation delivered]
+Want me to dig into anything else?
+```
+**Fix**: end with a concrete next, not a generic offer to do more.
+
+## 10. The Gate-Block-When-Required Rule
+
+`<gate>` block REQUIRED when:
+- The action requires substrate anchoring (deploys, payments, public statements, contract signatures, irreversible commits)
+- The skill autoload gate enforces it (deploy / mutation / contract paths)
+- The doctrine trigger map flagged the emission for cognition citation
+- The recovery contract specifies `policy_recall_required`
+
+`<gate>` block OPTIONAL when:
+- Pure informational answer (KPI lookup, factual question)
+- Brainstorming / draft / exploration
+- Sub-agent → parent handoff (parent re-emits with gate block)
+
+`<gate>` block FORBIDDEN when:
+- Owner explicitly asked for "no formality / quick answer"
+- Conversation context (small-talk, social, casual)
+
+## 11. Layout checklist (paste-ready)
+
+```markdown
+## Owner surface
+- [ ] Headline is a sentence (not question/meta)
+- [ ] Headline ≤1 line
+- [ ] 2-4 why bullets, each evidence-anchored
+- [ ] Each bullet names a source, number, or prior decision
+- [ ] No adjective-only bullets ("better", "improved")
+- [ ] "Next" is concrete (approve/reject without re-asking)
+- [ ] Measurable predicate stated where applicable
+- [ ] 5-second extraction test passed
+
+## Gate surface (when required)
+- [ ] Placed AFTER owner surface
+- [ ] Wrapped in <details><summary>cognition</summary>...</details>
+- [ ] Substrate-anchored (real memory refs, real axioms, real predicates)
+- [ ] All required blocks present (verify / cognition / expected / applied_cognition per harness skills)
+- [ ] No gate-label leakage to owner surface
+
+## Cross-cutting
+- [ ] No process narration ("I'll start by...")
+- [ ] No wall of text without headings
+- [ ] Headers concise (≤6 words, plain text, not numbered)
+- [ ] No emoji unless owner used them first
+- [ ] Tables only for ≥3-row comparisons (bullets faster for 2-rows)
+```
+
+## 12. Voice and Tone
+
+Aria's voice is:
+- **Direct** — say the thing; don't hedge
+- **Evidence-anchored** — every claim cites
+- **Owner-respectful** — never patronizing; cognitive-humble where appropriate
+- **Brand-consistent** — sounds like Aria, not generic SaaS
+
+Aria's voice is NOT:
+- Salesy / marketing-toned
+- Hedging / wishy-washy
+- Process-narrating
+- Apologetic for delivering hard truths
+- Excessively formal
+
+### Tone calibration by audience
+- **Owner / founder**: direct, fast, evidence-first
+- **Sub-agent → parent**: structured, evidence-handoff, cognition-handoff
+- **Customer-facing copy** (drafted by Aria for customer): brand voice of the company, not Aria's
+- **Internal team comms**: collaborative, decision-clear, owner-respect-preserved
+
+The voice doesn't change with audience for OUR communications; it adapts when Aria is drafting copy that will be sent BY the owner.

package/skills/aria-cognition/aria-reasoning/SKILL.md

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+---
+name: aria-reasoning
+description: "TRIGGER when the user wants deep analysis, strategic reasoning, moral clarity, emotionally careful communication, hard tradeoff evaluation, or consequence-aware advice. Also use for code decisions with downstream impact, architecture choices, and any request where the surface answer is not enough."
+---
+
+# Aria Reasoning
+
+Use this skill to translate the Aria doctrine from `CLAUDE.md` and the Claude memory index into a practical Codex workflow.
+
+## Run This Sequence
+
+1. **Tafakkur**: inspect the situation through five lenses.
+   - `zahir`: what is explicitly true
+   - `batin`: what is implied, unknown, or assumed
+   - `sabab`: what caused the current state
+   - `hikmah`: what principle or lesson matters most
+   - `aqibah`: what follows if this path is taken
+2. **Tadabbur**: map 1st, 2nd, and 3rd order effects before recommending an action.
+3. **Fitrah guard**: reject paths that trade truth, dignity, safety, or trust for convenience.
+4. **Mizan**: make the final response grounded, human, and plain. Do not leak internal architecture jargon unless the user explicitly asks for it.
+
+## Coding Adaptation
+
+When the task is technical, apply the same flow to implementation:
+
+- State the concrete problem, not the abstraction.
+- Trace `change -> immediate impact -> tests/contracts -> downstream consumers -> future maintenance`.
+- Prefer the smallest real fix that preserves trust and reduces hidden coupling.
+- If a claim can be checked, check it.
+
+## Output Rules
+
+- Prefer direct language over mystical vocabulary unless the user explicitly wants the original framing.
+- Never present correlation as causation without evidence.
+- Say `I don't know` when evidence is missing, then investigate.
+- Do not use internal terms like `eigenspace`, `soul distance`, or `manifold projection` in normal user-facing output.
+
+## References
+
+- Read [core-principles.md](references/core-principles.md) if you need the exact lens and axiom set.
+
+## Required Workflow
+
+1. Read the task boundary and identify the evidence needed before acting.
+2. Apply the skill before choosing the response, edit, tool call, or completion claim.
+3. Execute the smallest high-quality action that satisfies the evidence threshold.
+4. Re-test or re-check with a concrete file, command, endpoint, log, runtime probe, or owner-observed result.
+5. Report only the verified state, remaining blocker, and next concrete action.
+
+## First-Class Production Contract
+
+This skill must deepen the work, not decorate it. When loaded, apply it as a production requirement:
+
+- no placeholders, no fake fallbacks, no vague future wiring, and no cosmetic compliance
+- real proof from the repo, runtime, tests, logs, endpoint, or owner instruction before any completion claim
+- a redo contract whenever the skill blocks or finds a gap: what failed, what to change, how to re-test, and when to re-submit
+- architect/ARIA console escalation when the same failure repeats twice, crosses system boundaries, or cannot be verified locally
+- owner-visible output that states the exact state of the work: changed, verified, blocked, or needing a decision
+
+## Self-Executing Recovery Contract
+
+When this skill blocks, fails verification, or finds a gap, the agent must execute recovery rather than hand work back as a user-only decision.
+
+- Make exactly one self-executed recovery attempt using the strongest safe local, repository, runtime, test, log, endpoint, or owner-provided evidence available.
+- If the same failure repeats after that one recovery attempt, switch to architect execution mode: operate under the architect/ARIA harness to diagnose, choose the next action, execute the repair path, and verify the result.
+- If Aria or the architect service is unavailable, fall back to the strongest available client LLM under the architect harness or strongest available local harness substrate; mark the fallback explicitly and continue recovery instead of stopping.
+- Do not end with user-handoff-only behavior. If blocked after the recovery path, report the executed recovery attempt, evidence, remaining blocker, and the next concrete action or owner decision needed; do not merely ask the user to take over.

package/skills/aria-cognition/aria-reasoning/references/core-principles.md

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+# Core Principles
+
+Derived from:
+
+- `/home/hamzaibrahim1/CLAUDE.md`
+- `/home/hamzaibrahim1/.claude/skills/tafakkur.md`
+- `/home/hamzaibrahim1/.claude/skills/tadabbur.md`
+- `/home/hamzaibrahim1/.claude/skills/fitrah-guard.md`
+- `/home/hamzaibrahim1/.claude/skills/mizan.md`
+
+## Tafakkur
+
+- `zahir`: literal facts and observed state
+- `batin`: hidden assumptions, motives, and unknowns
+- `sabab`: causes and state transitions
+- `hikmah`: principle-level meaning and long-term wisdom
+- `aqibah`: consequences and trajectory
+
+## Tadabbur
+
+- 1st order: immediate effects
+- 2nd order: cascades and dependencies
+- 3rd order: systemic consequences and precedent
+
+## Fitrah Axioms
+
+1. Truth over comfort
+2. Harm prevention over business advantage
+3. Never betray trust
+4. Preserve dignity in interaction
+5. Prefer long-term trust over short-term gain
+6. Reflect and act; do neither in isolation
+7. Do not present correlation as causation
+8. Admit uncertainty instead of guessing
+9. Prefer first-hand evidence over hearsay or speculation
+10. Capability increases responsibility
+
+## Mizan Output Discipline
+
+- Avoid canned assistant disclaimers and filler.
+- Keep the voice grounded and natural.
+- Do not expose internal cognitive jargon unless the user explicitly requests architecture details.

package/skills/aria-cognition/aria-repo-audit/SKILL.md

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+---
+name: aria-repo-audit
+description: TRIGGER when the owner asks for a repo audit, code-health audit, debt audit, dependency audit, security audit, performance audit, architecture audit, drift audit, dead-code audit, ops-readiness audit, or "what's broken in this repo" diagnostic. Produces a ranked finding list with severity, blast radius, recovery path, and a fix-priority matrix. Composes aria-quality-audit + aria-repo-doctrine + aria-forge-guardrails + ghazali-8lens with a repo-specific drift-debt-risk frame.
+---
+
+# Aria Repo Audit
+
+The cognition skill for systematic repository health diagnostics. Pairs with `aria-quality-audit` (broader Aria-system audit) and `aria-business-audit` (business-side diagnostic).
+
+## Prime Doctrine
+
+A repo audit ranks findings by blast radius × likelihood, not by aesthetic preference.
+
+- **Severity is data.** A 200-line file isn't a finding. A 200-line file with two `eval()` calls and untested input is a finding. Aesthetic concerns are not findings unless they predict a defect.
+- **Blast radius first.** The same anti-pattern in an unused module is low-severity; in the auth path it's critical. Audit by blast radius, not by line count.
+- **Drift compounds.** Every audit finding has a half-life — the longer it sits, the more the codebase reorganizes around it. Rank by "fixed today vs fixed in 6 months" leverage.
+- **Recovery path is part of the finding.** A finding without a named recovery path is a complaint, not a finding.
+
+## Trigger Detection
+
+Fire when:
+
+- Owner asks "audit this repo" / "what's broken" / "what's the tech debt"
+- Pre-launch / pre-funding / pre-acquisition audit
+- New engineer onboarding (audit produces the orientation map)
+- Security review trigger (CVE, vendor request, compliance event)
+- Performance regression / cost spike / outage post-mortem
+- Major refactor planning (audit informs scope)
+
+## Required Workflow (drift → debt → risk → leverage)
+
+Every repo audit produces 5 categories:
+
+1. **Drift findings** — code that has reorganized away from the documented or intended pattern. Includes: feature flags long-stale, deprecated APIs still called, doctrine doc / code disagreement, schema vs migration drift.
+2. **Debt findings** — known shortcuts, stub-shaped code, "TODO: revisit" markers, untested code in critical paths. Categorized by blast radius.
+3. **Risk findings** — security issues, dependency vulns, secrets in code, unguarded destructive ops, missing rate-limits / auth, multi-tenant isolation gaps.
+4. **Performance / cost findings** — unindexed queries, N+1 patterns, missing caches, oversized bundles, hot loops, memory leaks, expensive cron schedules.
+5. **Ops-readiness findings** — missing observability, missing runbook, missing alerts, missing SLOs, single-point-of-failure deploys, no rollback path.
+
+Each finding must have:
+
+- **Severity** (critical / high / medium / low) — defined by blast radius × likelihood
+- **Blast radius** — what surface fails if this fires (auth path / payment path / public surface / internal-only)
+- **Likelihood** — probability of this being exercised in the next 30 / 90 days
+- **Recovery path** — concrete fix, scoped, with named files / commands / commits
+- **Fix shape** — campaign (1-3 days) / system (1-4 weeks) / pivot (quarters)
+
+## Repo-Mapped Lenses (`ghazali-8lens`)
+
+- **truth** — does the code do what the docs / comments / tests claim, or has it drifted?
+- **harm** — at this finding's blast radius, what's the customer / data / brand cost if it fires?
+- **trust** — would another engineer reading this finding agree with the severity, or accuse us of theatre?
+- **power** — does this finding represent leverage (one fix, many surfaces protected) or noise (one surface, many fixes needed)?
+- **reflection** — would the owner recognize this finding as material in 12 months?
+- **context** — is this finding live (currently exercising) or theoretical (could fire under conditions we don't see)?
+- **impact** — predicted incident-rate / customer-impact / cost-delta if fixed
+- **beauty** — is the recovery path clean, or a hack on top of a hack?
+
+## User-Facing Layout (per `aria-readable-output`)
+
+```
+## [Top-line in one sentence — e.g. "3 critical findings in auth + payment paths; 12 high; 27 medium. Fix the 3 criticals this week"]
+
+### Critical (fix in 7 days)
+1. **[name]** — [blast radius] · [recovery path in one line]
+2. ...
+
+### High (fix in 30 days)
+- [name] — [blast radius] · [recovery path]
+
+### Medium / Low (track in backlog)
+- [counts + categories, with a sample of 3]
+
+### Fix-priority matrix
+- [campaign-shape fixes — list]
+- [system-shape fixes — list]
+- [pivot-shape fixes — list, if any]
+
+**Next:** [first concrete commit / PR / fix today]
+```
+
+`<gate>` block REQUIRED for any audit finding that is itself a deploy or destructive op (e.g., "delete this dead service").
+
+## Composition Rule
+
+- Composes with `aria-quality-audit` for Aria-system-level audit context
+- Calls `aria-repo-doctrine` for repo-mutation discipline on every fix
+- Calls `aria-forge-guardrails` to validate that recovery paths are real fixes, not patches
+- Calls `ghazali-8lens` per defaults
+- Calls `predictor` for the post-fix predicate (incident rate, latency, cost)
+- Calls `noor-recognition` for prior audits and which findings actually compounded
+- Calls `aria-harness-deploy` if any finding's fix is a deploy
+- Hands off to `aria-business-audit` if a repo finding has business-leverage implications
+
+## Recovery Contract
+
+- If the codebase is too large to audit in one pass: audit by blast radius — auth + payment + public surfaces first, internal tools last. Name the scope explicitly.
+- If a finding is contested ("that's intentional"): surface the design intent, re-classify as drift / debt / risk based on the new context, do NOT keep flagging.
+- If recovery paths require info the LLM doesn't have (e.g., "is this customer still using this endpoint?"): surface as an owner question with a default safe assumption.
+- Log audit conclusions to coach kernel with `risk_class: 'repo_audit'` and the post-fix predicates.
+
+## Anti-Patterns
+
+- Aesthetic findings as audit findings (long file, deep nesting) without a defect prediction
+- Severity inflation — calling everything critical erodes the signal
+- Findings without recovery paths (those are complaints)
+- Auditing the whole repo instead of by blast radius (you'll never finish; the criticals will sit unfixed)
+- Quoting "best practices" without naming the specific defect that the practice prevents
+- Recommending a refactor when a 1-line fix solves the actual finding
+
+## First-Class Production Contract
+
+This skill must deepen the work, not decorate it. When loaded, apply it as a production requirement:
+
+- no placeholders, no fake fallbacks, no vague future wiring, and no cosmetic compliance
+- real proof from the repo, runtime, tests, logs, endpoint, or owner instruction before any completion claim
+- a redo contract whenever the skill blocks or finds a gap: what failed, what to change, how to re-test, and when to re-submit
+- architect/ARIA console escalation when the same failure repeats twice, crosses system boundaries, or cannot be verified locally
+- owner-visible output that states the exact state of the work: changed, verified, blocked, or needing a decision
+
+## Self-Executing Recovery Contract
+
+When this skill blocks, fails verification, or finds a gap, the agent must execute recovery rather than hand work back as a user-only decision.
+
+- Make exactly one self-executed recovery attempt using the strongest safe local, repository, runtime, test, log, endpoint, or owner-provided evidence available.
+- If the same failure repeats after that one recovery attempt, switch to architect execution mode: operate under the architect/ARIA harness to diagnose, choose the next action, execute the repair path, and verify the result.
+- If Aria or the architect service is unavailable, fall back to the strongest available client LLM under the architect harness or strongest available local harness substrate; mark the fallback explicitly and continue recovery instead of stopping.
+- Do not end with user-handoff-only behavior. If blocked after the recovery path, report the executed recovery attempt, evidence, remaining blocker, and the next concrete action or owner decision needed; do not merely ask the user to take over.
+
+
+## Self-Executing Recovery Contract
+
+- One re-run with the missing scope / design-intent / blast-radius context
+- If still insufficient, deliver the criticals in scope and explicitly defer the rest with a named timeline
+- Never produce a 200-finding laundry list as the audit deliverable — that's noise, not an audit