@brainervirus/workit-pi 4.0.0 → 5.0.0

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package/README.md CHANGED
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  [![CI](https://github.com/BrainerVirus/workit/actions/workflows/ci.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/BrainerVirus/workit/actions/workflows/ci.yml)
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  [![license: MIT](https://img.shields.io/badge/license-MIT-green.svg)](../../LICENSE)
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- Workit native extension for Pi (stock 0.85.1 package contract) — eight core-backed operation tools, sixteen method skills, session/compaction continuity, and a coordinator that supervises fresh reviewer/investigator processes plus explicitly scoped implementers.
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+ Workit native extension for Pi (stock 0.85.1 package contract) — eight core-backed operation tools, eleven method skills, session/compaction continuity, and a coordinator that supervises fresh reviewer/investigator processes plus explicitly scoped implementers.
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  ## Requirements
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package/dist/workit.js CHANGED
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  // packages/workit-core/src/core/methods.ts
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  var METHODS = {
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- "workit-challenge": { dimensions: ["challenge", "decisions"] },
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- "workit-behavioral-tdd": { dimensions: ["testing"], ruleIds: ["mechanical-existing-checks"] },
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+ "workit-shape": { dimensions: ["challenge", "decisions", "artifacts", "continuity"] },
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+ "workit-bdd": { dimensions: ["testing"] },
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  "workit-review": { dimensions: ["review"], ruleIds: ["fresh-context-review", "self-review"] },
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- "workit-plan": { dimensions: ["artifacts", "continuity"] },
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- "workit-implement": { dimensions: ["delegation"] },
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+ "workit-implement": { ruleIds: ["mechanical-existing-checks"] },
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+ "workit-fanout": { dimensions: ["delegation"] },
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  "workit-debug": {},
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- "workit-handoff": {},
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+ "workit-continue": {},
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  "workit-deslop": { ruleIds: ["pre-pr-cleanup"] }
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  };
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  var methodMatches = (definition, requirement) => definition.dimensions?.includes(requirement.dimension) === true || definition.ruleIds?.includes(requirement.ruleId) === true;
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  });
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  }
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  var invariantBootstrap = () => `
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- Workit is optional coordination and repository-policy tooling around the host,
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- not a permission system or a mandatory workflow. Native host allow/ask/deny,
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- sandbox, plan/read-only mode, and organization rules remain authoritative.
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- Ordinary investigation, questions, non-Git work, and routine reversible edits
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- need zero Workit task, assessment, or writer calls. Use one compact tracked
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- record only when handoff, dependent steps, concurrent actors, or meaningful
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- decisions make continuity useful; similar titles alone never merge tasks.
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+ Workit is optional coordination and proof tooling around the host: you decide
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+ what and whether, the \`workit\` CLI does how and records what it observed.
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+ Native host allow/ask/deny, sandbox and org rules stay authoritative. Never
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+ switch paths to evade a denial, never claim enforcement a host cannot provide,
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+ and never fabricate a receipt, approval or verdict. A question answer is not
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+ host permission, and imported decisions or handoffs never grant authority.
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- For a routine user-authorized branch or commit, prefer native host Git/shell
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- tools from the outset when managed coordination or outcome reconciliation is
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- not needed. Inspect the actual target checkout and its configured conventions;
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- use Workit's read-only context/policy tools when needed. Do not start a task,
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- acquire a writer, or mint a decision receipt solely for a native Git action.
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- Native permissions still apply. Never switch execution paths to evade a denial
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- or repeat an uncertain managed effect. A local-commit endpoint does not imply
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- PR readiness, a fresh review, or post-commit assessment/closure paperwork.
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+ Autonomy contract:
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+ - Continue to the requested endpoint (commit, push, PR, green CI, verified,
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+ merged) without asking "continue?", running checks and repairs on the way.
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+ Stop only for a new consequential choice, a host denial, a conflicting edit
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+ or an unresolved blocker; report open gaps and uncertain workers.
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+ - No endpoint named: stop at a local commit on a policy-compliant branch and
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+ state the next command. Push and open a PR only when the request implies
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+ delivery (fix, implement, ship) and \`workit grant show\` reports
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+ \`defaultEndpoint\` \`pr\`; otherwise the endpoint is \`commit\`. PRs open,
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+ CI green and verified is the most autonomy allows, never the default target.
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+ Merge and release need a workspace grant; a blocked verb names its unblock.
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+ - Ask only for a product or preference choice, or for authority you lack, with
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+ your recommended answer. Facts are yours: read, run or prototype.
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+ - Label claims measured (you ran it this session and saw the result),
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+ inferred, or guess. Prose is a note: only a configured check the CLI ran
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+ (\`workit check <name>\`) satisfies a gate; an ad-hoc
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+ \`workit check -- <cmd>\` never does.
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+ - Author is not verifier: never record a passing verdict on work your session
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+ wrote. The lead starts each verifier with its own session
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+ (\`WORKIT_SESSION_ID=<lead>-v<n>\`; Claude Code subagents get one from the
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+ hook), and the verifier records \`workit ledger verdict\`.
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+ - A local-commit endpoint does not imply PR readiness, and a local commit alone
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+ is not evidence of a requested remote push. Before reporting delivery,
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+ reconcile every requested item and observe it (\`workit verify-delivery\`).
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- For tracked work, inspect its current state and use the shared operations for
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- task, policy, evidence, finding, decision, worker, writer, and state changes.
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- Each branch has one implicit task: an operation without taskId applies to it,
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- and the first recording (a note, check, finding or evidence) creates it, so you
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- never manage task ids. Start a record only for an explicit tracked objective;
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- assess or reassess only
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- when policy selection or changed evidence/constraints requires it. Omitted
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- expectedRevision and expectedWorkspaceRevision use current values; explicit
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- values are still concurrency-checked, so never copy revisions between calls.
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- A busy result means another live Workit call holds the checkout lock: retry the
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- same call; it is not a recovery condition. A lock left by a dead process is
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- reclaimed on the next write, and \`workit doctor --fix-lock\` clears it on demand.
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- An omitted revision absorbs a concurrent write: Workit re-reads, re-checks
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- policy, and reapplies the call, returning busy under persistent contention. A
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- revision_conflict means a revision you passed is stale: re-read the record
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- before deciding whether to retry.
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- A solo edit does not need writer acquisition; use it when concurrent checkout
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- writers need coordination. Record only observed facts and checks. Close-time
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- testing and verification gates accept only a configured check the CLI ran:
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- \`workit check <name>\` (\`npx -y @brainervirus/workit-cli check <name>\` when
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- \`workit\` is not on PATH); a recorded check result is a note and an ad-hoc
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- \`workit check -- <cmd>\` never satisfies a gate. Evidence can become stale when its bound candidate or tree changes; reconcile findings against the
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- current candidate before recording completion.
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+ CLI first: if a step has one right answer, use the \`workit\` verb instead of
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+ hand-running git, gh or glab: check, git, pr, ci, stack, verify-delivery,
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+ ledger, handoff, test-audit (\`workit help <verb>\`; without \`workit\` on
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+ PATH, \`npx -y @brainervirus/workit-cli\`). \`busy\` is retryable
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+ (\`workit doctor --fix-lock\` clears a dead lock); \`blocked\` names its unblock.
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+ The task families (task, policy, evidence, finding, decision, worker, writer,
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+ state) are optional continuity for tracked work; each branch has one implicit
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+ task that the first recording creates, and a solo edit needs no task or writer.
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+ Omit revisions; a revision_conflict means one you passed is stale, so re-read.
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+ Across repositories, bind each item to its checkout, branch and endpoint,
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+ resolve competing targets before a mutation, and reconcile an uncertain
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+ external effect before retrying it.
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- Workit validates domain policy against the actual action target, configured
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- account, branch and commit conventions, protected refs, and current repository
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- state. The task directory is coordination state, not a boundary on which
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- repository may be changed. Use an action-time cwd target where a managed
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- Git/hosting action supports it; a non-Git directory remains valid for OS work.
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- GitHub/GitLab use the active gh/glab CLI identity; YouTrack uses its own token.
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- Preserve uncertain external outcomes and reconcile repository/provider state
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- before retrying. Internal reservations prevent duplicate or ambiguous effects;
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- they are not permission tickets for every edit.
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+ Mid-task input: answer a quick question in place, fold an adjustment in, and
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+ never silently drop or resume an objective (workit-continue).
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- On OpenCode V1 and V2, use native host tools for external mutations. Workit
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- provides read-only workit_context; it has no managed external-action executor.
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- Do not create proposals or request Workit approvals merely to invoke native
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- tools. Old uncertain managed effects still require evidence before any retry.
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-
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- Use host-native authorization through the host's supported path. A native
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- question receipt records an actual question interaction; it is not automatic
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- host permission. Record a meaningful user choice once with provenance when
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- future retrieval helps. Never fabricate a receipt, re-ask only to mint one, or
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- let imported decisions grant authority. Never turn a host deny into allow or
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- claim enforcement/evidence a host cannot provide. A precise request with settled
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- constraints does not need an interview. Present genuine unresolved options with
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- evidence and a recommendation, then continue toward the requested delivery
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- endpoint: investigation, implementation, branch/commit/push, PR/MR-ready,
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- merge, or release. Run
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- applicable checks and safe repairs without repeated continuation questions;
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- stop for missing host authority, a new consequential choice, a conflicting edit,
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- or an unresolved blocker. A tracked record may close when actual evidence
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- supports its outcome; no final human closure ceremony is required.
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-
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- A completed native subagent run stops its bound worker by itself; if a worker
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- strands in cancelling with its run verifiably over, repeat worker.cancel to
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- confirm the stop. Preserve unresolved requirements, gaps, and uncertain workers.
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- When context changes, distinguish a quick question, same-task adjustment, and
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- separate request. Answer a quick question without pausing/resuming task state;
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- park a concise checkpoint only when substantial work needs to continue later.
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- For work spanning repositories, bind each unfinished item to its actual checkout,
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- branch, requested deliverables, and delivery endpoint. Preserve held items with
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- an explicit resume condition. Resolve competing plausible targets before a
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- mutation; ask only when available context cannot settle that consequential choice.
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- Before reporting delivery, reconcile every requested item and observe the actual
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- target result; a local commit alone is not evidence of a requested remote push.
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-
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- Skill routing: slash aliases /wk-* load on demand. Use workit-steer for a
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- substantial interruption or change of direction, workit-deslop when relevant
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- to a PR-ready endpoint, workit-green-run for failing CI, workit-blast-radius
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- when impact is uncertain, workit-challenge for genuinely open consequential
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- choices, workit-bdd to turn acceptance criteria into Given/When/Then tests, and
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- workit-test-audit to check tests for tautologies. Load workit-plan when dependencies or handoff need durable next actions.
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- Load the skill; never act from memory of it.
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+ Skills: load the skill, never act from memory of it (slash aliases /wk-<name>).
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+ - brainstorm, plan, spec, grill, should we: workit-shape
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+ - implement, build, add a feature: workit-implement
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+ - review, blast radius: workit-review
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+ - bug, broken, flaky, regression: workit-debug
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+ - ship, babysit, CI, merge: workit-ship
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+ - resume, pick up, handoff, interruption: workit-continue
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+ - BDD, TDD, acceptance criteria, Given/When/Then: workit-bdd
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+ - test audit, tautology, weak tests: workit-test-audit
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+ - deslop, slop, dead code: workit-deslop
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+ - fan out, parallelize, parallel agents, swarm: workit-fanout
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+ - verify the app, smoke test, prove it works: workit-verify-app
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  `.trim();
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  // packages/workit-core/src/core/task-context.ts
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- description: Use when behavior is failing, surprising, contradictory, or regressed and the root cause is not established
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+ description: Find a root cause before patching - start from a red-capable deterministic repro, rank hypotheses, bisect regressions, fix at the root with a regression test. Use for bug, broken, failing, flaky, regression, error, why does.
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  ---
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- # Debug the root cause
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-
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- Debugging is investigation, not a fast symptom patch. Use this method when
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- assessment selects `root-cause-investigation` or behavior is failing without an
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- established root cause.
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-
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-
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- ## Method
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-
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- 1. Inspect task scope, caller authority, candidate identity, existing evidence,
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- findings, and worker/writer state with shared `task`, `policy`, `evidence`, and
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- `finding` operations.
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- 2. Reproduce the failure at a stable behavioral boundary. Record observed facts,
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- inferences, and unknowns with references; trace the failing value and all
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- relevant callers before editing.
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- 3. State the root-cause hypothesis and the smallest in-scope fix. Write a focused
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- regression at the boundary when practical, then run RED and GREEN through
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- `workit check <name>` so the results are observed, not reported.
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- 4. Acquire writer authority through `writer` before mutation. Reconcile the
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- candidate, evidence, and findings after the change; investigate sibling paths
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- and stale conclusions rather than assuming the first patch worked.
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-
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- Respect the user's scope and native authority. For a deterministic failure, make
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- one focused reproduction that exercises the affected boundary and add a
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- regression check when practical. If no direct reproduction exists, gather the
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- available evidence and state what remains uncertain instead of inventing a red
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- loop or blocking unrelated work.
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- ## Common mistakes
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- | Mistake | Correction |
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- | ------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------ |
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- | Patching the nearest stack frame | Trace the input, callers, and shared cause. |
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- | Reproducing only after editing | Capture the failure before mutation. |
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- | Treating one passing command as proof | Verify the affected behavior and record real evidence. |
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+ # Debug from a red loop
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+
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+ ## Steps
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+
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+ 1. **Build the loop before any hypothesis.** One command that is red for the
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+ user's exact symptom, deterministic, fast and runnable by you:
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+ `workit check -- <repro>`. Shrink it until it fails in seconds. If the
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+ symptom only shows on the running app, drive it with the project's
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+ verify-<app> skill. No loop yet? Building it is the task; do not guess-patch.
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+ 2. **Read the failure, not the summary:** the full error, the failing value,
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+ and every caller on its path.
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+ 3. **Rank three to five falsifiable hypotheses**, likeliest first. Test one at
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+ a time with the loop or a tagged log line (`[DEBUG-<id>]`, removed at the
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+ end with one grep). Keep a short hypothesis log so a dead idea stays dead.
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+ 4. **Regression? Bisect it:** `git bisect start <bad> <good>` then
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+ `git bisect run <repro>`. The first bad commit names the cause.
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+ 5. **Fix at the root**, the one place every failing caller passes through.
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+ Add a regression test at a seam that exercises the real bug pattern; if no
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+ such seam exists, report that as a finding.
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+ 6. **Stop rule:** after three dead hypotheses, write down what is measured and
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+ what is inferred, widen the loop, or ask for the one fact only the user has.
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+
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+ Every shipped line traces to evidence from the loop. A "might help" retry or
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+ guard is a hypothesis, not a fix.
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+
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+ ## Example
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+
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+ Bad: "Probably a race; added a retry." (no repro, nothing measured)
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+
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+ Good: "Repro: `workit check -- bun test lock.test.ts -t stale` red 10/10.
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+ H1 dead pid not reclaimed - confirmed: `kill(pid, 0)` throws EPERM for another
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+ user's pid and we treated it as dead. Fix: EPERM means alive. Loop green 10/10;
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+ regression test pins the EPERM case."
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+
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+ ## Check
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+
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+ ```sh
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+ workit check -- <repro> # red before the fix, green after
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+ workit check test
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+ ```
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  ---
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  name: workit-deslop
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- description: Use before opening a PR or after implementation to remove AI slop from code and prose
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+ description: Remove AI slop before a PR - dead code, comments that restate the code, filler prose - with a minimal diff and identical behavior. Use for deslop, clean up, slop, tidy before PR, remove dead code, trim the PR body.
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  ---
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  # Deslop code and prose
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- Throughput without quality is slop. Clean it with a minimal diff — deslop
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- never refactors behavior.
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-
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-
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- ## Method
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-
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- 1. Code: delete dead helpers, redundant validators, stub references, and
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- comments that restate the code. Comments die by default; keep one only
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- with proof of an unchangeable constraint, encoded structurally if cheap.
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- 2. Prose (PR body, spec, docs): cut filler, keep real symbol names and
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- before→after numbers. One doc, one purpose.
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- 3. Keep the diff minimal: deslop removes lines, never moves logic. If a
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- cleanup wants behavior change, it becomes its own tasked change.
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-
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- ## Completion
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-
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- A smaller diff with identical behavior and green checks. Report lines
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- removed, not lines written.
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-
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- Record passing check evidence linked to the `pre-pr-cleanup` requirement id
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- from the current policy (`kind: check`, `result: passed`, summary naming what
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- was removed). That requirement gates `hosting.pull_request` and close. If the
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- change genuinely has nothing to clean, ask for an approved limitation
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- decision instead of recording evidence that did not happen.
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+ Throughput without quality is slop. Deslop only removes; it never changes
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+ behavior. A change that wants new behavior is its own change.
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+
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+ 1. **Find it with tools first.** The repo's dead-code and lint tools on the
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+ branch diff (for example `knip`, `ts-prune`, `vulture`, `cargo udeps`, or
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+ the linter's unused rules), then read the diff:
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+ `git diff <base>...HEAD`.
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+ 2. **Code.** Delete unused helpers and exports, stub references, debug
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+ leftovers (`[DEBUG-` tags, stray logs), and comments that restate the next
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+ line. Keep comments that say *why* (a constraint, a workaround with its
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+ link), license headers and tool directives.
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+ 3. **Prose** (PR body, spec, docs): cut filler and hedging, keep real symbol
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+ names and before-to-after numbers. One doc, one purpose.
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+ 4. **Minimal diff.** Deslop removes lines; it never moves logic. A removed
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+ validator that changes behavior is not deslop.
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+ 5. **Re-run the checks** and report lines removed, not lines written. Nothing
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+ to clean is a valid result: say what you checked ("0 removals; ran knip and
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+ read the diff"). When a tracked task lists a `pre-pr-cleanup` requirement,
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+ record this result as its evidence.
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+
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+ ## Example
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+
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+ Bad: deleting `// retry: the gateway drops the first request after idle (#412)`
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+ because "comments die".
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+
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+ Good: deleting `// increment the counter` above `count += 1`, an unused
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+ `formatLegacyDate` export reported by knip, and two hedging paragraphs from the
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+ PR body: "-34 lines, behavior unchanged, `workit check test` exit 0".
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+
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+ ## Check
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+
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+ ```sh
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+ workit check test && git diff --stat <base>...HEAD
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+ ```
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+ ---
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+ name: workit-fanout
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+ description: Run independent slices in parallel - one worker per isolated worktree with a fixed brief and file-scope manifest, a non-author verifier per slice, results in the ledger. Use for fan out, parallelize, parallel agents, split the work, delegate, swarm.
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+ ---
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+
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+ # Fan out parallel workers
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+
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+ Fan out only independent slices: disjoint files, no shared mutable state, each
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+ verifiable alone. Code-coupled work stays with one owner, who fans out after
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+ the blocking part lands. A worker whose whole job is re-running one command is
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+ ceremony; do it yourself.
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+
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+ 1. **Slice** (workit-shape): each slice gets a branch, a file-scope manifest
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+ (the globs it may write) and, if it depends on another, its stack parent.
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+ 2. **Check disjointness.** No two manifests overlap. Shared files (lockfile,
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+ registry, barrel exports) belong to one slice, or to you after fan-in.
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+ 3. **Brief each worker** with the fixed template and refuse to spawn while a
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+ field is empty: GOAL, SCOPE (the manifest), CONTEXT (pointers, not pasted
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+ text), ACCEPTANCE (Given/When/Then), VERIFY (exact commands), TIMEBOX,
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+ FORBIDDEN, REPORT, STANDING. STANDING is every standing order and user
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+ directive so far, pasted verbatim into each spawn and respawn, because
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+ directives decay across resumes. Template: `references/brief.md`.
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+ 4. **Spawn all workers in one message**, in the background, each in its own
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+ worktree (Claude Code: the `implementer` agent; elsewhere
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+ `git worktree add --detach ../<repo>-wt/<slug> origin/<base>`). The first
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+ command a worker runs is `workit git branch <branch> --base <base>`.
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+ 5. **Judge liveness by side effects only:** new commits and pushes
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+ (`git log <branch>`), PR and check changes (`workit pr status --branch <b>`).
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+ No progress past the timebox means stuck. Stop the old worker and observe
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+ that it exited (a timeout is not proof). `git worktree remove --force`
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+ drops its uncommitted changes, so first record `git -C <wt> status --short`
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+ in the ledger or your report; only then remove the worktree. Respawn with the brief in
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+ `MODE: resume` (consolidated: original, later directives, its last report):
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+ the new worker runs `git switch <branch>` in its fresh worktree instead of
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+ `workit git branch`. Never two live workers on one branch. Replace at most
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+ twice, then re-slice or report the gap. Never chain resumes.
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+ 6. **Verify each slice independently.** A fresh agent that did not write it
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+ (Claude Code: the `verifier` agent) runs VERIFY and verify-<app>, then
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+ `workit ledger verdict <result> --branch <b> --how "<evidence>"` under the
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+ session you started it with (`WORKIT_SESSION_ID=<lead>-v<n>`, set by you,
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+ never chosen by the author; Claude Code: the hook names one).
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+ A worker's report is a pointer, never evidence.
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+ 7. **Fan in.** Compare `git diff --name-only <base>...<b>` with the slice's
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+ SCOPE: any file outside it stops the fan-in with a report. Then
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+ `workit ledger check --branch <b>` for each slice; restack
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+ stacked slices with `workit stack sync`. Only you touch topology: workers
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+ never rebase, retarget or merge. Then workit-ship.
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+
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+ ## Example
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+
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+ Bad brief: "Do the API part and add tests." (no scope, no acceptance, no
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+ verify command, so nobody can tell when it is done)
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+
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+ Good brief: `references/brief.md` (GOAL: `GET /v1/usage` returns daily run
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+ counts; SCOPE: `src/routes/usage.ts`, `test/usage.test.ts`; VERIFY:
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+ `workit check test`; ...).
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+
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+ ## Check
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+
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+ ```sh
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+ workit ledger check --branch <b> # per slice: accepted (current, passing, independent)
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+ ```