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     "clarify-open-nfrs.md": "Proactively clarify any open non-functional requirements with the user via an interactive decision page before decomposing the epic. Clear goals and a clear desired end-state make the functional decomposition far more accurate, so resolve the unclear NFRs first.\n\n## Inputs\n\n- The framing written by the previous step: `{docs_dir}/epic-plans/{epic_slug}/goals-and-nfrs.md`.\n\n## Step 1: Read the framing\n\nRead `{docs_dir}/epic-plans/{epic_slug}/goals-and-nfrs.md`. Collect the NFRs marked `open` and note the business goal, desired end-state, and system behavior.\n\n## Step 2: Skip if nothing is open\n\n**If there are no `open` NFRs**, skip the decision page entirely. Note that no clarification was needed and proceed (return). Do not generate a page just to fill it.\n\n## Step 3: Build the decision-page inputs\n\n**If there is at least one `open` NFR**, build the inputs for an interactive planning decision page:\n   - `system_goals` (read-only): `business_goal`, `desired_end_state`, `system_behavior`, and `nfrs` — the full classified NFR list, each with `category`, `requirement`, `implication`, and `status`.\n   - `actionable_items`: one card per `open` NFR. Each card has:\n     - `id`: a short stable id, e.g. `NFR-1`, `NFR-2`.\n     - `question`: the decision the open NFR poses (e.g. \"What latency budget must the harvester meet?\").\n     - `options`: 2–4 concrete option labels. Do **not** include \"None of these\" or \"Ask about this\" — the renderer auto-appends both. If there is one obvious answer, still provide the strongest alternative as a second option.\n     - `option_consequences`: one consequence line per option, parallel to and the same length as `options`.\n     - `why_it_matters`: the concrete impact of the decision.\n     - `recommendation_explanation`: why the recommended option is best.\n     - `recommendation_index`: the 0-based index of the recommended option.\n\n## Step 4: Call generate_decision_page\n\n**Call `generate_decision_page`** with `ticket_key`, `artifact_type`, routing fields, and `labels` at the root, and `system_goals` + `actionable_items` nested under `content`:\n   - `artifact_type`: `pre_ticket_planning`.\n   - `ticket_key`: `{epic_slug}`.\n   - `output_subdir`: `epic-plans/{epic_slug}`.\n   - `output_filename`: `{epic_slug}-nfr-decisions.html`.\n   - `labels`: planning-flavored overrides, e.g. `title` = \"Epic Planning Decisions\", `section_heading` = \"Open Non-Functional Requirements\", and an `intro` that frames the page as settling the goals and NFRs before decomposition.\n   - `content`: an object containing `system_goals` and `actionable_items` from step 3. (Omit `implementation_order` — the order is produced after decomposition.)\n\n   ```typescript\n   interface NfrPlanningContent {\n     system_goals?: {\n       business_goal: string;\n       desired_end_state: string;\n       system_behavior: string;\n       nfrs?: Array<{\n         category: string;       // e.g. \"security/privacy\", \"performance/latency\"\n         requirement: string;\n         implication: string;    // required — what this changes about the implementation\n         status: \"confirmed\" | \"assumed\" | \"open\";\n       }>;\n     };\n     actionable_items?: Array<{\n       id: string;               // e.g. \"NFR-1\", \"NFR-2\"\n       question: string;\n       why_it_matters: string;\n       recommendation_explanation: string;\n       options: string[];        // 2-4 option labels\n       option_consequences: string[]; // same length as options\n       recommendation_index: number;\n     }>;\n   }\n   ```\n\n   Example call:\n   ```json\n   {\n     \"ticket_key\": \"{epic_slug}\",\n     \"artifact_type\": \"pre_ticket_planning\",\n     \"output_subdir\": \"epic-plans/{epic_slug}\",\n     \"output_filename\": \"{epic_slug}-nfr-decisions.html\",\n     \"labels\": { \"title\": \"Epic Planning Decisions\", \"section_heading\": \"Open Non-Functional Requirements\" },\n     \"content\": {\n       \"system_goals\": {\n         \"business_goal\": \"Reduce MCP token tax to improve agent context efficiency.\",\n         \"desired_end_state\": \"Core profile uses fewer than 15k tokens per session.\",\n         \"system_behavior\": \"On-demand contract delivery with no schema round-trips.\",\n         \"nfrs\": [\n           { \"category\": \"performance/latency\", \"requirement\": \"No latency regression\", \"implication\": \"Validate in handler, not at boundary\", \"status\": \"confirmed\" },\n           { \"category\": \"security/privacy\", \"requirement\": \"Errors never leak into HTML\", \"implication\": \"Use JSON envelope only\", \"status\": \"confirmed\" }\n         ]\n       },\n       \"actionable_items\": [\n         {\n           \"id\": \"NFR-1\",\n           \"question\": \"What latency budget must the harvester meet?\",\n           \"why_it_matters\": \"Sets the retry window for downstream consumers.\",\n           \"recommendation_explanation\": \"Under 30s matches existing SLA.\",\n           \"options\": [\"Under 30s\", \"Under 60s\"],\n           \"option_consequences\": [\"Tight but achievable.\", \"Relaxed, may delay alerts.\"],\n           \"recommendation_index\": 0\n         }\n       ]\n     }\n   }\n   ```\n\n## Step 5: Capture the user's choices (stop and wait)\n\nDirect the user to the returned `file_path`, tell them to open it and submit. Treat a paste as a commit only when it is a JSON object with all three top-level fields: `ticket_key` (string), `decisions` (object), and `general_comment` (string). The submitted JSON is the baseline; record any explicit conversational change to a decision as an in-flight override, which takes precedence over the submission when constructing the settled set used in Step 6. A `\"none\"` selection carries any reason supplied in the card comment or chat — retain it. For any item where `choice === \"ask\"`, discuss until the user gives an explicit decision — record it the same way as any other override — before continuing; every `\"ask\"` must be replaced by an explicit recorded decision before Step 6 begins. You MUST stop and wait for the user to respond — do NOT assume answers and do NOT proceed until the open NFRs are resolved or the user explicitly declines.\n\n## Step 6: Review implications and gate\n\nThis surface's tracked stances are the NFR stances captured in Step 5. **Review the wider implications, then gate on a decision.** Build the review from the complete settled set: the submitted `decisions`, any in-flight overrides recorded during the conversation (these take precedence over the submission), every `\"none\"` answer together with the reason given for it, `general_comment`, and — where this surface tracks acceptance-criterion or NFR stances — those stances too. Do not start the review until every `ask` has an explicit recorded resolution and every in-flight override has been applied.\n\nConsider three fixed categories, regardless of whether a decision was framed as technical, user-facing, or business-oriented:\n- **Program / application** — architecture, code paths, operability, maintenance burden, and requirements imposed on other parts of the software.\n- **User** — end users, new users performing setup, operators, and developers, including prerequisites, setup friction, and additional steps.\n- **Business** — cost, adoption, support load, compliance, and reversibility.\n\nEmit only the categories with material second-order implications. For each included category, write at most four one-line bullets of about 25 words, each naming who or what is affected and how — never a restatement of the selected decision. Close with a line naming every considered category that was omitted, e.g. `Considered, nothing material: business.` — omit this closing line only when all three categories have material implications.\n\nIf the review cannot be produced, report that in one line and continue without stalling the workflow or presenting the gate below.\n\nThe latest review will be written under `## Implications` in `{docs_dir}/epic-plans/{epic_slug}/goals-and-nfrs.md` once the gate below allows continuation.\n\nThen present the gate, verbatim: `Implications reviewed. Proceed, or name a decision to revisit.` Accept only a normalized `proceed`, `yes`, `y`, or `go` as a continuation token. Any other response names a decision to reopen: re-settle it in chat, record the new override, rerun the entire implications review against the changed settled set, and present the gate again.\n\nLiteral `auto_approve = true` emits the review but skips this gate entirely; a missing or non-true `auto_approve` value follows the human-in-the-loop path above.\n\n## Step 7: Fold the answers back into the framing\n\nRewrite `{docs_dir}/epic-plans/{epic_slug}/goals-and-nfrs.md` so each resolved NFR's `status` moves from `open` to `confirmed` (or `assumed` when the user chose a provisional default), recording the chosen resolution in the `requirement`/`implication`. Weave `general_comment` in as overarching guidance. Add or update the `## Implications` section with the latest review from Step 6 — the final one after any reopen/review loop — or its one-line fail-open notice if generation was unavailable. Leave settled sections unchanged. Run this rewrite only after Step 6's implications-review loop has completed or followed its non-blocking fail-open path.\n\nThis step is non-blocking only insofar as the user may explicitly decline; if `generate_decision_page` fails, log a warning, direct the user to the markdown framing instead, and continue.\n\n## Return\n\nReport whether a planning decision page was generated (and its path) or skipped because there were no open NFRs, and how many open NFRs were resolved into `confirmed`/`assumed`.\n",
     "commit-and-push.md": "Stage, commit, and push implementation changes for ticket {ticket_key}.\n\nBefore executing, assess the git state and present a clear plan for user approval.\n\n## Step 1 — Assess Git State\n\nRun these commands and note the results:\n- `git branch --show-current` — record the current branch name\n- `git status --porcelain` — identify all modified, added, and untracked files\n\n### If the working tree is clean (nothing to commit)\n\nAn empty `git status --porcelain` is not one situation — it is two, and they must\nbe told apart before anything else happens. Check the published state of the\nbranch this ticket's work would live on (the current branch if it references\n`{ticket_key}`, otherwise `feature/{ticket_key}`):\n\n- `git ls-remote --heads origin <branch>` — non-empty output means the branch is\n  already pushed.\n- `gh pr list --head <branch> --state all` — reports any pull request already\n  opened from that branch.\n\nThen apply the matching rule:\n\n1. **Clean tree, and no pushed branch or pull request exists for this ticket** —\n   the implementation phase produced nothing. **Stop the pipeline here** and\n   report the failure. Proceeding would open an empty pull request; an empty\n   implementation must halt.\n2. **Clean tree, but the branch is already pushed and/or a pull request already\n   exists** — this is a legitimate **re-entry**, not an empty implementation.\n   Recovery runs (`ci_fix`, `remediate`, `rebase`) re-enter this pipeline on a\n   branch whose commits were pushed by an earlier session, so there is often\n   nothing new to commit. **Do not halt.** There is nothing to stage, so skip\n   Steps 2–5 entirely: run `git rev-parse HEAD`, record the result as\n   `last_commit_sha`, and return successfully so the pipeline continues to the\n   downstream steps (pull request handling, verification, CI monitoring) the\n   re-entry was dispatched to run. Before returning, compare `git rev-parse HEAD`\n   against the remote tip from `git ls-remote` — if local commits exist that were\n   never pushed, push them (`git push origin <branch>`) first, preserving the\n   finalization boundary.\n\nEither signal — a pushed branch or an existing pull request — selects the\nre-entry case. Only when both are absent does the clean tree mean an empty\nimplementation.\n\n## Step 2 — Determine Branch\n\nDecide the branching strategy and be prepared to state it explicitly. Cover:\n\n- Whether you will commit on the current branch, or create a new branch.\n- If creating a new branch: the exact new branch name, and which branch it will be created from (current branch vs. `main`).\n- If branching from `main`: whether `main` needs to be pulled/updated first, and the command you will run.\n- Whether the target branch already exists remotely (and if so, whether you will push to the existing remote branch).\n\nDefault rules:\n\n- If the current branch already contains `{ticket_key}` (case-insensitive), plan to commit on the current branch.\n- Otherwise, plan to create a new branch named `feature/{ticket_key}` from the current branch.\n\n## Step 3 — Prepare Commit Details\n\n- Separate implementation files from unrelated changes. Only stage files related to the ticket.\n- Compose a commit message: `{ticket_key}: <brief description of what was implemented>`\n\n## Step 4 — Present Plan for Approval (commit, push, and PR)\n\nFor this run, `auto_approve` = `{auto_approve}`.\n\n**Auto-approve mode.** If `auto_approve` is `true`, do NOT present the approval plan and do NOT wait for user input. Apply the default branching rule from Step 2 (commit on the current branch if it contains `{ticket_key}` case-insensitively; otherwise create `feature/{ticket_key}` from the current branch). Stage all files reported by `git status --porcelain` that you assess as related to the ticket per Step 3's \"Only stage files related to the ticket\" rule (when uncertain, prefer including over excluding — auto-approve trades caution for momentum, and the user has explicitly opted in). Use the commit-message format from Step 3. Skip directly to Step 5 and execute.\n\nOtherwise (any value of `auto_approve` other than the literal `true` — including empty, `false`, or missing), proceed with the existing approval flow below.\n\nPresent a single approval plan covering the commit, push, and pull request creation before proceeding:\n\n```\nCommit Plan for {ticket_key}\n─────────────────────────────\nCurrent branch: <current branch name>\nBranching:      - <\"Commit on current branch\" | \"Create new branch `<name>` from `<source branch>`\">\n                - <if branching from main: \"Pull latest main first via `git checkout main && git pull`\" | omit if N/A>\n                - <\"Remote branch already exists — will push to existing\" | \"New remote branch — will push with -u\" | omit if N/A>\nFiles to stage: <count> files\n                - path/to/file1.py\n                - path/to/file2.py\nExcluded:       <any unrelated changed files, or \"None\">\nCommit message: {ticket_key}: <description>\nPush to:        origin/<target branch>\nPR title:       <commit subject — derived automatically after commit>\nPR base:        main\n```\n\nWait for the user to approve, request changes, or reject. The user may adjust the branch name, file inclusion, commit message, PR title, PR base, or give other instructions. The PR title defaults to the commit subject after the commit is made, and the PR base defaults to `main`.\n\nDo not proceed until the user explicitly approves.\n\n## Step 5 — Execute\n\nThis step is the **finalization boundary**: the commit and the push must both\ncomplete, synchronously and successfully, before this instruction returns. Nothing\ndownstream — pull request creation, verification, CI monitoring — may begin while\nthe implementation exists only in the local worktree.\n\n1. If creating a new branch, run `git checkout -b <branch name>`.\n2. Stage approved files with `git add <file1> <file2> ...` — do not use `git add -A` or `git add .`.\n3. Commit with the approved message.\n4. Push with `git push -u origin <branch>`. Use the plain push command — do **not**\n   add `--no-verify`. Normal git hook behavior is preserved here; a Conductor\n   worker already receives `BRIDGE_SKIP_PREPUSH=1` from the executor, so the\n   instruction never needs to bypass hooks itself.\n5. If the commit fails, or the push fails or is rejected, **stop the pipeline\n   here** and report the failure. Do not continue toward pull request creation or\n   verification with work that exists only locally. One exception: a commit that\n   fails only because there is genuinely nothing to commit means Step 1's\n   clean-tree rule applies — resolve it there (halt when nothing was ever\n   published; proceed when the branch/PR already exists) instead of treating the\n   empty commit itself as the terminal failure.\n6. After the push succeeds, run `git rev-parse HEAD` and record the resulting SHA\n   as `last_commit_sha` — the durable head that was actually published to the\n   remote.\n\n## Return\n\nReport that the commit was made and pushed: the selected branch name, the pushed\nremote (e.g. `origin/feature/{ticket_key}`), the commit subject line, and the\npost-push `git rev-parse HEAD` value labeled `last_commit_sha`. Note any files that\nwere intentionally excluded from the commit. If commit or push failed, report the\nfailure instead — the pipeline stops rather than proceeding.\n\nIn the clean-tree re-entry case (Step 1, rule 2), report that no new commit was\nneeded: the branch name, the existing pushed remote, and the current\n`git rev-parse HEAD` value labeled `last_commit_sha` — and state that the pipeline\nis continuing to the downstream steps.\n",
     "comp-analysis.md": "Perceive any attached/referenced design comp with your OWN vision and map it to the existing codebase BEFORE the `jira-ticket-writer` drafts. This is the pre-writer perception step: the orchestrating recipe agent (already a frontier vision model) opens the comp, classifies it against the shared fidelity taxonomy, researches the code, and writes a structured comp→codebase map the writer consumes. The writer stays text-only and never opens images — it only reads the map you produce here.\n\nThis step is gated and backend-safe. It runs the perception with the ORCHESTRATING agent's own vision — a local image via the Read tool, or an already-attached Jira comp fetched as raw bytes via the BAPI-562 binary-safe `attachment` download (operation `download`) into a worktree `file_path`. It does NOT call `describe_image()`, does NOT depend on `src/python/llms/vision.py`, and does NOT require the `CHEAP_MODEL` vision path or any vision-model upgrade or procurement. The heavy visual reasoning is done for free by the agent that already runs the recipe.\n\n## Inputs\n\n- Run manifest: `{docs_dir}/idea-to-ticket/{slug}-{run_id}/run-manifest.json` (source of truth for `idea`, `scope`, `readiness`). Read whichever prior artifacts exist under `{docs_dir}/idea-to-ticket/{slug}-{run_id}/` (research pack, resolved uncertainties, goals-and-nfrs, standards checklist) and proceed without the ones that do not.\n- Output artifact (this step writes it): `{docs_dir}/idea-to-ticket/{slug}-{run_id}/comp-analysis.json` — the structured comp→codebase map the drafting step reads.\n\n## Instructions\n\n1. **Gate first — evaluate only text/material metadata, never open an image yet.** Proceed to any image work ONLY when BOTH conditions hold:\n   - a design comp is **referenced or attached** (a local image path in the idea/materials, or an already-attached Jira comp with an `attachment_id`), AND\n   - the requested work is **design/UI work** (a frontend/fullstack change with a visual surface).\n\n   This gate is deliberately conservative. A **backend-only** request, a **no-comp** request, or a **non-design** request fails the gate.\n\n2. **Not-applicable branch (gate fails) — short-circuit immediately.** When either gate condition is not met, write `comp-analysis.json` with `applicable: false`, a short `reason`, and the `gate` evidence fields, then **return immediately** — do NOT open any image, do NOT download any attachment, do NOT inject any fidelity/comp/visual language, and add no measurable latency. A backend-only or no-comp authoring input must be byte-for-byte unaffected downstream. Concretely, the not-applicable artifact is:\n\n   ```json\n   { \"applicable\": false, \"reason\": \"backend-only work; no design comp referenced\", \"gate\": { \"comp_referenced\": false, \"design_ui_work\": false }, \"warnings\": [] }\n   ```\n\n3. **Applicable branch — obtain and OPEN the comp with your own vision.** When the gate passes:\n   - **Local image path** → open it directly with the Read tool.\n   - **Already-attached Jira comp** → fetch it as raw bytes using the BAPI-562 binary-safe `attachment` capability with operation `download`, passing the comp's `attachment_id` and a worktree `file_path`; the download saves the PNG/JPEG bytes to that `file_path` inside the project root, then open the saved file with the Read tool.\n   - You are the orchestrating vision model — reason over the actual pixels yourself. Do NOT call `describe_image()`, do NOT use `src/python/llms/vision.py` / `CHEAP_MODEL`, and do NOT delegate perception to the text-only `jira-ticket-writer` subagent.\n\n4. **Degraded paths are skip-clean and warn-not-halt.** If the comp is missing, unreadable, an unsupported format, external-only (an `http(s)` URL you cannot fetch into a worktree `file_path`), or turns out not to be a usable design comp, write a valid `comp-analysis.json` with `applicable: false`, a `reason`, and a populated `warnings` array describing what failed, then return. A missing, unreadable, or non-comp image NEVER blocks downstream drafting and NEVER requires further image work after the failure.\n\n5. **Classify the opened comp using the shared fidelity taxonomy (do not fork it).** Using your own vision, classify the comp as exactly one of these four classes — the same labels the downstream final plan reviewer uses (`src/python/llms/agents/planner_agent/final_plan_review_agent.py`, `_get_runtime_verification_instructions`), so authoring, planning, and implementation all agree:\n   - `full comp`\n   - `wireframe`\n   - `annotated-screenshot-of-existing-UI`\n   - `unknown`\n\n   Record `fidelity_classification` with a `class` (one of the four), a `confidence` value, and a short `reasoning` string.\n\n6. **Apply class-appropriate mapping depth — no over-specification.** Match the per-class rules exactly:\n   - **full comp** (confident) → map exact existing components, Jinja2 templates, SCSS/CSS tokens, and routes; strict/exact component + token depth is used ONLY here.\n   - **wireframe** → map layout and structure only (regions, order, rough proportions, responsive behavior); defer color, type, spacing, and component polish to the repo design system, NOT to the wireframe.\n   - **annotated-screenshot-of-existing-UI** → map ONLY the delta against the current UI; preserve everything outside the annotated region and do not reproduce the screenshot wholesale.\n   - **unknown / low confidence** → fall back to the design-system floor rather than mapping pixels.\n\n   **Hard rule:** strict/exact mapping depth is enabled ONLY for a confidently-classified full comp. Fail toward the design system, never toward reproducing an ambiguous image.\n\n7. **Research the codebase and map each region/element to concrete existing code.** Inspect the working tree (search, grep, file reads) for the existing UI implementation surfaces: reusable components, Jinja2 templates, plain CSS/SCSS tokens and design-system styles, routes, and reusable frontend patterns. Only cite files you actually inspected — do not invent file paths, component names, tokens, or routes. For each region/element of the comp, produce a `mappings[]` entry containing:\n   - `region` — the comp region or element name.\n   - `visual_description` — a short description of what it looks like.\n   - `components` — mapped existing component file(s).\n   - `templates` — mapped existing Jinja2 template(s).\n   - `tokens` — style/token references (SCSS/CSS tokens or design-system styles).\n   - `routes` — route reference(s) where the element lives or should wire.\n   - `confidence` — confidence for this mapping.\n   - `implementation_guidance` — concrete guidance (e.g. \"reuse component X\", \"extend template Y\", \"use token Z\", \"wire route R\").\n\n8. **Write the structured map to a stable schema.** Write `comp-analysis.json` at `{docs_dir}/idea-to-ticket/{slug}-{run_id}/comp-analysis.json` with these fields:\n   - `applicable` — boolean; `true` only after a comp was both detected AND successfully opened.\n   - `reason` — short string explaining the applicability decision.\n   - `gate` — the two-condition gate evidence (`comp_referenced`, `design_ui_work`).\n   - `comp` — provenance of the opened comp (source kind, path or `attachment_id`, filename, MIME type when known).\n   - `fidelity_classification` — `{ class, confidence, reasoning }`, present only when `applicable` is true.\n   - `mappings` — array of the per-region entries defined in step 7 (present only when `applicable` is true).\n   - `design_system_floor` — the design-system fallback guidance to use for wireframe/unknown/low-confidence regions.\n   - `warnings` — array of degraded-path notes (may be empty).\n   - `writer_guidance` — instructions for the downstream drafting step: when `applicable` is `true`, Requirements must cite the mapped components/templates/tokens/routes as concrete implementation guidance; when `applicable` is `false` or the map is missing, the writer must ignore this artifact and mention no comp analysis, design comp, or visual-fidelity language unless the original request independently requires it.\n\n9. **Never over-write.** Write the artifact exactly once at the path above. Downstream steps (`draft-and-critique.md`) read it; do not move it.\n\n## Return\n\nConfirm the path written (`{docs_dir}/idea-to-ticket/{slug}-{run_id}/comp-analysis.json`), whether the analysis was `applicable`, the fidelity `class` when applicable, and any `warnings`.\n",
-    "create-pr.md": "# Create a pull request for the just-pushed branch\n\nThe implementation has been committed and pushed. Open a PR for the current branch against the PR base resolved in Step 3 — which is `main` only when nothing higher in that order of precedence supplies a base — with a descriptive title derived from the commit you just made.\n\n## Step 1 — Read the commit subject line\n\nRun `git log -1 --pretty=%s` to get the most recent commit subject. The implement-ticket pipeline asks the commit step to use the form `{ticket_key}: <description>`, so this line is normally already a good PR title.\n\n## Step 2 — Determine the head branch\n\nUse `git branch --show-current`. This is the head branch.\n\n## Step 2.5 — Run the file-scope guard (warn-only, before opening the PR)\n\nBefore opening or updating the PR, run the conductor file-scope guard so an\nout-of-scope diff is surfaced in the PR-creation context:\n\n```bash\nnode \"$BAPI_CONDUCTOR_CLI_FILE\" file-scope-guard\n```\n\n(or `conductor file-scope-guard` if the packaged binary is on PATH).\n\nThis guard is **warn-only and fail-open** — it **always exits 0 and never blocks\nPR creation** in v1. Behavior:\n\n- If `BAPI_CONDUCTOR_DECLARED_TOUCHED_FILES_JSON` is **absent, empty, or invalid**,\n  the guard is a **no-op** — it prints nothing and you **continue** to Step 3\n  normally. Do not treat a missing declaration as an error.\n- If the guard prints a warning that your branch diff touched files **outside** the\n  ticket's declared touched-file set, **surface that warning in the PR-creation\n  context** (include it in your summary to the user / PR notes) but **do not block**\n  — proceed to open the PR. The warning is advisory: it flags a possible\n  sibling-scope over-reach for human review, it does not stop the workflow.\n\n## Step 3 — Resolve the base, compose the body, and call create_pull_request\n\n### Resolve the PR base\n\nResolve `base_branch` through this ordered precedence, taking the first tier that yields a usable value:\n\n1. **`BAPI_BASE_BRANCH` from the environment, when set and non-empty.** Read it explicitly with Bash — never infer the base from branch ancestry or from the repository default branch:\n\n   ```bash\n   echo \"${BAPI_BASE_BRANCH:-}\"\n   ```\n\n   The non-failing `:-` form returns an empty line when the variable is unset, so the read never errors. `start-tickets` exports this variable into the worker's shell whenever the run has a non-default base (an epic branch, for example), which makes it the run's own answer and the highest-priority tier.\n2. **A PR base the user supplied at the commit step.** The commit step advertises PR base as an adjustable field, so an override given there carries forward into this call rather than being silently replaced by a lower tier.\n3. **The repository's configured base branch.** Call `config_field` with `operation: \"get\"` and `field_name: \"base_branch\"`.\n4. **`main`** — the normal fallback default when no tier above supplied a base.\n\nTreat a null, empty, or whitespace-only configured value, an HTTP `400`, or any lookup error as **unset** and continue quietly to the `main` fallback. Missing configuration is an ordinary outcome here, not a failure of this step.\n\n### Compose the PR body\n\nBuild `body` in this reading order:\n\n1. A concise summary line for the ticket — what this pull request changes.\n2. A plainly labeled reference to the local implementation plan, as plain text rather than a markdown hyperlink (the path is local to whoever pulls the branch): `Implementation plan available locally at <docs_dir>/plans/{ticket_key}-plan.md`. Use the plan location this recipe already knows when it has one; otherwise resolve `<docs_dir>` with the `get_docs_dir` MCP tool.\n3. The checklist text of `.github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md`, read from the current worktree when that file exists, appended after the plan reference without rewriting its markdown structure. Omit this part when the file is absent.\n\nGitHub's REST API does not automatically apply the repository pull request template — that template is a web-UI affordance only. A pull request opened through this tool therefore carries an empty description unless the recipe inlines the checklist into `body` itself, which is exactly why the checklist is read from the worktree and appended here.\n\n### Call the tool and report the PR URL\n\nCall the `create_pull_request` MCP tool directly with:\n\n- `head_branch`: value from `git branch --show-current`\n- `base_branch`: the base resolved above\n- `title`: the commit subject from Step 1 (the derived PR title) — unless the user supplied a different PR title at the commit step, in which case use that value instead.\n- `body`: the body composed above\n\nHonor any PR title / PR base overrides the user gave at the commit step's plan; the commit step advertises those fields as adjustable, so any override the user gave there must carry forward into this tool call rather than being silently replaced by a lower-precedence value.\n\n`create_pull_request` is the only mechanism this recipe uses to open a pull request. Do not shell out to a VCS command-line client to create it.\n\nReport the returned `pr_url` to the user.\n\n### The PR URL is a hard prerequisite for everything downstream\n\nThis step completes the durable artifact that the rest of the pipeline — and, under\nthe Conductor, the reconciler — binds to. It therefore has a strict success\ncondition: the call must yield a **non-empty PR URL**, either for a pull request it\nnewly opened or for an already-open pull request on this head branch that the\nresponse identifies.\n\nIf the tool is unavailable, errors, or returns neither a usable new PR URL nor an\nexisting one, **stop here and report the failure**. Do not advance to the\npost-finalization verification phase, which exists only to add work on top of an\nopen pull request.\n\nThen run `git rev-parse HEAD` and record the current pushed head SHA, so the\ndownstream phases report the same durable head this pull request points at.\n\n## Return\n\nReturn the head branch, the base branch that was used, the pull request URL, and\nthe current pushed HEAD SHA. If no usable pull request URL was obtained, return\nthat failure instead — the pipeline stops rather than proceeding to verification.\n",
+    "create-pr.md": "# Create a pull request for the just-pushed branch\n\nThe implementation has been committed and pushed. Open a PR for the current branch against the PR base resolved in Step 3 — which is `main` only when nothing higher in that order of precedence supplies a base — with a descriptive title derived from the commit you just made.\n\n## Step 1 — Read the commit subject line\n\nRun `git log -1 --pretty=%s` to get the most recent commit subject. The implement-ticket pipeline asks the commit step to use the form `{ticket_key}: <description>`, so this line is normally already a good PR title.\n\n## Step 2 — Determine the head branch\n\nUse `git branch --show-current`. This is the head branch.\n\n## Step 2.5 — Run the file-scope guard (warn-only, before opening the PR)\n\nBefore opening or updating the PR, run the conductor file-scope guard so an\nout-of-scope diff is surfaced in the PR-creation context:\n\n```bash\nnode \"$BAPI_CONDUCTOR_CLI_FILE\" file-scope-guard\n```\n\n(or `conductor file-scope-guard` if the packaged binary is on PATH).\n\nThis guard is **warn-only and fail-open** — it **always exits 0 and never blocks\nPR creation** in v1. Behavior:\n\n- If `BAPI_CONDUCTOR_DECLARED_TOUCHED_FILES_JSON` is **absent, empty, or invalid**,\n  the guard is a **no-op** — it prints nothing and you **continue** to Step 3\n  normally. Do not treat a missing declaration as an error.\n- If the guard prints a warning that your branch diff touched files **outside** the\n  ticket's declared touched-file set, **surface that warning in the PR-creation\n  context** (include it in your summary to the user / PR notes) but **do not block**\n  — proceed to open the PR. The warning is advisory: it flags a possible\n  sibling-scope over-reach for human review, it does not stop the workflow.\n\n## Step 3 — Resolve the base, compose the body, and call create_pull_request\n\n### Resolve the PR base\n\nResolve `base_branch` through this ordered precedence, taking the first tier that yields a usable value:\n\n1. **`BAPI_BASE_BRANCH` from the environment, when set and non-empty.** Read it explicitly with Bash — never infer the base from branch ancestry or from the repository default branch:\n\n   ```bash\n   echo \"${BAPI_BASE_BRANCH:-}\"\n   ```\n\n   The non-failing `:-` form returns an empty line when the variable is unset, so the read never errors. `start-tickets` exports this variable into the worker's shell whenever the run has a non-default base (an epic branch, for example), which makes it the run's own answer and the highest-priority tier.\n2. **A PR base the user supplied at the commit step.** The commit step advertises PR base as an adjustable field, so an override given there carries forward into this call rather than being silently replaced by a lower tier.\n3. **The repository's configured base branch.** Call `config_field` with `operation: \"get\"` and `field_name: \"base_branch\"`.\n4. **`main`** — the normal fallback default when no tier above supplied a base.\n\nTreat a null, empty, or whitespace-only configured value, an HTTP `400`, or any lookup error as **unset** and continue quietly to the `main` fallback. Missing configuration is an ordinary outcome here, not a failure of this step.\n\n### Compose the PR body\n\nBuild `body` in this reading order:\n\n1. A concise summary line for the ticket — what this pull request changes.\n2. A plainly labeled reference to the local implementation plan, as plain text rather than a markdown hyperlink (the path is local to whoever pulls the branch): `Implementation plan available locally at <docs_dir>/plans/{ticket_key}-plan.md`. Use the plan location this recipe already knows when it has one; otherwise resolve `<docs_dir>` with the `get_docs_dir` MCP tool.\n3. The checklist text of `.github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md`, read from the current worktree when that file exists, appended after the plan reference without rewriting its markdown structure. Omit this part when the file is absent.\n\nGitHub's REST API does not automatically apply the repository pull request template — that template is a web-UI affordance only. A pull request opened through this tool therefore carries an empty description unless the recipe inlines the checklist into `body` itself, which is exactly why the checklist is read from the worktree and appended here.\n\n**This is enforced, not advisory (BAPI-824).** The server rejects a missing, empty, or whitespace-only `body` with a `422` and creates no pull request. Composing the body is a hard prerequisite of this step, not a courtesy: skipping it fails the call outright rather than opening a pull request with a blank description — which is what happened twice before the check existed. The response reports the length actually sent as `detail.body_len`.\n\n### Call the tool and report the PR URL\n\nCall the `create_pull_request` MCP tool directly with:\n\n- `head_branch`: value from `git branch --show-current`\n- `base_branch`: the base resolved above\n- `title`: the commit subject from Step 1 (the derived PR title) — unless the user supplied a different PR title at the commit step, in which case use that value instead.\n- `body`: the body composed above\n\nHonor any PR title / PR base overrides the user gave at the commit step's plan; the commit step advertises those fields as adjustable, so any override the user gave there must carry forward into this tool call rather than being silently replaced by a lower-precedence value.\n\n`create_pull_request` is the only mechanism this recipe uses to open a pull request. Do not shell out to a VCS command-line client to create it.\n\nReport the returned `pr_url` to the user.\n\n### The PR URL is a hard prerequisite for everything downstream\n\nThis step completes the durable artifact that the rest of the pipeline — and, under\nthe Conductor, the reconciler — binds to. It therefore has a strict success\ncondition: the call must yield a **non-empty PR URL**, either for a pull request it\nnewly opened or for an already-open pull request on this head branch that the\nresponse identifies.\n\nIf the tool is unavailable, errors, or returns neither a usable new PR URL nor an\nexisting one, **stop here and report the failure**. Do not advance to the\npost-finalization verification phase, which exists only to add work on top of an\nopen pull request.\n\nThen run `git rev-parse HEAD` and record the current pushed head SHA, so the\ndownstream phases report the same durable head this pull request points at.\n\n## Return\n\nReturn the head branch, the base branch that was used, the pull request URL, and\nthe current pushed HEAD SHA. If no usable pull request URL was obtained, return\nthat failure instead — the pipeline stops rather than proceeding to verification.\n",
     "decompose-epic-candidate.md": "Decompose an Epic parent draft into ordered child tickets with idempotency and per-child duplicate checks.\n\n## Inputs\n\n- Epic parent draft: `{docs_dir}/tickets/EPIC-{slug}.md`.\n- Research pack: `{docs_dir}/idea-to-ticket/{slug}-{run_id}/research-pack.md` / `.json`.\n- Standards checklist: `{docs_dir}/idea-to-ticket/{slug}-{run_id}/standards-checklist.json`.\n- Resolved uncertainties: `{docs_dir}/idea-to-ticket/{slug}-{run_id}/resolved-uncertainties.md`.\n- Goals & NFR framing: `{docs_dir}/idea-to-ticket/{slug}-{run_id}/goals-and-nfrs.md` (its System Goals/NFRs and any provisional Recommended Implementation Order should inform the child breakdown and ordering).\n- Hard cap variable `{max_children}` (string integer; default `\"10\"` when not set by the caller). The default `\"10\"` is a **hard ceiling / upper bound, not a target** child count — it caps how many children are allowed, and is **not a goal to fill**. The normal target child count is smaller (fewer, larger M/L slices); see the sizing heuristics in step 2.\n\n## Instructions\n\n1. Read the Epic parent draft, research pack, standards checklist, and resolved uncertainties. Use only this context plus optional narrow web search; do not call deep research from this step.\n\n2. Propose ordered child tickets that, together, fully implement the Epic.\n\n   **Sizing heuristics (maintainer-owned defaults).** Size each proposed child by its expected **file-touch breadth and depth plus rough lines of code (LOC) changed**, using these exact thresholds:\n   - `S = 1–2 files / <~80 LOC`\n   - `M = ~3–8 files / ~80–400 LOC (ideal target)`\n   - `L = ~8–15 files / ~400–900 LOC (acceptable)`\n   - `XL = >15 files / >~900 LOC → split further; never emit an XL child`\n\n   Target size priority: `M (ideal) → L (acceptable) → S (only if unavoidable); never XL`.\n\n   Bias the decomposition toward **fewer, larger, independently implementable vertical slices** rather than many tiny one-feature children. The Bridge implementation tooling works better on M–L vertical slices, and a swarm of tiny S children magnifies sibling merge risk under parallel execution. Each child should be an independently implementable vertical slice; if a proposed child would be XL, split it further until each piece is M or L.\n\n   Each proposed child must include:\n   - `summary` — Jira title.\n   - `issue_type` — typically `Task`; use `Spike` only for primarily discovery children.\n   - `rationale` — short explanation of why this child exists and what it produces. Include a brief size estimate inside this existing field (do **not** add a new `size` field), e.g. `Estimated size: M (~4 files / ~150 LOC)`.\n   - `labels` — must include `ai-generated`, `idea-to-ticket`, `idea-to-ticket-child`, and the unique child idempotency label `bapi-idea-to-ticket-{run_id}-child-<N>` where `<N>` is the 1-based child index in the final ordered list.\n   - `idempotency_label` — the same `bapi-idea-to-ticket-{run_id}-child-<N>` string.\n   - `draft_path` — `{docs_dir}/tickets/TICKET-{slug}-child-<N>.md` (drafts written by `jira-ticket-writer` later).\n   - `depends_on` — array of the 1-based child indexes that are **hard prerequisites** (must land first), or empty. Keep this list minimal and real.\n   - `recommended_after` — array of child indexes that are **soft sequencing** preferences (nicer to do after, but not blockers), or empty.\n   - `order_rationale` — one line explaining why this child sits at this point in the order.\n\n   Keep hard prerequisites (`depends_on`) strictly separate from soft sequencing (`recommended_after`). These fields drive the recommended implementation order posted to the epic later; they do **not** create Jira dependency links.\n\n3. Hard cap enforcement. First attempt a normal, smaller M/L-biased decomposition per the step 2 sizing heuristics. Then count proposed children: `{max_children}` is a hard ceiling that **halts on exceed**, not a target to fill. If the count exceeds `{max_children}` (parsed as an integer), halt locally with a clear \"split first\" message: ask the user to split the idea into multiple smaller Epics or to raise `--max-children` deliberately. Do not silently truncate.\n\n4. Per-child duplicate lookup. For each proposed child (in order), call `get_tickets` once with a title/keyword search built from the child's summary. If a clear duplicate exists, drop that child from the plan and record the drop reason; never halt the whole run because a child has a duplicate. Re-number `<N>` only after all drops are finalized so child indexes are contiguous.\n\n5. Per-child research is restricted to the parent research pack plus optional narrow web search. Do not call deep research per child.\n\n6. Write `{docs_dir}/idea-to-ticket/{slug}-{run_id}/decomposition-plan.json` with at minimum:\n   - `parent_summary` — copy from the parent draft.\n   - `max_children` — the resolved integer value used for the cap.\n   - `children` — ordered array of surviving children with all fields from step 2 (including `depends_on`, `recommended_after`, and `order_rationale`). After re-numbering in step 4, fix up the `depends_on`/`recommended_after` indexes so they still point at the correct surviving children.\n   - `dropped_children` — array of `{proposed_summary, reason}` for children removed by duplicate lookup.\n\n## Return\n\nConfirm `decomposition-plan.json` was written, report the final child count and the number of children dropped for duplicate reasons.\n",
     "decompose-epic.md": "Decompose the epic into manageable sub-tasks and get user approval.\n\n## Epic Description\n\n{epic_description}\n\n## Instructions\n\n1. Read the following artifacts to establish full context. If a file does not exist or is empty, proceed without it:\n   - `{docs_dir}/epic-plans/{epic_slug}/research-findings.md`\n   - `{docs_dir}/epic-plans/{epic_slug}/codebase-exploration.md`\n\n2. Reason about the epic and produce a decomposition. Consider:\n   - Logical groupings of work that can be implemented and tested independently\n   - Dependencies between sub-tasks (what must be built first)\n   - A reasonable scope for each sub-task (each should be achievable in a single implementation session)\n\n3. Write the decomposition to `{docs_dir}/epic-plans/{epic_slug}/epic-plan.md` with this format:\n\n```markdown\n# Epic Decomposition\n\n## Sub-tasks\n\n### 1. {Sub-task title}\n- **Scope**: {What this sub-task covers}\n- **Key files/areas**: {Files and code areas involved}\n- **Dependencies**: {Other sub-task numbers this depends on, or \"None\"}\n\n### 2. {Sub-task title}\n...\n```\n\n   In addition, you MUST also write a structured JSON sidecar at\n   `{docs_dir}/epic-plans/{epic_slug}/epic-plan.dag.json`.\n   This file is the machine-readable intermediate consumed by the `plan-epic`\n   pipeline to store and approve the plan in the backend — it must be written\n   from your structured decomposition data, NEVER by re-parsing the markdown.\n\n   The sidecar format is:\n\n```json\n{\n  \"plan_version\": 1,\n  \"nodes\": [\n    {\n      \"ticket_key\": \"BAPI-XXX\",\n      \"status\": \"planned\",\n      \"depends_on\": [],\n      \"touched_files\": [\"api/routes/example.py\", \"src/python/llms/ai_client.py\"],\n      \"automations\": [\n        { \"kind\": \"start-tickets\" }\n      ]\n    }\n  ],\n  \"edges\": [\n    { \"from\": \"BAPI-XXX\", \"to\": \"BAPI-YYY\" }\n  ]\n}\n```\n\n   Rules for the sidecar:\n   - `plan_version` must be 1 for a new plan (an integer, never a float).\n   - Each node `ticket_key` must match the Jira key of the created sub-task\n     (populated after Jira ticket creation in a later pipeline step; use the\n     planned Jira key if known, or a placeholder like \"TBD-1\" if not yet created).\n   - `ticket_key` values must be unique and non-empty after trimming.\n   - `depends_on` lists the `ticket_key` values this node depends on (mirrors\n     the markdown Dependencies field). `depends_on` is the **canonical**\n     dependency declaration.\n   - `status` must be `\"planned\"` for newly-created sub-tasks.\n   - `touched_files` is **required on every node** — the sorted, deduplicated,\n     repository-relative POSIX paths this sub-task is predicted to change.\n     Populate it from your current code research and the sub-task's ownership,\n     the same analysis that tells you which sub-tasks collide.\n     - No leading `./`, no absolute paths, no `..` traversal segments, no\n       temporary-worktree paths, and no prose. Declare **concrete files**: the\n       backend intersects these paths as exact strings, so a directory or glob\n       entry matches nothing and protects nothing.\n     - `[]` is permitted **only** when the decomposition explicitly establishes\n       that the sub-task changes no repository files. Unknown file ownership is\n       **blocking** — resolve it or flag it; never represent it as an empty\n       array, which silently disables file-overlap protection.\n   - `automations` lists automation kinds to run on the ticket — valid values\n     are `\"start-tickets\"` and `\"review-tickets\"`. Use an empty array if none.\n   - `edges` is an explicit list of directed dependency edges (from → to, where\n     `from` is the predecessor). It may be empty if all dependencies are captured\n     in `depends_on`, but any edge you do write must encode the same graph as\n     `depends_on` — a contradictory graph blocks readiness.\n   - Do **not** set `base_lineage` on any node. It affects the plan hash but has\n     no consumer in either conductor, so setting it invalidates the approved hash\n     for no behavioral gain.\n   - The DAG must be acyclic (no circular dependencies).\n   - The deterministic Jira-dependency-link DAG builder is the documented\n     fallback/recovery path if this sidecar is lost or corrupted (not built here).\n\n   **Placeholders are finalized later, not here.** `TBD-N` remains the correct\n   node identity for the window before the epic's Jira tickets exist. The\n   standalone `emit-conductor-bundle.md` task replaces every placeholder with the\n   real ticket key and finalizes `touched_files` after the tickets are created and\n   before the plan is stored or approved. Write your best `touched_files`\n   prediction here anyway — that task reconciles it against the whole epic.\n\n4. **Soft limit check**: If the decomposition results in more than 8 sub-tasks, you must verbally warn the user: \"This decomposition has N sub-tasks, which exceeds the recommended limit of 8. Consider splitting this feature into multiple epics.\" Then proceed with the approval flow.\n\n5. Present the decomposition to the user and ask for their feedback. Explain the reasoning behind the breakdown and the dependency ordering.\n\n6. You MUST stop and wait for the user to respond. Do NOT assume approval. Do NOT proceed to the next step.\n\n7. If the user provides feedback or rejects the decomposition:\n   - Incorporate their feedback\n   - Rewrite `{docs_dir}/epic-plans/{epic_slug}/epic-plan.md` with the revised version\n   - Present the revised decomposition and ask for approval again\n   - Repeat until the user explicitly approves\n\n8. Only after explicit user approval, confirm: \"Decomposition approved. Proceeding to sub-task exploration.\"\n\n## Return\n\nConfirm \"Decomposition approved.\" and report the final sub-task count plus the path to `{docs_dir}/epic-plans/{epic_slug}/epic-plan.md`. Flag if the count exceeded the recommended limit of 8.\n",
     "draft-and-critique.md": "Draft the ticket(s) for this idea, run a BAPI-320 hygiene pass, and emit structured draft metadata.\n\n## Inputs\n\n- Run manifest: `{docs_dir}/idea-to-ticket/{slug}-{run_id}/run-manifest.json`.\n- Research pack: `{docs_dir}/idea-to-ticket/{slug}-{run_id}/research-pack.md` / `.json`.\n- Duplicate assessment: `{docs_dir}/idea-to-ticket/{slug}-{run_id}/duplicate-assessment.json`.\n- Standards checklist: `{docs_dir}/idea-to-ticket/{slug}-{run_id}/standards-checklist.json`.\n- Resolved uncertainties: `{docs_dir}/idea-to-ticket/{slug}-{run_id}/resolved-uncertainties.md`.\n- Goals & NFR framing: `{docs_dir}/idea-to-ticket/{slug}-{run_id}/goals-and-nfrs.md`.\n- Comp→codebase map (optional): `{docs_dir}/idea-to-ticket/{slug}-{run_id}/comp-analysis.json`. Produced upstream by the gated `comp-analysis.md` perception step. A missing, unreadable, or `applicable: false` map is treated exactly like `applicable: false` — a no-op: it never halts drafting and this step injects no visual-fidelity/comp language on its own.\n\n## Instructions\n\n1. **Resolve the regression-completeness gate once, before drafting.** Call the `config_field` MCP tool with `operation` set to `\"get\"` and `field_name` set to `enable_regression_checks`. Normalize the response: only the exact value `true` (a JSON boolean `true`, or the case-insensitive string `\"true\"`) counts as enabled. Treat a missing tool, a tool error, `null`, `false`, or any other/malformed value as disabled — this lookup is fail-open and defaults OFF. Store the normalized boolean as `enable_regression_checks` and reuse the same stored value for every `jira-ticket-writer` invocation this flow makes (including any later critique/revision call) — do not re-resolve it per call. The `jira-ticket-writer` sub-agent must not call `config_field` itself.\n\n2. Read the six required input artifacts in full before drafting, plus the comp-analysis map when it is present. The manifest's `scope` (`task`, `spike`, or `epic_candidate`) determines the drafting path.\n\n   The goals-and-nfrs.md framing must shape every draft. Lead each draft with the **business goal** and **desired end-state**, and include an explicit **Non-Functional Requirements** section (and, where it clarifies behavior, the required **system behavior**). For the **epic_candidate** parent, these belong in the Epic description itself (the parent's `slim_description` should at least name the business goal + end-state, and the attached full draft must carry the Goals / Desired End-State / Non-Functional Requirements sections). Any NFR still marked `open` in the framing must be written into the draft as an explicit assumption plus an open-risk note — never silently dropped. This flow is documentary: do not generate a decision page and do not pause for clarification here.\n\n3. Drafting path by scope:\n   - **task** or **spike**:\n     - Call the `jira-ticket-writer` sub-agent with an explicit output path of `{docs_dir}/tickets/TICKET-{slug}.md`. The sub-agent must write the full markdown draft to that exact file. Pass the comp-analysis map path (`{docs_dir}/idea-to-ticket/{slug}-{run_id}/comp-analysis.json`) into the sub-agent prompt alongside the six existing input artifacts (run manifest, research pack, duplicate assessment, standards checklist, resolved uncertainties, goals-and-nfrs) and the stored `enable_regression_checks` value from step 1.\n   - **epic_candidate**:\n     - Call `jira-ticket-writer` to draft only the Epic parent. Use the explicit output path `{docs_dir}/tickets/EPIC-{slug}.md`. Pass the same comp-analysis map path into the sub-agent prompt alongside the six existing input artifacts and the stored `enable_regression_checks` value from step 1. Child tickets are produced later by `decompose-epic-candidate.md`; do not draft them here.\n\n   Comp-analysis map consumption (both paths): when `comp-analysis.json` has `applicable: true`, tell the writer its Requirements MUST use the mapped components/templates/tokens/routes as concrete implementation guidance (e.g. \"reuse component X\", \"use token Z\", \"extend template Y\", \"wire route R\"). When the map has `applicable: false` or is missing/unreadable, tell the writer to ignore the artifact entirely and avoid mentioning comp analysis, design comps, or visual fidelity unless the original request independently requires those materials. This step only feeds the text JSON map to the writer — it never opens images, calls `describe_image()`, or performs vision analysis itself.\n\n   Regression-gate consumption (both paths): state `enable_regression_checks: {stored value from step 1}` explicitly in the sub-agent prompt, and tell the writer this value was already resolved by the caller and must not be looked up again. The writer only runs its Regression Completeness Pass when this value is exactly `true`.\n\n4. Issue type policy:\n   - Default ambiguous ideas to `Task`.\n   - Choose `Spike` only when the work is primarily discovery/research/learning with no clear acceptance criteria yet.\n   - The Epic parent uses Jira issue type `Epic`.\n\n5. Hygiene pass (BAPI-320 forbidden tokens). After the sub-agent writes the draft, read it back and ensure none of these tokens are present:\n   - markdown tables (any `|`-separated header row).\n   - escaped pipe-table patterns (e.g. `\\|`).\n   - task-list checkboxes such as `- [ ]` or `- [x]`.\n   - angle-bracket placeholder tokens (any `<placeholder>` form, even inside backticks).\n   - raw HTML blocks (`<div>`, `<br>`, `<table>`, etc.).\n   When a forbidden token is found, rewrite the surrounding paragraph in plain prose or bullet form and save the cleaned draft over the same path.\n\n6. Write `{docs_dir}/idea-to-ticket/{slug}-{run_id}/draft-metadata.json` describing what Jira should later create.\n\n   For **task** / **spike** scope, the metadata shape is:\n   - `summary` — Jira ticket title.\n   - `issue_type` — `Task` or `Spike`.\n   - `labels` — array of Jira labels. Must include `ai-generated`, `idea-to-ticket`, the per-run label `bapi-idea-to-ticket-{run_id}`, and the stable idea-hash label `bapi-idea-hash-{idea_hash}` (so a future run of the same idea is caught by label).\n   - `idempotency_label` — `bapi-idea-to-ticket-{run_id}` (matches the label used by the duplicate-and-context-scan step).\n   - `slim_description` — short Jira-safe description (no forbidden tokens). The full draft is uploaded as an attachment. It must include a CONCISE, high-level summary of the draft's `## Materials & Access` inventory (Planning Assets, Downloadable Assets, Planning & Downloadable Assets vs. unphased record-only material), noting that the exhaustive list lives in the attached full draft. This keeps the missing-materials record visible to human reviewers and to description-reading review/critique flows.\n   - `attachment_path` — `{docs_dir}/tickets/TICKET-{slug}.md` (or the equivalent path used above).\n\n   For **epic_candidate** scope, the metadata shape is:\n   - `parent.summary` — Epic title.\n   - `parent.issue_type` — `Epic`.\n   - `parent.labels` — must include `ai-generated`, `idea-to-ticket`, `bapi-idea-to-ticket-{run_id}-parent`, and the stable idea-hash label `bapi-idea-hash-{idea_hash}`.\n   - `parent.idempotency_label` — `bapi-idea-to-ticket-{run_id}-parent`.\n   - `parent.slim_description` — short Epic description. It must include a CONCISE, high-level summary of the Epic draft's `## Materials & Access` inventory (Planning Assets, Downloadable Assets, Planning & Downloadable Assets vs. unphased record-only material), noting that the exhaustive list lives in the attached full draft.\n   - `parent.attachment_path` — `{docs_dir}/tickets/EPIC-{slug}.md`.\n   - `children` — placeholder array. Populated later by `decompose-epic-candidate.md`; leave as an empty array here.\n\n7. Save the metadata exactly once. Downstream steps read this file; do not move it.\n\n## Return\n\nConfirm the draft path, the metadata path, and the chosen scope (`task`, `spike`, or `epic_candidate`).\n",
     "duplicate-and-context-scan.md": "Detect existing Jira tickets that duplicate or relate to this idea before any Jira mutation.\n\n## Inputs\n\n- Run manifest: `{docs_dir}/idea-to-ticket/{slug}-{run_id}/run-manifest.json`.\n- Research pack: `{docs_dir}/idea-to-ticket/{slug}-{run_id}/research-pack.md` (if produced).\n- Pipeline variable `allow_duplicate` controls override behavior (for this run, `allow_duplicate` = `{allow_duplicate}`). Treat the literal string `\"true\"` as override; any other value (including `\"false\"`, missing, or empty) is non-override.\n\n## Instructions\n\n> **Orchestrator-directed step.** This agent task is part of the full-automation chain and is authorized to call `get_tickets` as directed below — performing an orchestrator-directed tool call is not \"re-orchestrating\".\n\n1. Build at least two Jira search queries from the manifest:\n   - **Title/keyword query**: use the most salient nouns from `idea` and `slug` as title/text keywords. Prefer 2-4 concrete terms over long natural-language sentences. Run via `get_tickets`.\n   - **Stable idea-hash query** (the reliable cross-run dedup): run `get_tickets` with its `labels` parameter set to `bapi-idea-hash-{idea_hash}`. This label is identical for every run of the same idea, so it catches a PRIOR run that already created a ticket for this idea — even one created days ago. A hit here is a strong `duplicate` signal.\n   - **Idempotency-label query**: run `get_tickets` with its `labels` parameter set to `bapi-idea-to-ticket-{run_id}` (the tool builds the `labels in (...)` JQL for you — do not pass a raw JQL string). This per-run label only matches a partial run of THIS same run, so it supports resume behavior.\n\n2. For each returned ticket, capture: ticket key, summary, status, and a short reason it matched (which query, which keyword).\n\n3. Classify the overall verdict as one of:\n   - `duplicate` — at least one returned ticket clearly describes the same work as `idea`.\n   - `related` — returned tickets are adjacent or partial overlaps but not the same work.\n   - `none_found` — no meaningful matches.\n   - `unable_to_check` — the Jira search itself failed (network error, auth error, JQL rejection). Record the failure and pick this verdict.\n\n4. Write `{docs_dir}/idea-to-ticket/{slug}-{run_id}/duplicate-assessment.json` with at minimum:\n   - `verdict` — one of the four values above.\n   - `matches` — array of `{ticket_key, summary, status, reason}` objects (may be empty).\n   - `queries_used` — array of the actual JQL/search strings sent.\n   - `allow_duplicate` — the resolved value of `{allow_duplicate}` for this run.\n\n5. Halt behavior:\n   - If `verdict` is `duplicate` and `allow_duplicate` is not `\"true\"`, halt locally. Do not continue the pipeline. Tell the user that the duplicate halt is strict and that re-running with `--allow-duplicate` overrides it.\n   - If `verdict` is `duplicate` and `allow_duplicate` is `\"true\"`, continue the pipeline but keep the duplicate evidence in the assessment file so downstream steps can reference it (e.g., to add a \"supersedes\" note to the draft).\n   - For `related`, `none_found`, and `unable_to_check`, continue without halting.\n\n## Return\n\nConfirm `duplicate-assessment.json` was written, report `verdict`, and report whether the run is halting or continuing.\n",
-    "emit-conductor-bundle.md": "Harmonize an epic's sibling tickets against each other and emit the artifacts the conductor needs, after the tickets exist and before the plan is approved.\n\nEach sibling ticket was drafted by a separate writer session that could not see\nits siblings. Each independently re-researched the codebase and re-derived\ninterfaces, names, and file ownership, so siblings routinely disagree exactly at\nthe seams where they must agree — the dependency edges. The decomposition itself\nwas coherent (one agent, one context, wrote `epic-plan.md` and every exploration\ndocument); that coherence is discarded at the handoff. This task reads every\nsibling in one context and restores it.\n\nThe window is forced. Real ticket keys exist only after creation, and description\nrewrites are free before approval but trip `spec_stale` after it.\n\n**This is a standalone task, deliberately not a step in `plan-epic.json`.**\n`plan-epic` creates no tickets, so wiring this in there would guarantee it runs\nbefore any sibling exists. The local agent invokes it directly, immediately after\ncreating the epic's tickets, passing the ordered node→key mapping it already\nholds.\n\n## Inputs\n\n- `epic_key` — the Jira key of the epic (e.g. `BAPI-634`). **Required.**\n  `setup-epic --dry-run` needs it, it cannot be derived safely from the slug, and\n  it cannot be recovered from Jira: `get_tickets` filters only by free-text\n  `search` and `labels`, with no `parent_key` filter.\n- `epic_slug` — the sanitized slug naming the epic-plan directory.\n- An **ordered array of mapping entries**, one per sidecar node, each with:\n  - `plan_node_id` — the node's identity in `epic-plan.dag.json` (a `TBD-N`\n    placeholder on the initial run, or the real key on a rerun).\n  - `ticket_key` — the real Jira key created for that node.\n  - `exploration_path` — that sub-task's exploration document, relative to the\n    epic-plan directory.\n  - `draft_path` — that sub-task's draft, relative to the epic-plan directory.\n\n**Node identity comes only from `plan_node_id`.** Never infer which node a ticket\nbelongs to from mapping order, ticket titles, description text, or a Jira search.\nA key list plus `epic_slug` cannot determine which real key replaces which\n`TBD-N`, and guessing attaches one ticket's dependencies to another.\n\n## Instructions\n\nResolve `docs_dir` by calling the `get_docs_dir` MCP tool (no parameters). The\nsole workspace for this task is `{docs_dir}/epic-plans/{epic_slug}`. Never read or\nwrite outside it.\n\nExecute the following phases **in this order**. The ordering is the safety\nproperty: every external write is gated behind local validation, so a failure\nleaves Jira untouched rather than half-mutated. Pipeline ordering cannot protect a\nmanual or recovery run, so this task owns it.\n\n### Phase 1 — Non-mutating run-state precheck\n\nBefore reading artifacts, confirm the epic is still in the pre-approval window:\n\n```bash\nnpx -y -p @bridge_gpt/mcp-server conductor epic-status --epic-key <epic_key> --json\n```\n\nThis is read-only. Interpret the result:\n\n- `{\"status\": \"unknown\", \"state\": null}` — no run exists yet. **Proceed**; the\n  dry-run and a later `store-and-approve-epic-plan` will create it.\n- `epic_run.status` is `planning` **and** its plan version is not yet stored —\n  a single unapproved planning run. **Proceed**; it may be reused.\n- `epic_run.status` is `active`, `blocked`, `done`, or `abandoned` — **halt.**\n- `epic_run.approved_plan_hash` is non-null (the plan is approved) — **halt.**\n- The sidecar's `plan_version` is already stored — **halt.** Plan blobs are\n  immutable and post-approval description rewrites are forbidden; this needs an\n  explicit re-plan.\n- Multiple runs, or any ambiguous/unreadable state — **halt.** Never guess.\n\nHalting here means reporting the state and stopping. Do not attempt a repair.\n\n### Phase 2 — Validate inputs and source artifacts\n\nAssemble the mapping into a JSON input document:\n\n```json\n{\n  \"epic_key\": \"<epic_key>\",\n  \"epic_slug\": \"<epic_slug>\",\n  \"decomposition_fingerprint\": \"<stable fingerprint of this decomposition>\",\n  \"mappings\": [\n    {\n      \"plan_node_id\": \"TBD-1\",\n      \"ticket_key\": \"BAPI-635\",\n      \"exploration_path\": \"explorations/01-<subtask-slug>.md\",\n      \"draft_path\": \"drafts/01-<subtask-slug>.md\"\n    }\n  ]\n}\n```\n\nThen run the deterministic entry validation **before reading any mapped file,\nfetching any ticket, or writing any artifact**:\n\n```bash\nnpx -y @bridge_gpt/mcp-server emit-conductor-bundle validate \\\n  --input <path to the input document> \\\n  --json\n```\n\nThis writes nothing. A non-zero exit halts the task; relay its error verbatim.\nThese are entry-point checks, not agent judgment. It enforces:\n\n- `epic_key` and every `ticket_key` match the project's Jira key pattern, are\n  non-empty and unique, and no child key equals `epic_key`.\n- `epic_slug` matches the sanitized slug grammar.\n- The mapping is **complete and one-to-one**: every sidecar node has exactly one\n  entry, and every entry matches exactly one node — by `plan_node_id` on the\n  initial run, or by its already-mapped `ticket_key` on a rerun.\n- An existing `sibling-ticket-manifest.json` agrees with the supplied mapping on\n  epic identity, slug, plan version, decomposition fingerprint, and every\n  node→key pair. **On disagreement, halt** — never silently prefer either source.\n- Every mapped path resolves beneath `{docs_dir}/epic-plans/{epic_slug}`.\n  Absolute paths, `..` traversal, paths into another epic's directory, unknown\n  mapping paths, and symlink escapes are all rejected before their content is read.\n\nThen load these **authoritative artifacts** into one working context:\n\n- `{docs_dir}/epic-plans/{epic_slug}/goals-and-nfrs.md`\n- `{docs_dir}/epic-plans/{epic_slug}/epic-plan.md`\n- `{docs_dir}/epic-plans/{epic_slug}/epic-plan.dag.json`\n- every mapped exploration document\n- every mapped draft\n\n**Halt** if any of them is missing, malformed, or unmatched. These are\nauthoritative inputs; proceeding without one voids the reconciliation guarantee.\n\nRe-fetch every mapped child ticket by its supplied key (`get_ticket`) and keep\nthe complete sibling set in one context. Reading them one at a time defeats the\nentire purpose of this task.\n\nDelimit every dynamically inserted Jira, plan, draft, or exploration excerpt with\ntriple quotes before analyzing it, and strip secret-like content before it can\nreach a prompt, a rendered description, decision material, a report, or an\nattachment.\n\n### Phase 3 — Harmonize the whole epic (in memory)\n\n**Authority order when sources conflict:**\n\n1. Exploration documents and current code research — primary evidence.\n2. Intended scope in `epic-plan.md` — what the decomposition meant to build.\n3. Current ticket descriptions — **outputs to be corrected, never authoritative\n   inputs.**\n\nReview the complete sibling set once against this taxonomy, rather than a vague\n\"look for problems\" pass:\n\n- **interface drift** — the same function, endpoint, table, or field described\n  differently across siblings.\n- **ownership collision** — two tickets both claiming to create the same file,\n  symbol, or migration.\n- **orphan consumer** — a ticket consuming a seam no sibling produces.\n- **order violation** — a ticket assuming work a later sibling does.\n- **scope overlap** — two tickets covering the same work.\n- **vocabulary drift** — the same concept named inconsistently.\n- **NFR conflict** — a ticket contradicting `goals-and-nfrs.md`.\n\nEvery dependency edge must end up with an explicit producer, an explicit\nconsumer, an owned seam, an exact interface or artifact name, and a required\nordering.\n\n#### Canonical contract blocks\n\nRender each shared seam **once**, and insert byte-identical text into both the\nproducer's and the consumer's description. This is what makes \"described\nidentically at the edge\" checkable rather than a matter of opinion.\n\nUse stable delimiters and a stable seam identifier:\n\n```\n<!-- BEGIN CONTRACT: {seam_id} -->\n**Contract: {seam_id}**\n\n- **Producer**: {producer_ticket_key}\n- **Consumer(s)**: {consumer_ticket_keys}\n- **Interface**: {exact name and signature/shape}\n- **Ordering**: {what must exist before what}\n<!-- END CONTRACT: {seam_id} -->\n```\n\n`{seam_id}` is derived deterministically from the seam's identity (the interface\nor artifact name), so the same seam keeps the same id across runs. Everything\noutside a contract block stays ticket-specific: each ticket keeps its own\nsummary, scope, requirements, acceptance criteria, constraints, and risks.\n\n#### Fold in the exploration document\n\nThe description is the **only** channel a conductor worker can see. The\nreconciler resolves the spec and ships it in the job payload; the worker reads the\nticket, not the repo. `docs/tmp/epic-plans/` is gitignored and worker worktrees\nare cut from a pinned `origin/<base>` SHA, so exploration documents are never on\ndisk for the implementing agent.\n\nFold each sub-task's exploration document into its ticket under a deterministic\ndelimited section:\n\n```\n<!-- BEGIN EXPLORATION: {ticket_key} -->\n...\n<!-- END EXPLORATION: {ticket_key} -->\n```\n\nPreserve every implementation-relevant file, symbol, interface, constraint,\ndecision, and open risk. Resolve every mapped `TBD-N` token to its real key in\nticket prose, exploration content, drafts, and contract blocks — not only in the\nsidecar. Drafts authored before the tickets existed refer to siblings as `TBD-N`;\na worker receiving that text has no actionable dependency reference.\n\n#### The spec length bound — fail loud\n\nValidate every complete rendered description against the bound. The conductor's\npayload bound is **64,000 characters** (the reconciler no longer truncates\nsilently — overflow beyond its own bound is visibly marked). For Jira-backed\ntickets the **practical** limit binds far earlier: Jira caps a description at\n**32,767 characters**, so treat that as the real-world ceiling there.\n\nCount **Unicode code points**, not UTF-16 code units — the server's bound is a\nPython `len()`, so an astral character (an emoji, say) counts once there but\ntwice under a naive JavaScript `.length`, which would reject a description that\nactually fits.\n\n- Compact repetition and non-actionable prose **first**, without dropping\n  actionable content.\n- If the required content still will not fit, **fail loud and escalate** as a\n  decomposition/scope finding.\n- An attachment is **not** a workaround — the worker cannot see it.\n- Raising the server-side bound is out of scope.\n\n#### Auto-resolve vs escalate\n\n**Auto-resolve only** when the authoritative artifacts make the intended contract\nunambiguous: normalizing vocabulary, or copying a producer's already-defined\ninterface name to its consumer.\n\n**Escalate** any proposed change to scope, decomposition, ownership boundaries,\ndependencies, public contracts, migrations, NFRs, or acceptance criteria. A\ncontradiction implying a scope or decomposition change is not a wording fix;\nauto-resolving one silently is worse than the contradiction, because it launders a\nreal decision into prose nobody reviewed.\n\n#### Build `touched_files`\n\nThe file-ownership map you built to detect **ownership collision** *is*\n`touched_files`. This step is the only place with a whole-epic view, and nothing\nelse emits the field today.\n\n- Sorted, deduplicated, repository-relative POSIX paths — no leading `./`, no\n  absolute paths, no `..` traversal, no temporary-worktree paths, no prose. The\n  `finalize` step rejects anything else rather than dropping it. Concrete files\n  only: the backend intersects these as exact strings, so a directory or glob\n  entry protects nothing.\n- Every node carries the field. `[]` is valid **only** where the ticket genuinely\n  touches no repository files and that is explicit.\n- **Unknown ownership is escalated, never encoded as `[]`** — an empty array\n  silently disables overlap protection.\n- When two tickets legitimately touch the same file, **both** keep it. If one\n  consumes an interface the other produces, add the semantic dependency\n  explicitly rather than relying on overlap serialization for ordering.\n\n### Phase 4 — Escalate and halt, if there are escalations\n\nAssign this invocation a local `harmonization_run_id`, and give each finding a\nstable id derived deterministically from its normalized class, its sorted\naffected ticket keys, and its seam or file identity — so the same contradiction\nkeeps the same id across runs and a resumed decision still applies.\n\nIf any finding is escalated, build **one consolidated decision page** using the\ninteraction established in `clarify-open-nfrs.md` — call `generate_decision_page`\nwith `artifact_type: \"pre_ticket_planning\"`, `ticket_key: {epic_slug}`,\n`output_subdir: \"epic-plans/{epic_slug}\"`, and\n`output_filename: \"{epic_slug}-harmonization-decisions.html\"`. Give each item its\ntaxonomy class, affected tickets, bounded conflicting evidence, options, and a\nrecommended resolution.\n\nBefore halting, atomically persist the validated manifest, the provisional report,\nand the decision-page reference. Then **halt without changing the sidecar or\nJira**. Stop and wait for the user; do not assume a resolution.\n\n**On resume**: read the manifest, re-fetch all tickets, re-evaluate the complete\nsibling set, apply the recorded decision, and continue from this phase. Do not\nrestart `plan-epic` — that risks recreating tickets or losing the key mapping. Do\nnot post a duplicate decision page or order comments.\n\n### Phase 5 — Stage the local bundle\n\nAdd the whole-epic ownership map to the input document as\n`touched_files_by_key` (real Jira key → its predicted files), then finalize:\n\n```bash\nnpx -y @bridge_gpt/mcp-server emit-conductor-bundle finalize \\\n  --input <path to the input document> \\\n  --json\n```\n\nThis atomically writes, in one deterministic step:\n\n1. The finalized `{docs_dir}/epic-plans/{epic_slug}/epic-plan.dag.json` — the\n   validated node→key map applied across `nodes[].ticket_key`,\n   `nodes[].depends_on`, and `edges[].from`/`to`, with each node's normalized\n   `touched_files` attached and nothing else mutated. It rejects residual `TBD-`,\n   duplicate keys, unknown references, self-dependencies, cycles, and ordinary\n   edges that contradict the canonical `depends_on` graph.\n2. `{docs_dir}/epic-plans/{epic_slug}/sibling-ticket-manifest.json` — versioned\n   schema, epic identity, sidecar plan version, decomposition fingerprint, the\n   ordered mapping, run phase, decisions, and completed-mutation markers. It\n   records both the validated source-sidecar identity and the finalized-sidecar\n   identity, so a rerun can tell a legitimate finalized sidecar from a different\n   decomposition, and it excludes descriptions, credentials, exploration bodies,\n   and raw Jira responses.\n\nEvery write is a temp file in the destination directory followed by a rename, so\nan interrupted run cannot leave a partial recovery source. A non-zero exit halts\nthe task; relay its error verbatim.\n\nThen write the report artifacts:\n\n3. `{docs_dir}/epic-plans/{epic_slug}/harmonization-report.json` — versioned\n   schema, run metadata, and bounded findings.\n4. A run-scoped archive beside it\n   (`harmonization-report.{harmonization_run_id}.json`), **without replacing\n   earlier archives**. The fixed path holds only the latest run, so without the\n   archive one idempotent rerun would erase the only measurement of what this gate\n   ever caught.\n\n- **Preserve `plan_version`.** Do not bump it: these changes finalize version 1\n  *before* it is stored.\n- **Never set `base_lineage`.** It affects the plan hash but has no consumer in\n  either conductor, so setting it invalidates the approved hash for no gain.\n\n### Phase 6 — The dry-run gate\n\n```bash\nnpx -y @bridge_gpt/mcp-server setup-epic \\\n  --epic-key <epic_key> \\\n  --plan-file <docs_dir>/epic-plans/<epic_slug>/epic-plan.dag.json \\\n  --dry-run \\\n  --json\n```\n\n`validateEpicPlanSidecar()` is a pure local function over the parsed sidecar —\nplan version, key uniqueness, `touched_files`, acyclicity — with no Jira\ndependency. Running it first costs nothing and removes the partial-mutation\nfailure mode entirely.\n\n- **Any non-zero exit halts.** Relay the command's failure text verbatim; it is\n  already actionable.\n- **Any `touched_files` warning halts**, even on a successful exit. That warning\n  means a node's ownership is undeclared, which is the exact gap this task exists\n  to close: an undeclared node is never pre-serialized against an overlapping\n  sibling, so it relies entirely on reactive conflict detection at the merge gate.\n  Go back and declare it before proceeding.\n\n  This halt is **this task's own planning-quality bar, not a server rejection.**\n  Plan storage *accepts* an omitted `touched_files` as an explicit opt-out\n  (BAPI-722), so nothing downstream will stop you — which is precisely why the\n  standard has to be held here. (A *malformed* `touched_files` is different: the\n  server does reject that outright with `VALIDATION`.)\n- **Never fall back** to POSTing `/jira/epic-runs/runs` directly, storing the\n  plan, or approving it. A duplicate active run wedges the epic permanently.\n\nIf staging or the dry-run fails, leave Jira descriptions and attachments\nuntouched.\n\n### Phase 7 — Apply the external mutations\n\nOnly on a passing dry-run. Repeat the **Phase 1 run-state precheck immediately\nbefore the first Jira write**, and halt if it now shows approval, activation,\nblocking, plan storage, multiple runs, or an ambiguous state. On a resume,\nre-fetch all sibling tickets and re-evaluate the complete set before applying any\nrecorded decision.\n\n**Descriptions.** Compare each complete proposed description against the ticket's\ncurrent Jira description using the same normalization as\n`normalize_ticket_spec()`: collapse every run of whitespace to a single space and\ntrim, so cosmetic diffs never trigger a rewrite. A pure reflow or indentation\nedit is deliberately **not** a material change — the server treats it the same\nway, and diverging here would false-freeze tickets via `spec_stale`. Call\n`update_ticket_description` **only when the normalized descriptions differ\nmaterially**, and pass the **complete rendered description** — this is a full\nrewrite, not an append. Record each successful description mutation in the\nmanifest before moving to the next one, so a retry converges without duplicating\nwork.\n\n**Drafts and attachments.** Refresh the local draft with the reconciled complete\ndocument, then upload it with the `attachment` tool\n(`operation: \"upload\"`, `replace_existing: true`), which replaces any existing\nattachment of the same filename. Note it is delete-then-create rather than an\natomic revision, so the attachment id changes. If replacement is unavailable,\nmark the superseded local draft prominently and upload one deterministically named\nreconciled document instead. Skip the upload when an equivalent revision is\nalready present. **Do not add a Jira comment solely to refresh or supersede an\nattachment.** Record each draft/attachment mutation in the manifest so a retry\nskips completed equivalent work.\n\n**Finalize the reports.** After the required mutations converge, atomically\nrewrite the fixed and run-scoped reports with the actual mutation outcomes.\n\n### Clean reruns\n\nA rerun over an already-harmonized epic is a **clean no-op**. It must not call\n`update_ticket_description`, upload a duplicate attachment, add a comment, alter\nplan semantics, bump `plan_version`, approve anything, or create status rows. It\nstill runs the final dry-run validation, still emits the fixed report (with an\nempty `findings` array), and still preserves every prior archive. It may rewrite\nidentical local JSON whose bytes differ only by normalization.\n\n### Never do these\n\n- Never create or seed `epic_ticket_status` rows, and never add a fallback\n  seeding path. Seeding is owned by `approve_epic_plan`, which seeds one\n  `planned` row per plan node idempotently before flipping the run to `active`.\n- Never approve a plan, activate a run, or POST to `/jira/epic-runs/runs`.\n- Never set `base_lineage`.\n- Never rewrite a description after the run reaches `active` — that trips\n  `spec_stale`.\n\n## Return\n\nReport:\n\n- The manifest path.\n- The fixed report path and the run-scoped archive path.\n- The ticket keys whose descriptions **changed**, and those left **unchanged**.\n- Attachment outcomes per ticket.\n- The dry-run result.\n- Exactly one status: **`ready_for_approval`** or **`decision_required`**.\n\nState explicitly that **approval remains a separate subsequent action** — this\ntask never approves the plan. On `ready_for_approval`, the operator runs\n`store-and-approve-epic-plan` next.\n",
+    "emit-conductor-bundle.md": "Harmonize an epic's sibling tickets against each other and emit the artifacts the conductor needs, after the tickets exist and before the plan is approved.\n\nEach sibling ticket was drafted by a separate writer session that could not see\nits siblings. Each independently re-researched the codebase and re-derived\ninterfaces, names, and file ownership, so siblings routinely disagree exactly at\nthe seams where they must agree — the dependency edges. The decomposition itself\nwas coherent (one agent, one context, wrote `epic-plan.md` and every exploration\ndocument); that coherence is discarded at the handoff. This task reads every\nsibling in one context and restores it.\n\nThe window is forced. Real ticket keys exist only after creation, and description\nrewrites are free before approval but trip `spec_stale` after it.\n\n**This is a standalone task, deliberately not a step in `plan-epic.json`.**\n`plan-epic` creates no tickets, so wiring this in there would guarantee it runs\nbefore any sibling exists. The local agent invokes it directly, immediately after\ncreating the epic's tickets, passing the ordered node→key mapping it already\nholds.\n\n## Inputs\n\n- `epic_key` — the Jira key of the epic (e.g. `BAPI-634`). **Required.**\n  `setup-epic --dry-run` needs it, it cannot be derived safely from the slug, and\n  it cannot be recovered from Jira: `get_tickets` filters only by free-text\n  `search` and `labels`, with no `parent_key` filter.\n- `epic_slug` — the sanitized slug naming the epic-plan directory.\n- An **ordered array of mapping entries**, one per sidecar node, each with:\n  - `plan_node_id` — the node's identity in `epic-plan.dag.json` (a `TBD-N`\n    placeholder on the initial run, or the real key on a rerun).\n  - `ticket_key` — the real Jira key created for that node.\n  - `exploration_path` — that sub-task's exploration document, relative to the\n    epic-plan directory.\n  - `draft_path` — that sub-task's draft, relative to the epic-plan directory.\n\n**Node identity comes only from `plan_node_id`.** Never infer which node a ticket\nbelongs to from mapping order, ticket titles, description text, or a Jira search.\nA key list plus `epic_slug` cannot determine which real key replaces which\n`TBD-N`, and guessing attaches one ticket's dependencies to another.\n\n## Instructions\n\nResolve `docs_dir` by calling the `get_docs_dir` MCP tool (no parameters). The\nsole workspace for this task is `{docs_dir}/epic-plans/{epic_slug}`. Never read or\nwrite outside it.\n\nExecute the following phases **in this order**. The ordering is the safety\nproperty: every external write is gated behind local validation, so a failure\nleaves Jira untouched rather than half-mutated. Pipeline ordering cannot protect a\nmanual or recovery run, so this task owns it.\n\n### Phase 1 — Non-mutating run-state precheck\n\nBefore reading artifacts, confirm the epic is still in the pre-approval window:\n\n```bash\nnpx -y -p @bridge_gpt/mcp-server conductor epic-status --epic-key <epic_key> --json\n```\n\nThis is read-only. Interpret the result:\n\n- `{\"status\": \"unknown\", \"state\": null}` — no run exists yet. **Proceed**; the\n  dry-run and a later `store-and-approve-epic-plan` will create it.\n- `epic_run.status` is `planning` **and** its plan version is not yet stored —\n  a single unapproved planning run. **Proceed**; it may be reused.\n- `epic_run.status` is `active`, `blocked`, `done`, or `abandoned` — **halt.**\n- `epic_run.approved_plan_hash` is non-null (the plan is approved) — **halt.**\n- The sidecar's `plan_version` is already stored — **halt.** Plan blobs are\n  immutable and post-approval description rewrites are forbidden; this needs an\n  explicit re-plan.\n- Multiple runs, or any ambiguous/unreadable state — **halt.** Never guess.\n\nHalting here means reporting the state and stopping. Do not attempt a repair.\n\n### Phase 2 — Validate inputs and source artifacts\n\nAssemble the mapping into a JSON input document:\n\n```json\n{\n  \"epic_key\": \"<epic_key>\",\n  \"epic_slug\": \"<epic_slug>\",\n  \"decomposition_fingerprint\": \"<stable fingerprint of this decomposition>\",\n  \"mappings\": [\n    {\n      \"plan_node_id\": \"TBD-1\",\n      \"ticket_key\": \"BAPI-635\",\n      \"exploration_path\": \"explorations/01-<subtask-slug>.md\",\n      \"draft_path\": \"drafts/01-<subtask-slug>.md\"\n    }\n  ]\n}\n```\n\nThen run the deterministic entry validation **before reading any mapped file,\nfetching any ticket, or writing any artifact**:\n\n```bash\nnpx -y @bridge_gpt/mcp-server emit-conductor-bundle validate \\\n  --input <path to the input document> \\\n  --json\n```\n\nThis writes nothing. A non-zero exit halts the task; relay its error verbatim.\nThese are entry-point checks, not agent judgment. It enforces:\n\n- `epic_key` and every `ticket_key` match the project's Jira key pattern, are\n  non-empty and unique, and no child key equals `epic_key`.\n- `epic_slug` matches the sanitized slug grammar.\n- The mapping is **complete and one-to-one**: every sidecar node has exactly one\n  entry, and every entry matches exactly one node — by `plan_node_id` on the\n  initial run, or by its already-mapped `ticket_key` on a rerun.\n- An existing `sibling-ticket-manifest.json` agrees with the supplied mapping on\n  epic identity, slug, plan version, decomposition fingerprint, and every\n  node→key pair. **On disagreement, halt** — never silently prefer either source.\n- Every mapped path resolves beneath `{docs_dir}/epic-plans/{epic_slug}`.\n  Absolute paths, `..` traversal, paths into another epic's directory, unknown\n  mapping paths, and symlink escapes are all rejected before their content is read.\n\nThen load these **authoritative artifacts** into one working context:\n\n- `{docs_dir}/epic-plans/{epic_slug}/goals-and-nfrs.md`\n- `{docs_dir}/epic-plans/{epic_slug}/epic-plan.md`\n- `{docs_dir}/epic-plans/{epic_slug}/epic-plan.dag.json`\n- every mapped exploration document\n- every mapped draft\n\n**Halt** if any of them is missing, malformed, or unmatched. These are\nauthoritative inputs; proceeding without one voids the reconciliation guarantee.\n\nRe-fetch every mapped child ticket by its supplied key (`get_ticket`) and keep\nthe complete sibling set in one context. Reading them one at a time defeats the\nentire purpose of this task.\n\nDelimit every dynamically inserted Jira, plan, draft, or exploration excerpt with\ntriple quotes before analyzing it, and strip secret-like content before it can\nreach a prompt, a rendered description, decision material, a report, or an\nattachment.\n\n### Phase 3 — Harmonize the whole epic (in memory)\n\n**Authority order when sources conflict:**\n\n1. Exploration documents and current code research — primary evidence.\n2. Intended scope in `epic-plan.md` — what the decomposition meant to build.\n3. Current ticket descriptions — **outputs to be corrected, never authoritative\n   inputs.**\n\nReview the complete sibling set once against this taxonomy, rather than a vague\n\"look for problems\" pass:\n\n- **interface drift** — the same function, endpoint, table, or field described\n  differently across siblings.\n- **ownership collision** — two tickets both claiming to create the same file,\n  symbol, or migration.\n- **orphan consumer** — a ticket consuming a seam no sibling produces.\n- **order violation** — a ticket assuming work a later sibling does.\n- **scope overlap** — two tickets covering the same work.\n- **vocabulary drift** — the same concept named inconsistently.\n- **NFR conflict** — a ticket contradicting `goals-and-nfrs.md`.\n\nEvery dependency edge must end up with an explicit producer, an explicit\nconsumer, an owned seam, an exact interface or artifact name, and a required\nordering.\n\n#### Canonical contract blocks\n\nRender each shared seam **once**, and insert byte-identical text into both the\nproducer's and the consumer's description. This is what makes \"described\nidentically at the edge\" checkable rather than a matter of opinion.\n\nUse stable delimiters and a stable seam identifier:\n\n```\n<!-- BEGIN CONTRACT: {seam_id} -->\n**Contract: {seam_id}**\n\n- **Producer**: {producer_ticket_key}\n- **Consumer(s)**: {consumer_ticket_keys}\n- **Interface**: {exact name and signature/shape}\n- **Ordering**: {what must exist before what}\n<!-- END CONTRACT: {seam_id} -->\n```\n\n`{seam_id}` is derived deterministically from the seam's identity (the interface\nor artifact name), so the same seam keeps the same id across runs. Everything\noutside a contract block stays ticket-specific: each ticket keeps its own\nsummary, scope, requirements, acceptance criteria, constraints, and risks.\n\n#### Fold in the exploration document\n\nThe description is the **only** channel a conductor worker can see. The\nreconciler resolves the spec and ships it in the job payload; the worker reads the\nticket, not the repo. `docs/tmp/epic-plans/` is gitignored and worker worktrees\nare cut from a pinned `origin/<base>` SHA, so exploration documents are never on\ndisk for the implementing agent.\n\nFold each sub-task's exploration document into its ticket under a deterministic\ndelimited section:\n\n```\n<!-- BEGIN EXPLORATION: {ticket_key} -->\n...\n<!-- END EXPLORATION: {ticket_key} -->\n```\n\nPreserve every implementation-relevant file, symbol, interface, constraint,\ndecision, and open risk. Resolve every mapped `TBD-N` token to its real key in\nticket prose, exploration content, drafts, and contract blocks — not only in the\nsidecar. Drafts authored before the tickets existed refer to siblings as `TBD-N`;\na worker receiving that text has no actionable dependency reference.\n\n#### The spec length bound — fail loud\n\nValidate every complete rendered description against the bound. The conductor's\npayload bound is **64,000 characters** (the reconciler no longer truncates\nsilently — overflow beyond its own bound is visibly marked). For Jira-backed\ntickets the **practical** limit binds far earlier: Jira caps a description at\n**32,767 characters**, so treat that as the real-world ceiling there.\n\nCount **Unicode code points**, not UTF-16 code units — the server's bound is a\nPython `len()`, so an astral character (an emoji, say) counts once there but\ntwice under a naive JavaScript `.length`, which would reject a description that\nactually fits.\n\n- Compact repetition and non-actionable prose **first**, without dropping\n  actionable content.\n- If the required content still will not fit, **fail loud and escalate** as a\n  decomposition/scope finding.\n- An attachment is **not** a workaround — the worker cannot see it.\n- Raising the server-side bound is out of scope.\n\n#### Auto-resolve vs escalate\n\n**Auto-resolve only** when the authoritative artifacts make the intended contract\nunambiguous: normalizing vocabulary, or copying a producer's already-defined\ninterface name to its consumer.\n\n**Escalate** any proposed change to scope, decomposition, ownership boundaries,\ndependencies, public contracts, migrations, NFRs, or acceptance criteria. A\ncontradiction implying a scope or decomposition change is not a wording fix;\nauto-resolving one silently is worse than the contradiction, because it launders a\nreal decision into prose nobody reviewed.\n\n#### Build `touched_files`\n\nThe file-ownership map you built to detect **ownership collision** *is*\n`touched_files`. This step is the only place with a whole-epic view, and nothing\nelse emits the field today.\n\n- Sorted, deduplicated, repository-relative POSIX paths — no leading `./`, no\n  absolute paths, no `..` traversal, no temporary-worktree paths, no prose. The\n  `finalize` step rejects anything else rather than dropping it. Concrete files\n  only: the backend intersects these as exact strings, so a directory or glob\n  entry protects nothing.\n- Every node carries the field. `[]` is valid **only** where the ticket genuinely\n  touches no repository files and that is explicit.\n- **Unknown ownership is escalated, never encoded as `[]`** — an empty array\n  silently disables overlap protection.\n- When two tickets legitimately touch the same file, **both** keep it. If one\n  consumes an interface the other produces, add the semantic dependency\n  explicitly rather than relying on overlap serialization for ordering.\n\n##### What `touched_files` can and cannot prove (BAPI-848)\n\n`touched_files` is a **pre-implementation prediction**, written before the work\nexists. Overlap serialization intersects those declared lists as exact strings,\nso it proves ordering **only for paths both nodes actually declared**. Its\ncoverage scope is `declared_files_only`, and the server now reports that scope\nalongside the counts.\n\nTwo consequences, both load-bearing:\n\n- **A passing dry run and `inserted_edges: 0` prove nothing about the\n  implementation.** Zero edges means \"no two nodes declared the same path\". It\n  does not mean the implementations will avoid each other. In epic BAPI-776 the\n  plan reported `inserted_edges: 0` and all three tickets converged on one line\n  of one undeclared file.\n- **An undeclared file is invisible to serialization**, whatever the work ends\n  up touching. This is a **deliberately accepted limitation**: an implementation\n  that touches a genuinely undeclared, non-discoverable file is not\n  automatically serialized against its siblings. Merge-conflict detection plus\n  `JOB_TYPE_REBASE` remains the reactive backstop.\n\nThe obvious \"fix\" — attaching a blanket set of hotspot paths to every node — is\n**wrong and must not be done.** It would serialize unrelated siblings and\neffectively disable the parallelism the conductor exists to provide.\n\n**Prefer removing a hotspot structurally over scheduling around it.** A test\nrunner, build manifest, or route table that enumerates its members by hand is a\nrepository-wide serialization point: every ticket that adds a member must edit\nthat one shared line, so any two such tickets conflict by construction, and a\nmember left off it silently runs nowhere. Replacing the enumeration with\ndiscovery removes the conflict class outright. Where that has been done, adding a\nmember no longer implies touching the shared file — so do not declare it as\nthough it does. Check the current state of the repository you are planning for\nrather than assuming either shape.\n\n### Phase 4 — Escalate and halt, if there are escalations\n\nAssign this invocation a local `harmonization_run_id`, and give each finding a\nstable id derived deterministically from its normalized class, its sorted\naffected ticket keys, and its seam or file identity — so the same contradiction\nkeeps the same id across runs and a resumed decision still applies.\n\nIf any finding is escalated, build **one consolidated decision page** using the\ninteraction established in `clarify-open-nfrs.md` — call `generate_decision_page`\nwith `artifact_type: \"pre_ticket_planning\"`, `ticket_key: {epic_slug}`,\n`output_subdir: \"epic-plans/{epic_slug}\"`, and\n`output_filename: \"{epic_slug}-harmonization-decisions.html\"`. Give each item its\ntaxonomy class, affected tickets, bounded conflicting evidence, options, and a\nrecommended resolution.\n\nBefore halting, atomically persist the validated manifest, the provisional report,\nand the decision-page reference. Then **halt without changing the sidecar or\nJira**. Stop and wait for the user; do not assume a resolution.\n\n**On resume**: read the manifest, re-fetch all tickets, re-evaluate the complete\nsibling set, apply the recorded decision, and continue from this phase. Do not\nrestart `plan-epic` — that risks recreating tickets or losing the key mapping. Do\nnot post a duplicate decision page or order comments.\n\n### Phase 5 — Stage the local bundle\n\nAdd the whole-epic ownership map to the input document as\n`touched_files_by_key` (real Jira key → its predicted files), then finalize:\n\n```bash\nnpx -y @bridge_gpt/mcp-server emit-conductor-bundle finalize \\\n  --input <path to the input document> \\\n  --json\n```\n\nThis atomically writes, in one deterministic step:\n\n1. The finalized `{docs_dir}/epic-plans/{epic_slug}/epic-plan.dag.json` — the\n   validated node→key map applied across `nodes[].ticket_key`,\n   `nodes[].depends_on`, and `edges[].from`/`to`, with each node's normalized\n   `touched_files` attached and nothing else mutated. It rejects residual `TBD-`,\n   duplicate keys, unknown references, self-dependencies, cycles, and ordinary\n   edges that contradict the canonical `depends_on` graph.\n2. `{docs_dir}/epic-plans/{epic_slug}/sibling-ticket-manifest.json` — versioned\n   schema, epic identity, sidecar plan version, decomposition fingerprint, the\n   ordered mapping, run phase, decisions, and completed-mutation markers. It\n   records both the validated source-sidecar identity and the finalized-sidecar\n   identity, so a rerun can tell a legitimate finalized sidecar from a different\n   decomposition, and it excludes descriptions, credentials, exploration bodies,\n   and raw Jira responses.\n\nEvery write is a temp file in the destination directory followed by a rename, so\nan interrupted run cannot leave a partial recovery source. A non-zero exit halts\nthe task; relay its error verbatim.\n\nThen write the report artifacts:\n\n3. `{docs_dir}/epic-plans/{epic_slug}/harmonization-report.json` — versioned\n   schema, run metadata, and bounded findings.\n4. A run-scoped archive beside it\n   (`harmonization-report.{harmonization_run_id}.json`), **without replacing\n   earlier archives**. The fixed path holds only the latest run, so without the\n   archive one idempotent rerun would erase the only measurement of what this gate\n   ever caught.\n\n- **Preserve `plan_version`.** Do not bump it: these changes finalize version 1\n  *before* it is stored.\n- **Never set `base_lineage`.** It affects the plan hash but has no consumer in\n  either conductor, so setting it invalidates the approved hash for no gain.\n\n### Phase 6 — The dry-run gate\n\n```bash\nnpx -y @bridge_gpt/mcp-server setup-epic \\\n  --epic-key <epic_key> \\\n  --plan-file <docs_dir>/epic-plans/<epic_slug>/epic-plan.dag.json \\\n  --dry-run \\\n  --json\n```\n\n`validateEpicPlanSidecar()` is a pure local function over the parsed sidecar —\nplan version, key uniqueness, `touched_files`, acyclicity — with no Jira\ndependency. Running it first costs nothing and removes the partial-mutation\nfailure mode entirely.\n\n- **Any non-zero exit halts.** Relay the command's failure text verbatim; it is\n  already actionable.\n- **Any `touched_files` warning halts**, even on a successful exit. That warning\n  means a node's ownership is undeclared, which is the exact gap this task exists\n  to close: an undeclared node is never pre-serialized against an overlapping\n  sibling, so it relies entirely on reactive conflict detection at the merge gate.\n  Go back and declare it before proceeding.\n\n  This halt is **this task's own planning-quality bar, not a server rejection.**\n  Plan storage *accepts* an omitted `touched_files` as an explicit opt-out\n  (BAPI-722), so nothing downstream will stop you — which is precisely why the\n  standard has to be held here. A successful dry run reports\n  `undeclared_nodes` and `undeclared_pairs_skipped` next to `inserted_edges`\n  (BAPI-848); read those before treating a clean exit as coverage. (A *malformed* `touched_files` is different: the\n  server does reject that outright with `VALIDATION`.)\n- **Never fall back** to POSTing `/jira/epic-runs/runs` directly, storing the\n  plan, or approving it. A duplicate active run wedges the epic permanently.\n\nIf staging or the dry-run fails, leave Jira descriptions and attachments\nuntouched.\n\n### Phase 7 — Apply the external mutations\n\nOnly on a passing dry-run. Repeat the **Phase 1 run-state precheck immediately\nbefore the first Jira write**, and halt if it now shows approval, activation,\nblocking, plan storage, multiple runs, or an ambiguous state. On a resume,\nre-fetch all sibling tickets and re-evaluate the complete set before applying any\nrecorded decision.\n\n**Descriptions.** Compare each complete proposed description against the ticket's\ncurrent Jira description using the same normalization as\n`normalize_ticket_spec()`: collapse every run of whitespace to a single space and\ntrim, so cosmetic diffs never trigger a rewrite. A pure reflow or indentation\nedit is deliberately **not** a material change — the server treats it the same\nway, and diverging here would false-freeze tickets via `spec_stale`. Call\n`update_ticket_description` **only when the normalized descriptions differ\nmaterially**, and pass the **complete rendered description** — this is a full\nrewrite, not an append. Record each successful description mutation in the\nmanifest before moving to the next one, so a retry converges without duplicating\nwork.\n\n**Drafts and attachments.** Refresh the local draft with the reconciled complete\ndocument, then upload it with the `attachment` tool\n(`operation: \"upload\"`, `replace_existing: true`), which replaces any existing\nattachment of the same filename. Note it is delete-then-create rather than an\natomic revision, so the attachment id changes. If replacement is unavailable,\nmark the superseded local draft prominently and upload one deterministically named\nreconciled document instead. Skip the upload when an equivalent revision is\nalready present. **Do not add a Jira comment solely to refresh or supersede an\nattachment.** Record each draft/attachment mutation in the manifest so a retry\nskips completed equivalent work.\n\n**Finalize the reports.** After the required mutations converge, atomically\nrewrite the fixed and run-scoped reports with the actual mutation outcomes.\n\n### Clean reruns\n\nA rerun over an already-harmonized epic is a **clean no-op**. It must not call\n`update_ticket_description`, upload a duplicate attachment, add a comment, alter\nplan semantics, bump `plan_version`, approve anything, or create status rows. It\nstill runs the final dry-run validation, still emits the fixed report (with an\nempty `findings` array), and still preserves every prior archive. It may rewrite\nidentical local JSON whose bytes differ only by normalization.\n\n### Never do these\n\n- Never create or seed `epic_ticket_status` rows, and never add a fallback\n  seeding path. Seeding is owned by `approve_epic_plan`, which seeds one\n  `planned` row per plan node idempotently before flipping the run to `active`.\n- Never approve a plan, activate a run, or POST to `/jira/epic-runs/runs`.\n- Never set `base_lineage`.\n- Never rewrite a description after the run reaches `active` — that trips\n  `spec_stale`.\n\n## Return\n\nReport:\n\n- The manifest path.\n- The fixed report path and the run-scoped archive path.\n- The ticket keys whose descriptions **changed**, and those left **unchanged**.\n- Attachment outcomes per ticket.\n- The dry-run result.\n- Exactly one status: **`ready_for_approval`** or **`decision_required`**.\n\nState explicitly that **approval remains a separate subsequent action** — this\ntask never approves the plan. On `ready_for_approval`, the operator runs\n`store-and-approve-epic-plan` next.\n",
     "evaluate-and-recommend.md": "Evaluate the clarifying questions and ticket critiques generated for {ticket_key} against the actual codebase, then decorate every actionable item with the resolution guidance the reviewer will need on the decision page. The result is a single combined review-and-resolution document.\n\n## Phase 0 — Grounding & Audit Setup\n\nBefore gathering any source documents, extract the codebase-grounding context produced by the preceding `materialize_fresh_base` pipeline step:\n\n- Read the `materialize_fresh_base` tool result from earlier in this session. It returns JSON `{ base_sha, base_branch, fresh_base_root }` — or, when `no_refresh_base` was set, `{ base_sha: \"local-stale\", fresh_base_root: <original repo root> }`.\n- Retain `fresh_base_root` and `base_sha` for the rest of this procedure. Every codebase read in Phase 1 / Phase 2 below is grounded against `fresh_base_root`. `fresh_base_root` is also the exact value you must pass to the pipeline's later `cleanup_fresh_base` step — it is a *runtime* value returned by the tool call, not a static recipe variable, so pass the real path string you captured here, not any placeholder text shown in the step's params.\n- If the `materialize_fresh_base` step's result contains an `error` field and `no_refresh_base` was NOT set, this is the fail-loud condition the recipe's `on_error: \"halt\"` exists for: stop here, do not fall back to grounding against your own working directory, and report the failure (name the attempted base branch and the remediation — retry, or rerun with `--no-refresh-base`).\n\n**Metadata Audit Header** — the very first content of the generated review-and-resolution document, before any other section, must be:\n\n```\n**Base SHA**: <base_sha>\n**Base Branch**: <base_branch, or \"(local, in-place)\" when base_sha is \"local-stale\">\n**Grounding Status**: <Freshly Materialized | Stale/In-Place Fallback>\n```\n\n- `Grounding Status` is **Freshly Materialized** whenever `base_sha` is a real commit SHA (the normal path).\n- `Grounding Status` is **Stale/In-Place Fallback** whenever `base_sha` is exactly `local-stale` (the `--no-refresh-base` opt-out path). In this case, immediately follow the header with a prominent, bold, high-contrast warning block, for example:\n\n  > **⚠ STALE GROUNDING — `--no-refresh-base` was used.** This review evaluated the codebase as checked out locally, NOT a freshly-fetched `origin/<base>`. `file:line` citations may reflect uncommitted or unmerged local state.\n\n**Codebase grounding rule**: Ground ALL file reads and codebase searches exclusively against the `fresh_base_root` directory extracted above. Do NOT read codebase files from your default working directory or session cwd — `fresh_base_root` is the only trustworthy source of truth for `file:line` citations in this procedure.\n\n**Original-repo rule**: Ticket docs, `{docs_dir}` inputs, and ALL output paths stay in the ORIGINAL repository, never the `fresh_base_root` temp dir. This includes the ticket-fetch call below, the clarifying-questions / critique source documents, and the saved review-and-resolution output file (see the Save rule at the bottom). Do NOT redirect any of these into `fresh_base_root`.\n\n**Path hygiene rule**: Every `file:line` citation and Codebase Evidence entry in the output document MUST be repo-relative — strip the `fresh_base_root` absolute-path prefix before writing it down. A citation must never contain a temp-dir / `/tmp/...`-style absolute path (write `src/foo.ts:10`, never `/tmp/bridge-review-.../src/foo.ts:10`).\n\n1. Fetch the current ticket description using the `get_ticket` tool with ticket_number `{ticket_key}` exactly once at the top of this procedure.\n\n2. Gather the clarifying questions and critique documents from the preceding pipeline steps. The local files at `{docs_dir}/clarifying-questions/{ticket_key}-clarifying-questions.md` and `{docs_dir}/ticket-critiques/{ticket_key}-ticket-quality-critique.md` are the canonical source. After a second-opinion run, each document has this shape:\n\n   - A top-level H1 (`# Ticket Analysis` for clarifier docs, `# Ticket Quality Critique` for critique docs) followed by an italic provider-attribution line of the form `_This analysis was generated by GPT|Claude|Gemini._`. The attribution names the LLM family that produced the **first round**.\n   - The first-round questions / critique items, exactly as written by the first-round model.\n   - **Inline second-opinion blockquotes** nested directly under each prior item the second round addressed. Each blockquote starts with `> **Second opinion (<provider>) - <stance>.**` where `<provider>` is `GPT|Claude|Gemini` and `<stance>` is `concurrence|refinement|disagreement`. The blockquote is followed by `> *Citations: <comma-separated grounding refs>*`. Items the second round did **not** comment on have no blockquote — that is the \"weak concurrence\" signal. Use the provider name in the blockquote header to attribute the comment to the second-round LLM family in your evaluation prose where helpful.\n   - A **`## New in Second Opinion`** tail block listing items the second round added on top of the first round. Immediately under the H2 you will find a second italic attribution line of the form `_These additional points were raised by GPT|Claude|Gemini._` — this names the second-round LLM family. Sub-headings are agent-specific:\n     - Clarifier docs: `### New Requirements Questions` and `### New Technical Questions` — numbering continues from the prior section.\n     - Critique docs: `### New Requested Changes` and `### New Points to Consider` — numbering continues from the prior section.\n     Each new item has its own `*Citations: ...*` line.\n   - A final **`## Second Opinion Summary`** footer (1-3 sentences) capturing the second round's overall position. This always renders, even when the second round had no inline comments and no new items.\n\n   **Legacy fallback shape**: in rare cases (model lacks JSON-schema support, the JSON call failed, or the response could not be parsed), the document may instead end with `\\n\\n---\\n\\n` followed by a `## Second Opinion` section containing `### Response to Prior Items` and `### Additional Points` subsections. If you detect this fallback shape, treat it equivalently: subsection responses tagged `concurrence` map to weak/strong concurrence (use the body length to disambiguate — bare one-line concurrences are weak), `refinement`/`disagreement` map to the disagree buckets, and items under `### Additional Points` map to the gap-captured bucket below.\n\n   **Partial-source-doc tolerance**: if the clarifying-questions doc OR the ticket-critique doc is missing or unreadable, skip that document silently and produce items only for the surviving doc. Do not fail. If **both** documents are absent, still write the combined output file at `{docs_dir}/review/{ticket_key}-review-and-resolution.md` with the standard top-level sections (`Confirmed Improvements`, `Needs Scrutiny`, `Open Questions`, `Round Agreement Summary`) present but no emitted E-items in any section. This preserves downstream file-existence expectations for the capture-review-decisions step.\n\n3. Determine **Round Agreement** for every clarifying question and critique point using these rules:\n\n   - **Both rounds agree (weak concurrence)** — the prior item has NO inline blockquote AND is not in `## New in Second Opinion`. The second round did not object to the point and did not consider it important enough to comment on. Briefly validate the answer's groundedness against the codebase. If validation surfaces concerns, demote this item to **rounds disagree** (single round only depth) and treat as Needs Scrutiny.\n   - **Both rounds agree (strong concurrence)** — the prior item carries an inline `> **Second opinion (<provider>) - concurrence.** ...` blockquote. The second round explicitly reinforced the prior point. Reuse the blockquote's `*Citations:*` as starting evidence; verify briefly.\n   - **Rounds disagree (refinement)** — the prior item carries an inline `> **Second opinion (<provider>) - refinement.** ...` blockquote. The second round modified or added detail. Apply full disagreement-depth analysis; reuse blockquote citations.\n   - **Rounds disagree (disagreement)** — the prior item carries an inline `> **Second opinion (<provider>) - disagreement.** ...` blockquote. The second round contradicts the prior. Apply full disagreement-depth analysis; categorize the outcome based on which position the codebase supports.\n   - **Gap captured** — the item lives under `## New in Second Opinion > ### New <category>` (one of: New Requirements Questions, New Technical Questions, New Requested Changes, New Points to Consider). Apply the two-axis check below. Reuse the new item's `*Citations:*` as starting evidence.\n   - **Single round only** — the document has none of the above markers (no inline blockquotes, no `## New in Second Opinion` block, no `## Second Opinion Summary` footer). The pipeline ran only one round. Treat every item as a disagreement: cite 2+ codebase locations and give full analytical depth.\n\n   Apply these depth and categorization rules:\n\n   - **Both rounds agree (weak concurrence)**: 1 codebase citation, 1-2 sentence assessment confirming grounding. Categorize as Confirmed Improvement if grounded; demote to Needs Scrutiny if validation finds problems.\n   - **Both rounds agree (strong concurrence)**: 1 codebase citation (may reuse a blockquote citation), 1-2 sentence assessment. Categorize as Confirmed Improvement.\n   - **Rounds disagree (refinement or disagreement)**: 2+ codebase citations, 3-4 sentence assessment that explicitly weighs the prior-round position against the second-opinion position. Categorize based on which position the evidence supports. Always include both positions in the Assessment.\n   - **Gap captured — two-axis check** (for items in `## New in Second Opinion`):\n       - If both the question is grounded in the codebase/standards AND the best-guess answer is sensible → **Confirmed Improvement** with a 1-2 sentence assessment and 1 citation.\n       - If the question is genuine but the best-guess answer is flawed → **Needs Scrutiny**. Cite 2+ files. Use disagreement-depth.\n       - If the question itself does not hold up → **Needs Scrutiny** with evidence of what the code actually does. Disagreement-depth.\n       - If neither codebase nor standards can settle the question → **Open Questions**. Disagreement-depth.\n   - **Single round only**: Treat as a disagreement — cite 2+ codebase locations and give full analytical depth.\n\n   For critique points (Requested Changes and Points to Consider), apply the same Round Agreement rules. The signal locations are inline `> **Second opinion (<provider>) - ...**` blockquotes nested under items in `### Requested Changes` / `### Points to Consider`, and gap-captured items under `## New in Second Opinion > ### New Requested Changes` / `### New Points to Consider`.\n\n   **Depth calibration**:\n   - When Round Agreement is `both rounds agree (weak concurrence)`, `both rounds agree (strong concurrence)`, or `gap captured` (passes both axes), keep Assessment to 1-2 sentences and Codebase Evidence to 1 citation — the validation step or the consensus does the heavy lifting.\n   - When Round Agreement is `rounds disagree (refinement)`, `rounds disagree (disagreement)`, or `single round only`, Assessment should be 3-4 sentences and Codebase Evidence should cite 2+ files explaining the discrepancy.\n   - A `gap captured` item that FAILS the two-axis check uses the disagreement depth, not the gap-captured depth.\n   - A `weak concurrence` item that FAILS your validation gets demoted: change Round Agreement to `rounds disagree (single round only)`, expand Assessment to 3-4 sentences, and add a 2nd citation.\n\n   **Source field conventions** — the `**Source**` string disambiguates where in the source doc the item lives so the downstream `capture-review-decisions` step can route the rewrite correctly. Use these forms:\n\n   - **Weak concurrence (silent prior item)**: `Clarifying Q3 (prior round, weak concurrence)` or `Critique: Requested Change 2 (prior round, weak concurrence)`.\n   - **Strong concurrence (explicit blockquote)**: `Clarifying Q9 (prior round, concurrence inline)` or `Critique: Points to Consider 1 (prior round, concurrence inline)`.\n   - **Refinement (inline blockquote)**: `Clarifying Q3 (prior round, refinement inline)`.\n   - **Disagreement (inline blockquote)**: `Clarifying Q5 (prior round, disagreement inline)`.\n   - **Gap captured (tail-block item)**: `Clarifying Q11 (new in second opinion → New Requirements Questions)` or `Critique: Requested Change N+1 (new in second opinion → New Requested Changes)`. Always spell out the sub-section name after the arrow — capture-review-decisions uses it to find the rewrite target.\n   - **Single round only**: `Clarifying Q3 (single round)`.\n\n## Phase 1 — Evaluate and classify every item\n\nNumber every item sequentially across all sections (E-1, E-2, E-3, …). When the same underlying issue is raised in BOTH the clarifying-questions doc and the critique doc, consolidate it into a SINGLE E-item rather than emitting one per source, and cite both origins in its `**Source**` field (e.g. `Clarifying Q3 + Critique: Requested Change 2`); keep the numbering sequential with no gaps. Classify every clarifying question and every critique point into exactly one of three buckets using the Round Agreement rules, codebase groundedness checks, and the `gap captured` two-axis check before producing any recommendation decoration:\n\n- **Confirmed Improvements**: Suggestions that are grounded and would genuinely improve the ticket by closing significant gaps or correcting design issues. Includes weak-concurrence items that passed validation, strong-concurrence items, and `gap captured` items that passed both axes.\n- **Needs Scrutiny**: Suggestions based on inaccurate codebase assumptions, with evidence of the actual code behavior. Includes `gap captured` items that failed either axis, weak-concurrence items demoted by validation, and the loser of any rounds-disagree pair.\n- **Open Questions**: Legitimate ambiguities that require human input to resolve.\n\nPhase 1 must complete before Phase 2 begins — do not start decorating an item with a decision tree, recommendation index, or clarity fields until classification is final.\n\n## Phase 2 — Decorate actionable items with resolution guidance\n\nPhase 2 applies **only** to items in the `Needs Scrutiny` and `Open Questions` buckets. Confirmed Improvements remain compact and undecorated (see \"Confirmed Improvements output\" below).\n\nFor every actionable (Needs Scrutiny / Open Questions) item, produce the following template using these stable labels:\n\n```\n### E-<sequential number>: <concise title>\n\n**Source**: <where this item lives in the source doc — see Source field conventions above>\n\n**Round Agreement**: <one of the six values> — <1 sentence on what the second round contributed>\n\n**Confidence**: <High|Medium|Low>\n\n**Resolution path**: <\"resolve at your desk\" or \"needs a conversation\">\n\n**Decision tree**:\n- If <condition 1>, then <action 1>. See `file:line`. <1-2 sentence rationale.>\n- If <condition 2>, then <action 2>. See `file:line`. <1-2 sentence rationale.>\n- If <condition 3>, then <action 3>. See `file:line`. <1-2 sentence rationale.>\n\n**Recommendation Index**: <0-based index of the recommended branch in the decision tree above>\n\n**Recommendation**: <which branch the evidence best supports and why, 1-2 sentences>\n\n**Original question**: <the clarifying-question or critique point as it was originally raised, sourced verbatim or near-verbatim from the original clarifying-questions / critique docs. Light rephrasing is allowed; do NOT introduce new technical content. Soft cap ~30 words.>\n\n**Option consequences**:\n- <consequence for branch 1 — describe the behavioral consequence of choosing this option, not its rationale. ~25 words.>\n- <consequence for branch 2 — same shape. ~25 words.>\n- <consequence for branch 3 — same shape. ~25 words.>\n\n**Why it matters**: <one concrete sentence on the impact this decision has on the ticket, the users, or the affected code paths. Soft cap ~40 words.>\n\n**Recommendation explanation**: <explain why the recommended branch is the best choice, tied to the codebase evidence and the consequences of each option. Soft cap ~60 words.>\n\n**Assessment**: <three-point structure>\n1. **State the original suggestion**: What did the clarifying question or critique point propose?\n2. **State the codebase evidence**: What does the actual code show about this suggestion?\n3. **State the implication**: Does the evidence confirm the suggestion, contradict it, or leave it unresolved?\n\n**Codebase Evidence**:\n- `path/to/file.ts:42` — <what this line/block demonstrates>\n- `path/to/other.ts:110-125` — <what this range demonstrates>\n\n<If no direct codebase evidence exists, state: \"No direct codebase evidence found.\">\n```\n\n**Writing quality**: Write each Assessment as if explaining to a colleague who has NOT read the original clarifying questions or critique documents. Each assessment should be self-contained and understandable without cross-referencing the source material. The three-point Assessment structure ensures every assessment tells a complete story rather than assuming the reader already knows what was suggested and why.\n\n**Decision tree rules**:\n- Each decision tree must have **2–4 branches**. Do not exceed 4 and do not produce only 1.\n- **Strict lower bound — reclassify on single-branch items**: If you can think of only one branch for a `Needs Scrutiny` or `Open Questions` item — that is, the resolution is effectively forced — you must reclassify the item as a **Confirmed Improvement** instead of emitting a single-branch decision tree. The 2-branch lower bound is a hard rule; do not work around it by stretching to a contrived second branch. If a single answer is genuinely the only path, the item belongs in Confirmed Improvements.\n- Each branch must end with a concrete, actionable step (not \"investigate further\").\n- Cite relevant code in `file:line` format where possible. If no code reference exists, omit the citation rather than fabricating one.\n- Cap each branch at 2-3 sentences total (including the action and rationale).\n- `**Recommendation Index**` must be the 0-based index of the recommended branch in the decision tree above. The first branch is index 0, the second is index 1, etc.\n- **Option consequences** must be a list parallel to the decision-tree branches: one entry per branch, in the same order. Describe the behavioral consequence of choosing that option, not its rationale.\n- **\"resolve at your desk\"**: The item can be resolved through technical investigation — reading code, running tests, or checking configuration. No stakeholder input needed.\n- **\"needs a conversation\"**: The item involves a product decision, scope question, or cross-team dependency that cannot be resolved from the codebase alone.\n\n**Confidence Tags** — assign confidence based on codebase evidence strength:\n- **High**: Cite specific `file:line` references that directly support the assessment.\n- **Medium**: Reference related code patterns or architectural conventions, but not the exact code in question.\n- **Low**: No direct codebase evidence. Assessment is based on general reasoning or domain knowledge.\n\n### Confirmed Improvements output\n\nRender each Confirmed Improvement as a single bullet in a compact list. No headings per item, no decision trees, no clarity-field decoration:\n\n- **E-<number>: <title>** — Source: <source string>; Round Agreement: <one of the six values>; Confidence: <High|Medium|Low>. <recommended action, 1 sentence.>\n\nThe compact bullet still includes `Source`, `Round Agreement`, `Confidence`, and the one-sentence recommended action so `capture-review-decisions.md` can map these items to its `clear_improvements` array.\n\n## Round Agreement Summary\n\nAfter all items are processed, produce a summary section that groups items by round agreement status:\n\n### Points of Disagreement\nFor items where the evaluation marked `rounds disagree (refinement)`, `rounds disagree (disagreement)`, or `single round only` — including `gap captured` items that failed the two-axis check and landed in Needs Scrutiny — list as bullets with the E-number, the nature of the disagreement, and a 1-sentence explanation of why this disagreement matters for the ticket (e.g., it indicates an architectural ambiguity, a scope question, or a standards gap).\n\nIf no items were marked as disagreements, write: \"All reviewed points had round consensus. No disagreement-driven risks identified.\"\n\n### Points of Agreement\nSplit this section into two sub-bullets to surface the difference between the second round explicitly reinforcing a point versus tacitly accepting it:\n\n**Strong agreement** — items where the evaluation marked `both rounds agree (strong concurrence)`. The second round took the trouble to write an explicit `concurrence` blockquote; this is a soft signal that the point is important enough that the second round wanted to underline it. List as bullets with the E-number and a half-sentence noting the shared conclusion.\n\n**Weak agreement** — items where the evaluation marked `both rounds agree (weak concurrence)`. The second round did not object and did not consider the item important enough to comment on; the local agent's brief validation found no concerns. List as bullets with the E-number and a half-sentence noting the conclusion. Lower priority for human review than strong-agreement items.\n\nIf a sub-bullet has no items, omit it (rather than writing a \"no items\" note for each — keep the section tidy).\n\n### Gaps Captured by Second Round\nFor items where the evaluation marked `gap captured` (sound second-opinion Additional Points confirmed as Confirmed Improvements): list as bullets with the E-number and a half-sentence noting the gap the second round surfaced. These items did not require a decision — they are already in Confirmed Improvements — but are surfaced here so the reviewer sees what the second-round analysis added on top of the first round.\n\nIf no gaps were captured, write: \"The second round did not surface any net-new confirmed improvements.\"\n\n## Edge Cases\n\n- If the evaluation contains zero items in Needs Scrutiny, write: \"No items flagged for scrutiny. All reviewed suggestions were either confirmed or remain open questions.\"\n- If the evaluation contains zero items in Open Questions, write: \"No open questions identified. All ambiguities were resolved through codebase analysis.\"\n- If both Needs Scrutiny and Open Questions are empty, include only the Confirmed Improvements section and add a summary: \"All suggestions from the review were confirmed as grounded improvements. No decision trees are needed.\"\n- If both source documents are absent, still write the combined file with the standard top-level sections present but no emitted E-items rather than failing.\n\n## Example of a Well-Written E-Item (Weak Concurrence — Confirmed Improvement)\n\n### E-2: Caching of analysis-type lookups\n\n**Source**: Clarifying Q4 (prior round, weak concurrence)\n\n**Round Agreement**: both rounds agree (weak concurrence) — the second round did not comment on this item; brief validation confirms the answer is grounded.\n\n**Assessment**: The prior round suggested caching `ANALYSIS_TYPES` lookups in a module-level variable to avoid repeated DB round trips. The codebase already does this at `src/python/learn_repository/__init__.py:14`, so the suggestion is grounded and the second round's silence is consistent with tacit agreement.\n\n**Codebase Evidence**:\n- `src/python/learn_repository/__init__.py:14` — module-level constant pattern is the established convention\n\n(Confirmed Improvements compact bullet form: **E-2: Caching of analysis-type lookups** — Source: Clarifying Q4 (prior round, weak concurrence); Round Agreement: both rounds agree (weak concurrence); Confidence: High. Confirm the existing module-level cache and add a short comment naming the pattern.)\n\n## Example of a Well-Written E-Item (Strong Concurrence — Confirmed Improvement)\n\n### E-4: Sequential per-type review_repository fan-out\n\n**Source**: Clarifying Technical Q2 (prior round, concurrence inline)\n\n**Round Agreement**: both rounds agree (strong concurrence) — the second round explicitly reinforced the prior recommendation, citing per-type lock release simplicity as the deciding factor.\n\n**Assessment**: The prior round recommended sequential per-type execution; the second-opinion blockquote reinforced this, noting that the per-type lock release contract becomes trivial under sequential execution. `review_repository` already uses internal `asyncio.gather` for chunk-level concurrency, so wrapping it in another concurrency layer would not buy throughput and would complicate the abort/finally cleanup contract.\n\n**Codebase Evidence**:\n- `src/python/learn_repository/review_repository.py:369-387` — review_repository internally gathers chunks with return_exceptions=True\n\n## Example of a Well-Written E-Item (Rounds Disagree — Needs Scrutiny with full clarity fields)\n\n### E-5: Authentication middleware placement for new endpoint\n\n**Source**: Clarifying Q2 (prior round, disagreement inline)\n\n**Round Agreement**: rounds disagree (disagreement) — the prior round recommended adding auth at the router level; the second-opinion blockquote argued the existing middleware stack already covers it.\n\n**Confidence**: High\n\n**Resolution path**: resolve at your desk\n\n**Decision tree**:\n- If the global middleware stack already enforces auth on `/api/*` routes, then drop the explicit `Depends(require_api_key)` from the new endpoint. See `main.py:45-52`.\n- If routers each opt in to auth via dependencies, then add `Depends(require_api_key)` to the new endpoint. See `api/routes/__init__.py:18-30`.\n- If only certain `/api/*` sub-paths need auth, then carve out a sub-router with its own dependency. See `api/routes/__init__.py:18-30`.\n\n**Recommendation Index**: 1\n\n**Recommendation**: The existing routers each opt in to auth, so the new endpoint must do the same. Adding `Depends(require_api_key)` is the smallest correct change.\n\n**Original question**: Should the new `/api/exports` endpoint declare an explicit auth dependency, or is it covered by the global middleware?\n\n**Option consequences**:\n- Endpoint becomes publicly reachable; protected data leaks via the new path.\n- Endpoint requires a valid API key, matching every other `/api/*` route.\n- Adds a parallel router; doubles the auth surface that has to be kept consistent.\n\n**Why it matters**: Authentication on `/api/exports` directly determines whether protected data leaks; the wrong default is a security regression, not a stylistic choice.\n\n**Recommendation explanation**: The codebase pattern in `api/routes/__init__.py:18-30` shows each router declaring its own `Depends(require_api_key)`. Following that convention adds two lines, keeps auth uniform across endpoints, and avoids a parallel sub-router that future maintainers would have to keep in sync.\n\n**Assessment**: The prior round suggested that the new `/api/exports` endpoint needs an explicit `Depends(require_api_key)` guard because it is not covered by the global middleware. The second opinion disagreed, claiming the middleware stack in `main.py` handles authentication for all `/api/*` routes. Codebase analysis shows that `main.py:45-52` applies rate limiting globally but authentication is applied per-router in `api/routes/__init__.py:18-30` — each router must opt in via `Depends(require_api_key)`. This supports the prior round's position: the new endpoint needs an explicit auth dependency.\n\n**Codebase Evidence**:\n- `main.py:45-52` — global middleware applies rate limiting and CORS, but not authentication\n- `api/routes/__init__.py:18-30` — each router includes its own auth dependency; there is no catch-all auth middleware\n\n## Example of a Well-Written E-Item (Gap Captured — Confirmed Improvement)\n\n### E-7: Missing Alembic migration for new role-scope column\n\n**Source**: Critique: Requested Change N+1 (new in second opinion → New Requested Changes)\n\n**Round Agreement**: gap captured — the second opinion surfaced a missing migration that the prior round did not raise, and recommended adding an Alembic revision.\n\n**Assessment**: The ticket introduces a new `role_scope` column on the `users` table but does not mention a migration. The second opinion flagged this gap and recommended adding an Alembic revision; both the gap and the recommendation are grounded, since `db/alembic/versions/` is the established location for schema changes per the project's database guide.\n\n**Codebase Evidence**:\n- `db/alembic/versions/` — all schema changes land here as autogenerated revisions\n\n## Save rule\n\nSave the combined review-and-resolution document to `{docs_dir}/review/{ticket_key}-review-and-resolution.md`. Output only the combined review-and-resolution document — no meta-commentary.\n\n## Return\n\nConfirm \"Review-and-resolution document written to `{docs_dir}/review/{ticket_key}-review-and-resolution.md`.\" and report the total count of E-items captured.\n",
     "execute-epic-research.md": "Execute the research plan and write findings.\n\n## Instructions\n\n1. Read the research plan from `{docs_dir}/epic-plans/{epic_slug}/research-plan.md`.\n\n2. Execute the plan based on the Research Mode:\n\n   **If mode is `deep`**:\n   - Call the `request_deep_research` MCP tool with:\n     - `query`: the Deep Research Query from the plan\n     - `context`: \"Bridge API is a Python/FastAPI application with PostgreSQL, LiteLLM, and Pinecone. This research supports epic planning for: {epic_description}\"\n     - `wait_for_result`: true\n     - `save_locally`: true\n   - If deep research fails, log a warning and fall back to web searches using the Web Search Topics from the plan. Do NOT halt.\n\n   **If mode is `web`**:\n   - Perform web searches for each topic listed in the plan.\n   - Capture relevant findings from each search.\n\n   **If mode is `none`**:\n   - Write a brief note: \"No external research needed. Proceeding with codebase exploration.\"\n\n3. Write all findings to `{docs_dir}/epic-plans/{epic_slug}/research-findings.md` with this structure:\n\n```markdown\n# Research Findings\n\n## Mode\n{deep | web | none}\n\n## Findings\n{Synthesized research results organized by topic. Include source references where applicable.}\n\n## Key Takeaways\n{Bullet points summarizing the most important findings that will inform the codebase exploration and epic decomposition.}\n```\n\n## Return\n\nConfirm research findings were written to `{docs_dir}/epic-plans/{epic_slug}/research-findings.md` and report the mode used (`deep`, `web`, or `none`) plus a one-line summary of the key takeaways.\n",
     "execute-plan-verification.md": "Execute the remaining plan steps for ticket {ticket_key} — faithfully — before the pull request opens.\n\nThe production phase authored the artifacts and the checkpoint pushed them to origin.\nThis phase runs everything else the plan asked for: its review steps, its\ntest-execution steps, and — when the plan authored one — its rendered-UI remediation\nloop.\n\n**This phase runs the plan as written.** It has no fixed depth and no cost-based\nnarrowing rule. If the plan says to grep for every call site of a changed signature,\ngrep for every call site. If it supplies a test command, run that command. A step is\nnot narrowed, substituted, or dropped because it is expensive or slow — that judgment\nis what removed a whole class of plan steps from execution in the first place.\n\nRunning before the pull request is deliberate. The remediation loop *changes code*.\nRunning it after the PR opened would guarantee the PR's first head carried the\nun-iterated first draft, and would pay `claude-review` plus `conductor-ci` on every\none of up to three cycles. The work is durable on origin throughout; it is simply not\nexternally visible until the PR opens a moment later.\n\n**Tool and scope boundary.** Use only the tools this recipe names, the repo's own tooling, and MCP\ncapabilities provisioned for this repository. Keep all work confined to this worktree unless\nexplicitly told to do otherwise.\n\n**Execution mode for this run: `{execution_mode}`.** Under `orchestrated`\n(`run_pipeline` / `resume_pipeline`) orchestration appends the routed phase context and\nparses the fenced result envelope you return. Under `inline` (`get_pipeline_recipe`)\nthere is no orchestrator: you obtain routing and the prior ledger with a tool call, and\nyou record your result with one. Follow the branch that matches wherever the two are\nnamed.\n\n---\n\n## Step 1 — Confirm the Checkpoint Is Durable\n\nBefore starting any long-running work:\n\n1. Run `git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD` and `git rev-parse HEAD`.\n2. Confirm the checkpoint SHA recorded by `checkpoint-work.md` is present on origin —\n   `git ls-remote --heads origin <branch>`. The recorded checkpoint comes from the\n   routed context's `checkpoint` block when **orchestrated**, and from the `checkpoint`\n   field `get_phase_context` returns in Step 2 when **inline**.\n\nIf the branch is not on origin, or HEAD and the recorded checkpoint disagree, **stop and report it**. This phase is long; entering it without recoverable work reintroduces\nthe failure the checkpoint exists to prevent.\n\n## Step 2 — Determine What You Own\n\n1. Call `get_plan` for `{ticket_key}` to retrieve the plan body.\n2. Obtain your routing and the prior ledger, by mode:\n   - **orchestrated** — read the **Routed phase context** block appended to this\n     instruction. `ownedSteps` lists the exact step IDs this phase must settle;\n     `ledger` carries what earlier phases already recorded.\n   - **inline** — call `get_phase_context` with `ticket_key` `{ticket_key}` and\n     `phase` `pre_pr_verification`. It returns `ownedSteps`, the merged `ledger`,\n     `terminalStepIds`, and the durable `checkpoint` Step 1 needs.\n3. Do not re-run a step the ledger already records as `executed` or `adapted` unless a\n   correction since then invalidated its evidence. Settle such a step in your phase\n   result anyway, with evidence naming the prior record — every owned step must be\n   reported, and one you correctly skipped is settled, not missing.\n4. Name the routing source you used when you report, either the routed phase context\n   or the `routingSource` value the tool returned.\n\nIf `get_phase_context` reports an error, or the routed context is absent or its\nmetadata status is not `ok`, say so plainly and execute every remaining review,\ntest-execution, and rendered-UI step in the plan. When routing is unavailable here the\nsafe failure is to run more, not less — this phase only verifies, so over-running costs\ntime, while under-running ships unverified work.\n\n## Step 3 — Execute in Plan Order\n\nWork through your owned steps in their original plan order — review steps,\nplan-authored test commands, static searches, architecture-conformance checks, runtime checks,\nand rendered-UI remediation.\n\nRun each command the plan supplies, as the plan supplies it.\n\n### Mechanical adaptation, and its boundary\n\nYou may correct a step **mechanically**, in exactly three ways:\n\n- **locator-correction** — a cited path, file, symbol, or selector has moved or is\n  absent (a `docs/tmp/` citation missing from the worktree is the common case, since\n  those paths are gitignored). Use the correct locator, or proceed without the\n  material, and record it.\n- **repository-command-correction** — the step names a command that is not this\n  repository's actual command. Use the real one.\n- **equivalent-implementation-recognized** — what the step asks for already exists in\n  equivalent form.\n\n**Escalate** anything involving design, schema, public API, dependencies, or security.\nThose change what the step asks for rather than how it is addressed.\n\nA capability the environment genuinely cannot provide, and a check that genuinely\nrequires an open pull request, are handed forward to the post-PR gap-closing phase as\n`escalated` with that reason recorded. Everything else is executed here.\n\n**Never silently skip a step.** Every owned step ends as `executed`, `adapted`,\n`escalated`, or `unrun-advisory` — the last only when the plan itself declared that range advisory.\n\n## Step 4 — Rendered-UI Remediation\n\nWhen the plan authored a rendered-UI loop, run it as written:\n\n1. Render the actual implementation.\n2. Score every dimension of the plan's fixed rubric, recording the completed table —\n   dimension, score, one-sentence reason, and fix attempted — for that cycle.\n3. Apply the accepted fixes.\n4. Stop as soon as the plan's threshold is met; otherwise repeat, to the plan's\n   three-cycle cap.\n5. If the cap is reached with dimensions still below threshold, record the final\n   scores and the unresolved defects as an **escalation**. Do not claim acceptance.\n\nThe rubric table and the accepted fixes are the evidence that the loop ran. Carry them\nin this step's record.\n\n## Step 5 — Publish Every Material Change Immediately\n\nAfter each material code change:\n\n1. Stage the specific files, commit, and **push immediately**. The commit and its push\n   are one consecutive sequence, never separated by another check. An unpushed\n   correction is invisible to the pull request, to CI, and to the reconciler.\n2. Run `git rev-parse HEAD` and record the new pushed SHA.\n\nThen continue with the next verification action. Do not batch several cycles of\nchanges behind a single push — the point of pushing immediately is that the next\nlong-running action cannot strand them.\n\n## Step 6 — Report Honestly\n\nRecord the exact command run, its observed result, and on failure the relevant detail:\nfailing test names, error output, diagnostic lines. Report all of it, including\nfailures you did not fix.\n\n**Do not issue a gate verdict.** Do not write that CI passed, that the gate is met, or\nthat the review is approved. Those states are decided by the `ci` and `code_review`\ngates and observed by the reconciler, never asserted by this phase. Worker\nself-verification has reported green while the full suite was red; that is why the\ngates decide and this phase only observes.\n\n## Return\n\nReport the branch, the latest pushed SHA, every command run with its observed outcome,\nevery correction commit pushed, and every unresolved finding.\n\nThen record the machine-readable phase result, by mode.\n\n### orchestrated\n\nEnd your result with the envelope in a fenced block tagged `bapi-phase-result`.\nOrchestration validates it against the steps you own and persists it as durable state;\nan owned step you do not report will be rejected.\n\n```bapi-phase-result\n{\"version\":1,\"phase\":\"pre_pr_verification\",\"lastCommitSha\":\"<sha>\",\"records\":[{\"stepId\":12,\"provenanceClass\":\"final_plan_review\",\"disposition\":\"executed\",\"evidence\":\"grepped all call sites of changed signature; 4 found, all updated\"}]}\n```\n\n### inline\n\nCall the `record_phase_result` tool with `ticket_key` `{ticket_key}` and\n`phase_result` set to that same envelope object. The tool validates it against the\nsteps you own and persists it to the durable ledger; an owned step you do not report\nis rejected there. **Do not also emit a fenced `bapi-phase-result` block** — nothing\nparses one on this path.\n\nThe tool call is this phase's final action, **not the end of your turn.** When it\nreturns successfully, continue immediately with the next recipe step —\n`commit-and-push.md`, then the pull request. Stopping here leaves verified work with no\npull request, which is how an earlier run stranded four pushed correction commits.\n\nIf the call fails, fix what it reports and call it again.\n",
@@ -723,7 +723,7 @@ export const INSTRUCTIONS = {
     "learn-style-correctness.md": "## Objective\n\nExplore the codebase to identify correctness standards for style files, then draft the corresponding correctness standards document.\n\n## Target Type\n\n- **Type**: `style_correctness`\n- **Field name**: `style_correctness_standards`\n- **Scope**: Style files: CSS, SCSS, SASS, LESS, Styled Components, Tailwind configs.\n\n## Instructions\n\n### Phase 1 — Explore Correctness Patterns\n\nFocus on implementation correctness: how to write code that is correct, idiomatic, and robust within this project's conventions.\n\n1. **File Type Detection**: Search by filename pattern for files matching `**/*.css`, `**/*.scss`, `**/*.sass`, `**/*.less` (excluding `node_modules/`). If very few or no files exist, note this and draft minimal instructions.\n\n2. **Convention Analysis**: Read 3-5 representative style files to identify:\n   - Structure patterns (imports, exports, class structure, function ordering)\n   - Naming conventions (variables, functions, classes, files)\n   - Framework conventions and idioms\n   - Best practices followed\n   - Issues and inconsistencies\n\n### Phase 2 — Draft\n\nDraft correctness standards as clear, actionable instructions for an AI code generation agent. Cover:\n- Code structure and organization requirements\n- Naming conventions to follow\n- Framework-specific patterns and idioms\n- Security requirements relevant to this code type\n- Performance considerations\n- Common mistakes to avoid\n- Guards against common AI weaknesses: duplicative code, verbose implementations, security vulnerabilities\n\nWrite the draft to `{docs_dir}/standards/style_correctness_standards.md`.\n\n## Length Budget\n\nThe platform ceiling for a configuration field is **40,000 characters**, and the server enforces it\nat upload time: a draft over the limit is rejected outright and ``style_correctness_standards`` is simply not learned. Bound\nthe draft here, at write time, rather than discovering the limit through a failed upload.\n\n1. When the draft is complete, measure its length in **characters** — not tokens, not words, not\n   bytes.\n2. If it exceeds 40,000 characters, condense it: remove redundancy, collapse repetitive passages, and\n   shorten or drop verbose code examples.\n3. Keep every required section listed above. Never meet the budget by deleting a required section,\n   and never truncate the draft mid-sentence.\n4. Re-measure after condensing and repeat until the draft is at most 40,000 characters.\n\n## Return\n\nReturn a brief summary of what was learned about style-file correctness conventions (structure, naming, methodology), citing the key files inspected, and confirm the draft was written to `{docs_dir}/standards/style_correctness_standards.md`.\n\nAlso report the draft's final length in characters, the applicable maximum (40,000 characters),\nwhether the draft was condensed to meet that maximum (`condensed`: true/false), and — when it was\ncondensed — the reason it needed condensing.\n",
     "learn-template-correctness.md": "## Objective\n\nExplore the codebase to identify correctness standards for template files, then draft the corresponding correctness standards document.\n\n## Target Type\n\n- **Type**: `template_correctness`\n- **Field name**: `template_correctness_standards`\n- **Scope**: Template files: HTML, Jinja2, Handlebars, EJS, ERB, Blade, Pug, Twig.\n\n## Instructions\n\n### Phase 1 — Explore Correctness Patterns\n\nFocus on implementation correctness: how to write code that is correct, idiomatic, and robust within this project's conventions.\n\n1. **File Type Detection**: Search by filename pattern for files matching `**/*.html`, `**/*.jinja2`, `**/*.j2` in `templates/` and similar directories (excluding `node_modules/`). If very few or no files exist, note this and draft minimal instructions.\n\n2. **Convention Analysis**: Read 3-5 representative template files to identify:\n   - Structure patterns (imports, exports, class structure, function ordering)\n   - Naming conventions (variables, functions, classes, files)\n   - Framework conventions and idioms\n   - Best practices followed\n   - Issues and inconsistencies\n\n### Phase 2 — Draft\n\nDraft correctness standards as clear, actionable instructions for an AI code generation agent. Cover:\n- Code structure and organization requirements\n- Naming conventions to follow\n- Framework-specific patterns and idioms\n- Security requirements relevant to this code type\n- Performance considerations\n- Common mistakes to avoid\n- Guards against common AI weaknesses: duplicative code, verbose implementations, security vulnerabilities\n\nWrite the draft to `{docs_dir}/standards/template_correctness_standards.md`.\n\n## Length Budget\n\nThe platform ceiling for a configuration field is **40,000 characters**, and the server enforces it\nat upload time: a draft over the limit is rejected outright and ``template_correctness_standards`` is simply not learned. Bound\nthe draft here, at write time, rather than discovering the limit through a failed upload.\n\n1. When the draft is complete, measure its length in **characters** — not tokens, not words, not\n   bytes.\n2. If it exceeds 40,000 characters, condense it: remove redundancy, collapse repetitive passages, and\n   shorten or drop verbose code examples.\n3. Keep every required section listed above. Never meet the budget by deleting a required section,\n   and never truncate the draft mid-sentence.\n4. Re-measure after condensing and repeat until the draft is at most 40,000 characters.\n\n## Return\n\nReturn a brief summary of what was learned about template-file correctness conventions (structure, naming, framework idioms), citing the key files inspected, and confirm the draft was written to `{docs_dir}/standards/template_correctness_standards.md`.\n\nAlso report the draft's final length in characters, the applicable maximum (40,000 characters),\nwhether the draft was condensed to meet that maximum (`condensed`: true/false), and — when it was\ncondensed — the reason it needed condensing.\n",
     "learn-unit-testing.md": "## Objective\n\nExplore the codebase to identify the test runner, assertion library, mocking framework, and testing patterns, then draft `unit_testing_instructions` for the project config.\n\n## Instructions\n\n### Phase 1 — Explore Testing Infrastructure\n\n1. **Test Runner and Framework Detection**: Search for test runner configs (`pytest.ini`, `pyproject.toml` `[tool.pytest]` section, `jest.config.*`) and read `package.json` test scripts. Read the `tests/` directory structure.\n\n2. **Testing Patterns**: Read 3-5 representative test files in `tests/pytest/` to identify:\n   - Assertion library and style (`assert`, `expect`, custom matchers)\n   - Mocking framework (`unittest.mock`, `jest.mock`, `sinon`, etc.)\n   - Fixture patterns (setup/teardown)\n   - Test organization (by module, feature, layer)\n   - Exemplary tests vs. weak tests\n\n3. **How to Run Tests**: Read `pyproject.toml`, `package.json`, and `Makefile` (if present) to determine exact commands for: full suite, single file, by name pattern, with verbose output.\n\n4. **Mocking vs. Fidelity**: Read test helper files in `tests/pytest/helpers/` to document how external APIs are mocked, whether integration tests exist alongside unit tests, and patterns for avoiding third-party calls in tests.\n\n### Phase 2 — Draft\n\nDraft `unit_testing_instructions` as clear, actionable instructions for an AI agent writing unit tests. Cover:\n- How to run tests (exact commands)\n- Which test framework and assertion library to use\n- How to mock external dependencies without calling third parties\n- How to structure test files and test functions\n- What constitutes a thorough test (not just happy path)\n- How to avoid shallow tests that pass but don't verify meaningful behavior\n- Guards against common AI weaknesses: tests that mock the thing being tested, trivially passing assertions, overly complex setup\n\nWrite the draft to `{docs_dir}/standards/unit_testing_instructions.md`.\n\n## Length Budget\n\nThe platform ceiling for a configuration field is **40,000 characters**, and the server enforces it\nat upload time: a draft over the limit is rejected outright and ``unit_testing_instructions`` is simply not learned. Bound\nthe draft here, at write time, rather than discovering the limit through a failed upload.\n\n1. When the draft is complete, measure its length in **characters** — not tokens, not words, not\n   bytes.\n2. If it exceeds 40,000 characters, condense it: remove redundancy, collapse repetitive passages, and\n   shorten or drop verbose code examples.\n3. Keep every required section listed above. Never meet the budget by deleting a required section,\n   and never truncate the draft mid-sentence.\n4. Re-measure after condensing and repeat until the draft is at most 40,000 characters.\n\n## Return\n\nReturn a brief summary of what was learned about the project's unit testing setup (test runner, assertion library, mocking framework, run commands), citing the key files inspected, and confirm the draft was written to `{docs_dir}/standards/unit_testing_instructions.md`.\n\nAlso report the draft's final length in characters, the applicable maximum (40,000 characters),\nwhether the draft was condensed to meet that maximum (`condensed`: true/false), and — when it was\ncondensed — the reason it needed condensing.\n",
-    "monitor-ci-checks.md": "Monitor CI checks for the most recent commit. The behavior is dispatched on the repo-specific `ci_followup_config` JSON value: `poll_only`, `fix_and_iterate`, or `custom`. Read this entire file once before doing anything, then follow only the matching branch.\n\n> **Warning**: Keep this file behaviorally in sync with `commands/src/check-ci.md` (and its scaffolded copies) to prevent drift (BAPI-462).\n\n**Required-check source**: Both the `poll_only` (Step 5) and `fix_and_iterate` (Step 6) branches gate progression on the *required* check subset, not the aggregate `all_passed` flag. Each check returned by `resolve_ci_checks`/`poll_ci_checks` carries a `required` field (from GitHub Branch Protection, or an LLM classification fallback) — treat `required: false` as non-required (e.g. `pip-audit`) and a missing field or `required: true` as required. This is the tool-provided proxy for the Conductor done-gate's authoritative required-checks set (`mcp_server/src/conductor/done-gate.ts`); do not re-derive required/non-required status in prose.\n\n## Entry state and ownership boundary\n\n**Re-resolve the git context before anything else.** Run `git branch --show-current`\nand `git rev-parse HEAD` when this step begins. In the implement pipeline the pull\nrequest is opened *before* the bounded post-finalization verification phase, and\nthat phase may have pushed a correction on top of the commit the PR was originally\nopened at. The head you monitor must be the branch's current pushed head, not a SHA\ncarried over from PR creation.\n\n**Ownership is split, and the split matters.** The bounded verification phase\n(`verify-plan.md`) owns findings produced by its own local, touched-area commands.\nThis step owns everything subsequently reported by the authoritative `ci` and\n`code_review` gates — failing required checks and requested review changes. Do not\nre-adjudicate the other phase's findings, and do not assume a finding it reported\nhas been fixed unless a pushed commit shows it.\n\n**Do not substitute a broad local run for the authoritative checks.** Running the\nfull local suite here does not establish that CI passed; it duplicates the work the\n`conductor-ci` gate already performs on the pull request, and it is exactly the\nbudget sink this protocol was reordered to avoid. Use the structured CI failure\ndetail from `poll_ci_checks` to target a fix, and scope any local reproduction to\nthe failing area.\n\n**Keep every correction on the existing pull request branch**, and commit *and push*\neach correction before polling resumes. Polling always restarts against the new\npushed head — an unpushed correction is invisible to CI, to review, and to the\nreconciler.\n\nThroughout, report the check and review states you **observed**. Observing that a\ncheck is green is not the same as issuing a verdict: the done-gate evaluation is\nserver-side and the reconciler decides. This step never emits a control signal of\nits own.\n\n## Step 3 — Parse `ci_followup_config`\n\nLook at the response from the immediately preceding `config_field` call (the pipeline step that ran right before this one). The response envelope's `value` field is itself a JSON string and must be parsed again with `JSON.parse` (i.e., the `value` is double-encoded — the outer envelope is JSON, and the inner `value` is a JSON-encoded string of the actual config object).\n\nIf ANY of the following hold, log a warning and use the defaults `{\"strategy\":\"poll_only\",\"max_iterations\":1,\"max_minutes\":10}`:\n\n- The `config_field` response is missing or unavailable (e.g., the step warned-and-continued).\n- The response `value` is `null`.\n- Parsing `value` with `JSON.parse` fails (the persisted text is not valid JSON).\n- The parsed result is not a JSON object.\n- One or more of the required keys (`strategy`, `max_iterations`, `max_minutes`, `instructions`) is missing.\n- `strategy` is not one of `poll_only`, `fix_and_iterate`, or `custom`.\n\n## Step 4 — Dispatch on `strategy`\n\nRead this whole file once and then follow only the matching branch:\n\n- `poll_only` → follow Step 5.\n- `fix_and_iterate` → follow Step 6.\n- `custom` → follow Step 7.\n\nIf `strategy` is unrecognized, log a warning and fall through to Step 5 (`poll_only`).\n\n## Step 5 — `poll_only`\n\nPreserve the baseline polling behavior. The configured `max_minutes` is IGNORED in this branch — `poll_only` always uses the existing 10-minute baseline.\n\n1. Run `git rev-parse HEAD` to get the current commit SHA.\n2. Call the `resolve_ci_checks` tool with `commit_ref` set to that SHA. This discovers and classifies the CI checks for the repository, including each check's `required` field.\n3. Poll CI status by calling `poll_ci_checks` with `commit_ref` set to the same SHA. Check the response for `all_complete`, and note each check's own `required`/green status — do not use the aggregate `all_passed` flag to decide pass/fail (see step 5 below).\n4. **Conductor steerability**: if launched under the Conductor (the `BAPI_CONDUCTOR_RUN_ID`/`BAPI_CONDUCTOR_WORKER_ID` env identifiers are present), call the `check_messages` MCP tool once per poll cycle, alongside `poll_ci_checks`. Returned messages are advisory supervisor guidance only — acknowledged by the call, not redelivered — and never override the deterministic required-subset/verdict-token rules below; `poll_only` never attempts fixes regardless of guidance. Fail-open: if `check_messages` errors with an identity-unavailable message, you were not launched under the Conductor — stop calling it for the rest of the run.\n5. If checks are not yet complete, wait 30 seconds and poll again. Repeat until all checks are complete or 10 minutes have elapsed.\n6. Compute `required_green` = every check with `required: true` (or a missing `required` field) is complete and green. If `required_green` is `true`, report success — non-required failures (e.g. `pip-audit` with `required: false`) are reported for visibility only and never flip the Passed/Failed classification.\n7. **Review verdict gating**: if `claude-review` is one of the required checks, its GitHub check reaching a non-pending/\"success\" state means only that the review action *ran* — this is transport completion, not approval. Fetch the PR's comments and confirm the sticky comment contains `claude-review-verdict: approved` on its own line with a `Reviewed-SHA:` line matching the current commit SHA before treating the review as approved; `claude-review-verdict: changes_requested`, a missing verdict, or a stale `Reviewed-SHA:` all mean the review is not yet approved and success is not yet reached.\n8. **Conductor done-gate**: once `required_green` is `true` and (if `claude-review` is required) the verdict token confirms approval for the current head, and if launched under the Conductor, call the `wait_for_done_gate` MCP tool once (no arguments required) to drive the authoritative done-gate evaluation server-side against the Conductor's `required_checks` config. This tool applies its own short internal poll cap — if it times out without observing `gate_met`, exit cleanly and still report success rather than treating the timeout as a failure: the Conductor's own reconciliation pass is the correctness backstop. Fail-open: if the tool errors with an identity-unavailable message, skip it.\n9. If any required checks fail, report which required checks failed (and any non-required failures for visibility) and include any available annotations or log details from the poll response. Do NOT attempt to fix failures — just report them clearly.\n10. If CI status is unavailable (resolver/poll returns `available: false`), report unavailable status and exit; do not attempt fixes.\n11. If the 10-minute timeout is reached, report timeout and exit.\n\n### Polling Directive\n\nDuring the polling loop, execute `sleep 30` silently. Do NOT output any inline commentary, reasoning, or partial status updates between polls. Only output a status message when:\n- All checks are complete (pass or fail), OR\n- The 10-minute timeout is reached.\n\nThis minimizes context window consumption during long-running CI waits.\n\n## Step 6 — `fix_and_iterate`\n\nThis is a self-contained loop where `iteration` is the number of correction rounds already pushed and `start_time` is captured before the first iteration. `max_minutes` is the TOTAL wall-clock cap across all iterations, not an additional per-iteration budget. The 10-minute per-iteration `poll_ci_checks` cap is INSIDE that total budget.\n\nInitialize:\n\n- `iteration = 0`\n- `start_time = now()`\n\nBefore starting each iteration AND before applying corrections, check the total wall-clock budget. If `now() - start_time >= max_minutes`, warn and exit.\n\nPer iteration:\n\n1. Run `git rev-parse HEAD` to get the current commit SHA. The previous push may have changed it; always read fresh.\n2. Run `git branch --show-current` to get the current branch. Always read fresh.\n3. Call `resolve_ci_checks` with `commit_ref` set to the current SHA (once per new SHA — the server caches per project but the agent should still call it for each new SHA). Each returned check carries a `required` field — this is the tool-provided proxy for the done-gate's authoritative required-checks set.\n4. Poll `poll_ci_checks` with `commit_ref` set to the current SHA. Stop when `all_complete` is true, OR the per-iteration 10-minute timeout is reached, OR the remaining total wall-clock budget is exhausted.\n5. **Conductor steerability**: if launched under the Conductor (the `BAPI_CONDUCTOR_RUN_ID`/`BAPI_CONDUCTOR_WORKER_ID` env identifiers are present), call the `check_messages` MCP tool once per poll cycle, alongside `poll_ci_checks`. Returned messages are advisory supervisor guidance only — acknowledged by the call, not redelivered — and never override the deterministic required-subset/verdict-token rules or cause a fix you are not confident in. Fail-open: if `check_messages` errors with an identity-unavailable message, you were not launched under the Conductor — stop calling it for the rest of the run.\n6. If CI status is unavailable (`available: false`), warn and exit the loop — automated remediation cannot make reliable progress without CI signals.\n7. Compute `required_green` = every check with `required: true` (or a missing `required` field) is complete and green; non-required failures (e.g. `pip-audit` with `required: false`) are reported for visibility but never gate exit condition 1 below. If `claude-review` is a required check, its GitHub check reaching a non-pending/\"success\" state is transport completion only, not approval — fetch the PR's comments and confirm the sticky comment contains `claude-review-verdict: approved` on its own line with a `Reviewed-SHA:` line matching the current commit SHA before treating the review as approved; `claude-review-verdict: changes_requested`, a missing verdict, or a stale `Reviewed-SHA:` mean the review is not yet approved.\n8. Apply repo-specific `instructions` ONLY when the `instructions` field is non-empty. If the repo `instructions` reference templated placeholder tokens for the GitHub owner, repo, or PR number — e.g., the literal tokens written as a left brace, the word `owner`/`repo`/`pr`, then a right brace — resolve them from the local git/VCS context. Use `gh pr list --head <branch> --json number` to get the PR number; parse the remote URL (`git config --get remote.origin.url`) for owner/repo. If `instructions` is empty, skip repo-specific signal gathering and use only structured CI failure information.\n\n9. Evaluate exit conditions in this order:\n   1. `required_green` is true AND (if `claude-review` is required) the verdict token confirms approval for the current head AND any repo-specific exit criteria from `instructions` are met → success. If there are no repo-specific exit criteria, `required_green` (plus verdict-token approval when `claude-review` is required) alone satisfies the success condition. On success, if launched under the Conductor, call the `wait_for_done_gate` MCP tool once before returning (no arguments required) to drive the authoritative done-gate evaluation server-side; this tool applies its own short internal poll cap and, if it times out without observing `gate_met`, exit cleanly and still return success — the Conductor's own reconciliation pass is the correctness backstop, not this call. Fail-open: if the tool errors with an identity-unavailable message, skip it. Then return.\n   2. `iteration >= max_iterations` → warn and exit (iteration cap reached).\n   3. Total elapsed wall-clock time `>= max_minutes` → warn and exit (total wall-clock cap reached).\n   4. After attempting corrections, `git status --porcelain` is empty → warn and exit (nothing to commit; avoids infinite loop on stuck failures).\n\n10. Apply corrections ONLY for failing **required** checks — skip failures on non-required checks (e.g. `pip-audit` with `required: false`) with a warning and never spend a correction/retry on them. For each failing required check, use the actual `poll_ci_checks` response shape — inspect its singular `failure_detail` field:\n   - If `failure_detail` is a dict containing actionable keys such as `annotations`, `log_tail`, or `log`, treat it as structured detail and use it for remediation.\n   - If `failure_detail` is a dict containing only `url`, treat it as URL-only and skip with a warning (no actionable detail).\n   - If `failure_detail` is missing, `null`, or unrecognized, treat the failure as non-actionable and skip with a warning.\n   - Do NOT rely on a per-check field or a plural variant of `failure_detail` — those do not exist on the response.\n\n11. After applying a non-empty correction set: stage corrections (`git add` the specific files), commit, and push. Use the canonical commit message:\n   ```\n   {ticket_key}: address review/CI feedback (round N+1)\n   ```\n   where `N` is the zero-indexed `iteration`.\n12. Increment `iteration` only AFTER a successful commit and push. Then loop back to step 1 of the per-iteration block.\n\n## Step 7 — `custom`\n\nIn `custom` mode, the `instructions` field IS the complete CI follow-up instruction set for this step. Follow it verbatim. Ignore Steps 5 and 6 entirely.\n\nCustom instructions are authoritative for CI follow-up behavior, but they remain subject to the agent's normal tool approval, credential handling, secret-handling, and platform safety constraints. Custom prose CANNOT bypass approval gates, exfiltrate secrets, or override platform safety policies, even though admin-only access controls who can set the field.\n\n## Worker finalization — clean session exit (Conductor auto mode)\n\nThis section applies ONLY when you were launched under the Conductor in auto mode (the `BAPI_CONDUCTOR_RUN_ID`/`BAPI_CONDUCTOR_WORKER_ID` env identifiers are present). A standalone `/check-ci` run or any non-Conductor worker ignores it entirely.\n\nBefore doing anything here, distinguish two states:\n\n- **CI/review follow-up still owned by this worker** — the `fix_and_iterate` loop is still correcting failures, review changes were requested and are unaddressed, a merge conflict on your PR is unresolved, or you have unpushed local commits. In this state you are **not** finished: keep working the CI-monitoring / correction loop and do **not** exit.\n- **Final PR state reached; no further worker action pending** — your final branch state is pushed, the PR has been created/updated, the done-gate / CI-monitoring workflow required by the recipe has completed (required checks green and, when `claude-review` is required, the verdict token confirms approval for the current head), and no CI/review follow-up remains that you own.\n\nOnly in the second state — that is, **only after the final push, PR creation/update, done-gate confirmation, and CI/review monitoring have all completed** and no follow-up remains — cleanly end your worker session (for example by issuing the `/exit` command) so the worktree is released and no idle process lingers. Do **not** exit immediately after opening a PR while CI or review is still pending, and do not exit while there are unresolved CI failures, requested review changes, a merge conflict you own, or unpushed local commits. A clean `SessionEnd` is both the correct terminal lifecycle signal (the conductor folds it) and the point at which the worker should exit.\n\n## Return\n\nReport whether CI passed, failed, timed out, or was unavailable. If failed, list the failing checks with their failure summaries. For `fix_and_iterate`, also report the iteration count and whether iteration/wall-clock caps were hit. If you finalized (cleanly exited) as a Conductor worker, note that the session ended after all follow-up completed.\n",
+    "monitor-ci-checks.md": "Monitor CI checks for the most recent commit. The behavior is dispatched on the repo-specific `ci_followup_config` JSON value: `poll_only`, `fix_and_iterate`, or `custom`. Read this entire file once before doing anything, then follow only the matching branch.\n\n> **Warning**: Keep this file behaviorally in sync with `commands/src/check-ci.md` (and its scaffolded copies) to prevent drift (BAPI-462).\n\n**Required-check source**: Both the `poll_only` (Step 5) and `fix_and_iterate` (Step 6) branches gate progression on the *required* check subset, not the aggregate `all_passed` flag. Each check returned by `resolve_ci_checks`/`poll_ci_checks` carries a `required` field (from GitHub Branch Protection, or an LLM classification fallback) — treat `required: false` as non-required (e.g. `pip-audit`) and a missing field or `required: true` as required. This is the tool-provided proxy for the Conductor done-gate's authoritative required-checks set (`mcp_server/src/conductor/done-gate.ts`); do not re-derive required/non-required status in prose.\n\n## Entry state and ownership boundary\n\n**Re-resolve the git context before anything else.** Run `git branch --show-current`\nand `git rev-parse HEAD` when this step begins. In the implement pipeline the pull\nrequest is opened *before* the bounded post-finalization verification phase, and\nthat phase may have pushed a correction on top of the commit the PR was originally\nopened at. The head you monitor must be the branch's current pushed head, not a SHA\ncarried over from PR creation.\n\n**Ownership is split, and the split matters.** The bounded verification phase\n(`verify-plan.md`) owns findings produced by its own local, touched-area commands.\nThis step owns everything subsequently reported by the authoritative `ci` and\n`code_review` gates — failing required checks and requested review changes. Do not\nre-adjudicate the other phase's findings, and do not assume a finding it reported\nhas been fixed unless a pushed commit shows it.\n\n**Do not substitute a broad local run for the authoritative checks.** Running the\nfull local suite here does not establish that CI passed; it duplicates the work the\n`conductor-ci` gate already performs on the pull request, and it is exactly the\nbudget sink this protocol was reordered to avoid. Use the structured CI failure\ndetail from `poll_ci_checks` to target a fix, and scope any local reproduction to\nthe failing area.\n\n**Keep every correction on the existing pull request branch**, and commit *and push*\neach correction before polling resumes. Polling always restarts against the new\npushed head — an unpushed correction is invisible to CI, to review, and to the\nreconciler.\n\nThroughout, report the check and review states you **observed**. Observing that a\ncheck is green is not the same as issuing a verdict: the done-gate evaluation is\nserver-side and the reconciler decides. This step never emits a control signal of\nits own.\n\n## Step 3 — Parse `ci_followup_config`\n\nLook at the response from the immediately preceding `config_field` call (the pipeline step that ran right before this one). The response envelope's `value` field is itself a JSON string and must be parsed again with `JSON.parse` (i.e., the `value` is double-encoded — the outer envelope is JSON, and the inner `value` is a JSON-encoded string of the actual config object).\n\nIf ANY of the following hold, log a warning and use the defaults `{\"strategy\":\"poll_only\",\"max_iterations\":1,\"max_minutes\":10}`:\n\n- The `config_field` response is missing or unavailable (e.g., the step warned-and-continued).\n- The response `value` is `null`.\n- Parsing `value` with `JSON.parse` fails (the persisted text is not valid JSON).\n- The parsed result is not a JSON object.\n- One or more of the required keys (`strategy`, `max_iterations`, `max_minutes`, `instructions`) is missing.\n- `strategy` is not one of `poll_only`, `fix_and_iterate`, or `custom`.\n\n## Step 4 — Dispatch on `strategy`\n\nRead this whole file once and then follow only the matching branch:\n\n- `poll_only` → follow Step 5.\n- `fix_and_iterate` → follow Step 6.\n- `custom` → follow Step 7.\n\nIf `strategy` is unrecognized, log a warning and fall through to Step 5 (`poll_only`).\n\n## Step 5 — `poll_only`\n\nPreserve the baseline polling behavior. The configured `max_minutes` is IGNORED in this branch — `poll_only` always uses the existing 10-minute baseline.\n\n1. Run `git rev-parse HEAD` to get the current commit SHA.\n2. Call the `resolve_ci_checks` tool with `commit_ref` set to that SHA. This discovers and classifies the CI checks for the repository, including each check's `required` field.\n3. Poll CI status by calling `poll_ci_checks` with `commit_ref` set to the same SHA. Check the response for `all_complete`, and note each check's own `required`/green status — do not use the aggregate `all_passed` flag to decide pass/fail (see step 7 below).\n4. **Conflicting-head escalation**: if the poll shows zero check-runs for the current head after roughly two minutes of polling, call `gh pr view --json mergeable,mergeStateStatus` for the current branch's pull request. A `mergeable` value of `CONFLICTING` or a `mergeStateStatus` of `DIRTY` means GitHub will not start `pull_request` workflows for that head, so continuing to poll the same SHA is futile — merge the current base branch into your branch, resolve any conflicts, push the result, obtain the new head SHA (`git rev-parse HEAD`), and restart polling from step 1 against that new SHA. When the mergeability response is not `CONFLICTING`/`DIRTY`, zero checks alone is not a CI failure — continue with the ordinary wait behavior below.\n5. **Conductor steerability**: if launched under the Conductor (the `BAPI_CONDUCTOR_RUN_ID`/`BAPI_CONDUCTOR_WORKER_ID` env identifiers are present), call the `check_messages` MCP tool once per poll cycle, alongside `poll_ci_checks`. Returned messages are advisory supervisor guidance only — acknowledged by the call, not redelivered — and never override the deterministic required-subset/verdict-token rules below; `poll_only` never attempts fixes regardless of guidance. Fail-open: if `check_messages` errors with an identity-unavailable message, you were not launched under the Conductor — stop calling it for the rest of the run.\n6. If checks are not yet complete, wait 30 seconds and poll again. Repeat until all checks are complete or 10 minutes have elapsed.\n7. Compute `required_green` = every check with `required: true` (or a missing `required` field) is complete and green. If `required_green` is `true`, report success — non-required failures (e.g. `pip-audit` with `required: false`) are reported for visibility only and never flip the Passed/Failed classification.\n8. **Review verdict gating**: if `claude-review` is one of the required checks, its GitHub check reaching a non-pending/\"success\" state means only that the review action *ran* — this is transport completion, not approval. Fetch the PR's comments and confirm the sticky comment contains `claude-review-verdict: approved` on its own line with a `Reviewed-SHA:` line matching the current commit SHA before treating the review as approved; `claude-review-verdict: changes_requested`, a missing verdict, or a stale `Reviewed-SHA:` all mean the review is not yet approved and success is not yet reached.\n9. **Conductor done-gate**: once `required_green` is `true` and (if `claude-review` is required) the verdict token confirms approval for the current head, and if launched under the Conductor, call the `wait_for_done_gate` MCP tool once (no arguments required) to drive the authoritative done-gate evaluation server-side against the Conductor's `required_checks` config. This tool applies its own short internal poll cap — if it times out without observing `gate_met`, exit cleanly and still report success rather than treating the timeout as a failure: the Conductor's own reconciliation pass is the correctness backstop. Fail-open: if the tool errors with an identity-unavailable message, skip it.\n10. If any required checks fail, report which required checks failed (and any non-required failures for visibility) and include any available annotations or log details from the poll response. Do NOT attempt to fix failures — just report them clearly.\n11. If CI status is unavailable (resolver/poll returns `available: false`), report unavailable status and exit; do not attempt fixes.\n12. If the 10-minute timeout is reached, report timeout and exit.\n\n### Polling Directive\n\nDuring the polling loop, execute `sleep 30` silently. Do NOT output any inline commentary, reasoning, or partial status updates between polls. Only output a status message when:\n- All checks are complete (pass or fail), OR\n- The 10-minute timeout is reached.\n\nThis minimizes context window consumption during long-running CI waits.\n\n## Step 6 — `fix_and_iterate`\n\nThis is a self-contained loop where `iteration` is the number of correction rounds already pushed and `start_time` is captured before the first iteration. `max_minutes` is the TOTAL wall-clock cap across all iterations, not an additional per-iteration budget. The 10-minute per-iteration `poll_ci_checks` cap is INSIDE that total budget.\n\nInitialize:\n\n- `iteration = 0`\n- `start_time = now()`\n\nBefore starting each iteration AND before applying corrections, check the total wall-clock budget. If `now() - start_time >= max_minutes`, warn and exit.\n\nPer iteration:\n\n1. Run `git rev-parse HEAD` to get the current commit SHA. The previous push may have changed it; always read fresh.\n2. Run `git branch --show-current` to get the current branch. Always read fresh.\n3. Call `resolve_ci_checks` with `commit_ref` set to the current SHA (once per new SHA — the server caches per project but the agent should still call it for each new SHA). Each returned check carries a `required` field — this is the tool-provided proxy for the done-gate's authoritative required-checks set.\n4. Poll `poll_ci_checks` with `commit_ref` set to the current SHA. Stop when `all_complete` is true, OR the per-iteration 10-minute timeout is reached, OR the remaining total wall-clock budget is exhausted.\n5. **Conflicting-head escalation**: if the poll shows zero check-runs for the current head after roughly two minutes of polling, call `gh pr view --json mergeable,mergeStateStatus` for the current branch's pull request. A `mergeable` value of `CONFLICTING` or a `mergeStateStatus` of `DIRTY` means GitHub will not start `pull_request` workflows for that head, so continuing to poll the same SHA is futile — merge the current base branch into your branch, resolve any conflicts, push the result, obtain the new head SHA (`git rev-parse HEAD`), and restart polling from step 1 of this per-iteration block against that new SHA. When the mergeability response is not `CONFLICTING`/`DIRTY`, zero checks alone is not a CI failure — continue with the ordinary per-iteration behavior below.\n6. **Conductor steerability**: if launched under the Conductor (the `BAPI_CONDUCTOR_RUN_ID`/`BAPI_CONDUCTOR_WORKER_ID` env identifiers are present), call the `check_messages` MCP tool once per poll cycle, alongside `poll_ci_checks`. Returned messages are advisory supervisor guidance only — acknowledged by the call, not redelivered — and never override the deterministic required-subset/verdict-token rules or cause a fix you are not confident in. Fail-open: if `check_messages` errors with an identity-unavailable message, you were not launched under the Conductor — stop calling it for the rest of the run.\n7. If CI status is unavailable (`available: false`), warn and exit the loop — automated remediation cannot make reliable progress without CI signals.\n8. Compute `required_green` = every check with `required: true` (or a missing `required` field) is complete and green; non-required failures (e.g. `pip-audit` with `required: false`) are reported for visibility but never gate exit condition 1 below. If `claude-review` is a required check, its GitHub check reaching a non-pending/\"success\" state is transport completion only, not approval — fetch the PR's comments and confirm the sticky comment contains `claude-review-verdict: approved` on its own line with a `Reviewed-SHA:` line matching the current commit SHA before treating the review as approved; `claude-review-verdict: changes_requested`, a missing verdict, or a stale `Reviewed-SHA:` mean the review is not yet approved.\n9. Apply repo-specific `instructions` ONLY when the `instructions` field is non-empty. If the repo `instructions` reference templated placeholder tokens for the GitHub owner, repo, or PR number — e.g., the literal tokens written as a left brace, the word `owner`/`repo`/`pr`, then a right brace — resolve them from the local git/VCS context. Use `gh pr list --head <branch> --json number` to get the PR number; parse the remote URL (`git config --get remote.origin.url`) for owner/repo. If `instructions` is empty, skip repo-specific signal gathering and use only structured CI failure information.\n\n10. Evaluate exit conditions in this order:\n   1. `required_green` is true AND (if `claude-review` is required) the verdict token confirms approval for the current head AND any repo-specific exit criteria from `instructions` are met → success. If there are no repo-specific exit criteria, `required_green` (plus verdict-token approval when `claude-review` is required) alone satisfies the success condition. On success, if launched under the Conductor, call the `wait_for_done_gate` MCP tool once before returning (no arguments required) to drive the authoritative done-gate evaluation server-side; this tool applies its own short internal poll cap and, if it times out without observing `gate_met`, exit cleanly and still return success — the Conductor's own reconciliation pass is the correctness backstop, not this call. Fail-open: if the tool errors with an identity-unavailable message, skip it. Then return.\n   2. `iteration >= max_iterations` → warn and exit (iteration cap reached).\n   3. Total elapsed wall-clock time `>= max_minutes` → warn and exit (total wall-clock cap reached).\n   4. After attempting corrections, `git status --porcelain` is empty → warn and exit (nothing to commit; avoids infinite loop on stuck failures).\n\n11. Apply corrections ONLY for failing **required** checks — skip failures on non-required checks (e.g. `pip-audit` with `required: false`) with a warning and never spend a correction/retry on them. For each failing required check, use the actual `poll_ci_checks` response shape — inspect its singular `failure_detail` field:\n   - If `failure_detail` is a dict containing actionable keys such as `annotations`, `log_tail`, or `log`, treat it as structured detail and use it for remediation.\n   - If `failure_detail` is a dict containing only `url`, treat it as URL-only and skip with a warning (no actionable detail).\n   - If `failure_detail` is missing, `null`, or unrecognized, treat the failure as non-actionable and skip with a warning.\n   - Do NOT rely on a per-check field or a plural variant of `failure_detail` — those do not exist on the response.\n\n12. After applying a non-empty correction set: stage corrections (`git add` the specific files), commit, and push. Use the canonical commit message:\n   ```\n   {ticket_key}: address review/CI feedback (round N+1)\n   ```\n   where `N` is the zero-indexed `iteration`.\n13. Increment `iteration` only AFTER a successful commit and push. Then loop back to step 1 of the per-iteration block.\n\n## Step 7 — `custom`\n\nIn `custom` mode, the `instructions` field IS the complete CI follow-up instruction set for this step. Follow it verbatim. Ignore Steps 5 and 6 entirely.\n\nCustom instructions are authoritative for CI follow-up behavior, but they remain subject to the agent's normal tool approval, credential handling, secret-handling, and platform safety constraints. Custom prose CANNOT bypass approval gates, exfiltrate secrets, or override platform safety policies, even though admin-only access controls who can set the field.\n\n## Worker finalization — clean session exit (Conductor auto mode)\n\nThis section applies ONLY when you were launched under the Conductor in auto mode (the `BAPI_CONDUCTOR_RUN_ID`/`BAPI_CONDUCTOR_WORKER_ID` env identifiers are present). A standalone `/check-ci` run or any non-Conductor worker ignores it entirely.\n\nBefore doing anything here, distinguish two states:\n\n- **CI/review follow-up still owned by this worker** — the `fix_and_iterate` loop is still correcting failures, review changes were requested and are unaddressed, a merge conflict on your PR is unresolved, or you have unpushed local commits. In this state you are **not** finished: keep working the CI-monitoring / correction loop and do **not** exit.\n- **Final PR state reached; no further worker action pending** — your final branch state is pushed, the PR has been created/updated, the done-gate / CI-monitoring workflow required by the recipe has completed (required checks green and, when `claude-review` is required, the verdict token confirms approval for the current head), and no CI/review follow-up remains that you own.\n\nOnly in the second state — that is, **only after the final push, PR creation/update, done-gate confirmation, and CI/review monitoring have all completed** and no follow-up remains — cleanly end your worker session (for example by issuing the `/exit` command) so the worktree is released and no idle process lingers. Do **not** exit immediately after opening a PR while CI or review is still pending, and do not exit while there are unresolved CI failures, requested review changes, a merge conflict you own, or unpushed local commits. A clean `SessionEnd` is both the correct terminal lifecycle signal (the conductor folds it) and the point at which the worker should exit.\n\n## Return\n\nReport whether CI passed, failed, timed out, or was unavailable. If failed, list the failing checks with their failure summaries. For `fix_and_iterate`, also report the iteration count and whether iteration/wall-clock caps were hit. If you finalized (cleanly exited) as a Conductor worker, note that the session ended after all follow-up completed.\n",
     "preflight-and-readiness.md": "Initialize the idea-to-ticket run directory and classify the idea's readiness and scope.\n\n## Inputs\n\n- Idea: `{idea}`\n- Slug: `{slug}`\n- Run ID: `{run_id}`\n- Docs directory: `{docs_dir}`\n- Project standards: response from the immediately preceding `get_project_standards` step. If that step returned an error envelope or a 404, treat the project standards as unavailable and proceed; do not halt.\n\n## Instructions\n\n1. Create the run directory:\n   ```\n   mkdir -p {docs_dir}/idea-to-ticket/{slug}-{run_id}\n   ```\n   Every artifact produced by this pipeline run lives under this run directory. No Jira mutation may occur in any later step until `run-manifest.json` has been written to this directory.\n\n2. Classify the idea on two independent axes:\n\n   **Readiness** (one of):\n   - `ready_to_draft` — the idea is concrete enough that a clear ticket draft can be produced.\n   - `needs_clarification` — the idea is reasonable but missing key answers; clarifying questions must be raised in `open-questions.md` later.\n   - `research_first` — drafting is blocked on external/codebase research; deep or narrow research must come first.\n   - `too_vague_to_ticket` — the idea is not actionable yet; do not produce a ticket.\n\n   **Scope** (one of):\n   - `task` — a single Jira Task (default when ambiguous).\n   - `spike` — a single Jira Spike for primarily discovery/research work.\n   - `epic_candidate` — the idea decomposes into a Jira Epic plus multiple child tickets.\n\n3. Halt locally if readiness is `too_vague_to_ticket`. Write the manifest anyway (see step 4) so the local artifacts record the halt; then stop without continuing the rest of the pipeline. Do not attempt any Jira mutation.\n\n4. Write `run-manifest.json` to `{docs_dir}/idea-to-ticket/{slug}-{run_id}/run-manifest.json`. Required fields:\n   - `idea` — the original `{idea}` text.\n   - `slug` — `{slug}`.\n   - `run_id` — `{run_id}`.\n   - `run_dir` — `{docs_dir}/idea-to-ticket/{slug}-{run_id}/`.\n   - `readiness` — one of the four readiness values above.\n   - `scope` — one of the three scope values above.\n   - `project_standards_available` — `true` if `get_project_standards` returned a usable result, `false` otherwise.\n   - `idempotency_label` — `bapi-idea-to-ticket-{run_id}` (per-run label; lets downstream steps resume THIS run by label).\n   - `stable_label` — `bapi-idea-hash-{idea_hash}` (stable across runs of the same idea; lets the duplicate-detection step catch a PRIOR run of the same idea by label, not just fuzzy text).\n   - `created_at` — ISO 8601 timestamp.\n\n5. The manifest is the resumability artifact for the whole run. Do not include secrets or raw credentials. Keep the file under a few KB.\n\n## Return\n\nConfirm the run directory and `run-manifest.json` were created, and report the classified `readiness` and `scope`. If readiness is `too_vague_to_ticket`, also report that the pipeline must stop without Jira mutation.\n",
     "request-prd.md": "# request_prd\n\nStart (or refresh) asynchronous generation of a **Product Requirements Document\n(PRD)** for a Jira ticket.\n\nA PRD is the most product/stakeholder-facing document in the design-document\nfamily. It frames product intent — the problem, goals, non-goals, target users,\nsuccess metrics, product requirements, scope, and risks — rather than the\ndetailed functional flows and acceptance behavior an FSD covers, or the\narchitecture/implementation guidance a TDD covers.\n\n## Async request/retrieve pattern\n\n`request_prd` only **starts** generation; it does not return the PRD directly\nunless you set `wait_for_result`. PRD generation typically takes **2–4 minutes**.\n\n1. Call `request_prd` with the `ticket_number`.\n2. Wait for processing to complete (2–4 minutes).\n3. Call `get_prd` with the same `ticket_number` to retrieve the result.\n\nSet `wait_for_result: true` to block and return the PRD content directly instead\nof polling separately.\n\n## Parameters\n\n| Parameter | Type | Default | Description |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| `ticket_number` | string | — | Jira ticket key in `PROJECT-NUMBER` format (e.g. `BAPI-123`). |\n| `wait_for_result` | boolean | `false` | When `true`, block and poll until the PRD is ready, then return it directly. |\n| `save_locally` | boolean | `true` | When `wait_for_result` is `true`, save the PRD to `BAPI_DOCS_DIR/prd/{ticket}-prd-plan.md`. |\n| `second_opinion` | string | — | Provider routing override for **this** generation request (e.g. `anthropic`, `openai`, `gemini`). This is **not** the standalone `second_opinion` tool — it only changes which provider produces this request's artifact, and takes precedence over `provider`. |\n| `provider` | string | — | Pure provider switch without second-opinion semantics. If both `provider` and `second_opinion` are set, `second_opinion` wins. |\n\n## Return\n\n- `202` when the request is accepted (async dispatch).\n- `404` if the ticket does not exist in Jira.\n- `403` if the API key is unauthorized.\n",
     "research-decision.md": "Decide which research tools to run for this idea, biased toward cheap local research first.\n\n## Inputs\n\n- Run manifest: `{docs_dir}/idea-to-ticket/{slug}-{run_id}/run-manifest.json` (must already exist from the preflight step).\n\n## Instructions\n\n1. Read `{docs_dir}/idea-to-ticket/{slug}-{run_id}/run-manifest.json`. This is the source of truth for `idea`, `readiness`, `scope`, and `run_id`. If the file does not exist, halt locally — the preflight step did not complete.\n\n2. Decide which research tools should run for this idea, in roughly this priority order:\n   - **Local codebase research first.** Inspect the working tree (search, grep, file reads) for prior art, related modules, and existing tests. Prefer this for anything that touches code you already own.\n   - **Narrow web search second.** Use targeted web search for short factual lookups: a specific library API, a known external standard, a public spec.\n   - **Deep research only when justified.** Deep research is expensive and slow; it must be earned by one of the rubric items below.\n\n3. Deep-research allowance rubric. Deep research is only allowed when at least one of these is true:\n   - **blast radius**: the change spans many systems or has high reversibility cost (e.g., schema migrations, auth, billing, public APIs).\n   - **unfamiliar external domain**: the idea depends on a third-party domain or specification the repository has no prior coverage of.\n   - **compliance/security uncertainty**: there is real compliance or security uncertainty (SOC2, PII, secret handling, access control).\n   - **cheaper research failed**: a cheaper round (local + narrow web search) already happened in this run and left blocking unknowns.\n   - **explicit user request**: the user explicitly asked for deep research.\n\n4. Write `{docs_dir}/idea-to-ticket/{slug}-{run_id}/research-plan.json`. Required fields:\n   - `selected_tools` — array of tool identifiers to run, drawn from at least `[\"codebase_search\", \"web_search\", \"deep_research\"]`. Empty array is allowed when no research is needed.\n   - `rationale` — short string explaining the choice in terms of the rubric above.\n   - `deep_research_query` — string. Required when `deep_research` is in `selected_tools`, otherwise empty string.\n   - `web_search_topics` — array of strings; may be empty.\n   - `codebase_search_topics` — array of strings; may be empty.\n   - `expected_unknowns` — array of strings describing what the research is expected to resolve.\n\n5. Do not invoke any research tool from this step — that happens in `execute-research.md`. This step only writes the plan.\n\n## Return\n\nConfirm `research-plan.json` was written, list `selected_tools`, and quote the rationale.\n",

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@@ -39,7 +39,10 @@ export function createPlaneFsDeps() {
         },
         stat: async (filePath) => {
             const result = await stat(filePath);
-            return { mtimeMs: result.mtimeMs };
+            // `mode` is passed through unchanged. Substituting a "safe" default here
+            // would hide a world-readable credentials file from the permission
+            // advisory that exists to report it (BAPI-773).
+            return { mtimeMs: result.mtimeMs, mode: result.mode };
         },
         readdir: async (dirPath) => {
             const entries = await readdir(dirPath, { withFileTypes: true });