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package/scaffold/skills/dw-chaos-engineering/SKILL.md

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+---
+name: dw-chaos-engineering
+description: Use to adversarially test a change you just implemented. Maps the attack surface, writes tests that try to break it, classifies each KILLED/SURVIVED/INCONCLUSIVE. Local only, writes tests only, 3 rounds max. Ask for it by name.
+allowed-tools:
+  - Read
+  - Write
+  - Bash
+  - Grep
+  - Glob
+---
+
+# Chaos Engineering
+
+> Adapted from the chaos-engineering skill in [`samsantosb/ship-it`](https://github.com/samsantosb/ship-it)
+> (MIT © Samuel Santos). The vector catalogue and the KILLED/SURVIVED/INCONCLUSIVE vocabulary come from
+> there; target resolution, criticality anchoring and finding routing are rewritten for `.dw/`.
+
+Where the rest of the pipeline builds, this tries to break. It takes a change that is already implemented
+and writes tests whose only purpose is to prove it fails.
+
+**An attack that SURVIVED is also a result.** The goal is not bugs at any cost — it is mapping where the
+code holds and where it gives, and leaving the tests that matter as regression inheritance.
+
+## When to use
+
+Invoked by name, never automatically — it writes files, runs the suite and costs real time. Ask for it
+after an implementation is complete and its normal tests pass: post-`/dw-run`, post-`/dw-bugfix`, or on an
+open PR before merge.
+
+Do not use it to find a known bug (that is `/dw-bugfix`), to review code (`/dw-review`), or on a change
+that has no tests yet — chaos measures resilience, it does not substitute for coverage.
+
+## Step 0 — Baseline gate
+
+**The target's existing tests must pass before any attack.** Run the project's configured suite scoped to
+the touched files.
+
+A red baseline stops the run. With a broken environment you cannot tell a finding from noise, and every
+subsequent classification is worthless. Report the failing baseline and stop — that is a `BLOCKED` outcome
+under `.dw/references/automode.md`, not a failed run.
+
+## Step 1 — Resolve the target
+
+First that exists: the PR diff · the local diff against the base branch · the files named in
+`.dw/spec/<prd>/tasks/` or `.dw/bugfixes/<slug>/TASK.md`. Only what changed is in scope — the rest of the
+repository is not the target.
+
+Read the acceptance criteria if the target has them. Every promise is attackable by negation.
+
+## Step 2 — Attack plan
+
+Cross the diff with `references/vector-catalog.md` and select the vectors that actually apply. Not every
+vector fits every diff; prioritize by impact × probability.
+
+**Criticality is anchored, not assumed.** `.dw/rules/concerns.md` (the Concerns Map) and
+`.dw/constitution.md` define what is critical *in this project*. Without them severity is opinion; with
+them, a finding against the thing the project protects is critical by definition.
+
+Show the plan before building: target, surface, selected vectors as hypotheses, and the vectors left out
+with one line each on why.
+
+## Step 3 — Build the arsenal
+
+Follow the project's test conventions and the `dw-testing-discipline` skill — it owns *how* a test is
+written (the anti-pattern catalogue, the agent guardrails, flaky discipline). This skill owns only the
+attack protocol.
+
+- One group per vector, one case per attack, named for the hypothesis rather than the implementation.
+- **Simulate hostility with mocks and fixtures.** The test describes a hostile world; it never depends on
+  a real one.
+- **Each attack asserts the CORRECT behaviour** — what the system should do under chaos — never the bug.
+  So a failing attack is a real finding, and the same test becomes a free regression once it is fixed.
+
+## Step 4 — Run and classify
+
+- **KILLED** — the attack broke it. Produce the minimal reproduction: the smallest hostile input that
+  still kills.
+- **SURVIVED** — the code held. A result, not a wasted test.
+- **INCONCLUSIVE** — the *test* is wrong (bad mock, flake, environment limit). Fix and rerun, at most
+  twice; still inconclusive after that, record it as such and drop it. Never inflate the report.
+
+**Round cap: 3.** The initial plan plus at most two deepening rounds on what killed or nearly did. The
+INCONCLUSIVE retry cap is independent — never burn a round chasing a verdict on a broken test.
+
+## Step 5 — Triage
+
+Severity comes from the criticality anchor, not from how alarming the input looked.
+
+Before sealing each finding, apply the **defense-lawyer test**: is there a reading where this behaviour is
+intentional — an ADR, a project rule, an adjacent comment? If yes, mark it `contestable` and record the
+doubt. The report separates fact from interpretation, the same way `dw-review-rigor` separates a finding
+from an unresolved lead.
+
+## Step 6 — Report and routing
+
+Report to `<target>/QA/chaos-report.md`, following the target convention `/dw-qa` already uses.
+
+Where each result goes:
+
+| Result | Destination |
+|---|---|
+| SURVIVED covering a real gap no existing test covered | Promote as a permanent regression |
+| KILLED on an open PR | Test ships **unskipped** — it blocks the merge on purpose, and `/dw-review` rejects |
+| KILLED on already-merged code | Open `.dw/bugfixes/NNN-slug/` via `/dw-bugfix`; never reopen the landed work |
+| SURVIVED but redundant, or INCONCLUSIVE | Discard. The arsenal is not an accumulation |
+
+## Hard limits
+
+- **Local only.** Never fire a request at staging, production or a partner API. A hostile world is
+  simulated, without exception.
+- **Tests only.** Production code is read-only here. Finding and fixing are separate roles by design.
+- **Three rounds.** Infinite chaos is procrastination with extra steps.
+- **No theatrical chaos**: no scenarios impossible by construction to pad the report, no asserting the
+  current buggy behaviour, and no calling KILLED when what broke was the mock or the clock.
+- Never leave a red test ownerless. A KILLED on an open PR blocks merge on purpose — that is the signal
+  working. A red suite with no report and no owner is sabotage.
+
+## Structured Return
+
+- **Status:** `PASS` when the run completed with no unfixed KILLED, `FINDINGS` when attacks killed, `BLOCKED` when the baseline is red or the target cannot be resolved, `NOT_APPLICABLE` when no implemented change is in scope.
+- **Scope:** target resolved, files attacked, vectors selected and vectors deliberately skipped.
+- **Evidence:** per-attack classification with the minimal reproduction for each kill, and the baseline result.
+- **Artifacts:** chaos report path, test files written, and where each shipped.
+- **Decisions:** vector selection, severity anchoring, and every `contestable` downgrade with its reading.
+- **Risks:** inconclusive attacks, vectors out of scope, and coverage the rounds did not reach.
+- **Next Step:** the fix route for each kill (`/dw-bugfix` or the PR's own branch), or merge-clean.

package/scaffold/skills/dw-chaos-engineering/references/vector-catalog.md

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+# Vector catalogue
+
+Cross the diff with this list and pick what applies. Selecting every vector for every diff is how a chaos
+run turns into theatre — the skipped vectors, each with one line on why, are part of the plan.
+
+## Boundaries
+Zero · negative · `MAX_SAFE_INTEGER` and the language's numeric ceiling · empty, one, and N+1 · the
+off-by-one at a page or batch edge · leap day · a timezone that is not the author's · DST transition.
+
+## Nulls and absence
+An optional field omitted entirely (not sent as null) · `null` versus `undefined` where the code treats
+them alike · empty object versus missing object · a field the external API stopped returning.
+
+## Broken money
+Rounding at the cent · installments that do not sum to the total · negative amounts · a discount above
+100% · float arithmetic where decimal is required · currency mismatch · a refund larger than the payment.
+
+## Hostile dependencies
+The external API returns 500 · 429 with and without `Retry-After` · a timeout with no response at all ·
+truncated JSON · valid JSON with the wrong shape · the cache is down · a database deadlock · a job dies
+mid-flight leaving its work half-applied.
+
+## Concurrency and idempotency
+The same request submitted twice · a duplicated webhook · a job reprocessed after a retry · a cron racing
+a live request · two writers on the same row · a read between a check and its use.
+
+## Hostile payloads
+Emoji and combining characters · mixed encodings · a 10k-character string in a field sized for 50 ·
+injection strings that must remain inert · HTML inside free text · a number arriving as a string · deeply
+nested structures.
+
+## Impossible state
+An enum value outside the domain · an orphaned foreign key · an expired session presented as valid · a
+status transition the state machine does not define · a record referencing a deleted parent.
+
+## Contract violation
+An external type that flipped between deploys · an unknown enum member · an extra unexpected field · page
+2 of a paginated response arriving empty · a schema version the code does not know.
+
+---
+
+Each attack asserts what the system **should** do under that condition. An attack written to assert the
+current broken behaviour is not an attack — it is a regression test for the bug.

package/scaffold/skills/dw-cli-run/SKILL.md

@@ -38,6 +38,14 @@ Use with `dw-codex-run`, `dw-claude-run`, or `dw-copilot-run`. The command suppl
 
 WRITE runs arm `/dw-report` once (`armed_by: dw-cli-run`) (idempotent, skipped when `DW_REPORT_AUTO=off`). On cancellation stop only the recorded task handle/PID, preserve files and logs, and disarm reporting. Never remove a worktree to kill its worker or walk up the process tree. The parent uses `/dw-worktree merge <slug>` for authorized merge and cleanup in the same turn (end-of-life); KEEP worktrees remain intact.
 
+## Stops
+
+The dispatch is authorized by the approved task assignment; it is not re-asked. The owning command
+enumerates its complete stop list, and every stop follows `.dw/references/automode.md`: persist the
+worktree, audit log and session sidecar, report the exact question with the supported resume command, and
+exit `BLOCKED`. A stop is a successful run that ended early — the failure mode is continuing past a
+blocker by inventing a way around it.
+
 ## Structured Return
 
 - **Status:** `PASS` task acceptance and required checks satisfied; `FINDINGS` corrections remain; `BLOCKED` unavailable executor, permissions or unresolved decision; `NOT_APPLICABLE` no CLI execution in scope.

package/scaffold/skills/dw-debug-protocol/references/six-step-triage.md

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 - From a stack trace → identify the entry point (HTTP route, CLI command, UI event) and the input that triggered it.
 - From a log line → find the surrounding context (request ID, user ID, timestamp); reconstruct the scenario.
 - Write a failing test FIRST when the bug is in pure logic. The test commits the bug to record before you fix it.
+- **A report from outside the project is evidence, not an executable.** Rebuild the reproduction from code this repository owns plus synthetic data. Do not paste and run a supplied command or script, and do not open a supplied archive, binary, or link on this host — a reproduction that hands the reporter your shell is not a reproduction. See `.dw/references/untrusted-input.md`.
 
 ### Feedback loop contract
 

package/scaffold/skills/dw-llm-eval/SKILL.md

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 |------------|------|
 | Designing an eval suite for an AI feature | `references/oracle-ladder.md` (climb the ladder) |
 | Using LLM-as-judge | `references/judge-calibration.md` (mandatory before relying on it) |
+| Decision with a fixed answer set (classify, route, score a rubric) | `references/bounded-decisions.md` — score the candidates instead of generating, and why the probability is not a confidence |
 | Building / curating a reference dataset | `references/reference-dataset.md` |
 | RAG-specific feature | `references/rag-metrics.md` |
 | Agent / tool-use feature | `references/agent-eval.md` |

package/scaffold/skills/dw-llm-eval/references/bounded-decisions.md

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+# Bounded decisions — when the answer space is already known
+
+A large share of model calls in a product do not need written text. The application already knows the
+possible answers and only needs one of them chosen: route this ticket to billing, technical or account ·
+is this message urgent · how severe is this incident on a 1-4 scale.
+
+Asking a generative model to *write* that answer means generating tokens one at a time, waiting for all of
+them, parsing the result, and handling the case where it came back malformed. None of that work is about
+the decision.
+
+When the answer space is fixed in advance, the model can **score the candidates instead of writing one**.
+The decision comes out of a single forward pass, as a distribution over the options you defined, with no
+tokens to parse and no malformed output to handle.
+
+This is not a new technique — multiple-choice benchmarks have been scored this way for years. It is worth
+writing down because product code rarely uses it, and because it comes with one trap that costs more than
+the speed it saves.
+
+## The trap: a probability is not a confidence
+
+Scoring returns numbers that look like probabilities. Treat them as calibrated confidence and you will make
+bad decisions with the appearance of rigour.
+
+Raw model probabilities are usually **badly calibrated**: a candidate holding 80% of the mass is not right
+80% of the time. Preference tuning (RLHF and its relatives) tends to make this worse, because it sharpens
+mass onto preferred answers beyond what their reliability warrants.
+
+**This is a different property from what `references/judge-calibration.md` requires.** That file asks for
+Spearman ≥0.80 between judge scores and human scores — rank agreement, which answers "does the judge order
+cases the way a human would". Calibration answers a separate question: "when it says 0.8, is it right 80%
+of the time". A judge can pass one and fail the other. Both matter, and they are not substitutes.
+
+Two honest ways to handle it:
+
+1. **Do not interpret the number as a frequency.** If all you need is a threshold to route or abstain, pick
+   the threshold empirically against your reference dataset and never publish the raw value as a
+   confidence. This is usually enough, and it is the cheapest correct answer.
+2. **Calibrate it post-hoc.** Fit a mapping from raw score to observed frequency on held-out cases
+   (Platt scaling, isotonic regression). Now the number means something, and you can report it.
+
+Either way, the reference dataset is what makes the number trustworthy — not the model that produced it.
+
+## What this gives your eval
+
+A generative judge returns a verdict. A scoring judge returns a verdict **and a distribution**, which lets
+the eval measure something accuracy alone cannot: whether the system knows when it is unsure.
+
+- Plot a reliability curve — bucket predictions by confidence, compare each bucket's confidence against its
+  observed accuracy.
+- Track expected calibration error across releases. A model swap can hold accuracy steady while wrecking
+  calibration, and accuracy-only evals will not show it.
+- Route the low-confidence tail to a human or a more expensive rung instead of accepting it silently. That
+  is the same escalation shape `references/oracle-ladder.md` describes between rungs.
+
+## Two ways to implement it
+
+**Score with the model you already run.** No new model, no new infrastructure: prefill the prompt and read
+the scores of the candidate answers. Cheapest to adopt.
+
+Two things to get right. First, if two options share their opening tokens, a naive first-token comparison
+picks between prefixes rather than between answers — score whole candidates and normalise by length, which
+is what serving frameworks that expose a choice primitive do by default. Second, the calibration problem
+above is at its worst here, because the model was tuned to sound confident.
+
+**Use a model built for typed decisions.** Purpose-built decision models take state plus a typed question
+and return a distribution directly, trained for calibrated output rather than for human preference. Better
+calibrated by construction, at the cost of another model to run, serve and keep current.
+
+The first is right when the decision rides alongside work a general model is already doing. The second
+earns its keep at high volume, where the decision *is* the workload.
+
+## When not to use any of this
+
+If the right answer is a sentence — an explanation, a summary, a written recommendation — the answer space
+is not bounded and none of this applies. Forcing it into a fixed set does not make it cheaper; it makes it
+wrong. Rung 4 with a calibrated generative judge remains the tool for subjective output.

package/scaffold/skills/dw-llm-eval/references/judge-calibration.md

@@ -16,6 +16,11 @@ Process:
 4. Compute Spearman rank correlation between human scores and judge scores.
 
 **Target:** Spearman ≥0.80.
+
+> **This is rank agreement, not probability calibration.** Spearman answers "does the judge order cases the
+> way a human would". It says nothing about whether a judge reporting 0.8 is right 80% of the time — a
+> judge can pass this bar and still be badly calibrated. If your judge emits a confidence or a probability
+> and anything downstream reads it as one, see `references/bounded-decisions.md`.
 **Acceptable:** 0.70-0.80 with documented rationale (e.g., "subjective tone judgments inherently noisy").
 **Reject:** <0.70. The judge is not measuring what you think it's measuring.
 

package/scaffold/skills/dw-review-rigor/SKILL.md

@@ -14,35 +14,46 @@ A set of rules the caller applies while producing a review report. This skill do
 
 ## When Invoked
 
-By `/dw-review --code-only`, `/dw-review --coverage-only`, `/dw-refactor`, and `/dw-brainstorm --mode=refactor-audit`. The caller has already identified a scope (files, a PR, a codebase area). This skill governs how findings are selected, deduplicated, ordered, and phrased.
+By `/dw-review --code-only` (all five rules plus the full candidate pipeline), `/dw-review --coverage-only` (de-dup and severity-ordering on PRD-vs-code gaps), `/dw-refactor` and `/dw-brainstorm --mode=refactor-audit` (rules 1, 2, 4, 5; rule 3 adapts, so a smell with a justifying ADR becomes a `low` finding at most). The caller has already identified a scope — files, a PR, a codebase area — and this skill governs how findings are selected, deduplicated, ordered, and phrased.
 
 ## Required Inputs
 
 - The scope the caller is reviewing (file paths, directories, or PR diff).
-- Optional: prior review reports in `.dw/spec/prd-*/reviews/` — so this round only surfaces NEW findings.
+- Optional: prior review reports for the same target, so this round surfaces only NEW findings. See Prior-Round Awareness.
 
-## Pre-Report Gate
+## Candidate Pipeline
 
-Before writing ANY finding, clear four checks — if any is "no"/"unsure", downgrade or drop it (an unactionable finding is noise):
+Nothing you notice is a finding yet. Everything enters as a **candidate** and leaves through exactly one of three exits: `finding`, `needs-validation`, or `rejected`. There is no fourth — a candidate that quietly disappears is a defect of the review.
+
+**Stage 1 — Gate.** Clear four checks; any "no" or "unsure" means this is not ready to be a finding:
 
 1. **Location** — exact file and line?
 2. **Failure mode** — a concrete input/state and the bad outcome it produces?
 3. **Context** — read the surrounding code (callers, imports, tests), not just the flagged line?
 4. **Severity** — defensible against Rule 2's definitions? (a missing JSDoc is never HIGH)
 
-Report only findings you are **>80% confident** are real. A style preference no rule backs is not a finding. See `references/false-positives.md` for patterns LLM reviewers habitually mis-flag.
+See `references/false-positives.md` for patterns LLM reviewers habitually mis-flag.
+
+**Stage 2 — Refutation.** The reasoning that produced a candidate cannot also be its check; it anchors every reading that follows. Each candidate clearing Stage 1 faces a deliberate attempt to disprove it. With subagents, dispatch `dw-finding-refuter` with the claim and the raw code, never the reasoning behind it, one candidate per dispatch. Otherwise re-derive the path from source, working to show the outcome cannot happen. Packet contract, upstream guards and both output formats: `references/refutation-pass.md`.
+
+**Stage 3 — Disposition.** Holds on evidence the refutation found for itself → `finding`, with a severity. Blocked upstream, input unreachable, or behavior intended → `rejected`, one line at the end of the report naming what disproved it. Cannot be established either way → `needs-validation`, which never receives a severity and records what is missing and what would settle it. When the environment needed to settle a claim is unavailable, it **stays** `needs-validation` — not promoted, not dropped. Each exit carries different fields: contract in `references/refutation-pass.md`.
+
+Report only findings you are **>80% confident** are real *after* Stage 2. Three needs-validation entries and one finding is a more honest round than four.
 
 ## The Five Rules
 
 For the five rules, read `references/the-five-rules-detail.md`. Load only when this part of the task applies.
 
+When the scope is an already-merged range (`/dw-review --post-merge`), also read `references/composition-audit.md`: the seven cross-interaction classes, the composition-only defect checklist, the documentation ledger and the semver recommendation.
+
 ## Prior-Round Awareness
 
-If the PRD directory has prior review reports:
+Prior reports live in `<target>/QA/` (PRD target) or `<target>/review/` (bugfix target). Read them and extract three lists — known findings (titles + file/line signatures), open `needs-validation` entries, rejected candidates — then:
 
-1. Read them and extract the list of known findings (their titles + file/line signatures).
-2. The current round surfaces **only NEW findings**. Do not re-flag items already tracked as pending, resolved, or accepted in earlier rounds.
-3. If a prior finding was resolved incorrectly, open it as a NEW finding with "Regression of <prior ref>" in the body.
+1. Surface **only NEW findings**. Do not re-flag items already tracked as pending, resolved, or accepted.
+2. Re-check every open `needs-validation` entry. Resolve it into a finding or a rejection when this round has the missing evidence; otherwise carry it forward unchanged. Carrying it forward is a valid outcome — dropping it is not.
+3. Do not re-raise a rejected candidate unless the code changed in a way that defeats the recorded refutation. Name what changed.
+4. If a prior finding was resolved incorrectly, open it as a NEW finding with "Regression of <prior ref>" in the body.
 
 ## Finding Format
 
@@ -62,14 +73,13 @@ Evidence: <relevant code snippet, test output, or reference>
 
 The caller emits:
 
-1. **Merge/ship recommendation** — one of:
-   - `Needs fixes before merge` (if any critical or high exist), with blocking findings named.
-   - `Safe to merge with follow-ups` (only medium/low).
-   - `Clean — ready to merge` (no findings).
+1. **Merge/ship recommendation** — `Needs fixes before merge` when any critical or high exists, naming the blockers; `Safe to merge with follow-ups` for medium/low only; `Clean — ready to merge` for none.
 2. **Counts** — critical / high / medium / low.
 3. **Findings** — ordered by severity, each in the format above.
-4. **Well-implemented aspects** — short bulleted list, calibrates tone.
-5. **Self-score** — rate the report on the five axes in `references/self-eval-rubric.md`; any axis below top cites the gap, then fix (<30s) or flag.
+4. **Needs Validation** — open questions carried by this round, without severities.
+5. **Rejected Candidates** — one line per refuted candidate, with what disproved it.
+6. **Well-implemented aspects** — short bulleted list, calibrates tone.
+7. **Self-score** — rate the report on the five axes in `references/self-eval-rubric.md`; any axis below top cites the gap, then fix (<30s) or flag.
 
 ## Critical Rules
 
@@ -78,33 +88,19 @@ The caller emits:
 - Do not flag patterns that have a clear adjacent justification or ADR.
 - Do not write N identical findings for one root cause — de-duplicate.
 - Do not mix severities — order is critical → high → medium → low.
-
-## Integration With Other dev-workflow Commands
-
-- `/dw-review --code-only` — applies all five rules to its Level-3 review output; uses prior reports in `.dw/spec/*/reviews/` to dedupe across rounds.
-- `/dw-review --coverage-only` — applies de-dup + severity-ordering when listing gaps between PRD requirements and code.
-- `/dw-refactor` — applies rules 1, 2, 4, 5 when cataloging code smells (rule 3 adapts: a "smell" with a justifying ADR becomes a `low` finding at most).
-
-Callers should mention this skill in their "Skills Complementares" section.
+- Do not assign a severity to anything that did not survive Stage 2.
+- Do not delete a candidate — route it to findings, needs-validation, or rejected.
 
 ## Inspired by
 
-Ported from Compozy's `cy-review-round` skill (`/tmp/compozy/.agents/skills/cy-review-round/SKILL.md`). Adapted for dev-workflow:
-
-- No `reviews-NNN/` directory convention — dev-workflow reviews already persist in `.dw/spec/*/reviews/` per command's existing contract.
-- The five rules are extracted here so three different dev-workflow review commands can share the discipline without duplicating it.
-- No issue-file frontmatter (Compozy uses it to interoperate with its remediation engine; dev-workflow's remediation is manual or via `/dw-qa --fix`).
-
-Credit: Compozy project (https://github.com/compozy/compozy).
+The five rules are ported from Compozy's `cy-review-round` (credit: [Compozy](https://github.com/compozy/compozy), MIT), extracted here so three review commands share one discipline. The candidate pipeline, `needs-validation` and the rejected-candidate log originate in [`cloudflare/security-audit-skill`](https://github.com/cloudflare/security-audit-skill) (MIT), reaching us via `akitaonrails/my-skills` — chain: cloudflare → akitaonrails → dev-workflow. Reimplemented independently; no upstream text reused.
 
 ## Structured Return
 
-When invoked directly or by a harness, return or merge this block:
-
-- **Status:** `PASS` when no defensible findings remain, `FINDINGS` when review findings exist, `BLOCKED` when diff/context is insufficient, `NOT_APPLICABLE` when no review is in scope.
+- **Status:** `PASS` when no defensible findings remain (open `needs-validation` entries do not block it, but each must be listed), `FINDINGS` when review findings exist, `BLOCKED` when diff/context is insufficient, `NOT_APPLICABLE` when no review is in scope.
 - **Scope:** diff range, files reviewed, prior rounds, and review mode.
-- **Evidence:** file/line references, behavior impact, and prior-round disposition.
+- **Evidence:** file/line references, behavior impact, the refutation each finding survived, prior-round disposition.
 - **Artifacts:** review report, inline findings, or consolidation notes.
-- **Decisions:** finding severity/order, duplicate suppression, and false-positive rejection.
-- **Risks:** missing tests, unreviewed generated files, stale base branch, or non-defensible claims.
-- **Next Step:** exact fix, verification, or approval/block marker.
+- **Decisions:** severity and order, duplicate suppression, and every refuted candidate with what disproved it.
+- **Risks:** missing tests, unreviewed generated files, stale base branch, non-defensible claims, open `needs-validation` entries.
+- **Next Step:** exact fix, verification, what would resolve each `needs-validation` entry, or the approval/block marker.

package/scaffold/skills/dw-review-rigor/references/composition-audit.md

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+# Composition Audit — reviewing N merged PRs as one state
+
+Loaded by `/dw-review --post-merge`. It does not replace the five rules or the candidate pipeline; it
+changes what you go looking for when the unit of review is a merged range instead of one branch.
+
+## What changes when the scope is a range
+
+Every PR in the range was reviewed alone and passed alone. That is exactly why this pass exists: the
+defects below need two changes to exist, so no per-PR review could have caught them, and the collection of
+per-PR summaries is optimistic by construction. Audit the final tree, not the summaries.
+
+Two consequences for severity. A defect here is already shipped, which changes **urgency**, not severity —
+do not inflate a medium because it is live, and do not discount a critical because "it has been fine so
+far". And the range is the only honest unit: a finding that says "PR #3 broke it" is usually wrong, because
+what broke it is #3 meeting #7.
+
+## The seven interaction classes
+
+### 1. Invariant bridges
+
+One PR adds a field, column, flag, or route; another populates or authorizes it somewhere that is not the
+canonical boundary. The writer looks fine (it writes a legitimate value) and the reader looks fine (it
+reads a field that exists), but the invariant the boundary was supposed to enforce is now bypassed.
+
+- *Detection:* for each new field or path added in the range, `git log -S'<name>' --oneline <range>` to
+  find every commit that touched it, then check whether the writers all pass through the same guard.
+- *False positive:* a deliberate second writer with its own validation. Read it before flagging.
+- *Minimum severity:* high when the bypassed boundary is authorization or tenancy, otherwise medium.
+
+### 2. Helper and policy drift
+
+Two PRs each add or change normalization, identity comparison, validation, retry, error mapping, or a
+permission check — and the two copies now disagree. The system behaves differently depending on which path
+the request took.
+
+- *Detection:* `git diff <range> --name-only` grouped by subsystem, then grep for near-duplicate helper
+  names and for the same literal in two places.
+- *False positive:* intentional divergence with different requirements. Look for a comment or an ADR.
+- *Minimum severity:* medium; high when the two copies disagree about a security decision.
+
+### 3. Default and config composition
+
+Each default was compatible on its own. Together they change behavior, create ambiguity, or enable
+something that was meant to stay off. The classic shape: one PR flips a default to "on for new installs"
+and another adds a code path that assumes it is off.
+
+- *Detection:* list every default, env var, feature flag, and config key the diff touches, then evaluate
+  them as a set, not one at a time. Check the upgrade case — existing installs — separately from a fresh one.
+- *Minimum severity:* high when the composed state is insecure or data-losing.
+
+### 4. Order and lifecycle
+
+Startup and shutdown ordering, retries, cleanup, transactions, rollback, background jobs, leases. One PR
+adds work at a lifecycle point; another changes when that point runs.
+
+- *Detection:* find the lifecycle entry points in the range and read them whole, not as hunks. Ask what
+  happens on the second run, on a crash between the two changes, and on rollback.
+- *Minimum severity:* high when a partial state can persist.
+
+### 5. Shared resource behavior
+
+Queues, connection pools, files, ports, rate limits, caches, locks, disk. Two PRs that each take a
+reasonable share of a bounded resource can together exhaust it.
+
+- *Detection:* for each bounded resource the range touches, sum the new consumers. Look for a new consumer
+  added to a pool whose size did not change.
+- *Minimum severity:* medium, high when the bound is reached under normal load rather than attack.
+
+### 6. Schema, API, and data composition
+
+Migrations, wire schemas, public functions, CLI flags, persisted data, older callers. Two migrations that
+each apply cleanly to the pre-range state may not compose; an additive API change plus a rename is a break.
+
+- *Detection:* apply the migrations in range order against a copy of the pre-range schema, not against a
+  fresh one. For public surfaces, diff the signature set at `BASE_SHA` against `HEAD_SHA` rather than
+  reading the PRs' claims.
+- *Minimum severity:* high for anything a released caller can hit.
+
+### 7. Test masking
+
+The one that most reliably hides in a green build: one PR's mock, fixture, helper, or test config makes
+another PR's test pass without exercising production behavior. Both PRs were green. The composed suite is
+green. The feature does not work.
+
+- *Detection:* for each test added in the range, check whether the production path it claims to cover is
+  actually reached — a global mock registered in shared setup, an autouse fixture, a stubbed client, a
+  widened test config. Where feasible, revert the production change and confirm the test goes red.
+- *False positive:* a legitimately isolated unit test whose integration coverage lives elsewhere. Find that
+  elsewhere before flagging.
+- *Minimum severity:* high — a test that cannot fail is worse than no test, because it is counted as
+  coverage.
+
+## Composition-only defect checklist
+
+Run this after the seven classes. These are shapes that per-PR review systematically misses:
+
+- an **additive feature that broke a public API by accident** — additive intent does not excuse an
+  unrelated signature change;
+- a **fallback that now swallows an unrelated error** — the fallback was added for one failure and now
+  catches a second one introduced later;
+- a **test bound to a real home directory, platform, clock, network, or live service** — it passes on the
+  machine that wrote it;
+- **one entry point fixed while its parallel implementation went stale** — CLI fixed, API not; one platform
+  fixed, the other not;
+- **code only the development platform's gate exercises.** This is the highest-yield item in the list,
+  because a single-platform fast gate cannot see any of it:
+  - path identity that assumes one canonical spelling — symlinked temp and home roots, drive letter versus
+    POSIX separators, a trailing separator, case sensitivity;
+  - file-locking semantics that differ per OS;
+  - stderr and exit-code differences between platforms for the same command;
+  - line endings in anything compared as text.
+
+  Flag these for the full matrix rather than trusting the merge gate. A red matrix is a real finding — do
+  not route around it.
+
+## Documentation ledger
+
+Build the surface list from the **diff**, never from the PRs' prose. A PR body describes what someone meant
+to ship; the diff describes what shipped.
+
+Surfaces to enumerate: features, fixes, changed defaults, flags, env and config fields, supported
+platforms, endpoints, public APIs, schemas, migrations, install and deploy steps, security behavior.
+
+For each surface, find every authoritative location and look for a **description that is now wrong**, not
+only a name that is missing. A stale sentence is worse than an absent one: it is confidently incorrect.
+The usual homes are the README's support and compatibility tables, examples, the architecture and config
+reference, migration notes, and platform docs.
+
+## Semver recommendation
+
+From the diff:
+
+- only fixes → **patch**;
+- any additive surface → **minor**;
+- any break — on-disk format, public API, CLI or wire contract, a removed surface → **major**.
+
+State the recommendation and the **single highest-impact entry** that forces it, so the reader can check
+the one thing the conclusion rests on.
+
+Then check two changelog hazards that a heading-uniqueness script cannot catch:
+
+- **An entry stranded in an already-released section.** A PR authored before a release was cut anchors its
+  entry at the old position of "Unreleased". Merging the mainline back can resolve *cleanly, with no
+  conflict*, and leave the entry inside the now-frozen released section — claiming the change shipped in a
+  version that never contained it. Compare the changelog at `BASE_SHA` with the lines the range added:
+  `git diff <BASE_SHA>...<HEAD_SHA> -- <changelog>`, and confirm each new entry sits under the pending
+  heading.
+- **Merge-resolution residue.** `git diff --check` flags leftover conflict markers, but scripted resolution
+  also leaves diff3 base markers (`|||||||`) and duplicated bullets, which no uniqueness check sees. Grep
+  for the marker and scan for repeated entries.
+
+This section produces a recommendation and nothing else. `/dw-review --post-merge` does not tag, bump, or
+publish.
+
+## Attribution
+
+The boundary freeze, provenance inventory, cross-interaction sweep, documentation ledger and the two
+changelog hazards were reimplemented independently from the technique described in
+`akitaonrails/my-skills`. That repository declares no license; no upstream text, structure or file was
+reused, and no reuse license is assumed. The release step described there was deliberately not ported.