@cleocode/skills 2026.9.8 → 2026.9.10

package/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@cleocode/skills",
-  "version": "2026.9.8",
+  "version": "2026.9.10",
   "description": "CLEO skill definitions - bundled with CLEO monorepo",
   "main": "index.js",
   "types": "index.d.ts",

package/skills/ct-cleo/SKILL.md

@@ -2,13 +2,63 @@
 name: ct-cleo
 description: CLEO task management protocol - session, task, and workflow guidance. Use when managing tasks, sessions, or multi-agent workflows with the CLEO CLI protocol.
 metadata:
-  version: 2.6.0
-  lastReviewed: 2026-05-27
+  version: 2.20.5
+  lastReviewed: 2026-09-21
   stability: stable
 ---
 
 # CLEO Protocol Guide
 
+## Trustworthy project knowledge
+
+After confirming the assigned worktree, orient with briefing/focus. Check current
+coverage and sourced authority before acting on retrieved guidance. `UNKNOWN`
+impact is incomplete assessment; `NONE` is no detected impact in assessed static
+coverage, never proof of no runtime callers. Resolve ambiguous symbols explicitly.
+Preserve historical handoffs and follow sourced corrections separately.
+
+Consume repair findings as a matrix of scope, evidence, responsibility, operation,
+prerequisites, verification, and recovery. The calling agent supplies sourced resolutions; no background model is required. Escalate unresolved
+owner decisions, reject stale proposals, verify postconditions, and record useful
+incident learning with project/revision evidence. A failed diagnostic is not clean.
+Provider reference delivery must be verified or embedded self-contained; static
+instruction checks do not establish live Codex, Claude, or Kimi behavior.
+
+
+## Guarded knowledge repair
+
+Use `cleo doctor knowledge --dry-run` to inspect findings and sourced proposals.
+Persist reviewed JSON with `cleo doctor knowledge --prepare proposal.json --actor AGENT`.
+Discover retained jobs with `--jobs --actor AGENT`; continue with `--limit` and returned
+JSON `--cursor`. Follow each `inspectArgv`; never guess the latest job. Partial diagnostics
+remain unresolved, and job status alone does not verify current effects.
+For job operations, supply the original explicit actor and proposal ID:
+`cleo doctor knowledge --apply JOB --actor AGENT --proposal-id PROPOSAL`;
+replace `--apply` with `--inspect`, `--cancel`, or `--resume` for that operation.
+Inspection returns original receipts, separate rollback corrections, diagnostic
+failures, and a paged append-only ledger; use `--limit` and `--offset` until covered.
+Never copy a stored actor merely to bypass `E_REPAIR_ACTOR`.
+
+Each invocation shares one two-second default budget across assessment, preparation,
+locks, application and verification (`--budget-ms` permits an explicit override).
+A later explicit apply/resume starts a new bounded attempt; it does not renew an
+expired attempt or bypass immutable resource checks. Synchronous SQLite is cooperative,
+not timer-preemptible. On failure, retain any `prepared` job and `attemptFailure`
+including pending finalization. Cancellation requests do not reverse committed effects.
+Resume retains failed/cancelled outcomes and uncertain expired-running history;
+live owners cannot be stolen and completed effects are not reapplied.
+After rollback, apply/resume reject with `E_REPAIR_ROLLED_BACK`; inspect
+`recoveryState` for the original historical receipt and separate rollback receipt.
+
+Recover via `cleo doctor knowledge --rollback RECEIPT --actor AGENT --proposal-id NEW_ID`.
+Inspect both receipts. Versioned quarantine recovery restores only `invalid_at`, preserving
+validated paired citation-count/timestamp usage; protected edits conflict. Legacy receipts
+require exact images. Recovery records actual before/after images, not byte restoration
+of old usage. Prepared rollback still guards the full current image; later reads require
+fresh preparation. Unrelated changes survive. Stale proposals need reassessment. `--resolve FILE`
+applies reviewed input through the same lifecycle; `--fix --actor AGENT` handles bounded
+confirmed stubs. `cleo doctor repair` retains its separate database-recovery semantics.
+
 <!-- thin-pointer: full protocol is in CLEO-INJECTION.md (T9148) -->
 Full protocol content lives in `~/.cleo/templates/CLEO-INJECTION.md`.
 Emit any section with: `cleo briefing inject --section <name>`
@@ -18,6 +68,14 @@ Supported sections: `session-start` · `work-loop` · `triggers` · `task-creati
 · `orchestration` · `playbooks` · `documents` · `error-handling` · `pre-complete-gate`
 · `spawn-tiers` · `rules` · `memory-jit` · `escalation`
 
+Task find defaults to lexical query terms. Fuzzy character-subsequence matching requires `--fuzzy`; inspect per-row `match.kind` and `match.fields` before inferring related work. `--in` restricts the source field. Matching mode and fuzzy field explanations survive scalar/human output on stderr. Semantic retrieval remains separately identified.
+
+Compact SDK list/find records also carry `_withheld`: omission names and original UTF-8 sizes are recorded before fields are discarded, then retained through later CLI projections. Use full records to inspect those values; absence is not emptiness.
+
+List/find expose `data.population` with matched and returned counts, truncation, pagination, and archive eligibility. Count output equals emitted rows; use `--all` or `--limit 0` to enumerate all matches, and `--include-archive` to include archives under the same filters. Scalar/ID/table/summary modes preserve population facts on stderr. Do not treat a page as complete.
+
+Use `cleo backup inspect <snapshot> --record-id <id>` for read-only historical evidence; scoped absence or unknown provenance is not recovery authority.
+
 ## Quick Reference
 
 | Need | Command |
@@ -26,6 +84,7 @@ Supported sections: `session-start` · `work-loop` · `triggers` · `task-creati
 | Find work | `cleo next` → `cleo focus <id>` |
 | Search tasks | `cleo find "query"` |
 | Complete task | `cleo verify T### --gate ... --evidence "..."` → `cleo complete T###` |
+| Run typed gates without recording | `cleo verify T### --run` |
 | Save memory | `cleo memory observe "..." --title "..."` |
 | Spawn subagent | `cleo orchestrate spawn <taskId> --tier 2` |
 | Create a Saga | `cleo saga create --title "..." --acceptance "..."` |
@@ -37,12 +96,74 @@ Supported sections: `session-start` · `work-loop` · `triggers` · `task-creati
 | Read a doc | `cleo docs fetch <slug>` |
 | Browse docs | `cleo docs list --task T###` |
 
+## Document projection outcomes
+
+`cleo docs add` preserves accepted canonical bytes when optional graph or sourced
+observation work fails. Read `data.projection` for captured project identity,
+coverage, diagnostics, deadline, and any durable job or verification receipt.
+`pending` can mean a write outcome is still unresolved; retain the job reference
+and inspect it before explicit resume. Repeating the add is not a recovery step.
+The original two-second maintenance budget covers preparation through verification;
+timer expiry does not preempt synchronous SQLite work.
+
+Verify storage with `cleo docs fetch <slug>` and its JSON `data.bytesBase64` plus
+`data.metadata.sha256`. Keep canonical storage success, optional projection
+verification, and installed-provider workflow verification as separate evidence.
+
+## Acceptance input and historical evidence
+
+Add, update, batch, and saga creation share one acceptance-input boundary. Pass
+arrays of strings in JSON parameters; `--acceptance` also accepts a JSON array
+string or the documented pipe-delimited form. Array entries keep literal pipes
+and quoted unions. Strings are trimmed and blank strings omitted; nonstring
+entries and malformed explicit JSON arrays reject the whole mutation. Bracketed
+prose and the existing delimiter escaping rules retain their interpretation.
+
+On update, an explicit `[]` (including an all-blank string array) requests a clear;
+omitting acceptance leaves it unchanged. Policy and immutability checks apply to
+normalized criteria, and a locked change still requires `--reason`. Fresh reads
+retain an empty acceptance array. Malformed stored criteria produce a diagnostic;
+valid historical strings and structured gates are preserved without normalization.
+Do not infer historical splits from pipes alone: repairs need original input or
+explicit provenance, a snapshot, and a guarded receipt.
+
+## Task controls and committed evidence
+
+Explicit `critical` priority on add/update requires a dependency or a nonempty
+`--depends-waiver`; updates check the resulting dependency set. CLI flags, JSON
+params, and SDK calls share this policy. Explicit severity changes use the
+project's signing identity: a nonempty `ownerPubkeys` allowlist restricts signers;
+an absent or empty list keeps the existing opt-in policy. Unreadable or malformed
+authority is an explicit configuration failure. Committed severity,
+duplicate-bypass, and dependency-waiver evidence lives in the task transaction
+audit. Historical filesystem attestations alone do not prove a task committed.
+Dry-run creates no committed attestation; failed writes leave no committed receipt.
+
+## Read completeness before editing
+
+Use `cleo show <id> --full` to inspect task fields before editing them. Compact
+records name every omitted field in `_withheld`, including empty or null values;
+the size is UTF-8 content bytes for strings and serialized JSON bytes otherwise.
+Repeated projection retains earlier omissions. A record without `_withheld` is
+complete at the record projection boundary; an envelope can separately report
+omitted records or fields. Never overwrite a field because a compact read omitted it.
+
+Coverage, failure diagnostics, authority corrections, and pending repair facts
+survive budgeting before examples. Read operations reject budgets too small for
+mandatory facts; request a narrower scope or a larger budget. Internal mutation
+budgets that cannot hold the minimum envelope reject before execution. If a
+successful mutation's actual receipt exceeds a viable budget, success and the
+complete receipt are preserved with `_budgetEnforcement.withinBudget: false`.
+Inspect the receipt before retrying; overflow is not rollback or clean coverage.
+This internal budget contract does not add a `--token-budget` flag to add/update.
+
 ## Skill-Specific Extensions
 
 - Task hierarchy, Saga commands, add-batch decomposition, docs policy, and CLI output details live in CLEO-INJECTION.md; emit `task-creation`, `documents`, and `pre-complete-gate` when needed.
 - For add-batch input, The top-level JSON MUST be an array of task objects, not an object wrapper like `{ "tasks": [...] }`.
 - Dry-run count semantics: `/data/count` and `/data/wouldCreate` predict writes; `/data/insertedCount` must be `0` for dry-run.
-- Mutation output paths: use `/data/created/0`, `/data/updated/0`, and `/data/deleted/0`; never parse legacy full records.
+- Mutation output paths: use `/data/created/0`, `/data/updated/0`, and `/data/deleted/0`; never parse legacy full records. `--output id` emits affected IDs once in created/updated/deleted order from these canonical arrays.
+- `cleo delete <id>` soft-archives the task. `--cascade` explicitly archives descendants; `--force` alone orphans and preserves children and permits dependents. Parents with children require one of these controls. Read `deleted[]` (or `--output id`) for all archived IDs, including cascade descendants.
 - Docs path policy and strict preflight: keep docs repo-relative. Do not pass arbitrary external absolute paths. The canonical six-verb docs path is **add, update, fetch, list, remove, publish** (T10516). Use `cleo docs list` for discovery; `cleo docs list-types` (ADVANCED) and `DocKindRegistry` resolve runtime kinds when `list` is insufficient.
 
 ### Task Relationship Systems — depends, blockedBy, relates
@@ -257,3 +378,7 @@ cite decisions by durable BRAIN decision IDs.
 **Migration rule:** When you encounter a decision ONLY in a markdown ledger
 (`.cleo/adrs/`, `.cleo/agent-outputs/`), store it in the BRAIN with
 `cleo memory store --type decision` and cite the BRAIN ID going forward.
+
+## Evidence must prove task criteria
+
+Merged PRs and passing CI are provenance. Implementation requires changed artifacts related to the task; testing and review require their own actual results. For tasks with canonical criteria, append explicit links such as `satisfies:T1234#AC1` to each relevant gate's evidence. Fetch the PR merge commit so artifact hashes can be inspected. A changed criterion invalidates its recorded proof. Completing a child preserves an open parent whose own criteria remain unproven; child waivers never transfer to parent criteria.

package/skills/ct-cleo/__tests__/injection-content.test.ts

@@ -54,8 +54,9 @@ describe('CLEO-INJECTION.md — required section markers', () => {
     expect(injectionContent).toMatch(/^## Escalation/m);
   });
 
-  it('contains "Session Start" H2 section', () => {
-    expect(injectionContent).toMatch(/^## Session Start/m);
+  it('contains the universal evidence and repair protocol', () => {
+    expect(injectionContent).toMatch(/^## Universal protocol/m);
+    for (const rule of ['**Orient.**', '**Check authority and coverage.**', '**Inspect evidence.**', '**Act.**', '**Verify.**', '**Learn.**']) expect(injectionContent).toContain(rule);
   });
 
   it('contains "Work Loop" H2 section', () => {

package/skills/ct-dev-workflow/SKILL.md

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 ---
 name: ct-dev-workflow
 description: Development workflow orchestration for task-driven development with atomic commits, conventional commit messages, and systematic release processes. Enforces task traceability, branch discipline, smart test scope selection, and GitHub Actions integration. Use when committing code, creating releases, managing branches, or following contribution protocols. Triggers on commit operations, release preparation, or workflow compliance needs.
-version: 3.0.0
+version: 3.1.0
 tier: 2
 core: false
 category: specialist
@@ -16,10 +16,21 @@ compatibility:
   - windsurf
   - gemini-cli
 license: MIT
+metadata:
+  version: 3.1.0
+  lastReviewed: 2026-09-18
+  stability: stable
 ---
 
 # Development Workflow Context Injection
 
+Before editing, inspect focus/briefing authority and coverage. Missing evidence
+means UNKNOWN impact; current static coverage does not prove every runtime caller.
+Task start, verification, completion, and handoff expose assessed coverage. Preserve
+these limitations in PR and handoff claims, and recheck after source changes.
+Use the repair matrix and sourced foreground resolutions; verify postconditions
+and retain receipt recovery. Record actionable learning rather than empty traces.
+
 **Protocol**: @src/protocols/contribution.md
 **Type**: Context Injection (cleo-subagent)
 **Version**: 3.0.0

package/skills/ct-documentor/SKILL.md

@@ -1,14 +1,14 @@
 ---
 name: ct-documentor
 description: Documentation coordinator with CLEO style guide compliance. Routes every canonical-doc write (spec, adr, research, handoff, note, llm-readme) through the docs SSoT via `cleo docs add` / `cleo docs publish` / `cleo docs fetch` — never raw filesystem writes. Coordinates ct-docs-lookup, ct-docs-write, ct-docs-review, ct-spec-writer, and ct-adr-recorder. Use when creating or updating documentation files, consolidating scattered documentation, or validating documentation against style standards. Triggers on documentation tasks, doc update requests, or style guide compliance checks.
-version: 3.15.0
+version: 3.16.0
 tier: 3
 core: false
 category: specialist
 protocol: null
 metadata:
-  version: 3.15.0
-  lastReviewed: 2026-05-27
+  version: 3.16.0
+  lastReviewed: 2026-09-19
   stability: stable
 dependencies:
   - ct-docs-lookup
@@ -62,6 +62,27 @@ legacy discovery verbs only when `list` is insufficient.
 
 ---
 
+## Verify document storage and optional projections separately
+
+After `cleo docs add`, retain the canonical attachment ID and SHA-256, then use
+`cleo docs fetch <slug>` to verify the accepted bytes. For exact-byte checks,
+decode `data.bytesBase64` from the JSON response and compare its digest with
+`data.metadata.sha256`; rendered content can add a trailing newline.
+
+The add result's `projection` reports captured project identity/root, coverage,
+diagnostics, the original deadline, and any durable `jobId` or verified receipt.
+A successful document write can coexist with failed or pending graph/observation
+work. Preserve those diagnostics and references in the handoff. Missing identity
+means missing projection coverage; it does not authorize guessing a project.
+
+Optional projection work shares a two-second foreground budget across identity
+capture, preparation, locking, execution, and verification. Deadline expiry ends
+foreground observation; synchronous database work is not preempted by a timer.
+If the outcome is unresolved, inspect the retained job and accepted attachment
+before explicitly resuming. Do not repeat the add to simulate a retry or assume
+that a lost worker reply means no write committed. A projection receipt verifies
+its domain results; it is not an atomic receipt for all document side effects.
+
 ## Purpose
 
 Context injection for documentation tasks spawned via cleo-subagent. Orchestrates documentation workflows by coordinating specialized skills for lookup, writing, and review.

package/skills/ct-orchestrator/SKILL.md

@@ -1,10 +1,31 @@
 ---
 name: ct-orchestrator
 description: "Pipeline-aware orchestration skill for managing complex workflows through subagent delegation. Use when the user asks to \"orchestrate\", \"orchestrator mode\", \"run as orchestrator\", \"delegate to subagents\", \"coordinate agents\", \"spawn subagents\", \"multi-agent workflow\", \"context-protected workflow\", \"agent farm\", \"HITL orchestration\", \"pipeline management\", or needs to manage complex workflows by delegating work to subagents while protecting the main context window. Enforces ORC-001 through ORC-009 constraints. Provider-neutral — works with any AI agent runtime."
+metadata:
+  version: 2.8.0
+  lastReviewed: 2026-09-19
+  stability: stable
 ---
 
 # Orchestrator Protocol
 
+## Trustworthy project knowledge
+
+After confirming the assigned worktree, orient with briefing/focus. Check current
+coverage and sourced authority before acting on retrieved guidance. `UNKNOWN`
+impact is incomplete assessment; `NONE` is no detected impact in assessed static
+coverage, never proof of no runtime callers. Resolve ambiguous symbols explicitly.
+Preserve historical handoffs and follow sourced corrections separately.
+
+Consume repair findings as a matrix of scope, evidence, responsibility, operation,
+prerequisites, verification, and recovery. The foreground calling agent supplies
+sourced resolutions; repair never requires a background model. Escalate unresolved
+owner decisions, reject stale proposals, verify postconditions, and record useful
+incident learning with project/revision evidence. A failed diagnostic is not clean.
+Provider reference delivery must be verified or embedded self-contained; static
+instruction checks do not establish live Codex, Claude, or Kimi behavior.
+
+
 > **The Mantra**: *Stay high-level. Never code directly. Delegate everything. Read only manifests. Spawn in wave order. Respect the pipeline.*
 
 You are the **Orchestrator** — a conductor, never a musician. You coordinate complex workflows by delegating ALL detailed work to subagents while protecting your context window. CLEO CLI is your first-class project management layer — it is primary regardless of LLM provider or harness.
@@ -138,7 +159,9 @@ Agent({
 
 ### Valid Return Messages
 
-Subagents MUST return exactly one of:
+Capture exactly one `cleo manifest append` receipt (shorthand OR rich entry). Verify that same receipt has `success: true`, `data.appended: true`, and a nonempty `entryId`, then read it with `cleo manifest show <entryId>`. Never append again merely to capture or verify the receipt. On append or readback failure, report the failure; do not claim "Manifest appended". Static prompt checks do not prove storage or provider workflow success.
+
+After successful verification, subagents MUST return exactly one of:
 - `"[Type] complete. Manifest appended to pipeline_manifest."`
 - `"[Type] partial. Manifest appended to pipeline_manifest."`
 - `"[Type] blocked. Manifest appended to pipeline_manifest."`

package/skills/ct-task-executor/SKILL.md

@@ -1,7 +1,11 @@
 ---
 name: ct-task-executor
 description: General implementation task execution for completing assigned CLEO tasks by following instructions and producing concrete deliverables. Handles coding, configuration, documentation work with quality verification against acceptance criteria and progress reporting. Use when executing implementation tasks, completing assigned work, or producing task deliverables. Triggers on implementation tasks, general execution needs, or task completion work.
-version: 2.1.0
+version: 2.2.0
+metadata:
+  version: 2.2.0
+  lastReviewed: 2026-09-19
+  stability: stable
 tier: 2
 core: true
 category: core
@@ -20,10 +24,31 @@ compatibility:
   - windsurf
   - gemini-cli
 license: MIT
+metadata:
+  version: 2.7.0
+  lastReviewed: 2026-09-18
+  stability: stable
 ---
 
 # Task Executor Context Injection
 
+## Trustworthy project knowledge
+
+After confirming the assigned worktree, orient with briefing/focus. Check current
+coverage and sourced authority before acting on retrieved guidance. `UNKNOWN`
+impact is incomplete assessment; `NONE` is no detected impact in assessed static
+coverage, never proof of no runtime callers. Resolve ambiguous symbols explicitly.
+Preserve historical handoffs and follow sourced corrections separately.
+
+Consume repair findings as a matrix of scope, evidence, responsibility, operation,
+prerequisites, verification, and recovery. The foreground calling agent supplies
+sourced resolutions; repair never requires a background model. Escalate unresolved
+owner decisions, reject stale proposals, verify postconditions, and record useful
+incident learning with project/revision evidence. A failed diagnostic is not clean.
+Provider reference delivery must be verified or embedded self-contained; static
+instruction checks do not establish live Codex, Claude, or Kimi behavior.
+
+
 **Protocol**: @src/protocols/implementation.md
 **Type**: Context Injection (cleo-subagent)
 **Version**: 2.0.0
@@ -168,6 +193,9 @@ Write to `{{OUTPUT_DIR}}/{{DATE}}_{{TOPIC_SLUG}}.md`:
 
 ## Acceptance Criteria Verification
 
+Record each criterion's changed artifacts and actual verification results. A merged PR with green CI provides provenance; it cannot automatically satisfy implementation, testing and review. Use `pr:<number>;files:<changed-path>` for implementation and actual result atoms for test/review gates, with explicit `satisfies:T1234#AC1` links for canonical criteria. The PR must relate to the task; documentation-only changes cannot prove a code fix. Research and documentation tasks may use appropriately scoped documentary evidence. Fetch the merge commit before claiming its artifact bytes were inspected. Criterion edits require fresh evidence. A completed child does not establish that its parent's independent criteria were met.
+
+
 | Criterion | Status | Notes |
 |-----------|--------|-------|
 | {{Criterion 1}} | PASS/FAIL | {{Verification notes}} |