@erclx/canon 5.45.0 → 5.47.0

package/claude/skills/plan-groundwork/references/output.md

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 ---
 title: Groundwork output reference
-description: The chat output a groundwork run closes on, one template for open and resume and one for close
+description: The chat output a groundwork run closes on, one template for open and resume, a retell for a fully leaned pass, and one for close
 ---
 
 # Groundwork output reference
@@ -26,6 +26,52 @@ Use `📂 Resumed` in place of `📂 Opened` on a resume pass.
    - Overturned by: <the finding that would change it>
 ```
 
+## Retell
+
+Replaces the open and resume template once every open question carries a lean. It also answers an operator who asks for one, whatever the questions' state. Chat only, and the retell itself writes no file.
+
+Use H2 only, one-line bold-label bullets, and numbers only where they settle something. Stay near 300 words.
+
+- Keep the leans that decide the operator's call, five at most, and fold the rest into one line naming how many more there are and where they sit
+- Label each reversal `Overturned by`, as `groundwork.md` does
+- Drop the held and not held split when the operator gave no hunch to test
+- Put a question marked `none, needs measuring` under `## More measuring` as a yes, since an asked-for retell has no lean to give it
+- List a file the pass wrote or updated under `**Written:**` after the verdict, and omit the block when none was
+
+```plaintext
+**<the verdict in one line>**
+
+**Written:**
+
+- `.canon/groundwork/<nn>-<slug>/<file>.md`
+
+## Problem
+
+<one or two sentences>
+
+## What is true now
+
+- **Held:** <the part of the operator's hunch the evidence supports>
+- **Not held:** <the part it does not>
+
+## Leans
+
+1. <lean>
+   - **Overturned by:** <the finding that would change it>
+
+## More measuring
+
+**<Yes or No>:** <its cost, and what it would decide>
+
+## Dropped
+
+- <what was set aside>
+
+## Your call
+
+<the single decision the operator owes>
+```
+
 ## Close
 
 Omit the uncited-claims block when the count is zero.

package/claude/skills/plan-intake/REQUIREMENT.md

@@ -7,43 +7,28 @@ description: Why a brain dump gets a filed inventory rather than ten plans, and
 
 ## Gap
 
-Without this skill, a brain dump reaches a session that has nowhere to put it. `plan-feature` answers with one plan per independent concern, so forty findings produce ten plan files before anything has been measured. `plan-groundwork` refuses a breadth pass outright, since its qualifying test asks whether the current state is unknown and most items are knowable by grep. What gets filed instead is a list of opinions, because nothing forces a count against the tree and a complaint reads the same whether it covers three sites or three hundred.
+A brain dump reaches a session with nowhere to put it. One plan per concern turns forty findings into ten plans before anything is measured, and what gets filed instead is a list of opinions, because nothing forces a count against the tree.
 
-Two failure modes cost more than the rest. An operator's silence on an item reads as consent when the folder borrows the plan file's blank-means-accept contract, which ships changes nobody approved across a folder read over weeks. And a report naming only a path cannot distinguish three new items from one reworded sentence in a file that holds a dozen items, so every reader diffs it against memory to find out what moved.
-
-Four more are cheaper to name than to rediscover. A question filed without a pick comes back unresolved, measured across one folder's 19 open items, where every one carrying a suggestion resolved on a bare `ok` and the five carrying none did not.
-
-A session with no numbering convention re-decides the folder shape per dump, so no two intakes are readable the same way and the second one has to be learned from scratch. A question answerable both in the index and on its item resolves to whichever a reader opens first, with no rule saying which wins. And a pass with no write scope starts fixing what it files, which turns a triage into a branch nobody asked for and nobody reviewed.
+An empty operator slot reads as consent under a blank-means-accept contract, which ships changes nobody approved. A report naming only a path hides what moved. A question filed without a pick comes back unresolved, and a pass with no write scope starts fixing what it files.
 
 ## Must
 
-- Route each item on whether the repository can answer it today, sending what needs an experiment or an outside source to the groundwork skill and what is already decided to the planning skill
-- Measure every problem line against the tree during this pass, carrying a number or a file path rather than a figure from recall
-- Close every item with a verdict, and pair every open question with a suggested pick
-- Treat an empty operator slot as unread rather than as agreement
-- Reserve the index number and carry the domain in every other filename, leaving the rest of the numbering as read order
-- Name a newly opened folder with a two-digit ordinal ahead of the slug, taken from the highest one already present across intake and groundwork
-- Keep answers on items alone, with the index pointing at them
-- Name the heading and the act beside every path the pass wrote
-- Confine writes to the intake folder
+- Route each item on whether the repository can answer it today, sending experiments to `plan-groundwork` and decided work to `plan-feature`
+- Measure every problem line against the tree, close every item with a verdict, and pair every open question with a suggested pick
+- Treat an empty operator slot as unread, and keep answers on items with the index pointing at them
+- Reserve the index number, carry the domain in every other filename, and number a new folder past the highest ordinal across intake and groundwork
+- Confine writes to the intake folder and name the heading and the act beside every path written
 
 ## Must not
 
 - Write a plan, a task file, a standard, a rule, or a source change
-- Fill an operator's answer slot, or infer a disposition from an empty one
-- Replace a verdict with an overlap line, which drops the call on exactly the items where a live board task might be the thing that is wrong
-- Reserve mid-range numbers, which would force every future intake into one dump's shape
-- Date every file, since the first edit to one leaves the rest stale
-- Open a folder for a single question, which is either a groundwork track or a plan
-
-## Guards
-
-- No dump given: stop rather than inferring one
-- One question rather than a set of findings: stop and route to the groundwork or planning skill
+- Fill an operator's slot, or replace a verdict with an overlap line
+- Reserve mid-range numbers or date every file
+- Open a folder for a single question or for no dump
 
 ## Out of scope
 
 - Measuring one question in depth, which `plan-groundwork` owns
 - Planning a promoted item, which `plan-feature` owns
 - Promoting an item onto the board, which `task-board` owns
-- Enforcing any of this. The folder is gitignored, so no check reaches its contents and every rule holds only while a session reads it.
+- Enforcing any of this, which no check does since the folder is gitignored

package/claude/skills/plan-intake/references/intake.md

@@ -113,9 +113,9 @@ Where an item touches a task already on the board, say so in the index rather th
 - **You:**
 ```
 
-- `Problem:`, `Fix:`, `Worth it:`, and the empty `You:` slot ship on every item. The other two are conditional.
+- `Problem:`, `Fix:`, `Worth it:`, and the empty `You:` slot ship on every item, each on one line since the reader takes nothing after it. The other two are conditional.
 - Number items per cluster file, giving a finding split later a letter suffix such as `3a` beside `3`, since renumbering moves every cited label
-- `Suggested:` is required whenever `Open:` is present, since `ok` against two defensible options carries no information
+- `Open:` reads on its own, with no bare "it" or "this" for the Fix, and `Suggested:` is required beside it, since `ok` against two options carries no information
 - Where the answer is the operator's preference rather than a technical call, say so in that form rather than inventing a default
 - `Overlaps:` never replaces `Worth it:`, since an item a live board task might have wrong is the one whose verdict matters most
 

package/claude/skills/plan-intake-answer/REQUIREMENT.md

@@ -7,42 +7,27 @@ description: Scope boundary for answering a filed intake from chat, and the writ
 
 ## Gap
 
-Without this skill, an operator answers a filed intake by opening each cluster file and typing under each item, so a dump spanning six clusters is six files navigated in turn and the cost scales with how well the pass split the domains. The folders that go unanswered are the large ones, which are the ones a breadth pass exists to produce.
+An operator answers a filed intake by opening each cluster file and typing under each item, so the largest folders go unanswered. A session asked to help reads an empty slot as agreement, answers in chat and never the file, or overwrites a slot already filled.
 
-A session asked to help with that fails in shapes the intake standard already names. It reads an empty slot as agreement and reports items decided that nobody reached. It writes an answer into the conversation and never into the file, so the record still reads as unread and the next session re-asks. It types the answer into `00-overview.md`, where retrieval walks item headings and finds nothing. It overwrites a slot the operator already filled, discarding a decision already made.
-
-The write itself fails a fourth way that no prose rule prevents. Every worker runs in a linked worktree where the file-editing tools refuse a main-root path, and a stream editor expands an unescaped ampersand in the replacement to the whole match and exits zero when it matches nothing. A body instructing either route reports success and loses the answer.
-
-The batching fails a fifth way. A folder holding thirty unread items put as thirty questions is unanswerable, and put as one flat batch it hides which cluster the operator is in and leaves a file half answered when attention runs out.
+The write fails where no prose rule catches it. A worker's file-editing tools refuse a main-root path from a linked worktree, and a stream editor exits zero on no match, so the answer is lost behind a success report. Thirty items in one flat batch leave a file half answered.
 
 ## Must
 
-- Offer every item carrying an empty answer slot, not only the ones carrying an open question, since the standard's one-token accept exists for a verdict with no question attached
-- Batch by cluster in the folder's own numbering, so the operator has a stopping point that leaves whole clusters unread rather than a file half answered
-- Cap a batch at four items, which is what a structured question tool takes
-- Rank the item's own suggestion or verdict first and give every option what it costs, since the pass already made a recommendation and burying it asks the operator to re-derive it
-- Land every selection through a verb that resolves the root in-process and rewrites the whole line, which is the only route that works from a linked worktree
-- Write one cluster per call, since concurrent calls against one file race on the read and keep only the last answer
-- Carry the cluster and the label together, because items are labeled per file and a label alone names an item in every cluster at once
-- Pass a label exactly as its heading spells it, letter suffix included, since a pass that splits a finding after the fact labels the halves rather than renumbering the file
-- Report what stays unread by count after each cluster
+- Offer every item with an empty slot, batched by cluster in the folder's numbering and capped at four items, so a stop leaves whole clusters unread
+- Open each question with a lead-in an operator who has not opened the file can follow, then rank the item's own suggestion first and give every option its cost
+- Land each selection through a verb that resolves the root in-process and rewrites the whole line, one cluster per call
+- Pass the cluster and the label exactly as the heading spells them, letter suffix included
+- Report what stays unread by count after each cluster, and stop when there is no folder or no unread item
 
 ## Must not
 
-- Fill a slot the operator did not answer, including the remainder of a batch they abandoned
-- Infer an answer from the conversation having happened, which is the inversion the intake standard states against the plan standard
-- Overwrite a slot already carrying an answer, which is a decision already made
-- Write anywhere in the folder but an item's answer slot, and never into the index, which carries none
-
-## Guards
-
-- No intake folder at all, stop and name the skill that files one
-- The named folder carrying no unread item, stop rather than re-asking answered items
+- Fill a slot the operator did not answer, or infer an answer from the conversation having happened
+- Overwrite a slot already carrying an answer
+- Write anywhere but an item's answer slot, the index included
 
 ## Out of scope
 
-- Filing a dump and writing the items, which is `plan-intake` and owns every other write into the folder
-- Promoting an answered item onto the board, which is `task-board` and runs after the answers land
-- The item format, the answer contract, and retrieval, which the `plan-intake` skill's `references/intake.md` owns and this skill cites
-- The comparable answer slots in groundwork and feature plans, which carry their own contracts and are a separate measurement
-- Deciding when to fire. The description states `Do NOT auto-trigger`, so answering is the operator's call rather than a description match.
+- Filing a dump and writing the items, which `plan-intake` owns
+- Promoting an answered item onto the board, which `task-board` owns
+- The item format, the answer contract, and retrieval, which `plan-intake` owns in its `references/intake.md`
+- Deciding when to fire, which the operator owns since the skill never auto-triggers

package/claude/skills/plan-intake-answer/SKILL.md

@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ Never guess from the topic of the conversation. A session resuming against the w
 
 ## Step 2: collect one cluster
 
-Run `canon intake list <slug> --unread --json`. It returns the unread items grouped by the cluster file holding them, each carrying its label, title, open question, and suggestion.
+Run `canon intake list <slug> --unread --json`. It returns the unread items grouped by the cluster file holding them, each carrying its label, title, `problem`, `fix`, open question, and suggestion. The `problem` and `fix` fields are absent on an item that lacks the line, so write the lead-in from whichever are present.
 
 Work one cluster at a time, in the order the folder numbers them. A dump of six clusters holding five items each is thirty questions, and a surface putting all of them at once is unusable. The cluster boundary is also where an operator who runs out of attention stops cleanly, leaving whole clusters unread rather than one file half answered.
 
@@ -47,6 +47,12 @@ Offer every item with an empty slot, not only the ones carrying an open question
 | `Open:`      | That question, with its `Suggested:` line ranked first and marked as suggestion |
 | No `Open:`   | Its verdict, with `ok` ranked first and alternatives from what it could be      |
 
+Open every question with a lead-in of one to three plain sentences, written fresh from `problem`, `fix`, and `open` for an operator who has not opened the file. It says what is wrong today, what the fix is, and what the call is, condensing a long `problem` rather than pasting it.
+
+- An item with no `fix` still states the problem and the call, and one with no `Open:` says what the verdict accepts
+- As filed, "which hooks take it" means nothing lifted out of the Fix line it was written under
+- With a lead-in: "Claude Code 2.1.295 lets a hook fail closed. A crashed `scratch-guard.sh` lets writes through, and the fix sets `onFailure: "block"`. Should `unattended-agent-guard.sh` get it too?"
+
 Give every option what it means and what it costs. An option with no stated cost is not an option, since the operator picks it without knowing what the other one buys.
 
 Send the whole batch in one turn. When the session runs on a surface carrying a structured question tool, such as `AskUserQuestion` in Claude Code, send it through one call with one entry per item. Otherwise write it as a numbered list in one message with the suggestion marked.

package/claude/skills/plan-ready/REQUIREMENT.md

@@ -7,48 +7,29 @@ description: Why writing a ready folder, its overview, the thin plan, and the ta
 
 ## Gap
 
-Without this skill, a session holding finished files that hands them to a worker:
-
-- Writes the folder, the overview, the plan, and the task row as four separate hand writes, and the four drift from each other because nothing compares them.
-- Lists a destination in the overview that the plan's `**Files to touch:**` omits, or the reverse. The omitted path is invisible to `plan-reach`, so a second track writes the same file and neither side finds out.
-- Picks the next ordinal by reading only the live folder, and reuses a number an archived folder already spent, which the pull request that shipped it cites by name.
-- Picks a phase label by scanning the live board alone, which is the scan that let two sessions hand out one label within minutes of each other.
-- Reads the label bare, which reserves nothing and returns one a live claim already holds until that claim's task file lands.
-- Leaves the plan's `**Constraints:**` without a line naming the folder as the verbatim source, so the worker reads the files as inspiration and writes its own version.
-- Leaves a note, an alternate, or a draft passage in the folder beside the real files, so the worker guesses which one is the source.
-- Writes into the main worktree root from a linked worktree with `Edit` or `Write`, which the isolation guard refuses, and takes the refusal's redirect into a second gitignored copy no later session reads.
-- Reports the handoff as done while the archive move at the end, which no verb performs, is left for someone to remember.
+A session handing finished files to a worker writes the folder, the overview, the plan, and the task row by hand, and the four drift. A destination missing from the plan's `**Files to touch:**` is invisible to `plan-reach`, so a second track writes the same file.
+
+Numbering scans one place, so an ordinal can reuse a number an archive already spent, and a bare phase label reserves nothing. A draft beside the real files, or no verbatim-source line, sends the worker off to write its own version. A main-root write from a worktree lands in a copy nobody reads, and the archive move goes unreported.
 
 ## Must
 
-- Refuse before writing when the operator has named no finished file, since a folder assembled from a description is a plan with extra steps.
-- Read the ordinal from the live folder and its archive together, so a spent number is never reused.
-- Take the phase label from `canon tasks next-label --claim` rather than from a scan of its own or a bare read, and stop on a binary that predates the flag rather than falling back.
-- Derive the overview's `destinations` and the plan's `**Files to touch:**` from one list, and compare the two before reporting, so neither can name a path the other lacks.
-- Write the plan's `**Constraints:**` line naming the folder as the verbatim source.
-- Copy each finished file whole to its destination path inside the folder, and carry nothing else into it.
-- Write the plan and the task through `canon tasks plan-link`, `canon records validate plans`, and `canon markdown audit` rather than by restating what those verbs check.
-- Place the task's row by the three branches `task-board` Step 4 states, so a solo project never ends with a task file on no surface.
-- Route a write at the main root from a linked worktree through `Bash`, the way `session-worktree` routes it.
-- Name the archive move in the closing report, since the skill writes a folder that stays live until someone moves it.
+- Refuse before writing when the operator named no finished file or a named file does not resolve
+- Read the ordinal from the live folder and the archive together, and take the label from `canon tasks next-label --claim`, stopping on a binary that predates the flag
+- Derive the overview's `destinations` and the plan's `**Files to touch:**` from one list and compare them before reporting
+- Copy each finished file whole into the folder with nothing else, and write the plan's `**Constraints:**` line naming the folder as the verbatim source
+- Place the task's row by the branches `task-board` states, route main-root writes through `Bash`, and name the archive move in the closing report
 
 ## Must not
 
-- Edit a finished file. The worker copies verbatim, so a change made here is a change the warm session should have made before invoking the skill.
-- Hardcode a branch type, which `branch.md` owns, or restate the folder shape, which `ready.md` owns.
-- Write `priority.md` or `backlog.md` where an orchestrator is on the roster or the session is a worker or planner, since one board writer at a time is what keeps a gitignored board safe. Those two cases report the row instead.
-- Automate the archive move. No verb owns the relocation, and a skill doing it by hand would be the second copy of a step the standard already states.
-- Dispatch or start the worker, which belongs to whoever runs the board.
-
-## Guards
-
-- No finished file named, stop: `❌ No finished file named. A ready folder carries text that already exists, so write the files first or use /canon:plan-feature.`
-- A named file that does not resolve, stop: `❌ <path> does not exist. Name a file that is already written.`
+- Edit a finished file, since the worker copies verbatim
+- Hardcode a branch type or restate the folder shape
+- Write `priority.md` or `backlog.md` where an orchestrator is on the roster or the session is a worker or planner
+- Automate the archive move or start the worker
 
 ## Out of scope
 
-- `plan-feature` writes a plan describing a change nobody has written yet. This begins from text already written and writes a plan thin enough to point at it.
-- `role-worker` copies the folder into a worktree and ships it. This stops once the three artifacts exist.
-- `task-board` creates a task file for a row with no ready folder. This writes the row it needs beside the folder and calls the same verbs.
-- `git-ship` ships a branch, and a ready folder never reaches one.
-- `references/ready.md` owns the folder's shape and lifecycle, and this skill owns the procedure that produces it, the way `write-human` and the `markdown` rule split.
+- Writing a plan for a change nobody has written, which `plan-feature` owns
+- Copying the folder into a worktree and shipping it, which `role-worker` owns
+- A task file for a row with no ready folder, which `task-board` owns
+- Shipping a branch, which `git-ship` owns
+- The folder's shape and lifecycle, which `references/ready.md` owns

package/claude/skills/pr-evidence/REQUIREMENT.md

@@ -7,34 +7,28 @@ description: What posting a pull request's rendered-surface evidence is for, the
 
 ## Gap
 
-Without this skill, the evidence a pull request carries is one step inside `git-pr`. A session refreshing the screenshots on a new head either reruns a title and body it did not mean to touch, or borrows the step's reference by path. Two skills borrowed it that way, and each copy drifted.
+Without this skill, the evidence a pull request carries is one step inside `git-pr`. A session refreshing the screenshots on a new head either reruns a title and body it did not mean to touch, or borrows the step's reference by path, and each copy drifts.
 
 A session judging from the diff whether an evidence image changed cannot see a regenerated image it did not author, so the image ships with no comment. A reviewer holding screenshots and a checklist has nothing to click into, and a slow deploy holds the ship chain while it waits for an address.
 
 ## Must
 
-- Run the evidence verb on every pull request it is given and let `no-evidence` be the skip, since asking a session to look lets an unseen image ship with no comment
-- Run alone against an open pull request, resolving the number from the branch when none is passed, so a later head gets evidence without a body rewrite
-- Edit the one marked comment in place on a later run, so a re-post never duplicates the thread or drops a carried checklist
-- Put a preview address on a pull request changing a rendered surface when the project's deploy can mint one, since a reviewer needs a page to click into
-- Bound the wait on that preview and finish without the link on a timeout, since a slow deploy must not hold the ship
-- Link the branch's running local server when this worktree serves one, since a reviewer on the operator's machine can drive the branch
-- Drop that link when the pull request closes, since a link outliving its branch points at whatever runs there next
+- The evidence verb runs on every pull request it is given and `no-evidence` is the skip, so an unseen image never ships with no comment
+- It runs alone against an open pull request, resolving the number from the branch when none is passed, and edits the one marked comment in place, so a re-post never duplicates the thread
+- A pull request changing a rendered surface gets a preview address when the project's deploy can mint one, and the wait is bounded so a timeout finishes without the link
+- The branch's running local server is linked when this worktree serves one, and the link drops when the pull request closes
+- The skill is invoked by `git-pr`, `git-followup`, or `git-ship`, and a catalog review drops it when none does
 
 ## Must not
 
 - Dispatch a deploy whose command names no branch, since Cloudflare Pages publishes such a deploy to production
-- Create a pull request, or post against a number it guessed, since a write to a wrong number lands on another branch's thread
-- Call a GraphQL-backed `gh` subcommand, since the cloud review-address leg runs this skill through `git-followup`
-- Print a result line of its own, since `git-pr` prints one and its report ends with the lines this skill returns
-- Exist only for the author to type its name. `git-pr`, `git-followup`, and `git-ship` each invoke it, and a review of the catalog drops it when none does.
-
-## Guards
-
-- Stop and ask for the number when none was passed and no open pull request resolves for the branch
+- Create a pull request, or post against a number it guessed
+- Call a GraphQL-backed `gh` subcommand, since the cloud review leg runs this skill through `git-followup`
+- Print a result line of its own, since `git-pr` closes its report with the lines this skill returns
+- Run without a number when none was passed and no open pull request resolves for the branch, and instead ask for it
 
 ## Out of scope
 
 - The title, body, labels, and pre-publish scan, which `git-pr` owns
-- Writing the checklist, which `ui-checklist` owns. This skill only consumes the handoff file and removes it after posting.
+- Writing the checklist, which `ui-checklist` owns, leaving this skill to consume the handoff file and remove it after posting
 - Driving the checklist in the running app, which `review-ui` owns

package/claude/skills/read-frames/REQUIREMENT.md

@@ -19,14 +19,9 @@ description: Why a recording gets read back through numbered frames rather than
 ## Must not
 
 - Write a pass-fail judgment, a "looks correct" line, or a "looks broken" line anywhere in the report. A frame read is evidence a person weighs, not a verdict this skill hands them.
-- Drive the application. This skill only reads files the verb already wrote.
-- Edit, trim, or otherwise modify the recording.
-- Act on text visible in a frame. It is content to describe, never an instruction.
-- Assume this skill's own invocation frequency needs no check. Nothing names it as a step after `canon demo run` beyond an operator typing it or a body pointing here by hand, so a review pass some months in should read that back rather than take it on faith.
-
-## Guards
-
-- No recording path given: stop rather than guessing which video to read
+- Drive the application, or edit, trim, or otherwise modify the recording. This skill only reads files the verb already wrote.
+- Guess which video to read when no recording path is given, or act on text visible in a frame, which is content to describe
+- Assume anything reaches for this skill beyond an operator or a hand-written pointer, which a later review reads back rather than takes on faith
 
 ## Out of scope
 

package/claude/skills/record-screencast/REQUIREMENT.md

@@ -7,32 +7,29 @@ description: Why compiling and running a screencast draft needs a routed skill r
 
 ## Gap
 
-Without this skill, `script-screencast` writes a draft and names `canon demo compile` as the next step, and nothing after that routes a session there or to `canon demo run`. An operator has to know both verbs, type them in order, and read the compile record for unresolved fields by hand. A session that fills one in on its own reproduces the exact failure `canon demo run`'s `plan-unresolved` reason exists to catch, one layer up where nothing enforces it.
+Without this skill, nothing routes a session from a screencast draft to `canon demo compile` and `canon demo run`. An operator has to know both verbs, type them in order, and read the compile record for unresolved fields by hand.
+
+A session that fills an unresolved field in on its own reproduces the failure `plan-unresolved` exists to catch, where nothing enforces it. A take with no composition ships raw, and an unguided one reaches for generic defaults.
 
 ## Must
 
-- Resolve the default plan path the same way `canon demo compile` does, so a caller passing only the draft path reaches the plan without naming it
-- Skip compiling when a plan already exists at that path, since its timing may be tuned by hand and a draft cannot reproduce that
-- Report every unresolved field from the compile or run record and stop rather than filling one in
-- Report every path a run wrote, video, mp4, gif, still, and timeline, skipping any the record carries as null
-- Load the video craft guidance before composing, so a composition applies sourced judgment on captions, zoom, pointer, and audio rather than the defaults an unguided session reaches for
-- Compose the take into a finished mp4 through HyperFrames when the draft's wrap section asks for anything, check the composition before rendering, and hand the render to `read-frames`
-- Stop at the take when the wrap section says `none` throughout, and stop with the install command when HyperFrames is absent
+- The default plan path resolves the way `canon demo compile` resolves it, and an existing plan there is run rather than recompiled, since its timing may be tuned by hand
+- Every unresolved field from the compile or run record is reported and the run stops there
+- Every path a run wrote is reported, skipping any the record carries as null
+- The video craft guidance loads before composing, and a draft whose wrap section asks for anything becomes a finished mp4 through HyperFrames, checked before rendering and handed to `read-frames`
+- A wrap section reading `none` throughout stops at the take, and an absent HyperFrames stops with its install command
 
 ## Must not
 
-- Pass `--force` to compile
+- Pass `--force` to compile, or guess what to compile when no draft path is given
 - Guess or fill a target, a URL, or any other unresolved field
 - Drive the application through anything other than `canon demo run`
-- Install HyperFrames, vendor it, or restate its composition rules, which its own skills own
-- Assume this skill's own invocation frequency needs no check. `script-screencast`'s closing block names it by hand, but whether anything else reaches for it beyond that pointer or an operator typing its name has no answer at creation time, so a review pass some months in should read that back rather than take it on faith.
-
-## Guards
-
-- No draft path given: stop rather than guessing what to compile
+- Install HyperFrames, vendor it, or restate its composition rules
+- Assume anything reaches for this skill beyond `script-screencast`'s closing pointer or an operator, which a later review reads back
 
 ## Out of scope
 
 - Drafting the beats, which `script-screencast` owns
-- Filling an existing plan's target or URL, which is the operator's own edit
-- Verifying a recording beyond its own caption, which nothing in the toolkit does yet
+- The captions, zoom, pointer, and audio judgment, which `video-craft` owns
+- Reading the render back, which `read-frames` owns
+- Filling an existing plan's target or URL, which the operator owns

package/claude/skills/review-address/REQUIREMENT.md

@@ -7,53 +7,29 @@ description: What the review return leg is for, the gaps it closes, and why the
 
 ## Gap
 
-Without this skill, review findings are worked in whatever order the author read them and the thread never records which landed. A reply posted before the push describes code the remote does not have, so a reviewer checks the branch and finds the old version. A failing check gets treated as separate from the review, which produces a follow-up that answers every comment and leaves continuous integration red. One finding nobody can resolve stalls the rest.
+Without this skill, review findings are worked in whatever order the author read them and the thread never records which landed. A reply posted before the push describes code the remote does not have. A failing check is treated as separate from the review, so the follow-up answers every comment and leaves continuous integration red.
 
-A branch also goes stale from `main` moving rather than from anything the branch did. Nothing in the return leg rebases it, so the worker closes every finding, reports the pull request answered, and the branch still cannot merge. Half the resolution is mechanical and wrong to do by hand, since a generated file merged manually produces a diff the next regen discards.
-
-A declined finding fails on a third axis, which is where its reason ends up. A worker answering a dispatch by naming the plan question that already settled the finding, or the constraint the diff never showed, settles it in whichever session heard the answer. Both sessions end, so a reader opening the thread later finds a finding that stopped being mentioned and no record of what stopped it, which is the durability the posted review already has by design.
+A branch goes stale as `main` moves, and nothing rebases it, so every finding closes and the pull request still cannot merge. Merging a generated file by hand yields a diff the next regen discards. A declined finding's reason lives in a session that ends, so the thread keeps no record of it.
 
 ## Must
 
-- Treat a failing check as a finding alongside the review comments, so the follow-up closes both
-- Handle each finding independently, so one unresolved item does not block the others
-- Verify before pushing, since a red follow-up costs the reviewer a second pass
-- Rebase onto `origin/main` when the branch no longer merges, after the findings are addressed and before the push, so one force-push carries both
-- Rebase as well when the branch still merges but `main` changed a file it writes since it branched, since a clean merge can hide a semantic conflict and the pull request's green run tested a `main` that no longer exists
-- Leave a branch alone when `main` moved only on files it does not write, since rebasing on every merge is a merge queue's cost without its batching
-- Test staleness on every invocation, including one carrying no findings, since a branch goes stale from `main` moving rather than from anything the review said
-- Re-test once the fixes are commits, since the first test reads committed history and cannot see a fix that touches lines `main` moved
-- Rebuild a generated file through the project check rather than resolving its conflict by hand
-- Push before replying, so the comment never runs ahead of the code it describes
-- Map every finding to what changed, or to a one-line reason when it is a question or a conscious accept
-- Carry the fact behind a declined finding into the posted reply rather than into the message that answered the dispatch, since both sessions end and the thread is what the next reader opens
-- Append the closing confirmation to the reply only when the findings are addressed and every check passes
-- Say what the run actually did on a rebase-only pass, since a reply mapping findings and a closing confirmation claiming they were addressed are both false on a pull request carrying none
-- Scan the reply for banned characters and internal phase labels before posting, since the comment leaves for the remote unchecked
+- A failing check is handled as a finding beside the review comments, each finding independently, and the fixes are verified before the push
+- Staleness is tested on every invocation, and the branch rebases onto `origin/main` before the push when it no longer merges or `main` changed a file it writes
+- A conflict keeps both sides and rebuilds a generated file through the project check
+- The push lands before the reply, and the reply maps each finding to what changed or to a reason, carrying the fact behind a declined one
+- The closing confirmation appears only when every finding is addressed and every check passes, and the reply is scanned for banned characters and phase labels first
 
 ## Must not
 
-- Merge, or read the closing confirmation as an approval. The author cannot approve their own pull request.
-- Write a review. This skill consumes findings and does not produce them.
-- Append the closing confirmation while a check is failing
-- Reimplement the follow-up push or the doc refresh. Both have owners, and a second copy here drifts from them.
-- Edit silently. A finding answered without a reply leaves the reviewer re-deriving the change from the diff.
-- Answer a finding in the channel alone. A reply that changes what the review concluded is the one the thread has to carry.
-- Post a correction to what the reviewing session believes about the world. That class changes no finding here and belongs in the session record.
-- Take one side of a conflict wholesale. Both sides are valid content, so `--ours` or `--theirs` drops one silently and passes every check.
-- Merge `main` into the branch. The repository squash-merges, so a merge commit reads as noise on the pull request.
-- Guess at a hunk the tree does not settle. That case reaches the operator as an ordinary finding on the next pass only if the worker stops.
-
-## Guards
-
-- No open pull request for the current branch: stop
-- The pull request carries no review comments or threads, the branch still merges, and `main` changed no file it writes: stop with a pass. A closed review says nothing about whether the branch still merges, so the staleness test decides this one rather than the finding count.
-- A conflict needing a decision the tree does not carry: stop with the branch left on its old base, and message the controlling session when the launch named one, since a stopped worker reaches nobody otherwise
+- Merge, write a review, or read the closing confirmation as an approval
+- Merge `main` into the branch or take one side of a conflict wholesale
+- Guess at a hunk the tree does not settle, and stop with the branch on its old base, messaging the controlling session when the launch named one
+- Edit silently, or answer a finding in the channel alone
+- Run without an open pull request for the branch
 
 ## Out of scope
 
-- Writing the review, which `review-pr` owns. The split is by side of the channel: that one posts findings from an independent session and this one is the worker's return leg.
-- Staging, committing, and pushing the follow-up, which `git-followup` owns under this skill's direction
+- Writing the review, which `review-pr` owns
+- Staging, committing, and pushing the follow-up, which `git-followup` owns
 - Refreshing the `.claude/` docs the fixes made stale, which `context-fold` owns
 - Re-reviewing its own fixes, which hands back to the reviewer
-- Re-reading a rewritten branch, which `review-pr` absorbs by testing whether the prior reviewed commit still reaches the head and paying for a full pass when it does not

package/claude/skills/review-address/SKILL.md

@@ -88,33 +88,45 @@ Once the fixes are commits, re-run step 5's staleness test against the new head.
 
 ### Write the reply
 
-Write a summary reply to `.canon/tmp/pr/reply/reply-<number>.md`, keyed on the PR number so two sessions addressing different pull requests never overwrite each other. Load `write-human` for voice, follow `${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../markdown-craft/references/markdown.md`, and keep each mapping to a line or two.
+Write a summary reply to `.canon/tmp/pr/reply/reply-<number>.md`, keyed on the PR number so two sessions addressing different pull requests never overwrite each other. Load `write-human` for voice, follow `${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../markdown-craft/references/markdown.md`, and keep each mapping to one line.
 
 | Part     | Content                                                                                                                                        |
 | -------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
 | Heading  | `## Review response`, distinct from human threads and subordinate to the review's own `## Review`                                              |
 | Summary  | One sentence. After a step 5 rebase, say so and name files resolved by hand and those the regen rebuilt, since the next review is a full pass. |
-| Findings | One bullet per finding, opening with the bolded identifier, naming what changed or a one-line reason for a conscious-accept                    |
+| Findings | One line per finding under 200 characters, naming its outcome and the commit that carries it, in the shape below                               |
 | Docs     | Any `.claude/` docs refreshed as a result of the fixes                                                                                         |
 | Close    | `🤖 Addressed by Claude Code` on its own line, so the reply reads as a machine pass rather than a human sign-off                               |
 
+```markdown
+- **<severity>**, `<file>` line <n>: fixed in `<sha>`. <What now holds, in one sentence.>
+- **<severity>**, `<file>` line <n>: declined. <The fact that settled it.>
+```
+
+The commit carries the fix and its test, so the line names neither.
+
 A run the guard sent straight to step 5 has no findings to map, so it takes the `## Rebase` body in `${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/references/rebase-only.md` instead. A run with findings skips that file.
 
 ### What a declined finding carries
 
-A finding this run declined carries the fact that settled it inside its own bullet, such as the plan question that answered it, a constraint the diff does not show, or a measurement the reviewer lacked. Left in the channel, that fact is lost when both sessions end.
+A finding this run declined carries the fact that settled it inside its own line, which may take a second sentence for it, such as the plan question that answered it, a constraint the diff does not show, or a measurement the reviewer lacked. Left in the channel, that fact is lost when both sessions end.
 
 The rule reaches a finding and nothing else. A correction to what the reviewing session believes about the world changes no finding here, so answer it wherever the dispatch reached this session and keep it off the comment.
 
 ### Scan and post
 
-Nothing tests the reply for either rule above. Follow `${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../git-pr/references/publish.md` and run its scan, which reads for banned characters and phase labels alone:
+Nothing tests the reply for either rule above. Follow `${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../git-pr/references/publish.md` and run its scan, which reads for banned characters and phase labels, and reports the reply's density:
 
 ```bash
-canon labels scan --body-file .canon/tmp/pr/reply/reply-<number>.md
+canon labels scan --body-file .canon/tmp/pr/reply/reply-<number>.md --json
 ```
 
-The hook skips `.canon/tmp/`, and the `pull_request` check reads only a pull request's own title and body, so this scan is the only gate on the reply. Fix any hit, then post and keep the `id` the POST answers with, since Step 7 edits this exact comment:
+The hook skips `.canon/tmp/`, and the `pull_request` check reads only a pull request's own title and body, so this scan is the only gate on the reply.
+
+- Fix any hit, and stop on a `density` entry too, shortening the line it names
+- Read the record rather than the exit, since density never sets the exit code
+
+Then post and keep the `id` the POST answers with, since Step 7 edits this exact comment:
 
 ```bash
 gh api -X POST 'repos/{owner}/{repo}/issues/<number>/comments' -F body=@.canon/tmp/pr/reply/reply-<number>.md --jq .id > .canon/tmp/pr/reply/reply-<number>.id

package/claude/skills/review-address/references/post-review-findings.md

@@ -12,10 +12,13 @@ Outside the numbered flow of `review-address`. The session reads this file when
 Write the body the way Step 6 writes a reply.
 
 - Load `write-human` for voice and word choice, and follow `${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../markdown-craft/references/markdown.md` for punctuation
-- Run the `${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../git-pr/references/publish.md` scan before posting, with `canon labels scan --body-file .canon/tmp/pr/reply/reply-<number>.md`
+- Run the `${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../git-pr/references/publish.md` scan before posting, with `canon labels scan --body-file .canon/tmp/pr/reply/reply-<number>.md --json`
+- Stop on a `density` entry as on any hit, since density never sets the exit code
 - Open with `## Post-review findings` rather than `## Review response`, since nothing on the thread is being answered
 - Close the body with `🤖 Addressed by Claude Code` on its own line, matching the reply's footer
 
+Give each finding one line under 200 characters in the response's shape, naming its severity, its file and line, and what holds now or what was filed.
+
 `review-pr` states the full heading set this belongs to and routes it the same as a response, so `role-orchestrator`'s poll picks it up and sends the reviewing session back for a pass.
 
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