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+ description: Remove AI-writing tells from pasted text or a file — runs the humanizer skill's draft→audit→final loop and prints the rewrite plus a detector summary.
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+ skills: [humanizer]
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+ trigger_description: "humanize this text, make this sound less like AI, remove AI-isms, de-slop this draft, reads like ChatGPT"
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+ trigger_context: "user has drafted deliverable prose (post, article, release note) that reads AI-generated and wants it rewritten to read human-written"
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+ Run the [`humanizer`](../../../src/skills/humanizer/SKILL.md) skill's
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+ In `auto` mode, flip to `on` for the rest of the conversation when the user expresses **"stop asking on trivial steps, just work"**. Recognize **intent**, not the literal substring. Opt-out (same intent, reversed) flips back to `off`. Both directions are **speech-act-checked**: the phrase must be a meta-instruction to the agent, not content / quote / subject / code / third-party reference / hypothetical. In doubt → keep current mode, no speculative flips.
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+ Algorithm and speech-act heuristic: [`autonomy-detection.md`](autonomy-detection.md). Anchor phrases (DE+EN), no-flip patterns, counter-examples, trivial-vs-blocking taxonomy, commit-policy summary, and named failure modes: this file + [`autonomy-examples.md`](autonomy-examples.md).
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+ | **Conversation-wide trivial-question suppression** | "stop asking on trivial steps, just work" — no deliverable named. | Sticky for the rest of the conversation. Suppresses trivial workflow questions only; never lifts blocking, Hard Floor, or [`scope-control`](../../rules/scope-control.md) gates. |
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+ | **Task-scoped autonomous execution** | "work autonomously on X", "arbeite die Roadmap Y komplett ab", "do PROJ-123 end-to-end" — a deliverable / artifact / ticket is named. | Bound to **that** task. Ends when the task ends. Does **not** authorize starting a new, distinct task autonomously. |
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+ Autonomous flows must not iterate indefinitely on the same validation target. **Validation target** = a single identifiable artefact: a file path, a lint rule ID, a test name, a CI sub-task name. Natural-language clustering ("the linter stuff") does **not** count as a target — agents will rename their way out of the budget.
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+ A "failed attempt" is an iteration that did not move the target from red to green. Tuning the tool around the target (e.g. growing an allowlist, loosening a threshold, suppressing a check) counts as an attempt — and is usually a sign the **tool**, not the content, is wrong.
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+ Crossing the 20-entry threshold counts as the 3rd validation-target failure for the linter in question, regardless of prior attempt count. The fix is a tool-shape change (heuristic tightening, scope narrowing, deletion), not more entries. Same logic for: warning-suppression lists growing past ~20, `// noqa` / `# type: ignore` sweeps over many files in one session, test `skip` / `xfail` bulk-adds to chase green.
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+ ## Adaptive effort & stop (RDP)
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+ rather than scaffold; the scaffold here is for a standard host **without** such a
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+ [`notes-first-reasoning`](../../rules/notes-first-reasoning.md)) feeds this
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+ decision. Engage per [`rdp-gate`](rdp-gate.md).
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+ **Concrete diminishing-returns stop-signal.** Operationalize "marginal evidence
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+ drops" so it is checkable, not vibes: when **two consecutive investigative probes**
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+ (a read, a grep, a query) yield **no new load-bearing information** — nothing that
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+ changes the plan or the hypothesis — stop gathering and act on what you have (or
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+ ask). The diminishing-returns twin of N=3: N=3 stops fruitless *fixing*, this stops
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+ fruitless *searching*. Never overrides the read-loop abort in
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+ [`context-hygiene`](../../rules/context-hygiene.md) — that is the hard ceiling;
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+ this is the earlier soft signal.
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  ## Related
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  | `verdict_changed_outcome` | bool \| null | **A3 extension (ADR-109 Track A).** For a review/verdict subagent (e.g. `production-validator`): did the subagent's verdict actually change the outcome versus the in-session baseline? `true` = it caught a real issue the baseline missed or flipped a false `READY`→`NOT READY`; `false` = same outcome as baseline (no lift); `null` = not a verdict dispatch / not measured. **Negative-control tasks (a clean single-file task) MUST record `false`** — a subagent that reports `true` on a control is producing spurious findings and fails Gate A. This is an additive field on THIS object, not a second schema. Counts/boolean only, no bodies. |
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+ | `dispatch_mode` | enum \| null | **Form-gate extension (road-to-opt-subagent-harvest P2).** Which orchestration mode the deterministic form gate selected for this dispatch (`do-and-judge`, `do-and-judge-two-stage`, `do-in-steps`, `do-in-parallel`, `do-competitively`, `judge-with-debate`, `do-in-worktrees`, `do-with-live-app-judge`) or `none` (gate declined dispatch). Mode id only. `null` = pre-extension line. Makes the form-gate's value measurable inside the ADR-117 prove-or-drop window. |
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  | `task_class` | string \| null | **Routing extension (road-to-cost-aware-model-routing Phase 0).** Category id of the dispatched slice (e.g. `read-only-fanout`, `mechanical-edit`, `implementation`, `review-synthesis`). Enum-style id only, never free-form task text. `null` = pre-extension line / unclassified. |
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  | `tier_source` | enum \| null | Where `tier_chosen` came from: `static` (frontmatter/category pin) · `inferred` (deterministic per-slice inference) · `inherit` (session tier — no downshift decision). Lets the evidence gate score inferred routing separately from static pinning. |
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55
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  | `session_tier` | string \| null | **Cost-% extension.** The orchestrator's OWN tier — the baseline the downshift cost-% measures `tier_chosen` against (a `high`→`lite` downshift is a rate win the token count can't see). `null` = not recorded. |
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- | `first_pass_success` | bool \| null | **QUALITY extension (council verdict: quality × cost paired).** `true` = the subagent return was adopted without parent rework; `false` = the parent had to rework the return before adopting. `null` = pre-extension line / not measured. Boolean only, no bodies. |
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- | `escalated` | bool \| null | **QUALITY extension (council verdict: quality × cost paired).** `true` = the slice was retried on a higher tier after a verification failure; `false` = no escalation. `null` = pre-extension line / not measured. Boolean only, no bodies. |
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+ | `first_pass_success` | bool \| null | **QUALITY extension (council verdict: quality × cost paired).** `true` = the subagent return was adopted without parent rework; `false` = the parent had to rework the return before adopting. Precise rework definition: § Operationalization below. `null` = pre-extension line / not measured. Boolean only, no bodies. |
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+ | `escalated` | bool \| null | **QUALITY extension (council verdict: quality × cost paired).** `true` = the slice was retried on a higher tier after a verification failure; `false` = no escalation. Semantics: § Operationalization below. `null` = pre-extension line / not measured. Boolean only, no bodies. |
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59
61
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63
 
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+ ## Operationalization — `first_pass_success` / `escalated` (definitions, no schema change)
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+
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+ The two quality booleans are only comparable across sessions when "parent
67
+ rework" means the same thing everywhere. The mechanical decision table:
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+
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+ ```
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+ first_pass_success = TRUE iff the parent adopts the subagent work product
71
+ with NO scope-relevant modification and issues NO corrective follow-up
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+ prompt to the same subagent within the same task scope.
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+
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+ EXCLUDED from "modification" (still TRUE):
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+ - auto-formatter output (prettier / eslint --fix / pint --fix)
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+ - import sorting
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+ - lockfile regeneration
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+ - whitespace-only diffs
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+ - any business-logic line diff to the returned work product
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+ - added or changed tests
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+ - changed API contract / signature
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+ - manual conflict resolution
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+ - architectural restructuring of the returned diff
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+ escalated = TRUE iff the parent re-dispatched the same slice to a higher
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+ tier after a verification failure. A mechanism metric, not a quality
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+ verdict — it records that the escalation path fired, not how good the
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+ ```
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+
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+ **Honest boundary:** both fields are machine-observable proxies from the
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+ orchestrator's own actions; they do NOT measure output quality directly. An
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+ adopted-without-rework return can still be mediocre; a rejected return can
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+ have failed on a formality. Field extensions (`verification_passed`,
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+ `parent_rework_level`, `regression_detected`, `task_completed`,
98
+ `judge_confidence`, `human_rejected`) are explicitly NOT added: five of the
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+ six are unobservable without new infrastructure (verification harness, diff
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+ classifier, judge step, human feedback loop) and would breach the counts-only
101
+ privacy floor or record guesses. Revisit-if: a verification harness exists
102
+ that makes a candidate field machine-observable without content inspection.
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+ The two-field cap is a council decision (2026-07-10); this section
104
+ operationalizes it rather than widening it.
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  provenance (measured vs estimated), `tier_chosen`, and `task_class`. **Quality
123
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  and cost render as PAIRED columns** (council verdict — never savings alone):
124
168
  `first_pass_success_rate` and `escalation_rate` aggregate over the lines that
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- carry the quality booleans; with ≥ 20 such lines in the window the real rates
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+ carry the quality booleans (per the § Operationalization definitions above); with ≥ 20 such lines in the window the real rates
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  render beside the savings figures, below 20 the quality columns render as
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  `n/a (n=<count>)`. It reports
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172
  **ABSOLUTE net tokens saved, never a percentage**: the telemetry records net
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  every scope (`process-step`, `process-phase`, `process-full`);
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  cost is one `git diff` per step.
244
244
 
245
+ **`verify:` gate (when a step carries one).** If the step declares a
246
+ named `verify:` command (step-field convention, see
247
+ [`templates/roadmaps.md`](../../templates/roadmaps.md)), a `[x]` flip
248
+ additionally requires a **fresh green run of that exact command this
249
+ iteration** — its passing output in this reply or an earlier one this
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+ run. Flipping a `verify:`-bearing step without that run is the same
251
+ class of violation as a forgotten flip: **halt loudly** ("step \<N\>
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+ flipped without its `verify:` run — \`<cmd>\`"), do not auto-fix. A
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+ check on existing output, not a new loop or script — the agent runs
254
+ the step's own command, as `think-before-action`'s `step → verify:`
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+ planning already asks. Steps with no `verify:` field stay governed by
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+ the flip-guard above unchanged (agent-decidable criteria remain the
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+ default; `verify:` is the opt-in machine-checkable tightening).
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  6. **Dashboard regen — cadence-gated.** Run
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  `./agent-config roadmap:progress` when due per
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+ # Roadmap Writing — source-derived & capability-adoption roadmaps
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+
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+ Conditional procedure for [`roadmap-writing`](../../skills/roadmap-writing/SKILL.md)
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+ § 8. Split out of the skill body to keep it under the size budget. This fires
5
+ **only** for source-derived or capability-adoption roadmaps; an ordinary
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+ internally-originated roadmap skips it entirely (§§ 0–7 of the skill are the
7
+ whole job). Pull this when the roadmap originates from an external input or
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+ adopts capabilities into the suite.
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+
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+ ## When this section fires
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+
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+ This section fires **only** when the roadmap originates from an
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+ external input or adopts capabilities into the suite:
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+
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+ - a competitive / capability harvest, an external suggestion, or an
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+ external LLM ideation thread, **or**
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+ - a decision to integrate/adopt new skills, commands, or a pack, **or**
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+ - a plan whose design has genuinely contested, not-yet-resolved
19
+ trade-offs.
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+
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+ For an ordinary internally-originated roadmap, **skip this section** —
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+ §§ 0–7 are the whole job. Do not bolt a Provenance block or a
23
+ gap-table onto a plan that needs neither (template rule 19).
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+ ## The four extra moves
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+
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+ When it fires, add these four moves to the §§ 0–7 procedure:
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+
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+ **A. Gap-table before drafting (don't adopt — integrate).** Audit each
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+ proposed item against the *existing* skill / command / rule surface and
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+ classify it `KEEP` (verified gap), `FOLD` (into a named existing
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+ artefact), or `CUT` (already covered). Only `KEEP` items become
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+ roadmap scope; `FOLD`/`CUT` are recorded so the cut is auditable. A
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+ negative grep is not proof — open the nearest existing artefacts (per
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+ [`think-before-action`](../../rules/think-before-action.md) and, for an
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+ external source, [`external-reference-deep-dive`](../../rules/external-reference-deep-dive.md)).
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+
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+ **B. Resolve contested design in the council *first*, then author.**
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+ The default council flow (`/roadmap:ai-council`) *challenges a finished
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+ roadmap*. For a contested or source-derived plan, run the council
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+ **up front** on the design questions (`/council:design`, or the
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+ [`ai-council`](../../skills/ai-council/SKILL.md) skill), converge, **then** write
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+ the roadmap encoding the verdicts — so the plan ships already-decided,
44
+ not as open questions in prose. One run, converge; do not relitigate.
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+
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+ **C. Encode the decision so it survives.**
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+ - Inline council convergence under a `## Council notes (<date>, <depth>)`
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+ block — members + date, **never** a session filepath
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+ ([`no-roadmap-references`](../../rules/no-roadmap-references.md)).
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+ - Add a `## Provenance` block — source by a **neutral descriptor**
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+ [`source-confidentiality`](../../rules/source-confidentiality.md));
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+ retain the real link as an `ENC1:` token via
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+ `src/scripts/_lib/link_crypto.ts encrypt --value <url>`.
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+ - Save the locked decision to memory (project type, "don't relitigate")
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+ so a future session does not re-derive it.
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+ **D. Make "integration, not dump" a testable acceptance criterion.**
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+ The AC must encode the anti-dump litmus, decidably: visible commands
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+ within the pack's `size_class` budget; each new visible command reuses
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+ ≥ 2 existing skills; no new artefact duplicates an existing one;
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+ governance preflight recorded — `domain-adoption-policy` (does it open a
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+ `framework-neutrality`, `size-enforcement` — with the disposition
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+ # Subagent Modes — worktree + live-app-judge detail
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+ Extended detail for the two heaviest [`subagent-orchestration`](../../skills/subagent-orchestration/SKILL.md)
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+ modes — `do-in-worktrees` (mode 7) and `do-with-live-app-judge` (mode 8).
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+ Split out of the skill body to keep it under the size budget; the mode list,
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+ selection rules, and the six common modes stay inline in the skill. Pull this
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+ when you actually dispatch one of these two modes.
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+ ## Mode 7 — do-in-worktrees
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+ Cross-wing or cross-skill chain executed across isolated git
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+ worktrees — each handoff in the chain runs in its own worktree, so
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+ the workspace state of one step never leaks into the next. Operationalizes
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+ the worktree boundary clause in
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+ [`docs/contracts/cross-wing-handoff.md`](../../../../docs/contracts/cross-wing-handoff.md)
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+ § 3. State-machine layer only — worktree creation/destruction lives
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+ in [`using-git-worktrees`](../../skills/using-git-worktrees/SKILL.md) and
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+ [`finishing-a-development-branch`](../../skills/finishing-a-development-branch/SKILL.md).
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+ | When to use | When not | Model pairing |
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+ | Multi-step cross-wing chain (≥2 senior skills, each ≥30 min) where one step's open files / branch state would confuse the next | Fast iteration where each step < 30 min — worktree overhead exceeds isolation benefit | implementers = same tier per step; judge = one tier up at chain end |
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+ **Handoff shape:** initiator-skill emits the typed output declared in
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+ its `## Output` block → control passes to delegated-skill in a fresh
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+ worktree → delegated-skill consumes the input shape declared in its
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+ `## Input` (or `## When the agent should load this`) block. The
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+ handoff is auditable; `lint_handoffs.ts` validates the chain.
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+ **Example chain (W3 launch):** `positioning-strategy` (worktree A) →
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+ `messaging-architecture` (worktree B, consumes positioning's
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+ `positioning-statement.md`) → `gtm-launch` (worktree C, consumes
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+ both prior artifacts). Each worktree carries one branch; the chain
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+ end produces a single integration PR.
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+ **Anti-pattern:** do not use for fast iteration loops where each
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+ step is under ~30 minutes. The branch-creation, context-switch, and
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+ worktree-cleanup cost dominates. Stick with mode 1 (do-and-judge)
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+ or mode 3 (do-in-steps) for those.
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+ **Competitive variant — per-candidate isolation.** When mode 5
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+ (`do-competitively`) is combined with worktrees, each candidate
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+ implementer runs in its own worktree (so candidates cannot read each
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+ other's open files or branch state). Selection rules:
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+ - **No auto-merge.** The orchestrator never merges a candidate
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+ branch. Hard Floor per [`non-destructive-by-default`](../../rules/non-destructive-by-default.md) —
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+ applies even under standing autonomy. ADR-005 records the reasoning.
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+ - **Ranked presentation.** Judge ranks candidates (1..N) with a
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+ one-line justification per rank; user picks the winner.
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+ - **Loser worktrees stay.** The orchestrator does not delete losing
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+ worktrees automatically — the user keeps the option to harvest a
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+ partial idea before cleanup.
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+ ## Mode 8 — do-with-live-app-judge (gated — UI-heavy tasks)
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+ Implementer ships the change AND starts the dev server; the judge drives
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+ the RUNNING application (Playwright / browser) against a written rubric —
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+ it never reads the diff. Catches the class static review misses: wired-but-
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+ broken flows, dead buttons, state that renders wrong only at runtime.
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+ | When to use | When not | Model pairing |
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+ |---|---|---|
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+ | UI-heavy change where "looks right in the diff" ≠ "works in the app"; a dev server + browser tooling exist | Backend/logic change (a diff judge is cheaper and sharper); no runnable app surface | implementer = session; judge = same tier, fresh context, browser tools only |
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+ Rules:
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+ - The judge's rubric is written BEFORE dispatch (what flows to click, what
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+ must render) — never improvised from the diff it must not read.
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+ - Record `dispatch_mode: do-with-live-app-judge` + `verdict_changed_outcome`
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+ on every use. **Adoption gate:** this mode stays experimental until its
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+ `verdict_changed_outcome` telemetry shows it changes outcomes (caught a
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+ real issue a diff judge missed); a mode that never flips a verdict is
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+ cost without value and gets removed.
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+ - No self-play/"adversarial training" framing — this is one judge, one
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+ rubric, one running app.
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+ - **Low-priority future candidate (needs real screenshot tooling — do not
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+ build speculatively):** the async silent-verifier shape from
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+ [`design-review`](../../skills/design-review/SKILL.md) § Async-verifier pattern — a
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+ background verifier that owns UI verification via screenshots, forbids the
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+ main agent from self-checking, and stays silent on pass — is the natural
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+ mechanism for this mode's judge once dependable screenshot tooling lands.
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+ Recorded from road-to-opt-design-polish; gate it behind the same
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+ `verdict_changed_outcome` adoption evidence above.