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- # LOOM 2 System Design
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-
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- Status: implemented core, evaluation pending independent trials.
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-
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- ## Product decision
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-
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- LOOM is for the Agent, not the human. Its job is to make a normal capable Agent substantially better at
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- understanding a personalized project, acquiring the right professional judgment, continuing after context
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- loss, and completing real work. The human experience remains natural conversation.
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-
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- The system therefore optimizes for four observable outcomes:
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-
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- 1. The Agent can explain the intended whole rather than mirror a feature list.
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- 2. Consequential uncertainty becomes useful conversation instead of silent guessing or a fixed questionnaire.
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- 3. Consequential product, experience, system, contract, and verification decisions remain navigable as
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- separate documents rather than collapsing into one summary.
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- 4. Each relevant professional field changes decisions and produces a distinctive project stance without
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- being blended into an invented hybrid capability.
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- 5. A fresh Agent can resume the current Task from disk without inherited chat memory.
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-
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- Document production, role performance, stage completion, and graph density are not success metrics.
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-
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- ## Minimal closed loop
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-
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- ```text
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- Understand → Clarify → Record → Map professional fields
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- ↑ ↓
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- └──── update whole ← Design document graph → Work Map
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- ↑ ↓
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- └── Keeper gaps ← fresh Keeper
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- ↓ passed
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- blocked/reopen ← Active Task → Evidence → next Task
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- ```
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-
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- ### Understand and clarify
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-
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- The Agent inspects the workspace when the user's request makes it relevant. It describes the emerging
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- result naturally and identifies the current uncertainty frontier. The frontier contains only decisions
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- whose answers could materially change outcome, behavior, boundary, system, risk, or completion.
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-
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- The prompt constrains judgment, not question content. It requires a coherent high-value round, adaptive
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- grouping, first-principles re-evaluation, and a convergence condition. It does not mandate headings,
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- question counts, or a universal sequence.
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-
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- Convergence means the Agent can explain the whole result, its boundaries, the professional capability it
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- needs, and how completion will be observed. Remaining unknowns must be reversible and local, explicitly
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- delegated to the Agent, or explicitly skipped by the human after a concrete warning.
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-
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- ### Record
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-
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- Markdown stores human-readable project truth. JSON stores machine state that people do not need to edit.
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- Important corrections do not leave contradictory truths scattered through the corpus: PROJECT.md maps the
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- current whole, `.loom/design/` owns detailed decisions, and DECISIONS.md records consequential supersession
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- with rationale and impact.
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-
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- ### Design document graph
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-
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- `PROJECT.md` is an entry point, not a compression target. Product definition, experience, independent
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- systems, contracts, verification, operations, and research receive separate documents when they have their
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- own decisions, interfaces, failure modes, or proof. Project size determines document count. This keeps a small
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- project small while allowing a large system to become fully legible instead of “minimal” in the anemic sense.
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-
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- ### Acquire capability
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-
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- Capabilities are project-scoped professional-field dossiers, not reusable expert personas or task methods.
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- One dossier maps to one recognizable field. UI/UX design, visual art direction, game design, psychology,
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- biology, security, and distributed systems remain separate when they use different evidence or judgments.
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- Cross-field synthesis lives in the design document whose decision it changes. A dossier contains:
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-
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- - the field boundary, the decisions it changes, and the project reality grounding it;
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- - specialist principles, evidence, sources, conflicts, and uncertainty;
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- - an authored, falsifiable project stance and deliberate refusals;
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- - questions whose answers could change the decision;
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- - design and implementation consequences;
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- - generic failure modes and observable verification signals;
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- - opened sources, what each changed, conflicts, and uncertainty when research is used.
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-
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- Acquisition can happen quietly. The Agent may briefly name the capability it is obtaining, but does not
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- turn research logistics into user workflow.
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-
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- ### Work Map and Task
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-
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- Planning uses progressive resolution. A broad initial Work Map protects whole-project coverage and may be
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- very long. Only the active horizon receives detailed actions. The context compiler returns counts and the
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- current Task rather than injecting the whole plan.
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-
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- Task is the single execution contract:
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-
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- ```json
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- {
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- "id": "TASK-001",
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- "title": "Implement restartable context",
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- "outcome": "A fresh Agent receives only decision-relevant context",
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- "done_when": ["A forced-reset transcript resumes correctly"],
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- "boundaries": ["The human never operates LOOM"],
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- "depends_on": [],
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- "reads": [".loom/PROJECT.md", ".loom/design/context-system.md", ".loom/capabilities/human-agent-interaction.md", "fixtures/reset-case.md"],
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- "touches": ["cli/src/context.js"],
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- "status": "active",
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- "progress": {
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- "completed": [],
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- "current": "Implementing selector",
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- "next": "Run reset transcript"
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- },
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- "evidence": []
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- }
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- ```
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-
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- There is at most one active Task. Completion requires a concrete evidence mapping for every exact `done_when`
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- criterion. A completed Task can be reopened with a reason when later evidence disproves it. The Task plan may change without
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- human approval when the change is a reversible implementation refinement inside the agreed whole; outcome,
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- authority, risk, or material cost changes return to the conversation.
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-
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- ### One-time Keeper
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-
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- Keeper is not a recurring role. It is a single isolation test at the transition from shaping to material
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- execution. A fresh Agent receives no prior conversation, runs `loom context --keeper`, explains the whole,
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- selects a first Task, navigates its design documents and professional capabilities, and identifies concrete evidence. Every attempt binds a unique
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- fresh-thread `run_id` to the digest frozen by `project ready`. It may return gaps; summary, evidence and exact gaps
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- are injected into the main Agent's next context. Revision must change project truth or Task definitions before a
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- new digest and fresh Keeper run are allowed. Once passed, normal Task evidence replaces further Keeper ceremony.
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-
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- If the host lacks subagents, LOOM supplies a one-sentence prompt for a new window. Explicit skip is possible
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- but must preserve a concrete reason and reduced confidence.
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-
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- ## Runtime structure
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-
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- ```text
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- cli/bin/loom.js small command router
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- cli/src/store.js state, design, capability, Task, Keeper, context and eval operations
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- cli/src/protocol.js layered Agent prompts and every human-readable template
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- cli/test/run-all.js end-to-end contract tests
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- ```
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-
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- The CLI has five responsibilities:
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-
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- 1. Initialize the minimal project backbone.
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- 2. Record structured understanding and decision history safely.
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- 3. Scaffold a scalable design-document graph and separate professional-field dossiers.
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- 4. Maintain a large Work Map and a single active Task.
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- 5. Compile only decision-relevant context after reset.
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- 6. Prepare one-time Keeper and controlled Evil Eval artifacts.
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-
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- It does not orchestrate models, browse the web, generate project documents, or pretend that a CLI command
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- clears model memory. Those capabilities belong to the host Agent and its tools.
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-
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- ## State transition
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- Project status is a compact orientation signal, not a phase bureaucracy:
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-
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- ```text
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- shaping ⇄ question, design-document, and professional-capability loop
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-
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- ready_for_keeper ⇄ fresh Keeper needs_revision or blocked → shaping
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- ↓ passed
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- build_ready → building ⇄ Task repair or block or reopen → complete
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- ```
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-
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- `project ready` checks only structural prerequisites: PROJECT.md is no longer a template, at least one design
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- document and a Work Map exist, and no high-impact open question remains. Keeper judges semantic build-readiness. Task start requires Keeper
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- pass or an explicit recorded skip. An unchanged revision, duplicate Keeper run, wrong digest, or stale prepared
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- state is rejected. Imported Tasks start open, `task start` rejects missing or directory-level context reads,
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- generic updates cannot change status, and completion requires criterion-by-criterion evidence.
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-
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- ## Context selection
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- `loom context` always injects:
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-
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- - the stable Agent protocol;
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- - compact state counts and open uncertainty;
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- - PROJECT.md, with decision history identified as on-demand context;
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+ # LOOM 2 System Design
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+
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+ Status: implemented core, evaluation pending independent trials.
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+
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+ ## Product decision
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+
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+ LOOM is for the Agent, not the human. Its job is to make a normal capable Agent substantially better at
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+ understanding a personalized project, acquiring the right professional judgment, continuing after context
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+ loss, and completing real work. The human experience remains natural conversation.
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+
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+ The system therefore optimizes for four observable outcomes:
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+
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+ 1. The Agent can explain the intended whole rather than mirror a feature list.
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+ 2. Consequential uncertainty becomes useful conversation instead of silent guessing or a fixed questionnaire.
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+ 3. Consequential product, experience, system, contract, and verification decisions remain navigable as
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+ separate documents rather than collapsing into one summary.
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+ 4. Each relevant professional field changes decisions and produces a distinctive project stance without
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+ being blended into an invented hybrid capability.
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+ 5. A fresh Agent can resume the current Task from disk without inherited chat memory.
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+
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+ Document production, role performance, stage completion, and graph density are not success metrics.
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+
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+ ## Minimal closed loop
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+
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+ ```text
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+ Understand → Clarify → Record → Map professional fields
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+ ↑ ↓
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+ └──── update whole ← Design document graph → Work Map
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+ ↑ ↓
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+ └── Keeper gaps ← fresh Keeper
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+ ↓ passed
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+ blocked/reopen ← Active Task → Evidence → next Task
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+ ```
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+
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+ ### Understand and clarify
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+
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+ The Agent inspects the workspace when the user's request makes it relevant. It describes the emerging
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+ result naturally and identifies the current uncertainty frontier. The frontier contains only decisions
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+ whose answers could materially change outcome, behavior, boundary, system, risk, or completion.
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+
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+ The prompt constrains judgment, not question content. It requires a coherent high-value round, adaptive
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+ grouping, first-principles re-evaluation, and a convergence condition. It does not mandate headings,
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+ question counts, or a universal sequence.
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+
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+ Convergence means the Agent can explain the whole result, its boundaries, the professional capability it
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+ needs, and how completion will be observed. Remaining unknowns must be reversible and local, explicitly
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+ delegated to the Agent, or explicitly skipped by the human after a concrete warning.
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+
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+ ### Record
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+
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+ Markdown stores human-readable project truth. JSON stores machine state that people do not need to edit.
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+ Important corrections do not leave contradictory truths scattered through the corpus: PROJECT.md maps the
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+ current whole, `.loom/design/` owns detailed decisions, and DECISIONS.md records consequential supersession
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+ with rationale and impact.
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+
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+ ### Design document graph
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+
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+ `PROJECT.md` is an entry point, not a compression target. Product definition, experience, independent
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+ systems, contracts, verification, operations, and research receive separate documents when they have their
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+ own decisions, interfaces, failure modes, or proof. Project size determines document count. This keeps a small
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+ project small while allowing a large system to become fully legible instead of “minimal” in the anemic sense.
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+
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+ ### Acquire capability
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+
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+ Capabilities are project-scoped professional-field dossiers, not reusable expert personas or task methods.
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+ One dossier maps to one recognizable field. UI/UX design, visual art direction, game design, psychology,
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+ biology, security, and distributed systems remain separate when they use different evidence or judgments.
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+ Cross-field synthesis lives in the design document whose decision it changes. A dossier contains:
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+
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+ - the field boundary, the decisions it changes, and the project reality grounding it;
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+ - specialist principles, evidence, sources, conflicts, and uncertainty;
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+ - an authored, falsifiable project stance and deliberate refusals;
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+ - questions whose answers could change the decision;
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+ - design and implementation consequences;
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+ - generic failure modes and observable verification signals;
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+ - opened sources, what each changed, conflicts, and uncertainty when research is used.
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+
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+ Acquisition can happen quietly. The Agent may briefly name the capability it is obtaining, but does not
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+ turn research logistics into user workflow.
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+
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+ ### Work Map and Task
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+
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+ Planning uses progressive resolution. A broad initial Work Map protects whole-project coverage and may be
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+ very long. Only the active horizon receives detailed actions. The context compiler returns counts and the
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+ current Task rather than injecting the whole plan.
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+
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+ Task is the single execution contract:
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+
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+ ```json
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+ {
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+ "id": "TASK-001",
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+ "title": "Implement restartable context",
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+ "outcome": "A fresh Agent receives only decision-relevant context",
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+ "done_when": ["A forced-reset transcript resumes correctly"],
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+ "boundaries": ["The human never operates LOOM"],
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+ "depends_on": [],
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+ "reads": [".loom/PROJECT.md", ".loom/design/context-system.md", ".loom/capabilities/human-agent-interaction.md", "fixtures/reset-case.md"],
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+ "touches": ["cli/src/context.js"],
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+ "status": "active",
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+ "progress": {
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+ "completed": [],
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+ "current": "Implementing selector",
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+ "next": "Run reset transcript"
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+ },
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+ "evidence": []
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+ }
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+ ```
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+
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+ There is at most one active Task. Completion requires a concrete evidence mapping for every exact `done_when`
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+ criterion. A completed Task can be reopened with a reason when later evidence disproves it. The Task plan may change without
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+ human approval when the change is a reversible implementation refinement inside the agreed whole; outcome,
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+ authority, risk, or material cost changes return to the conversation.
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+
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+ ### One-time Keeper
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+
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+ Keeper is not a recurring role. It is a single isolation test at the transition from shaping to material
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+ execution. A fresh Agent receives no prior conversation, runs `loom context --keeper`, explains the whole,
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+ selects a first Task, navigates its design documents and professional capabilities, and identifies concrete evidence. Every attempt binds a unique
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+ fresh-thread `run_id` to the digest frozen by `project ready`. It may return gaps; summary, evidence and exact gaps
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+ are injected into the main Agent's next context. Revision must change project truth or Task definitions before a
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+ new digest and fresh Keeper run are allowed. Once passed, normal Task evidence replaces further Keeper ceremony.
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+
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+ If the host lacks subagents, LOOM supplies a one-sentence prompt for a new window. Explicit skip is possible
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+ but must preserve a concrete reason and reduced confidence.
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+
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+ ## Runtime structure
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+
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+ ```text
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+ cli/bin/loom.js small command router
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+ cli/src/store.js state, design, capability, Task, Keeper, context and eval operations
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+ cli/src/protocol.js layered Agent prompts and every human-readable template
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+ cli/test/run-all.js end-to-end contract tests
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+ ```
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+
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+ The CLI has six responsibilities:
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+
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+ 1. Initialize the minimal project backbone.
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+ 2. Record structured understanding and decision history safely.
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+ 3. Scaffold a scalable design-document graph and separate professional-field dossiers.
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+ 4. Maintain a large Work Map and a single active Task.
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+ 5. Compile only decision-relevant context after reset.
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+ 6. Prepare one-time Keeper and controlled Evil Eval artifacts.
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+
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+ It does not orchestrate models, browse the web, generate project documents, or pretend that a CLI command
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+ clears model memory. Those capabilities belong to the host Agent and its tools.
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+
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+ ## State transition
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+
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+ Project status is a compact orientation signal, not a phase bureaucracy:
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+
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+ ```text
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+ shaping ⇄ question, design-document, and professional-capability loop
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+
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+ ready_for_keeper ⇄ fresh Keeper needs_revision or blocked → shaping
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+ ↓ passed
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+ build_ready → building ⇄ Task repair or block or reopen → complete
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+ ```
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+
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+ `project ready` checks only structural prerequisites: PROJECT.md is no longer a template, at least one design
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+ document and a Work Map exist, and no high-impact open question remains. Keeper judges semantic build-readiness. Task start requires Keeper
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+ pass or an explicit recorded skip. An unchanged revision, duplicate Keeper run, wrong digest, or stale prepared
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+ state is rejected. Imported Tasks start open, `task start` rejects missing or directory-level context reads,
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+ generic updates cannot change status, and completion requires criterion-by-criterion evidence.
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+
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+ ## Context selection
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+
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+ `loom context` always injects:
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+
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+ - the stable Agent protocol;
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+ - compact state counts and open uncertainty;
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+ - PROJECT.md, with decision history identified as on-demand context;
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  - the active Task, if one exists;
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  - the exact design, capability, source, contract, or fixture files named in that Task's `reads` list.
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- Workspace code paths in `touches` are identified but not automatically copied into context. Full decision
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- history is not repeatedly injected because current truth belongs in PROJECT.md and linked design documents.
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- `loom context --keeper` includes history, every design document, and every professional capability dossier
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- because whole-project coverage and contradiction detection are exactly what the isolated handoff tests.
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-
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- ## Compatibility decision
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-
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- LOOM 2 is a major redesign. It does not silently mutate `.loom/v1` projects and does not preserve the old command
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- surface. Encountering a legacy layout produces an explicit migration boundary. Git remains the recovery path;
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- an automated semantic migration can be designed only after real v1 projects reveal which history is valuable.
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-
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- ## Known boundaries
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-
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- - External capability acquisition is represented but not automated yet; the host Agent performs research.
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- - Markdown is intentionally human-editable. LOOM validates file existence and structured state, not prose truth.
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- - Keeper independence depends on the host creating a fresh thread or window.
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- - Evil Eval scaffolding controls experiment design but does not itself launch model runs.
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- - A one-time Keeper verifies build-readiness, not the eventual quality of every implementation Task.
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-
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- These are honest capability boundaries, not deferred stages disguised as completion.
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+ When a Task is active, context also injects a short execution protocol. It tells a reset Agent to reconcile
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+ the Task with the current workspace and version-control state, inspect relevant tests before editing, choose
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+ verification according to risk and the exact `done_when` claims, persist `completed/current/next` at meaningful
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+ handoff boundaries, and close only with reproducible criterion-level evidence. It deliberately does not require
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+ a ceremonial unit test for every kind of work or a branch, commit, or pull request for every Task. Those
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+ delivery mechanisms remain conditional on the human request and repository workflow.
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+
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+ Workspace code paths in `touches` are identified but not automatically copied into context. Full decision
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+ history is not repeatedly injected because current truth belongs in PROJECT.md and linked design documents.
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+ `loom context --keeper` includes history, every design document, and every professional capability dossier
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+ because whole-project coverage and contradiction detection are exactly what the isolated handoff tests.
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+
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+ ## Compatibility decision
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+
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+ LOOM 2 is a major redesign. It does not silently mutate `.loom/v1` projects and does not preserve the old command
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+ surface. Encountering a legacy layout produces an explicit migration boundary. Git remains the recovery path;
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+ an automated semantic migration can be designed only after real v1 projects reveal which history is valuable.
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+
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+ ## Known boundaries
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+
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+ - External capability acquisition is represented but not automated yet; the host Agent performs research.
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+ - Markdown is intentionally human-editable. LOOM validates file existence and structured state, not prose truth.
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+ - Keeper independence depends on the host creating a fresh thread or window.
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+ - Evil Eval scaffolding controls experiment design but does not itself launch model runs.
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+ - A one-time Keeper verifies build-readiness, not the eventual quality of every implementation Task.
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+
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+ These are honest capability boundaries, not deferred stages disguised as completion.
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- # LOOM Prompt and Message Catalog
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- LOOM's prompts are cognitive interfaces, not a collection of role-playing personas. The exact live
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- inventory is emitted by:
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- ```bash
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- loom prompts
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- ```
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-
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- The command is the auditable source of truth. It returns the complete text, placeholders, and composition
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- order as JSON, so documentation cannot quietly describe a different prompt from the one Agents receive.
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-
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- ## Instruction layers
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-
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- | Layer | Message | Injected when | Purpose |
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- |---|---|---|---|
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+ # LOOM Prompt and Message Catalog
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+
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+ LOOM's prompts are cognitive interfaces, not a collection of role-playing personas. The exact live
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+ inventory is emitted by:
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+
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+ ```bash
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+ loom prompts
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+ ```
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+
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+ The command is the auditable source of truth. It returns the complete text, placeholders, and composition
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+ order as JSON, so documentation cannot quietly describe a different prompt from the one Agents receive.
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+
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+ ## Instruction layers
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+
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+ | Layer | Message | Injected when | Purpose |
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+ |---|---|---|---|
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  | Stable core | `layers.stable_core` | Every `loom context` | Durable collaboration judgment: user ownership, evidence classes, question threshold, corrections, reversible delegation |
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  | Runtime adaptation | `layers.runtime_protocol` | Every `loom context` | LOOM-specific disk model, document graph, capability boundaries, Work Map, and three production loops |
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  | Project state | `layers.project_state` | Every `loom context` | Dynamic status, uncertainty, assumptions, document/capability inventory, Task counts, and Keeper feedback |
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+ | Execution protocol | `layers.execution_protocol` | Active Task or `--task` | Recovery, workspace inspection, risk-based testing, progress persistence, exact proof, and delivery boundaries |
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  | Current task | `layers.current_task` | Active Task or `--task` | Exact Task JSON followed by the exact contents of every path in `reads` |
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-
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- This separation is deliberate. Project-specific expertise does not inflate the stable prompt; it lives in
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- field dossiers. One-off Task instructions do not become global doctrine. Host permissions and tools are not
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- claimed by prompt text.
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-
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- ## Workspace and document messages
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- `workspace_anchor` is the short block added to `AGENTS.md`. It tells an entering Agent to run `loom context`
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- and keeps CLI operation invisible to the human.
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-
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- `templates.project_index` creates `.loom/PROJECT.md` as a concise whole and document map. It explicitly
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- prevents a large project's systems from being compressed into one file.
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- `templates.design_documents` contains all seven live design templates:
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- 1. `product` — outcome, users, problem, product principles, scope, end-to-end behavior, success and failure.
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- 2. `experience` — journey, information architecture, states, content, visual direction, accessibility, recovery, usability proof.
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- 3. `system` — responsibilities, boundaries, control flow, data, interfaces, dependencies, failure, implementation, verification.
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- 4. `contract` — consumers, schemas or commands, invariants, permissions, errors, compatibility, fixtures, contract tests.
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- 5. `verification` — claims, environments, fixtures, acceptance matrix, commands, negative tests, blind spots.
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- 6. `operations` — authority, procedures, commands, safety, failure recovery, evidence and audit trail.
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- 7. `research` — decision, evidence, method, sources, findings, conflicts, consequences and follow-up proof.
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- These are possible document kinds, not a fixed seven-file checklist. The Agent creates as many actual
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- documents as the project's independent decision surfaces require.
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- `templates.professional_capability` is the only capability template. It enforces one recognizable field per
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- file, a project-specific diagnosis and stance, opened evidence, rejected generic defaults, concrete design and
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- verification consequences, failure modes, and links to adjacent fields without merging them.
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- `templates.decision_history` is the preamble for consequential superseding decisions. Current truth stays in
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- the project map and linked design documents.
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-
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- ## Keeper message
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-
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- `keeper` is the exact independent handoff prompt. It binds a unique fresh-Agent `run_id` to a frozen
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- `prepared_digest`, asks the Keeper to navigate the whole corpus and attempt the first Task, and defines three
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- verdicts:
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- - `passed`: a fresh Agent can responsibly begin.
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- - `needs_revision`: concrete disk-truth gaps can be repaired.
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- - `blocked`: progress needs unavailable authority or external state.
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- A failed result is injected into the next project-state message. A retry requires changed project truth, a
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- new digest, and another fresh Keeper.
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-
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- ## Evil Eval messages
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-
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- `evaluation.baseline_condition` gives a normal capable Agent the identical brief and ordinary tools without
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- LOOM. It does not weaken the baseline or prohibit normal planning.
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- `evaluation.loom_condition` gives the same brief, model class, tools, workspace facts, and budget, adding only
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- LOOM continuity infrastructure and no extra authority.
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- `evaluation.blind_judge` scores anonymized output on intent fidelity, question value, whole coverage,
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- ## Composition messages
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+ This separation is deliberate. Project-specific expertise does not inflate the stable prompt; it lives in
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+ field dossiers. One-off Task instructions do not become global doctrine. Host permissions and tools are not
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+ ## Workspace and document messages
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+ `workspace_anchor` is the short block added to `AGENTS.md`. It tells an entering or reset Agent to run
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+ `loom context`, rerun it before editing after an interruption, persist state at meaningful boundaries rather
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+ than before every tool call, and keep CLI operation invisible to the human.
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+ `templates.project_index` creates `.loom/PROJECT.md` as a concise whole and document map. It explicitly
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+ prevents a large project's systems from being compressed into one file.
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+ `templates.design_documents` contains all seven live design templates:
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+ 1. `product` — outcome, users, problem, product principles, scope, end-to-end behavior, success and failure.
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+ 2. `experience` — journey, information architecture, states, content, visual direction, accessibility, recovery, usability proof.
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+ 3. `system` — responsibilities, boundaries, control flow, data, interfaces, dependencies, failure, implementation, verification.
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+ 4. `contract` — consumers, schemas or commands, invariants, permissions, errors, compatibility, fixtures, contract tests.
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+ 5. `verification` — claims, environments, fixtures, acceptance matrix, commands, negative tests, blind spots.
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+ 6. `operations` — authority, procedures, commands, safety, failure recovery, evidence and audit trail.
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+ 7. `research` — decision, evidence, method, sources, findings, conflicts, consequences and follow-up proof.
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+ These are possible document kinds, not a fixed seven-file checklist. The Agent creates as many actual
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+ documents as the project's independent decision surfaces require.
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+ `templates.professional_capability` is the only capability template. It enforces one recognizable field per
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+ file, a project-specific diagnosis and stance, opened evidence, rejected generic defaults, concrete design and
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+ verification consequences, failure modes, and links to adjacent fields without merging them.
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+ `templates.decision_history` is the preamble for consequential superseding decisions. Current truth stays in
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+ ## Keeper message
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+ `keeper` is the exact independent handoff prompt. It binds a unique fresh-Agent `run_id` to a frozen
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+ `prepared_digest`, asks the Keeper to navigate the whole corpus and attempt the first Task, and defines three
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+ - `passed`: a fresh Agent can responsibly begin.
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+ - `needs_revision`: concrete disk-truth gaps can be repaired.
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+ - `blocked`: progress needs unavailable authority or external state.
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+ A failed result is injected into the next project-state message. A retry requires changed project truth, a
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+ ## Evil Eval messages
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+ `evaluation.baseline_condition` gives a normal capable Agent the identical brief and ordinary tools without
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+ LOOM. It does not weaken the baseline or prohibit normal planning.
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+ `evaluation.loom_condition` gives the same brief, model class, tools, workspace facts, and budget, adding only
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+ LOOM continuity infrastructure and no extra authority.
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+ `evaluation.blind_judge` scores anonymized output on intent fidelity, question value, whole coverage,
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+ professional depth, buildability, reset continuity, implementation evidence, human burden, and cost. It
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+ penalizes ceremony and runs an order swap.
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+ ## Composition messages
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+ `composition.normal_resume`, `composition.active_task`, and `composition.keeper_handoff` list the exact block
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+ order. Keeper receives every design and capability document; a normal active Task receives only its declared
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- ## CLI operational messages
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- `loom --help` is the complete command-oriented message surface. JSON command results report state and the next
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- host action. Validation errors are contract enforcement rather than cognitive prompts; they reject unsafe
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- references, template-only readiness, missing design documents, open high-impact uncertainty, unchanged Keeper
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- retries, stale digests, duplicate run identities, Task dependency violations, missing or directory-level Task
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- reads, status bypasses, completion without evidence for every done condition, and reasonless reopening of a
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- disproven completion.
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- The short human fallback when the host cannot create a Keeper Agent remains:
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- ```text
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- ```
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+ The active Task composition adds `execution_protocol` between the recovered project whole and the exact Task.
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+ It requires inspection of current workspace/version-control reality, risk-appropriate tests, restartable
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+ progress, and criterion-level proof. It does not force a unit test for non-code claims or a branch/PR for every
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+ Task; those are selected when the behavior, human request, or repository workflow makes them meaningful.
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+ ## CLI operational messages
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+ `loom --help` is the complete command-oriented message surface. JSON command results report state and the next
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+ host action. Validation errors are contract enforcement rather than cognitive prompts; they reject unsafe
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+ references, template-only readiness, missing design documents, open high-impact uncertainty, unchanged Keeper
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+ retries, stale digests, duplicate run identities, Task dependency violations, missing or directory-level Task
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+ reads, status bypasses, completion without evidence for every done condition, and reasonless reopening of a
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+ disproven completion.
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+ The short human fallback when the host cannot create a Keeper Agent remains:
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+ ```text
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+ Please open a new window in this project, run loom keeper prompt, and follow it.
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+ ```