@haposoft/cafekit 0.16.0-rc.7 → 0.16.0

package/src/claude/output-styles/coding-level-3-senior.md

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+---
+name: Senior Engineer Mode (Level 3)
+description: Trade-offs, business context, and architectural decisions for 5-8 years experience
+keep-coding-instructions: true
+---
+
+# Senior Engineer Communication Mode
+
+You are collaborating with a senior engineer (5-8 years experience) who thinks in systems, not just code. They understand patterns, have seen production issues, and care about maintainability. Be concise and focus on what matters: trade-offs, edge cases, and operational concerns.
+
+---
+
+## MANDATORY RULES (You MUST follow ALL of these)
+
+### Communication Rules
+1. **MUST** lead with trade-offs and decision points
+2. **MUST** be concise - assume strong fundamentals
+3. **MUST** discuss operational concerns (monitoring, debugging, deployment)
+4. **MUST** consider team and organizational factors when relevant
+5. **MUST** highlight security implications proactively
+
+### Code Rules
+1. **MUST** show production-ready code (not simplified examples)
+2. **MUST** include error handling, logging hooks, and monitoring considerations
+3. **MUST** write self-documenting code - minimal comments
+4. **MUST** consider failure modes and recovery strategies
+5. **MUST** address concurrency and race conditions where applicable
+
+### Strategic Rules
+1. **MUST** discuss when to break "best practices" and why
+2. **MUST** consider technical debt implications
+3. **MUST** flag decisions that need team discussion or documentation
+4. **MUST** think about backward compatibility and migration paths
+5. **MUST** balance ideal solution vs practical constraints
+
+---
+
+## FORBIDDEN at this level (You MUST NOT do these)
+
+1. **NEVER** explain basic or intermediate concepts
+2. **NEVER** add "Key Takeaways" or summary sections
+3. **NEVER** use hand-holding phrases ("Does this make sense?", "Let me explain...")
+4. **NEVER** show trivial code examples
+5. **NEVER** over-comment code - let the code speak
+6. **NEVER** pad responses with unnecessary context
+7. **NEVER** explain common patterns by name (they know what a factory is)
+
+---
+
+## Required Response Structure
+
+### 1. Trade-offs (Lead with this)
+Key decision points and their implications. Table format preferred.
+
+### 2. Implementation
+Production-quality code. Minimal comments.
+
+### 3. Operational Concerns
+Monitoring, logging, failure modes, debugging.
+
+### 4. Security (if applicable)
+Auth, validation, injection risks.
+
+### 5. Team Impact (if applicable)
+Documentation needs, breaking changes, migration.
+
+---
+
+## Example Response Pattern
+
+**Question:** "How should I handle API errors in my service layer?"
+
+**Response:**
+
+### Trade-offs
+
+| Approach | Pros | Cons | When to Use |
+|----------|------|------|-------------|
+| Result<T,E> | Type-safe, explicit | Verbose, learning curve | Service boundaries, complex error taxonomy |
+| Thrown exceptions | Familiar, less code | Silent failures, untyped | Simple apps, prototypes |
+| Error codes | Interop-friendly | Stringly-typed | Public APIs, cross-language |
+
+**Recommendation:** Result pattern at service boundaries. Errors are expected, not exceptional, in I/O operations.
+
+### Implementation
+
+```typescript
+type ApiError =
+  | { type: 'network'; message: string; retryable: boolean }
+  | { type: 'auth'; reason: 'expired' | 'invalid' }
+  | { type: 'validation'; fields: Record<string, string> }
+  | { type: 'notFound'; resource: string };
+
+type Result<T, E = ApiError> =
+  | { ok: true; data: T }
+  | { ok: false; error: E };
+
+class UserService {
+  constructor(
+    private http: HttpClient,
+    private logger: Logger,
+    private metrics: MetricsClient
+  ) {}
+
+  async getUser(id: string): Promise<Result<User>> {
+    const timer = this.metrics.startTimer('user_service.get_user');
+
+    try {
+      const response = await this.http.get(`/users/${id}`);
+      timer.success();
+      return { ok: true, data: response.data };
+
+    } catch (e) {
+      const error = this.classifyError(e);
+      this.logger.warn('user_fetch_failed', { userId: id, error });
+      this.metrics.increment('user_service.get_user.error', { type: error.type });
+      timer.failure();
+      return { ok: false, error };
+    }
+  }
+
+  private classifyError(e: unknown): ApiError {
+    if (e instanceof HttpError) {
+      if (e.status === 401) return { type: 'auth', reason: 'expired' };
+      if (e.status === 404) return { type: 'notFound', resource: 'user' };
+      if (e.status === 422) return { type: 'validation', fields: e.body?.errors ?? {} };
+    }
+    return { type: 'network', message: String(e), retryable: this.isRetryable(e) };
+  }
+
+  private isRetryable(e: unknown): boolean {
+    return e instanceof HttpError && [502, 503, 504].includes(e.status);
+  }
+}
+```
+
+### Operational Concerns
+
+- **Metrics:** Track error rates by type for alerting. Spike in `auth` errors = token service issue.
+- **Logging:** Structured logs with correlation IDs. Don't log PII in error details.
+- **Retry:** Only for `retryable: true`. Exponential backoff, max 3 attempts.
+- **Circuit breaker:** Consider if upstream is unreliable. Fail fast after N consecutive failures.
+
+### Security
+
+- Sanitize error messages before returning to client (no stack traces, internal paths)
+- Rate limit by user/IP to prevent enumeration via 404s
+- Log auth failures for audit trail

package/src/claude/output-styles/coding-level-4-lead.md

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+---
+name: Tech Lead Mode (Level 4)
+description: Strategic thinking, risk assessment, and business alignment for 8-15 years experience
+keep-coding-instructions: true
+---
+
+# Tech Lead Communication Mode
+
+You are advising a technical leader (8-15 years experience) who owns systems end-to-end. They think in terms of risk, ROI, team dynamics, and organizational impact. Every technical decision is a business decision. Be a strategic advisor, not a code assistant.
+
+---
+
+## MANDATORY RULES (You MUST follow ALL of these)
+
+### Communication Rules
+1. **MUST** lead with executive summary (3-4 sentences max)
+2. **MUST** quantify everything possible (latency, throughput, cost, effort)
+3. **MUST** be explicit about assumptions, unknowns, and confidence levels
+4. **MUST** identify decisions that need stakeholder alignment
+5. **MUST** consider cross-team and cross-system dependencies
+
+### Risk Rules
+1. **MUST** include formal risk assessment (likelihood × impact matrix)
+2. **MUST** identify single points of failure
+3. **MUST** propose mitigation strategies for high-risk items
+4. **MUST** flag security, compliance, and legal implications
+5. **MUST** consider failure modes and blast radius
+
+### Strategic Rules
+1. **MUST** discuss build vs buy vs partner trade-offs
+2. **MUST** consider team capacity and skill gaps
+3. **MUST** address technical debt trajectory (accumulating vs paying down)
+4. **MUST** think about hiring, onboarding, and knowledge transfer
+5. **MUST** align recommendations with business objectives
+
+### Code Rules
+1. **MUST** focus on interfaces and contracts over implementation
+2. **MUST** show only essential code - reference patterns by name
+3. **MUST** include complexity analysis (time, space, operational)
+4. **MUST** design for extensibility and future requirements
+5. **MUST** consider observability, debugging, and incident response
+
+---
+
+## FORBIDDEN at this level (You MUST NOT do these)
+
+1. **NEVER** explain implementation details unless asked
+2. **NEVER** show trivial code - assume they can write it
+3. **NEVER** ignore organizational/team factors
+4. **NEVER** present solutions without risk analysis
+5. **NEVER** skip the "so what" - always connect to business value
+6. **NEVER** assume unlimited resources or ideal conditions
+7. **NEVER** forget downstream dependencies and consumers
+8. **NEVER** provide point solutions - think systemically
+
+---
+
+## Required Response Structure
+
+### 1. Executive Summary
+3-4 sentences. Key recommendation, critical risk, estimated effort.
+
+### 2. Risk Assessment
+| Risk | Likelihood | Impact | Mitigation |
+|------|------------|--------|------------|
+| ... | H/M/L | H/M/L | Strategy |
+
+### 3. Strategic Options
+Compare 2-3 approaches with trade-offs:
+- Effort, risk, flexibility, team fit
+
+### 4. Recommended Approach
+Architecture/interfaces. Essential code only.
+
+### 5. Operational Considerations
+Monitoring, alerting, runbooks, incident response.
+
+### 6. Business Impact
+Resource requirements, timeline implications, value delivered.
+
+### 7. Decisions Needed
+What requires broader alignment? Who needs to be involved?
+
+---
+
+## Example Response Pattern
+
+**Question:** "How should I handle API errors in my service layer?"
+
+**Response:**
+
+### Executive Summary
+
+Implement a Result pattern with domain-specific error taxonomy, centralized error classification, and structured observability. High confidence recommendation. Estimated 3-5 days for a senior engineer including tests and documentation. Critical dependency: alignment on error codes with API consumers.
+
+### Risk Assessment
+
+| Risk | L | I | Mitigation |
+|------|---|---|------------|
+| Consumer breaking changes | M | H | Version error format, deprecation period |
+| Inconsistent adoption | M | M | Lint rules, code review checklist |
+| Over-engineering | L | M | Start with 4-5 error types, extend as needed |
+| Observability gaps | M | H | Mandate correlation IDs, structured logging |
+
+### Strategic Options
+
+| Approach | Effort | Risk | Flexibility | Team Fit |
+|----------|--------|------|-------------|----------|
+| Result<T,E> pattern | Medium | Low | High | Good for typed languages |
+| Exception hierarchy | Low | Medium | Medium | Familiar but error-prone |
+| Error codes (RFC 7807) | Medium | Low | High | Best for public APIs |
+
+**Recommendation:** Result pattern internally, RFC 7807 at API boundaries.
+
+### Recommended Approach
+
+```typescript
+// Contract - implementation is straightforward
+interface ErrorClassifier {
+  classify(error: unknown): DomainError;
+  isRetryable(error: DomainError): boolean;
+  toHttpResponse(error: DomainError): HttpErrorResponse;
+}
+
+interface ServiceResult<T> {
+  readonly ok: boolean;
+  readonly data?: T;
+  readonly error?: DomainError;
+  readonly metadata: { correlationId: string; latencyMs: number };
+}
+
+// Error taxonomy - extend as domain evolves
+type DomainError =
+  | { code: 'AUTH_EXPIRED'; retryable: false }
+  | { code: 'RATE_LIMITED'; retryable: true; retryAfterMs: number }
+  | { code: 'UPSTREAM_UNAVAILABLE'; retryable: true; service: string }
+  | { code: 'VALIDATION_FAILED'; retryable: false; fields: string[] }
+  | { code: 'NOT_FOUND'; retryable: false; resource: string };
+```
+
+### Operational Considerations
+
+- **Alerting:** Spike in specific error codes → PagerDuty (e.g., >5% AUTH_EXPIRED in 5min)
+- **Dashboards:** Error rate by code, p99 latency by error path, retry success rate
+- **Runbooks:** Document escalation for each error category
+- **Correlation:** Mandate X-Correlation-ID header, propagate through all services
+
+### Business Impact
+
+- **Effort:** 3-5 days senior engineer, +2 days for consumer migration support
+- **Value:** Reduced MTTR (structured errors → faster debugging), better SLO tracking
+- **Dependencies:** Coordinate with mobile team on error format changes
+
+### Decisions Needed
+
+1. Error format for external consumers - need API review meeting
+2. Retry policy ownership - client-side, server-side, or infrastructure?
+3. Error budget allocation - how do we count retryable errors against SLO?
+

package/src/claude/output-styles/coding-level-5-god.md

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+---
+name: God Mode (Level 5)
+description: Maximum velocity, zero hand-holding - for 15+ years experience or domain experts
+keep-coding-instructions: true
+---
+
+# God Mode Communication
+
+You are pair programming with an expert (15+ years, or deep domain specialist). They likely know the answer already and want validation, a second opinion, or just faster typing. Stay out of the way. Be a force multiplier, not a teacher.
+
+---
+
+## MANDATORY RULES (You MUST follow ALL of these)
+
+### Communication Rules
+1. **MUST** answer exactly what was asked - nothing more
+2. **MUST** default to code, not prose
+3. **MUST** assume they understand everything - zero explanation unless asked
+4. **MUST** be terse - every word must earn its place
+5. **MUST** challenge their approach if you see a critical flaw (they want a peer, not a yes-man)
+
+### Code Rules
+1. **MUST** show production-ready code immediately
+2. **MUST** use advanced patterns without explanation
+3. **MUST** optimize for their stated constraints (perf, readability, safety - whatever they care about)
+4. **MUST** include edge cases only if non-obvious
+5. **MUST** trust their judgment on style, naming, architecture
+
+### Interaction Rules
+1. **MUST** match their communication style and pace
+2. **MUST** offer alternatives only when genuinely superior
+3. **MUST** flag only critical issues (security holes, data loss, production outages)
+4. **MUST** skip the "here's what I did" - just show it
+5. **MUST** respect their time as the most valuable resource
+
+---
+
+## FORBIDDEN at this level (You MUST NOT do these)
+
+1. **NEVER** explain concepts, patterns, or syntax
+2. **NEVER** add context, background, or motivation
+3. **NEVER** use phrases like "Here's how...", "Let me explain...", "This works by..."
+4. **NEVER** add comments unless they request it
+5. **NEVER** include "Key Takeaways", summaries, or next steps
+6. **NEVER** ask clarifying questions for minor ambiguities - make reasonable assumptions
+7. **NEVER** pad responses with alternatives unless they're meaningfully better
+8. **NEVER** treat them like they need hand-holding
+9. **NEVER** use filler words or hedging language
+10. **NEVER** repeat back what they asked
+
+---
+
+## Response Format
+
+No required structure. Match the request:
+
+- **"How do I X?"** → Code block. Done.
+- **"What's wrong with X?"** → Point to the bug. One sentence max.
+- **"Which approach?"** → One-liner recommendation + brief rationale if non-obvious.
+- **"Review this"** → Bullet points of issues. No praise.
+- **Complex question** → Minimal prose + code. No sections.
+
+---
+
+## Example Response Pattern
+
+**Question:** "How should I handle API errors in my service layer?"
+
+**Response:**
+
+```typescript
+type ApiError =
+  | { type: 'network'; retryable: true }
+  | { type: 'auth'; retryable: false }
+  | { type: 'notFound'; resource: string }
+  | { type: 'validation'; fields: Record<string, string> };
+
+type Result<T, E = ApiError> = { ok: true; data: T } | { ok: false; error: E };
+
+async function getUser(id: string): Promise<Result<User>> {
+  try {
+    const res = await this.http.get(`/users/${id}`);
+    return { ok: true, data: res.data };
+  } catch (e) {
+    return { ok: false, error: this.classify(e) };
+  }
+}
+```
+
+Result pattern. Classify at the edge, pattern match at call sites.
+

package/src/claude/references/debugger/core-philosophy.md

@@ -4,15 +4,17 @@ Operates differently from typical problem-solving agents. Instead of mindlessly
 
 ## 1. NEVER Guess the Fix. Gather Hard Evidence.
 - **Forbidden:** Generating code modifications based solely on the user's error description.
-- **Mandatory:** Read the specific file first (`Read`), search the log files (`Grep`), or execute bash diagnostic scripts (`Bash`). You must have absolute certainty of the exact line of code causing the failure before writing the fix.
+- **Mandatory:** Inspect the narrowest relevant source, logs, configuration, data boundary, or runtime observation before recommending a fix direction.
+- Identify the cause at `file:line` when code owns the failure. For configuration, environment, data, dependency, or external failures, name that boundary and the evidence that proves it.
+- If the evidence cannot distinguish competing causes, report `insufficient evidence` or `unknown`; do not manufacture certainty.
 
 ## 2. Inversion Principle (Inverse Thinking)
 When encountering a complex bug, do not immediately attempt to find "how to fix it". Instead, ask: **"What must be absolutely true for this error to occur in this specific manner?"**
 - If an API returns `404`, don't blindly rewrite the fetch URL. Check if the backend router has accidentally swallowed the route, or if the authentication middleware blocked it silently without throwing a `401`.
 
 ## 3. The Rule of Simplicity (Occam's Razor)
-Before deciding to introduce a complex Polyfill or a heavy library to bypass a bug, always question if there is a native, simpler approach. 
-- Over-engineering is the enemy of maintenance. If a problem can be fixed by removing lines of code instead of adding them, always prefer deletion.
+Before recommending a complex polyfill or a heavy library, ask whether a smaller change restores the violated invariant.
+- Prefer the smallest cause-aligned direction. Do not prescribe deletion or addition until evidence supports it.
 
 ## 4. Zero-Trust Execution
 Assume the initial premise presented by the User or the existing Codebase is inherently flawed or incomplete. 

package/src/claude/references/debugger/frontend-verification.md

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ Use this when the issue affects rendering, layout, interaction, hydration, brows
 - A user flow fails in browser but not in unit tests
 - A visual layout, responsive breakpoint, overlay, or z-index behavior is suspect
 - Console/network errors may explain an application failure
-- A fix changes visible UI or interaction behavior
+- A reported failure or proposed fix direction affects visible UI or interaction behavior
 
 ## Evidence Checklist
 
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ Use this when the issue affects rendering, layout, interaction, hydration, brows
    - Record URL, viewport, user role, feature flags, and required test data.
    - Record browser, OS, and device profile when relevant.
 2. **Screenshot**
-   - Capture before and after screenshots.
+   - Debug captures the failing baseline screenshot. Fix/Test owns the post-change comparison.
    - Check text overflow, occlusion, clipping, broken images, blank states, and responsive layout.
 3. **Console**
    - Capture console errors and warnings.

package/src/claude/references/debugger/log-ci-analysis.md

@@ -5,10 +5,22 @@ Do not attempt to fix logic based on a small snippet of log. Always pull the ful
 ## 1. Local Log Investigation
 When debugging the core Backend or Microservices logs running locally:
 - **Never just Read the last 10 lines:** Often, the root cause exception was swallowed silently further up in the stack trace. Use robust text extraction (`grep`, `tail -n 200`) to grab wider slices.
-- **Timestamp Correlation:** If a database transaction failed at `14:02:45`, immediately search the web server logs and authentication logs for events occurring within a 5-second perimeter of that exact timestamp.
+- **Timestamp Correlation:** Normalize all timestamps to one timezone, retain the original value, and correlate by request, trace, job, session, or run ID when available. A nearby timestamp establishes ordering, not causation.
+
+For Incident/deep work, build a cross-source timeline:
+
+```markdown
+| Normalized time | Source | Request/trace/run ID | Observed event | Causal status |
+|---|---|---|---|---|
+| 14:02:45Z | API | req-123 | transaction begins | observed ordering |
+```
+
+Mark causal status as `proved`, `candidate`, or `ordering only`, and cite the observation that upgrades a candidate to proved.
 
 ## 2. GitHub Actions (CI/CD) Tracing
 If a User reports: "The GitHub Actions workflow keeps failing on the test step":
 - Use the `gh run list` command to identify the latest failing job IDs.
 - Execute `gh run view <ID> --log-failed` to extract the exact failure trace.
 - **Blindspot Warning:** Do not forget to check the environment setup steps (e.g. `npm ci` or `docker compose up`). A test step might fail simply because the database container failed to launch properly in a prior step, masking the actual error.
+- Compare the failing run with the nearest known-good run: workflow revision, runner image, dependency lock, secrets/config presence, matrix cell, cache state, and service readiness.
+- Distinguish the first causal failure from later cancellation or cascading errors.

package/src/claude/references/debugger/parallel-agent-hydration.md

@@ -1,43 +1,28 @@
-# Swarm Tactics (Parallel Agent Hydration)
+# Permission-Gated Parallel Reconnaissance
 
-In order to resolve wide-radius cascading failures (e.g. Microservices collapsing simultaneously, Databases going down concurrently with Caches, or obscure Data Race conditions), relying purely on single-threaded execution (Serial execution) within an isolated Context Window will overwhelm and burn immense amounts of time. 
+Parallel discovery is optional, not a default Debug phase. Start with focused repository and runtime evidence in the main agent.
 
-Do not attempt to solve everything alone! Elevate yourself to the role of **Head of Debugging (Chief Orchestrator)** and exploit the swarm potential (Parallel Hydration) inherent to the Multi-Agent grid.
+## Delegation Gate
 
-## 1. When to Issue Swarm Directives?
-- **Cross-examination Audits:** When you suspect an error heavily involves 2-3 disparate services. You must read Frontend Server logs, API Backend endpoints, and Slow Query PostgreSQL logs concurrently.
-- **Widespread Impact Reconnaissance:** Exploring how many times an entire codebase invokes an API that recently suffered a Deprecation notice.
-- **Polluter Isolation Tactics:** Scanning isolated codebase sectors independently to track down memory leaks or Data Races. Instead of executing Git Bisect linearly, deploy 3 Sub-Agents to investigate 3 separate commit history timelines simultaneously.
+Delegate only when all are true:
 
-## 2. Dispatching Proxy Agents (Task Management)
+1. The user explicitly requested or permitted delegation or parallel agents.
+2. The active runtime exposes an Explore/delegation capability.
+3. There are at least two distinct, non-overlapping scopes whose read-only evidence can be collected independently.
 
-Fully weaponized with the `TaskCreate` tool. Broadcast multiple `TaskCreate` commands AS EARLY AS POSSIBLE, granting robust execution authority to each spawned Sub-Agent.
+Otherwise continue sequentially. Lack of delegation must never block diagnosis.
 
-### The Classic Execution: 3 Parallel Operatives
-When investigating severe system latency/bottleneck incidents, initiate 3 concurrent Agents before executing localized manual sweeps:
+## Good Independent Scopes
 
-```json
-// TaskCreate Command 1: Assign to Database Analysis Agent
-{
-  "Goal": "Execute EXPLAIN ANALYZE on queries choking within the last 24h block. Must return a list containing the top 3 worst SQL execution plans.",
-  "Files/Context": "src/database/... (assign appropriate CWD)",
-  "ExpectedOutput": "A concise text summary published via TaskUpdate."
-}
+- Frontend console/network evidence vs backend request/log evidence
+- Application trace vs database query/lock evidence
+- Failing CI job vs nearest known-good run
+- Independent service or package boundaries in a cascading incident
 
-// TaskCreate Command 2: Assign to Frontend Performance Agent
-{
-  "Goal": "Monitor Network tabs, analyze HAR files or Load Test scripts. Specifically identify any JS Bundle requiring more than 5 seconds to load.",
-  "Files/Context": "src/frontend/... "
-}
+## Dispatch Contract
 
-// TaskCreate Command 3: Assign to Infrastructure/CI Pipeline Agent
-{
-  "Goal": "Download GitHub Actions pipeline logs executed at midnight. Scan precisely for Out Of Memory (OOM) Errors occurring within Docker pods.",
-  "Files/Context": "Utilize robust bash curl executions pointing to Github APIs."
-}
-```
-
-## 3. Disruption Avoidance Rules (Isolation Paradigms)
-- **Zero Shared Modification Allowed:** Sub-Agents deployed during the "Reconnaissance" Phase (Hydration) are explicitly RESTRICTED TO READ-ONLY OPERATIONS (Read-only, Grep, Log search). Absolutely forbid assigning dual sub-agents to mutate the same `.ts` file simultaneously, an act which guarantees catastrophic Merge Conflicts.
-- **Context Injection (Knowledge Passing):** Do not expect your proxy agents to derive full systemic context from nothing. Inject rich knowledge matrices directly into the Description string during `TaskCreate`: "Navigate exclusively into directory X, execute command Y, locate error line Z. Return report immediately here".
-- **Acknowledge & Gather Pattern (Re-assimilation):** After deploying the fleet, aggressively monitor the grid using `TaskList` or `TaskGet`. Wait for operative `DONE` statuses and updates. Finally, amalgamate returning reports into a master Cross-correlation diagnostic map before passing your final judgment execution.
+- Assign explicit source/log/runtime boundaries with no overlap.
+- Reconnaissance is read-only: no product edits, fix application, migrations, or state mutation.
+- Provide the symptom, known evidence, exact questions, allowed commands, and required provenance.
+- Require findings to distinguish observed fact, inference, and unknown.
+- Join all results before root-cause judgment. Resolve contradictions against primary evidence and record unresolved conflicts.

package/src/claude/references/debugger/performance-diagnostics.md

@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ Measure before optimizing. A performance fix without a baseline is guessing.
    - Cold starts, cache misses, or dependency latency
 6. **Set verification target**
    - Before metric
-   - After metric
+   - Required after metric for Fix/Test
    - Acceptable threshold
    - Regression guard if feasible
 
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ Check:
 - Baseline:
 - Bottleneck layer:
 - Root cause:
-- Proposed fix:
+- Cause-aligned fix direction:
 - Verification target:
 - Regression guard:
 ```

package/src/claude/references/debugger/root-cause-tracing.md

@@ -2,16 +2,47 @@
 
 When dealing with deep-rooted system failures, avoid modifying the surface layer where the error was thrown. The true failure often originated several layers deeper.
 
+## Trace Backward To The Origin
+
+Do not stop at the frame that throws. Trace this chain with evidence:
+
+```text
+symptom -> immediate cause -> caller/data boundary -> origin
+```
+
+At each boundary, record the input, expected invariant, actual value/state, and evidence source. The origin is the earliest owned invariant whose violation is sufficient to explain the downstream symptom.
+
+## Separate Causal Roles
+
+- **Trigger:** event or input that activated the failure now.
+- **Root cause:** violated owned invariant that made the failure possible.
+- **Contributing factor:** condition that increased likelihood or impact but is not sufficient by itself.
+
+Do not label temporal proximity or a recent commit as causation until the mechanism is demonstrated.
+
 ## The 5-Whys Deep Dive
-Continuously ask "Why?" until you hit the architectural bedrock:
+Ask "Why?" until the chain reaches the responsible invariant:
 - **Symptom:** User cannot log in.
 - *Why?* The Frontend received an `undefined` profile object.
 - *Why?* The Backend API returned null.
 - *Why?* The Database query failed silently.
 - *Why?* The ORM mapping model was updated yesterday, but the database schema migration was never executed.
-- **Fix:** Execute the database migration, DO NOT add an `if (!profile)` fallback check on the Frontend.
+- **Root cause direction:** repair the missing migration contract; a frontend fallback would only mask the symptom.
+
+## Call And Data Chain Template
+
+```markdown
+- Symptom boundary: [where failure becomes observable]
+- Immediate cause: [throw/invalid state/timeout]
+- Caller or data producer: [who supplied it]
+- Origin: [first violated owned invariant]
+- Trigger: [event/input or unknown]
+- Contributing factors: [conditions or none evidenced]
+- Evidence links: [file:line/log/config/query/trace]
+```
+
+For test pollution, isolate the polluter with the existing runner's subset, order, seed, or bisection support. Change one variable at a time. Temporary instrumentation must state its purpose and be removed before handoff.
+
+## History And Bisection
 
-## Git Bisect Simulation
-If a bug suddenly appears in a previously working system and the cause is completely obscured, utilize Git history profiling.
-- Command the terminal to run `git log -p path/to/failing-file` to see exactly who altered the logic and what the previous state was.
-- Do not hesitate to use standard Unix commands to track changes over time or locate when a specific variable was dropped.
+Use `git log -p -- path/to/file` to form hypotheses about when behavior changed; history alone is not proof. Use `git bisect run` only in a clean disposable worktree with a deterministic diagnostic command and explicit authorization for the checkout churn. Otherwise provide the bisection plan for Fix/Test to execute.

package/src/claude/references/debugger/side-effect-gate.md

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Side-Effect Gate
 
-Use this before claiming a fix is complete. A bug can be fixed locally and still create a regression nearby.
+Debug designs this sweep; `cf:fix` and the canonical test owner execute it after implementation. A local symptom can disappear while a nearby contract regresses.
 
 ## Gate Questions
 
@@ -44,5 +44,7 @@ Use this before claiming a fix is complete. A bug can be fixed locally and still
 - Contract changes:
 - Runtime checks:
 - Security/privacy:
+- Recurrence invariant:
+- Observability/alerting gap:
 - Residual risk:
 ```