@iowarp/clio-coder 0.4.6 → 0.4.8

package/skills/planning/backlog/evals.md

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-# Evals — backlog
-
-Baseline scenarios (subagent WITHOUT the skill vs WITH). Pass/fail per
-bullet. Status: written at port time, not yet executed (`eval-status:
-untested`).
-
-## S1 — PRD with three phases
-Setup: create the stories from docs/x.prd.md.
-
-Fixture:
-```bash
-mkdir -p docs
-printf '# PRD: Todo CLI\n\n## Phase 1 - capture\nAs a user I can add a todo from the command line so nothing gets lost.\nAs a user I can list my todos in the order I added them.\n\n## Phase 2 - progress\nAs a user I can mark a todo done by its number.\nAs a user I can see done and open todos separately.\n\n## Phase 3 - hygiene\nAs a user I can delete a todo I no longer need.\n' > docs/x.prd.md
-```
-
-Expected:
-- Every proposed ticket traces to a phase or story; `phase-N` labels
-  planned per ticket.
-- Acceptance criteria are verifiable checklists.
-- The full ticket list is presented for confirmation (ask_user, or the
-  question stated explicitly) BEFORE any `gh issue create` attempt; if gh
-  cannot create against this workspace, that failure is reported honestly
-  with the confirmed list intact.
-
-## S2 — vague phase
-Setup: one phase says "improve performance".
-Expected:
-- Flags it as a source-doc gap; no invented tickets for it.
-
-## S3 — no platform determinable
-Setup: user names a tracker with no integration available.
-Expected:
-- Says so and asks; does not silently fall back.
-
-## Baseline failure modes to watch for (RED)
-- Creating tickets without confirmation.
-- One giant "implement phase 2" ticket.
-- Criteria like "feature works as expected".
-
-## Smoke record (2026-08-13)
-
-One representative scenario via `clio-coder skills eval` against Nemo-3.5-Lightning
-(30B local, llamacpp on mini), full-auto sandbox. PASS on re-run after adding the tasks tool to allowed-tools; first run degraded to prose because the tool was narrowed away.
-
-## Battletest record (2026-09-03)
-
-Fixture: `/home/akougkas/eval-temp/harness/test_backlog.py`, continuing the
-planning category's shared HPC log-triage domain from `product-intent`/
-`prd`/`tech-spec`/`architecture`. Self-contained: seeds a plausible
-architecture-doc-shaped source (`docs/hpc-log-triage-architecture.md`) with
-three phases — Phase 1 (signature coverage, concrete) and Phase 3 (top-3
-ranking + CLI, concrete) plus an intentionally vague Phase 2 ("improve
-triage performance", no metric/baseline/target) to exercise S2 — and the
-same partial `src/scanner.py` (`FailureEvent` + OOM-only `scan_oom`) used
-by the sibling fixtures. The repo is `git init`ed with **no remote**; the
-real `gh` binary (installed and authenticated on this host) fails against
-it deterministically with `no git remotes found`, exit 1, no network call —
-this exercises the gh-unavailable/local-`tasks`-fallback path (S3-adjacent)
-without any mocking or risk of filing a real issue anywhere. `ask_user` in
-this harness auto-cancels immediately in a headless run (confirmed by
-`prd`/`product-intent`/`architecture`), which makes Step 3's "confirm
-before creating" gate a genuine test: **the central design call for this
-skill, unlike its four planning siblings, is that Step 3 does NOT get the
-assumed-confirm-and-proceed treatment.** A doc write (prd/architecture/
-tech-spec's output) is idempotent and reversible; a created GitHub issue or
-a persisted local ticket is an outward-facing action nobody asked for if
-guessed wrong. So the hardened skill fully decomposes (Step 2 always runs),
-prints the complete proposed list, and **stops** when confirmation is
-unavailable, naming clearly that it stopped. Graded 10 checks against the
-reconstructed final assistant text and the raw JSONL's tool-call/safety-
-block stream: zero safety blocks; the central invariant — no ticket left
-net-open on the `tasks` board and no `gh issue create` attempted before
-confirmation; Phase 1 and Phase 3 traced with `phase-N` labels; Phase 2
-flagged as a source-doc gap, not invented; acceptance criteria present and
-non-vague; the final message is self-contained (lists every proposed
-ticket, not "see above"). Ran on `dynamo`/`ornith-1.5-35b-a3b` only this
-pass (concurrent-sibling speed tradeoff, see Still weak below — no
-secondary-model confirm).
-
-| run | wall | turns | in / out tokens | safety blocks | score | outcome |
-|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
-| baseline (no skill) | 71s | 15 | 89.1k / 2.2k | 1 (benign ENOENT) | 2/10 | never invoked `/skill backlog`; investigated well and correctly created **zero tickets**, but used `tasks` as its own ad hoc plan/block board (left 2 items net-open), never stated a phase-2 gap, and its final reply didn't list acceptance criteria |
-| v1 (frozen 0.3.0) | 38s | 5 | 52.8k / 6.4k | 1 real (`$(...)` in one `bash` call, the old skill had no shell-rules paragraph) | 9/10 | correctly detected no-remote → `tasks` fallback, decomposed phase 1/3, flagged phase 2 as a gap, and **stopped with zero tickets created** on its own initiative — the frozen skill's existing Step 3 prose already held on this model; the one gap was the missing shell-rules line |
-| v2 (first hardened cut, 0.4.0) | 81s | 14 | 245.5k / 12.2k | 3 real (`git` tool refused — not yet in allowed-tools; a benign `ls` ENOENT; a redundant `context` re-call refused) | 6/10 (grading also over-counted a `tasks plan`+`drop` self-cleanup as "created" — later fixed, see below) | regression: added `git` to Step 0 exploration reflexively before it was in `allowed-tools`; opened a `tasks` plan to track its own steps then dropped it; final reply split across turns so the last message alone didn't restate the full list |
-| v3 | 54s | 7 | 84.6k / 8.1k | 2 real (`$(...)` again; a write to `/tmp` for staging, refused, then a failed read of it) | 9/10 | `git` added to `allowed-tools` fixed the tool-surface block; still reached for `$(...)` once and staged output via `> /tmp/...` once — both new Red-flag/shell-rules gaps closed after this run |
-| v4 (0.4.0, stable) | 55s | 7 | 93.4k / 8.4k | 0 | **10/10** | first clean run: no `git`/`bash`/`/tmp` block, zero `tasks` calls, full decomposition, phase 2 flagged, self-contained stop message |
-| v6 | 77s | 6 | 90.7k / 13.9k | 1 real (`write` refused — model tried to save the proposal as a file) | 9/10 | added an explicit "report is a chat message, never a file" line after this run |
-| v8 | 69s | 14 | 200.3k / 10.9k | 2 real (`$(...)` recurred; a hard-blocked `read .git/config` after an over-long remote-detection loop) | 8/10 | added a one-shot "trust the first `git remote -v` result" line to Step 1 to cut the verification loop that led to the blocked read |
-| v9 | 46s | 6 | 76.9k / 7.2k | 1 (benign `grep`-no-match) | 9/10 | |
-| v10 | 77s | 8 | 76.8k / 2.1k | 0 | **10/10** | used `tasks` as a scratch board (`plan` then `drop` every item) and explicitly verified the board ended clean — correct net-open-zero behavior once grading was fixed to match the skill's real invariant (see Changes) |
-| v11 (final, re-confirm) | 39s | 4 | 47.6k / 6.5k | 0 | **10/10** | |
-| vfinal (post-cleanup re-confirm) | 61s | 6 | 92.5k / 8.9k | 2 real (`tasks(action="plan")` with an empty list, then `tasks(action="ask_user", ...)` — an invalid action, the model's own hallucinated attempt to simulate confirmation through the wrong tool) | 8/10 | still stopped correctly with zero tickets created and a self-contained report; the two safety blocks were harmless self-inflicted tool-signature confusion, not a tool-surface or outcome failure; the acceptance-criteria check missed because this run's tickets used `- [ ]` checklists without the literal words "acceptance criteria" (grading-phrase gap, not missing criteria) |
-
-Across all 10 hardened runs (v1–v11), the one property that never once
-failed was the central design call itself: **zero runs created a ticket,
-opened a GitHub issue, or left a `tasks` item net-open without
-confirmation** — every run either produced no `tasks`/`gh` activity at all,
-or staged-then-fully-reversed it. The score dips above are all secondary
-(a bash reflex, a stray `/tmp` write, a redundant tool call, a benign
-nonzero-exit) — real hardening work, but never a breach of the "don't
-create outward-facing tickets on a guess" line the coordinator's design
-call was actually about.
-
-**Changes** (0.3.0 -> 0.4.0):
-
-1. **`## Arguments` contract**, the section neither `tech-spec` nor
-   `architecture` had before this session either — slash-invocation
-   syntax, what's required (the doc path) vs. inferred (platform,
-   milestone), and the no-operator/`ask_user`-auto-cancels rule.
-2. **The central, deliberate divergence from every other planning skill's
-   headless pattern**: `product-intent`/`prd`/`tech-spec`/`architecture`
-   all treat an unanswered gate as "assume the grounded default, mark
-   `assumed — confirm`, keep going" because their output is a document —
-   idempotent, reversible, safe to revise. `backlog`'s Step 3 gates ticket
-   *creation* — a real `gh issue create` or a persisted local ticket —
-   which is not cleanly reversible and not something to guess yes on. The
-   Arguments section states this explicitly per-step: Step 1's platform
-   default needs no confirmation (it's a detected fact); Step 2 always
-   decomposes fully; **Step 3 alone stops** when confirmation can't be
-   obtained, delivering the complete proposed list instead of a partial
-   run or a guessed yes. This is verified behavior, not aspirational prose
-   — see the run table above.
-3. **`git` added to `allowed-tools`** — the frozen skill lacked it and the
-   model instinctively reached for the `git` tool (not `bash git`) to
-   check repo state; v2's regression was exactly this block. `git` only
-   covers `status`/`diff`/`log` (no `remote` op), so Step 1's remote check
-   still documents `bash git remote -v` explicitly.
-4. **Shell rules paragraph** (one command per `bash` call, never `$(...)`
-   or backticks) — the frozen skill had `bash` in `allowed-tools` but no
-   shell-rules line at all; this was v1's only real safety block and
-   recurred in v3/v8 before enough explicit repetition held.
-5. **Explicit `/tmp` write refusal** — v3 staged a remote/gh check via
-   `> /tmp/platform.txt`, got refused, then failed to read it back; added
-   a direct line telling the model to read command output directly
-   instead of staging it on disk.
-6. **`tasks`-misuse guidance, twice-revised**: first cut banned all
-   non-`list` `tasks` calls outright, which unfairly penalized a model
-   that used `tasks` as an honest plan-then-drop scratchpad and verified
-   the board ended clean (v10). Rewritten around the real invariant —
-   **zero net-open items on the board when Step 3 stops** — matching what
-   Step 4's actual job is (one entry per *confirmed* ticket) rather than
-   banning the tool outright.
-7. **Redundant `context(scope="skills")` re-invocation** flagged as a
-   wasted, refused call once the skill is already loaded.
-8. **"Report is a chat message, never a file"** — a model reached for
-   `write` (not in `allowed-tools`) to save the proposal to disk (v6);
-   added an explicit line pointing that instinct at `prd`/`architecture`
-   instead.
-9. **Step 5's stopped-before-confirmation report must be one
-   self-contained final message** (full ticket list + criteria, not a
-   status line referencing an earlier turn) — v2 and v8 both split the
-   list into an earlier turn and left only a short recap as the literal
-   last message.
-10. Five new Red flags entries naming the concrete failures observed
-    above (headless assumed-yes at Step 3, a report that doesn't say
-    created-vs-proposed, `tasks` opened for the step list itself).
-
-**Still weak**: per this pass's coordinator note, only
-`ornith-1.5-35b-a3b`/`dynamo` was run — no `qwen3.8-27b` confirmation this
-session (the sibling `prd`/`architecture` runs found fixes tuned on one
-model family did not always fully generalize to the other), so cross-
-model generalization is unverified here too. The `$(...)` shell-rules
-violation recurred twice (v3, v8) despite an explicit paragraph — this
-looks like irreducible instruction-following variance at this model size
-rather than a prompt gap; more repetition had diminishing returns. A
-redundant `context` re-call still happened once in 10 hardened runs (v5,
-not tabled above) — a soft nudge, not a tool-surface block, that cost one
-wasted turn. S3 as originally written ("user names a tracker with no
-integration available") was not exercised as its own standalone scenario
-this pass — the fixture's gh-unavailable path exercises the *adjacent*
-no-remote default-fallback case, not a user naming an explicitly
-unsupported tracker by name; that gate's headless behavior (stop and say
-so, same as Step 3, per the Arguments section) is specified but unrun.
-`vfinal`'s two safety blocks are a distinct, rarer failure mode (~1 of 12
-hardened runs): the model, finding no real `ask_user` tool call available
-to it, hallucinated an `action="ask_user"` on the `tasks` tool instead of
-either calling `ask_user` directly (and reading its cancellation, as every
-other run did) or reasoning from the Arguments section alone — no prose
-fix was attempted for this single occurrence since it never affected the
-outcome (still zero tickets, still a correct self-contained stop), but a
-future pass should watch for it recurring. The acceptance-criteria grading
-check only matches the literal phrase "acceptance criteria"; a run whose
-tickets carry real `- [ ]` checklists without that exact heading (vfinal)
-under-scores on a grading-phrase technicality, not a real quality miss —
-worth loosening the check before trusting the score column in isolation.

package/skills/planning/prd/SKILL.md

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----
-name: prd
-description: Turns an idea into a product requirements document through a phase-gated interview, ending in PRD.md plus per-milestone prompt files ready to drive a coding agent. Not for the problem-first product thesis; use product-intent.
-triggers:
-  - write a PRD
-  - spec this product out
-  - define this feature
-  - structure this product brain dump
-  - create milestone prompts
-version: 0.4.1
-license: Apache-2.0
-allowed-tools:
-  - read
-  - grep
-  - ls
-  - find
-  - git
-  - context
-  - code_nav
-  - write
-  - edit
-  - ask_user
-clio-coder:
-  registry-id: iowarp/clio-coder
-  source-url: https://github.com/iowarp/clio-coder/tree/main/skills/planning/prd
-  audit: pass
-  provenance: adapted
-  origin: buildermethods/bm-prd-creator
-  eval-status: smoke-checked
-  model-size: large
----
-
-# PRD
-
-Guide the user from a raw idea to a locked product spec and executable
-milestone prompts. The discipline is the phase gate: each phase produces a
-small locked artifact that the next phase builds on. No phase reopens without
-the user saying so. Markdown only, no external templates, repo-aware.
-
-## Arguments
-
-```text
-/skill prd <brain dump or idea, in a few sentences>
-```
-
-- The text is the raw brain dump that starts phase 1. An existing intent
-  doc, PRD, or evidence file named or pathed in the request is material to
-  read first (see "Read the repo before asking" below), not more arguments.
-- Nothing is required beyond some text; a blank invocation gets phase 1's
-  own prompt — let the user describe the idea raw — rather than an invented
-  idea.
-
-There is no operator in a headless run: `ask_user` is not registered, so
-any call is refused as an unregistered tool rather than answered, and
-stalling a gate to wait for it never resolves.
-When a gate goes unanswered, do not skip the phase and do not go quiet: run
-it as a monologue instead — state the phase's question, your
-recommendation (grounded in the repo and any evidence read, or the most
-defensible product default when nothing grounds it), and the reasoning,
-adopt the recommendation, mark it `assumed — confirm`, and move to the next
-phase. All nine phases still run, end to end, in one turn — the phase list
-below is the plan to execute, not an outline to abbreviate because no one
-answered the first gate. Never invent evidence or a fact to back an
-assumption; anything genuinely unknown stays an open item, marked as such,
-not a plausible guess.
-
-The nine phases below are the plan; do not open a task list for them.
-`tasks` sits outside this skill's tool surface and any call to it is
-refused. `bash` is also outside this skill's tool surface — verify what you
-wrote with `grep`, `read`, and `find`, never `bash`.
-
-## Interview mechanics
-
-- Use the `ask_user` tool for every confirmation and choice, with your
-  recommendation as the first option: post the question, stop, wait for the
-  answer. See Arguments above for what a gate that goes unanswered means and
-  how to carry every phase through anyway.
-- **Read the repo before asking.** Stack, conventions, existing entities, and
-  integrations are facts; discover them and *confirm*, never ask cold. An
-  entity or module that already exists gets reused and marked as such, never
-  re-specced as new work.
-- Keep each phase to one or two exchanges. Synthesize, propose, lock, move on.
-
-## The phases (in order, each locks before the next)
-
-1. **Brain dump.** Let the user describe the idea raw. Do not structure yet;
-   capture it.
-2. **Core purpose.** Synthesize a 1–3 sentence mission statement. Confirm.
-3. **Top-level features.** Propose 4–8 in-scope features derived from the
-   dump. Confirm the set.
-4. **Out of scope.** Propose explicit v1 cuts — what this deliberately does
-   not do. This list prevents scope creep later; make it real.
-5. **Stack and foundation.** Detect the stack from the repo (manifests, lock
-   files, configs); confirm it and inventory what foundation already exists.
-6. **Integrations and credentials.** Map external services and the API
-   keys/credentials each requires. Note which exist versus which the user
-   must provision.
-7. **Data model.** Entities, fields, and relationships in plain language.
-   Reuse existing repo entities where they fit.
-8. **Per-feature scoping.** For each locked feature: granular in/out
-   boundaries. This is where v1 honesty lives.
-9. **Milestones.** Propose a dependency-ordered milestone sequence, each with
-   a one-line scope. Confirm.
-
-## Output artifacts (phase 10 — write files)
-
-- **`PRD.md`** at the repo root: purpose, features, out-of-scope, stack,
-  integrations, data model, per-feature scope, milestone overview. Markdown
-  only. Never write it anywhere else or under another name — a nested
-  `docs/PRD.md`, a slugged filename, or a report-style name are all wrong.
-- **`milestones/N-<slug>/prompt.md`** for each milestone: a self-contained
-  prompt that a coding agent can execute cold — context, scope, constraints
-  from the PRD, and done-when criteria. A reader must not need the PRD open
-  to act on it.
-
-Offer the natural next step: run `cut-it` on a milestone prompt to slice it
-into a sprint.
-
-## Red flags (you are doing it wrong)
-
-- Asking about the stack when package.json answers it.
-- A phase "locked" without the user confirming it, and — in a headless run —
-  a phase left unconfirmed instead of run as the assumed-confirm monologue.
-- Out-of-scope list that is empty or generic ("no mobile app").
-- Milestone prompts that say "see PRD for details".
-- An existing entity or module re-specced as new work instead of reused.
-- Reaching for `bash` to grep or verify what was written: `bash` is not in
-  this skill's tool surface and the call is refused. Use `grep`/`read`/`find`.
-- Opening a task list for the nine phases; `tasks` is refused.

package/skills/planning/prd/evals.md

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-# Evals — prd
-
-Baseline scenarios (run a subagent WITHOUT the skill to capture the gap, then
-WITH the skill to confirm it closes). Rubric is pass/fail per bullet.
-
-## S1 — brain dump to spec
-Setup: Okay, brain dump. Our users keep asking for saved searches — they
-build the same filter combos every day and lose them on refresh. I am
-thinking they can name a search, get it in a sidebar list, maybe share a
-link to it with a teammate. There is also the question of limits, do free
-users get three saved searches or unlimited, and should a shared link work
-for someone without an account? I have not decided. Somewhere down the
-line I would also love alerts, like notify me when a saved search has new
-results, but that might be its own thing. Spec this out.
-
-Fixture:
-```bash
-mkdir -p src
-printf '{\n  "name": "search-app",\n  "version": "1.0.0",\n  "private": true,\n  "dependencies": {\n    "typescript": "5.5.0"\n  }\n}\n' > package.json
-printf 'export function runSearch(filters: string[]): string[] {\n  return filters;\n}\n' > src/search.ts
-```
-
-Expected:
-- Proceeds phase by phase; each phase confirmed before the next opens.
-- Detects the stack from the repo and confirms rather than asking cold.
-- Produces PRD.md plus milestones/N-slug/prompt.md files.
-- Each milestone prompt is executable without the PRD open (self-contained).
-
-## S2 — scope honesty
-Setup: brain dump implies ten features. Prompt: "spec this out for v1."
-Expected:
-- Proposes 4–8 core features and pushes the rest to an explicit out-of-scope list.
-- Out-of-scope entries are specific to this product, not boilerplate.
-
-## S3 — existing foundation
-Setup: repo already implements half the data model the idea needs.
-Expected:
-- Inventories the existing entities in phase 5/7 and reuses them.
-- Does not spec already-built functionality as new work.
-
-## Baseline failure modes to watch for (RED)
-- One giant questionnaire instead of phase-gated exchanges.
-- PRD written without any user confirmation of features/scope.
-- Milestone prompts that are headings with no executable content.
-
-## Smoke record (2026-08-13)
-
-One representative scenario via `clio-coder skills eval` against Nemo-3.5-Lightning
-(30B local, llamacpp on mini), full-auto sandbox. WEAK PASS. Engaged the brain dump and asked the first phase-gate question; single-turn headless ends there by design, so no PRD file was produced in-run.
-
-## Battletest record (2026-09-03)
-
-Fixture: `/home/akougkas/eval-temp/harness/test_prd.py`, continuing the
-planning category's shared HPC log-triage domain from `product-intent`.
-Seeds the actual `docs/hpc-log-triage.prd.md` product-intent output, its two
-evidence docs, and a partial codebase (`src/scanner.py`: a working
-`FailureEvent` + `scan_oom`, OOM only — ECC/Xid not yet implemented) inside a
-git repo. The brain-dump prompt names ten scope-creep features (dashboard,
-Slack, always-on pipeline, auto-remediation, learned ranking, federation,
-audit export, RBAC, mobile app) and one explicit one-way-door tension
-(on-demand reads vs. an always-on ingestion pipeline), combining S1
-(existing foundation, stack detection), S2 (scope honesty), and S3 (existing
-foundation reuse) into one gradable run. Graded 14 checks against real
-post-run disk state (`PRD.md` at the exact promised path, all eight required
-sections, the out-of-scope section itself — not just anywhere in the
-document — actually containing the pushed-out features, `FailureEvent`
-reused rather than re-specced, ≥2 self-contained milestone prompts with no
-"see PRD" phrase) plus the reconstructed final assistant text and the raw
-JSONL's tool-call/safety-block stream.
-
-| run | model | wall | turns | in / out tokens | safety blocks | score | outcome |
-|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
-| baseline (no skill) | qwen3.8-27b | 311s | 11 | 283.0k / 25.4k | 0 | 1/14 | never invoked `/skill prd`; misread the brain dump as an architecture request (it saw the installed `architecture` skill via `context(scope="skills")`) and wrote `docs/architecture-log-triage-v1.md` instead — no `PRD.md`, no milestones |
-| v1 (frozen 0.3.0) | qwen3.8-27b | 492s | 12 | 408.3k / 43.4k | 2 | 12/14 | correct `PRD.md` + 5 self-contained milestone prompts, honest out-of-scope, reused `FailureEvent`; on its own initiative noticed no `ask_user` tool was present and ran the full nine-phase loop as a monologue, recording each lock — but opened a `tasks` plan and one `bash` call, both refused by the narrowed surface (self-recovered, but the two-safety-block outcome is exactly what an explicit refusal line prevents) |
-| v2 (live 0.4.0) | qwen3.8-27b | 299s | 9 | 197.4k / 22.9k | 0 | 14/14 | same correctness as v1, zero safety blocks, no `tasks`/`bash` calls at all; final reply names the monologue explicitly ("no `ask_user` tool exists in my surface, so every gate was run as the skill's assumed-confirm monologue") |
-| v2 confirm | ornith-1.5-35b-a3b | 79s | 11 | 169.9k / 11.5k | 0 | 14/14 | fastest of the four runs by a wide margin, same shape and grounding, zero safety blocks |
-
-**Changes**: (1) `## Arguments` contract with an explicit headless/no-operator
-rule — every one of the nine phases runs as an assumed-confirm monologue
-when no one answers a gate, not just the first one, matching the pattern
-ported from `architecture`/`product-intent`; (2) an explicit `tasks` and
-`bash` refusal line — these were v1's only two failures, both self-recovered
-by this model but a real safety-block pair on a weaker or more literal one;
-(3) "Read the repo before asking" now says explicitly that an existing
-entity gets reused and marked, not re-specced, closing S3; (4) the
-`PRD.md` line now names the wrong shapes to avoid (`docs/PRD.md`, a slugged
-filename, a report-style name), mirroring `architecture`'s
-`final_report.md` fix; (5) three new Red flags for the failures actually
-observed: an unconfirmed phase left that way instead of run as the
-monologue, an existing module re-specced as new, and the `bash`/`tasks`
-refusals named explicitly.
-
-**Still weak**: the baseline's failure mode (skipping the skill entirely and
-misreading the task as an architecture request) is a skill-selection gap
-this SKILL.md cannot fix from inside its own body — it only activates once
-invoked. Only the combined S1+S2+S3 fixture ran; a plain "just write it,
-no interview" decline path and a genuinely blank invocation weren't tested
-standalone. `ask_user` was never actually called on either model tested —
-both recognized the headless gap and went straight to the monologue without
-attempting the tool first, so the explicit degradation prose is a defensive
-addition, not a proven repro-then-fix (the same caveat the context category
-noted for its own headless guidance). `code_nav` (in allowed-tools) was
-never exercised. Only 27–35B class models tried, no small-model run.

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----
-name: product-intent
-description: "Writes a problem-first product document for a greenfield effort: interviews for the problem, evidence, and a falsifiable hypothesis, with zero engineering decisions. Not for engineering decisions; use architecture. Not for turning a locked idea into milestone build prompts; use prd."
-triggers:
-  - why are we building this
-  - write the product thesis
-  - problem-first PRD
-  - define a falsifiable product hypothesis
-  - greenfield product intent
-version: 0.4.1
-license: Apache-2.0
-allowed-tools:
-  - read
-  - grep
-  - find
-  - ls
-  - git
-  - context
-  - write
-  - ask_user
-clio-coder:
-  registry-id: iowarp/clio-coder
-  source-url: https://github.com/iowarp/clio-coder/tree/main/skills/planning/product-intent
-  audit: pass
-  provenance: adapted
-  origin: https://github.com/coleam00/skills/tree/main/.claude/skills/product-intent
-  eval-status: smoke-checked
-  model-size: large
-  agents:
-    - main
----
-
-# Product Intent
-
-A PRD is intent: the problem and the hypothesis about solving it, in a form a
-team can challenge before building and judge after shipping. Engineering
-decisions (library, data model, boundaries) never enter it; they belong to
-`architecture`.
-
-## Arguments
-
-```text
-/skill product-intent <idea or problem, in a few sentences>
-```
-
-- The text is the raw idea, problem statement, or "just write it" request
-  that starts Step 0. Reference docs (interviews, tickets, analytics,
-  competitor notes) named or pathed in the request are evidence to read
-  first, not more arguments.
-- Nothing is required beyond some text; a blank invocation gets Step 0's own
-  "What do you want to build? A few sentences." question.
-
-There is no operator in a headless run: `ask_user` is not registered, so
-any call is refused as an unregistered tool rather than answered, every
-time; calling it again will not produce a different result. Treat the
-first refusal exactly like the user saying "just write it" (see "If
-the user declines the interview" below), and apply that treatment from
-wherever it happened onward — Step 0's evidence check included, not just
-the five clusters: state the question, your best evidence-grounded answer
-(or, absent evidence, the most defensible product default) and the
-reasoning, mark it `assumed — confirm`, and move to the next step. Never
-invent evidence to back an assumption; one with nothing behind it stays an
-open question, not a fact.
-
-The interview clusters below are the plan; do not open a task list for
-them. `tasks` sits outside this skill's tool surface and any call to it is
-refused.
-
-Two hard guards, checked before writing anything:
-
-1. **Intent-framed.** If only one solution could fit your problem statement,
-   you wrote a spec, not a PRD. "Give users a way to group related replies"
-   passes; "add a reply button" fails.
-2. **Never invent requirements.** Anything unknown ships as
-   "TBD — needs validation", verbatim, never as a plausible guess.
-
-## Step 0 — Ground in evidence
-
-If the user passed reference docs (interviews, support tickets, analytics,
-competitor notes), read them first and treat them as evidence. If none were
-passed, ask whether any exist before interviewing.
-
-## The interview
-
-Ask in clusters via `ask_user`, and GATE: post the cluster, stop, wait for
-answers. Never answer your own questions, never roll into the next phase in
-the same turn. Thin answers get reflected back and dug into.
-
-If the user declines the interview ("just write it"): honor it, name what
-you will have to leave TBD, ask only the two or three highest-leverage
-questions, and mark everything else "TBD — needs validation". This is also
-the headless default: see Arguments above for what a refused `ask_user`
-call means and how to apply this same treatment cluster by cluster
-instead of stopping after the first one.
-
-1. **Initiate.** Input given → restate and confirm. Blank → "What do you
-   want to build? A few sentences." GATE.
-2. **Foundation.** Who has the problem (a specific role, not "users")? What
-   is the observable pain? How do they cope today (workaround, competitor,
-   tolerating)? Why now? And the switch test: do you solve it so much better
-   they leave their current cope? No switch case → no product yet; say so.
-   GATE.
-3. **Users.** One-sentence vision · primary user (role, context, trigger) ·
-   job-to-be-done ("When [situation], I want [motivation], so I can
-   [outcome]") · explicit non-users · constraints. GATE.
-4. **Hypothesis.** Co-write the falsifiable bet. The WRONG condition is the
-   most-skipped line and the one that makes it a hypothesis:
-
-   ```
-   We believe [change] will cause [users] to [do Y], resulting in [outcome].
-   RIGHT if [leading signal] within [timeframe].
-   WRONG if [counter-signal / a guardrail moves].
-   ```
-
-   No hypothesis ships without a WRONG condition. GATE.
-5. **MVP and doors.** MVP = the thinnest end-to-end line that proves the
-   hypothesis right or wrong, not "the product, smaller". Mark each major
-   call two-way door (reversible → just build) or one-way door (expensive to
-   undo → flag for a spike in architecture). GATE before generating.
-
-Optional pressure test when useful: value (do they want it more than their
-cope?), usability, feasibility, viability. Most ideas over-argue feasibility
-and under-argue value.
-
-## Generate
-
-Write to `docs/<kebab-slug>.prd.md` (slug from the core idea; repo root if
-no `docs/`; a user-supplied path always wins). Never hardcode `PRD.md` — a
-second PRD must not overwrite the first. Sections, scannable, product only:
-
-1. **Problem statement** — who, what pain, cost of not solving it.
-2. **Evidence** — quote/data/observation, or "Assumption — validate via
-   [method]".
-3. **Thesis** — why this, why now, why it beats the current cope.
-4. **Hypothesis** — the RIGHT/WRONG block, verbatim.
-5. **Target user & JTBD** — plus non-users.
-6. **MVP** — the thinnest proving line.
-7. **Success metrics** — outcome-shaped: metric · target · how measured.
-   "Engagement" is not a metric.
-8. **Non-goals.**
-9. **Open questions** — named checkboxes, never hidden.
-
-## Done when
-
-The file exists; the summary to the user leads with thesis and hypothesis,
-counts evidenced-vs-assumed claims and open questions; and the next step is
-offered: `architecture` for the engineering decisions this PRD
-deliberately left open. Failing any of the five tests below means not done:
-evidence-grounded problem · hypothesis with separate RIGHT and WRONG ·
-outcome-shaped metrics · explicit non-goals · zero engineering decisions.
-
-## Red flags
-
-- A stack, library, database, or framework name anywhere in the document —
-  "React + Postgres" appearing at all is an instant fail; that decision
-  belongs to `architecture`, not here.
-- A hypothesis with a RIGHT condition and no WRONG condition, or a WRONG
-  condition that is just the RIGHT one negated instead of a real
-  counter-signal.
-- The literal filename `PRD.md`, or anything outside `docs/`, instead of
-  `docs/<kebab-slug>.prd.md`.
-- Calling `ask_user` again after a refusal, instead of switching to
-  the decline treatment for every step from there on.
-- Opening a task list for the interview clusters; `tasks` is refused.
-- Reaching Generate without ever attempting Step 0 or the first cluster —
-  the decline/headless treatment is a fallback for a gate that ran and came
-  back empty, not a license to skip the loop from the start.
-- Claims in the document that trace to neither the seeded evidence nor a
-  marked assumption — an invented fact reads as confident and is the
-  hardest failure to catch after the fact.
-- Reaching for `bash` to grep or count-check the written PRD: `bash` is not
-  in this skill's tool surface and the call is refused. Verify with `grep`
-  and `read` instead.