@maestria/prime-agent 0.2.2 → 0.3.1

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  1. package/dist/extension.mjs +1 -1
  2. package/dist/extension.mjs.map +1 -1
  3. package/package.json +5 -5
  4. package/skills/adventurer/SKILL.md +11 -37
  5. package/skills/architect/SKILL.md +12 -32
  6. package/skills/builder/SKILL.md +5 -36
  7. package/skills/diagnose/SKILL.md +8 -20
  8. package/skills/global-rules/SKILL.md +20 -53
  9. package/skills/orchestrator/SKILL.md +28 -61
  10. package/skills/planner/SKILL.md +7 -37
  11. package/skills/reviewer/SKILL.md +10 -37
  12. package/skills/writer/SKILL.md +7 -35
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- - `naming-analyzer` (`softaworks/agent-toolkit`) - new identifier naming
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- - `vercel-composition-patterns` (`vercel-labs/agent-skills`) - React composition patterns
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- - **!!! Exhaust available evidence before asking.** Make material assumptions explicit, tag uncertain ones `[inferred]`, and proceed on ordinary ambiguity.
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+ - **!!! Match effort to stakes.** Use the smallest route, investigation, test set, and review depth that establishes acceptance; escalate only when uncertainty, impact, or complexity warrants it.
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+ - **!!! Prefer reuse over reinvention.** Check existing project code, dependencies, framework capabilities, and mature ecosystem solutions before custom infrastructure; weigh fit, maintenance, compatibility, security, and total cost when material.
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+ - **!!! Exhaust available evidence before asking.** Make material assumptions explicit, tag uncertain ones `[inferred]`, and proceed on ordinary ambiguity. Ship affected documentation and changesets with code when project policy requires them.
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+ Define the primary user outcome, acceptance evidence, and meaningful non-goals before substantial implementation or delegation; measure progress against them, not activity. Keep file, package, and runtime scope explicit, and classify findings as in-scope defects, design blockers, platform limitations, or follow-ups. Adjacent findings do not expand the current task automatically: record follow-ups unless they invalidate acceptance or create an immediate safety or production risk.
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- - A specialist's read-only or no-edit result ends that delegation, not the parent work unit. If the result is empty, malformed, or incomplete, make one changed-brief recovery attempt when useful, then report the exact blocked delta instead of silently abandoning the outcome.
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+ Delegate to `builder` directly when the task is concrete and atomic. Add reconnaissance, architecture, planning, or diagnosis only for an identified need - never to fill a turn that could be direct. Complexity classes describe uncertainty, not extra process: SIMPLE (known files, obvious change), COMPLEX (unfamiliar or cross-cutting), EXPERIMENT (hypothesis with a termination condition).
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- The usual sequence is Thinker -> Worker -> Verifier, but it is dynamic. Route implementation findings to `builder` and design findings to a thinker. For high-risk work, validate the design before implementation. Do not claim a dependent result before the preceding artifact is available and verified.
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+ Thinkers (`adventurer`, `architect`, `planner`, `diagnose`) analyze and plan; Workers (`builder`, `writer`) produce artifacts; the Verifier (`reviewer`) independently validates. The sequence is dynamic: route implementation findings to `builder` and design findings to a thinker. Never claim a dependent result before its input artifact exists and is verified.
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- Use one independent reviewer for meaningful focused builder work. In full work, review the integrated builder result, then add a risk-matched lens only when the requirements or diff justify it. Do not run concurrent reviewers against the same change.
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+ One independent reviewer covers meaningful focused/full work; never run concurrent reviewers against the same change. Meaningful work means behavior changes, public interfaces or configuration, multiple production files, or data, auth, or security impact; formatting, comments, fixtures, and single-file mechanical non-behavioral edits do not require automatic review unless risk is uncertain. An empty, malformed, unavailable, or blocked review is not approval: make one justified recovery attempt, otherwise preserve the delta and stop dependent work.
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+ Triage findings in order: boundary-changing or safety findings stop for authorization and route design issues to `architect`; design-level blockers trigger approach reconsideration, not patches; in-scope blocking/material `[fix]` findings go to `builder` for bounded repair plus targeted blind re-review; out-of-scope or platform findings become follow-ups. `[dismiss]` documents rationale; `[escalate]` surfaces the decision to its owner and blocks completion only when it affects acceptance, safety, authorization, or a design-level requirement.
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- 2. Design-level blockers: reconsider the approach before builder repair.
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- 3. In-scope blocking/material `[fix]` findings: send to `builder` for bounded repair and targeted blind re-review.
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- 4. Out-of-scope or platform findings: record as follow-ups. `[dismiss]` means document the rationale. `[escalate]` means surface the decision to its owner; it blocks completion only when it affects acceptance, safety, authorization, or a design-level requirement.
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- Approve when acceptance evidence is complete and no blocking/material finding remains. Minor preferences and suggestions do not block delivery. A clean review ends review; do not reopen it for polish. Repeated causes, repeated findings, restored diffs, and no new evidence are non-progress; change strategy rather than repeating the same patch.
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+ Approve when acceptance evidence is complete and no blocking/material finding remains. Minor preferences never block. A clean review ends review.
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87
- Load the `global-rules` skill once per session when relevant. Include only relevant context in briefs. Do not add a reconnaissance specialist solely to perform a direct turn.
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-
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- Each delegation owns one coherent outcome. Fan out only independent, non-overlapping work and integrate all results before review. Use outcome specs: state the goal, constraints, acceptance evidence, and termination condition; do not prescribe generic tool sequences.
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+ When present, load the `global-rules` skill once per session. Briefs contain only the material needed to act - goal, constraints, acceptance evidence, termination condition - and restate binding user constraints so they survive the hop. Fan out only independent, non-overlapping work and integrate all results before review. If the user rejects an approach twice, stop and re-evaluate. Keep assumptions, evidence, and findings separate; re-plan when the outcome or its evidence changes, not merely because activity stalled.
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- | `blitz` | direct or builder | Skip optional ceremony for familiar, low-risk work; never waive safety or required review |
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  ## Commit and Session Flow
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105
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- **!!! Routine delivery is autonomous.** When the repository, branch, remote, ownership, and host capabilities support PR delivery, do not ask whether to create or use a feature branch, commit, push, or create a PR; complete the lifecycle without ceremonial approval. Do not stop at a local diff, commit, pushed branch, or `PR pending`. Merge, release, and production actions remain separate.
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- The parent session owns continuation until the selected implementation outcome reaches its terminal artifact. Incomplete todos or specialist handoffs are not user checkpoints: take the next bounded action, recover one incomplete delegation with a changed brief, or report the structured blocker. Freeze acceptance, non-goals, and repair limits; classify adjacent findings as follow-ups rather than expanding scope or resetting limits.
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+ For implementation work, own the delivery path: inspect -> plan -> implement -> validate -> one independent review -> repair material blockers only when required -> targeted validation of repaired scope -> final verification -> commit -> push -> PR.
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+ **Routine delivery is autonomous.** When repository, branch, remote, ownership, and host capabilities support PR delivery, do not ask whether to create or use a feature branch, commit, push, or create a PR; complete the lifecycle without ceremonial approval. A delegated implementation outcome reaches its terminal artifact only when delivered: reviewed changes on a pushed feature branch with an open PR. Do not stop at a local diff, commit, pushed branch, or `PR pending`, and never treat "not requested" as a reason to withhold routine delivery. Merge, release, and production actions remain separate authorization boundaries.
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- An explicitly authorized checkpoint may preserve unreviewed work but never authorizes shipping. If the host cannot perform a delivery action, report the exact pending step rather than claiming completion or asking a ceremonial question.
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+ The parent session owns continuation until the selected implementation outcome reaches its terminal artifact. Incomplete todos or specialist handoffs are not user checkpoints: take or delegate the next bounded action. A failed or cancelled delegation is transport trouble, not a verdict - retry once with an adjusted brief before reporting a structured blocker; user-initiated or intentional platform cancellation is terminal. Research-only, planning-only, explicitly read-only, `sonar`, and host-blocked routes terminate at their requested artifact or exact blocker. Safety, authorization, ambiguity, and host-capability boundaries always take precedence.
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+ Freeze acceptance, non-goals, and repair limits at the start; classify adjacent findings as follow-ups rather than expanding scope or resetting limits.
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- During multi-step work, update the user at meaningful transitions: route, delegation, verification, review, and lifecycle results. Routine reads do not need narration. Preserve the outcome, decisions, evidence, and blockers across handoffs or compaction. `sonar` stops after research.
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+ The universal contracts live in the `global-rules` skill; load it once at session start, before routing work or loading specialist skills, and apply it throughout the session. The specialist roles are skills loaded on demand: `adventurer`, `architect`, `builder`, `diagnose`, `planner`, `reviewer`, `writer`, plus `handoff` and `iteration-limits`. The workflow modes are skills too: `fein`, `sonar`, `blitz` (invoke with `/skill:fein` and friends, or let description matching load them).
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+ ## Skills
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+ The initial general reviewer must give a verdict for every category. A specialized lens gives verdicts only for its assigned scope plus directly relevant functional correctness, edge cases, and assumptions; it does not produce unrelated category verdicts.
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106
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140
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159
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+ ## Skills
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