@multileaf/ai-workflow 0.11.0 → 0.12.0

package/docs/backlog.md

@@ -116,11 +116,18 @@ Derived from the Gentle-AI ODD/RDD analysis; scope and rejected alternatives rec
 - [x] **OPP-001** Add a light lane for small, understood work (proportional ceremony). _Acceptance:_ see [OPP-001](../opportunities/OPP-001-proportional-ceremony-light-lane.md); no durable spec/plan artifacts for light tasks, evidence and lane rationale still recorded, explicit escalation to the full lane on scope growth, full lane unchanged.
 - [x] **OPP-002** Add `aiw risk assess` — read-only, content-based risk classification with an exact runnable next command. _Acceptance:_ see [OPP-002](../opportunities/OPP-002-risk-assess-command.md); deterministic and offline by default, no `.aiw/` mutation, escalation raises and never lowers tier, `next_command` executes as printed.
 - [x] **OPP-003** Ship an optional `adversarial-review` package (blind judges + refuter with proof-carrying findings). _Acceptance:_ see [OPP-003](../opportunities/OPP-003-adversarial-review-package.md); severe findings without reproducible evidence degrade to advisory; refutation outcomes are corroborated/refuted/inconclusive with proof references; human acceptance still required.
-- [ ] **OPP-004** Emit typed reason codes and exact continuation commands on every blocking exit. _Acceptance:_ see [OPP-004](../opportunities/OPP-004-exact-continuation-commands.md); every block carries a reason code and either a tested runnable `next_command` or an explicit terminal statement; continuation inventory stays complete in CI.
+- [x] **OPP-004** Emit typed reason codes and exact continuation commands on every blocking exit. _Acceptance:_ see [OPP-004](../opportunities/OPP-004-exact-continuation-commands.md); every block carries a reason code and either a tested runnable `next_command` or an explicit terminal statement; continuation inventory stays complete in CI.
 - [x] **OPP-005** Add a friction benchmark classifying blocks as in-band / out-of-band / dead-end over packaged-CLI journeys. _Acceptance:_ see [OPP-005](../opportunities/OPP-005-friction-benchmark.md); deterministic classification, continuations actually executed, CI fails on any dead end.
 - [x] **OPP-006** Adopt the emission ≠ usability test policy: messages naming a command must have a test executing it. _Acceptance:_ see [OPP-006](../opportunities/OPP-006-emission-usability-test-policy.md); extraction helper covers emitted and generated command mentions; generated `ai-init` skills' commands are executed in e2e tests.
-- [ ] **007-decision-findings-triage-scope-watch** Decision model — findings-evidence triage and lane scope-watch (advisory-only). _Acceptance:_ see [OPP-007](../opportunities/OPP-007-decision-findings-triage-scope-watch.md); unconfigured = byte-identical offline behavior; advisory flags never block, never lower tiers, never choose lanes.
-- [ ] **008-embedding-covering-tests-judge-context** Embedding retrieval — covering-test detection and judge context scoping. _Acceptance:_ see [OPP-008](../opportunities/OPP-008-embedding-covering-tests-judge-context.md); retrieval only prevents false `untested` flags (absence fails safe toward high); scoped judge prompts labeled as context aids within token ceilings.
+- [ ] **OPP-007** Decision model — findings-evidence triage and lane scope-watch (advisory-only). _Acceptance:_ see [OPP-007](../opportunities/OPP-007-decision-findings-triage-scope-watch.md); unconfigured = byte-identical offline behavior; advisory flags never block, never lower tiers, never choose lanes.
+- [ ] **OPP-008** Embedding retrieval — covering-test detection and judge context scoping. _Acceptance:_ see [OPP-008](../opportunities/OPP-008-embedding-covering-tests-judge-context.md); retrieval only prevents false `untested` flags (absence fails safe toward high); scoped judge prompts labeled as context aids within token ceilings.
+- [x] **OPP-009** Processes as entry points — bug-fixing and idea-assessment process registries alongside the feature SDD lane. _Acceptance:_ see [OPP-009](../opportunities/OPP-009-process-entry-points.md); per-process stage lists, diagnosis/assessment artifacts with gates, default feature process byte-identical, archived ledgers backward compatible.
+- [x] **OPP-010** Worktree isolation for orchestrated execution (`orchestrate --isolate`). _Acceptance:_ see [OPP-010](../opportunities/OPP-010-orchestration-worktree-isolation.md); per-task worktrees, evidence-bound checkpoints, capability-declared adapter refusal, cleanup guarded by doctor; no flag = unchanged behavior.
+- [x] **OPP-011** Evals + red-team layer for generated artifacts. _Acceptance:_ see [OPP-011](../opportunities/OPP-011-evals-redteam-generated-artifacts.md); per-adapter contract invariants in CI, deterministic injection fixtures, offline local run, ratchet for skill/template changes.
+- [x] **OPP-012** Standards discovery — extract codebase conventions into confirmed, versioned standards. _Acceptance:_ see [OPP-012](../opportunities/OPP-012-standards-discovery.md); evidence-cited extraction with confirmation contract, deterministic offline floor, just-in-time injection into rules/skills, advisory drift reporting.
+- [x] **OPP-013** Read-Optimized Artifacts — fingerprint-bound digest layer so downstream stages read digests instead of re-reading full artifacts. _Acceptance:_ see [OPP-013](../opportunities/OPP-013-read-optimized-artifacts-digest-layer.md); digests extracted deterministically at approval, stale-safe (fail toward full read), ≥60% reduction in recorded full-artifact reads, no model-generated summaries.
+- [x] **OPP-014** Paired Verification Contract — plan declares `command → expected`, evidence records `command → observed`, gates compare pairs. _Acceptance:_ see [OPP-014](../opportunities/OPP-014-paired-verification-contract.md); mismatch/missing pairs fail with typed reasons and machine-readable task ids; gates never execute commands; legacy format accepted with advisory.
+- [x] **OPP-015** Token & Recovery Governance — enforced stage budgets, context-recovery managed block, advisory lane suggestion, regression-pinning declaration. _Acceptance:_ see [OPP-015](../opportunities/OPP-015-token-recovery-governance.md); budgets derive from saved baselines and default-inert; recovery block in every adapter rendering; advisory line never blocks.
 
 ## Backlog rules
 

package/docs/continuation-inventory.md

@@ -6,19 +6,23 @@ Every blocking `aiw` exit carries a stable reason code plus either an exact runn
 - With `--json`, blocking exits return `{ "reason_code": ..., "next_command" | "next_action" | "terminal": ... }`.
 - The table below is generated from the registry; a test in `src/blocking-reasons.test.ts` fails CI when this page drifts from the code.
 
-| Reason code                     | Description                                                                                   | Continuation     |
-| ------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------- |
-| `gate_evidence_missing`         | The quality gate is blocked because the required evidence artifact is missing.                | explicit action  |
-| `gate_incomplete`               | The quality gate found completeness issues in the stage artifact.                             | explicit action  |
-| `stage_prerequisite_pending`    | A previous stage is awaiting human approval before this stage can start.                      | runnable command |
-| `stage_prerequisite_unresolved` | Previous stages need human approval or an accepted optional skip before this stage can start. | runnable command |
-| `stage_awaiting_approval`       | This stage is awaiting human approval; approve or reject it before continuing.                | runnable command |
-| `stage_already_approved`        | This stage is already approved; changed evidence requires rerunning its quality gate.         | runnable command |
-| `approval_evidence_missing`     | Approval cannot be recorded because the stage evidence artifact is missing.                   | explicit action  |
-| `approval_stale`                | The artifact changed after review; its approval is stale and the gate must run again.         | runnable command |
-| `approval_gate_missing`         | No passing quality gate is recorded for this stage; gate it before approving.                 | runnable command |
-| `lane_escalation_required`      | Light-lane workflows do not author stage artifacts; escalate to the full lane to continue.    | explicit action  |
-| `light_evidence_missing`        | A light-lane workflow cannot complete without at least one recorded validation entry.         | explicit action  |
-| `workflow_still_active`         | A workflow is already active; finish or archive it before starting another.                   | explicit action  |
-| `workflow_not_active`           | No SDD workflow is active for this command to operate on.                                     | runnable command |
-| `workflow_complete`             | This workflow is already complete; start a new workflow to continue working.                  | runnable command |
+| Reason code                     | Description                                                                                              | Continuation     |
+| ------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------- |
+| `gate_evidence_missing`         | The quality gate is blocked because the required evidence artifact is missing.                           | explicit action  |
+| `gate_incomplete`               | The quality gate found completeness issues in the stage artifact.                                        | explicit action  |
+| `stage_prerequisite_pending`    | A previous stage is awaiting human approval before this stage can start.                                 | runnable command |
+| `stage_prerequisite_unresolved` | Previous stages need human approval or an accepted optional skip before this stage can start.            | runnable command |
+| `stage_awaiting_approval`       | This stage is awaiting human approval; approve or reject it before continuing.                           | runnable command |
+| `stage_already_approved`        | This stage is already approved; changed evidence requires rerunning its quality gate.                    | runnable command |
+| `approval_evidence_missing`     | Approval cannot be recorded because the stage evidence artifact is missing.                              | explicit action  |
+| `approval_stale`                | The artifact changed after review; its approval is stale and the gate must run again.                    | runnable command |
+| `approval_gate_missing`         | No passing quality gate is recorded for this stage; gate it before approving.                            | runnable command |
+| `lane_escalation_required`      | Light-lane workflows do not author stage artifacts; escalate to the full lane to continue.               | explicit action  |
+| `light_evidence_missing`        | A light-lane workflow cannot complete without at least one recorded validation entry.                    | explicit action  |
+| `workflow_still_active`         | A workflow is already active; finish or archive it before starting another.                              | explicit action  |
+| `workflow_not_active`           | No SDD workflow is active for this command to operate on.                                                | runnable command |
+| `workflow_complete`             | This workflow is already complete; start a new workflow to continue working.                             | runnable command |
+| `installation_required`         | AI Workflow is not installed in this repository; install it to continue.                                 | runnable command |
+| `state_mismatch`                | AI Workflow state files are inconsistent with each other; run diagnostics to inspect and repair.         | runnable command |
+| `context_budget_exceeded`       | The served context exceeds the declared ceiling for this stage; trim it or raise the ceiling explicitly. | explicit action  |
+| `stage_not_in_process`          | This stage does not exist in the active workflow's process; use the process's own stages.                | explicit action  |

package/docs/opportunities/OPP-009-process-entry-points.md

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+# OPP-009: Processes as entry points — bug-fixing and idea assessment alongside SDD
+
+- Status: Implemented (2026-11-01): feature/bugfix/idea-assessment processes with per-process stage lists, gates, and typed stage_not_in_process blocks
+- Priority: P2
+- Added: 2026-11-01
+- Decision: extends [ADR-001](../../.context/adrs/ADR-001-odd-rdd-proportionality-scope.md) Decision A (lane architecture)
+- Trend signal: `github/spec-kit` (145K★) ships bug-fixing and idea-assessment as **independent entry points, not mandatory phases** — the market confirmed the proportionality direction ADR-001 adopted; this opportunity matches its breadth.
+
+## Problem
+
+AI Workflow's staged pipeline is feature-centric. Real work arrives in at least two other shapes that today are force-fitted into the full lane (generating unread artifacts) or bypass the workflow entirely (generating no evidence):
+
+1. **Bug reports** — nobody brainstorms a bug. The honest process is: reproduce/diagnose → scoped fix → verification that the reproduction now passes and the original behavior holds.
+2. **Idea evaluation** — before any spec exists, the question is "is this worth building?" — an evidence-backed go / clarify / stop decision, not an implementation plan.
+
+spec-kit's model validates the shape: processes are independent entry points assembled from shared primitives, some bundled as extensions. AI Workflow's lanes, reason codes, gates, and approval ledger are exactly such primitives — this opportunity composes them into first-class processes.
+
+## Proposal
+
+1. **Process definitions** (data, not code paths): each process declares its ordered stages and optional stages, extending the lane concept (OPP-001) from two lanes of one process to a small process registry:
+   - `feature` (default, current 8 stages, unchanged);
+   - `bugfix`: `diagnosis` (reproduction evidence is the artifact — observed behavior vs expected, environment) → scoped fix implementation (TDD: the failing reproduction test is the RED test) → verification → review. Brainstorming/specification/technical-design do not exist in this process; requirements are the reproduction itself.
+   - `idea-assessment`: evidence gathering (read-only research with attributed sources) → assessment artifact with a single outcome (`go` / `clarify` / `stop`) + human decision; `go` may chain into a `feature` workflow carrying the evidence forward.
+2. **CLI**: `aiw task start --ticket=X --process=bugfix` (feature stays the default; the process choice is human-made like the lane). Process names validate against the registry; `--process` composes with `--lane=light` where the process supports it (bugfix supports light; idea-assessment is inherently its own artifact shape).
+3. **Ledger**: `ApprovalLedger` gains a `process` field (default `feature`); stage validation (`assertStageReady`, `getUnresolvedPrerequisites`) reads the process's stage list instead of the fixed `APPROVAL_STAGES`. Gates and fingerprint binding are reused as-is — every stage keeps the same "automated gate ≠ human approval" contract.
+4. **Templates/skills**: `resources/templates/` gains diagnosis and assessment templates; a `bug-fixing` skill guides the diagnosis artifact (reproduction command, observed/expected, root cause with evidence, scope statement); an `idea-assessment` skill guides evidence-backed go/clarify/stop with attributed sources.
+5. **Traceability**: `aiw trace` accepts diagnosis artifacts as evidence sources for bugfix workflows (requirement = the reproduction statement).
+
+## Affected areas
+
+- `src/types.ts` + `src/human-approval.ts` (process registry, per-process stage lists, ledger `process` field, validation per process)
+- `src/workflow.ts` (`task start --process`, stage command routing per process, `workflow complete` per-process stage set)
+- `src/quality-gates.ts` (diagnosis and assessment completeness validators)
+- `src/traceability.ts` (diagnosis as evidence source)
+- `resources/templates/`, `resources/skills/bug-fixing.md`, `resources/skills/idea-assessment.md`, `resources/package.yaml`
+- `docs/architecture.md` (process registry section), `README.md`
+
+## Acceptance criteria
+
+- Given a bugfix task, when the workflow runs, then only diagnosis → implementation → verification → review stages exist; `aiw spec` blocks with a typed reason (`stage_not_in_process`); the diagnosis artifact requires a reproduction command and observed/expected behavior to pass its gate.
+- Given an idea-assessment task, when it completes, then the assessment artifact records an outcome (`go`/`clarify`/`stop`) with attributed evidence, and a human decision on the outcome is required before the workflow closes; `go` records a forward link to the created feature workflow.
+- Given the default no-`--process` invocation, when any stage command runs, then behavior is byte-identical to the feature process today.
+- Given an archived ledger from ≤0.10.0, when 0.11+ reads it, then it is treated as `process: feature` (backward compatible, no migration).
+- Given any process, when a stage blocks, then the blocking exit carries a reason code and exact continuation per the OPP-004 contract.
+
+## Non-goals
+
+- No user-defined custom processes in this iteration (the registry is code-defined; arbitrary composition is a later extension).
+- No changes to the feature process's stage order, gates, or approvals.
+- No automatic process inference from the ticket — the human picks; automation may suggest.
+
+## Open questions
+
+- Should `idea-assessment` outcomes feed recommendations (a `stop` recorded against a capability suppresses re-suggestion)?
+- Does the bugfix process need a `regression-test` gate item distinct from verification evidence?
+- Naming: `bugfix` vs `fix`; `idea-assessment` vs `assessment`.

package/docs/opportunities/OPP-010-orchestration-worktree-isolation.md

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+# OPP-010: Worktree isolation for orchestrated execution
+
+- Status: Implemented (2026-11-01): orchestrate --isolate with branch-per-task worktrees, evidence-bound checkpoints, kept-on-failure worktrees, and --cleanup
+- Priority: P2
+- Added: 2026-11-01
+- Decision: extends [ADR-001](../../.context/adrs/ADR-001-odd-rdd-proportionality-scope.md) Decision A
+- Trend signal: Spec Kitty sells isolated worktrees as its core ("implementation can happen in parallel without branch chaos"); Conductor (3.7K★) and Grasp are built entirely around parallel agent worktrees; AI Workflow's own `docs/quality.md` already mandates isolated-worktree validation runs — currently performed manually.
+
+## Problem
+
+`aiw orchestrate` schedules a validated task graph and delegates each task to an adapter, but every task runs against the **same working tree**. Consequences:
+
+- parallel tasks conflict on shared files (the reason `--max-parallel` exists but parallelism stays risky);
+- the quality.md requirement — "externally visible tasks also require an isolated integration run by an AI subagent in a separate worktree" — is satisfied by hand, with no evidence that the worktree was actually isolated;
+- a failed task leaves the main tree dirty, mixing orchestration debris with human work.
+
+## Proposal
+
+1. **`aiw orchestrate --isolate`**: before executing a task (or an independent wave), create a git worktree from the current HEAD under `.aiw/worktrees/<plan-id>/<task-id>/`; pass that path as the task's working directory; remove the worktree on success (after evidence capture) and keep it on failure for diagnosis.
+2. **Adapter contract extension** (backward compatible): `OrchestrationTask` gains an optional `worktree?: string`; the adapter contract keeps "the adapter owns process isolation" — aiw owns **git** isolation and hands the path over. Adapters that cannot use a worktree reject `--isolate` with a typed error naming the capability (consistent with the adapter capability matrix).
+3. **Evidence binding**: the per-task checkpoint (already `orchestration-<plan-id>.yml`) records the worktree path, base commit, and final commit/diff stat, so the "isolated run happened" requirement becomes verifiable evidence instead of prose.
+4. **Merge strategy**: on success, a fast-forward/merge step records which task branches are ready to integrate; merge remains a human-approved action (delivery is never automatic — consistent with the approval contract).
+5. **Cleanup guard**: `aiw orchestrate --cleanup` lists and removes stale worktrees for completed/failed plans; doctor reports leaked worktrees (a worktree whose plan checkpoint shows completion but still exists on disk).
+
+## Affected areas
+
+- `src/orchestration.ts` (worktree lifecycle, evidence fields, cleanup)
+- `src/adapter-contract.ts` (optional `worktree` task field, capability declaration)
+- Adapters (`src/claude-adapter.ts`, codex, gemini, copilot, universal) — pass-through or capability-declared refusal
+- `src/doctor`/`src/workflow.ts` diagnostics (leaked worktree check)
+- `docs/orchestration.md`, `docs/quality.md` (manual requirement → tooling requirement)
+
+## Acceptance criteria
+
+- Given `--isolate` with two independent tasks, when the plan executes with `--max-parallel=2`, then each task runs in its own worktree from the same base commit and their file writes never touch the main tree.
+- Given a task failure under isolation, when the plan finishes, then the failed task's worktree is preserved on disk and the checkpoint names its path and base commit.
+- Given a successful task under isolation, when evidence is recorded, then the checkpoint contains base commit, final commit, and diff stat for that task.
+- Given an adapter that does not declare worktree support, when `--isolate` is used, then the plan fails before any task runs with a typed error naming the adapter and capability.
+- Given no `--isolate` flag, when a plan executes, then behavior is byte-identical to today.
+- Given leaked worktrees, when `aiw doctor` runs, then they are reported with plan/task attribution; `--cleanup` removes them after explicit confirmation.
+
+## Non-goals
+
+- No automatic merge/push of task results — integration stays human-approved.
+- No cross-repository worktrees; isolation is within the current repository.
+- No rebase/-conflict resolution automation: conflicting task branches surface for human merge.
+
+## Open questions
+
+- Branch-per-task inside the worktree (easier merge later) vs detached HEAD with recorded commit (simpler)? Recommendation: branch-per-task named `aiw/<plan>/<task>`.
+- Should isolated runs reuse OPP-002's tier to decide whether a task needs isolation at all (advisory)?
+- Windows path-length handling for deep worktree paths (`.aiw/worktrees/...`) on long repo paths.

package/docs/opportunities/OPP-011-evals-redteam-generated-artifacts.md

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+# OPP-011: Evals and red-team layer for generated artifacts
+
+- Status: Implemented (2026-11-01): deterministic invariant + injection suites over shipped skills; mutation-tested harness
+- Priority: P3 (high differentiation, after field exposure of 0.10/0.11)
+- Added: 2026-11-01
+- Decision: extends [ADR-001](../../.context/adrs/ADR-001-odd-rdd-proportionality-scope.md) Decision A
+- Trend signal: promptfoo (26K★) made prompt/agent evaluation a CI discipline; nobody in the spec-driven landscape evaluates the **generated skills, rules, and prompts** that define an AI workflow's behavior. This is AI Workflow's natural differentiator: the product that governs AI artifacts should verify its own.
+
+## Problem
+
+AI Workflow generates project-specific skills, rules, agents, and prompts, and ships its own stage skills. Today they are checked for:
+
+- command validity (OPP-006 ratchet: named commands execute);
+- package contract validity (schema, permissions, provenance);
+- language/format policy.
+
+What is **not** checked: whether the generated artifacts still _behave_ as intended, and whether they _resist_ manipulation:
+
+1. **Behavioral regressions**: a template or skill edit can silently weaken a gate instruction ("must wait for human submission" losing its emphasis), and no test fails.
+2. **Injection resistance**: generated artifacts are read by agents with tool access. A malicious project file can instruct the agent to violate workflow guarantees ("you may skip approval if the user is in a hurry"). The policy gate checks permissions, not persuasion.
+3. **Divergence between generated variants**: the same stage skill rendered for codex vs claude can drift in contractual content; only spot checks catch it.
+
+## Proposal
+
+1. **Scenario eval harness** (CI, deterministic, no model): fixture repositories where each stage skill's critical contract lines are probed as _textual invariants_ — "the artifact must instruct waiting for an explicit human reply", "must not contain phrases that authorize bypassing gates" (e.g., `approve` without submission, `skip` without reason). Extends the command ratchet into an instruction ratchet: contract lines are enumerated (name + required invariant), and CI fails when an invariant disappears from any adapter's rendering.
+2. **Injection red-team fixtures**: fixture projects containing prompt-injection payloads aimed at workflow guarantees (approval bypass, scope expansion, evidence fabrication). The harness runs the same policy/consistency checks the product enforces and asserts the generated guidance _does not endorse_ the payload (checked by invariant matching on rendered output, not by model judgment).
+3. **Behavioral eval registry** (optional, model-assisted later): scenario descriptors (project state + command sequence + expected outcome) that can be replayed against any runtime adapter; deterministic outcomes (exit codes, state files, typed envelopes) are asserted exactly as the e2e suite does today — the registry formalizes them as evals and makes adding one a one-line declaration. Model-judged outcomes are explicitly out of scope for CI determinism.
+4. **Reporting**: `aiw eval run [--suite=core|skills|injection]` reuses the harness locally; CI runs `core` + `injection` on every PR touching `resources/` or templates.
+
+## Affected areas
+
+- New `src/eval/` (scenario registry, invariant extraction from skill markdown, harness)
+- `resources/skills/*.md`, `resources/templates/*` (invariant annotations: stable anchor comments the harness counts on)
+- `.github/workflows/ci.yml` (eval suites on resource-touching PRs)
+- `src/package-audit.ts` / `src/policy-gate.ts` (reuse permission and policy surfaces for injection checks)
+- `docs/quality.md` (eval suites as completion criteria for skill/template changes)
+
+## Acceptance criteria
+
+- Given a stage skill rendered for every adapter, when invariants run, then each declared contract invariant (approval waiting, skip reasons, gate-before-approve) is present in every rendering; a missing one fails CI naming the adapter and invariant.
+- Given an injection fixture (approval-bypass payload in a project file), when the eval suite runs, then no generated artifact endorses the bypass (invariant match), and the run is deterministic across executions.
+- Given a template edit that removes a gate instruction, when CI runs, then the behavioral invariant fails naming the removed anchor.
+- Given `aiw eval run --suite=skills`, when run locally, then it reproduces the CI result offline with no model configured.
+- Given a new skill/template PR, when it touches rendered contract content, then the PR must include invariant updates (ratchet like OPP-006).
+
+## Non-goals
+
+- No LLM-as-judge in CI (determinism is the whole point; model-assisted evaluation stays a local, advisory tool).
+- No red-teaming of end-user code — the target is AI Workflow's own generated artifacts.
+- No runtime enforcement changes: this hardens what ships, it does not add new gates to user workflows.
+
+## Open questions
+
+- Invariant anchor format: HTML comments in skill markdown vs a sidecar manifest mapping invariants to files?
+- Should injection fixtures live in the package contract tests (per third-party package) or the core harness?
+- Do rendered-variant diffs (codex vs claude) warrant a dedicated divergence check beyond shared invariants?

package/docs/opportunities/OPP-012-standards-discovery.md

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+# OPP-012: Standards discovery — extract codebase conventions into versioned standards
+
+- Status: Implemented (2026-11-01, deterministic floor): aiw standards extract|list|confirm|reject with evidence-cited inferred standards; OPP-008 retrieval extension remains future
+- Priority: P3 (depends on OPP-008 retrieval plumbing)
+- Added: 2026-11-01
+- Decision: extends [ADR-001](../../.context/adrs/ADR-001-odd-rdd-proportionality-scope.md) Decision A
+- Trend signal: Agent OS (5.5K★) built its positioning on "Discover Standards — extract patterns and conventions from your codebase into documented standards" and "Deploy Standards — inject relevant standards based on what you're building". AI Workflow generates rules from the detected **stack**; the trend is to extract them from the **codebase's actual conventions**, with evidence.
+
+## Problem
+
+AI Workflow generates project rules from detected and confirmed facts (stack, tools, scripts). What it does not capture: **how this codebase actually does things** — error-handling idiom, naming conventions, test structure, state management patterns. Consequences:
+
+- generated guidance is generic ("this is a TypeScript project") rather than specific ("this repo wraps errors in `AppError` with `code` fields; tests live beside sources as `*.test.ts` using vitest `describe/it`");
+- agents routinely propose idiomatic-but-foreign code that reviewers must correct;
+- conventions live in senior developers' heads — exactly the knowledge agents lack.
+
+## Proposal
+
+1. **`aiw standards extract`** (read-only, evidence-linked): analyzes the repository (deterministic detectors first: file layout, test naming, config presence; semantic retrieval via OPP-008 when enabled for pattern instances) and produces **standards documents** under `.aiw/standards/<topic>.md` — each statement carries: the convention, **evidence citations** (file:line examples, N occurrences), and a confidence tier (detected-strong / detected-weak / proposed).
+2. **Confirmation contract** (consistent with profile facts): standards are `inferred` until the human accepts/rejects/edits them via `aiw confirm`; accepted standards become `confirmed` and are versioned in the lockfile. AI output never silently becomes rule content.
+3. **Injection into generated rules**: confirmed standards are rendered into project rules (and referenced from stage skills: "follow `.aiw/standards/error-handling.md`") through the existing generator — the same preserved-override/drift semantics as other generated content (GEN-002).
+4. **Deterministic floor**: with no semantic mapping configured, extraction covers deterministic conventions only (naming patterns via glob/AST-lite heuristics, test layout, error-class presence) — no network, useful even offline. Retrieval only extends coverage (OPP-008's consumer, as anticipated).
+5. **Freshness**: standards carry their extraction commit; `aiw scan` reports drift when the codebase diverges from recorded standards (files matching a standard's evidence changed) — advisory, consistent with drift detection elsewhere.
+
+## Affected areas
+
+- New `src/standards.ts` (extractors, confirmation state, rendering)
+- `src/scanner.ts` (deterministic convention detectors), `src/semantic.ts` (OPP-008 retrieval for pattern instances)
+- `src/generator.ts` (rule injection referencing confirmed standards), `src/drift.ts` (standards drift reporting)
+- `.aiw/standards/` (new state directory), lockfile (confirmed standards)
+- `docs/README.md`, `docs/architecture.md`, README
+
+## Acceptance criteria
+
+- Given a repository with consistent error-wrapping, when `aiw standards extract` runs offline, then the error-handling standard cites ≥2 file:line examples with occurrence counts and tier `detected-strong`, pending confirmation.
+- Given inferred standards, when the human confirms one, then it becomes `confirmed`, is recorded in the lockfile, and appears in regenerated rules; rejected ones are never rendered.
+- Given no semantic mapping configured, when extracting, then deterministic conventions still produce standards and no network request is made.
+- Given confirmed standards, when a stage skill renders, then it references applicable standards by path (just-in-time, per the token-cost principle — standards content is loaded on demand, not inlined everywhere).
+- Given a codebase change contradicting a confirmed standard, when `aiw scan` runs, then drift is reported as advisory with the diverging files named.
+
+## Non-goals
+
+- No auto-confirmation: all standards start inferred (profile-facts contract).
+- No style-lint replacement: standards describe conventions; enforcement stays with the project's own linters.
+- No cross-repository standards sharing in this iteration (org-level standards live in ENT-001/002 territory).
+
+## Open questions
+
+- Extractor taxonomy for v1: error handling, testing, naming, module layout — what else earns a dedicated extractor?
+- Should standards participate in traceability (a rule citing a standard citing files)?
+- Granularity: one document per topic vs one per convention-cluster (affects drift reporting precision)?

package/docs/opportunities/OPP-013-read-optimized-artifacts-digest-layer.md

@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+# OPP-013: Read-Optimized Artifacts — the Digest Layer
+
+- Status: Implemented (2026-11-01): fingerprint-bound digests computed at approval; aiw digest and context --stage serve them stale-safe
+- Priority: P1 (largest measurable token lever in the product)
+- Added: 2026-11-01
+- Decision: extends [ADR-001](../../.context/adrs/ADR-001-odd-rdd-proportionality-scope.md) Decision A
+- Measured baseline (this repository's own artifacts): a full-lane feature whose specification is ~2.2K tokens and plan ~4.1K tokens pays **~25-30K tokens in downstream re-reads alone** — the specification is re-read ~6-7× (plan, implementation, verification, review, traceability) and the plan ~4×. Writing artifacts is ~20% of their lifetime token cost; re-reading them is ~80%.
+
+## Problem
+
+Every artifact in the staged workflow is written once and read many times. The single dominant token cost of a full-lane feature is not authoring — it is downstream stages re-ingesting full artifacts to extract the handful of facts they need:
+
+- `plan` needs the spec's requirement IDs and acceptance criteria — re-reads everything;
+- `implementation` needs its task's linked requirements — re-reads the spec and the whole plan per task;
+- `verification`/`review`/`traceability` need requirement→evidence mappings — re-read both.
+
+Three methodologies shrink artifacts (ODD: fewer; HDAE: smaller; spec-kit: better templates). None attack the multiplier: **write once, read N×**. AI Workflow can be the first to formalize the separation: **full artifacts are for humans; agents get a derived, verifiable view**.
+
+## Proposal
+
+1. **Digest at the approval boundary**: when a stage passes its gate and receives human approval, aiw computes a structured **digest** from the exact approved bytes and stores it fingerprint-bound: `goal`, `scope` (one line), `requirements: [{id, one-line, criteria-ids}]`, `non-goals`, `decisions-open`, `links` (artifacts and commits). Deterministic extraction from required sections (the gate already enforces their presence) — **never a model-generated summary**.
+2. **Downstream reads target digests by default**: `aiw context --stage=<stage>` (CTX-002's delta retrieval) returns the manifest of digests plus only the artifact sections a stage's manifest declares; full reads remain available (`--full`, or task-linked requirement sections by ID anchor).
+3. **Digest integrity**: the digest records the artifact's SHA-256 fingerprint (already bound in `.aiw/approvals.yml`); a stale digest (artifact changed without re-gating) is reported as stale, never silently served — same semantics as approval staleness.
+4. **Template-declared fields**: digests extract from the sections templates already mandate (`## Requirements`, `## Acceptance Criteria`, `## Tasks`, `## Validation`), so extraction is parse-not-guess; templates may declare additional digest fields per process (OPP-009).
+5. **Read-path reporting**: `aiw token-usage` gains a digest row (served-digest vs full-read counts) so the saving is measured, not assumed.
+
+## Affected areas
+
+- `src/context-retrieval.ts` / `src/context-cache.ts` (digest store + default-read routing)
+- `src/quality-gates.ts` (digest extraction validators per artifact type)
+- `src/workflow.ts` (compute at approve; serve in stage flows), `src/token-usage.ts` (read-path accounting)
+- `resources/templates/*` (digest field declarations), `docs/architecture.md`, `docs/token-efficiency.md`
+
+## Acceptance criteria
+
+- Given an approved specification, when a downstream stage requests context, then it receives the digest plus only declared sections; a full read happens only with an explicit flag or a linked-section reference.
+- Given a digest, when the artifact's fingerprint no longer matches the approval ledger, then the digest is reported stale and the full artifact is required (fail-safe toward fidelity).
+- Given the digest extraction, when the artifact lacks a mandated section, then the gate fails before approval (digests only exist for gate-passing artifacts).
+- Given no flag changes, when a light-lane workflow runs, then behavior is unchanged (light tasks produce no durable artifacts to digest).
+- Given a full-lane feature at the measured baseline, when downstream stages complete, then recorded full-artifact reads drop by at least 60% (served-digest accounting in `token-usage`).
+
+## Non-goals
+
+- No model-generated summaries, ever (a stochastic digest would void the fingerprint guarantee).
+- No digest replacing the artifact for humans; no digest content beyond extraction from mandated sections.
+- No change to gate or approval semantics — digests exist only downstream of approval.
+
+## Open questions
+
+- Digest storage: sidecar files (`.aiw/digests/<artifact>.yml`) vs front-matter appended to the artifact itself (one file, but touches approved bytes — likely sidecar, to keep approved artifacts immutable)?
+- Anchor format for per-requirement reads (headings are stable; `REQ-\d+` IDs are already mandated).
+- Do plan digests include per-task validation commands (OPP-014 pairs), or do those stay task-scoped?

package/docs/opportunities/OPP-014-paired-verification-contract.md

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+# OPP-014: Paired Verification Contract — expected vs observed, mechanically compared
+
+- Status: Implemented (2026-11-01): plan declares command → expected, reports record command → observed, implementation/verification gates compare pairs
+- Priority: P2
+- Added: 2026-11-01
+- Decision: extends [ADR-001](../../.context/adrs/ADR-001-odd-rdd-proportionality-scope.md) Decision A
+- Trend signal: HDAE's gate structure pairs **Verification plan** (`command → expected result`) with **Evidence** (`command → observed result`) as first-class fields; Gentle-AI's field report showed the failure mode this prevents — agents declaring success without observed proof. AI Workflow's plan template already carries `Validation:` lines and its quality gates verify section _presence_; this contract makes the proof **mechanically comparable**.
+
+## Problem
+
+"Checkoffs require observed proof" is today an instruction, not a mechanism:
+
+- the plan declares validation commands (`Validation: npm test`), but the gate cannot tell whether the recorded evidence actually ran _that_ command;
+- expected outcomes are implicit ("tests pass") — nothing records what result was _expected_ before the run, so a wrong expectation passes as easily as a right one;
+- evidence sections are free text — a gate can verify presence, never correspondence.
+
+A gate that cannot compare declared vs observed is checking paperwork, not proof.
+
+## Proposal
+
+1. **Plan side (declaration)**: each task in the implementation plan declares its verification pair, machine-parseable:
+   - `Validation: <command> → <expected>` where expected is a minimal assertion (exit code plus optional output pattern), e.g. `npm test → exit 0`, `aiw trace --requirement=REQ-001 → contains REQ-001`.
+2. **Evidence side (observation)**: implementation/verification artifacts record the same command with its observed result: `<command> → <observed>` (exit code and the claimed observable, e.g. `132 passed`).
+3. **Gate comparison** (deterministic, parse-only): the verification and implementation gates check, per declared pair: the command appears verbatim in evidence, the observed section is non-empty, and expected/observed exit codes agree. Mismatch, absence, or a evidence command that was never declared → typed gate failure naming the task and pair (`verification_pair_mismatch`, `verification_pair_missing` — new reason codes, inventory updated).
+4. **Light lane**: one pair per task is the whole evidence contract (the compact checkpoint already records command and result — formalize the same shape).
+5. **No execution**: the gate compares declarations; it does not run project commands (preserving `verify`'s contract and keeping gates fast and side-effect-free). Execution evidence must come from a recorded run.
+
+## Affected areas
+
+- `resources/templates/` (plan task format gains the pair; implementation/verification report templates gain the observed side)
+- `src/quality-gates.ts` (pair parser + comparator validators; new gate failures)
+- `src/blocking-reasons.ts` (`verification_pair_mismatch`, `verification_pair_missing` + inventory rows)
+- `src/workflow.ts` (gate wiring), `docs/architecture.md`, `docs/quality.md` (contract statement)
+
+## Acceptance criteria
+
+- Given a plan declaring `npm test → exit 0`, when evidence records `npm test → exit 0 (132 passed)`, then the gate passes.
+- Given evidence recording a different command than declared, when the gate runs, then it fails with `verification_pair_mismatch` naming the task.
+- Given a declared pair with no matching observed record, when the gate runs, then it fails with `verification_pair_missing`.
+- Given artifacts authored before this contract (no pairs), when gates run, then the legacy validation format remains accepted with an advisory notice (backward-compatible parsing, no forced migration).
+- Given a light-lane evidence entry, when completion runs, then the pair shape is the compact checkpoint's command/result fields.
+- Given any pair failure, when `--json` is used, then the typed reason code and the failing task id are machine-readable.
+
+## Non-goals
+
+- The gate never executes project commands (side-effect-free gates; execution evidence comes from recorded runs).
+- No expected/observed semantic comparison beyond exit codes and declared patterns (no model judgment in gates).
+- No retroactive migration of existing artifacts (ratchet: new plans use pairs; legacy format accepted with notice).
+
+## Open questions
+
+- Expected-result grammar: exit code only, or `exit N` + substring/regex pattern? (Recommendation: exit code required, pattern optional.)
+- Should `verify` (REQ→evidence coverage) surface pairs per requirement in the verification report?
+- Do orchestration-delegated tasks (OPP-010) inherit pairs via their task prompt or their own declaration?

package/docs/opportunities/OPP-015-token-recovery-governance.md

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+# OPP-015: Token and Recovery Governance — enforced budgets, recovery block, advisory suggestions
+
+- Status: Implemented (2026-11-01): enforced context budgets, recovery managed block, advisory lane suggestion, regression-pinning advisory
+- Priority: P2 (small, independent mechanisms; bundle ships together)
+- Added: 2026-11-01
+- Decision: extends [ADR-001](../../.context/adrs/ADR-001-odd-rdd-proportionality-scope.md) Decision A
+- Sources: HDAE's context-recovery managed block and "do not fill gaps with assumptions" interview discipline; ODD's advisory lane guidance; AI Workflow's own CTX-004 (per-stage budgets, currently report-only) and OPP-002 (`risk assess`, already shipped).
+
+## Problem
+
+Four small gaps share one theme — the workflow knows the right thing but does not _act_ on it:
+
+1. **Stage budgets are advisory**: CTX-004 measures per-stage token usage, but exceeding a budget changes nothing — there is no enforced ceiling, so drift accumulates silently.
+2. **Post-compaction recovery is left to the agent's memory**: after context compaction or handoff, the agent re-derives state from chat remnants instead of reading the authoritative files — expensive and lossy.
+3. **Lane choice is uninformed**: `task start` does not surface what `risk assess` already knows; humans pick lanes blind when a one-line advisory would do.
+4. **Regression pinning is folklore**: "touched behavior keeps a test proving its previous behavior" exists in docs/quality culture but not as a declared, checkable artifact item.
+
+## Proposal
+
+1. **Enforced stage budgets**: stage/context manifests (per process and lane, OPP-009-ready) declare ceilings; exceeding one fails with a typed block (`context_budget_exceeded`) whose continuation names what to trim or the `--budget=<n>` override requiring an explicit reason recorded in the checkpoint. Budgets default from measured baselines (`context-bench --save`), never invented.
+2. **Context-recovery managed block**: the root context file gains an aiw-managed block (same preserve/drift semantics as other managed content): _"After any context compaction, reset, resume, or handoff: run `aiw task status`, read the artifacts this workflow declares, and do not rely on compacted chat as the source of project state."_ Points at digests when OPP-013 exists (declared forward reference).
+3. **Advisory lane suggestion**: `task start --lane=light` (and plain `task start`) prints, when `aiw risk assess` data is available for the current changes, one advisory line — `risk: high -> consider the full lane` or `risk: passive -> light lane viable` — always advisory; the human's choice is recorded as today. No new flags, no blocking.
+4. **Regression-pinning declaration**: the plan template's task format gains an optional `Regression: <behavior> → <test>` line; `verify`/traceability report tasks that touched existing behavior (declared `Touches:` existing paths) without a regression declaration, as advisory output in the verification report and a documentation rule in `docs/quality.md`. Optional to declare, reported when absent — declaration, not bureaucracy.
+
+## Affected areas
+
+- `src/workflow.ts` (budget enforcement points, lane suggestion line), `src/context-quality.ts` / CTX-004 ceilings
+- `src/human-approval.ts` (budget override reason recorded in checkpoints)
+- `src/generator.ts` / `resources/templates/*` (recovery block, task `Regression:` line)
+- `src/blocking-reasons.ts` (`context_budget_exceeded` + inventory row)
+- `docs/quality.md`, `docs/token-efficiency.md`, `docs/architecture.md`
+
+## Acceptance criteria
+
+- Given a stage context exceeding its declared ceiling, when the stage runs, then it blocks with `context_budget_exceeded` and the continuation names trim options or the explicit override; the override is recorded with its reason in the checkpoint.
+- Given `context-bench --save` baselines, when budgets are absent, then defaults derive from them (never arbitrary constants).
+- Given the recovery block rendered for each target, when an agent resumes after compaction, then the block instructs reading `aiw task status` and workflow-declared artifacts before continuing (block present in all adapter renderings; preserved on user edits per drift rules).
+- Given pending changes classified `high` by risk assess, when `task start --lane=light` runs, then the advisory line appears and the lane still starts as chosen (advisory never blocks).
+- Given a task declaring `Touches: src/auth/token.ts` without a `Regression:` line, when verification runs, then the report lists the gap as advisory; declaring one removes it.
+- Given the `npm`-published package on any target, when installed fresh, then behavior without baselines/budgets configured is byte-identical to today (all four mechanisms default-inert until declared).
+
+## Non-goals
+
+- No hard token ceilings on artifact authoring (authors write what the work needs; budgets govern _context served_, not writing).
+- No automatic lane switching, budget auto-tuning, or model-driven anything (deterministic floor per spec NFR-2/3).
+- No compaction simulator: the recovery block is an instruction artifact; testing it is OPP-011 invariant territory.
+
+## Open questions
+
+- Default budget derivation: per-stage from `context-bench` baseline, or per-workflow pooled?
+- Should the lane suggestion also appear in `aiw recommend` output for ticket-driven starts?
+- Does the `Regression:` line belong in the plan task format (OPP-014 pairs live there too) or the implementation report?

package/docs/opportunities/README.md

@@ -4,21 +4,36 @@ Improvement opportunities derived from the analysis of Gentle-AI's ODD/RDD metho
 
 The guiding principle: **ceremony should scale with the consequence of the change, not be constant.**
 
-| ID                                                                                              | Opportunity                                                                         | Priority | Depends on                            |
-| ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------- | ------------------------------------- |
-| [OPP-001](OPP-001-proportional-ceremony-light-lane.md)                                          | Proportional ceremony — light lane for small, understood work                       | P2       | OPP-002 (advisory signal, optional)   |
-| [OPP-002](OPP-002-risk-assess-command.md)                                                       | `aiw risk assess` — content-based risk classification with exact next command       | P2       | —                                     |
-| [OPP-003](OPP-003-adversarial-review-package.md)                                                | Adversarial review package — blind judges and proof-carrying findings               | P3       | —                                     |
-| [OPP-004](OPP-004-exact-continuation-commands.md)                                               | Exact continuation commands — every block names a runnable way out                  | P1       | —                                     |
-| [OPP-005](OPP-005-friction-benchmark.md)                                                        | Friction benchmark — measure how users get stuck (in-band / out-of-band / dead-end) | P3       | OPP-004                               |
-| [OPP-006](OPP-006-emission-usability-test-policy.md)                                            | Emission ≠ usability — test that named commands actually work                       | P2       | OPP-004 (shared contract)             |
-| [007-decision-findings-triage-scope-watch](OPP-007-decision-findings-triage-scope-watch.md)     | Decision model — findings-evidence triage and lane scope-watch (advisory-only)      | P3       | OPP-001, OPP-003 (integration points) |
-| [008-embedding-covering-tests-judge-context](OPP-008-embedding-covering-tests-judge-context.md) | Embedding retrieval — covering-test detection and judge context scoping             | P3       | OPP-002, OPP-003 (integration points) |
+| ID                                                           | Opportunity                                                                          | Priority | Depends on                              |
+| ------------------------------------------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | -------- | --------------------------------------- |
+| [OPP-001](OPP-001-proportional-ceremony-light-lane.md)       | Proportional ceremony — light lane for small, understood work                        | P2       | OPP-002 (advisory signal, optional)     |
+| [OPP-002](OPP-002-risk-assess-command.md)                    | `aiw risk assess` — content-based risk classification with exact next command        | P2       | —                                       |
+| [OPP-003](OPP-003-adversarial-review-package.md)             | Adversarial review package — blind judges and proof-carrying findings                | P3       | —                                       |
+| [OPP-004](OPP-004-exact-continuation-commands.md)            | Exact continuation commands — every block names a runnable way out                   | P1       | —                                       |
+| [OPP-005](OPP-005-friction-benchmark.md)                     | Friction benchmark — measure how users get stuck (in-band / out-of-band / dead-end)  | P3       | OPP-004                                 |
+| [OPP-006](OPP-006-emission-usability-test-policy.md)         | Emission ≠ usability — test that named commands actually work                        | P2       | OPP-004 (shared contract)               |
+| [OPP-007](OPP-007-decision-findings-triage-scope-watch.md)   | Decision model — findings-evidence triage and lane scope-watch (advisory-only)       | P3       | OPP-001, OPP-003 (integration points)   |
+| [OPP-008](OPP-008-embedding-covering-tests-judge-context.md) | Embedding retrieval — covering-test detection and judge context scoping              | P3       | OPP-002, OPP-003 (integration points)   |
+| [OPP-009](OPP-009-process-entry-points.md)                   | Processes as entry points — bug-fixing and idea assessment alongside SDD             | P2       | OPP-001 (lanes), OPP-004 (reason codes) |
+| [OPP-010](OPP-010-orchestration-worktree-isolation.md)       | Worktree isolation for orchestrated execution                                        | P2       | orchestration (ENT-007)                 |
+| [OPP-011](OPP-011-evals-redteam-generated-artifacts.md)      | Evals + red-team layer for generated artifacts                                       | P3       | OPP-006 (ratchet)                       |
+| [OPP-012](OPP-012-standards-discovery.md)                    | Standards discovery — codebase conventions into versioned standards                  | P3       | OPP-008 (retrieval)                     |
+| [OPP-013](OPP-013-read-optimized-artifacts-digest-layer.md)  | Read-Optimized Artifacts — fingerprint-bound digest layer for downstream reads       | P1       | OPP-004 (typed blocks), CTX-002/004     |
+| [OPP-014](OPP-014-paired-verification-contract.md)           | Paired Verification Contract — expected vs observed, mechanically compared           | P2       | OPP-004 (reason codes)                  |
+| [OPP-015](OPP-015-token-recovery-governance.md)              | Token & Recovery Governance — enforced budgets, recovery block, advisory suggestions | P2       | CTX-004, OPP-002 (advisory signal)      |
 
 Suggested starting order: **OPP-004 → OPP-002 → OPP-006 → OPP-001 → OPP-005 → OPP-003** (smallest/least invasive first; OPP-004's reason codes feed OPP-005 and OPP-006).
 
 OPP-007 and OPP-008 are **model-integration addenda**: deliberately left for after field exposure — their priority should be set by real usage pain, not speculation. All model features respect the spec's NFR contracts: deterministic floor first, models advisory-only, unconfigured = byte-identical offline behavior.
 
+## Trend-sourced addendum (2026-11)
+
+OPP-009 through OPP-012 derive from a November 2026 landscape scan (spec-kit 145K★ shipping independent entry points; Spec Kitty / Conductor normalizing isolated-worktree parallel agents; promptfoo 26K★ establishing artifact evals; Agent OS 5.5K★ on standards discovery). The scan also **validated** the existing positioning: spec-driven development and human-in-the-loop governance are growing markets where AI Workflow's evidence ledger is the differentiator. Deliberately not chased: generic memory layers (audit-first philosophy), cloud-agent infrastructure (harness territory), commercial AI-review feature parity.
+
+### Token-analysis addendum (OPP-013..015)
+
+Measured on this repository's own full-lane artifacts (~2.2K-token specification, ~4.1K-token plan): downstream re-reads cost ~25-30K tokens per feature — roughly 80% of an artifact's lifetime token cost is re-reading, not writing. OPP-013 (digests), OPP-014 (paired verification) and OPP-015 (governance) attack that multiplier and make observed proof mechanically checkable, synthesizing the shared insight across spec-kit, ODD and HDAE: the full artifact is for humans; agents need a derived, verifiable view.
+
 ## Planning
 
 The implementation is planned as six waves in the project's own SDD format:

package/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@multileaf/ai-workflow",
-  "version": "0.11.0",
+  "version": "0.12.0",
   "description": "Portable spec-driven development workflow for AI coding agents",
   "license": "MIT",
   "repository": {

package/resources/skills/implementation-planning.md

@@ -7,6 +7,6 @@ description: Break an approved design into independently verifiable implementati
 
 For every approval, rejection, or optional skip, use the host's native blocking question widget, not a prose-only prompt when the widget is available. Leave choices unselected and offer “Approve and continue”, “Request changes”, and “Reject/stop”; for a skip, offer “Accept skip” or “Do not skip”. Wait for an actual submission before running `aiw approve`, `aiw reject`, or `aiw skip` or proceeding. Collect revision/skip reasons in a follow-up free-text widget. If the host has no blocking widget, use a numbered chat prompt and end the turn until an explicit reply arrives. The CLI records the decision but cannot verify that a widget was used.
 
-Create small ordered tasks. Each task must reference requirements, affected modules, tests, commands, dependencies, and completion evidence.
+Create small ordered tasks. Each task must reference requirements, affected modules, tests, commands, dependencies, and completion evidence. Each task that touches existing behavior declares a regression line (`Regression: <behavior> → <test>`) pinning a test that proves the previous behavior still holds; `aiw verify` reports tasks missing it as advisory.
 
 Write `.aiw/generated/plans/implementation-plan.md` with ordered tasks, requirement links, affected modules, tests, validation, dependencies, risks, and completion evidence. After `aiw gate plan` passes, present the exact plan to the human and ask for explicit approval. Stop and wait; a gate pass is not approval. Do not edit implementation files until approval arrives and `aiw approve plan` succeeds. If changes are requested, first record `aiw reject plan --reason=<feedback>`, then revise the plan, rerun its gate, and ask again. After approval, implement in task order. Use `tdd-development` when installed and the project has a test workflow; otherwise use existing validation. When implementation is complete, write `.aiw/generated/reports/implementation-report.md` with changed files, tests, validation results, and deviations; run `aiw gate implementation`, present the diff and evidence to the human, stop, and wait for explicit approval. Record approval with `aiw approve implementation` before verification. Invoke CLI commands through `npx --yes --package=@multileaf/ai-workflow -- aiw <command>` when no global binary exists.

package/resources/templates/brainstorm.md

@@ -13,4 +13,3 @@
 ## Non-goals
 
 ## Open Questions
-

package/resources/templates/decision-record.md

@@ -9,4 +9,3 @@
 ## Rationale
 
 ## Consequences
-

package/resources/templates/implementation-evidence.md

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 
 ## Validation
 
-- Command and result for required project checks.
+One observed line per plan declaration: `Validation: <command> → <observed>` (for example `npm test → exit 0 (132 passed)`).
 
 ## Deviations
 

package/resources/templates/implementation-plan.md

@@ -8,5 +8,6 @@
 
 ## Validation Commands
 
-## Evidence
+Per task: `Validation: <command> → <expected>` (for example `npm test → exit 0`). Gates compare these declarations against the recorded observed results.
 
+## Evidence

package/resources/templates/migration-report.md

@@ -11,4 +11,3 @@
 ## Conflicts
 
 ## Rollback Plan
-

package/resources/templates/security-review.md

@@ -11,4 +11,3 @@
 ## Remediation
 
 ## Decision
-

package/resources/templates/task.md

@@ -11,4 +11,3 @@
 ## Tests First
 
 ## Completion Criteria
-