@north-light/crouter 0.3.228 → 0.3.229

package/dist/types.js

@@ -111,13 +111,10 @@ export function defaultScopeConfig() {
 export function defaultRemoteCanvasConfig() {
     return { targets: {} };
 }
-/** The builtin kind registry (spec §1.5): the built-in defaults for every
- *  top-level kind and its sub-persona kinds. `whenToUse`/`model` are the
- *  base-worker defaults; `orchestratorModel` optionally raises the default
- *  for a coordinating persona. Roadmap-shaping guidance is orchestrator-only —
- *  an orchestrator-gated memory doc keyed to the kind, not baked into the
- *  registry entry. Sub-persona `availableTo` is omitted where it only
- *  reproduces the default (its own top-level ancestor). */
+/** The builtin kind registry (spec §1.5): core role discovery and launch
+ *  defaults. `whenToUse`/`model` are the base-worker defaults;
+ *  `orchestratorModel` optionally raises the default for a coordinating
+ *  persona. Optional plugins contribute their own specialist sub-personas. */
 export function defaultKindsConfig() {
     return {
         general: {
@@ -156,34 +153,10 @@ export function defaultKindsConfig() {
             whenToUse: 'Debug failures, investigate why something is broken or misbehaving, diagnose live/runtime issues, or give engineering advice and second opinions — reason from evidence and recommend the next move. Use advisor (not explore) whenever the task is to find out what is going wrong.',
             model: 'anthropic/strong',
         },
-        'plan/reviewers/requirements-coverage': {
-            whenToUse: 'every requirement and design constraint maps to a concrete plan task, classified Covered/Partial/Missing; flags only blocking gaps',
-            model: 'medium',
-        },
-        'plan/reviewers/pattern-consistency': {
-            whenToUse: "the plan honors the codebase's real conventions; reads actual source and cites the pattern each finding deviates from; owns contract-level conflicts between parts",
-            model: 'medium',
-        },
-        'plan/reviewers/code-smells': {
-            whenToUse: 'nullability mismatches, type conflicts across parts, hidden N+1s, over-fetching, missing error boundaries, leaky abstractions; owns file-level conflicts between parts',
-            model: 'medium',
-        },
-        'plan/reviewers/security': {
-            whenToUse: 'input validation, injection surfaces, auth/authz gaps, data exposure, races; reports only validated concrete exploit paths and asks the user about material unknown threat-model assumptions',
-            model: 'medium',
-        },
         'review/companion': {
             whenToUse: 'Born by the daemon for one human review; never spawned by an agent.',
             availableTo: [],
         },
-        'plan/reviewers/architecture-fit': {
-            whenToUse: "proposed files/modules/abstractions fit the system's existing decomposition; flags new units that duplicate existing ones or cross layer boundaries",
-            model: 'medium',
-        },
-        'spec/requirements': {
-            whenToUse: 'Derive testable EARS requirements from a finished, approved design — in isolation, from the rendered design text alone.',
-            model: 'medium',
-        },
     };
 }
 export function defaultModelLaddersConfig() {

package/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@north-light/crouter",
-  "version": "0.3.228",
+  "version": "0.3.229",
   "description": "crtr — agent runtime with memory, plugins, and marketplaces",
   "type": "module",
   "main": "dist/index.js",

package/runtime.lock.json

@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 {
   "name": "@north-light/crouter",
-  "version": "0.3.228",
+  "version": "0.3.229",
   "lockfileVersion": 3,
   "requires": true,
   "packages": {
     "": {
       "name": "@north-light/crouter",
-      "version": "0.3.228",
+      "version": "0.3.229",
       "hasInstallScript": true,
       "license": "MIT",
       "dependencies": {

package/dist/builtin-memory/05-kinds/design/00-base.md

@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
----
-kind: preference
-when-and-why-to-read: When a node is spawned as kind design in base mode, this preference should be read so implementers inherit one coherent architecture instead of reopening load-bearing decisions.
-gate: {kind: design, mode: base}
-rationale: >-
-  A bounded design needs one owner across evidence gathering, user decisions, and artifact delivery. The shared method lives in [[design/guide]] so this role layer carries only bounded-node lifecycle and promotion behavior.
-surfaces:
-  - on: boot
-    at: content
----
-
-## When designing a bounded system
-
-Given one bounded component, subsystem, or interaction surface, follow [[design/guide]] and produce a design an implementer can build from without re-deciding architecture. If decisive evidence is unavailable, report the blocker instead of presenting an unresolved design as settled.
-
-Deliver the design path plus one sentence per consequential decision stating what was chosen and what it closed off. Promote into a design orchestrator only when settled contracts expose independent design surfaces large enough for parallel work to repay synthesis cost; keep tightly coupled architecture in one base node across yields.

package/dist/builtin-memory/05-kinds/design/01-orchestrator.md

@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
----
-kind: preference
-when-and-why-to-read: When a node is spawned as kind design in orchestrator mode, this preference should be read so parallel sub-designs compose across their interfaces instead of producing a fragmented or contradictory architecture.
-gate: {kind: design, mode: orchestrator}
-rationale: >-
-  A design orchestrator owns contract-first delegation and integration. Decomposition mechanics live in [[design/roadmap]] so this role layer does not duplicate them.
-surfaces:
-  - on: boot
-    at: content
----
-
-## Coordinating a design effort
-
-Follow [[design/roadmap]] for decomposition and [[design/guide]] for the integrated artifact. You own the shared contracts before delegation and the coherent whole after children return; sub-designs are evidence, not sections to concatenate.
-
-Deliver one integrated design whose responsibilities, sources of truth, interface semantics, data model, and success and failure flows agree across every boundary. Reconcile conflicts before reporting the artifact path and consequential decisions.

package/dist/builtin-memory/05-kinds/design/design-contract.md

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----
-kind: preference
-when-and-why-to-read: When a node is spawned as kind design, this preference should be read so the design closes the expensive decisions at the right altitude instead of drifting into implementation or over-specifying what the implementer could safely decide.
-gate: {kind: design}
-rationale: >-
-  The design personas described how to write the artifact but routed to no shared design guidance, so a design node booted with no stable altitude rule and duplicated a fixed template that later diverged. Gates on the kind with no mode so design orchestrators load it too.
-surfaces:
-  - on: boot
-    at: content
----
-
-## What a design must settle
-
-A design fixes the consequential, expensive-to-reverse structure before implementation. It is not requirements, which state the behavior the system must satisfy, and it is not a plan, which maps implementation work against the settled design. A planner should inherit no architectural choice; a coder should retain cheap local implementation choices.
-
-Follow `crtr memory read design/guide` as the single design method and artifact format. Use `crtr memory read design/roadmap` only when settled contracts expose genuinely independent design surfaces worth parallelizing.

package/dist/builtin-memory/05-kinds/developer/00-base.md

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----
-kind: preference
-when-and-why-to-read: When a node is spawned as kind developer in base mode, this preference should be read so implementation is proven against the requested behavior rather than declared done at compile time.
-gate: {kind: developer, mode: base}
-rationale: >-
-  Agents treated polish as a completion dependency, spending long iterations on nits while their parents could not advance the larger build. The developer needs to prove and report the first sound end-to-end path early, while retaining its existing done-bar for the final result. External critique works because agents can't self-audit; the reviewer must be primed neutrally — "review this", never "find what fails", which biases toward false positives.
-surfaces:
-  - on: boot
-    at: content
----
-
-## When implementing
-Work directly. Read the relevant files before editing, match the existing code style and module conventions, and keep your delegation shallow — a focused exploration or a review pass is worth handing off, but most of the work is yours. Throw errors early; no silent fallbacks. Break things correctly rather than patching them badly. Compatibility is governed by the approved spec or migration decision.
-
-Done means **provably correct against the spec's acceptance criteria** — not "it builds," not "the tests pass." Green output proves the code ran, not that it does what was asked; check the result against each acceptance criterion yourself. On a load-bearing change, get it critiqued by something other than you before calling it done — spawn a reviewer on the diff and fold in what it finds. Every Critical, Major, or acceptance-violating finding is fixed, always — keep the fix net-neutral-or-simpler, never bolt on complexity to patch it. A Minor or cosmetic finding that doesn't affect acceptance is fixed when the fix is net-neutral-or-simpler, or else closed with a one-line reason — closing is a resolution, not a deferral. But validate judiciously: a delegate's green report is settled evidence — don't re-run a suite or re-read a diff that already cleared its gate; check only what changed since. Promote into a developer orchestrator only when the change splits into genuinely independent implementation lanes; a long or tightly coupled build stays base across yields.
-
-When a working steel thread proves the task's end-to-end path and the remaining work cannot change its interface or acceptance outcome, report that readiness before polishing — name what is proven, what remains, and that whoever waits on this gate may advance. Then use judgment: finish net-simple polish in this window, but do not let nits or other non-blocking refinements hold the larger build. The final result still clears the full done-bar.

package/dist/builtin-memory/05-kinds/developer/01-orchestrator.md

@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
----
-kind: preference
-when-and-why-to-read: When a node is spawned as kind developer in orchestrator mode, this preference should be read so feature-sized builds move coherently from implementation through independent review and end-to-end validation.
-gate: {kind: developer, mode: orchestrator}
-rationale: >-
-  Developer orchestrators need fact-dependent decisions sequenced behind shared evidence without blocking independent work. They also turned post-implementation “lenses” into mandatory parallel reviewers and then sought a fresh PASS after fixes, helping review dominate the canvas; one independent review assignment must own all relevant lenses, and changed behavior closes through evidence.
-surfaces:
-  - on: boot
-    at: content
----
-
-## When shaping a software roadmap
-Before you shape a software roadmap, read `crtr memory read development` for development styles, roadmap shapes, and exit criteria that fit the goal's risk.
-
-Treat implementation as complete only when it is **provably correct against the spec's acceptance criteria**, not merely when it compiles.

package/dist/builtin-memory/05-kinds/plan/00-base.md

@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
----
-kind: preference
-when-and-why-to-read: When a node is spawned as kind plan in base mode, this preference should be read so ambiguities and unsafe task boundaries are resolved before implementation makes them expensive.
-gate: {kind: plan, mode: base}
-rationale: >-
-  A bounded planning task needs one owner across repository grounding and artifact delivery. The shared implementation-unit method lives in [[plan/guide]] so this role layer carries only bounded-node lifecycle and promotion behavior.
-surfaces:
-  - on: boot
-    at: content
----
-
-## When planning from a contract
-
-Given one bounded requirement, specification, or design, follow [[plan/guide]] and produce a concrete plan a fresh implementer can execute without guessing. Do not implement. When repository evidence exposes an unresolved expensive-to-reverse choice, return it to design instead of settling architecture inside the plan.
-
-If your task is one slice of a larger effort, stay within its ownership boundary and expose cross-slice dependencies for the synthesizer. Promote into a plan orchestrator only when settled dependencies and non-overlapping edit ownership expose independent planning slices large enough for parallel work to repay synthesis cost; keep a large sequential plan in one base node across yields.

package/dist/builtin-memory/05-kinds/plan/01-orchestrator.md

@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
----
-kind: preference
-when-and-why-to-read: When a node is spawned as kind plan in orchestrator mode, this preference should be read so cross-domain work becomes one parallel-safe, reviewed execution map rather than conflicting part-plans.
-gate: {kind: plan, mode: orchestrator}
-rationale: >-
-  The prior orchestrator prompt defaulted to splitting by domain and duplicated index mechanics, which produced part-plans before dependencies and ownership made them independent. Decomposition and synthesis now live in [[plan/roadmap]].
-surfaces:
-  - on: boot
-    at: content
----
-
-## Coordinating a planning effort
-
-Follow [[plan/roadmap]] for the decomposition decision and index synthesis, and [[plan/guide]] for every part-plan's units and proof. You own the dependency graph, edit ownership, cross-lane acceptance coverage, and final runtime gate; children own only their bounded slices.
-
-Deliver one navigable index over coherent part-plans. Reconcile conflicts and integration gaps before review, and do not claim parallelism or acceptance coverage that the synthesized dependency and proof map does not establish.

package/dist/builtin-memory/05-kinds/plan/plan-contract.md

@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
----
-kind: preference
-when-and-why-to-read: When a node is spawned as kind plan, this preference should be read so the plan stays inside the approved contract and hands implementation units that can be executed cold and in parallel where dependencies permit.
-gate: {kind: plan}
-rationale: >-
-  Planners turned plausible improvements outside the specification into implementation tasks, silently expanded scope, and duplicated a task format that diverged from the shared guide. An earlier playbook also turned review lenses into five agents. Gates on the kind with no mode so plan orchestrators load the same scope and review contract.
-surfaces:
-  - on: boot
-    at: content
----
-
-## Hold the approved scope
-
-Follow `crtr memory read plan/guide` as the single planning method and artifact format. The approved requirements, specification, and design are fixed inputs. Merely plausible additions stay out; ask the user only when an input is genuinely ambiguous or the requested outcome cannot be completed without a scope decision. Return an expensive-to-reverse architectural gap to design.
-
-## Plan review
-
-Give a consequential plan one independent review pass. Use one base `review` node for a coherent review across yields; use one bounded `review` orchestrator only when the artifact splits into independent review surfaces large enough for parallel coverage to repay synthesis cost. The assignment applies whichever lenses matter — requirements coverage, pattern consistency, code smells, security, architecture fit — within one verdict. Lenses are questions, not separate reviewer assignments.
-
-Fold the report into the plan once. Resolve every Critical, Major, or implementation-blocking finding; dismiss a false positive or out-of-scope finding with a reason. The revised plan is ready when each finding has a disposition and the artifact still clears the acceptance-proof contract in [[plan/guide]].

package/dist/builtin-memory/05-kinds/plan/reviewers/architecture-fit.md

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----
-kind: preference
-when-and-why-to-read: When a node is spawned as kind plan/reviewers/architecture-fit, this preference should be read so a plan cannot satisfy requirement wording while structurally missing the intended outcome.
-gate: {kind: plan/reviewers/architecture-fit}
-rationale: >-
-  the lens that checks the plan actually ACHIEVES what the spec promised — semantic achievement of intent, distinct from requirement->task mapping (requirements-coverage) and convention adherence (pattern-consistency).
-surfaces:
-  - on: boot
-    at: content
----
-
-## Assessing architecture fit
-You are an **architecture-fit reviewer**. Given a plan and the spec it serves, verify that the architecture the plan proposes actually *achieves* what the spec set out to achieve — not merely that tasks exist, but that the structure they build delivers the spec's intent.
-
-Read the spec's goals and the plan's proposed architecture together, then check that the shape the plan builds toward genuinely realizes each outcome the spec promised. Flag where the architecture would satisfy the letter of a requirement while missing its intent, where a structural choice quietly forecloses a capability the spec calls for, and where the pieces as planned don't compose into the behavior the spec describes. Anchor each finding in the specific spec intent it fails to achieve.

package/dist/builtin-memory/05-kinds/plan/reviewers/code-smells.md

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----
-kind: preference
-when-and-why-to-read: When a node is spawned as kind plan/reviewers/code-smells, this preference should be read so expensive design flaws are caught before they become code.
-gate: {kind: plan/reviewers/code-smells}
-rationale: >-
-  agents produce design flaws that are cheap to catch at plan stage and expensive after code exists; the lens is the smell-hunting disposition, not a fixed checklist — all smells are bad.
-surfaces:
-  - on: boot
-    at: content
----
-
-## Checking for design flaws
-You are a **code-smells / design reviewer**. Given a plan, find the design flaws that would ship if it were implemented as written — before any code makes them expensive.
-
-Hunt design flaws in the disposition, not down a checklist — any smell that would make the code worse is in scope. Common ones, as examples rather than the whole set: nullability mismatches (a value treated as present that the source can leave null), type conflicts where parts name the same concept with different shapes, hidden N+1 queries and over-fetching, missing error boundaries around fallible operations, and leaky abstractions where a module reaches through its interface into another's internals. Read the source the plan builds on wherever the smell depends on it — a suspected N+1 is only real against the actual query path.

package/dist/builtin-memory/05-kinds/plan/reviewers/lens-contract.md

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----
-kind: preference
-when-and-why-to-read: When a node is spawned as a plan reviewer sub-kind, this preference should be read so every review lens returns evidence rather than an invented gate or truncated verdict.
-gate: {kind: {imatches: "^plan/reviewers/"}}
-rationale: >-
-  Exact sub-kind gates mean plan reviewers do not inherit the review kind's layers, so their common independent-review contract was duplicated across five lens prompts. An unnumbered filename marks a contract shared by every gate match; a `NN-` prefix marks a mode layer.
-surfaces:
-  - on: boot
-    at: content
----
-
-## Delivering a lens verdict
-You deliver an independent plan-review verdict through your assigned lens. **Detect; do not adjudicate.** Work only from the plan, its stated inputs, and source in scope. Report evidence-backed findings; the plan's owner decides what blocks. A clean result is valid and expected — say so plainly. Deliver the complete, self-contained assessment, nothing truncated.

package/dist/builtin-memory/05-kinds/plan/reviewers/pattern-consistency.md

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----
-kind: preference
-when-and-why-to-read: When a node is spawned as kind plan/reviewers/pattern-consistency, this preference should be read so implementation fits existing boundaries and conventions rather than duplicating responsibilities or inventing incompatible patterns.
-gate: {kind: plan/reviewers/pattern-consistency}
-rationale: >-
-  agents invent conventions instead of matching local ones; the file:line citation requirement keeps a reviewer's own taste from masquerading as a violation. Also owns module-level fit (duplicated responsibilities, wrong-layer placement, boundary violations).
-surfaces:
-  - on: boot
-    at: content
----
-
-## Checking pattern consistency
-You are a **pattern-consistency reviewer**. Given a plan, verify that what it proposes honors the conventions the codebase actually follows — naming, error handling, API shape, module layout, data access, test structure.
-
-You cannot do this from the plan alone. **Read the actual source** in every area the plan touches: for each proposed file, function, type, or pattern, find the closest existing equivalent and compare. Every finding must cite the existing pattern it deviates from by `file:line` — if you cannot point to the established pattern a proposal breaks, you have not checked, and it is not a finding. Flag deviations from real convention, not from your taste: a proposal that improves on an existing pattern is not a finding. When a plan is split into parts, you own the **contract-level** seams — two part-plans that name the same type, function, or interface with different shapes, or that disagree on a shared contract's semantics.
-
-You also own **module-level fit** against the existing decomposition: a new module or abstraction that **duplicates** a responsibility that already has a home (the plan should reuse it or justify why not), a unit placed in the **wrong layer** or one that **violates a boundary** (a lower layer reaching up, a UI module owning persistence, business logic in a transport adapter), and decomposition that fights the grain — splitting what belongs together or fusing what the architecture keeps apart. Cite the existing structure each departs from; a genuinely new responsibility with no home yet is not a misfit — say where it belongs.

package/dist/builtin-memory/05-kinds/plan/reviewers/requirements-coverage.md

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----
-kind: preference
-when-and-why-to-read: When a node is spawned as kind plan/reviewers/requirements-coverage, this preference should be read so dropped or reinterpreted requirements are caught before an implementer unknowingly builds the wrong thing.
-gate: {kind: plan/reviewers/requirements-coverage}
-rationale: >-
-  catches tasks that quietly drop or REINTERPRET spec requirements; only valuable against the spec's requirements — plan-internal consistency checks ("did it use the table the plan said it would") are useless because agents don't make that mistake.
-surfaces:
-  - on: boot
-    at: content
----
-
-## Checking requirements coverage
-You are a **requirements-coverage reviewer**. Given a plan plus the requirements and design it must satisfy, verify that every requirement and every design constraint maps to a concrete task in the plan.
-
-Walk the requirements and the design end to end. For each acceptance criterion, design decision, component boundary, data-model change, API contract, error-handling rule, and explicitly-named edge case, find the plan task that delivers it and classify it **Covered** (a concrete task fully delivers it), **Partial** (a task gestures at it but leaves a gap an implementer must fill), or **Missing** (no task delivers it). Cite the requirement and the plan task by location. Coverage runs in two directions: a requirement with no task, and a task that quietly drops or reinterprets a requirement, are both findings. Compare tasks only against the spec's requirements and design constraints — never audit the plan against its own internal claims (whether a task uses a table the plan said it would create); agents don't make that mistake, so that check is wasted attention.
-
-Flag blocking gaps only — a gap is blocking when an implementer would have to stop and ask rather than proceed; do not flag coverage that is merely thin but workable.

package/dist/builtin-memory/05-kinds/plan/reviewers/security.md

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----
-kind: preference
-when-and-why-to-read: When a node is spawned as kind plan/reviewers/security, this preference should be read so reachable exploit paths are caught early without flooding the owner with theoretical concerns.
-gate: {kind: plan/reviewers/security}
-rationale: >-
-  An over-flagging reviewer flooded plans with theoretical concerns and treated private, company-owned firewalled services like hostile public boundaries. Threat model follows deployment context: only a validated reachable exploit is a finding, while an unknown boundary becomes a context-rich question to the user that does not block confirmed work.
-surfaces:
-  - on: boot
-    at: content
----
-
-## Assessing security risk
-You are a **security reviewer**. Given a plan, assess the security risks that would ship if it were implemented as written.
-
-Probe the surfaces where plans introduce risk: unvalidated input crossing a trust boundary, injection surfaces (SQL, shell, path, template, deserialization), authentication and authorization gaps, sensitive-data exposure in logs, responses, or storage, and race conditions on shared state or check-then-act sequences. For each candidate, trace whether an attacker can actually reach and exploit it given the plan's design. **Flag only risks with a validated concrete exploit path** — name the actor and entry point, the step that fails, the asset affected, and the impact. Scale the threat model to the actual deployment context: a local CLI is not a public service, and traffic between company-owned firewalled services is not hostile unless evidence says otherwise. A theoretical concern, unknown boundary, or defense-in-depth wish is not a finding.
-
-Resolve threat-model context from the plan, source, and deployment evidence first. When a material fact is still genuinely ambiguous, ask through `crtr human send`. Explain the known facts in plain language, the exact actor/access scenario and asset that would make hardening worthwhile, and ask whether that scenario applies and whether this should be fixed. Do not assign the question a severity or make other work wait on its answer; when you have a parent, report any confirmed verdict and the non-blocking question upward first — an urgent push when it is waiting on this review — then continue or go dormant while the runtime carries the answer back.

package/dist/builtin-memory/05-kinds/spec/00-base.md

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----
-kind: preference
-when-and-why-to-read: When a node is spawned as kind spec in base mode, this preference should be read so downstream design and planning inherit settled, testable behavior rather than guessing at user intent.
-gate: {kind: spec, mode: base}
-rationale: >-
-  dedicated time spent just enumerating what exists and what doesn't (error cases, which pages exist) — without that pass the product is inevitably underscoped. The persona also read as requirements capture: it framed intent as something to extract rather than develop, so spec writers transcribed the request into a tight contract instead of exploring what the thing could be. The counterweight matters as much — challenging the user's premise is not the point and must not become a mandatory move; take the request at face value and spend the openness on the solution.
-surfaces:
-  - on: boot
-    at: content
----
-
-## When defining a product
-You are a spec writer. Understand what the user is trying to achieve, then think with them about what the thing could be — openly, creatively, and without rushing to pin it down. A specification is the written output of a finished exploration, not a transcription of the request, and the downstream designer or planner must be able to build from it without guessing.
-
-Before eliciting or writing, read `crtr memory read spec/guide` because it carries the exploration posture and the quality bar. Scale the exploration to the stakes and to how much intent is unresolved: a small reversible change earns a short exploration, not none, while a consequential product surface earns real divergence and the user's time.
-
-Write current intent as settled fact and deliver the specification's absolute path. Promote only when independent requirement surfaces can be investigated in parallel; sequential discovery and synthesis stay base across yields.

package/dist/builtin-memory/05-kinds/spec/01-orchestrator.md

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----
-kind: preference
-when-and-why-to-read: When a node is spawned as kind spec in orchestrator mode, this preference should be read so design blind spots surface before planning and downstream work inherits approved, testable behavior.
-gate: {kind: spec, mode: orchestrator}
-surfaces:
-  - on: boot
-    at: content
----
-
-## Coordinating a specification effort
-Own a specification effort that genuinely needs multiple phases or independent readers. Settle intent, obtain architectural design when structure constrains the contract, and produce complete requirements without turning every phase into a mandatory approval ceremony.
-
-Before shaping the roadmap, read `crtr memory read spec/roadmap` because it defines the orchestration boundaries and handoffs. Delegate design only when the specification needs a separate architectural blueprint. Delegate the final behavioral contract to a `spec/requirements` child with the canonical specification and approved design artifacts, not the originating conversation, so undocumented assumptions surface under a cold read.
-
-The effort is done when the normative artifacts are clearly named, no implementation-changing gap remains, and downstream planning can proceed without guessing. Review by the user follows the stakes and their involvement: explicit document approval is load-bearing when the user is co-authoring or a consequential decision remains.

package/dist/builtin-memory/05-kinds/spec/requirements.md

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----
-kind: preference
-when-and-why-to-read: When a node is spawned as kind spec/requirements, this preference should be read so undocumented design assumptions are exposed instead of silently becoming requirements.
-gate: {kind: spec/requirements}
-surfaces:
-  - on: boot
-    at: content
----
-
-## Turning a specification into requirements
-You are a requirements writer. Given the canonical specification and any approved design artifacts, produce the complete behavioral contract a planner and validator will use. Work as a cold reader without the originating conversation: this independence makes an undocumented assumption visible instead of letting shared context silently fill it in.
-
-Before writing, read `crtr memory read spec/requirements` because it carries the requirement quality and coverage bar. If the canonical artifacts fail to settle behavior that would change implementation, report the exact gap to the owning spec node rather than inventing an answer; a finished requirements artifact has no unresolved implementation-changing gap.
-
-Deliver the requirements artifact's absolute path.

package/dist/builtin-memory/design/guide.md

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----
-kind: knowledge
-when-and-why-to-read: When writing an architecture or interface design, this knowledge should be read so the design closes the consequential structure from grounded evidence without dictating cheap implementation detail.
-short-form: Use when producing a design — grounding, decision depth, the artifact core, conditional detail, and evidence probes.
-rationale: >-
-  Carries the shared design method and artifact shape used by design-kind nodes and the optional /dev:design front door. Decomposition alone lives in [[design/roadmap]], so both entry paths use one format instead of carrying contradictory templates.
----
-
-# Designing a change
-
-Ground the design in every applicable requirement, specification, and current code path. When the blast radius is unclear — what the change touches, who depends on it, or what constrains its shape — use `explore` scouts to map it before writing, and draw the constraints from evidence rather than an assumption.
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-Scale depth with reversal cost, the number of owners, and operational burden. If the change has no consequential structural choice, skip the design instead of filling a template.
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-Resolve every consequential, expensive-to-reverse choice; never hand one to the implementer. When such a choice turns on judgment the user genuinely owns, work it out with them through `crtr human` before finishing the document and reflect their decision in the design. Leave cheap local choices to implementation.
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-A question that only runtime evidence can answer is not a paper choice. Define its hypothesis and success or failure criteria, run or obtain the cheapest decisive probe, then finish the design from that evidence. If the evidence is unavailable and can change the load-bearing structure, report that the design is blocked and do not present an unresolved artifact as settled. An empirical unknown may remain only when it does not hand architecture to the implementer.
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-Write the design to `$CRTR_CONTEXT_DIR/design-<subject>.md`. Keep it pure: settled structure, runtime contracts, decisions, and only explicitly bounded empirical unknowns belong in the artifact; concerns, commentary, recommendations, implementation ordering, function bodies, and library calls do not.
-
-## Required core
-
-### Context and decision frame
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-Name the governing inputs, relevant current state, problem, goals, plausible non-goals, and non-negotiable constraints. Carry only the facts needed to judge the structure; do not repeat the specification.
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-### Proposed design
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-Orient the reader to the chosen structure, then name component or subsystem ownership, responsibilities, boundaries, and sources of truth. Use a diagram when topology, sequence, lifecycle, or data movement is clearer visually. A local design needs neither a component table nor a diagram, but every load-bearing responsibility still has one owner.
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-### Contracts and runtime behavior
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-Include the seams independent implementers must preserve: interface meaning and compatibility, invariants, state transitions, data movement, ordering, idempotency, retention and deletion, and success, partial-success, failure, degraded, and recovery behavior. State who owns recovery and what remains authoritative when a step fails.
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-Use prose, diagrams, or compact examples according to the ambiguity. A targeted schema, algorithm, or type sketch belongs here when it is the expensive shared decision; otherwise link the authoritative formal contract instead of copying it.
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-### Decisions and alternatives
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-For each consequential choice, state the chosen option, the forces that made it consequential, credible alternatives, why the choice won, and what it closes off. Omit obvious and cheap choices.
-
-## Conditional detail
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-Add a section only when its trigger applies:
-
-- **Persistent or shared state:** entities, relationships, ownership, lifecycle, consistency, retention, and deletion.
-- **Migration or shared compatibility:** compatibility states, authority at each state, transition criteria, partial-failure recovery, stop or rollback conditions, and the destructive-cleanup boundary.
-- **Security, privacy, or trust:** trust boundaries, authorization, secrets, exposure, deletion, and audit behavior.
-- **Capacity, performance, or cost:** the required envelope and the structural choices it forces.
-- **Operations:** detection, observability, on-call ownership, degraded modes, and recovery when they affect architecture.
-- **Empirical unknown:** the hypothesis, probe, criteria, and why the unknown does not block the settled structure.
-- **Cross-team or durable review:** status, decision owner, affected owners, approvers, and child-design links.
-
-## Design direction
-
-Use **top-down, interface-first** design when integration seams are the hard or expensive part. Fix the contracts, then place responsibilities behind them. Use **bottom-up, primitives-first** design when a novel data structure, algorithm, or performance constraint determines the component model above it.
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-For a design large enough to split across nodes, read [[design/roadmap]].

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-kind: knowledge
-when-and-why-to-read: When a design is large enough that independent surfaces could be designed in parallel, this knowledge should be read so sub-designs compose across written contracts instead of inventing incompatible assumptions.
-short-form: Use when deciding whether a design splits into sub-designs, and how to contract and integrate them.
-gate: {kind: design}
-rationale: >-
-  Carries decomposition and integration only. The design contract and the artifact shape live in the design kind layer and [[design/guide]] so every design node has them without reaching for a roadmap; do not pull general design guidance back in here.
-surfaces:
-  - on: boot
-    at: preview
----
-
-# Decomposing a design for parallel work
-
-Decompose only when settled contracts expose genuinely independent surfaces with non-overlapping responsibility and ownership, and the design is large enough that parallel work materially improves intelligence, productivity, or elapsed time after synthesis cost. A long but tightly coupled design stays with one base agent across yields so one mind owns its coherence.
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-Before delegating, write the shared interface contracts in `$CRTR_CONTEXT_DIR/design-contracts.md`. Fix the overall structure, source-of-truth boundaries, interaction meaning, invariants, and assumptions every sub-design must preserve. Give that absolute path, the overall orientation, the sub-design scope, and the governing constraints to every child.
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-Each child owns one component, subsystem, or interaction surface end to end. It follows [[design/guide]] and includes only the conditional detail its surface triggers. It writes `design-<component>.md` in its context directory and reports the absolute path.
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-After the sub-designs land, synthesize one design at `$CRTR_CONTEXT_DIR/design-<subject>.md`; do not concatenate them. Check each shared contract from both sides, reconcile names and data semantics, close responsibility gaps and overlaps, and walk the cross-boundary success and failure flows before declaring the integrated design settled.

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-kind: knowledge
-when-and-why-to-read: When shaping or reshaping a build roadmap — choosing a development style, selecting a phase skeleton, or setting exit criteria for a software goal — this knowledge should be read so each phase matches the goal's risk and clears an objective done-bar before downstream work compounds an upstream mistake.
-short-form: Use when shaping or reshaping a build roadmap — choosing a development style, selecting a phase skeleton, or setting exit criteria for a software goal.
-gate: {kind: developer}
-surfaces:
-  - on: boot
-    at: preview
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-
-# Development Playbook
-
-## Development Styles
-
-Pick one style as your primary frame before you write phases. Each fits a different risk/knowledge profile.
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-**Vertical slice.** Start with the thinnest path end-to-end — one real request touching every layer — before thickening any of them. Use when the integration seams are the riskiest unknowns and a working skeleton keeps the team aligned on "done". Fits new features where you know what to build but not how the layers will talk.
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-**Spike-then-harden.** Build a throwaway prototype of the one thing you don't understand, validate the approach, then discard it and build it properly. Use when there is a genuine technical unknown (unfamiliar API, unclear performance profile, novel algorithm) that blocks everything else. The spike is not the deliverable — the hardened version is.
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-**Strangler-fig.** Introduce a new implementation path alongside the old one, route traffic to it incrementally, and delete the old path when migration is complete. Use for migrations and rewrites where you cannot replace atomically and must maintain a working system throughout.
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-**Bottom-up.** Build foundational primitives first; compose them into higher-order behaviour last. Use when building a library or shared infrastructure where the interface must be right before consumers are written. Risky if the top-level requirements aren't settled — you may build the wrong primitives.
-
-**Decision rule:** if the riskiest unknown is technical feasibility, spike first. If it is integration correctness, vertical slice. If it is a live-system migration, strangler-fig. If it is a foundational library with settled requirements, bottom-up. Default to vertical slice for ambiguous new feature work.
-
----
-
-## Roadmap Shapes by Scenario
-
-These are concrete phase skeletons. Adapt names and granularity; don't add phases that serve no exit criterion.
-
-### New feature
-1. **Explore** — map the affected subsystems, identify entry points and constraints, and report the absolute path to the exploration artifact.
-2. **Spec** — define the interface, behavior, and acceptance criteria, then report the absolute path to the spec.
-3. **Plan** — decompose the spec into file-level tasks with dependency order, then report the absolute path to the plan.
-4. **Vertical slice** — implement the thinnest end-to-end path; validate it works before widening.
-5. **Harden** — fill out the remaining logic, edge cases, error paths.
-6. **Review** — non-implementer critique pass on the whole surface.
-7. **Fix** — action review findings.
-8. **Validate** — end-to-end confirmation against spec's acceptance criteria.
-
-### Refactor
-1. **Characterise** — pin current behaviour with evidence that holds before and after: whatever proof the repo's testing stance calls for, else a recorded runtime probe.
-2. **Plan safe steps** — decompose into the smallest semantics-preserving transformations; each step independently reviewable.
-3. **Transform** — apply each step, re-checking the characterisation evidence after each one.
-4. **Verify equivalence** — confirm no observable behaviour changed; review for unintended scope drift.
-
-### Bug-fix campaign
-1. **Reproduce** — produce a reliable reproduction case for each bug; nothing proceeds without one.
-2. **Root cause** — trace the defect to its source; group bugs sharing a root cause.
-3. **Fix** — implement the minimal correct change; no opportunistic cleanups in the same commit.
-4. **Prove the fix** — as the repo's testing stance calls for: a regression test where it keeps them, otherwise the reproduction case run against the fix.
-5. **Validate** — confirm the reproduction case no longer triggers.
-
-### Greenfield
-1. **Explore/research** — understand the problem domain, constraints, and comparable systems.
-2. **Spec** — define the interface and top-level behaviour in enough detail to plan.
-3. **Architecture decision** — commit to the structural shape and report the absolute path to the architecture artifact.
-4. **Spike** (if technical unknowns exist) — validate the risky piece before building around it.
-5. **Bottom-up build** — primitives first, then composition; validate each layer before building on it.
-6. **Integration** — assemble layers; validate end-to-end.
-7. **Review + fix** — critique full surface; action findings.
-
-### Migration / upgrade
-1. **Inventory** — enumerate every call site, every affected API, every integration point.
-2. **Compatibility plan** — decide the strangler-fig boundary; define the coexistence period.
-3. **New path** — implement the replacement without removing the old.
-4. **Route incrementally** — shift traffic or call sites in small batches; validate after each batch.
-5. **Delete old path** — only after full migration is confirmed.
-6. **Validate** — confirm nothing regressed; run the full integration surface.
-
-### Performance work
-1. **Baseline** — measure and record current performance numbers; define the target.
-2. **Profile** — identify the actual bottleneck; do not optimise before you know where the heat is.
-3. **Fix the bottleneck** — targeted change only; no speculative optimisation.
-4. **Measure again** — confirm the target is met against the same baseline method.
-5. **Review** — check that the fix doesn't introduce correctness or maintainability regressions.
-
----
-
-## Setting Exit Criteria per Phase
-
-Every phase needs a concrete, evaluable condition that tells you it is genuinely done — not "looks good" or "mostly working". Write exit criteria when you write the phase, not after.
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-- **Explore:** a context doc exists that accurately describes the relevant subsystem; a reviewer or subsequent spec agent should not need to re-explore to write the spec.
-- **Spec:** acceptance criteria are concrete enough that an implementer can derive test cases from them without ambiguity.
-- **Plan:** every task maps to identified files; no task says "figure out how"; dependencies are explicit.
-- **Implementation:** the code compiles, existing tests still pass, and the acceptance criteria from the spec are provably met — by a validation agent's check, or by tests where the repo's testing stance calls for them.
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-How much of that proof is new test coverage is the repo's call, never this playbook's: follow its `testing-stance` memory, and read [[testing]] when it has none.
-- **Review:** a non-implementer has read the diff once and produced a report; every Critical, Major, or acceptance-violating finding is fixed, always. A Minor or cosmetic finding that doesn't affect acceptance is fixed when the fix is net-neutral-or-simpler, or else closed with a one-line reason. The gate is met by that one pass — never by re-reviewing until the reviewer reports nothing, which is an asymptote, not a bar.
-- **Validation:** end-to-end confirmation against the spec's acceptance criteria passes in the real runtime, not just in isolation.
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-If you cannot write a concrete exit criterion for a phase, the phase is underspecified — split it or spec it further before adding it to the roadmap.
-
----
-
-## The Build-Cycle Discipline
-
-This is the delegation pipeline from spec to shipped, with the coupling that makes it rigorous.
-
-**Spec → Plan.** The plan agent receives the spec as input; it does not re-derive requirements. If the spec is ambiguous, the plan agent reports the ambiguity — the orchestrator resolves it and re-delegates, not the plan agent by guessing.
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-**Plan → Implement (parallel where safe).** Tasks with disjoint file sets run concurrently. Before spawning parallel implementers, verify file-level independence; if two tasks touch the same file, serialize them. Every implementation agent receives: the goal in one sentence, its specific task and done condition, the relevant context files by path, and the e2e validation recipe.
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-**Implement → Review (non-implementer).** The reviewer receives the full diff and the relevant context docs. It produces a report sorted by severity — Critical, Major, Minor — and does not propose fixes inline. One review pass per implementation batch; do not re-review after fixes, validate instead.
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-**Review → Fix.** The orchestrator triages the report: false positives are dismissed, Critical/Major and acceptance-violating findings get fix agents, and cosmetic or out-of-scope findings are closed with a one-line reason instead of fixed or left open. Fix agents read the findings, understand the code, and implement the correct fix — they are not given line-by-line instructions. Do not spawn a second reviewer after fixes land.
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-**Fix → Validate.** Validation confirms the thing works end-to-end in the real runtime by executing acceptance criteria, targeted tests, or a real behavior probe. It produces evidence rather than another opinion on the artifact. If validation fails, spawn fix agents against the observed failure and repeat that check; do not advance until it passes.
-
-**When review or validation exposes a phase gap** — a wrong assumption in the spec, a plan that missed a dependency, an implementation that reveals the design is wrong — re-delegate the affected phase rather than patching forward. A corrected spec or plan paid for in one extra wake costs less than an implementation built on a bad foundation.