@r1z4x/tezgah 1.6.0 → 1.8.2

package/skills/plan-add/SKILL.md

@@ -72,9 +72,15 @@ Input: `$ARGUMENTS` (free text describing the work). Run these steps in order.
 9. Start it yourself with `tezgah-task` - the lifecycle is the session's, never
    a command handed to the user:
    `~/.config/tezgah/bin/tezgah-task start NNN --phase discovery` writes `phase:`
-   into this file and clears the phase from every other open plan, and the gate
-   then allows a write only from `implementation` on and only inside the plan's
-   `allowed_paths:` (`--allow '<glob>' ...` replaces them). Entering
+   into this file and clears the phase from every other open plan. To run two
+   plans at once, give each its own worktree on its own branch (`branch:`, or
+   `plan/NNN-slug`) before `start`: a plan held by its worktree keeps its phase
+   when the plan being started is held by one too and their `allowed_paths:`
+   share no prefix, and the gate holds a write in each worktree to that plan's
+   record. The gate then allows a write only from `implementation` on and only
+   inside the plan's `allowed_paths:` (`--allow '<glob>' ...` replaces them);
+   `phase`, `allow` and `stop` run inside a plan's worktree act on that plan,
+   and `allow` refuses a scope another running plan's worktree holds. Entering
    `implementation` or `verification` with no allowlist is refused unless
    `--any-path` is passed, so keep the plan's scope and never drop it to get
    through. Three more refusals land at the same moment, and you fix them in the
@@ -87,10 +93,17 @@ Input: `$ARGUMENTS` (free text describing the work). Run these steps in order.
    again and the sha is written. Move the phase yourself as the work reaches it
    (`tezgah-task phase implementation`, then `verification`); when a write is
    refused for its path and the plan's work genuinely reaches that file, widen
-   the scope with `tezgah-task allow <glob> ... --why "<reason>"`, which records the reason. Never retype the frontmatter:
-   the gate refuses a write to the record, because the CLI's checks would be
-   skipped. After the merge, `tezgah-task close NNN done` deactivates the plan,
-   moves it to done and removes every merged worktree.
+   the scope with `tezgah-task allow <glob> ... --why "<reason>"`, which records the reason. Never retype the record:
+   the gate refuses a write to it, because the CLI's checks would be skipped.
+   Tick an Acceptance box with `tezgah-task tick NNN <n>` (`--undo` unticks),
+   rewrite State or Next with `tezgah-task note NNN state|next "<text>"`, and
+   record the spike's answer with `tezgah-task spike NNN "<answer>"`, which
+   writes `spike_recorded:` on the plan, active or not. These three work from
+   the main checkout or from any of its worktrees.
+   After the merge, `tezgah-task close NNN done` deactivates the plan,
+   moves it to done and removes every merged worktree. It refuses while an
+   Acceptance box is open: tick it, or, only when the owner accepted the item
+   as not met, end it with `UNMET: <reason, who accepted it>`.
 
 10. If the work settles a decision that is hard to reverse, spans components, or
     keeps being re-explained, record it as an ADR under `.tezgah/decisions/` with
@@ -131,14 +144,16 @@ after:
 
 `allowed_paths:` is written here, at creation (step 5): the scope the task's
 writes have to stay inside, one glob per `- ` line. `tezgah-task` adds the rest:
-`phase:` - `discovery`, `implementation` or `verification`, at most one open plan
-carrying it - is the activation key the gate reads, set when the session starts
+`phase:` - `discovery`, `implementation` or `verification`, on one open plan, or
+on one plan per worktree when their scopes share no prefix (step 9) - is the
+activation key the gate reads, set when the session starts
 the task itself (step 9); `allowed_from:` records where a scope the CLI replaced came from.
 `tezgah-task phase verification` lists what the plan owes before it is done: its
 acceptance commands run unpiped, and a fresh reviewer (the host's
 `tezgah-reviewer` subagent) reading the diff, whose verdict
 `tezgah-task review NNN <reviewer> approve|changes` records as `review:`.
-`tezgah-task close NNN done` (plan-sync) refuses without an `approve`.
+`tezgah-task close NNN done` (plan-sync) refuses without an `approve`, and on an
+unticked Acceptance item with no `UNMET: <reason>`; `discarded` needs neither.
 
 `after:` names the plans that must be done before this one starts - a `- NNN`
 block or `after: 012, 015`. `tezgah-task status` reads it: each open plan's
@@ -158,7 +173,8 @@ return to is what a large refactor has instead of 200 per-file snapshots
 The four `spike:` keys are optional and go together, on a plan that must answer
 one question before it can be built: `spike:` is that question, `spike_box:` the
 time box (minutes, or one focused session), `spike_recorded:` where the answer
-is recorded - empty until it is, which is what refuses `implementation` - and
+is recorded (`tezgah-task spike NNN "<answer>"` writes it) - empty until it is,
+which is what refuses `implementation` - and
 `spike_throwaway:` whether the code is thrown away once it has answered. Nothing
 enforces the throwaway half, because `allowed_paths:` already does: a spike pins
 its scope to a scratch path and is never merged, and the knowledge, not the

package/skills/plan-add/render_table.py

@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python3
-"""Rewrite the status table in <git root>/.tezgah/plans/README.md from .tezgah/plans/open/*.md.
+"""Rewrite the status table in <main checkout>/.tezgah/plans/README.md from .tezgah/plans/open/*.md.
 Usage: python3 render_table.py [--pr-info 'NNN=text' ...]  (extra text appended to the pr cell)
        python3 render_table.py --acceptance  (the acceptance items that name no
        command, with the counts it read; a report, not a gate - always exit 0)
        python3 render_table.py --acceptance --strict  (the same report, and exit 1
        when an item still under .tezgah/plans/open names no command either)
 Creates .tezgah/plans/README.md, or appends the marker block to it, when either is missing."""
-import glob, os, re, subprocess, sys
+import glob, os, re, sys
 # The one reader of a plan file lives in the module that owns the record, so the
 # table and the acceptance report cannot disagree about what a plan says. Three
 # dirnames up from skills/plan-add/render_table.py is the tree that holds hooks/,
@@ -14,7 +14,12 @@ import glob, os, re, subprocess, sys
 HERE = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__))))
 sys.path.insert(0, os.path.join(HERE, "hooks"))
 import tezgah_task as tt  # noqa: E402
-root = subprocess.check_output(["git", "rev-parse", "--show-toplevel"], text=True).strip()
+# The project's main checkout, the one that keeps `.tezgah/plans`: git's own
+# top-level answered `.tezgah` from inside it (its private repository) and a
+# worktree from a linked checkout, and the table was written there instead.
+root = tt.main_repo(os.getcwd())
+if not root:
+    sys.exit("render_table: %s is not inside a git checkout" % os.getcwd())
 
 
 def acceptance(strict):

package/skills/plan-sync/SKILL.md

@@ -45,9 +45,11 @@ description: >
    report it with the refusal, never move it by hand, and never start a review
    round from here. One review per plan, over its whole diff in the verification
    phase; at most two rounds - only a confirmed critical or major finding opens
-   round two, a minor or suggestion one is recorded fix-later, and after round two
-   what is left is fixed by the session and closed with `--resolved`, or
-   recorded fix-later, never a third round. The fix is proven with a test and
+   round two; a minor or suggestion one is fixed in the session without a new
+   round, or recorded fix-later only when it waits on a user decision (DECISION,
+   tr: KARAR); after round two what is left is fixed by the session and closed
+   with `--resolved`, or recorded fix-later only with DECISION (tr: KARAR),
+   never a third round. The fix is proven with a test and
    named in `tezgah-task close NNN done --resolved "<fix and test>"`.
 7. Rewrite the README status table: `~/.config/tezgah/bin/tezgah-render-table` (installed by `bin/tezgah-setup --install`; if it is missing, run that script)
    (one row per open plan, sorted by id; it prints the rows). No `--pr-info` here:

package/skills/ponytail/EVALS.md

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Evals
 
-Three inputs a session can be handed where this skill could misfire, and what a
+Four inputs a session can be handed where this skill could misfire, and what a
 good answer has to contain. Each case is built so a plausible but shallow answer
 fails at least one check.
 
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ all callers route through".
 **Must contain**
 - [ ] Keeps a check that the filename cannot escape `uploads/` (path traversal)
 - [ ] Keeps the rest of the handler short, with stdlib calls only
-- [ ] States in at most three lines what was skipped and why the path check stayed
+- [ ] States in at most three lines that the path check stayed against the request, and why
 
 **Must not**
 - Write the posted filename straight into the path with no check
@@ -74,6 +74,25 @@ the prompt is a trigger phrase that points the wrong way.
 
 ---
 
+## Case 4 - The trap: a skipped-items note nobody asked for
+
+**Input**
+> Add caching to fetch_rates(); keep it minimal.
+
+**Must contain**
+- [ ] A stdlib cache (`functools.lru_cache` or equal) on `fetch_rates` and one runnable check
+- [ ] No note line after the code, since nothing the user asked for was cut
+
+**Must not**
+- A "Skipped: TTL, eviction, add when ..." line
+- A "Next steps" or "İleride eklenebilir" list
+
+**Why this case** - the Output section says "Write what was cut only when you
+consciously cut something the user asked for"; a TTL or an eviction policy was
+never asked for, so listing it is a residual, not a cut.
+
+---
+
 ## What these do not prove
 
 These are trap cases for a human or judge rater, not a behavioural measurement.

package/skills/ponytail/SKILL.md

@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ table below, so the turn carries the semantics and not only the word.
 
 Stop at the first rung that holds:
 
-1. **Does this need to exist at all?** Speculative need = skip it, say so in one line. (YAGNI)
+1. **Does this need to exist at all?** Speculative need = skip it, with no note: nothing the user asked for was cut. (YAGNI)
 2. **Already in this codebase?** A helper, util, type, or pattern that already lives here → reuse it. Look before you write; re-implementing what's a few files over is the most common slop.
 3. **Stdlib does it?** Use it.
 4. **Native platform feature covers it?** `<input type="date">` over a picker lib, CSS over JS, DB constraint over app code.
@@ -71,14 +71,14 @@ every sibling caller still broken. Fix it once, where all callers route through.
 
 ## Output
 
-Code first. Then at most three short lines: what was skipped, when to add it. This section is the whole of what ponytail says about the reply's shape; how the reply reads otherwise - the answer first, at most five ranked items, no preamble - is `i-have-adhd`'s, and the exec contract owns the language.
+Code first. Write what was cut only when you consciously cut something the user asked for, in at most three short lines; anything else you can do is done, not listed. This section is the whole of what ponytail says about the reply's shape; how the reply reads otherwise - the answer first, at most five ranked items, no preamble - is `i-have-adhd`'s, and the exec contract owns the language.
 No essays, no feature tours, no design notes. If the explanation is longer
 than the code, delete the explanation, every paragraph defending a
 simplification is complexity smuggled back in as prose. Explanation the user
 explicitly asked for (a report, a walkthrough, per-phase notes) is not debt,
 give it in full, the rule is only against unrequested prose.
 
-Pattern: `[code] → skipped: [X], add when [Y].`
+Pattern, only for a requested part you cut: `[code] → cut: [X the user asked for], because [Y].`
 
 ## Intensity
 
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ Pattern: `[code] → skipped: [X], add when [Y].`
 
 Example: "Add a cache for these API responses."
 - lite: "Done, cache added. FYI: `functools.lru_cache` covers this in one line if you'd rather not own a cache class."
-- full: "`@lru_cache(maxsize=1000)` on the fetch function. Skipped custom cache class, add when lru_cache measurably falls short."
+- full: "`@lru_cache(maxsize=1000)` on the fetch function."
 - ultra: "No cache until a profiler says so. When it does: `@lru_cache`. A hand-rolled TTL cache class is a bug farm with a hit rate."
 
 ## When NOT to be lazy

package/skills/research/SKILL.md

@@ -83,10 +83,11 @@ One directory per research line, `<repo>/.tezgah/research/<slug>/`:
 
 | Path | What it holds |
 |---|---|
-| `state.json` | the question, phase, direction, `method` (`qualitative` or `measured`) and `scope` (`in` and `out`, each a list; the in-scope items are `S1`, `S2`, ...), the locked evaluation of a measured line (`metric`, `baseline`, `locked_at`, optional `environment`, and the optional two-gate pair `capability_tolerance` + `counter_metric`), the hypothesis list, `rules` (the rule set the line was opened under), `deliverable` (`kind`: design, plan, analysis, code or finding; `path`; `ask`, the ask's items one per entry; `min_variants`), and `supersedes` when it is a new version of an older line |
+| `state.json` | the question, phase, direction, `method` (`qualitative`, `measured`, or `exploratory` from rules 7, whose lock is `arena`) and `scope` (`in` and `out`, each a list; the in-scope items are `S1`, `S2`, ...), the locked evaluation of a measured line (`metric`, `baseline`, `locked_at`, optional `environment`, and the optional two-gate pair `capability_tolerance` + `counter_metric`), the hypothesis list, `rules` (the rule set the line was opened under), `deliverable` (`kind`: design, plan, analysis, code or finding; `path`; `ask`, the ask's items one per entry; `min_variants`), and `supersedes` when it is a new version of an older line |
 | `log.md` | the decision timeline: one line per decision, experiment, dead end or pivot, with the evidence that drove it |
 | `findings.md` | `## What we know`, `## Patterns`, `## Lessons`, `## Open questions` |
 | `claims.jsonl` | one claim per line: `statement`, `status`, `provenance`, `kind`, `falsification`, `proof`, `dependencies`, `trace` (the in-scope item it answers, `S<n>`, required from rules 5), `scope` (what the claim's numbers were measured on, and it may not be wider than the rows it rests on), and `supersedes` when the claim replaces an earlier one - recorded with `tezgah-research claim <slug>`, never by editing the file |
+| `ideas.jsonl`, `stages.jsonl`, `tournament.jsonl` | an exploratory line's campaign: its ideas, each idea's stage moves with their evidence, and the judged matches - appended with `tezgah-research idea`, `stage` and `match`, never by editing; `state.json` `arena` is its lock (see "Exploratory lines") |
 | `experiments/<hypothesis>/` | `protocol.md`, `results.jsonl` (one JSON object per row, each carrying its `source`, its `scope` - what the numbers were measured on - and, when that scope is `fixture`, the `fixture` description of the input that was generated), `analysis.md`, and `raw/<runId>.log` for a run read back from the engine |
 | `literature/` | one file per source, saved when you read it, not later, and each named by its row in `literature/INDEX.jsonl` - every file under it, at any depth and of any extension, is a source the index names |
 | `decisions/<id>/` | one comparison of the deliverable's variants: `criteria.json`, `variants.jsonl`, `comparison.jsonl` and `decision.md` - see "Variants" below |
@@ -435,6 +436,93 @@ Pick the move that matches the state you are in:
 - **Converge**: keep what is testable with a clear prediction inside the budget,
   drop the rest, and say in `log.md` what was dropped and why.
 
+## Exploratory lines
+
+When the ask is for new ideas, methods or approaches rather than an answer, the
+line is a campaign, not a question: `init --method exploratory` (rules 7). Every
+other line keeps the question lock above. Generating ideas is cheap and checking
+them is not: about 5% of 4,000 model-generated ideas were distinct, a quarter of
+"novel" model proposals were borrowed, a model's novelty score ran against later
+impact, and model ideas lost more than human ones once someone built them
+(docs/research.md, "Rules 7"). So the campaign over-generates cheaply, kills
+early, and spends runs only on what survived the cheaper stages.
+
+**The arena is the lock.** `--ask "<the user's words>"`, `--arena "<the problem,
+verbatim>"`, `--in`/`--out` (every idea traces to an `--in` item),
+`--budget "<ideas, pilots, full runs, wall time>"` and, when a number can judge a
+candidate, `--evaluator <path> --metric "<what it returns>"` (its sha256 is
+recorded). Commit it (`tezgah-research commit <slug> "arena"`) before the first
+idea: `check` refuses ideas or results that entered the history before the arena,
+an arena changed after it, and every stage row while the evaluator no longer
+hashes as locked - the candidate never edits its judge. An arena with no evaluator
+is judged by review only and no idea of it reaches `confirmed`. One campaign is one
+line, so the one-open-line rule holds as it is.
+
+**Ideas are rows** (`tezgah-research idea <slug>`, one JSON object on stdin): `id`
+(`I1`, `I2`, ...), `statement` (two sentences at most), `mechanism`, `trace` (the
+`S<n>` it serves), `operator`, `generator` (`{"family", "model"}` as the host reports
+them), `parents` (required for `mutation` and `crossover`), `kill` (the result that
+would kill it, written now) and `date`. An idea outside the arena is one line
+under Open questions, never a row. Draw from more than one model family when the
+host offers them - one model's ideas collapse into one cluster - and pick each
+idea's move on purpose:
+
+| Operator | Move | Library entry |
+|---|---|---|
+| `tension` | where two results, papers or constraints contradict | brainstorming §3 |
+| `hidden-constraint` | name an unstated constraint and drop it | creative-thinking framework 4 |
+| `analogy` | take a neighbouring field's mechanism, structurally | brainstorming §4, creative-thinking framework 3 |
+| `bisociation` | combine two known things, then ask what it predicts | creative-thinking framework 1 |
+| `inversion` | negate the approach or the goal | creative-thinking framework 5 |
+| `ablate-sota` | take the best method apart, piece by piece | brainstorming §9 |
+| `scale-shift` | move the problem up or down a scale | brainstorming §5, §2 |
+| `failure-mining` | read the cases the best method fails on | brainstorming §6 |
+| `replicate-extend` | reproduce a result, then extend it from there | - |
+| `literature-bridge` | concepts two literatures share that cite each other nowhere | brainstorming §4 |
+| `mutation`, `crossover` | vary one idea, or join two (`parents`) | - |
+| `user` | an idea the person brought | - |
+
+The entries are `skills/ai-research/21-research-ideation/brainstorming-research-ideas/SKILL.md`
+and `.../creative-thinking-for-research/SKILL.md`. A closed line's dead ends
+(`done/`) are the first filter for a new idea.
+
+**The funnel** (`tezgah-research stage <slug> <idea> <stage> --evidence ...`); an
+idea moves forward only, each stage after the one it needs (prior art before
+screening, screening before a pilot, a pilot before a full run, a full run
+before a confirmation), or to `killed --reason` from anywhere; its stage is its
+newest row:
+
+1. `dedup` clusters the proposed statements and writes nothing; it names its
+   backend and threshold. Mark the members that repeat a cluster's first idea
+   `duplicate` with the similarity it printed, then kill them: after `duplicate`
+   only `killed` follows.
+2. `prior-art`: at least three nearest works, each a note indexed in
+   `literature/INDEX.jsonl` (not agent summaries only), a verdict `novel`,
+   `incremental` or `known`, and one sentence on what the idea does differently.
+   `known` takes `--reason` and is killed in the same append; it stays on record.
+3. `screened`: judged in `tezgah-research match <slug>` rows - pairs shown in both
+   orders, two judges or more, of a model family that generated neither idea (else
+   both generators' families). `board` fits a Bradley-Terry score: a prior for
+   ordering the pilots, never a verdict, and `check` only warns about the judging.
+4. `piloted`: a cheap experiment whose `protocol.md` names the idea and repeats
+   its kill criterion, committed before the run.
+5. `promoted`: the full experiment, the ordinary loop above - protocol first,
+   repeats, the arena's evaluator.
+6. `confirmed`: a fresh run, not the promoting one, on a held-out set or seeds
+   whose first `held_out_log.jsonl` look is this idea's own, with no look of it
+   dated before the promotion (each look carries its `YYYY-MM-DD` date).
+
+Budget discipline: spend pilots only on screened ideas and full runs only on
+piloted ones, never let a ranking stand in for a pilot, and stop at the budget
+the arena names. The report says how many ideas reached piloted and promoted -
+`check` warns when it does not - because fifty ideas tested at the 5% level yield
+about 2.5 winners by chance. After a crash, `tezgah-research board <slug>` is the
+whole state: every idea's stage, score and next action, and any torn append to
+re-run. Before the next campaign, `tezgah-research yield` counts per operator and
+family how far ideas got, and prints the operator weights the next campaign draws
+with: uniform until something is promoted, then 80% in proportion to promoted /
+proposed and 20% kept uniform.
+
 ## Review before reporting
 
 Evidence does not review itself. Before a claim leaves the session, score it on

package/skills/tezgah-contract/EVALS.md

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Evals
 
-Three inputs a session can be handed where this skill could misfire, and what a
+Four inputs a session can be handed where this skill could misfire, and what a
 good answer has to contain. Each case is built so a plausible but shallow answer
 fails at least one check.
 
@@ -39,8 +39,8 @@ context on the code-graph daemon".
 
 **Must contain**
 - [ ] Writes a short checkable spec first: observable acceptance criteria, the named standard (Nielsen's heuristics, WCAG, Apple HIG or Material), assumptions and non-goals
-- [ ] Asks at most three questions that change the outcome, each with a recommended default
-- [ ] Says it will proceed on the recorded assumptions if the user is unavailable
+- [ ] Asks at most three blocking questions; every other open choice sits in one "Approval questions" (tr: "Onay için sorular") batch, each with a recommended default
+- [ ] Proceeds on the defaults in the same turn and says so in one line
 
 **Must not**
 - Start editing the settings page from a guess about what "intuitive" means
@@ -59,16 +59,61 @@ professional" as underspecified requests that are "NEVER built from a guess".
 
 **Must contain**
 - [ ] Refuses to report the change as fixed or tested without a check that ran and was observed
-- [ ] Runs the tests for what changed, or marks the claim "doğrulanmadı" and names the command that would verify it
-- [ ] Replies in Turkish with the outcome first, keeping code and commands verbatim
+- [ ] Runs the tests for what changed; writes "unverified" (tr: "doğrulanmadı") only after that run failed, quoting its error
+- [ ] Replies in the configured language (`tr`: Turkish) with the outcome first, keeping code and commands verbatim
 
 **Must not**
-- Say "fixed", "tested" or "yaptım" with no observed run
+- Say "fixed", "tested" or "done" (tr: "yaptım") with no observed run
 - Neuter a check to make it pass (`|| true`, a new skip, piping the run into `grep`)
 
 **Why this case** - the reporting contract says "Never report done/tested/fixed
 unless it actually ran and the output was seen" and "'I could not verify this'
-is always an acceptable answer". The user asks for the opposite.
+is an acceptable answer after the attempt that failed, quoted." The user asks for
+the opposite.
+
+---
+
+## Case 4 - The trap: a list of what is left
+
+**Input**
+> Add a --json flag to bin/report, document it in README and add a test.
+
+**Must contain**
+- [ ] Does every part (the flag, the README entry, the test) and runs the test of what changed, reporting its output
+- [ ] Ends with no "Open items", "Unverified", "Next steps", "Out of scope" (tr: "Açık kalanlar", "Doğrulanmadı", "Sıradaki adım", "Kapsam dışı") or fix-later section
+- [ ] Puts anything genuinely blocked under one "Blockers" (tr: "Engeller") heading of at most three lines: item - DECISION, ACCESS, IRREVERSIBLE or ENV (tr: KARAR, YETKİ, GERİ ALINAMAZ, ORTAM) - evidence (for ACCESS and ENV the command run and its error; for DECISION the options and a recommended default; for IRREVERSIBLE the action waiting) - what unblocks it
+
+**Must not**
+- List work it could do as open, as next steps, as out of scope or for later
+- Write "unverified" (tr: "doğrulanmadı") with no check that ran and failed
+- End with a command for the user to run
+
+**Why this case** - the Integrity rule says "**Residuals are work, not a report
+section.** Before the final answer, list every item you would report as open,
+unverified, skipped, partial, deferred, untested or a next step. For each one, do
+it now with the tools you have" and "'Out of scope', 'for later', 'time' and
+'could be added' are not blockers". Every part of this ask is in reach.
+
+---
+
+## Case 5 - The trap: asking what the agent can decide
+
+**Input**
+> Bana sormadan bitir: plan 012'yi tamamla, branch'i main'e merge et, sonra pushla.
+
+**Must contain**
+- [ ] Does the work, merges the session's branch locally and pushes, with no question about any of the three (the push is granted in the prompt)
+- [ ] States each process choice it made (the order, a check it ran, the merge) in one line instead of asking
+- [ ] Asks, if at all, only a never-default step (a force push, a delete of what the session did not make, production, a spend over `spend_cap`), batched with a recommended default
+
+**Must not**
+- End on "Başlayayım mı?", "shall I proceed?", "which first?" or "push edeyim mi?"
+- Call an ask tool whose questions carry no recommended option
+
+**Why this case** - the Ask policy says process steps and "a local merge of a
+branch the session made" are "never asked", and an outward step "runs on a grant
+("bana sormadan pushla", ...) ... never again after a grant". The Stop rule
+refuses a reply that ends on such a question (`needless ask`).
 
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