@rse/ase 1.0.7 → 2.0.0

package/plugin/skills/ase-task-edit/help.md

@@ -8,23 +8,55 @@
 `ase-task-edit`
     [`--help`|`-h`]
     [`--plan`|`-p` *option*]
-    [`--dry`|`-d`]
+    [`--mode`|`-m` `auto`|`craft`|`refactor`|`resolve`|`specify`]
+    [`--approach`|`-a`]
+    [`--unverified`|`-u`]
     [`--next`|`-n` *option*[,...]]
-    [*id* | *id*: *instruction* | *instruction*]
+    [*id* | *id*: *instruction* | *instruction* | *issue-id*]
 
 ##  DESCRIPTION
 
 The `ase-task-edit` skill establishes and refines a *task plan* purely
 through a *chat-driven loop*. The user steers each round via an
 interactive dialog that offers continued refinement, finalization, or
-hand-off to implementation or preflight.
-
-When a refinement changes the plan text while an `IMPLEMENTATION
-DRAFT` section (produced by `ase-task-preflight`) exists, that section
-became *stale* and is *removed* -- together with the `preflighted`
-value of the `Properties:` frontmatter key -- and a hint is emitted
-that `ase-task-preflight` has to be run again to re-create the draft
-for the changed plan.
+hand-off to implementation or draft. It covers the planning of all
+kinds of change: crafting a new feature, refactoring the code base,
+resolving a problem, and specifying.
+
+A newly generated plan is grounded in the relevant specification
+(`SPEC`), source code (`CODE`), and infrastructure (`INFR`) files of the
+project: it names the actual files and symbols to change, the actual
+build, lint, and test procedures, and a `CHANGELOG.md` entry if such a
+file exists.
+
+Before a new plan is generated, the skill determines its *kind of
+change* (stored in the `Kind:` key of the plan) and internalizes the
+corresponding tenets (for example KISS, YAGNI, and DRY for crafting,
+or Surgical Changes and Origin Proximity for resolving). For a
+resolution, it first reports the `PROBLEM CONTEXT` and `PROBLEM
+DETAILS`. Under `--approach`, it then proposes one or more *approaches*
+with pros and cons, recommends one of them, and lets the user pick the
+preferred one via an interactive dialog, and the new plan is then
+composed along the chosen approach.
+
+If the current task is `default` and a new plan is generated from an
+*instruction*, a new task id is allocated from the instruction
+according to the task id scheme of the project, so the plan does not
+end up under `default`.
+
+Attachments in the plan's backmatter are never removed by a refinement.
+A refinement which changes an attachment refreshes the attachment's
+`Modified:` key; a refinement which changes the plan body refreshes the
+`Modified:` key of the frontmatter (which tracks body changes only, so
+a refinement of frontmatter keys alone leaves it untouched); both use
+the same value. An implementation draft (an attachment block of type
+`text/x-diff; charset=utf-8; kind="draft"`, produced by
+`ase-task-implement --draft`) whose `Modified:` key is absent or older
+than the frontmatter's is *stale*: it is reported with a warning after
+each rendering of the plan, together with a hint that
+`ase-task-implement --draft` has to be run again to re-create the
+draft for the changed plan, as `ase-task-integrate --draft` refuses a
+stale draft.
 
 ##  OPTIONS
 
@@ -36,8 +68,27 @@ for the changed plan.
     *instruction*), or `PRESERVE` (preserve the existing plan by
     ignoring *instruction* and stopping skill processing).
 
--   `--dry`|`-d`:
-    Generate any *new* plan *without* the `##  VERIFICATION` section.
+-   `--mode`|`-m` `auto`|`craft`|`refactor`|`resolve`|`specify`:
+    Select the kind of change of the plan: `craft` (`CRAFTING`),
+    `refactor` (`REFACTORING`), `resolve` (`RESOLVING`), or `specify`
+    (`SPECIFYING`). It selects the tenets internalized when the plan is
+    generated or refined and sets the `Kind:` key of the plan, also on
+    a refinement. The default `auto` infers the kind of a new plan from
+    the *instruction*, uses `RESOLVING` for an *issue-id* (also on a
+    refinement), and otherwise leaves the `Kind:` key of an existing
+    plan as it is and honors its tenets.
+
+-   `--approach`|`-a`:
+    Before a new plan is composed, propose one or more crafting,
+    refactoring, resolution, or specification approaches with pros and
+    cons, recommend one of them, and let the user pick the preferred one
+    via an interactive dialog (or, under the `black` project boxing or
+    in headless mode, automatically pick the recommended one). The new
+    plan is then composed along the chosen approach. Without
+    `--approach`, no approaches are determined at all.
+
+-   `--unverified`|`-u`:
+    Generate any *new* plan *without* the `##  VERIFICATION (WHEN)` section.
     Applies only to freshly generated plans, not to existing plans
     loaded from disk. When `ase-task-implement` later applies such
     a plan, it strictly skips the entire verification phase (no
@@ -49,28 +100,36 @@ for the changed plan.
     of this skill). *option* is a single token or a *comma-separated
     chronological list* of tokens; each iteration of the planning
     loop consumes the *first* token of the list, and on hand-off
-    (`IMPLEMENT` / `PREFLIGHT`) any remaining tokens are *forwarded*
+    (`IMPLEMENT` / `DRAFT`) any remaining tokens are *forwarded*
     (via `--next`) to the downstream skill so an entire pipeline can
     be pre-scripted in one shot. Recognized tokens at this skill:
     `none` (default, interactive answer required), `DONE` (no next
-    step), `GRILL` (hand-over to `ase-task-grill`), `PREFLIGHT`
-    (hand-over to `ase-task-preflight`), or `IMPLEMENT` (hand-over to
+    step), `GRILL` (hand-over to `ase-task-grill`), `DRAFT`
+    (hand-over to `ase-task-implement --draft`), or `IMPLEMENT` (hand-over to
     `ase-task-implement`). Example: `--next GRILL,DONE` hands the plan
     off to grilling and forwards `DONE` so grilling exits without asking.
 
 ##  ARGUMENTS
 
--   *id* | *id*: *instruction* | *instruction*:
-    Edit the task with the unique identifier *id* (default: `default`).
-    Optionally, *instruction* either gives instructions for creating a
-    new task or gives instructions for refining an existing task.
+-   *id* | *id*: *instruction* | *instruction* | *issue-id*:
+    Edit the task with the unique identifier *id* (default: the current
+    task). Optionally, *instruction* either gives instructions for
+    creating a new task or gives instructions for refining an existing
+    task. Instead, a bare *issue-id* (like `P1`, `T1`, or
+    `<prefix>-P1`), previously reported by `ase-code-analyze` or
+    `ase-arch-analyze`, uses the description of this issue as the
+    *instruction* (also as *id*: *issue-id*), and the issue is removed
+    once the plan is saved. If no such issue exists, *issue-id* is
+    treated as a task *id* resp. as an *instruction*.
 
 ##  SCENARIOS
 
 -   You want a task planned through chat-driven refinement
 -   You want a plan created or refined round by round
--   You want a plan iterated on before implementing it
--   You want plan refinement with hand-off to preflight or implementation
+-   You want approaches with pros and cons before a plan is composed
+-   You want a plan to craft a feature, refactor code, or resolve a problem
+-   You want an analyzer issue like `P1` turned into a plan
+-   You want plan refinement with hand-off to draft or implementation
 
 ##  EXAMPLES
 
@@ -94,7 +153,21 @@ Further refine the task under id `hello`:
 ❯ /ase-task-edit hello: change the color to red.
 ```
 
+Plan the resolution of the analyzer issue `P1` along an interactively
+chosen approach, and directly hand off to implementation:
+
+```text
+❯ /ase-task-edit --approach --next IMPLEMENT P1
+```
+
+Plan a refactoring under the id `cleanup`:
+
+```text
+❯ /ase-task-edit -m refactor cleanup: extract HTTP client into its own class
+```
+
 ##  SEE ALSO
 
-[`ase-task-reboot`](../ase-task-reboot/help.md), [`ase-task-preflight`](../ase-task-preflight/help.md), [`ase-task-implement`](../ase-task-implement/help.md),
+[`ase-code-edit`](../ase-code-edit/help.md), [`ase-spec-edit`](../ase-spec-edit/help.md), [`ase-task-grill`](../ase-task-grill/help.md),
+[`ase-task-reboot`](../ase-task-reboot/help.md), [`ase-task-implement`](../ase-task-implement/help.md),
 [`ase-task-view`](../ase-task-view/help.md), [`ase-task-list`](../ase-task-list/help.md), [`ase-task-rename`](../ase-task-rename/help.md), [`ase-task-delete`](../ase-task-delete/help.md).

package/plugin/skills/ase-task-estimate/SKILL.md

@@ -0,0 +1,492 @@
+---
+name: ase-task-estimate
+argument-hint: "[--help|-h] [--force|-f] [--dry-run|-d] [--all|-a] [--calibrate|-c [--save|-s]] [<id> ...]"
+description: >
+    Estimate the effort of the current, given, or all unestimated task
+    plans as T-shirt sizes (XS, S, M, L, XL) of expected human time, and
+    store it in the "Effort:" frontmatter key, or calibrate the estimation
+    against the actual human time of the finished tasks. Use when the user
+    wants to "estimate", "size", or "gauge the effort" of a "task" or
+    "plan", or to "calibrate" the effort estimation.
+user-invocable: true
+disable-model-invocation: false
+effort: high
+---
+
+@${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../meta/ase-control.md
+@${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../meta/ase-skill.md
+@${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../meta/ase-getopt.md
+
+<purpose name="ase-task-estimate">
+Estimate the Effort of a Task Plan
+</purpose>
+
+<expand name="getopt"
+    arg1="ase-task-estimate"
+    arg2="--force|-f --dry-run|-d --all|-a --calibrate|-c --save|-s">
+    $ARGUMENTS
+</expand>
+
+<objective>
+*Estimate* the effort of task plans as T-shirt sizes of expected human time.
+</objective>
+
+@${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../meta/ase-format-task.md
+
+Procedure
+---------
+
+<define name="effort-scores">
+
+Derive the *scores* of the plan <plan/> (the body only, never the
+frontmatter or backmatter), skipping every bullet-point in the *inert*
+checkbox states `[-]` and `[>]` entirely, while all other checkbox
+states (including `[x]`, as the effort covers the *entire* lifecycle of
+the task) count alike. A bullet-point *without* a type (like in a
+legacy plan) counts with the types following from its section: `DOM`
+or `IFC` for a context or specification section (but *nothing* for a
+pure rationale like a *why*), `ARC` or `IMP` for a changes or design
+section, and `REG` or `CON` for a verification section. Do not output
+anything.
+
+1.  *Attention score*: set <attention/> to the sum of the weights of all
+    counted bullet-points, with the weights `DOM` 5.0, `IFC` 4.0, `ARC`
+    3.0, `IMP` 1.0, `REG` 0.5, and `CON` 1.0, each *multiplied* by the
+    *item count* of the bullet-point: the number of *distinct*
+    requirements, behaviors, or changes it states (at least `1`), like
+    one per independent statement or per enumerated element, so a dense
+    bullet-point stating ten key bindings counts ten times, while a
+    bullet-point stating a single fact counts once. Set
+    <minutes-attention/> to <attention/> times <factor/>.
+
+2.  *Volume score*: *predict* the code impact of the counted `ARC` and
+    `IMP` bullet-points *strictly read-only* from the plan and the code
+    base (never change, stage, or commit anything), *disregarding* any
+    already existing change set of the task (its uncommitted changes,
+    its branch, or its change set attachment): *never* measure the
+    volume from such a change set, so estimations before and after the
+    implementation stay comparable. Set <files/> to the number of files
+    they touch (or create) -- the files named by the bullet-points
+    *plus* the files following from them, like call sites,
+    documentation, manual pages, and generated catalogs -- and <lines/>
+    to the estimated number of changed lines, sizing new files after
+    comparable existing ones and changes after the code they touch, and
+    <new-lines/> to the part of <lines/> in newly created files. Set
+    <minutes-volume/> to <files/> times <file-minutes/> plus <lines/>
+    plus twice <new-lines/> times <line-minutes/>, so a newly written
+    line weighs *three* times a changed one. As a plan describes the
+    straightforward path only, while the edge cases, the error
+    handling, and the polishing of the realization regularly multiply
+    its size, <line-minutes/> already covers this growth, hence do
+    *not* inflate the predicted lines themselves.
+
+3.  *Base size*: set <minutes/> to <minutes-attention/> plus
+    <minutes-volume/>, and set <size/> to the *smallest* size of `XS`,
+    `S`, `M`, and `L` whose upper band bound in <scale/> is greater than
+    or equal to <minutes/>, or to `XL` if <minutes/> exceeds all bounds.
+
+</define>
+
+1.  **Determine Operation:**
+
+    1.  Set <ids/> to the whitespace-separated tokens of
+        <getopt-arguments/>, each with a trailing `:` removed. Inherit
+        the always existing <ase-task-id/>, <ase-session-id/>,
+        <ase-project-task-lifecycle/>, and <ase-project-boxing/> from the
+        current context. Do not output anything.
+
+    2.  Validate the arguments and options:
+
+        -   If a token <token/> of <ids/> does *not* match the regexp
+            `^[a-zA-Z0-9#][a-zA-Z0-9#_-]*$`, only output the following
+            <template/> and then immediately *STOP* processing the entire
+            current skill:
+
+            <template>
+            ⧉ **ASE**: ☻ skill: **ase-task-estimate**, ▶ ERROR: invalid task id: **<token/>**
+            </template>
+
+        -   If <getopt-option-all/> is `true` and <ids/> is *not* empty,
+            only output the following <template/> and then immediately
+            *STOP* processing the entire current skill:
+
+            <template>
+            ⧉ **ASE**: ☻ skill: **ase-task-estimate**, ▶ ERROR: option `--all` takes no task ids
+            </template>
+
+        -   If <getopt-option-calibrate/> is `true` and <ids/> is *not*
+            empty or any of <getopt-option-all/>, <getopt-option-force/>,
+            and <getopt-option-dry-run/> is `true`, only output the
+            following <template/> and then immediately *STOP* processing
+            the entire current skill:
+
+            <template>
+            ⧉ **ASE**: ☻ skill: **ase-task-estimate**, ▶ ERROR: option `--calibrate` takes no task ids and excludes `--all`, `--force`, and `--dry-run`
+            </template>
+
+        -   If <getopt-option-save/> is `true` and
+            <getopt-option-calibrate/> is *not* `true`, only output the
+            following <template/> and then immediately *STOP* processing
+            the entire current skill:
+
+            <template>
+            ⧉ **ASE**: ☻ skill: **ase-task-estimate**, ▶ ERROR: option `--save` requires `--calibrate`
+            </template>
+
+    3.  Determine the *estimation configuration*: for each of the keys
+        `project.task.effort.scale`, `project.task.effort.factor`,
+        `project.task.effort.file`, `project.task.effort.line`, and
+        `project.task.effort.iteration`, call the `ase_config_get(key:
+        "<key/>", scope: "project")` tool of the `ase` MCP server and
+        JSON-decode its `text` output field. Set <scale/> to the four
+        comma-separated upper band bounds of `XS` to `L` (default:
+        `15,60,240,960`), <factor/> to the human minutes per
+        attention-score point (default: `1`), <file-minutes/> to the
+        human review minutes per touched file (default: `1`),
+        <line-minutes/> to the human minutes per predicted changed line
+        (default: `0.025`), and <iteration-factor/> to the iteration
+        multiplier of interactive user interfaces (default: `2.5`), each
+        falling back to its default if empty or malformed. Do not
+        output anything.
+
+    4.  Determine the *finished states* <finished-states/> and the
+        *successful finished state* <success-state/> of the task lifecycle
+        model <ase-project-task-lifecycle/>: `CLOSED` and `CANCELLED`
+        resp. `CLOSED` for `solo` (or absent), `IMPLEMENTED` and
+        `CANCELLED` resp. `IMPLEMENTED` for `team`, and `INTEGRATED` and
+        `CANCELLED` resp. `INTEGRATED` for `enterprise`. Do not output
+        anything.
+
+    5.  <if condition="<getopt-option-calibrate/> is `true`">
+        Skip step 2 and continue with step 3.
+        </if>
+
+2.  **Estimate Task Plans:**
+
+    1.  Determine the tasks <tasks/> to estimate:
+
+        -   If <getopt-option-all/> is `true`: call the
+            `ase_task_list(verbose: true)` tool of the `ase` MCP server and
+            set <tasks/> to the `id` of every entry of its `tasks` array
+            whose `status` is *not* in <finished-states/> and -- unless
+            <getopt-option-force/> is `true` -- whose `effort` is empty.
+
+        -   Else, if <ids/> is not empty: set <tasks><ids/></tasks>.
+
+        -   Else: set <tasks><ase-task-id/></tasks>.
+
+        <if condition="<tasks/> is empty">
+        Only output the following <template/> and then *STOP* processing
+        the entire current skill:
+
+        <template>
+        ⧉ **ASE**: ◉ tasks: *(none)*, ▶ status: **nothing to estimate**
+        </template>
+        </if>
+
+    2.  Set <analogues/> to the *analogues* for cross-checking: call the
+        `ase_task_list(verbose: true)` tool of the `ase` MCP server (or
+        reuse its result of sub-step 1), take every entry whose `status`
+        is <success-state/> and whose `effort` is *not* empty, and pick
+        up to *five* of them whose title is most similar to the tasks of
+        <tasks/>. For each picked one, call the `ase_task_attachment(id:
+        "<id/>", type: "application/yaml; kind=\"usage\"")` tool of the
+        `ase` MCP server, and keep it only if it carries a usage
+        attachment (a `WARNING:` response means none), whose YAML payload
+        `time: { ai, hr, real }` carries a `hr` of at least `5` minutes, together
+        with its `effort` size and the size whose band covers its
+        `time.hr` (its *actual* size). Do not output anything.
+
+    3.  For each task id <id/> of <tasks/>, perform the following
+        *per-task workflow*, where a failing task never stops the
+        processing of the remaining tasks:
+
+        1.  *Load*: call the `ase_task_load(id: "<id/>", tag: true)` tool
+            of the `ase` MCP server -- with the `variant` argument
+            defaulting to `source` and the `attachments` argument
+            defaulting to `elided` -- and set <plan/> to its `text`
+            output field without the trailing `<task-plan-tag>`
+            delimiter line, and <tag/> to the content of that line.
+
+            -   If <plan/> is empty, set <status>skipped: no plan</status>
+                and continue with sub-step 5.
+
+            -   If the `Group:` frontmatter key of <plan/> equals its
+                `Id:` key (an *explicit epic*), set <status>skipped:
+                epic</status> and continue with sub-step 5.
+
+            -   If <plan/> carries an `Effort:` frontmatter key (which the
+                task store only delivers if it is *valid*) and
+                <getopt-option-force/> is *not* `true`, set <size/> to its
+                size and <status>skipped: already estimated</status> and
+                continue with sub-step 5.
+
+        2.  *Score*: derive the scores of <plan/>:
+
+            <expand name="effort-scores"></expand>
+
+        3.  *Adjust*:
+
+            -   *Risk surcharge*: determine which of the risks `dependency`
+                (a new or upgraded third-party dependency or external
+                service), `ambiguity` (bullet-points in state `[?]` or
+                vague, underspecified wording), `untested` (changed code
+                without an automated test procedure covering it),
+                `concurrency` (parallelism, locking, or race conditions),
+                `security` (authentication, authorization, secrets, or
+                untrusted input), and `persistence` (data formats,
+                migrations, or stored state) apply to <plan/>. There is
+                *no* `architecture` risk, as the `ARC` weight already
+                covers it, and a risk applying to virtually *every* task
+                of the project (like `untested` in a project without any
+                automated test procedure) does *not* count, as the
+                calibrated rates already absorb it. Set <surcharge/> to
+                `20` percent per applying risk, but at most `40` percent
+                in total, and raise <minutes/> by <surcharge/> percent.
+
+            -   *Iteration multiplier*: if the *main* deliverable of
+                <plan/> is an *interactive* or *visual* user interface
+                (like a terminal UI, a web UI, a layout, or a rendering
+                with key or pointer handling) which is built or
+                substantially reworked, set <iteration/> to
+                <iteration-factor/>, as
+                such work regularly needs many rounds of post-adjustment
+                which no plan foresees; else set <iteration/> to `1`. A
+                mere display detail of an existing interface (like an
+                additional badge or column) does *not* count. Multiply
+                <minutes/> by <iteration/> -- *outside* the cap of the
+                risk surcharge -- and re-determine <size/> from the
+                resulting <minutes/> like the base size.
+
+            -   *Plausibility*: if the code base already contains a
+                *comparable* realization of the planned functionality
+                (but *never* the change set of the task itself, see the
+                volume score), set <reference/> to its size in lines and
+                consider the prediction *implausible* if <lines/> and
+                <reference/> differ by a factor of at least `2`. A
+                reference *never* changes <size/> itself.
+
+            -   *Confidence*: set <confidence/> to `HIGH`. Lower it by
+                one level (`HIGH` to `MEDIUM` to `LOW`) if the `ambiguity`
+                risk applies, by one level if the prediction is
+                implausible, and by one level if <analogues/> is empty or
+                if the analogues of comparable scope disagree with <size/>
+                (their actual size differs from <size/> by at least one
+                band), and by two levels if they disagree by at least two
+                bands, but never below `LOW`. The analogues *never*
+                change <size/> itself.
+
+            -   *Drivers*: set <drivers/> to the 2-4 main drivers of the
+                estimation (like the dominant bullet-point types, the
+                code volume, the applying risks, the iteration
+                multiplier, an implausible prediction, or the analogues),
+                each as an ultra brief phrase.
+
+        4.  *Persist*: <if condition="<getopt-option-dry-run/> is `true`">
+            set <status>estimated (dry-run, not stored)</status>.
+            </if>
+            <else>
+            Set the `Effort:` frontmatter key of <plan/> to *just*
+            <size/> -- *without* any content hash, as the task store
+            stamps it on save -- replacing an already present `Effort:`
+            key, or *creating* it at its position in the key order of the
+            plan <format/> (directly after `Kind:` resp. before `Tags:`).
+            Change *nothing else* of <plan/>: especially, do *not*
+            refresh the `Modified:` key (an effort is no body change), do
+            *not* change the `Status:` key, and pass the entire
+            backmatter through *verbatim* (with its elided `Data`
+            markers). Call the `ase_task_save(id: "<id/>", text:
+            "<plan/>", base: "<tag/>")` tool of the `ase` MCP server, so
+            the save is refused if the plan was changed meanwhile by
+            anybody else. This `ase_task_save` MCP tool call is the
+            *only* permitted way to persist the plan -- *NEVER* write the
+            plan file via `Write`/`Edit` or by executing a shell command.
+
+            -   On success, set <status>effort estimated</status>.
+
+            -   If the save is refused because the plan was *changed*
+                meanwhile, *reload* and *re-estimate* the task by
+                restarting the per-task workflow at sub-step 1, at most
+                *three* times in total, and afterwards set <status>failed:
+                plan changed concurrently</status>.
+
+            -   On any other error <info/>, set <status>failed:
+                <info/></status>.
+            </else>
+
+        5.  *Report*: <if condition="<status/> starts with `skipped` or `failed`">
+            only output the following <template/>:
+
+            <template>
+            ⧉ **ASE**: ◉ task: **<id/>**, ▶ status: **<status/>**
+            </template>
+            </if>
+            <else>
+            only output the following <template/>, where every driver of
+            <drivers/> is rendered as its own `○` line -- but *without*
+            any driver lines if <ase-project-boxing/> is `black`, and
+            with an additional first `○` line `attention <attention/>
+            (<minutes-attention/> min), volume <files/> files / <lines/>
+            lines (<minutes-volume/> min), risk +<surcharge/>%, iteration
+            x<iteration/> (<minutes/> min)` if <ase-project-boxing/> is
+            `white`:
+
+            <template>
+            ⧉ **ASE**: ◉ task: **<id/>**, ⚖ effort: **<size/>** (confidence: **<confidence/>**), ▶ status: **<status/>**
+            ○   [...]
+            </template>
+
+            <if condition="<size/> is `XL`">
+            Directly *after* this <template/>, only output the following
+            <template/>:
+
+            <template>
+            ⧉ **ASE**: ◉ task: **<id/>**, ▶ WARNING: effort **XL** is open-ended -- consider splitting the task via `/ase-task-dissect <id/>`
+            </template>
+            </if>
+            </else>
+
+    4.  <if condition="<tasks/> contains more than one task">
+        Only output the following <template/>, where <n-estimated/>,
+        <n-skipped/>, and <n-failed/> are the numbers of tasks whose
+        <status/> was an estimation, a skip, resp. a failure:
+
+        <template>
+        ⧉ **ASE**: ⚖ estimated: **<n-estimated/>**, skipped: **<n-skipped/>**, failed: **<n-failed/>**
+        </template>
+        </if>
+
+    5.  Finally, give the closing hint by expanding the following (which,
+        depending on the configured <ase-guidance-level/>, may expand
+        into nothing and hence emit no output at all), and then *STOP*
+        processing the entire current skill:
+
+        <if condition="<getopt-option-dry-run/> is `true`">
+        <ase-tpl-hint level="normal">
+        Run `/ase-task-estimate` again without `--dry-run` to store the estimated effort in the `Effort:` key.
+        </ase-tpl-hint>
+        </if>
+        <elseif condition="a task was skipped as already estimated">
+        <ase-tpl-hint level="verbose">
+        Use `/ase-task-estimate --force` to re-estimate tasks already carrying a valid effort.
+        </ase-tpl-hint>
+        </elseif>
+
+3.  **Calibrate Estimation:**
+
+    1.  Call the `ase_task_list(verbose: true)` tool of the `ase` MCP
+        server and take every entry whose `status` is <success-state/>
+        (a task which reached its intended outcome, unlike a cancelled
+        one) and whose `effort` is *not* empty. For each of them, call the
+        `ase_task_attachment(id: "<id/>", type: "application/yaml;
+        kind=\"usage\"")` tool of the `ase` MCP server and keep the task
+        as a *sample* only if it carries a usage attachment (a `WARNING:`
+        response means none), whose YAML payload `time: { ai, hr, real }`
+        carries a `hr` (the `time.hr`) of at least `5` minutes, as agent-driven tasks book
+        little human time. For each sample, set its *actual* size to the
+        size whose band in <scale/> covers its `time.hr`. Do not output
+        anything.
+
+        Then *re-score* every sample with the *current* rates, as its
+        stored `effort` was estimated with the rates in effect *at that
+        time* (which nothing records), so calibrating against it would
+        apply an already applied correction again on every repeated
+        calibration: call the `ase_task_load(id: "<id/>")` tool of the
+        `ase` MCP server, set <plan/> to its `text` output field, and --
+        skipping the sample if <plan/> is empty or starts with `ERROR:`
+        or `WARNING:` -- derive the scores of <plan/>:
+
+        <expand name="effort-scores"></expand>
+
+        Here, predict the volume as of *before* the realization of the
+        task, i.e. *never* measure it from the realized code in the code
+        base. Then apply the *risk surcharge* and the *iteration
+        multiplier* of sub-step 2.3.3 (but not its plausibility,
+        confidence, and drivers), and set the *re-scored minutes* of the
+        sample to the resulting <minutes/> and its *estimated* size to
+        the resulting <size/>. Do not output anything.
+
+    2.  <if condition="there are fewer than *three* samples">
+        Only output the following <template/> and then *STOP* processing
+        the entire current skill, leaving the configuration *untouched*:
+
+        <template>
+        ⧉ **ASE**: ⚖ calibration: **<n/>** samples, ▶ WARNING: insufficient data (at least 3 finished tasks with an effort and at least 5 human minutes required)
+        </template>
+        </if>
+
+    3.  Determine the calibration figures:
+
+        -   *Band matrix*: the number of samples per pair of estimated
+            size (rows `XS` to `XL`) and actual size (columns `XS` to
+            `XL`).
+
+        -   *Hit rate*: the percentage of samples whose estimated size
+            equals their actual size.
+
+        -   *Bias*: the mean of the band differences (estimated minus
+            actual, in bands), where a positive value means
+            *overestimation* and a negative one *underestimation*.
+
+        -   *Correction*: <correction/> is the median of `time.hr`
+            divided by the re-scored minutes over all samples.
+
+        -   *Fitted rates*: <fitted-factor/>, <fitted-file/>, and
+            <fitted-line/> are <factor/>, <file-minutes/>, resp.
+            <line-minutes/>, each multiplied by <correction/> and rounded
+            to two significant digits, as the best-fitting rates, which
+            scale the *entire* estimation (attention and volume)
+            proportionally. As the samples are re-scored with the current
+            rates, a repeated calibration right after saving the fitted
+            rates yields a <correction/> of about `1` and hence
+            *converges* instead of compounding.
+
+        -   *Suggested scale*: the bounds of <scale/>, each multiplied by
+            <correction/>, rounded to integers -- an *alternative* to the
+            fitted rates and a *suggestion* only, which is never stored.
+
+        Do not output anything.
+
+    4.  Only output the following <template/>, with the band matrix
+        rendered as a Markdown table with aligned column edges:
+
+        <template>
+        <ase-tpl-head title="EFFORT CALIBRATION" subtitle="<n/> samples"/>
+
+        **Band Matrix** (rows: estimated, columns: actual):
+
+        | *Est.* | *XS*  | *S*   | *M*   | *L*   | *XL*  |
+        | ------ | ----- | ----- | ----- | ----- | ----- |
+        | **XS** | [...] | [...] | [...] | [...] | [...] |
+        | [...]  | [...] | [...] | [...] | [...] | [...] |
+
+        ●   **Hit Rate**: <hit-rate/>%
+        ●   **Bias**: <bias/> bands
+        ●   **Rates**: factor <factor/>, file <file-minutes/>, line <line-minutes/> (current) → factor **<fitted-factor/>**, file **<fitted-file/>**, line **<fitted-line/>** (fitted)
+        ●   **Scale**: `<scale/>` (current) → `<suggested-scale/>` (suggested alternative)
+
+        <ase-tpl-foot title="EFFORT CALIBRATION" subtitle="<n/> samples"/>
+        </template>
+
+    5.  <if condition="<getopt-option-save/> is `true`">
+        Call the `ase_config_set(key: "<key/>", val: "<val/>", scope:
+        "project")` tool of the `ase` MCP server for the <key/>/<val/>
+        pairs `project.task.effort.factor`/<fitted-factor/>,
+        `project.task.effort.file`/<fitted-file/>, and
+        `project.task.effort.line`/<fitted-line/>, and then only output
+        the following <template/>:
+
+        <template>
+        ⧉ **ASE**: ⚙ config: `project.task.effort.{factor,file,line}` (scope: `project`): **<fitted-factor/>**, **<fitted-file/>**, **<fitted-line/>**, ▶ status: **rates saved**
+        </template>
+        </if>
+        <else>
+        Give the closing hint by expanding the following (which,
+        depending on the configured <ase-guidance-level/>, may expand
+        into nothing and hence emit no output at all):
+
+        <ase-tpl-hint level="normal">
+        Use `/ase-task-estimate --calibrate --save` to store the fitted rates, or alternatively `/ase-meta-config --scope project set project.task.effort.scale <bounds>` to adopt the suggested scale.
+        </ase-tpl-hint>
+        </else>
+