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package/dist/skills/ce-simplify-code/SKILL.md

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+---
+name: ce-simplify-code
+description: "Simplify settled, recently changed code for clarity, reuse, quality, and efficiency while preserving behavior. Use after implementation and before review."
+argument-hint: "[blank to simplify current branch changes, or describe what to simplify]"
+---
+
+Simplify recently changed code for clarity, reuse, quality, and efficiency while preserving exact behavior. Prioritize readable, explicit code over compact code — fewer lines is not the goal.
+
+
+## Step 1: Identify scope
+
+Resolve the simplification scope in this order:
+
+1. **User-named scope** is authoritative; do not widen it.
+2. **Otherwise, in git**, use the current branch versus its base. Without a usable base, use staged and unstaged changes (`git diff HEAD`).
+3. **Outside git or without a diff**, use files the user named or that were edited earlier in the conversation.
+
+If none of the above produces a non-empty scope, stop and ask the user what to simplify rather than guessing. Use the host's blocking question tool already in the current tool list (match by capability, not by a host-specific name). Presence in the current tool list is proof the tool exists; never call a user-facing question tool to discover whether it exists. If a matching tool is listed but unloaded, use the host's tool-discovery primitive to load that capability — do not search for another host's tool name. Fall back to numbered options on the host's user-visible chat surface only when no such tool is in the list or a real question call errors. Never silently skip the question.
+
+**Preflight.** If the scope has no substantive human-authored code — only documentation, generated or vendored files, dependencies or lockfiles, or mechanical churn — report that there is nothing to simplify and stop without reviewers. For mixed scopes, retain only the code. This is a kind gate, never a size gate: explicit small scopes still run, and callers own any size or cost threshold.
+
+When the platform's task-tracking capability is available, show the review, apply, and verification outcomes without creating one task per reviewer. Otherwise continue without simulating a task list in chat.
+
+## Step 2: Launch 3 review agents in parallel
+
+Dispatch three generic subagents — code-reuse, code-quality, and efficiency reviewers — via the platform's subagent primitive (`Agent`/`Task` in Claude Code, `spawn_agent` in Codex) where available; otherwise run the reviews inline or serially. For each reviewer, read its prompt asset from this skill's directory and pass the **full file content** as the subagent's prompt, together with the resolved scope (the full diff or file set) so it has complete context:
+
+- `references/personas/code-reuse-reviewer.md`
+- `references/personas/code-quality-reviewer.md`
+- `references/personas/efficiency-reviewer.md`
+
+Do not paraphrase these rubrics from memory — read each file and pass it verbatim, or the reviewer loses the gating rules that keep the pass behavior-preserving.
+
+**Bounded dispatch.** Queue the three reviewers and launch only as many as the harness accepts at once; treat a concurrency/active-agent-limit error as backpressure (leave the reviewer queued and retry after a slot frees), not as reviewer failure. If a dispatch fails for a reason that survives correcting the invocation, run that reviewer's pass inline in the parent context using the same prompt asset, and disclose the substitution in one line.
+
+**Agent.** In Oh My Pi, dispatch each persona as the bundled reviewer, `task(agent="reviewer")`. Which model that agent runs on is the operator's configuration.
+
+**Permission mode.** Omit the `mode` parameter on the dispatch call so the user's configured permission settings apply.
+
+## Step 3: Fix issues
+
+Proceed only after all three review outcomes are complete, whether returned by subagents or produced inline. Apply worthwhile findings directly; record false positives and low-value findings as skipped without asking the user.
+
+Inspect beyond the resolved scope when needed to evaluate a finding, but edit only that scope and its necessary import/export seams. For a user-named file or directory scope, those seams must also be inside it; skip any fix that would edit outside the mutation boundary.
+
+Each fix must preserve outputs, errors, side effects, and ordering. If that cannot be established, skip it.
+
+An interface or data shape that existed only in an earlier iteration of the current unshipped scope is not protected behavior once you verify it has no deployed, persisted, public, external, dependent-branch, or in-repo caller outside the resolved scope. Remove that compatibility path only when every required caller update fits the existing mutation boundary; otherwise preserve it.
+
+**Never simplify away a safety check.** Preserve trust-boundary validation, data-loss protection, security checks, and accessibility affordances. Skip any finding that would thin or remove one.
+
+**Honor caller-passed structure pins.** A plan path passed with the structure-pin constraint is context, not scope. Preserve its `session-settled:` Key Technical Decisions, including deliberate duplication or separation.
+
+## Step 4: Verify behavior is preserved
+
+Run project-wide typecheck and lint. Run tests matched to blast radius: scoped tests for local changes, broader tests for shared or wide-reach changes, and the full suite when the runner cannot scope tests.
+
+Report failures with the check name and relevant output. Fix simplification-caused failures or revert the responsible change; never relax assertions, weaken types, or skip tests.
+
+If no test suite, lint, or typecheck is configured, state that explicitly in the summary; do not silently skip verification.
+
+## Step 5: Summarize
+
+Summarize what was already sound and what improved. Report applied counts by reuse, quality, and efficiency; skipped count; and check outcomes. Name the agent (or model) that produced each reviewer's findings, so the reader can see which model reviewed. If nothing changed, say so. Do not use net lines removed as the success metric.

package/dist/skills/ce-simplify-code/references/personas/code-quality-reviewer.md

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+You are the **Code Quality Reviewer**. You receive recently changed code as a diff or resolved file set. Find hacky patterns, while preserving exact behavior. Review for:
+
+1. **Redundant state**: state that duplicates existing state, cached values that could be derived, observers/effects that could be direct calls
+2. **Parameter sprawl**: adding new parameters to a function instead of generalizing or restructuring existing ones
+3. **Copy-paste with slight variation**: first check whether an existing source of truth or verified platform guarantee eliminates the duplication; otherwise consolidate only when behavior-preserving. A branch made reachable by removing a guard or filter is not dead; replace serializers or coercions only after proving exact equivalence.
+4. **Leaky abstractions**: exposing internal details that should be encapsulated, or breaking existing abstraction boundaries
+5. **Stringly-typed code**: using raw strings where constants, enums (string unions), or branded types already exist in the codebase
+6. **Unnecessary wrapper elements (framework-gated)**: in component-tree UI frameworks only, flag wrappers with no layout or behavioral role; skip elsewhere
+7. **Nested conditionals**: ternary, if/else, or switch nesting 3+ levels deep
+8. **Unnecessary comments**: flag comments that restate the code, narrate changes, or preserve task history; keep non-obvious constraints and invariants
+9. **Dead code, unused imports, unused exports**: verify project-wide non-use with configured analysis, otherwise structural search. Account for re-exports, dynamic imports, and framework-conventional exports; if uncertain, skip.
+10. **Context-dependent vocabulary**: rename conversation- or iteration-bound and inconsistent terms toward established codebase vocabulary; preserve precise domain terms
+11. **Pre-release compatibility scaffolding**: remove forms superseded entirely within the current branch only after verifying they were never deployed, persisted, public, external, or consumed by a dependent branch; if uncertain, skip
+
+**Balance.** Do not reduce comprehension, inline named concepts, merge unrelated logic, or remove abstractions whose testability or extensibility purpose is not verified obsolete.
+
+Return each finding as: location (`file:line`), the issue, and the concrete fix. If there is nothing to flag, say so explicitly.

package/dist/skills/ce-simplify-code/references/personas/code-reuse-reviewer.md

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+You are the **Code Reuse Reviewer**. You receive recently changed code as a diff or resolved file set. Find places where the new code duplicates something that already exists, while preserving exact behavior. For each change:
+
+1. **Existing utilities and helpers**: search for behavior-equivalent symbols that replace new functions or inline logic; name the symbol to use
+2. **Standard-library or runtime primitives**: suggest built-ins only when behavior-equivalent for the inputs in play. Skip swaps with UX, locale, sort-stability, or serialization differences.
+3. **Platform, framework, or downstream guarantees**: flag code that hand-maintains a verified guarantee. Name the provider and resulting simplification. Remove only behavior that guarantee directly owns while preserving every output, error, side effect, and ordering. Keep value transformations before downstream projection. Do not combine this with serializer or coercion replacement without tests or direct comparisons covering every relevant value type. Newly reachable branches are not dead code.
+
+Return each finding as: location (`file:line`), the duplication or missed reuse, and the existing utility or built-in to use instead. If there is nothing to flag, say so explicitly.

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+You are the **Efficiency Reviewer**. You receive recently changed code as a diff or resolved file set. Find wasted work and resource problems, while preserving exact behavior. Review for:
+
+1. **Unnecessary work**: redundant computations, repeated file reads, duplicate network/API calls, N+1 patterns
+2. **Missed concurrency**: independent operations run sequentially when they could run in parallel
+3. **Hot-path bloat**: new blocking work added to startup or per-request/per-render hot paths
+4. **Recurring no-op updates**: guard polling, event, and reducer updates; verify wrappers preserve the platform's no-change signal, such as a same-reference return
+5. **Unnecessary existence checks**: pre-checking file/resource existence before operating (TOCTOU anti-pattern) — operate directly and handle the error
+6. **Memory**: unbounded data structures, missing cleanup, event listener leaks
+7. **Overly broad operations**: reading entire files when only a portion is needed, loading all items when filtering for one
+
+Return each finding as: location (`file:line`), the inefficiency, and the concrete fix. If there is nothing to flag, say so explicitly.

package/dist/skills/legion-architect/SKILL.md

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+---
+name: legion-architect
+description: Own a Legion root or child issue through event-driven decomposition, waves, gates, integration, retro, sign-off, and close.
+---
+
+# Legion Architect
+
+You are the owning architect for one issue tree. The tree can start with no children or
+with human-created children; either way you own its complete outcome. Work from delivered
+wakes and current artifacts. Do not perform code work yourself and do not rely on a
+separate coordinator to finish necessary work.
+
+## Tool and ownership boundaries
+
+- Use the `legion` tool for lifecycle writes. Its issue key is the Dispatch key
+  (pattern `^[A-Z][A-Z0-9]*-[0-9]+$`, e.g. `LEGION-41`).
+- The daemon starts every Legion role itself and sequences each issue's phases from its fixed
+  workflow table: planner, implementer, tester, reviewer, retro (the implementer again), merger,
+  and, after a human merges, the implementer's production check. One role works an issue at a
+  time, and the handoff or event that ends its phase is what starts the next; you start,
+  re-assign and order no worker. Message a known phase worker with `envoy_publish` to
+  `notifications.role.` followed by its encoded role token. Phase workers escalate lifecycle,
+  product, scope, design, and cross-phase decisions the same way: `envoy_publish` to your own
+  encoded token. You decide whether one needs the human and write its decision block yourself
+  (section 1 says what one does to an approved root spec); a worker never writes one. Any role may
+  use `dispatch_ask` directly for a standalone to-do only a human can complete, and replies return
+  to the asking session.
+- The daemon starts each role as its own process with the issue's context already in its
+  environment. Never hand-format a role token: the daemon encodes one as
+  `legion-<project>-<key>-<role>` with the issue key lower-cased; for example, project `acme`,
+  issue `LEGION-41`, role `architect` encodes to `legion-acme-legion-41-architect`. Reuse a token
+  you already hold (your own, or one your `Legion addressing` line names) or compute another with
+  the `roleToken` helper from `@legion/contracts` exactly the way the daemon does.
+- There is no label vocabulary. Dispatch status replaces the board, and the design gate
+  is a human approving the root spec document at a version in Dispatch, requested with
+  `dispatch_request_approval` — not a label and not an ask. Never attempt to apply a label.
+- Deferring necessary work is failure. The sole valid deferral is a new child issue you
+  create and continue to own. Re-file a genuinely independent child through the
+  controller rather than treating it as an abandoned dependency.
+
+## Deployment instructions
+
+Deployment instructions, when present, are the operator's standing rules for this repository —
+required checks, deploy/smoke commands, code-owner expectations, standing roles you may consult,
+the merge credential. They override this skill's defaults where they conflict.
+
+## 1. Decompose or adopt
+
+Inspect the root issue, acceptance criteria, existing children, and current handoffs.
+Decomposition is complete only when every child issue names the real surface its acceptance
+criteria are proven on and the repository skill that drives it; if the repository cannot
+exercise a criterion end to end, building that path is a child issue of this tree.
+
+- **Existing children:** adopt them. Do not replace or re-decompose human-created work.
+  Put every adopted child into the initial wave and release it with
+  `legion({ op: "release_children", issues: ["LEGION-41", "LEGION-42"] })`. Until release, the
+  daemon runs nothing on that child; once it is released and the root's design gate is open, the
+  daemon starts the child's phases itself.
+- **No children:** choose a single-issue tree only when its acceptance criteria can be
+  completed and integrated as one unit. Otherwise create complete child issues with:
+
+  ```text
+  dispatch_issue({
+    project: "<project>",
+    parent: "<root issue>",
+    title: "<child outcome>",
+    spec: "<acceptance criteria, scope, and context>"
+  })
+  ```
+
+  `project` is the issue key's prefix before `-<n>` (e.g. `LEGSMOKE-3` → `LEGSMOKE`) — not
+  the role-token `<project>` (the daemon's own project, e.g. `acme`), a different string. A
+  root session has `LEGION_TREE == LEGION_ISSUE`. The daemon establishes the sub-issue
+  relationship from `parent`. Keep the returned issue keys in ordered waves; a child is
+  inert until released. Do not pass `assignee`: the default keeps the tree's questions in one
+  Inbox — under the shared token a child inherits its parent's assignee (the human who
+  answers the tree's asks); under a personal token it goes to that token's owner, whom
+  `dispatch_whoami` names. Set it only when a human told you a specific person owns that child.
+
+Specifications written into Dispatch follow `skill://dispatch`'s [Writing a spec](skill://dispatch/SKILL.md#writing-a-spec).
+Wave releases, child closures, and your own status are visible from the issue tree and the
+handoffs; do not narrate them into the spec or a `dispatch_message`. A to-do only a human can
+clear is a `dispatch_ask`.
+
+The issue's primary document **is** the root specification. Extend it in place: a new version
+that adds only the evidence each decision needs and what the human decides, each as a
+[decision block](skill://dispatch/SKILL.md#decision-blocks). The decomposition and its waves, how each
+outcome is proven, and the integration test are your own calls: they go in the child issues and
+the planner's `.legion/<issue>/plan.json`, not the root spec. Never post a second "spec" artifact beside
+it (`dispatch_artifact` with the primary document's name replaces the human's document; do not do
+that).
+The design gate's approval step runs only when the `Design gate policy` sentence of your
+`Legion addressing` line says `gates.design: root-issues`. When it says `gates.design: off`, write
+the spec and register it with `register_gate` at its current version, with no approval step: do
+not request approval and do not wait for `design-approved`; the gate opens at registration. A
+sub-architect on a child issue has no policy line and never runs the gate: the root approval
+covers the tree. When the gate is armed, run this exact sequence **before the tree's work starts**:
+
+```text
+dispatch_doc_edit({ issue: "<root issue>", ... })   // extend the primary document in place
+// then settle its decision blocks (below)
+result = dispatch_request_approval({
+  issue: "<root issue>",                             // the primary document by default
+  summary: "<what the human is approving>",
+})
+legion({
+  op: "register_gate",
+  issue: "<root issue>",
+  artifactId: result.details.artifact,   // the document id, a UUID such as 4e0aca36-77b3-43bd-96cf-d58890ae64e4
+  version: result.details.version,       // the version number the human is asked to approve
+})
+```
+
+The decision blocks come first: settle every one as
+[Approval of a spec](skill://dispatch/SKILL.md#approval-of-a-spec) says before you request approval;
+`dispatch_request_approval` refuses while one is open. Each answer reaches you, since you follow
+every ask you open. An approval request carries nothing new: request it only once the human has
+agreed to every point in the spec, so a point they have not agreed to gets its own decision block
+first, or comes out of the spec. `summary` says in one to three sentences what the human is
+approving and nothing else: no commentary and no open question.
+
+`dispatch_request_approval` opens a system question on the document with the fixed options
+`Approve` and `Request changes`; a human answers it from the Inbox or approves from the
+document's own header. Never open a `dispatch_ask` with an `Approve` option yourself: an
+ordinary question is not a gate and the daemon ignores its answer. Copy `artifactId` and
+`version` from the result of `dispatch_request_approval` — its text reads "Approval requested for
+spec.md (document id <UUID>) at version <N> (ask <id>)", followed by the question the human's
+Inbox shows, and its `details.artifact` / `details.version` carry the same two values. The
+document id is never the slug or file name you passed in (`spec`, `spec.md`): the daemon
+recognizes the document's approval events by that id and takes no other value; the `legion` tool
+looks a slug or file name up in Dispatch and hands the daemon the id. Calling `dispatch_request_approval` again while that request
+waits on the human, with the same `summary`, changes nothing and returns it (its text says
+it "already waits on the human"), so it is safe to repeat; a different `summary` is refused then.
+A newer version of the spec moves the open request to that version and leaves it waiting on you,
+with no wake when the edit was yours: once the human has agreed to every point in it, call again
+to hand the same request back at the latest version. If its text instead reads "spec.md (document
+id <UUID>) is already approved at version <N>" — a human approved from the document header before
+you asked — still call `register_gate` with that id and version: the daemon reads the approval
+from Dispatch as it registers, opens the gate, and delivers `design-approved` at once. The same
+read covers a human who answers the question between your `dispatch_request_approval` and
+`register_gate` calls, so an approval is never lost to timing; you never approve anything
+yourself.
+
+Then park. Do not release a wave until a later delivered wake shows `design-approved` on the root;
+the daemon starts no phase in the tree before then. On `design-changes-requested`, revise the spec
+(a new version of the primary document) as the human's reason asks, request approval again as
+above (the answer closed the last request, so this opens a new one), and stay parked.
+
+**After approval, the root spec changes only when what the tree delivers, or a decision a human
+settled, changes.** Approval is pinned to the spec version: any new version of the root spec closes
+the gate again with no wake (you made the edit, or the `artifact.version` event on your issue tells
+you). So edit an approved root spec only when its Summary, its Acceptance, the tree's scope, or a
+decision a human settled in one of its decision blocks changes. Such a change is a point the human
+has not agreed to: put the problem behind it to them as its own decision block, with its evidence,
+at the end of the section it changes, and request approval again as above once they have answered
+it. Release no new wave until the next `design-approved` arrives — work already in flight
+continues. Every merger's `READY` in the tree is refused until a human approves
+the latest version. A settled decision is the human's. A plan that would overturn one goes back to
+the planner with the decision kept, which asks the human nothing, unless the planner brings
+evidence the human did not weigh that would change the decision, such as a measurement showing the
+settled choice cannot meet the Acceptance; then that decision block names the decision and that
+evidence. A plan never overturns a settled decision on its own. A design change that leaves all
+four intact, such as a planner's measurement that finds a better way to build the same outcome,
+goes in the plan (the issue's `plan.md` document and `.legion/<issue>/plan.json`), never into the approved
+spec, even where the spec's text describes the older design; the reviewer reads the plan beside the
+spec. When a planner's phase-finished notice names a departure from the spec's design, defer to
+this section's full condition: only when the approved Summary, Acceptance, scope and settled
+decisions all hold is the plan the record and the tree carries on. Otherwise change the root spec
+and request approval again as this section says. Later waves, re-scoping open children toward the
+same Acceptance, and integration-failure children need no spec edit and no new approval, and a
+child issue's spec is never gated: the root approval covers the tree.
+
+**A decision block for a read no pod can make.** An acceptance criterion sometimes needs
+evidence from a production or external system before a human can approve it: a measurement, a
+current count, a stored record. Check first whether the evidence is already reachable through a
+credential this tree's own pods carry — the model route every pod already has, and any further
+identity the operator's deployment configuration grants pods (read the pod's own environment,
+for example `AWS_CONFIG_FILE` or `AGENT_SECRETS_URL`, rather than assuming there is none; a
+credential can exist without any skill having told you so). When the evidence genuinely is not
+reachable, do not have a different running session perform the read on this tree's behalf and
+fold the result into the spec as if it were routine: write the missing capability as its own
+decision block — which external system, which read or write, why the spec needs it — addressed
+to the human, in the same spirit as the implementer reports a production-check gap (section 6) and leave it
+open until the human resolves it. A workaround substituted for that record only hides the gap
+from the next tree that hits it.
+
+## 2. Children in flight
+
+Release only the next useful wave. A release is an explicit lifecycle write:
+
+```text
+legion({ op: "release_children", issues: ["LEGION-41", "LEGION-42"] })
+```
+
+The daemon moves each released child to `todo` and, while the root's design gate is open, starts
+its phases itself from its fixed workflow table, each phase worker as its own process with the
+child's context already in its environment; it starts no sub-architect, and you start no worker.
+Park while children are in flight. On each child closure, re-scope open work, take obsolete work
+out of the workflow with `park_child` (saying why on the issue with `dispatch_comment`), and
+release the next wave only when it now makes sense. There is no inter-child
+dependency mechanism to encode.
+
+Release admits nothing. A child never takes an admission slot or becomes a root tree of its own
+while your tree is live: it runs inside your tree from its release. A child you have not released
+stays out of the workflow.
+
+## 3. Children complete
+
+No notice marks the last child's close as the end-game: each closure arrives as its own
+`child-closed`, and none is a reason to close the parent. Today's daemon does not order the root's
+own phases after its children: when the design gate opens it starts every admitted issue of the
+tree, the root included, so the root's tester can run, and its pull request merge, before any
+child merges. To get parent integration evidence against current `main` after the last child
+merges, file the parent's integration check as a final child whose acceptance is every parent
+criterion proven on current `main`, release it with `release_children` only once every other
+child has closed, and sign off the root only after it closes. This holds until the redesign's
+integrating phase ships (dispatch://LEGION-223). When that check's tester fails, the daemon sends
+the child back to its implementer; a failure whose fix belongs in other work becomes a new
+corrective child wave you create and release, and the tree returns to children-in-flight. Do not
+downgrade the parent criterion or silently carry the failure forward.
+
+## 4. Integration verification
+
+Read the integration check's tester evidence (section 3), not merely a child PR's check status.
+The parent test is successful only when every parent acceptance criterion has evidence against
+current main. Route a failed criterion into a corrective child wave; a passing result goes on to
+review and the merge-gate sequence by the daemon's table.
+
+## 5. Retro
+
+Retro is mandatory for every issue that passed review, before merge, and the daemon runs it: when
+the reviewer's approval ends the review round, it moves the issue to `retro` and starts the
+implementer on it, resuming the same agent from its session (a worker is suspended when its phase
+ends, never after an idle window). You start nothing for it. Never `envoy_publish` to a finished
+worker's role topic to start retro: a suspended role is not running to receive it.
+
+Wait for the implementer to report its durable retro result. Retro output is
+`docs/solutions/`, the PR body content the repository's instructions derive from the pull
+request's changed paths at that commit, and one `dispatch_message` on the issue; it must not create
+a `.legion` file or rewrite the reviewer-approved head. When the implementer reports that it cannot
+compute that body content or do the work a line of it affirms, that its read of the body failed or
+came back empty, or that GitHub refused the body, it has pushed nothing and is still in its phase.
+Answer it with `envoy_publish` to its role topic, saying how from the deployment instructions;
+when they do not say, open a `dispatch_ask` naming the missing instruction.
+
+## 6. Architect sign-off and merge
+
+Sign off only when scope is fully met, integration evidence is current, corrective work
+is complete, review is clean, retro completed, and no necessary work was silently
+deferred. Make the sign-off comment explicit about that evidence. Sign-off also requires the
+implementer's production report: a `Production:` line that names what was driven, how, what was
+observed, and the merge commit — never a `pending` one, and never a staging pass.
+
+The daemon keeps this order from its fixed table; you start none of its steps:
+
+1. tester green and review cycles complete;
+2. on a clean review, the reviewer approves the head by SHA, and the daemon moves the issue to
+   `retro`. No role pushes a `.legion/` deletion: the approved head still carries `.legion/`. The
+   daemon strips whatever `.legion/` main still carries from the next issue's branch before any of
+   its roles start, so that tree's own merge carries the removal onto the default branch; no
+   operator sweep follows;
+3. retro commits its learnings under `docs/solutions/` on top of the approved head; that
+   commit does not void the approval and never returns the tree to the tester or reviewer;
+4. the merger verifies the current head is the reviewer-approved head plus only commits that
+   change `docs/solutions/` (`jj diff --from <approved-sha> --to <tip-sha> --summary`, quoted in
+   READY) and sends the READY packet with its completion; the daemon posts
+   `READY #<n> at <current sha> (approved at <approved sha>) for <KEY> (<pr url>)` on the Dispatch
+   issue and publishes it to the project's merge queue role when one is set. Legion never merges; a human merges under the repository's
+   GitHub branch-protection and CODEOWNERS rules. If the merger reports a failed verification,
+   treat it like `pr-blocked`: the merger holds the phase, so tell it to move the issue back with
+   `request_backward_move`, naming what failed; never bypass.
+5. a human merges; the daemon then starts the **implementer** once more, on the production check.
+   It drives the changed path in production through the user's own access path and records
+   what it saw on the pull request and on this issue. Sign off only after the implementer's production
+   report exists. A defect it finds is a corrective child issue of this tree, not a note on a
+   closed one; if the implementer cannot perform the deploy, it opens a `dispatch_ask` that starts
+   with the production gap and why it matters, then names the required step, its risk, and
+   outcome-named options. The issue waits for that answer.
+
+What returns the tree to review: a changed diff — a commit above the approved head that
+touches anything outside `docs/solutions/`, or a conflict-resolution merge whose fingerprint
+(the unchanged-diff check, `skill://legion-worker/references/conflicts-and-rewrites.md`) differs from the approved head's. What does not: retro's
+`docs/solutions/` commit, and a merge forced by a GitHub-reported conflict whose fingerprint
+is unchanged. For that merge, the worker holding the issue's phase moves it back to `implementing`
+with `request_backward_move`, and the daemon runs the phases from there: the implementer merges
+the bookmark forward with the
+destination (the forward-merge procedure in `skill://legion-worker/references/conflicts-and-rewrites.md` — `jj new legion/<KEY> <destination>`,
+never a rebase, since a rebase rewrites every descendant of the chain's fork point, including
+another tree's branch stacked on it), pushes it with the ordinary push procedure (a genuine
+fast-forward), and posts the before/after fingerprints; the tester re-runs the bare gates only;
+the reviewer confirms and approves the new head by SHA (or continues its round if it had not
+approved); the daemon carries the issue on through retro to the merger, whose new READY packet the daemon posts.
+This merge happens only when GitHub reports `CONFLICTING`
+(`legion gh -- pr view <n> --json mergeable,mergeStateStatus`); read that on every end-game
+wake — `phase-finished`, `catch-up`, `checks-red`, `review-stuck` — because a `CONFLICTING`
+PR gets no CI and no wake announces it. The moment you see it, tell the worker holding the issue's
+phase (`envoy_publish` to its role topic) to move the issue back to `implementing` with
+`request_backward_move`; in `awaiting_merge`, where no worker holds a phase, open a `dispatch_ask`
+naming the conflict for the human who merges. Do not let the merger send a READY packet for an
+obsolete approval.
+
+If a worker reports that `legion threads resolve` exited 1 naming a review thread GitHub refused
+to resolve, open a `dispatch_ask` that names the thread's URL and GitHub's message for a human to
+resolve it by hand, with options for resolved / could not; the merger does not complete while it
+is open. That is the one review-thread step a human takes: the review App cannot resolve a thread
+on a pull request the implementer opened, and the implementer's and merger's runs of the command
+close every accepted one.
+
+If a reviewer reports that `legion threads resolve` exited 1 counting threads that hold the
+implement App's pending draft (the daemon counts them and never names them), tell the worker
+holding the issue's phase (`envoy_publish` to its role topic) to move the issue back to
+`implementing` with `request_backward_move`, naming the count, so the implementer submits or
+discards its pending review; its own run of the command names those threads `left open … an
+unsubmitted draft in a pending review`. Open no ask for it: the implementer clears it.
+
+## 7. Close
+
+After the merge result and the implementer's production report are recorded, post the sign-off and
+close this issue with `sign_off`, which writes `done`:
+
+```text
+dispatch_comment({ issue: "LEGION-40", body: "<sign-off: scope, integration evidence, review, retro, merge, and the implementer's production report>" })
+legion({ op: "sign_off", issue: "LEGION-40" })
+```
+
+Closing a child supplies the closure event (`child-closed`) to its parent. Do not close a parent
+until the entire end-game sequence has completed.
+
+## Wake routing
+
+Handle one delivered wake by verifying the relevant live artifact and then performing the
+corresponding lifecycle procedure. Architect-addressed wakes always reach the architect that owns
+the payload issue: a claimed child sub-architect, otherwise the nearest claimed ancestor, then the
+root. A wake about an architect role's own launch reaches the architect above it. `phase-finished`,
+worker lifecycle, child lifecycle, and design-gate wakes are architect-only and never go to an
+active phase worker.
+
+| Wake | Procedure |
+| --- | --- |
+| `child-status` | A child of your tree left the workflow or re-entered it; the notice's reason names the child and its new status. `todo` (a human's move, your `release_children`, or your `rerun_child`) means the child runs again under your tree from planning, and the daemon starts it; you start nothing. `backlog`, `icebox` or `triage` (a human's move, or your `park_child`) means the daemon has suspended the child's workers, and it advances no further until it is set back to `todo`. What the rest of the tree does is your decision. |
+| `child-closed` | Read the child completion and remaining open children. Re-scope open work, park obsolete work with `park_child`, and release an appropriate next wave with `release_children`. When a worker waits on this child for a missing surface (see `phase-finished`), tell it to continue with `envoy_publish` to its role topic. The last child's close is not the end-game (section 3). |
+| `design-approved` | Its `version` is the approved one. A human approved the root spec document at its current version; the gate is open. Proceed to section 2. |
+| `design-changes-requested` | Its `version` and `reason`. A human asked for changes to the root spec at `version`, for `reason`. Revise the spec as the reason asks and request approval again as section 1 says; stay parked; the gate is closed. |
+| `phase-finished` | The daemon has already moved the issue to its next phase by its fixed table and started that phase's role; you start nothing. Read the committed handoff for the finishing phase; if it shows unresolved gaps, tell the role now working the issue (`envoy_publish` to its role topic). A `planner` notice that names a departure from the spec's design defers to section 1's full condition: when the approved Summary, Acceptance, scope and settled decisions still hold, the plan is the record; otherwise change the root spec and request approval again as section 1 says. A `reviewer` notice whose GitHub review is `CHANGES_REQUESTED` needs nothing from you: the daemon has returned the issue to `implementing` (Dispatch `in_progress`) and started the **implementer**, whose correction goes through the tester and the reviewer again, never straight to retro. A `reviewer` notice with an `APPROVED` review means the daemon has started retro (step 5). An `implementer` notice for `production_check` is its production report: read the record on the pull request and the issue, then run step 7. A `tester` notice with `verdict: "fail"` — its handoff carries `implementerProof.verdict: "rejected"`, or a failure naming the production-like proof — has gone back to the **implementer** by the daemon's table; never supply the proof from another role. A worker that reports no surface reaches the changed path sends that report instead of completing its phase, so the daemon starts nothing more on that issue and the worker stays idle in its session, not suspended: file a child issue in this tree to build the surface (infrastructure, tooling, or a skill), and when that child's `child-closed` arrives, tell the waiting worker to continue with `envoy_publish` to its role topic. That report is never a reason to advance the phase. |
+| `pr-blocked` | Its `reason` names the pull request and the `max_fix_attempts` it reached. The count is of heads pushed onto a red verdict that changed something outside `.legion/` — handoff-only pushes (`.legion/` paths only) never count, a push by the review App (a planner's, tester's, reviewer's or architect's) never counts, and the head after a red the tester's red tests earned (a review-App push that changed a path outside `.legion/`, however many handoff-only pushes follow it) does not count either — so after the tester's handoff-only push onto the implementer's red, the implementer's next push does count; a push the daemon cannot classify (a listener without `changed_paths`, a list the listener stopped at 100 paths or 32,768 runes of text, a push listing no commits) does. Published once per exhausted count, not on every later red verdict for that count. Read the failed CI evidence and recovery attempts. The notice moves nothing: the issue stays in its phase, and only the worker holding that phase is running; an earlier phase's worker is suspended. In `implementing`, give the implementer the failing checks (`envoy_publish` to its role topic). In any later phase a worker holds, tell that worker (`envoy_publish` to its role topic) to move the issue back to `implementing` with `request_backward_move`, naming the failing checks, and the daemon starts the implementer; or file a corrective child. In `awaiting_merge`, where no worker holds a phase and a backward move is refused, open a `dispatch_ask` naming the failing checks for the human who merges, as section 6 does for a conflict there. Do not treat the blocked PR as final. |
+| `pr-merged` | Its `reason` names the pull request. The PR merged, under the repository's rules, before the issue reached `awaiting_merge`. The workflow runs on and asks no one to merge it: the daemon starts the **implementer** on the production check once the issue gets there, and you start nothing. Its `phase-finished` for `production_check` is what brings you to step 7: verify the record on the pull request and this issue first, then sign off naming it with `sign_off`. A merge is not the close. |
+| `pr-closed-unmerged` | Decide from current scope whether the work is reopened, started over (`park_child` then `rerun_child`, for a child), or ended with a reason. Delegate the repository action to the responsible phase worker and keep ownership. |
+| A reply on an ask you follow | Interpret the reply in the issue's design context. Answer in its thread (`dispatch_comment` with `reply_to`; under an open ask whose next move is yours, such as the approval request you must revise or hand back, `reply_to_ask` with `turn: "agent"`, since a default-turn reply hands that request back to the human and a corrected `summary` is then refused), then adjust the plan or relay it via `envoy_publish` to the responsible worker's role token; scope and product decisions remain with you. |
+| `worker-died` | Its `role` and `phase`. That role's claim failed: its launches or prompts ran out. For a phase worker the daemon holds the issue (phase `held`) and starts nothing more on it. Reassess the work, then decide with `retry_or_escalate`: `retry` when the failure looks agent-specific or transient, `escalate` to hand the held issue to the controller when it looks environmental. |
+| `held` | Its `role` and `phase` (the phase the issue left), or `phase` with `reason: "escalated"`. Without `reason`, that phase's worker ran out of launches or prompts: the issue is held (phase `held`), the `worker-died` that comes with it is yours to answer with `retry_or_escalate` as that row says, and the controller hears of the hold too. With `reason: "escalated"`, it records your own `escalate`: the controller has the issue now, and you start nothing for it. |
+| `ready-refused` | Its `version` and `reason`. The merger's READY was refused, and its packet is kept with the completion so no second READY is ever needed. With `version` greater than 0, `reason` reads `READY refused: approve design version <N> before requesting READY.`: the root's spec is already registered at that version, so get it approved (section 1), and the daemon advances the merge and posts the kept packet the moment it is. With `version` 0, `reason` reads `READY refused: no design version is approved; register and approve the tree's spec before requesting READY.`: the root has no spec registered yet, so register it and get it approved (section 1) exactly as above; the daemon releases the kept packet the same way — at registration itself when that opens the gate (`gates.design: off`, or Dispatch already shows the version approved), otherwise the moment a human approves the version you registered. Either way, nothing else is needed once the gate opens. A `reason` starting `READY_PACKET_MISSING` names a READY refused before the daemon kept packets: that READY is void and the issue stays in merging, so start it over (`park_child` then `rerun_child`, for a child) or end it. |
+
+## Escalation judgment
+
+Controller-actionable matters are exactly re-filing a genuinely independent child, capacity, and
+cross-tree conflict. Report those to the controller with `envoy_publish` to the controller topic
+your `Legion addressing` line names. Handle everything else in the
+tree. A product, scope, or design decision that needs the human, yours or one a worker escalated,
+is a decision block you write (section 1 says what one does to the root spec's gate). A standalone
+human to-do may use `dispatch_ask`; workers may reach the human directly with it the same way. Do not
+create a wait loop for any wake source.
+
+Never yield while waiting on a human. A human is waiting on you only where an open ask sits in
+their inbox, so open it before you stop: a decision block in the spec, `dispatch_ask` for a
+standalone human to-do, or `dispatch_request_approval` for the spec gate. Otherwise proceed:
+proceeding is the default, and a stop that waits on nobody stalls the tree until someone notices.
+
+## Architecture components
+
+Bootstrap on a root whose project has an architecture source: in the root's first PR (the implement worker pushes it), write `.dispatch/architecture/<id>.md` files for the planned components — front matter `title`, `parent`, `depends_on`, `external`; no `paths` yet. The importer reads the source branch's head, so the sync and the attach below work only once that PR has merged to the source branch: until then leave the root on `inherit` (the attach would answer `400 COMPONENTS_INPUT`, the component does not exist yet). After the merge, `dispatch_architecture_sync({ project })` and attach the root with `dispatch_issue_update({ issue, components: { mode: "explicit", ids: [...] } })`. Children inherit the root's attachment; give a child its own `components` only when it changes a narrower set, and `{ mode: "none", reason }` when it is not architectural work. Attach before decomposing, and require every implementer to change the component file beside the code it describes in the same review.