@tacuchi/agent-workflow-cli 21.0.0 → 21.3.0

package/skills/w/loops/CHASSIS.md

@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
 
 This document is the **common engine** of the Workline loops: the doctrine every loop runs underneath its deltas. **It is not a skill** — it is a referenced document: every loop orders it read from its `## Inherits`, **always, before its deltas**. If you edit the engine, edit it **here** — heirs never repeat it, they only reference it.
 
+> **When each step below happens is no longer this document's call:** the deterministic steps below are decided by the CLI (`aw flow advance`), not by this document. What stays is what each rule is FOR — the half no engine carries.
+
 ## Heirs (canonical list)
 
 The **5 loops** run this engine; each adds only its deltas:
@@ -67,13 +69,7 @@ The loop works **artifact-first**: the artifact is **seeded before** executing a
 
 ## Gap-driven convergent engine
 
-The common cycle — each heir instantiates it in its `## Sequence` with its own gap taxonomy:
-
-1. `detect_gaps(work)`, minus the *exhausted* gaps (see *Research*).
-2. If `∅` → **convergence gate** (see *Convergence / exit*).
-3. If there are gaps: take a batch (≤3) and **seed** `CHECKPOINT.Pending/Next` (*artifact-first*).
-4. Resolve each gap with its **resolver** per the *ask-vs-research rule*: human (structured-choice) · inline research · a probe (PoC) · a composed capability (e.g. `design`).
-5. **Integrate**, update `CHECKPOINT` → repeat.
+The common cycle — each heir instantiates it in its `## Sequence` with its own gap taxonomy: detect the gaps, seed `CHECKPOINT.Pending/Next` (*artifact-first*), resolve each with its resolver, integrate, repeat until none is left and the convergence gate can run. The pacing is the CLI's — one open boundary at a time, which meets the ≤3 ceiling by construction. Why it is gap-driven at all stays here: a plan fixed up front cannot notice what it did not know.
 
 ## Internal sessions (managed) — one session per run
 
@@ -87,12 +83,7 @@ The loop creates and manages its session under `.workflow/sessions/`; **the user
 
 ## Ask-vs-research rule (the discriminator)
 
-For every gap, a single question picks the resolver:
-
-> *"Was this already established in the current conversation?"* → **adopt it** (`adopted` module) — never re-ask or re-research settled conclusions.
-> *"Can I answer this by reading the repo/data?"* → **research** (autonomous).
-> *"Can I only answer it by RUNNING a small experiment?"* → **probe** (`probe` module).
-> *"Does it depend on what the user wants?"* → **ask the human** (structured-choice).
+Which resolver a gap gets is the kind of thing it is, and the CLI classifies it: a boundary's kind IS its resolver. Already **established in this conversation** → adopt it (`adopted` module), never re-ask a settled conclusion · answerable by **reading** the repo/data → research, autonomously · answerable only by **RUNNING a small experiment** → a probe (`probe` module) · dependent on **what the user wants** → ask the human. Why: asking a person what a file already says wastes the one resource the loop cannot regenerate, and guessing what only they decide is worse.
 
 ## Research: autonomy, scope & failure
 
@@ -101,16 +92,16 @@ Investigation is **inline**: an activity **inside the run's current session**, n
 - **Autonomous**: the AI investigates inline and reports **without asking permission**. The human learns of it at integration time and keeps control via the `flow` control.
 - **Scope**: the current conversation (settled conclusions are reused, never re-derived) + workspace + associated repos + DB MCPs.
 - **DB rule** — the single exception to autonomy: it lives in the `db` module and is loaded **before** any query runs.
-- **Inconclusive research** (DB unavailable, insufficient evidence, unresolvable factual gap): the investigation closes with status **`inconclusive`** in `CONCLUSIONS` and reports why. The loop **degrades** the gap — to a human question, or failing that to the flow doc's `## Open questions` (the session's `BACKLOG` when the flow has no doc) — and marks it **"already tried via research"** (`attempts[gap]++`, `MAX` cap) so `detect_gaps` does **not** re-fire it in a loop. That is what guarantees convergence.
+- **Inconclusive research** (DB unavailable, insufficient evidence, unresolvable factual gap): the investigation closes with status **`inconclusive`** in `CONCLUSIONS` and reports why. The loop **degrades** the gap — to a human question, or failing that to the flow doc's `## Open questions` (the session's `BACKLOG` when the flow has no doc) — instead of re-firing it. Counting the attempts and refusing the one past the cap is the CLI's; declaring where a degraded gap GOES is doctrine's, because a gap dropped without a destination is the convergence this engine promises, faked.
 
 ## Structured-choice (design & batching)
 
-**Canonical rule:** *structured-choice* = **≤3 content questions + 1 `flow` control**, always. Each option is a **short semantic label + one functional sentence** (outcome/trade-off or simple example), never a positional code. Use the richest current binding in [`HARNESS.md`](../harness/HARNESS.md); otherwise use labeled markdown.
+**Canonical form:** *structured-choice* = **≤3 content questions + 1 `flow` control**, always. Each option is a **short semantic label + one functional sentence** (outcome/trade-off or simple example), never a positional code. The CLI builds it and refuses a question that does not hold this form. Present it with the richest current binding in [`HARNESS.md`](../harness/HARNESS.md); otherwise labeled markdown.
 
-- **Flow:** `Compactar` | `Cerrar`; an unanswered control means continue (`Continuar` when the UI requires it). Under context pressure the loop **raises the choice itself**, recommending `Compactar`.
+- **Flow:** `Compactar` | `Cerrar`, appended to every boundary with alternatives — never the question's to omit, because one nobody can pause or leave is not a question. An unanswered control means continue (`Continuar` when the UI requires it). Under context pressure the loop **raises the choice itself**, recommending `Compactar`.
 - **Content/batching:** human gaps, pre-query MCP choice and the convergence action | `Preguntar algo más`; at most 3 per call. Honor a smaller native ceiling by reserving one question slot for `flow`; carry overflow, prioritizing blockers.
 - **Options/encoding:** prefer 2–3 alternatives. Map label/sentence to separate fields or `Label — functional sentence`. If it cannot fit, use labeled markdown; never truncate or merge candidates or duplicate a host-provided free-text option.
-- **Recommendation:** the first option is marked *recommended* and comes from research; the human ratifies or corrects it, never starts cold.
+- **Recommendation:** exactly one option is *recommended*, it comes first, and it comes from research; the human ratifies or corrects it, never starts cold.
 - **Text fallback:** answer by label; `Aceptar recomendaciones` accepts all first options. Never require composite coordinates such as `1A, 2A, 3A`.
 
 > Canonical labels (`Continuar`, `Compactar`, `Cerrar`, `Aceptar recomendaciones`, `Guardar plan`, …) stay verbatim; other user-facing text follows [`SKILL.md`](../SKILL.md) § *Language policy*.
@@ -129,12 +120,12 @@ Resume **keys off the `CHECKPOINT`** of the run's session, not the existence of
 
 ## Convergence / exit
 
-- **No material gaps** → **convergence gate** (read-only) = **`Success criteria` green** (*verification-first*). Whatever fails **comes back as a gap**; if it passes → the loop **flips the green criteria** in `SESSION.md` (`- [ ]` → `- [x]`) and offers its closing action. The checklist must reflect the real final state: a criterion left unchecked at `finalize` needs an explicit reason. Each heir names its own instance of this gate.
-- `Cerrar` (the `flow` control, at any time) → `finalize`. **`finalize` always persists `CHECKPOINT.md`** (resumable) and, **only if** something was deferred, writes `BACKLOG.md` (close reason + the deferred items); closes the session and reports. Progress survives even without a prior `Compactar`.
+- **No material gaps** → **convergence gate** (read-only) = **`Success criteria` green** (*verification-first*). Whatever fails **comes back as a gap**; if it passes → the loop **flips the green criteria** in `SESSION.md` (`- [ ]` → `- [x]`) and offers its closing action. The checklist must reflect the real final state: a criterion left unchecked at `finalize` needs an explicit reason. Each heir names its own instance of this gate, and those instances are what realize it.
+- `Cerrar` (the `flow` control, at any time) → `finalize`, the last step of every journey. **`finalize` always persists `CHECKPOINT.md`** (resumable) and, **only if** something was deferred, writes `BACKLOG.md` (close reason + the deferred items); closes the session and reports. Progress survives even without a prior `Compactar`.
 
 ## docs/ boundary — no auto-export (hard rule)
 
-A loop writes into `docs/` **only** its own flow's doc (spec-refine: `docs/specs` · the three plan flows: `docs/plans` · quick: **none** — it never touches `docs/`) plus, when it composes a capability whose own deliverable is a `docs/` category, that category — today only the **UI Design Package** under `docs/designs` (`design`). **Published, never graduated**: the test is the origin, not the folder. No loop **graduates/promotes artifacts** into `docs/`: migrations → `docs/scripts`, manuals → `docs/manuals`, diagrams → `docs/diagrams` are done by the separate **`export-*`** skills, as an explicit later step; artifacts stay in their sessions until then. A task that creates a tool/utility has it documented in `docs/tools` by the ambient `creating-tools` skill (auto-discovered; Workline does not bind it).
+A loop writes into `docs/` **only** its own flow's doc plus, when it composes a capability whose own deliverable is a `docs/` category, that category — today only the **UI Design Package** under `docs/designs` (`design`). Which folders that is per flow, and refusing any delegated step whose target leaves them, is the CLI's. **Published, never graduated**: the test is the origin, not the folder. No loop **graduates/promotes artifacts** into `docs/`: migrations → `docs/scripts`, manuals → `docs/manuals`, diagrams → `docs/diagrams` are done by the separate **`export-*`** skills, as an explicit later step; artifacts stay in their sessions until then. A task that creates a tool/utility has it documented in `docs/tools` by the ambient `creating-tools` skill (auto-discovered; Workline does not bind it).
 
 ## Conditional modules
 

package/skills/w/loops/CODE-POLICIES.md

@@ -7,19 +7,15 @@ code loops keep only a short inline floor for advisory hosts.
 
 ## Safe git — verified branch + proposed commits
 
-- **Before editing** an execution unit's sources, verify every current branch (`aw check-branch
-  --source <alias>`). On mismatch, pause; never destructively clean or switch without confirmation.
-- **Proposed commits:** only after the closing review gate. In plan-exec create exactly one commit
-  per affected source at effective-batch close; in quick, one at task close. Never
-  `push`/`--amend`/`--no-verify`.
-- **Authorization:** default to one consolidated approval for a green batch's source commits. An
-  explicit user pre-authorization conditional on all checks passing is recorded before editing and
-  removes that final question. A failed or unrun check never authorizes a commit.
-- **Rejected commit:** changes stay. Record the execution unit as uncommitted in `CHECKPOINT` and
-  `BACKLOG`.
-- **Between-unit precondition:** each working tree is clean or explicitly acknowledged. A
-  `continuous` batch is the narrow exception that intentionally co-mingles its internal phases in
-  one reviewed commit; no batch may co-mingle with another.
+Sources are edited on a **verified** branch (`aw check-branch`), and the unit's commits are
+**proposed**: exactly one commit per affected source — at effective-batch close in plan-exec, at task
+close in quick — never `push`/`--amend`/`--no-verify`, and never a destructive clean or a branch
+switch without confirmation. A **rejected** commit leaves the changes in the tree and the unit
+recorded as uncommitted in `CHECKPOINT` and `BACKLOG`. Between units each working tree is clean or
+explicitly acknowledged; a `continuous` batch is the narrow exception that intentionally co-mingles
+its internal phases in one reviewed commit, and no batch may co-mingle with another.
+
+> **When the branch is verified, when a commit becomes available and what an approval covers is not this document's call:** the deterministic steps below are decided by the CLI (`aw flow advance`), not by this document. Approving is the person's act and committing is a separate effect that comes back as the sources' real git state — which is also what makes "the checks passed" impossible to assert without having run them.
 
 ## Closing review gate (conventions, pre-commit)
 
@@ -37,8 +33,6 @@ same gate before any pending commit.
 - **Artifact-first + verification-first**: seed `CHECKPOINT.Next = "review <batch/task>"`; Success
   criteria require the whole diff to pass before commits.
 
-Only with the gate green are the commits proposed.
-
 ## Location
 
 Same as the chassis: code-editing loops reference it as `../CODE-POLICIES.md` — the `w/loops/` tree is installed intact on every host (chassis § *Reference resolution*).

package/skills/w/loops/plan-exec-loop/LOOP.md

@@ -67,9 +67,11 @@ inference, the deferred-validation cycle and conditional Git authorization.
 
 Execution **no longer accepts in silence** a plan that would force it to invent its own structure. Two outcomes:
 
-- **Minor gap** — the plan is all but executable: an exit condition derivable from what is already written, the obvious evidence unnamed, micro-tasks to group. `plan-exec` may **normalize it with consent** — one structured-choice content question, labels `Normalizar y ejecutar` (recommended) | `Ir a plan-refine`. Normalizing edits the `### Fn` blocks in place, **adds no scope and moves no boundary**, and is recorded in `DECISION` + `CHECKPOINT`.
+- **Minor gap** — the plan is all but executable: an exit condition derivable from what is already written, the obvious evidence unnamed, micro-tasks to group. Normalizing edits the `### Fn` blocks in place, **adds no scope and moves no boundary**, and is recorded in `DECISION` + `CHECKPOINT`.
 - **Structural gap** — phases, contracts or journey are missing, or a change that **does** carry temporary behavior leaves its boundary undeclared. It does **not** improvise: record the finding in `CHECKPOINT`, hand off to [`plan-refine-loop`](../plan-refine-loop/LOOP.md) (`/w:plan-refine`) and resume execution over the refined plan.
 
+> **Which outcome a declared gap produces, and whether anybody is asked to consent, is not this document's call:** the deterministic steps below are decided by the CLI (`aw flow advance`), not by this document. Normalization is offered on a minor gap and on nothing else — a structural one is not something to consent to.
+
 > **A missing `Límite de simulación` is a gap only when there is something to simulate.** No task and no phase introduces temporary behavior → the block is legitimately absent and the gate passes; demanding it anyway pushes execution to invent a stub so the plan matches a template. The same holds for `Diferido` and every other conditional block.
 
 > The gate reads the **canonical phase contract** from [`plan-new-loop`](../plan-new-loop/LOOP.md) § *Phase contract (canonical)* — required sections, the `> Estado:` vocabulary, semantic granularity. Execution references it; it never redefines it. The marker is a **line of its own** inside the `### Fn` block (`> Estado: <value>`); written any other way it reads as `pendiente`.
@@ -117,10 +119,9 @@ reconciliation** in `CHECKPOINT`, never reported as published.
   one phase. A continuous unit follows `PLAN-EXECUTION-BATCHES`: no proof, runner, build, lint,
   review or commit between its phases.
 - Executes the phase's tasks; **skips** the ones already `- [x]` in the plan (the plan-doc is the per-task source of truth). **Micro steps stay internal** (canonical contract): they reach `CHECKPOINT` only when a resume needs them, never the plan.
-- **Marking order (hard rule):** mark a task when its local work finishes and each reached phase
-  `en ejecución`. After the whole unit is green, flip all its phases to `validada`. Each still
-  requires its proof, focused checks, exit condition and the combined review;
-  a blocker is never deferred into `validada`. **Never** because all its checkboxes are ticked.
+- **Marking order (hard rule):** a phase reaches `validada` only with its proof run and passed, its
+  exit condition true and the combined review green; a blocker is never deferred into `validada`.
+  **Never** because all its checkboxes are ticked.
 - **Intermediate states:** `bloqueada` = the phase is stopped on a live blocker — recorded in `CHECKPOINT` + the plan's `## Open questions`, back to `en ejecución` when it clears; it counts as **not validated**. A phase whose work is complete but whose operative check the AI **cannot run** (an unapplied migration — Delta 3) **stays `bloqueada`**: its finished tasks keep their boxes ticked, and the reason goes on its own `> Bloqueo:` line, dropped when the blocker clears. It counts as **not validated** until the check runs and passes. Never a silent `validada`.
 - **A blocker without a reason is not a blocker (hard rule).** Writing `> Estado: bloqueada` **always** writes its `> Bloqueo:` line in the same edit: a state that says "stopped" without saying on what is a dead end for whoever reads `aw status` next. The runtime tolerates a legacy block that states none (`blocker: null`) — this loop never produces one. `CHECKPOINT.Next` names **the action that unblocks it** ("apply migration 014, then re-run the persistence proof"), never the state it is in.
 - **Plan-doc residue (hard rule):** execution writes into the plan-doc **only** five things — checkbox flips (`- [ ]` → `- [x]`), the phase's own `> Estado:` line, its `> Bloqueo:` line while blocked, deferrals appended to its `## Open questions`, and the plan's own status mark (its `> Estado:` line and, on close, its `> Cierre:` line — Delta 6). The declared-gap hatch is Deltas 4, 5 and 7. Per-phase results, review-gate findings and metrics go to the session's `DECISION`/`CHECKPOINT` — **never** into the plan-doc. Phase blocks are updated **in place — NEVER append a duplicate `### Fn` block** (same contract as CHECKPOINT sections). The entry gate's consented normalization is the single exception, and it lands before execution starts.
@@ -154,10 +155,9 @@ On either return path: `CHECKPOINT` records the state reached and the trigger, t
 
 ## Delta 2 — Git policy: **safe branch + proposed commits**
 
-Full policy in [`../CODE-POLICIES.md`](../CODE-POLICIES.md). Inline: branch-check every source
-before the unit; after its green review, produce exactly one proposed commit per affected source.
-Use one consolidated approval, or the explicit conditional pre-authorization already recorded in
-`CHECKPOINT`. Never `push`/`--amend`/`--no-verify`.
+Full policy in [`../CODE-POLICIES.md`](../CODE-POLICIES.md), and its gating is the CLI's: this loop
+adds nothing of its own beyond running on a verified branch and never
+`push`/`--amend`/`--no-verify`.
 
 ## Delta 4 — Validation: phase proof + progressive tests
 
@@ -192,10 +192,8 @@ deferred with justification when they are not blockers.
   passed. In a continuous batch every phase waits for the batch review; an operative handoff leaves
   the affected phase `bloqueada` and the unit uncommitted.
 - **The plan's own state is the third axis, and it stays `open` during the whole run.** Every phase `validada` is **not** the plan closed: the final validation still has to run. Keep `> Estado: open` under the title while executing — stamping it on the first write if the plan carries none — and never write `done` from the counters — a legacy plan with every box ticked is not closed by that fact (§ *Legacy plans degrade safely*).
-- **Every phase `validada` + final validation passed** unlocks completion.
-  `Marcar plan done` is offered under no other condition. On the last batch, its one consolidated Git approval also authorizes
-  this mark before committing, so the status write lands in the same source commit. Explicit
-  green-commit pre-authorization applies it without another question.
+- **Every phase `validada` + final validation passed** unlocks completion, and on the last batch the
+  same Git approval covers this mark, so the status write lands in the same source commit.
 - **Marking done = ONE status line in the plan-doc**, under the title's blockquote: `> Estado: done`, updated in place on a re-run. The machine value **stands alone** — the date and session go on their own `> Cierre: YYYY-MM-DD · sesión NNN` line right under it, for the same reason a blocker never rides on a phase's state line. It never replaces the per-phase lines inside the `### Fn` blocks — position tells the two apart. No per-phase result tables, no ✅ suffixes — that record lives in the session (`DECISION`/`CHECKPOINT`).
 - **Legacy status line, migrated on write.** A plan carrying the old single-line form (`> Estado: done — YYYY-MM-DD · sesión NNN`) is still **read** as closed; the first time this loop legitimately writes that document, it is rewritten to the two-line form. Compatibility is for reading old plans — every new write uses the normalized contract.
 - **No automatic export**: the artifacts (`SCRIPTS.sql`, `DECISION`, …) stay in the session. Promoting them to `docs/` (scripts, manuals, …) is a separate step via `export-*`.

package/skills/w/loops/plan-new-loop/LOOP.md

@@ -26,12 +26,12 @@ PLAN
 `/w:plan-new` — **resumable** (same chassis mechanism, keyed off CHECKPOINT).
 
 ## Reads
-`docs/specs/NNN-spec-*.md` (glob — locates the spec by number; or the exact path from the command argument). **Ready vs not** is read from the spec's frontmatter `status`: `ready-for-plan` → proceed (legacy compat: a frontmatter-less spec carrying `## Refinement decisions`, or the older `## Q&A traceability`, counts as ready). Otherwise → **soft-suggest** running `/w:spec-refine` first (planning over a solid spec produces better plans), **never a block**: the user may proceed. Questions the spec left with destination `PLAN` are **input to this loop**, not a reason to send it back.
+`docs/specs/NNN-spec-*.md` (glob — locates the spec by number; or the exact path from the command argument). **Ready vs not** is read from the spec's frontmatter `status`, never from the filename, and a spec that is not ready is a **soft suggestion** to refine first, never a block — the four input modes are in [`PLAN-INPUT`](../../modules/PLAN-INPUT.md). Questions the spec left with destination `PLAN` are **input to this loop**, not a reason to send it back.
 
 ## Writes
 `docs/plans/PPP-plan-<slug>.md` (`generate`; **overwrites with confirmation** if it exists) — or **several sibling plans** when an accepted split applies (§ *Split gate (multi-plan)*). With UI, also the design revision it publishes under `docs/designs` (chassis § *docs/ boundary*). It never graduates/exports anything else to `docs/` — that is separate `export-*` work.
 
-> **slug**: short kebab-case derived from the spec's Requirement — only `[a-z0-9-]`, ≤ ~5 words / ≤ 40 chars. `aw next-number docs/plans` returns JSON (field `next` = `PPP`); the loop builds the full name. To locate plans, glob `docs/plans/PPP-plan-*.md`.
+> **Naming** follows [`PLAN-INPUT`](../../modules/PLAN-INPUT.md) § *Numbering*: `aw next-number docs/plans` mints `PPP` and the slug is short kebab-case from the Requirement. To locate plans, glob `docs/plans/PPP-plan-*.md`.
 
 > **Adoption (command mode 4):** an **externally-built plan** (host plan mode, hand-written, another agent) is materialized by the **command** in a single pass — this loop does not run: transcribe + normalize into the Delta 1 schema, `## Origin` = "adopted from <source>" + attribution; then `plan-refine` closes schema gaps (its coherence gate degrades for spec-less plans). See `../../modules/PLAN-INPUT.md` (the command's `input` module).
 
@@ -189,8 +189,10 @@ finalize: CHECKPOINT persisted (+ BACKLOG only if something is deferred) + close
 - **No material gaps** → **coherence gate** (the *Sequence* checklist; the PLAN-new instance of the chassis convergence gate). Criterion→task traceability is a **checked invariant**, never a separate section.
 - **The gate judges functional states, not size.** Each phase needs an exit condition, evidence and,
   **only when the change carries one**, its simulation lifecycle.
-- Passes → `Guardar plan` (writes with confirmation if it exists) → `finalize`.
-- **Split branch**: `Guardar planes` writes the N siblings → `finalize`.
+- Passes → the save confirmation and, only after it, the write (confirmed again if the document
+  exists) → `finalize`. On the split branch the same step writes the N siblings.
+
+> **When the gate is evaluated, when the offer appears and with what alternatives, is not this document's call:** the deterministic steps below are decided by the CLI (`aw flow advance`), not by this document. The *Sequence* above stays as the loop's shape; it is not its scheduler.
 - `Cerrar` at any time → `finalize` (persists `CHECKPOINT`; `BACKLOG` only if something is deferred; closes the session, reports).
 
 > **After generating:** run `plan-exec`; use optional `plan-refine` when the structure changes first.

package/skills/w/loops/plan-refine-loop/LOOP.md

@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ question that changed nothing, is NOT transcribed.
 
 > **Execution updates progress; refinement changes structure.** `plan-exec` updates the plan's operational state in place — task checkboxes, the phase `> Estado:` line with its `> Bloqueo:` line while blocked, declared deferrals and the plan's own status mark. It does **not** redesign contracts, phase shape or order, participating components, evidence or simulation boundaries: those structural changes are this loop's, and a change of functional behavior belongs to `spec-refine`.
 
-> **Normalize on write, never invent.** A save through this loop leaves the document on the current contract. The plan-level `> Estado:` line sits under the title — `open`, unless execution already closed it, and then with the date and session on their own `> Cierre:` line. Each `### Fn` carries its required blocks, and **no conditional block is written empty**: a phase with no temporary behavior gets no `Límite de simulación`, one with nothing excluded gets no `Diferido`. Normalizing is a rewrite of form — it never changes a phase's state, never ticks a box, and never closes a plan.
+> **Normalize on write, never invent.** A save through this loop leaves the document on the current contract, and **no conditional block is written empty**: a phase with no temporary behavior gets no `Límite de simulación`, one with nothing excluded gets no `Diferido`. Normalizing is a rewrite of form — it never changes a phase's state, never ticks a box, and never closes a plan.
 
 ## Delta 2 — Gap taxonomy (of "plan")
 
@@ -169,8 +169,10 @@ finalize: CHECKPOINT persisted (+ BACKLOG only if something is deferred) + close
 ## Convergence / exit
 
 - **No material gaps** → **executability gate** (the *Sequence* checklist: contract · journey · phases · simulation · evidence · resumability, plus plan-new's coherence checks and the re-refine's own realignment check).
-- Passes → `Guardar plan refinado` (edits in place with confirmation) → `finalize`.
-- **Split branch**: `Guardar planes` edits the original reduced and writes the extracted siblings → `finalize`.
+- Passes → the save confirmation and, only after it, the in-place edit → `finalize`. On the split
+  branch the same step edits the original reduced and writes the extracted siblings.
+
+> **When the gate is evaluated, when the offer appears and with what alternatives, is not this document's call:** the deterministic steps below are decided by the CLI (`aw flow advance`), not by this document. The write follows the confirmation, never the other way round.
 - `Cerrar` at any time → `finalize` (persists `CHECKPOINT`; `BACKLOG` only if something is deferred; closes the session, reports).
 
 > **After refining:** the plan goes to `plan-exec`, which re-checks this same gate on entry — a plan saved here should never bounce back for its structure.

package/skills/w/loops/quick-loop/LOOP.md

@@ -48,20 +48,20 @@ Read **[`../CHASSIS.md`](../CHASSIS.md)** — the loop's **full engine** — **a
 
 ## QUICK delta — minimal ceremony
 
+> **Directed tranche:** the deterministic steps below are decided by the CLI (`aw flow advance`), not by this document — it names the boundary in force, its alternatives, and the exact invocation when something has to run outside. What stays here is the *why*, plus every step that is judgment or preference.
+
 - **No phases, no plan-doc**: the prompt **is** the task (a single unit). No roadmap.
 - **Proportional verification-first** (minimal ceremony): even here the check is **seeded before**, sized to the task. Code: one test (bug repro → fix) or "existing build/lint/tests stay green" (chore). **Analysis/design**: a **short falsifiable rubric**, *ratified by the user* before pursuing it. It is the run's `SESSION.Success criteria` (see [chassis § *Verification-first*](../CHASSIS.md)).
 - **Git and DB inline** (full policies in [`../CODE-POLICIES.md`](../CODE-POLICIES.md)): before editing, verify each source's expected branch (`aw check-branch`); **proposed** commit (approve first) — never `push`/`--amend`/`--no-verify`. The AI **never executes DML/DDL**: migrations are drafted into the session's `SCRIPTS.sql` (read-only queries do run, via MCP).
 - **One session. One commit** proposed at the end (only if there were code changes), **after the proportional closing review gate** ([`../CODE-POLICIES.md`](../CODE-POLICIES.md) § *Closing review gate*): diff re-read + ambient conventions; fix or defer; nothing reaches the commit unreviewed.
-- **Entry SIZE GATE** (before creating the session): on receiving the objective, evaluate whether it **exceeds a quick**. It fires **only on clear signals** (≥2 of: needs architecture · ≥2 sources · multiple deliverables · large feature/refactor · ambiguous requirements needing elicitation); signals already resolved by *adopted context* do **not** fire (e.g. a host pre-analysis in this conversation that removed the ambiguity — chassis § *Adopted context*); borderline → **continue in quick without asking** (if it later grows, mid-loop escalation covers it). A **resume** of an existing quick does **not** re-fire the gate. If it fires → **structured-choice** (1 content question, recommendation first + `flow` control; `Cerrar` here = abort, nothing created yet):
-  - **`Cambiar a SPEC`** (recommended) → **no quick session is created**: run the *Live transition to SPEC* (next bullet).
-  - **`Seguir en quick`** → continue normally (`create_or_resume` + loop).
-  - **`Recortar alcance`** → the AI proposes the **sub-task that DOES fit** a quick; the loop continues with it (`SESSION.Objective` = the sub-task; the original prompt goes into the session's `## Origin`) and the rest is deferred to `BACKLOG` ("trimmed at the gate — may warrant its own spec, `/w:spec-new`").
-  - **Anti-duplicate** (the `create_or_resume` spirit): if a spec whose `## Origin` references this same objective already exists (or an equivalent `*-spec-refine` session), the recommended option becomes **resuming that spec** (`/w:spec-refine` semantics) — never a second draft.
+- **Entry SIZE GATE** (before creating the session): a quick that should have been a spec costs more than the ceremony it saved, so the size of the objective is judged **before** anything exists. Your part is recognizing the signals; the threshold, the question and its options are the CLI's. A signal already resolved by *adopted context* is **not** a signal (chassis § *Adopted context*). A **resume** of an existing quick never re-fires it.
+  - **`Recortar alcance`**, if chosen: propose the **sub-task that DOES fit** a quick (`SESSION.Objective` = the sub-task; the original prompt goes into `## Origin`) and defer the rest to `BACKLOG` ("trimmed at the gate — may warrant its own spec, `/w:spec-new`").
+  - **`Cambiar a SPEC`**, if chosen: **no quick session is created** — run the *Live transition to SPEC* (next bullet).
 - **Live transition to SPEC** (shared by the gate and mid-loop escalation). On acceptance, the work line **moves to the SPEC flow**: the explicit consent in the structured-choice **equals invoking the destination command** (*consented exception* — rule 3 of the *Continuity rule*, [`../../SKILL.md`](../../SKILL.md) § *Operating context*). On the SPEC side:
   1. **Materialize the draft** via the [`../../commands/spec-new.md`](../../commands/spec-new.md) procedure: `aw next-number docs/specs`, slug, schema, single-pass **NO RESEARCH** — its bounded reconnaissance does **not** re-fire (this run's context arrives adopted). `## Origin` = "escalated from `/w:quick`" + the original prompt (+ the origin quick session if it exists). The draft is born `status: draft`: only the SPEC gate promotes it to `ready-for-plan`.
   2. **Load and execute** [`../spec-refine-loop/LOOP.md`](../spec-refine-loop/LOOP.md) — over that spec (trampoline pattern).
   3. The run's session is that loop's **normal** `NNN-<slug>-spec-refine` (the CLI numbers it; its `## Origin` records the escalation). **Invariant 2 intact**: quick, while it is quick, never writes `docs/` — the draft is written by the SPEC flow, post-consent.
-- **Mid-loop escalation + handoff**: if the task grows (same gate signals) → propose moving up to **SPEC/PLAN** (structured-choice, recommendation first). If the user accepts:
+- **Mid-loop escalation + handoff**: if the task grows, declare the signals again — the CLI applies the same threshold and, if it fires, asks. If the user accepts moving up:
   1. The **already-edited code stays** in the working tree (never reverted) and is **recorded** in `CHECKPOINT` + `BACKLOG`: "uncommitted changes in `<source>` — decide commit/discard on resume" (the "rejected commit" pattern, [`../CODE-POLICIES.md`](../CODE-POLICIES.md) § *Safe git*).
   2. The quick session goes to `finalize` with the **pointer** in `BACKLOG`: to **PLAN** → "escalated to `docs/plans/PPP` — resume there" (**deferred** as today: seed + pointer, no live entry); to **SPEC** → "escalated to `docs/specs/NNN` — **continued live** (session `NNN-<slug>-spec-refine`)".
   3. The artifacts (`DECISION`, `SCRIPTS.sql`) **stay in the quick session** as referenceable context for the new session (never migrated).
@@ -71,21 +71,13 @@ Read **[`../CHASSIS.md`](../CHASSIS.md)** — the loop's **full engine** — **a
 
 ```
 quick-loop(prompt):
-  # SIZE GATE — BEFORE creating a session; new work lines only (a resume does not re-fire it)
-  if the objective exceeds a quick (≥2 clear signals — see delta):
-    if a spec / spec-refine session for this objective already exists → recommend RESUMING it (/w:spec-refine)  # anti-duplicate
-    structured_choice(content: [Cambiar a SPEC (recommended), Seguir en quick, Recortar alcance],
-                      flow: [Compactar, Cerrar])           # Cerrar here = abort (nothing created yet)
-    Cambiar a SPEC   → live transition (see delta): draft (spec-new procedure) +
-                       load and execute ../spec-refine-loop/LOOP.md → END (no quick session)
-    Recortar alcance → objective = the proposed sub-task; the rest → BACKLOG when the session is created
-    Seguir en quick  → continue
-  s = create_or_resume("<slug>-quick")      # CLI prepends global NNN; always a light session
-  seed SESSION.Objective = the prompt
+  # The CLI drives the entry gate, its anti-duplicate search and the session, and
+  # stops at each boundary it cannot decide; it verifies the seeding afterwards.
+  # `Cambiar a SPEC` → live transition (see delta): draft (spec-new procedure) +
+  #                    load and execute ../spec-refine-loop/LOOP.md → END (no quick session)
   if the conversation already established analysis/conclusions →                 # adopted context (chassis)
     adopt them (SESSION.Origin = "adopted from host conversation"; reference in CONCLUSIONS) — never re-derive/re-ask
-  seed SESSION.Success criteria = the deliverable's check   # verification-first, BEFORE: test(s) if code · short RATIFIED rubric if analysis/design
-  seed CHECKPOINT.Pending/Next = the task (s)               # BEFORE: seed the intent (artifact-first)
+  author SESSION.Success criteria = the deliverable's check  # test(s) if code · short RATIFIED rubric if analysis/design
   work the task (minimal loop):
     if it edits code → verify each source's expected branch (`aw check-branch`); mismatch → pause + resolve
     produce the deliverable: edit code (minimal change) OR author the analysis/design
@@ -93,11 +85,11 @@ quick-loop(prompt):
     if DB change (DDL/DML) → SCRIPTS.sql (session artifact, DO NOT execute)
     if non-obvious decision → DECISION
     if doubt/gap → inline research, a probe OR structured-choice   # chassis § Proof of concept
-    if the task GROWS → propose escalating to SPEC/PLAN      # structured-choice, recommendation first
-        accepts PLAN → handoff (progress stays; BACKLOG→seeded plan — resume there, deferred) → goto finalize
-        accepts SPEC → handoff (progress stays; BACKLOG→"continued live") → finalize →
-                       live transition (see delta): draft if missing + spec-refine-loop
-  convergence gate: Success criteria green                   # tests green if code · rubric satisfied if analysis/design
+    if the task GROWS → declare the signals again; if the CLI asks and the user accepts:
+        PLAN → handoff (progress stays; BACKLOG→seeded plan — resume there, deferred) → goto finalize
+        SPEC → handoff (progress stays; BACKLOG→"continued live") → finalize →
+               live transition (see delta): draft if missing + spec-refine-loop
+  convergence gate: run the Success criteria and hand back their real output
   if there were code changes:
     closing review gate (proportional):                      # diff re-read + installed ambient conventions
         findings → fix (re-validate) OR defer justified (BACKLOG)
@@ -108,11 +100,11 @@ finalize: CHECKPOINT (AFTER: Pending→Completed) + BACKLOG (only if something i
 
 ## Convergence / exit
 
-- **Success criteria green** (proportional) + closing review gate passed and commit proposed if there was code (or skipping it approved) → `Cerrar`.
+- Closing review gate passed and commit proposed if there was code (or skipping it approved) → `Cerrar`.
 - `Cerrar`/`Compactar` (`flow` control) → persists `CHECKPOINT` + `BACKLOG` (resumable).
 - **No export**: nothing goes to `docs/`. Anything worth preserving → promoted separately via `export-*`, or escalated (to SPEC **live** — the line continues in spec-refine already as SPEC flow; to PLAN **deferred**, seed + pointer).
 
-> QUICK's *convergence gate* is **proportional verification-first**: a **short** `Success criteria` seeded at start (not the *absence* of a checklist — its minimal version) — for code, "the change does what the prompt asked + tests/build green"; for analysis/design, a short ratified rubric. Minimal ceremony by design, but **always with the check declared first**.
+> QUICK's *convergence gate* is **proportional verification-first**: a **short** `Success criteria` declared at start (not the *absence* of a checklist — its minimal version). The CLI evaluates it, and it evaluates the **real output** of running those criteria — a claim that they passed is not a result.
 
 ## Conditional modules
 

package/skills/w/loops/spec-refine-loop/LOOP.md

@@ -123,6 +123,10 @@ The choices a reader needs in order to interpret the contract, each with its why
 
 > **Acceptance criteria = static testable criteria** (the "what"): plan-exec validates them, but progress is tracked in the PLAN (its Tasks), never by ticking these `- [ ]` in the spec; the spec never mutates by execution, only by a re-refine.
 
+## Who decides what
+
+> **Directed tranche:** the deterministic steps below are decided by the CLI (`aw flow advance`), not by this document — it opens the session, resolves the shape gate, decides when the ideation offer and the ambiguity question appear, evaluates the ready-for-plan gate and holds the save until its result comes back. What stays here is the *why*: the taxonomy, the checklist and what each branch means. The split gate keeps its rule in [`../../modules/SPLIT-GATE.md`](../../modules/SPLIT-GATE.md), which the PLAN flows still read.
+
 ## Gap taxonomy — signal, resolver, destination
 
 `detect_gaps(work)` looks for these signals. Each is **classified by destination before its resolver is chosen**: closing a `PLAN`-owned question here is the failure mode this taxonomy exists to prevent.
@@ -155,22 +159,17 @@ The choices a reader needs in order to interpret the contract, each with its why
 ```
 spec-refine-loop(spec):
   input = glob(NNN-spec*.md) | argument (path)          # always the spec itself (in place)
-  refine_session = create_or_resume("<slug>-spec-refine")  # <slug> from the spec; CLI prepends global NNN
-  seed SESSION.Success criteria = acceptance criteria + ready-for-plan checklist  # verification-first, BEFORE
+  refine_session = the run's session          # the CLI opens or resumes it and verifies its seed
+  SESSION.Success criteria = acceptance criteria + ready-for-plan checklist  # what its gate evaluates later
   work = read(input)  (+ apply checkpoint progress if resuming)
   adopt(spec-new facts + assumptions + open questions + conversation)  # never re-derive (§ Reads)
   baseline = resolve_current_behavior(work)      # inline research, ONLY what the change rests on
-  shape = change_shape_gate(work, baseline)      # BEFORE closing details → same | split | replace
-  if shape != same:                              # RESOLVED HERE — never queued into pending_human
-    ans = structured_choice(content: [the offer of THIS branch],   # split and replace never share labels
-                            flow: [Compactar, Cerrar])
-    write CHECKPOINT (the decision + its consequence)  # BEFORE acting: a resume re-enters already decided
-    flow Cerrar → goto finalize                  # closed without applying the change; the spec stays untouched
-    `Una sola spec`           → shape resolved as same; keep refining this spec
+  on the shape branch (see ../../modules/SPEC-CHANGE-SHAPE.md for what each one means):
+    `Una sola spec`           → keep refining this spec
     `Dividir en varias specs` → the accepted cut is fixed now; its writes wait for `Guardar specs`
     `Crear una nueva spec`    → mint draft with confirmation (## Origin) ; THIS spec untouched ;
                                 CHECKPOINT.Next = refine it ; goto finalize
-    `Reformular esta spec`    → same number/path ; re-run baseline + this gate before any stamp
+    `Reformular esta spec`    → same number/path ; re-run baseline before any stamp
   attempts = {}                                          # anti re-fire per gap
   repeat:
     gaps = classify_by_destination(detect_gaps(work)) minus the "exhausted" gaps
@@ -184,8 +183,8 @@ spec-refine-loop(spec):
         compose design → reuse a compatible baseline OR publish an `outline` revision
                                                  # design-system/theme via structured-choice (counts in the batch)
         work = integrate(work, design)           # → ## Design references (package + hint + digest)
-      else if gap = Unexplored solution space and a trigger fires:
-        pending_human.push("ideation offer")     # `Explorar ideas` | `Seguir sin ideación`
+      else if gap = Unexplored solution space:
+        declare the trigger signal               # the CLI decides whether the offer appears
       else if factual(gap) and attempts[gap] < MAX:
         if it needs DB and >1 MCP without default → queue "MCP choice" in pending_human
         res = research_inline(gap)           # current session: ANALYSIS-FILE → CONCLUSIONS (+read-only SCRIPTS.sql)
@@ -202,11 +201,8 @@ spec-refine-loop(spec):
       work = integrate(work, ans)            # → Decisions / Open questions
       ideation offer accepted → run the round NOW, then its verdicts as a NEW ≤3+flow batch (§ Ideation gate)
       ideation offer declined → mark that gap exhausted    # anti re-fire; on-demand entry stays open
-  # no BLOCKING gaps → ready-for-plan gate = Success criteria green (read-only) before offering Guardar:
-  issues = ready_for_plan(work)   # § Convergence / exit — PLAN-owned questions never fail it
-  if issues: blocking += issues ; continue        # findings come back into the loop as gaps
-  ans = structured_choice(content: [Guardar refinada | Guardar specs, Preguntar algo más],
-                        flow: [Compactar, Cerrar])
+  # no BLOCKING gaps → the CLI evaluates the ready-for-plan gate over the run's
+  # Success criteria and asks for their real state; whatever fails comes back as a gap.
   Guardar            → edit_in_place_with_confirm(spec) + stamp status: ready-for-plan ; goto finalize
                        # split branch → also mint + write the extracted siblings as status: draft
   Preguntar algo más → continue
@@ -227,7 +223,7 @@ finalize:
   - **Minimality** — no gold-plating: every criterion and scope item earns its place (chassis § *Minimality*); speculative scope is cut or deferred, and no technical solution was imposed that the requirement did not ask for;
   - `PLAN` can continue without inventing behavior, scope or product decisions.
 - Whatever fails **comes back as a gap**. A question owned by `PLAN` **never** fails the gate: it is recorded with its destination, not closed.
-- Passes → offer `Guardar especificación refinada` (split branch: `Guardar specs`) → `edit_in_place_with_confirm(spec)` + `status: ready-for-plan` → `finalize`.
+- Passes → `edit_in_place_with_confirm(spec)` + `status: ready-for-plan` → `finalize`. The stamp only counts once the document really carries it.
 - `Cerrar` → the chassis `finalize` (always persists `CHECKPOINT`; `BACKLOG` **only if** something is deferred — here: close reason + deferred `Open questions`).
 
 ## Integration (where each resolution lands)

package/skills/w/modules/COMPACTION.md

@@ -2,12 +2,8 @@
 
 Loaded when the run is long enough that context pressure governs its pacing (signal `compaction`).
 
-`Compactar` is not only reactive: the loop **watches its own context pressure** and raises compaction itself.
+`Compactar` is not only reactive: the loop **watches its own context pressure** and raises compaction itself. Recognizing that pressure is judgment — the host's signal where it exists (*compaction* capability in [`../harness/HARNESS.md`](../harness/HARNESS.md)), otherwise the **qualitative** question *"would a fresh reader need the CHECKPOINT to continue?"* at a boundary of an already-long run. Doctrine fixes **no numeric thresholds**: a number that means anything is a number about one host.
 
-- **Signal**: the host's context-pressure signal when it exists (see the *compaction* capability in [`../harness/HARNESS.md`](../harness/HARNESS.md)); with no signal the fallback is **qualitative** — at batch/phase boundaries of an already-long run, ask *"would a fresh reader need the CHECKPOINT to continue?"*. Doctrine fixes **no numeric thresholds** (harness-agnostic).
-- **Modes** — config `[compaction]` table in `.workflow/skills.toml`, key `mode` (values `confirm` | `auto`):
-  - **`confirm`** (default, also with no config): raise a **proactive structured-choice** whose `flow` control carries `Compactar` as the recommended action — the human ratifies; consent is never skipped.
-  - **`auto`** (opt-in): write `CHECKPOINT.md`, then trigger the host's compaction binding **without asking**. Viable only where the host has a **non-interactive** mechanism (see the *Harness binding matrix*); otherwise it **degrades to `confirm`**.
-- **Invariant — CHECKPOINT before compacting**: in every mode, `CHECKPOINT.md` is written (or verified fresh) **before** any compaction fires; resume keys off it.
+> **Which mode runs, and whether the host can honour it, is not this document's call:** `aw checkpoint-write --can-pause` decides it from the `[compaction]` config (`mode` = `confirm` | `auto`), the host's binding and the session's state. `auto` needs a **non-interactive** mechanism and **degrades to `confirm`** without one; **CHECKPOINT before compacting** holds in every mode. What this document keeps is why: consent is never skipped where a person can be asked, and a compaction that fires before the checkpoint loses the thread it was meant to protect.
 
 > **`Compactar`** (the `flow` control) → write `CHECKPOINT.md` in the session (in-flight progress, remaining gaps, Q&A, `attempts`) → trigger the harness **compaction** (Claude Code: `/compact`; see [`../harness/HARNESS.md`](../harness/HARNESS.md)) → resume by reading the checkpoint.

package/skills/w/modules/DB-SCRIPTS-ONLY.md

@@ -10,3 +10,5 @@ Distinguished by **execution**, not by file (see the [`SCRIPTS.sql`](../artifact
 - **DDL/DML migrations** (schema/data changes) → the AI **drafts them in `SCRIPTS.sql`** (session artifact) but **NEVER executes them**.
 
 > Mutating SQL **stays in the session**; it is never moved to `docs/`. Its promotion to `docs/scripts/` (forward + rollback) is done by a separate `export-*`, never by the loop.
+
+> **Showing beats asserting here:** the deterministic steps below are decided by the CLI (`aw flow advance`), not by this document — it asks the session's script back, because no narration tells drafting from running.

package/skills/w/modules/DESIGN-REFERENCES.md

@@ -34,6 +34,14 @@ cannot be superseded without editing it.
 Publishing the package is the loop writing a composed deliverable through the
 CLI, not graduating a session artifact (chassis § *docs/ boundary*).
 
+## `handoff` asks to SEE it
+
+A `handoff` screen owes evidence, not only prose: a local static preview of its
+`default_state`, and a `trace` classifying every criterion `visual`,
+`interaction` or `not_visual`. A package published under the earlier gate can stop
+qualifying; it reports `DESIGN_VISUAL_EVIDENCE_REQUIRED` with the screen, the
+criterion and the fix.
+
 ## SPEC — close the requirement at `outline`
 
 1. **Reuse before minting.** `aw designs` lists what the workspace already has; a
@@ -44,10 +52,8 @@ CLI, not graduating a session artifact (chassis § *docs/ boundary*).
 3. **Publish, then reference.** Citing a baseline that was never published is the
    dangling reference this contract removes.
 
-`spec-new` only **records the need**; it mints nothing. Design-system, theme and
-surface ambiguities are resolved like any other SPEC gap — *structured-choice*,
-counting inside the same ≤3 batch. The section sits where `## UI spec` used to,
-right before `## Decisions`.
+`spec-new` only **records the need**; it mints nothing. The section sits right
+before `## Decisions`.
 
 ## PLAN — promote the closure, pin the roots
 
@@ -58,8 +64,8 @@ right before `## Decisions`.
    screen states its phases will build.
 3. **Compute the closure**: a flow reaches its nodes, a screen its flows, and both
    reach the rules, tokens and assets they depend on. It stops there. `flow_refs`
-   is *not* followed — it records which flows visit a screen, so following it drags
-   in designs the plan never consumes.
+   is *not* followed — it is the inverse relation, and following it drags in
+   designs the plan never consumes.
 4. **Promote exactly that closure to `handoff`**, nothing else. Ten screens in
    `outline` and three promoted is a package's normal shape; promoting it wholesale
    because one task needed one screen makes maturity meaningless.
@@ -89,17 +95,15 @@ root: an approved image is not the current semantics, nor a conformance claim.
 nothing a baseline seals — normative content, a maturity, an approval. A visual
 tweak that turns out to need a new state or a redrawn journey **escalates with the
 evidence it gathered**: `plan-refine` for the package, `spec-refine` when behavior
-or acceptance moves. Editing it silently moves the revision with nobody's approval
-while every consumer stays pinned to the old digest.
+or acceptance moves. Editing it silently moves the revision while every consumer
+stays pinned to the old digest.
 
 ## plan-refine — the delta, and only the delta
 
 - **New revisions only for the artifacts the refine actually affects.** An
   untouched screen keeps its revision, maturity and digest.
 - **Never re-point another consumer.** Two plans may pin the same baseline;
-  publishing `@rN+1` for one leaves the other's reference exactly as it was —
-  that is what makes a published revision immutable rather than merely
-  discouraged from changing.
+  publishing `@rN+1` for one leaves the other's reference exactly as it was.
 - **Re-point only this plan** — its `## Design references` and the tasks whose
   artifacts moved. The spec's section is not touched: it records the baseline the
   *requirement* closed on.

package/skills/w/modules/IDEATION-GATE.md

@@ -4,13 +4,13 @@ Loaded when a trigger says the solution space is unexplored (signal `web`).
 
 ## Ideation gate (creativity)
 
-The loop's one **divergent** gate: every other resolver closes a gap; this one widens the option space before the spec hardens around its first idea. **Unexplored solution space is not a universal gap** — it stays shut unless a trigger fires, because exploring what is already decided burns context and invites gold-plating.
+The loop's one **divergent** gate: every other resolver closes a gap; this one widens the option space before the spec hardens around its first idea. **Unexplored solution space is not a universal gap** — exploring what is already decided burns context and invites gold-plating, so the deterministic steps below are decided by the CLI (`aw flow advance`), not by this document: you declare whether a trigger fires, and the offer appears only then.
 
-**Triggers (≥1).** The user knows the problem but not the desired outcome · several functional directions carry materially different consequences · the spec adopted the first alternative prematurely · a choice can materially change scope · the alternatives change experience, rules or acceptance · the user asks to explore.
+**Triggers.** The user knows the problem but not the desired outcome · several functional directions carry materially different consequences · the spec adopted the first alternative prematurely · a choice can materially change scope · the alternatives change experience, rules or acceptance · the user asks to explore.
 
 **Not triggers.** More than one technical solution exists · no library is chosen yet · the system uses several technologies · every implementation admits alternatives · the request is already functionally clear. Purely technical alternatives belong to `PLAN`.
 
-1. **Offer & consent.** The gap enters the batch as a content question — `Explorar ideas` vs `Seguir sin ideación` — carrying the AI's recommendation like any other. Declining marks the gap **exhausted** (never re-offered this run); an explicit user request for ideas at any point counts as an accepted offer (on-demand entry). Alternatives already weighed in the conversation are *adopted context* — the gap does not fire.
+1. **Offer & consent.** Declining marks the gap **exhausted** (never re-offered this run); an explicit user request for ideas at any point counts as an accepted offer (on-demand entry). Alternatives already weighed in the conversation are *adopted context* — the trigger does not fire.
 2. **Ideation round** (one per consent). Propose fresh ideas and **combinations** (the user's + found ones). If the host exposes **web-research** ([`../harness/HARNESS.md`](../harness/HARNESS.md)), the accepted offer also authorizes that round's web searches — no per-search consent; findings + sources land in the session's `CONCLUSIONS`, like inline research. Without the capability, ideate offline (own knowledge + workspace + repos) and **declare it** — never silently.
 
 **Verdicts (back to convergence).** Present the top ≤3 ideas via the same structured-choice, each with a recommended verdict: `Adoptar` → integrate into `Requirement`/`Scope`/criteria + record it in `## Decisions` (the choice and its why, with the source/URL when web-found) · `Descartar` → the reason goes to `CONCLUSIONS`, not to the spec · `Aparcar` → `## Open questions` with its destination. Ideas beyond the top 3 stay summarized in `CONCLUSIONS`. Divergence is bounded by *Minimality* (chassis): nothing enters the spec without an explicit `Adoptar`. This gate exists **only** in this loop — `spec-new` stays single-pass (bounded reconnaissance at most, no web) and the plan/quick loops inherit none of it.