@wix/agent-skills 1.7.0 → 1.8.0

package/skills/wix-headless/references/PLAN.md

@@ -1,10 +1,12 @@
 # Plan — the pre-approval funnel
 
-This file owns the run **from the first Discovery question to the user's approval of the plan** — mode routing, the questions, the background dispatches that hide latency, and the plan/approval gate. Its job is to get the user to the commitment moment **fast**, so keep it lean.
+This file owns the run **from the first Discovery question to the user's approval of the plan** — operation routing, the questions, the background dispatches that hide latency, and the plan/approval gate. Its job is to get the user to the commitment moment **fast**, so keep it lean.
+
+**This file is the funnel router, and it routes on OPERATION.** It holds the shared funnel rules (concurrency vocabulary, the two-track model, operation routing, the Plan→Build contract, user-facing output, batching). The operation-specific funnel — how input is processed and how the plan looks — lives in `PLAN-create.md` (create a new site) and `PLAN-connect.md` (connect a brought-in design). **Read `operation` (set by `DISCOVERY.md` § Wave 0), then open the matching one and read only that:** `create` → `PLAN-create.md`, `connect` → `PLAN-connect.md`. (Today `create` coincides with `frontend: astro` and `connect` with `frontend: custom` — but the funnel branches on the *operation*, not the frontend; that is the seam the framework-SPA and extend plans build on.)
 
 **On approval, open `BUILD.md`** — the post-approval conductor that owns execution (Setup → design-system bridge → Seed → Components → Pages → Build → Release). Everything past the approval gate lives there, so it is not read until the user has committed.
 
-**The contract with the other files.** The domain/step files answer *what each step does* (the questions Discovery asks, the recipes, the prompt templates). This file + `BUILD.md` answer *when, in what order, in parallel with what, gated on what*. The step files do not name the sequence or chain to each other; the conductor (this file → `BUILD.md`) names when to apply each one. Neither prescribes a tool API — map each step to whatever subagent / parallel-execution primitive your runtime offers.
+**The contract with the other files.** The domain/step files answer *what each step does* (the questions Discovery asks, the recipes, the prompt templates). This file + the operation funnels + `BUILD.md` answer *when, in what order, in parallel with what, gated on what*. The step files do not name the sequence or chain to each other; the conductor names when to apply each one. Neither prescribes a tool API — map each step to whatever subagent / parallel-execution primitive your runtime offers.
 
 ## Concurrency vocabulary
 
@@ -22,47 +24,55 @@ The terms below appear throughout this skill. They describe the *shape* of work;
 The run is two semi-independent tracks that the orchestrator interleaves for wall-time:
 
 - **Business track** (frontend-blind) — create/connect the site, **install Wix apps**, **seed backend data**. Inputs: `siteId`, `verticals`, `intent`, `brand`. It never reads `frontend`/template — a product (or collection, post, form) is the same regardless of what renders it. Its domain content lives in `SETUP.md` (app installs) + `SEED.md` (seeders).
-- **Frontend track** (frontend-aware) — scaffold/prep the local project, Designer + design tokens, Composer, components, pages, SDK wiring, build. Every `frontend`/template branch lives here. Its domain content lives in `scaffold.sh` + `seed-utilities.sh` + `DESIGN_SYSTEM.md` / `astro/COMPOSE.md` + the per-vertical references (frontend guides under `references/astro/`).
+- **Frontend track** (frontend-aware) — scaffold/prep the local project, Designer + design tokens, `compose.mjs` (the Composer script), components, pages, SDK wiring, build. Every `frontend`/template branch lives here. Its domain content lives in `scaffold.sh` + `seed-utilities.sh` + `DESIGN_SYSTEM.md` + `scripts/compose.mjs` (self-documenting) + the per-vertical references (frontend guides under `references/astro/`).
 
 The only cross-track data flow is **one-way, business → frontend**: seeders produce entity IDs which the orchestrator inlines into the frontend track's Page-subagent prompts. There is no frontend → business dependency.
 
-## Frontend-mode routing
+## Operation routing
 
-`frontend` (captured by `DISCOVERY.md` § "Wave 0 — Mode detection") is the axis the frontend track branches on. The orchestrator holds it in scratch and uses it in two ways: it branches inline in the PLAN/BUILD orchestration on the scratch value, and it passes `--frontend <value>` to `scaffold.sh` and `init-site-json.mjs` (and `--template astro` to `seed-utilities.sh`). The axis is binary — **astro (supported) vs custom (anything else, not available yet)**:
+The Plan phase routes on **operation** — *create* (scaffold a new site from a prompt) vs *connect* (integrate a brought-in design). `operation` is captured by `DISCOVERY.md` § "Wave 0", held by the orchestrator in scratch, and selects the funnel:
 
-| `frontend` | Mode | Flow |
+| `operation` | What it is | Funnel → Build |
 |---|---|---|
-| `astro` | Scaffold (supported) | Wave 0 below → on approval → `BUILD.md`. The full playbook lives under `<SKILL_ROOT>/references/astro/`. |
-| anything else (custom) | Not available yet | Open `<SKILL_ROOT>/references/custom/INSTRUCTIONS.md`, surface its not-available message, and **stop** — no scaffold, no Designer/Composer, no Setup/Seed authoring, no `BUILD.md` build flow, no half-built site. |
+| `create` | The user asks for a new site; the skill writes it | **`PLAN-create.md`** → on approval → `BUILD.md` routes Build on **framework**. The full astro playbook lives under `<SKILL_ROOT>/references/astro/`. |
+| `connect` | The user brings a finished design to wire to Wix | **`PLAN-connect.md`** → on approval → `BUILD.md` routes Build on **framework**. The frontend-track playbook is `<SKILL_ROOT>/references/custom/INSTRUCTIONS.md`. No scaffold, no Designer/Composer; init + shared Setup/Seed + connect/augment/persistence-swap; release is no-build (`none`) or the project's own build (`own` SPA). |
 
-> **Astro is the one Wix-preferred frontend the skill builds end-to-end.** Every non-astro value (a user-provided project, a Vite/React SPA, anything else) is a **custom** frontend; the custom authoring track is deferred. Route it to the stub and tell the user astro is the supported path. The intended future shape for custom is recorded in `references/custom/INSTRUCTIONS.md`.
+> **Operation ≠ frontend.** The funnel branches on the *operation* (what the user is doing), not the frontend (what renders it). The two are orthogonal: *create* spans `frontendBuild` `wix` (astro default) and `own` (a named framework); *connect* spans `none` (static HTML), `own` (a brought SPA), and could span `wix` (a brought astro project) — none of which forks the operation router. Keeping operation and framework distinct is what lets these combinations be independently expressible without a new phase fork — see the framework-SPA plan and the extend plan.
 
-This is the **track-selection routing layer**: `SETUP.md`'s steps assume the routing already happened; the conductor owns the branch.
+This is the **operation-selection routing layer**: `SETUP.md`'s steps assume the routing already happened; the conductor owns the branch. **Build does NOT route on operation** — it routes on framework (`BUILD.md`); operation feeds Build only through the contract below (specifically the bootstrap/wiring cells).
 
-## Wave 0 — Discovery → plan → approval (Path A)
+## The Plan→Build contract
 
-**The funnel dispatches nothing.** Its only job is to talk to the user, present the plan, and get approval. (The scaffold and Designer used to be dispatched here to hide their wall behind Q&A think-time — but the Designer is now ~10–15 s and the scaffold ~23 s, so the hiding isn't worth it, and those dispatches were what distracted the agent from actually showing the plan. **Both now dispatch in `BUILD.md`, post-approval.**) So the funnel is exactly three things:
+Plan resolves a small, explicit contract that Build consumes. It is carried **in the orchestrator's in-context session scratch** and threaded into each subagent's dispatch prompt — it is **not persisted to disk** (nothing in this contract lands on disk). The orchestrator already resolves these fields in Wave 0 and holds them for the whole run, so a disk round-trip buys nothing; on scratch loss, `frontend`/`frontendBuild` are recovered from `package.json` (`@wix/astro` ⇒ astro/wix, else custom + re-derive from `scripts.build`).
 
-1. **Mode detection + pre-flight, then the interview** — apply `DISCOVERY.md` (mode detection, CLI auth, Q0 vertical inference, Q1 brand, Q2 vibe, Q2.5 imagery). **Read only what the next question needs** — do not pre-read `BUILD.md`; read the vertical packs for plan composition (not before the vibe question).
-2. **Compose and PRESENT the plan — as a standalone assistant message.** The moment Q&A ends and the aesthetic-direction craft is done, **render the full plan** (Design Direction from the Q2 craft + the Pages/Features tables, per `DISCOVERY.md` § plan) as a normal message the user reads. **The user MUST SEE the rendered plan before being asked to approve.** Do **not** fold the plan into the approval question, do **not** replace it with a one-line "here's the plan" + dispatch, and do **not** do any other work (no scaffold, no Designer, no scaffold-output reads) between the craft and the plan — there is nothing to dispatch here, so present the plan immediately.
-3. **Approval gate** — *only after* the plan message has been sent, ask the approval question (`AskUserQuestion`).
+**Core (every operation resolves these identically; Build's install/build/release spine reads only these):**
 
-**On approval** — `init-site-json.mjs --frontend <value>` writes the slim `.wix/site.json`, then **open `BUILD.md`** and continue from its run-step 0 (which dispatches the scaffold + Designer, then runs Setup).
+| Field | Today's values | Meaning |
+|---|---|---|
+| `operation` | `create` \| `connect` | what the user is doing (*extend* added later by its own plan) |
+| `frontend` | `astro` \| `custom` | what renders the site (held in scratch; recovered from `package.json` on scratch loss) |
+| `frontendBuild` | `wix` \| `none` \| `own` | the build-class Build routes on: `wix` (astro, `wix build`), `none` (brought static HTML, no build), `own` (framework SPA — the project's own `npm run build`; brought-in *or* scaffolded from a named framework) |
+| `verticals[]` | e.g. `["stores","ecom","cms"]` | loaded packs (top-level + transitive) |
+| `designSource` | `generate-fresh` \| `derive-from-brought` | create generates; connect derives from the brought design's own tokens |
+| `brand` | `{ name, description }` | brand metadata |
 
-## Custom (non-astro) frontends — not available yet
+`frontendBuild` is **derived inside the operation, not implied by it** (the axes are orthogonal): connect resolves it from the brought-in project on disk (`none` static HTML vs `own` framework SPA — `DISCOVERY-connect.md` § 1.5); create resolves it from an explicit framework keyword (`wix` astro default vs `own` named framework — `DISCOVERY.md` § "Wave 0"). Resolve it in Wave 0 alongside `frontend` and hold it in scratch (on scratch loss, recover from `package.json`). Build branches its install/build/release **purely off `frontendBuild`** — never off `operation`.
 
-When `frontend` is anything other than `astro`, the run routes to the **custom stub** and stops the frontend track. Open `<SKILL_ROOT>/references/custom/INSTRUCTIONS.md`, surface its not-available message, and do **not** attempt authoring — no scaffold, no Designer/Composer, no Setup/Seed, no `BUILD.md`, no half-built site. The user is told astro is the supported frontend.
+**Operation section (feeds ONLY the bootstrap + wiring cells, never the build/release spine):**
+- `connect` carries the **connection plan** (binding-map / augmentation spec) inferred in Discovery.
+- `create` carries nothing extra.
+- *(extend will carry existing-state + delta — added by the extend plan.)*
 
-> **Retired: the Integrate (Path B) flow.** The skill used to run a live "Integrate" sequence for `user-provided` frontends — `DISCOVERY.md` § "Integrate-mode short flow" → `SETUP.md` § "Existing project flow" E1–E6 (E1 init → E2 analyze → E3 install apps → E4 SDK wiring → E5 release). That flow is **no longer dispatched**: non-astro frontends now hit the stub instead. The E1–E6 mechanics (especially the E4 SDK-wiring recipe) are kept in `SETUP.md` as a **historical reference** for the eventual custom authoring track (`references/custom/INSTRUCTIONS.md` § "Intended future shape"), not as a Beta deliverable.
+That is the precise sense in which the contract stays uniform across operations: the build/release spine is contract-uniform (it reads only the core), and **only** the bootstrap/wiring cells read the operation-specific payload. A *fresh session over an existing project* (extend) reconstructs the equivalent core from durable disk artifacts (`@wix/astro` dep, `package.json`, on-disk pages) rather than from scratch — same contract, sourced differently by lifecycle.
 
 ## User-facing output (keep the machinery invisible)
 
-This rule governs the **whole run**, both files. The user should see **milestones in plain language, never the orchestration machinery.** Between the Discovery approval and the final summary the run is largely silent — the orchestrator is dispatching, waiting, and gating, none of which is the user's concern.
+This rule governs the **whole run**, both modes. The user should see **milestones in plain language, never the orchestration machinery.** Between the Discovery approval and the final summary the run is largely silent — the orchestrator is dispatching, waiting, and gating, none of which is the user's concern.
 
 **Never put internal orchestration vocabulary in a user-facing message.** That includes: background-handle names (`*_handle`), dispatch markers ("→ dispatch:", "dispatching X", "launching Wave 3"), subagent START/END, "seed gate" / "all handles complete", wave/step numbers ("Wave 3", "Step 4.5"), in-flight **subagent/handle status tables** (especially any "Handle" column), and internal paths (`wix-manage-root`, the scaffold subdir). These describe *how the conductor works*, not *what the user is getting*.
 
-**The only user-facing messages in a Path A run are:**
-1. **Discovery** — the questions, the plan, and the approval gate (`DISCOVERY.md`'s domain).
+**The only user-facing messages in a run are:**
+1. **Discovery** — the questions, the plan, and the approval gate (the mode discovery file's domain).
 2. **One brief seed-progress sentence** (`SEED.md` Step 5) — plain prose naming what was seeded, no tables.
 3. **The final summary** (`BUILD.md` § "Final Message").
 
@@ -70,13 +80,13 @@ Everything else is silent. If a long phase (Components, Pages) would otherwise l
 
 ## Batching discipline
 
-This rule governs **every** concurrent batch in the run — the Wave-0 pack reads (here), and the BUILD-entry scaffold + Designer dispatch, the Setup app-installs, and the Wave-3 seed batch (all in `BUILD.md`). The step files describe *what* is in each batch; the rule that they go out as one batch lives here.
+This rule governs **every** concurrent batch in the run, in both modes — the Wave-0 pack reads (mode funnel), and the post-approval dispatch batches owned by the conductor (`BUILD.md` and its mode files): the astro BUILD-entry scaffold + Designer dispatch, the Setup app-installs, the Wave-3 seed batch, the integration connection-plan + init batch. The step files describe *what* is in each batch; the rule that they go out as one batch lives here.
 
-Historical runs lost 1–2 minutes per phase to serialized dispatch — N operations emitted one-per-turn instead of in a single concurrent batch. Even when each ran fast, the inter-dispatch gaps (12–39s in measured runs) accumulated to >25% overhead per phase.
+Historical runs lost 1–2 minutes per phase to serialized dispatch — N operations emitted one-per-turn instead of in a single concurrent batch. Even when each ran fast, the inter-dispatch gaps accumulated to significant overhead per phase.
 
 Two mitigations; use both:
 
-1. **Fire the whole batch as one assistant message** — N `Agent`/`Bash` tool_uses as siblings. **No narration between dispatches** ("Now installing apps:", "Dispatching seeders:"). Any text adjacent to a dispatch closes the batch and forces the rest into separate turns, adding seconds per dispatch. This holds even for a 2-item batch (a measured 2-seeder run lost 12 s to one interstitial sentence).
-2. **Use background-on-dispatch for anything that doesn't block downstream work.** Even if the runtime serializes the launch turns, background dispatch lets the work overlap in execution. Measured compression on a sequential-launch / background-execute model: ~2× wall-time vs. serial.
+1. **Fire the whole batch as one assistant message** — N `Agent`/`Bash` tool_uses as siblings. **No narration between dispatches** ("Now installing apps:", "Dispatching seeders:"). Any text adjacent to a dispatch closes the batch and forces the rest into separate turns, adding seconds per dispatch. This holds even for a 2-item batch.
+2. **Use background-on-dispatch for anything that doesn't block downstream work.** Even if the runtime serializes the launch turns, background dispatch lets the work overlap in execution, compressing wall-time substantially versus serial.
 
-If your runtime forces serialization across turns, make every subagent that can run in the background a background subagent — the Designer, Composer, seeders, and image phases all dispatch background so the foreground never blocks on them.
+If your runtime forces serialization across turns, make every subagent that can run in the background a background subagent — the Designer, seeders, and image phases all dispatch background so the foreground never blocks on them. (The Composer is no longer a subagent — it is the deterministic `compose.mjs` Bash step, sub-second and synchronous.)

package/skills/wix-headless/references/SEED.md

@@ -8,20 +8,21 @@ This article seeds backend data. Every loaded pack with a seed recipe gets its o
 
 The recipe map and per-pack input notes are inlined below — **do NOT separately `Read references/seed-recipes.md`**. The Step 1 table here is canonical for the run; `seed-recipes.md` exists only as a human-readable index of the same data, and reading it adds a turn and a thinking gap before the dispatch batch.
 
-From the `verticals` list in orchestrator scratch (captured in Discovery, also persisted to `.wix/site.json`), build the dispatch list. For each loaded pack:
-- If the pack has a recipe in the table below (`stores`, `cms`, `blog`, `forms`) → add to the dispatch list.
+From the `verticals` list in orchestrator scratch (captured in Discovery), build the dispatch list. For each loaded pack:
+- If the pack has a recipe in the table below (`stores`, `cms`, `blog`, `forms`, `bookings`) → add to the dispatch list.
 - If the pack has no recipe (`gift-cards`, `ecom`) → record a phase entry as `{phase: "seed-<pack>", status: "skipped", notes: "no seed surface for this pack"}` directly. No subagent.
 
 Resolve absolute recipe paths by joining `<wix-manage-root>` (already in scratch from Phase 2 Step 4 — do **not** re-invoke `Skill(name="wix-manage")` here) + the relative paths in this table.
 
 ### Recipe map
 
-| Pack       | Recipes (relative to `<wix-manage-root>`)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    | Returns                                                                             |
+| Pack       | Recipes                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      | Returns                                                                             |
 | ---------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
-| stores     | `references/stores/setup-online-store-catalog-v3.md` (idempotent catalog setup) + `references/stores/bulk-create-products-with-options.md` (single bulk call for N products)                                                                                                 | `productIds[]`, `categoryIds[]` (when `intent.stores.categoriesNamed` is non-empty) |
-| cms        | `references/cms/cms-schema-management.md` (collection create) + `references/cms/cms-data-items-crud.md` (item create per collection) + `references/cms/cms-references-and-relationships.md` (only when a collection's `intent.cms.collections[N]` declares cross-references) | `collectionIds{}`, `itemIds{<collection>: []}`                                      |
-| blog       | `references/blog/how-to-create-blog-posts.md`                                                                                                                                                                                                                                | `postIds[]`, `categoryIds[]`                                                        |
-| forms      | `references/forms/create-form.md`                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            | `formIds[]`                                                                         |
+| stores     | (relative to `<wix-manage-root>`) `references/stores/setup-online-store-catalog-v3.md` (idempotent catalog setup) + `references/stores/bulk-create-products-with-options.md` (single bulk call for N products)                                                              | `productIds[]`, `categoryIds[]` (when `intent.stores.categoriesNamed` is non-empty) |
+| cms        | (relative to `<wix-manage-root>`) `references/cms/cms-schema-management.md` (collection create) + `references/cms/cms-data-items-crud.md` (item create per collection) + `references/cms/cms-references-and-relationships.md` (only when a collection's `intent.cms.collections[N]` declares cross-references) | `collectionIds{}`, `itemIds{<collection>: []}`                                      |
+| blog       | (relative to `<wix-manage-root>`) `references/blog/how-to-create-blog-posts.md`                                                                                                                                                                                              | `postIds[]`, `categoryIds[]`                                                        |
+| forms      | (relative to `<wix-manage-root>`) `references/forms/create-form.md`                                                                                                                                                                                                          | `formIds[]`                                                                         |
+| bookings   | (within skill) `<SKILL_ROOT>/references/bookings/SERVICES_DATA.md` — service creation + optional staff. Recipe path uses `<SKILL_ROOT>`, NOT `<wix-manage-root>`.                                                                                                           | `services[{id, slug, name, type, durationMinutes, price, currency}]`, `staff[{id, resourceId, name}]` |
 | gift-cards | — (no seed surface; activation lives in Phase 2 app-install)                                                                                                                                                                                                                 | `{status: "skipped"}`                                                               |
 | ecom       | — (cart/checkout vertical; no seed surface)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  | `{status: "skipped"}`                                                               |
 
@@ -53,11 +54,19 @@ These notes reduce dispatch-time guesswork. The recipe itself is the source of t
 - `purpose` ("contact", "lead", "signup") drives the form's `name` — e.g. `"contact"` → `"Contact Form"`.
 - Wix Forms app is pre-installed via Phase 2; don't reinstall.
 
+**bookings:**
+- Recipe path is `<SKILL_ROOT>/references/bookings/SERVICES_DATA.md` — NOT under `<wix-manage-root>`. Resolve the path with `<SKILL_ROOT>` (same root as all other skill references).
+- `intent.bookings.serviceCount` services (default 3). Names + descriptions from `brand`.
+- `intent.bookings.serviceType` (`"APPOINTMENT"` or `"CLASS"`) determines the service `type` field. Default `"APPOINTMENT"`.
+- `intent.bookings.hasStaff === true` → create 2 staff members (names from brand). Skip if false or absent.
+- Wix Bookings app is pre-installed via Phase 2 (app ID `13d21c63-b5ec-5912-8397-c3a5ddb27a97`); don't reinstall.
+- Return `seeded.bookings.services[{id, slug, name, ...}]` + `seeded.bookings.staff[{id, resourceId, name}]`.
+
 ---
 
 ## Step 2 — Seed domain (recipes, inputs, prompt templates)
 
-The seeders and Image Phase 1 below are launched as one concurrent background batch — that dispatch flow (timing, single-batch discipline, the two-dispatch trap) is owned by `BUILD.md` § "Wave 3" / `PLAN.md` § "Batching discipline". This step defines only the seed domain: the pre-batch utilities script, the dispatch rows, the recipe map, the per-pack input notes, and the prompt templates.
+The seeders and Image Phase 1 below are launched as one concurrent background batch — that dispatch flow (timing, single-batch discipline, the two-dispatch trap) is owned by the conductor (`BUILD.md`, which routes to the active mode's seed step) / `PLAN.md` § "Batching discipline". This step defines only the seed domain: the pre-batch utilities script, the dispatch rows, the recipe map, the per-pack input notes, and the prompt templates.
 
 **Pre-batch — `seed-utilities.sh` (project prep):** run the project-prep script once (idempotent). Astro is the only frontend built, so the template is always `astro`:
 
@@ -65,7 +74,7 @@ The seeders and Image Phase 1 below are launched as one concurrent background ba
 bash "<SKILL_ROOT>/scripts/seed-utilities.sh" --template astro
 ```
 
-Execute from the **project directory** (scaffold subdir after `cd`). Record `{ phase: "seed-utilities", seconds }` when composing `run.json`. (This is frontend-track project prep, not seeding — custom frontends route to the stub and never reach this article.)
+Execute from the **project directory** (== CWD — the scaffold was flattened in, no subdir). (This is frontend-track project prep, not seeding — custom frontends route to the stub and never reach this article.)
 
 ### Wave 3 dispatch table
 
@@ -76,14 +85,14 @@ Execute from the **project directory** (scaffold subdir after `cd`). Record `{ p
 
 ### Image Phase 1 gate (imagery flag)
 
-Whether the Image Phase 1 Decorative subagent is dispatched at all (the `ai-generated` vs `themed-blocks` branch) is owned by `BUILD.md` § "Imagery gates". The decorative prompt template below is the seed-side domain for that subagent when it does run.
+Whether the Image Phase 1 Decorative subagent is dispatched at all (the `ai-generated` vs `themed-blocks` branch) is owned by the conductor (`BUILD.md`). The decorative prompt template below is the seed-side domain for that subagent when it does run.
 
 For each pack on the dispatch list, dispatch a seeder subagent (`Agent` tool with `subagent_type: "general-purpose"`) with the prompt template below. Use `run_in_background: true`.
 
 ### Subagent prompt template
 
 ```
-You are seeding <pack> content into a Wix site as part of the wix-headless skill's Phase 3-Seed.
+You are seeding <pack> content into a Wix site as part of the wix-headless skill's Phase 1 Seed.
 
 Inputs (do not re-derive these — every value is inlined here):
 - brand: <brand JSON — inline from orchestrator scratch>
@@ -92,7 +101,7 @@ Inputs (do not re-derive these — every value is inlined here):
 - recipe path(s): <absolute path(s) joined from <wix-manage-root>>
 - siteId: <siteId — inline from orchestrator scratch>
 
-Do NOT read .wix/site.json — every input you need is inlined above. The orchestrator is the sole reader/writer of site.json.
+Every input you need is inlined above — do not read any shared state file. Read **only** your own `seeded.json` slice (the one read-only exception, per `IMPLEMENTER.md`).
 
 Steps:
 
@@ -126,7 +135,7 @@ Do NOT write coordination files (`.wix/seed-returns/`, sidecars, etc.). The JSON
 
 The subagent decides per-call payloads from `intent.<pack>` + `brand`. The orchestrator does **not** pre-decompose the intent into per-call payloads; that defeats the point of having a subagent read the recipe.
 
-`gift-cards` and `ecom` get their phase entries recorded directly by the orchestrator (no subagent dispatch). The orchestrator records `{phase: "seed-gift-cards", status: "skipped", notes: "no seed surface for this pack"}` etc. into session context, then includes them in the final `run.json`. No files involved.
+`gift-cards` and `ecom` have no seed surface, so the orchestrator dispatches no subagent for them and simply moves on. No files involved.
 
 ### Image Phase 1 Decorative subagent prompt (background)
 
@@ -166,22 +175,22 @@ Every seeder ends its message with a fenced JSON block per `references/shared/RE
 
 **On error:** the subagent's return additionally carries `error: <failing recipe-call response verbatim>`. The orchestrator keeps that field on the entry it holds.
 
-There are no seed-coordination files — agents return JSON inline. Do not write or read `.wix/seed-returns/<pack>.json`; the agent return *is* the contract.
+There are no seed-coordination files **between agents** — seeders return JSON inline, and no seeder writes or reads `.wix/seed-returns/<pack>.json`; the agent return *is* the contract. (This is distinct from `.wix/seeded.json`, which the **orchestrator** writes once at the seed gate from the aggregated returns — not a seeder-authored sidecar. Seeders never touch it; it's a read-only consumer handoff. See Step 4.)
 
 ---
 
 ## Step 4 — Aggregate the seeded map
 
-The seed gate — waiting on seeders + Composer + `npm_handle`, the post-Composer Layout-import verify, and the decorative-slot patch — is owned by `BUILD.md`. (For npm install failures, see `SETUP.md § npm install recovery`.) This step defines only the aggregation shape.
+The seed gate — waiting on seeders + `npm_handle`, and the decorative-slot patch — is owned by the conductor (`BUILD.md`). (`compose.mjs` writes the six design-system files synchronously in the Setup-window bridge; there is no Composer subagent to wait on.) (For npm install failures, see `SETUP.md § npm install recovery`.) This step defines only the aggregation shape.
 
-**Aggregate seeder returns in orchestrator context.** Each seeder's return JSON is in your session context (the harness surfaces it when the subagent completes). Build a `seeded` map keyed by pack from those returns and hold it in scratch — Phase 3 Components, Phase 4 Pages, and Image Phase 2 prompts will inline the pack-specific slices.
+**Aggregate seeder returns in orchestrator context.** Each seeder's return JSON is in your session context (the harness surfaces it when the subagent completes). Build a `seeded` map keyed by pack from those returns and hold it in scratch.
 
 For each return:
 - `status: "ok"` — keep the `seeded` payload under `seeded[<pack>]`.
 - `status: "skipped"` — record `seeded[<pack>] = {status: "skipped"}`.
 - `status: "error"` — surface the `error` field verbatim. Do **not** autonomously retry; partial state for other packs is intact, so a targeted re-run is bounded.
 
-No script, no file. The orchestrator is the aggregator.
+**Then write the aggregated map to `.wix/seeded.json` — once, at the gate (the conductor owns the timing; see `BUILD-astro.md` § "4. Seed gate" + § "The `.wix/seeded.json` handoff").** This is the producer→consumer handoff the per-vertical readers (astro Phase 4 Pages, own-build wiring) pull their slice from — the orchestrator no longer inlines `seeded.<vertical>` slices into those prompts. (Image Phase 2 is a single dispatch and keeps its inlined slice.) Exactly one writer, written before any reader is dispatched; it carries seeded entity IDs only. The orchestrator is the aggregator **and** the sole writer of this file.
 
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@@ -201,5 +210,5 @@ Adapt the sentence to whichever packs were loaded — drop the irrelevant clause
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 | One subagent returns `error`                       | Surface the `error` payload verbatim; do not retry. Other packs' `seeded` data is intact in orchestrator scratch, so a re-run of the failing pack alone is bounded.                     |
 | Subagent return has no fenced JSON block           | Per `RETURN_CONTRACT.md` § "Observed failure mode" — the harness falls back to narrative parsing, which is fragile. Surface the issue; retry the failing seeder once with the same prompt. |
-| Recipe path drifted (Read fails inside a subagent) | The subagent should return `status: "error"` with the Read error in `error`. Surface it; the fix is to update seed-recipes.md, not retry.                                               |
+| Recipe path drifted (Read fails inside a subagent) | The subagent should return `status: "error"` with the Read error in `error`. Surface it; the fix is to correct the recipe path in the Step 1 table (and the wix-manage recipe), not retry.                                               |
 | Bulk product create rate limit                     | The stores recipe documents the limit; the subagent fans out into batches of 5 internally. If it still hits a limit, returns `error`.                                                   |