@yunhozz/arc 0.1.3 → 0.1.4

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  - [git.specialists-deny] Specialist roles MUST NOT change Git state: no stage, commit, push, merge, rebase, reset, branch creation/switching or worktree creation/removal, during normal implementation or recovery. Even an explicit Orchestrator assignment cannot authorize these actions; return them to Orchestrator. Read-only Git inspection remains allowed within the assigned scope.
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  - [git.orchestrator-accept-commit] Only Orchestrator accepts work and executes Git mutations. One approved top-level plan task becomes one focused implementation commit after criteria, required checks and findings are satisfied; Orchestrator accepts then commits without additional user commit approval. Reports, passing checks and Reviewer opinions do not replace acceptance. Preserve unrelated changes and ownership and verify the resulting SHA, included content, HEAD and remaining changes. Existing small-task direct and plan-omission paths are unchanged.
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  - [external.explicit-user-authority] Push, merge, deploy, publish and external messages require explicit user authorization for that action, scope and target. Local commit authority grants no external authority. Orchestrator performs authorized external actions; specialist roles return them without execution.
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- - [role.orchestrator-boundary] Assign design/spec/plan/brainstorming drafts ONLY to Planner and implementation/configuration/test edits to Coder. Orchestrator saves complete drafts and owns approval requests, preparation, scheduling, evidence, acceptance and completion. Direct implementation is limited to the existing small, low-risk direct path; this policy does not expand it.
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- - [role.scouter-read-only] Research assigned static sources and report findings, evidence and limits. Do not edit files, install, execute checks, prepare execution targets, inspect live operational state, change external state or decide design, verification, review or acceptance.
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- - [role.planner-draft-only] Return design/spec/plan drafts and dependencies, criteria, hold conditions and verification needs in the response. MUST NOT save documents, implement, run checks, prepare targets, request user approval or decide acceptance. Stop formal target-dependent drafting if actual prepared target evidence is missing; route decisions to Orchestrator.
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- - [role.coder-implementation] Edit only assigned, approved files and run focused checks under the existing TDD contract. Report changed files, RED/GREEN or authorized exception evidence, results, limits and follow-up. Do not plan, independently QA/review your own work, accept the task or declare overall completion. Git changes remain forbidden even when implementation succeeds.
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- - [role.qa-verification] Run approved checks and report commands, observations, reproduction, evidence and limits. Create only essential temporary data/logs/reports in the brief-authorized location and lifetime. Do not edit product source, tests, fixtures or configuration to pass checks, deploy or accept work. Persistent product-state checks require explicit scope and cleanup ownership. Return failures for Coder correction and required QA recheck.
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- - [role.reviewer-independent] Independently inspect the assigned final changes and evidence and report actionable findings and limits. Remain read-only. MUST NOT execute QA tests, edit files, perform Git mutations or decide acceptance.
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- - [review.significant-no-plan] For significant/high-risk work without a plan: Coder → QA and required QA rechecks → Reviewer of the final full change → Orchestrator acceptance. MUST NOT omit Reviewer merely because no plan exists. This creates no new plan obligation.
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- - [review.significant-plan] For significant/high-risk plan work: each task uses Coder → fresh QA as required → Orchestrator acceptance and focused commit. After all tasks are accepted and required QA is complete, Reviewer reviews the final full change once. Reviewer is NOT a per-task or per-commit required gate. Preserve required checks and necessary finding rechecks.
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- - [review.final-plan-recheck] For final overall Reviewer findings on plan work, including behavior findings, use Coder → Reviewer without QA reassignment; repeat until resolved. This exception applies only at the final plan stage. Preserve required QA and QA failure rechecks before initial final review and outside this exception.
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  - [platform.claude] Existing per-role tool allowlists reduce available tools; Bash and role contracts are not a filesystem sandbox. A role-scoped Git guard is a separate integration and is not supplied by these policy sections alone.
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  planning and the choice-lifetime rules above. Report the missing condition and resume evidence rather than asking
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+ Before any exception judgment, Orchestrator reads [Risk-scaled execution](verification.md#risk-scaled-execution) and [planning](planning.md) for the full risk and plan-depth conditions.
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+ ## Common handoff gate
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+ Before every Coder first start/restart, Orchestrator passes the full gate in
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+ [handoff](handoff.md): applicable approvals/artifacts or valid omissions, explicit execution-target choice
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+ or verified reuse, intended accessible repository/workspace, actual Git identity/state, preservation/ownership,
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+ verified document commits or valid absence, and no unresolved failure/partial completion.
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+ Missing evidence, mismatches, unclear ownership or unresolved preparation block handoff and require Orchestrator
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+ resolution and full revalidation. Handoff owns the evidence fields, canonical handoff record, restart brief, choice lifetime
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+ and reuse. Coder trusts the Orchestrator-verified brief and reports actual conflicts under its self-contained profile;
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+ never replace its local guards with a requirement to load Orchestrator procedures.
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+ Depth-2 roles use the supplied workspace and report path/state conflicts; they cannot create/switch workspaces or
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+ branches. The same conditions apply before a Orchestrator direct edit.
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+ Claude v1 supports the current checkout only; obtain the explicit current-branch or task-branch choice and complete
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+ approved document preparation under [handoff-prep](handoff-prep.md).
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+ ARC-managed worktree execution is unsupported; report an isolated worktree request before dependent work.
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+ ## Coder TDD and constraints
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+ Before feature, bug-fix, or behavior edits, Coder follows local `test-driven-development` unless the explicit
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+ ARC exception applies; the Coder profile holds Coder's full TDD rules. TDD is waived only when every small,
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+ low-risk criterion (Risk-scaled execution) and every plan-skip criterion (Orchestrator direct path) holds.
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+ Before Coder starts,
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+ Orchestrator records the scope, why every criterion is met, acceptance criteria, and focused verification in the brief.
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+ An explicit user or task-specific TDD request overrides
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+ this waiver. For qualifying tasks only, this exception takes precedence over the generic trigger in the local reference;
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+ do not change that skill. Ordinary multi-step or significant/high-risk work is not eligible. The waiver skips only
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+ RED-GREEN steps; focused checks and risk-appropriate QA/Reviewer remain, and do not claim TDD was followed.
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+ If a constraint blocks a required TDD step, Orchestrator records the
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+ decision in the brief/plan and obtains any required human approval; internal approval is not a substitute.
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+ Non-behavior documentation/configuration uses only a specifically authorized exception recorded in the brief; do not
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+ generalize it to behavior work.
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+ ## Orchestrator direct path for small tasks
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+ Orchestrator may edit directly only when every small, low-risk criterion (Risk-scaled execution) holds.
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+ Every plan-skip criterion must also hold: one local change, no dependent stages, no cross-component shared state,
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+ lifecycle, or integration-order concerns, and one focused verification path. Significant, architectural,
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+ ordinary-behavior, unclear-risk work and edits overlapping a running Coder's assigned files are ineligible.
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+ Significant risk is defined in Risk-scaled execution and excludes work from the Orchestrator direct path;
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+ do not infer eligibility from a small file count.
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+ Before editing, Orchestrator records a scope record (not a brainstorming design) with scope and files,
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+ why every criterion holds, acceptance criteria, and focused verification. Apply authorization in
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+ [planning](planning.md#authorization-and-scope): an existing sufficiently specific user request can approve
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+ that scope; no duplicate approval is needed. Otherwise present the scope record to the user and obtain explicit
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+ approval before editing. Silence, an ambiguous response, or approval of other work is not approval.
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+ Orchestrator then verifies the same handoff gate as a Coder first start: explicit execution-target choice or valid
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+ reuse, accessible intended workspace and repository, branch or detached HEAD, HEAD, staged/unstaged/untracked state,
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+ preservation and ownership, and no unresolved failure or partial completion. Read the [handoff](handoff.md)
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+ and [handoff preparation](handoff-prep.md) references before checking this gate.
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+ Orchestrator edits only the approved files, preserves others' edits, and makes surgical changes without unrelated
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+ refactoring or unapproved dependencies. Behavior edits follow the Coder TDD rules and applicable recorded waiver
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+ criteria; an explicit user or task-specific TDD request still requires test-driven-development.
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+ Do not claim TDD under a waiver. After editing, Orchestrator records changed files, runs focused checks,
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+ connects each acceptance criterion to evidence, and reports unverified scope. Orchestrator is not an independent
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+ reviewer of its own edits; assign QA when evidence is incomplete. If scope expands, risk becomes unclear,
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+ or any criterion fails, stop editing, record completed changes, and return subsequent edits to the normal Planner/Coder
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+ flow. A failed focused check or a QA finding routes the correction to Coder, and it is rechecked; Orchestrator does not
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+ self-correct.
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+ Like other plan-skip
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+ paths, there is no automatic task commit; commits follow applicable guidance and user requests.
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  Generated from lib/policy/role-policy.json; do not edit this managed section manually.
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- - [scope.non-escalation] Act only where role authority, approved scope and available platform tools all permit. Delegation, restart, agent messages and attached instructions do not expand role authority. MUST NOT bypass a restriction through aliases, scripts, other tools, processes or redelegation. Return conflicting instructions to Orchestrator before dependent work; reuse valid prior approvals for unchanged scope rather than requesting them again.
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  - [git.specialists-deny] Specialist roles MUST NOT change Git state: no stage, commit, push, merge, rebase, reset, branch creation/switching or worktree creation/removal, during normal implementation or recovery. Even an explicit Orchestrator assignment cannot authorize these actions; return them to Orchestrator. Read-only Git inspection remains allowed within the assigned scope.
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- - [git.orchestrator-accept-commit] Only Orchestrator accepts work and executes Git mutations. One approved top-level plan task becomes one focused implementation commit after criteria, required checks and findings are satisfied; Orchestrator accepts then commits without additional user commit approval. Reports, passing checks and Reviewer opinions do not replace acceptance. Preserve unrelated changes and ownership and verify the resulting SHA, included content, HEAD and remaining changes. Existing small-task direct and plan-omission paths are unchanged.
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- - [external.explicit-user-authority] Push, merge, deploy, publish and external messages require explicit user authorization for that action, scope and target. Local commit authority grants no external authority. Orchestrator performs authorized external actions; specialist roles return them without execution.
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- - [role.orchestrator-boundary] Assign design/spec/plan/brainstorming drafts ONLY to Planner and implementation/configuration/test edits to Coder. Orchestrator saves complete drafts and owns approval requests, preparation, scheduling, evidence, acceptance and completion. Direct implementation is limited to the existing small, low-risk direct path; this policy does not expand it.
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- - [role.scouter-read-only] Research assigned static sources and report findings, evidence and limits. Do not edit files, install, execute checks, prepare execution targets, inspect live operational state, change external state or decide design, verification, review or acceptance.
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- - [role.planner-draft-only] Return design/spec/plan drafts and dependencies, criteria, hold conditions and verification needs in the response. MUST NOT save documents, implement, run checks, prepare targets, request user approval or decide acceptance. Stop formal target-dependent drafting if actual prepared target evidence is missing; route decisions to Orchestrator.
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  - [role.coder-implementation] Edit only assigned, approved files and run focused checks under the existing TDD contract. Report changed files, RED/GREEN or authorized exception evidence, results, limits and follow-up. Do not plan, independently QA/review your own work, accept the task or declare overall completion. Git changes remain forbidden even when implementation succeeds.
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- - [role.qa-verification] Run approved checks and report commands, observations, reproduction, evidence and limits. Create only essential temporary data/logs/reports in the brief-authorized location and lifetime. Do not edit product source, tests, fixtures or configuration to pass checks, deploy or accept work. Persistent product-state checks require explicit scope and cleanup ownership. Return failures for Coder correction and required QA recheck.
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- - [role.reviewer-independent] Independently inspect the assigned final changes and evidence and report actionable findings and limits. Remain read-only. MUST NOT execute QA tests, edit files, perform Git mutations or decide acceptance.
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  - [review.significant-no-plan] For significant/high-risk work without a plan: Coder → QA and required QA rechecks → Reviewer of the final full change → Orchestrator acceptance. MUST NOT omit Reviewer merely because no plan exists. This creates no new plan obligation.
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  - [review.significant-plan] For significant/high-risk plan work: each task uses Coder → fresh QA as required → Orchestrator acceptance and focused commit. After all tasks are accepted and required QA is complete, Reviewer reviews the final full change once. Reviewer is NOT a per-task or per-commit required gate. Preserve required checks and necessary finding rechecks.
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  - [review.final-plan-recheck] For final overall Reviewer findings on plan work, including behavior findings, use Coder → Reviewer without QA reassignment; repeat until resolved. This exception applies only at the final plan stage. Preserve required QA and QA failure rechecks before initial final review and outside this exception.
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  `references/superpowers/writing-plans/SKILL.md`. Planner reads them directly; resolve relative references within each
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  skill. Missing files stop the stage; report paths without global fallback. Keep ARC approval and ownership gates.
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+ ## Dependency analysis and parallel dispatch
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+ Before the first Coder assignment for an approved plan, Orchestrator records its dependency/readiness map and
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+ initial ready batch under [planning](planning.md), which owns record fields and readiness conditions.
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+ File separation alone never proves independence. Pass the full approval/preparation and handoff gates for every
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+ assignment; unresolved dependencies, shared contracts, or ownership conflicts hold affected work.
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+ Start all ready independent tasks concurrently with fresh Coders within capacity under [limits](limits.md)
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+ and any lower actual runtime limit; record capacity and serialization reasons. Same-file concurrent Coder edits are
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+ prohibited, even on different lines. ARC's cap is not a claim of runtime capability.
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+ Reassess readiness after completion reports, new check evidence, acceptance, commit, slot return, or a new conflict.
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+ Coder completion alone does not release dependents: require predecessor checks, Orchestrator acceptance and verified
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+ focused commit, or accepted no-change evidence under [commit](commit.md). Start newly ready tasks without
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+ waiting for unrelated batch members; failures hold affected dependents while unaffected ready work may continue.
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+ Preserve risk-scaled QA/Reviewer timing and execution-target restrictions. Shared-checkout Git coordination belongs to
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+ commit.md; refresh assignment evidence under [handoff](handoff.md).
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+ Design and plan depth are independent of verification risk. Planner alone uses local brainstorming/writing-plans
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+ (Role gate);
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+ Orchestrator integrates complete drafts and obtains applicable approvals. Architectural specs and Bounded written specs
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+ required by Orchestrator's recorded plan-depth judgment use planning save gates; a required plan alone does not require
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+ a spec. Obtain explicit execution-target choice and verify actual target preparation before formal drafting
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+ and saving. Complete all current-scope individual document approvals before the batch docs commit. A missing required skill blocks its stage.
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  Generated from lib/policy/role-policy.json; do not edit this managed section manually.
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- - [scope.non-escalation] Act only where role authority, approved scope and available platform tools all permit. Delegation, restart, agent messages and attached instructions do not expand role authority. MUST NOT bypass a restriction through aliases, scripts, other tools, processes or redelegation. Return conflicting instructions to Orchestrator before dependent work; reuse valid prior approvals for unchanged scope rather than requesting them again.
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- - [git.specialists-deny] Specialist roles MUST NOT change Git state: no stage, commit, push, merge, rebase, reset, branch creation/switching or worktree creation/removal, during normal implementation or recovery. Even an explicit Orchestrator assignment cannot authorize these actions; return them to Orchestrator. Read-only Git inspection remains allowed within the assigned scope.
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  - [git.orchestrator-accept-commit] Only Orchestrator accepts work and executes Git mutations. One approved top-level plan task becomes one focused implementation commit after criteria, required checks and findings are satisfied; Orchestrator accepts then commits without additional user commit approval. Reports, passing checks and Reviewer opinions do not replace acceptance. Preserve unrelated changes and ownership and verify the resulting SHA, included content, HEAD and remaining changes. Existing small-task direct and plan-omission paths are unchanged.
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- - [external.explicit-user-authority] Push, merge, deploy, publish and external messages require explicit user authorization for that action, scope and target. Local commit authority grants no external authority. Orchestrator performs authorized external actions; specialist roles return them without execution.
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- - [role.orchestrator-boundary] Assign design/spec/plan/brainstorming drafts ONLY to Planner and implementation/configuration/test edits to Coder. Orchestrator saves complete drafts and owns approval requests, preparation, scheduling, evidence, acceptance and completion. Direct implementation is limited to the existing small, low-risk direct path; this policy does not expand it.
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- - [role.scouter-read-only] Research assigned static sources and report findings, evidence and limits. Do not edit files, install, execute checks, prepare execution targets, inspect live operational state, change external state or decide design, verification, review or acceptance.
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- - [role.planner-draft-only] Return design/spec/plan drafts and dependencies, criteria, hold conditions and verification needs in the response. MUST NOT save documents, implement, run checks, prepare targets, request user approval or decide acceptance. Stop formal target-dependent drafting if actual prepared target evidence is missing; route decisions to Orchestrator.
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- - [role.coder-implementation] Edit only assigned, approved files and run focused checks under the existing TDD contract. Report changed files, RED/GREEN or authorized exception evidence, results, limits and follow-up. Do not plan, independently QA/review your own work, accept the task or declare overall completion. Git changes remain forbidden even when implementation succeeds.
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- - [role.qa-verification] Run approved checks and report commands, observations, reproduction, evidence and limits. Create only essential temporary data/logs/reports in the brief-authorized location and lifetime. Do not edit product source, tests, fixtures or configuration to pass checks, deploy or accept work. Persistent product-state checks require explicit scope and cleanup ownership. Return failures for Coder correction and required QA recheck.
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- - [role.reviewer-independent] Independently inspect the assigned final changes and evidence and report actionable findings and limits. Remain read-only. MUST NOT execute QA tests, edit files, perform Git mutations or decide acceptance.
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  - [review.significant-plan] For significant/high-risk plan work: each task uses Coder → fresh QA as required → Orchestrator acceptance and focused commit. After all tasks are accepted and required QA is complete, Reviewer reviews the final full change once. Reviewer is NOT a per-task or per-commit required gate. Preserve required checks and necessary finding rechecks.
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+ For Orchestrator, **Evidence verdict**: each criterion is proven, unmet, or unverified; passing runs, reports, or disposition never turn unverified into proven; reports keep unverified scope visible.
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+ Orchestrator assigns edits exclusively to Coder except under the Orchestrator direct path in [handoff](handoff.md#orchestrator-direct-path-for-small-tasks), and determines affected
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+ | Significant/high risk | Coder → QA → independent Reviewer of the final full change → acceptance; with a plan, each plan task Coder → FRESH QA → acceptance/commit satisfies the QA step, then independent Reviewer once on the final full change after all plan tasks |
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+ Ordinary and significant plan tasks need a FRESH QA before acceptance; only small, low-risk tasks may be accepted on
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+ fails those conditions without a significant-risk trigger. Significant risk includes shared role/behavior contracts,
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+ shared state, lifecycle/integration order, security/permissions, data loss/migration, public interfaces, or costly
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+ installation/deployment/rollback. Substantial behavior or contract changes are significant regardless of file count.
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+ Unclear risk requires
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+ investigation or the higher flow. Environment failure does not waive checks or determine design depth.
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+ plan, it reviews the final full change once after all plan tasks are accepted with their risk-scaled checks,
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+ following the last plan task's required checks and any QA recheck at the final relevant state; significant work without
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+ keeps Reviewer after QA before acceptance. Preserve specific approved obligations and complete risky dependency checks
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+ before dependent implementation. Reuse evidence only when scope, relevant state, independence, freshness, and flow
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+ position satisfy each covered requirement; changes, failures, or missing/conflicting evidence invalidate affected reuse.
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+ QA checks independently without edits; Reviewer independently reads the final full change after QA for significant
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+ work, without QA, planning, edits, delegation, or completion decisions. Orchestrator routes fixes to Coder,
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+ risk-required checks and QA execution failures or unmet criteria still require Coder correction → QA recheck.
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+ This exception applies only to findings from the final overall Reviewer of work with a plan.
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+ Work without a plan retains its existing verification flow. Scope expansion, separate mandatory obligations,
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+ or unresolved evidence gaps hold affected work for Orchestrator to resolve and obtain required approvals.
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+ Orchestrator assigns corrections/rechecks and decides acceptance. Reviewer remains read-only, must not run QA
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- - [git.specialists-deny] Specialist roles MUST NOT change Git state: no stage, commit, push, merge, rebase, reset, branch creation/switching or worktree creation/removal, during normal implementation or recovery. Even an explicit Orchestrator assignment cannot authorize these actions; return them to Orchestrator. Read-only Git inspection remains allowed within the assigned scope.
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  - [git.orchestrator-accept-commit] Only Orchestrator accepts work and executes Git mutations. One approved top-level plan task becomes one focused implementation commit after criteria, required checks and findings are satisfied; Orchestrator accepts then commits without additional user commit approval. Reports, passing checks and Reviewer opinions do not replace acceptance. Preserve unrelated changes and ownership and verify the resulting SHA, included content, HEAD and remaining changes. Existing small-task direct and plan-omission paths are unchanged.
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- - [external.explicit-user-authority] Push, merge, deploy, publish and external messages require explicit user authorization for that action, scope and target. Local commit authority grants no external authority. Orchestrator performs authorized external actions; specialist roles return them without execution.
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- - [role.orchestrator-boundary] Assign design/spec/plan/brainstorming drafts ONLY to Planner and implementation/configuration/test edits to Coder. Orchestrator saves complete drafts and owns approval requests, preparation, scheduling, evidence, acceptance and completion. Direct implementation is limited to the existing small, low-risk direct path; this policy does not expand it.
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- - [role.scouter-read-only] Research assigned static sources and report findings, evidence and limits. Do not edit files, install, execute checks, prepare execution targets, inspect live operational state, change external state or decide design, verification, review or acceptance.
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- - [role.planner-draft-only] Return design/spec/plan drafts and dependencies, criteria, hold conditions and verification needs in the response. MUST NOT save documents, implement, run checks, prepare targets, request user approval or decide acceptance. Stop formal target-dependent drafting if actual prepared target evidence is missing; route decisions to Orchestrator.
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- - [role.coder-implementation] Edit only assigned, approved files and run focused checks under the existing TDD contract. Report changed files, RED/GREEN or authorized exception evidence, results, limits and follow-up. Do not plan, independently QA/review your own work, accept the task or declare overall completion. Git changes remain forbidden even when implementation succeeds.
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- - [role.qa-verification] Run approved checks and report commands, observations, reproduction, evidence and limits. Create only essential temporary data/logs/reports in the brief-authorized location and lifetime. Do not edit product source, tests, fixtures or configuration to pass checks, deploy or accept work. Persistent product-state checks require explicit scope and cleanup ownership. Return failures for Coder correction and required QA recheck.
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- - [role.reviewer-independent] Independently inspect the assigned final changes and evidence and report actionable findings and limits. Remain read-only. MUST NOT execute QA tests, edit files, perform Git mutations or decide acceptance.
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  - [review.significant-plan] For significant/high-risk plan work: each task uses Coder → fresh QA as required → Orchestrator acceptance and focused commit. After all tasks are accepted and required QA is complete, Reviewer reviews the final full change once. Reviewer is NOT a per-task or per-commit required gate. Preserve required checks and necessary finding rechecks.
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