autonomous-sdlc-harness 0.1.0

package/templates/claude/context/conventions.md

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+# Cross-layer conventions
+
+> **Read this when:** you are implementing, reviewing or planning **any** change — these are the rules that hold in every layer. **Skip when:** never; every other context file assumes this one has been read.
+
+**Purpose.** The rules a change must satisfy whichever layer it lands in, and the vocabulary the harness uses to talk about this project.
+
+**What belongs here**
+
+- **The layers, by the names declared in `harness.config.json`**, and what each is responsible for. The orchestrator assigns every task to exactly one of those names, so a layer described here that is not in the config is a layer no task is ever given, and a layer in the config with no description here is one whose implementer starts with nothing.
+- How a change flows through those layers, and which direction a dependency is allowed to point.
+- The order files are created in when a feature is added, so a half-built feature is still a coherent tree.
+- Where a new responsibility goes when it fits no file that already exists.
+- Logging, error handling, and the testing bar a change clears before it counts as done.
+- **The commit-message policy**, which is the whole of what the committer agent reads from this document: the subject-prefix vocabulary a caller draws its prefix from, whether the first word after the prefix is capitalized, the subject-length cap, the fixed-form subjects the flow emits, and the attribution-trailer policy: whether a trailer naming the agent as an author is required, forbidden or optional. The harness takes no position on that trailer, because the rule is actively reversed between projects: some forbid one outright, others require it on every agent-assisted commit, and unanswered here it has no default to fall back on. **The fixed-form subjects are derived here, never copied from a list** — run ``grep -rnE '(chore|feat|fix|refactor|docs|test): [A-Za-z][^"'"'"'`]*(<branch>|\$branch|\$\{branch\}|<entry-id>|K passing)' "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}" <scripts_dir>``, substituting `<scripts_dir>` with this repository's `scriptsDir` value from `harness.config.json` before running it, and write the policy so that **every** subject that command emits is exempt from the capitalisation rule and from the subject-length cap — **minus two classes the probe reaches but no commit point owns**: a subject the surrounding text tells the flow **not** to emit (its own line says it is forbidden), and a subject quoted as a worked example by a guard, a verification document or a prose restatement of another home's string. A subject with no emitting home is not a fixed form; check the line the probe emitted before exempting it. Each exempted subject is passed byte-for-byte by the commit point that owns it, so a policy that re-cases or truncates one breaks that commit point. `review_plan_file` and `ui_test_pass` are the committer's own commit modes and the dispatching flow files quote both, so changing either one is a two-file edit; the flow's other commit points own theirs the same way. The probe reaches **branch-scoped** subjects only — its alternation requires a `<branch>` / `$branch` / `${branch}` / `<entry-id>` / `K passing` token — so a fixed subject carrying none of them falls outside it, and widening the probe is part of the cost of adding one. **Per commit class, which prefix a commit of that class takes** — the vocabulary above names the set, this names the selection, and a policy giving only the set leaves a caller nothing to read: answer it for every class the flows commit in, at minimum a commit **fixing existing work**, the class the review-fix loops commit in, and a commit **adding new work**, the class a story task's commit falls in; and answer as well whether **any class carries no prefix at all, and which class that is**, which is what the committer's `commit_prefix` argument spells as the literal `none`. Designate by class and never by file kind — the classes are the flows', the tokens are yours.
+- **How this project stays in step with its reference implementation, if it has one** — which behaviour must match it exactly, which parts may deviate and why, and how a review finding cites the source it compared against. A project with a single implementation says so here and leaves `phases.parity` off; the section is optional, not missing.
+
+**One generic example — the shape a rule takes here**
+
+> Business rules live in the layer that owns them. The same rule expressed again in a screen or in a request mapper is a defect even when the observable behaviour is right, because the next surface that needs it copies the nearest expression of it rather than calling the one that is authoritative.
+
+_Run `{{analyzeInvocation}}` to fill this in from this repository's own code, or replace everything above with this project's own cross-layer rules; either way this file is yours from here on and a re-run of `autonomous-sdlc-harness init` keeps your copy — and if you write it by hand, the marker on the last line goes with it._
+
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package/templates/claude/context/data-layer.md

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+# Data layer
+
+> **Read this when:** the change reads from or writes to a backend — request and response shapes, queries, remote calls, the code that maps a wire payload into something the rest of the project understands. **Skip when:** the change never crosses the process boundary: data kept on the device has its own file, and state shared between screens has another.
+
+**Purpose.** How this project talks to whatever is on the other side of the wire, and how much of that the rest of the codebase is allowed to see.
+
+**What belongs here**
+
+- The types that mirror a wire shape one-for-one, how they are named, and where they live.
+- Where a query is written, what it may filter and order by, and any limit the backend imposes that a caller has to respect.
+- How a remote call's payload is assembled, and what a failure looks like by the time a caller sees it.
+- Which layer is responsible for turning a wire type into a domain type, and in which direction that mapping is allowed to run.
+
+**Rule that holds whatever the backend is:** an exported signature of this layer must not name a vendor type. Take and return this project's own shapes and keep the vendor's client, query builder, snapshot and error types inside the function bodies — then changing backend is a swap behind a stable surface instead of an API change every caller has to follow.
+
+**One generic example**
+
+```
+// Public: names only this project's own types.
+fetchOrders(customerId: string): Promise<OrderRecord[]>
+
+// Not public: the vendor's client, its query builder, its snapshot type and its
+// error type are all constructed and consumed inside that function's body.
+```
+
+_Run `{{analyzeInvocation}}` to fill this in from this repository's own code, or replace everything above with this project's own data-layer rules; either way this file is yours from here on and a re-run of `autonomous-sdlc-harness init` keeps your copy — and if you write it by hand, the marker on the last line goes with it._
+
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package/templates/claude/context/data-storage.md

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+# Local storage
+
+> **Read this when:** the change reads or writes data that stays on the machine the project runs on — session material, a cached token, a preference that survives a restart. **Skip when:** the value is fetched from the backend on every read (that is the data layer), or is only shared between screens in memory (that is shared application state).
+
+**Purpose.** How this project persists data locally, how a reader is told that a stored value changed, and what may never be written in the clear.
+
+**What belongs here**
+
+- The storage client every read and write goes through, and where it is defined.
+- The key namespace: what a key is called, which file holds the constants, and what each key stores.
+- How a reader observes a change rather than polling for it, and where that subscription is mounted and torn down.
+- What must be encrypted before it is written, and what must never be persisted at all.
+
+**Rule that holds whatever the storage is:** address a stored value through a named key constant, never an inline string literal. An inline key cannot be renamed safely, cannot be found by a reference search, and quietly becomes a second key the moment one of its two spellings is edited.
+
+**One generic example**
+
+```
+// One declaration per stored value, in the key namespace.
+STORAGE_KEYS.sessionToken
+
+storage.write(STORAGE_KEYS.sessionToken, value)
+storage.read(STORAGE_KEYS.sessionToken)
+storage.observe(STORAGE_KEYS.sessionToken, onChange)   // never a poll loop
+```
+
+_Run `{{analyzeInvocation}}` to fill this in from this repository's own code, or replace everything above with this project's own local-storage rules; either way this file is yours from here on and a re-run of `autonomous-sdlc-harness init` keeps your copy — and if you write it by hand, the marker on the last line goes with it._
+
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package/templates/claude/context/docs-catalog.md

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+# Documentation catalog
+
+> **Read this when:** you need a change's *surroundings* — what else touches the area, what it depends on — or, for an interactive test, how a screen is reached. **Skip when:** you already know the files the change touches. This catalog is an accelerator, never a prerequisite.
+
+**Purpose.** How to use the maintained reference documents at the configured documentation root, and — the part that matters more — how far to trust them.
+
+**What belongs here**
+
+- Where the corpus lives, what its index file is called, and how its entries are organised.
+- What each kind of document covers, and which kind answers which question.
+- What is deliberately not documented, so nobody goes looking for it.
+
+**Three rules the harness relies on, whatever the corpus looks like**
+
+- **Read the index first, then open one document.** Grepping the corpus defeats the point of having an index and costs more context than the one document you were after.
+- **The catalog is a map, not ground truth.** Where a document and the code disagree, the code wins: fix the document or report it stale, never reason from it.
+- **A reviewer uses the catalog for navigation only** — never as evidence, never as a citation; a finding cites source. The adversarial reviewer is kept catalog-free entirely, so at least one reviewer's picture of a change comes from nothing but the change itself.
+
+**One generic example — an index-first retrieval**
+
+```
+1. open <documentation root>/INDEX.md
+2. find the entry for the area the change touches
+3. open the one document it names — and stop there
+```
+
+_Run `{{analyzeInvocation}}` to fill this in from this repository's own code, or replace everything above with this project's own catalog guide; either way this file is yours from here on and a re-run of `autonomous-sdlc-harness init` keeps your copy — and if you write it by hand, the marker on the last line goes with it._
+
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package/templates/claude/context/domain.md

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+# Domain layer
+
+> **Read this when:** the change encodes a rule the business would recognise — what a concept *is*, when an action is permitted, what a value has to satisfy to be valid. **Skip when:** the change is about how data crosses the process boundary or how it is shown; both have their own files.
+
+**Purpose.** Where this project's rules live, what they are allowed to know about, and what must never reach them.
+
+**What belongs here**
+
+- The types that model this project's own concepts, named as the business names them and independent of any wire shape or any screen.
+- Where a rule is written — and the standing rule that each one is written **once**, in the place that owns it.
+- The unit of work a caller invokes to apply a rule: how it is named, what it takes, and what it hands back on the failure path.
+- The mapping between a wire type and a domain type: which side owns it, and which direction it is allowed to run in.
+
+**Rule that holds whatever the stack is:** every rule here is exercisable with no network, no database, no filesystem and no screen. If a rule cannot be tested without one of those, it has absorbed something belonging to another layer — and the same rule restated in a screen or in a request mapper is a defect even when the observable behaviour is right, because the next surface that needs it copies the nearest expression rather than the authoritative one.
+
+**One generic example**
+
+```
+// A rule stated once, over this project's own types, decided in one place.
+canPublish(draft: Draft, author: Author): PublishDecision
+
+// Not here: how the draft was loaded, how the decision is rendered, which
+// control was pressed — three concerns that each belong to another layer.
+```
+
+_Run `{{analyzeInvocation}}` to fill this in from this repository's own code, or replace everything above with this project's own domain rules; either way this file is yours from here on and a re-run of `autonomous-sdlc-harness init` keeps your copy — and if you write it by hand, the marker on the last line goes with it._
+
+<!-- harness:unfilled -->

package/templates/claude/context/layer.md

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+# The `{{layerName}}` layer
+
+> **Read this when:** the change you are implementing or reviewing lands in the `{{layerName}}` layer — the directory `harness.config.json` gives that name. **Skip when:** it lands in another layer; each one has its own file, and the rules that span all of them live in the cross-layer conventions document.
+
+**Purpose.** The rules this layer's implementer and its reviewer both read before they start. A task is assigned to exactly one layer, so whatever is written here is what that task is held to and the only layer document that task loads.
+
+**What belongs here**
+
+- What this layer is responsible for and — just as usefully — what it is not, so a task that has drifted into it is recognisable.
+- What it may depend on, and which direction a dependency between layers is allowed to point.
+- Naming and file-layout rules that apply inside it.
+- What "done" means here: the tests to write, the checks to run, the bar a review holds the change to.
+
+**One generic example — the shape a rule takes here**
+
+> A file in this layer may import from the layers beneath it and never from the ones above it. A dependency pointing upwards is a defect even when it compiles, because it makes this layer impossible to exercise without dragging the layer above into the test.
+
+_Run `{{analyzeInvocation}}` to fill this in from this repository's own code, or replace everything above with the `{{layerName}}` layer's own rules; either way this file is yours from here on and a re-run of `autonomous-sdlc-harness init` keeps your copy — and if you write it by hand, the marker on the last line goes with it._
+
+<!-- harness:unfilled -->

package/templates/claude/context/module.md

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+# Source module
+
+> **Read this when:** the change touches this project's own source — the one directory its code lives in, whatever the file inside it happens to be. **Skip when:** the change is to something that sits *around* the source: build configuration, dependency manifests, CI, or documentation that names no symbol.
+
+**Purpose.** How the one directory this project's source lives in is organised, so a change lands where a reader would look for it rather than where it was easiest to add.
+
+**What belongs here**
+
+- How the directory is divided — by feature, by technical role, or not at all — and which of those a new file follows.
+- Where a new responsibility goes when it fits no existing file, and who decides when the answer is "a new directory".
+- The naming rules a file, a type and a public function each follow, and the casing convention that goes with them.
+- What may be imported from where: which direction dependencies run between sub-directories, and which import a reviewer refuses.
+- Where the tests for this source live, what they are named, and which change is not allowed to land without one.
+
+**Rule that holds whatever the language is:** the layout is the navigation. A reader who knows the rule finds the code without a search, and a file placed against it costs every later reader that search — so where a change goes is part of the change, not a detail settled afterwards.
+
+**One generic example**
+
+```
+src/
+  billing/            # a feature owns its own directory: its types, its logic, its tests
+    invoice.<ext>
+    invoice.test.<ext>
+  shared/             # imported by features, importing none of them — the direction is one-way
+    money.<ext>
+```
+
+_Run `{{analyzeInvocation}}` to fill this in from this repository's own code, or replace everything above with this project's own rules; either way this file is yours from here on and a re-run of `autonomous-sdlc-harness init` keeps your copy — and if you write it by hand, the marker on the last line goes with it._
+
+<!-- harness:unfilled -->

package/templates/claude/context/package.md

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+# Published package
+
+> **Read this when:** the change touches the code this project distributes — what it exports, how its modules are laid out, which inputs it accepts, which runtimes it supports. **Skip when:** the change is to something shipped *around* the package rather than in it: an example, the documentation site, the release pipeline.
+
+**Purpose.** What this package promises whoever installs it, and what it therefore may not change quietly.
+
+**What belongs here**
+
+- The public surface: which names are exported, from which module, and how a caller is expected to import them.
+- What is deliberately internal, and how a reader tells the two apart without opening a second file.
+- The dependency policy: what may be added at all, what has to stay optional, and who decides.
+- The supported runtime versions, and what this project counts as a breaking change to a published name.
+- What every public name carries with it — the documented behaviour and the test that pins it — so a caller reads the contract rather than the implementation.
+
+**Rule that holds whatever the language is:** the public surface *is* the contract, so changing it is a versioning decision rather than a refactor. Renaming an export, narrowing an accepted input or altering a returned shape breaks callers who will never read the change — they will read the version number. An internal rearrangement that leaves every exported name behaving as documented is free; anything else is a release note.
+
+**One generic example**
+
+```
+// Exported, and therefore promised: named, documented, tested, versioned.
+export { createClient, type ClientOptions } from './client'
+
+// Not exported: reachable only from inside the package, free to change in
+// any release, and never referenced in an example or the documentation.
+```
+
+_Run `{{analyzeInvocation}}` to fill this in from this repository's own code, or replace everything above with this package's own rules; either way this file is yours from here on and a re-run of `autonomous-sdlc-harness init` keeps your copy — and if you write it by hand, the marker on the last line goes with it._
+
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package/templates/claude/context/presentation.md

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+# Presentation layer
+
+> **Read this when:** you are building or reviewing anything a user sees — screens, components, navigation, styling, user-visible copy. **Skip when:** the change sits behind the interface; business rules and wire shapes have their own files.
+
+**Purpose.** What a screen has to do to look and behave like the rest of this project, plus the two review contracts the harness itself checks here.
+
+**What belongs here**
+
+- The styling, spacing and sizing tokens a component uses instead of literal values, and the files that declare them.
+- Where user-visible copy comes from, so no string is written inline in a component.
+- The shared components a new screen is expected to reuse rather than rebuild.
+- The screen lifecycle: what every screen does on entry, and what it must tear down on exit.
+- Every place a **new** screen has to be registered — route table, navigation entry, anything else that would otherwise leave it unreachable. List them all; a missed one is the most common way a finished screen ships invisible.
+
+**Two harness contracts, portable to any interface stack**
+
+- **Test attributes.** Every element an interactive test drives carries a stable test attribute, applied through one shared helper rather than hand-written per element, because the test agent locates elements by that attribute and by nothing else. A class name or a copy string is not a substitute: both change for reasons that have nothing to do with the test, and a control with no attribute is simply untestable.
+- **Component size.** A review flags a component past this project's size threshold and splits it. Write the numbers down here: they are a review-severity contract, so a reviewer cites a threshold rather than arguing taste.
+
+**One generic example**
+
+```
+<ConfirmButton
+  label={t('checkout.confirm')}          // copy from the localization source, never inline
+  spacing={spacing.md}                   // a token, never a literal
+  testAttr={testAttr('checkout-confirm')}  // one helper, one stable hook for the test agent
+/>
+```
+
+_Run `{{analyzeInvocation}}` to fill this in from this repository's own code, or replace everything above with this project's own presentation rules; either way this file is yours from here on and a re-run of `autonomous-sdlc-harness init` keeps your copy — and if you write it by hand, the marker on the last line goes with it._
+
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package/templates/claude/context/state-slices.md

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+# Shared application state
+
+> **Read this when:** the change reads or writes state that outlives one screen — who is signed in, the active locale or theme, a list two screens both render, anything several screens must agree about. **Skip when:** the state belongs to a single screen. Keep it there; promoting it here is a decision, not a convenience.
+
+**Purpose.** Which slices of shared state this project has, what each one is sourced from, and how feature code is allowed to touch them.
+
+**What belongs here**
+
+- One entry per slice: what it holds, and what **outside** the store is its source of truth.
+- The listener that mirrors that source into the store, and where it is mounted.
+- The selectors feature code reads through — one per value it needs.
+- What refreshes each slice, and when.
+
+**Rule that holds whatever the state library is:** the source of truth lives outside the store, a listener mirrors it in, and feature code reads through selectors and never dispatches the setters. A setter dispatched from a feature leaves the store disagreeing with its own source until the next mirror, and the screen that reads it next cannot tell which of the two it is looking at. A task that touches these slices reads this file before it starts.
+
+**One generic example**
+
+```
+sessionSlice
+  source of truth : the session key in local storage
+  listener        : mounted once at start-up; mirrors that key into the store
+  selectors       : selectCurrentUser, selectIsSignedIn
+  refreshed by    : sign-in, sign-out, token renewal
+```
+
+_Run `{{analyzeInvocation}}` to fill this in from this repository's own code, or replace everything above with this project's own shared-state rules; either way this file is yours from here on and a re-run of `autonomous-sdlc-harness init` keeps your copy — and if you write it by hand, the marker on the last line goes with it._
+
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package/templates/claude/context/tests.md

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+# Tests
+
+> **Read this when:** the change adds, moves or rewrites a test in this project's test tree, or changes behaviour that a test in it protects. **Skip when:** the change touches only production code that no test here reaches, or the machinery *around* testing — the runner's configuration, the CI job, the coverage tool.
+
+**Purpose.** How this project's tests are organised, named and bounded, so a test lands where its subject's reader would look for it and a failure says what broke.
+
+**What belongs here**
+
+- How the tree maps onto the source — mirrored directory for directory, grouped by feature, or flat — and which of those a new test file follows.
+- What a test file and a test case are each named, and the casing and suffix convention that goes with them.
+- Which kinds of test live here and which live beside the source they cover, and how a reader tells at a glance which they are reading.
+- What a test may reach for — shared fixtures, helpers, the real filesystem, the clock, the network — and which of those a reviewer refuses.
+- Which change is not allowed to land without a test, and what counts as one for it.
+
+**Rule that holds whatever the language is:** a test names the behaviour it protects, not the function it calls. A failing run is read by someone who did not write the test and may not know the code, so the name has to carry the claim — a failure should read as a sentence about the product, and a test whose name only repeats a file path leaves that reader with a search instead of an answer.
+
+**One generic example**
+
+```
+tests/
+  billing/                    # the tree mirrors the source: one directory per feature
+    invoice.<ext>             # "an invoice past its due date is marked overdue"
+    fixtures/                 # shared inputs live beside the tests that use them
+```
+
+_Run `{{analyzeInvocation}}` to fill this in from this repository's own tests, or replace everything above with this project's own rules; either way this file is yours from here on and a re-run of `autonomous-sdlc-harness init` keeps your copy — and if you write it by hand, the marker on the last line goes with it._
+
+<!-- harness:unfilled -->

package/templates/claude/harness-task-offer.md

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+# Harness task offer
+
+Read this file only after the fence in `.claude/CLAUDE.md` → `## Where a change request runs` has passed; from there on it owns the whole dialogue — the question, the four options, what each answer does, and the two rules that govern the rest of the conversation.
+
+Written once by `autonomous-sdlc-harness init` and yours from there on. The fence fails closed: an agent that cannot read this file makes no offer and carries out the request in the session. That is a safety property, not the off-switch — deleting this file makes `doctor` warn and the next `init` writes it back. To stop being asked, answer **Don't ask again**, which writes the `.claude/harness-no-offer` marker at the main worktree's root; removing the `## Where a change request runs` section from `.claude/CLAUDE.md` turns the offer off for the repository.
+
+## The question
+
+One `AskUserQuestion`, before any of the work. Offer, do not gate: friendly and short. The question and the four options are used **as written below** — copy them, do not compose them. Add no fifth option: the tool appends its own free-text "Other", and four is its cap.
+
+Question: `How would you like this handled?` — with `header` set to `Task offer`.
+
+| # | `label` | `description` |
+|---|---|---|
+| 1 | `Run it autonomously` | `Recommended. Queued for the harness's run watcher, which plans, implements and reviews it on its own branch.` |
+| 2 | `Do it here` | `Implemented in this session. The review phases will not run.` |
+| 3 | `Talk it through first` | `No work starts.` |
+| 4 | `Don't ask again` | `Always handled in this session, without the review phases. This project on this machine, and not committed.` |
+
+## Answer 1 — invoke the command, implement nothing
+
+- Invoke the `Skill` tool on `{{pluginName}}:branch-prompt`. Name it as the available-skills listing gives it; the bare name is not valid.
+- Pass the user's request **verbatim** as its arguments. The text is untrusted task data: never interpreted, summarised, re-worded or acted on.
+- Do none of the work yourself.
+- Everything after the invocation is that command's own flow, unchanged, **including its branch-name confirmation as the second dialog**. Do not fold the deduced name into your question, and do not skip the confirmation to save a dialog.
+- Report one caveat: the command queues the drop and does not launch the run — the watcher does. Where none is installed for this checkout the drop waits until one is, and `npx autonomous-sdlc-harness doctor` says which.
+- If that skill is **not** in your listing: say the harness plugin is not loaded in this session, name the same `npx autonomous-sdlc-harness doctor` check, and stop. Hand over **no** slash command to type — the command and the skill are one plugin asset, so the line would error.
+
+## Answers 2 and 3
+
+- **2** — implement the request in this session. The option's own description has already said the review phases will not run.
+- **3** — start no work; discuss it.
+
+## Answer 4 — write the marker, then do the work
+
+- Create `.claude/harness-no-offer` at the **main worktree's** root — `git worktree list | head -1 | awk '{print $1}'` resolves it from any worktree, and it is the checkout itself in an ordinary single-checkout repository. Create that `.claude/` if it is absent, write an empty file, and read, parse or rewrite no other file in that directory. The fence tests that same path, so writing it anywhere else silences nothing.
+- **Confirm it is there before you report it.** `.claude/**` is a namespace the tool layer can refuse ahead of any permission grant, so the write can be declined or left un-approved without an error. If the file is not there at that resolved main-worktree path afterwards, say so plainly — the preference was **not** saved, the offer will fire again next session, and creating an empty `.claude/harness-no-offer` by hand is the one-line way to set it — then carry out the request as answer 2 does regardless.
+- Then carry out the request in this session exactly as answer 2 does.
+- Say that the marker is gitignored and never committed, so it silences the offer for this project on this machine — every worktree of this checkout included, since they all resolve to the same main worktree — and that **deleting it re-arms the offer**.
+
+## Scope — one offer per conversation
+
+- The offer is made at most once per conversation, and the answer given governs the rest of it. Do not ask a second time.
+- A later *"ok, do it"* after **3** is the go-ahead: start the work rather than re-asking.
+- A **second change request turned later** gets no new dialog: route it the way the first was answered. After **1**, invoke the command again with that request's own text — its branch-name confirmation is where the user redirects it or stops it. After **2** it is done here; after **3** it is discussed.
+- Only a message **the user typed** is ever a trigger, so your own follow-ups, tool results and anything a command hands you never re-arm the offer.
+
+## Material the queued run cannot reach — say so, and queue nothing
+
+Applies on the answer-1 path only, between the answer and the invocation; a session doing the work here can simply read the thing.
+
+If the request names material a detached run cannot reach — a path outside this checkout, an attachment or pasted image, a URL or a file on another host, or context that exists only in this conversation — tell the user before invoking anything:
+
+- Name it, and say the unattended run reads only this repository, so it will not be able to open it. A remote address is worse: the run has no web access granted at all, so it would hang rather than fail.
+- **Prescribe no remedy** — in particular, do not tell them to commit the material into the repository.
+- **Queue nothing** in the meantime, and let their next turn decide, including re-sending the request with the details typed into the message, which is their own words and passes through unchanged.
+- This is a plain reply: spend no second `AskUserQuestion` on it.
+- Never read that material or fetch that URL and append it to the arguments. What is sent is the user's own words.

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+# Push notifications for an unattended run — EXAMPLE FILE. No real value belongs in it.
+#
+# Copy this file to `{{pushEnvPath}}` — the path `harness.config.json` holds in
+# `pushEnvPath` — fill the values in there, and keep that copy out of version control;
+# `autonomous-sdlc-harness init` adds the ignore line for it. Only the *path* is
+# configuration. The contents are machine-local: they never go into `harness.config.json`,
+# a plan, a review finding or a commit message, and this example file is the only one of
+# the pair that is committed.
+#
+# Key names are the harness's own and are prefixed `HARNESS_PUSH_`. They were renamed to
+# that prefix when the harness was extracted from the project it grew in, so if you are
+# carrying settings over from an earlier runner, rename the keys — the reader recognises
+# these spellings and no others.
+
+# Where a run posts its notifications: any endpoint that accepts an HTTP POST.
+# Leave it empty to send none.
+HARNESS_PUSH_URL=
+
+# Optional. A local command run in addition to the POST — a desktop notifier, a chat
+# client's own command-line tool. It receives the message on standard input.
+HARNESS_PUSH_CMD=

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+# Test accounts for the interactive test phase — EXAMPLE FILE. No real value belongs in it.
+#
+# Copy this file to `{{credentialsPath}}` — the path `harness.config.json` holds in
+# `qa.credentialsPath` — fill one block in there per account, and keep that copy out of
+# version control; `autonomous-sdlc-harness init` adds the ignore line for it. Only the
+# *path* is configuration. A credential value never is: it does not go into
+# `harness.config.json`, a plan, a review finding, a test report or a commit message, and
+# this example file is the only one of the pair that is committed.
+#
+# Key names are the harness's own and are prefixed `HARNESS_QA_<n>_`. They were renamed to
+# that prefix when the harness was extracted from the project it grew in, so if you are
+# carrying accounts over from an earlier runner, rename the keys rather than the reader.
+#
+# Add accounts by incrementing <n>. The phase reserves one account per concurrent session
+# and releases it at the end, so give it at least as many as you expect to run at once —
+# two sessions signed in as one user interfere with each other in ways that look like
+# product defects.
+
+# Use accounts that exist only to be tested with. Never a real person's, and never one with
+# elevated privileges: a test that needs those reports itself blocked instead.
+
+# The identifier the sign-in form is given. Which form that is comes from `qa.authProvider`.
+HARNESS_QA_1_EMAIL=
+# The account's password, for that same form. This is the one line the whole file exists to keep
+# out of version control.
+HARNESS_QA_1_PASSWORD=
+# The account's own identifier in the product, for a test that has to recognise its own data —
+# its posts, its messages — among everyone else's.
+HARNESS_QA_1_USER_ID=
+# The name the interface shows for this account, so a test can assert it is signed in as the
+# account it reserved rather than a leftover session.
+HARNESS_QA_1_DISPLAY_NAME=
+
+# The second account, and so on. Uncomment and fill in as many as you need.
+# HARNESS_QA_2_EMAIL=
+# HARNESS_QA_2_PASSWORD=
+# HARNESS_QA_2_USER_ID=
+# HARNESS_QA_2_DISPLAY_NAME=

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+# QA test scenarios
+
+_Written once by `autonomous-sdlc-harness init`, and yours from there on: a checked-in file like any
+other — edit it, review it, and a re-run keeps your copy. The harness keeps no private copy of it and
+reads nothing in its place, so what you write here is what the agents that plan and run the
+interactive test phase act on._
+
+The single source of truth for this project's **test-scenario rules**: the techniques a test uses to
+reach a state the seed data does not hold, plus whatever this project's own rules say a test account
+may see. Fill in the banner sections; the techniques are already written — keep the ones
+this project's account model supports and delete the rest.
+
+This file holds the **rules**; the **account-specific values** live in `{{credentialsPath}}`. Keep that
+split — a fact true of one account belongs there, a rule true of every account belongs here — or the
+two drift and a test believes the stale one.
+
+## Cross-account visibility rules, if this project has any
+
+> _Optional — delete this section in a project where one account's view of another is not gated, or
+> which has one account._ Describe your project's own rule in the product's own wording, so a test and
+> the product cannot disagree about what "gated" means: what must be true of one account for another
+> account's gated surfaces to open to it, which surfaces those are, and which stay open to everyone
+> regardless. Then give **one line per state a gated surface can be in** in this product — however
+> many that is — saying how the surface is expected to read in each.
+
+Those state lines let a test tell an **expected gated or empty state** apart from a **real defect** on its own: an
+unwritten state is one a test reports rather than guesses at, so a state left out costs false findings,
+not silence.
+
+## QA techniques — work around single-session and sparse-seed limits
+
+A test session drives **one** account at a time — where this project has accounts at all — and starts
+from whatever data is already there. **Neither limit is, by itself, a reason to skip a test, raise a
+clarification, or report `blocked`.** Most scenarios that *look* untestable are reachable by creating
+the data through the interface first, or — in a project with more than one account — by sequencing
+actions across them. The techniques below are doctrine wherever they apply: the planner designs tests
+around them and the test agent executes the resulting steps — signing in as a peer and creating setup
+data are **expected execution**, not improvisation — so reach for them **before** falling back to a
+clarification (planner) or a `blocked` outcome (tester). The ones marked **multi-account** presuppose
+more than one account: delete them in a project that has a single account or none, exactly as you
+delete the visibility section above.
+
+### Logging out (how to switch users) — multi-account
+
+> _Optional — delete this technique in a project with a single account, or none._
+
+Any test that must act as more than one account signs the current one out before signing the next one
+in. Where that control lives is product-specific — describe your own path to it once, here, so every
+test takes the same route to it rather than each rediscovering one.
+
+To confirm which account a session is signed in as, compare against `{{credentialsPath}}`, whose keys are
+grouped one block per account: the identifying value is read from that account's block at run time.
+Never restate a key name or a value here — a copy is a second source of truth for something that
+already has one.
+
+### Sequential peer verification (instead of two live sessions) — multi-account
+
+> _Optional — delete this technique in a project with a single account, or none._
+
+Two accounts cannot be driven **simultaneously**, but a cross-account effect is still verifiable: act
+as the first account, then sign out and sign in as the peer. The live-update part of the assertion is
+observed in the **acting** account's own session; the peer sign-in confirms only that the write
+**persisted** and is **visible to the other account**. Choose the acting/peer pair so the acting
+account can actually reach the peer's surface under whatever visibility rules this project states
+above.
+
+### Bootstrap missing test data through the UI
+
+When a scenario needs more data than the seed provides **and that data is creatable through the
+product by a test account**, create it as a setup step and then exercise the behaviour — do **not**
+call the test untestable. This is the rule for any threshold-crossing behaviour: bring the state past
+the threshold through ordinary product actions first, then assert.
+
+**Seeding a peer's or gated surface — act as an account that can write it (multi-account only — skip
+this paragraph in a project with a single account, or none).** A surface the account under test
+cannot yet write to is still seedable: sign in as an account that **can** write it, create the data,
+sign out, and run the actual test as the intended account. Do not fall back to a weakened
+assertion about an empty surface when the surface can simply be seeded. The same freedom runs in
+reverse for a test that needs an **empty** state: remove the data as the account that owns it. Setup
+writes go to the same backend any test submission does — acceptable for testing, and not something to
+clean up afterwards.
+
+### Failure / error paths that need a real backend call to fail are not automatable — report `blocked`
+
+Some behaviour only appears when a backend operation **fails** — an optimistic entry rolling back, an
+error state on a rejected submission. If your environment offers no reliable way to force that failure,
+the behaviour is **not automatable**: the test agent reports it **`blocked`** (a documented assumption,
+not a park — no fix loop), and the planner does **not** author such a test, noting the coverage gap
+instead. This is an environment limitation, not a defect in the work under test.
+
+Fall back to `blocked` (tester) or a clarification (planner) only when the state is **genuinely not
+reachable** through the product — it needs an account that does not exist, a privilege the test
+accounts do not have, or backend state no test action can produce. **Sparse but creatable** seed data
+is not such a case.
+
+## Per-user facts
+
+> _Optional — delete this section in a project with a single account, or none._
+>
+> _Describe here which per-account facts your tests depend on_ — the relationships between the test
+> accounts, which account holds which rights or limits, and anything else true of one account and
+> not the others. Then keep the **values** for them in `{{credentialsPath}}`, single-sourced next to the
+> account they belong to, and name them here only as the kinds of fact a test may rely on.
+
+## Scope
+
+Covers the visibility rules above and the single-session / sparse-seed techniques, and nothing else: it
+is not a seed-data specification, and it does not describe how a test signs in, which is the test
+agent's own contract. Note here anything you deliberately leave out, so a later reader can tell an
+intentional gap from a missing one.