create-pmos 0.31.0 → 0.32.0

package/package.json

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
   "name": "create-pmos",
-  "version": "0.31.0",
-  "description": "Scaffold the PMOS portable kit \u2014 run the PMOS product-management workflow (initiative \u2192 lane-fit spec \u2192 contract \u2192 build \u2192 three gates, with work-type lanes for features, research, maintenance, incidents, and content) entirely inside your own repo, with all state as git-versioned files. Includes `workflow-sweep`, which audits the state every board derives from and separates real defects from work you simply have not done. `create-pmos workspace` also installs + launches the local Terminal Workspace GUI. No database, no network, no telemetry.",
+  "version": "0.32.0",
+  "description": "Scaffold the PMOS portable kit — run the PMOS product-management workflow (initiative → lane-fit spec → contract → build → three gates, with work-type lanes for features, research, maintenance, incidents, and content) entirely inside your own repo, with all state as git-versioned files. Includes `workflow-sweep`, which audits the state every board derives from and separates real defects from work you simply have not done. `create-pmos workspace` also installs + launches the local Terminal Workspace GUI. No database, no network, no telemetry.",
   "license": "MIT",
   "bin": {
     "create-pmos": "bin/create-pmos.js"

package/payload/AGENTS.md

@@ -6,23 +6,28 @@ timestamp: 2026-07-22
 
 # AGENTS.md — PMOS Portable Kit (file mode)
 
-> This file must be read at optimal altitude — concrete heuristics that guide behavior, not brittle
-> if-else rules engines, and not vague mandates that assume shared context.
+> This file must be read at optimal altitude — concrete heuristics that guide behavior, not brittle if-else rules engines, and not vague mandates that assume shared context.
 
-You are working in a product repo that vendors the **PMOS portable kit** (D54). PMOS here is a
-**control plane** for how work is specced, evaluated, and accepted: you build the product, PMOS
-disciplines the loop.
+You are working in a product repo that vendors the **PMOS portable kit** (D54). PMOS here is a **control plane** for how work is specced, evaluated, and accepted: you build the product, PMOS disciplines the loop.
 
-(PMOS itself is a control plane **and a factory** since D65 — but the factory half is not in this
-kit. What you have vendored is the governing half. If a future kit ships execution, it will arrive
-propose-only: opening pull requests, never holding push or merge rights.)
+(PMOS itself is a control plane **and a factory** since D65 — but the factory half is not in this kit. What you have vendored is the governing half. If a future kit ships execution, it will arrive propose-only: opening pull requests, never holding push or merge rights.)
+
+## Writing markdown — one paragraph, one line
+
+**Do not hard-wrap prose.** A paragraph is one line, a list item is one line, however long. Leave a blank line above a list, a table, a fence and a heading.
+
+A newline inside a paragraph is invisible in markdown — every renderer joins the lines — and it is a **line break** in Jira wiki markup, in a Google Doc, and in the markdown→ADF converters an agent uses to publish. A wrapped spec arrives at your tracker as ragged half-lines, and nothing on the far side can undo it: an accidental wrap and a deliberate break are the same byte in the source.
+
+```bash
+node pmos/scripts/md-newlines.js <path>          # what is wrong, and where
+node pmos/scripts/md-newlines.js --fix <path>    # repair it — paragraphs only, never code or tables
+```
+
+It refuses frontmatter, fenced and indented code, table rows, headings, deliberate two-space hard breaks and setext underlines, and it is idempotent: running it twice changes nothing the second time.
 
 ## The containment rule (non-negotiable)
 
-**This deployment is file-mode. Make NO network call to any PMOS backend — no MCP connection, no
-`get_skill`, no telemetry, nothing.** Every piece of PMOS state lives in this repo, under `pmos/`.
-This boundary exists because this product's data must not leave its own remote. If you find
-yourself wanting an MCP tool, use the state adapter below instead.
+**This deployment is file-mode. Make NO network call to any PMOS backend — no MCP connection, no `get_skill`, no telemetry, nothing.** Every piece of PMOS state lives in this repo, under `pmos/`. This boundary exists because this product's data must not leave its own remote. If you find yourself wanting an MCP tool, use the state adapter below instead.
 
 ## The state adapter — every PMOS tool is a file convention
 
@@ -43,17 +48,11 @@ yourself wanting an MCP tool, use the state adapter below instead.
 | `log_friction` / `log_discovery` | append to `pmos/state/discoveries.md` (ISO date, `#friction` tag where applicable) |
 | `get_agent_runs` / `get_friction` | read those same files (your episodic memory — consult before contracting) |
 
-State files are **append-only**: never rewrite or delete an existing line or initiative record;
-correct by appending. When a vendored skill names a hosted tool, apply this table — the skill
-bodies are single-sourced from the PMOS kernel and are not forked for file mode.
+State files are **append-only**: never rewrite or delete an existing line or initiative record; correct by appending. When a vendored skill names a hosted tool, apply this table — the skill bodies are single-sourced from the PMOS kernel and are not forked for file mode.
 
 ## Work-type lanes (D56)
 
-Every initiative carries a `type` — the lane picks what the gate requires **before** work; the
-kernel (anchor — a KR **or** `health:<id>` from `planning/okrs/health-budgets.md` (D59) —
-eval-before-work in lane-appropriate form, human Acceptance, append-only state)
-holds in every lane. Unknown/missing type = `feature`, the strictest lane. The enum is closed —
-never invent a lane; a work shape with no lane escalates to the PM.
+Every initiative carries a `type` — the lane picks what the gate requires **before** work; the kernel (anchor — a KR **or** `health:<id>` from `planning/okrs/health-budgets.md` (D59) — eval-before-work in lane-appropriate form, human Acceptance, append-only state) holds in every lane. Unknown/missing type = `feature`, the strictest lane. The enum is closed — never invent a lane; a work shape with no lane escalates to the PM.
 
 | type | spec artifact the gate requires | eval form |
 |---|---|---|
@@ -64,165 +63,65 @@ never invent a lane; a work shape with no lane escalates to the PM.
 | `content` | content brief at `prd_path` (audience, message, claims + sources — `skills/copywriting.skill`, template in `okf/core/templates/`) | copy rubric recommended, not required (D58); PM judges at the gate otherwise |
 | `prototype` | quick prototype brief at `prd_path` (the judgement exercised + the specimen format — `skills/prototype.skill`, template in `okf/core/templates/`), **before** the PRD | **NO rubric, BY DESIGN** — grilled as dialogue, never scored (D60(d)); closes on a PM disposition: promote / iterate / kill |
 
-> **Known gap in this kit build:** `scripts/gate-initiative.sh` does not yet parameterise the
-> `prototype` lane — a prototype initiative falls through to the `feature` branch and is asked for a
-> `rubric_path` it must not have. Until that is fixed, set the lane's `type: prototype` in the
-> initiative file as normal and expect to carry the gate failure knowingly, or run the prototype
-> before opening the record. Tracked upstream; not a licence to invent a rubric for leg A.
-
-**Routing rule (D60, as amended 2026-07-24) — an idea the PM cannot judge from a DESCRIPTION goes to
-the `prototype` lane BEFORE anyone writes a PRD.** The entry rule is the **specimen test**: *can the
-PM judge this from a description, or do they need an instance of it in front of them?* It is **not
-gated on the work having a user interface** — *does this skill's output actually teach?* and *does
-this API feel right to call?* qualify exactly as an unseen screen does. The PM briefs; an agent
-produces **2–3 divergent specimens in whatever format fits** (lookable UI, a worked sample output,
-call/response transcripts, a schema sketch); a craft-grade grilling sharpens them as **dialogue,
-never a score**; a promote-disposition derives the feature-lane PRD + rubric from what was validated.
-The test must discriminate **both ways** — most work (a tool, a migration, a CI gate) *is*
-description-judgeable and routes straight to its PRD untaxed. Contrast `discovery`, which holds a
-**question** and delivers a **learning**; this lane holds a **candidate** and delivers a **validated
-direction**. Prototypes live in `prototype/` and never ship.
-
-`no-initiative` label = anchor-free trivia ONLY (a typo, a broken link). A chore, spike,
-incident, or piece of content is real work and takes its lane — that is what keeps the record
-honest.
+> **Known gap in this kit build:** `scripts/gate-initiative.sh` does not yet parameterise the `prototype` lane — a prototype initiative falls through to the `feature` branch and is asked for a `rubric_path` it must not have. Until that is fixed, set the lane's `type: prototype` in the initiative file as normal and expect to carry the gate failure knowingly, or run the prototype before opening the record. Tracked upstream; not a licence to invent a rubric for leg A.
+
+**Routing rule (D60, as amended 2026-07-24) — an idea the PM cannot judge from a DESCRIPTION goes to the `prototype` lane BEFORE anyone writes a PRD.** The entry rule is the **specimen test**: *can the PM judge this from a description, or do they need an instance of it in front of them?* It is **not gated on the work having a user interface** — *does this skill's output actually teach?* and *does this API feel right to call?* qualify exactly as an unseen screen does. The PM briefs; an agent produces **2–3 divergent specimens in whatever format fits** (lookable UI, a worked sample output, call/response transcripts, a schema sketch); a craft-grade grilling sharpens them as **dialogue, never a score**; a promote-disposition derives the feature-lane PRD + rubric from what was validated. The test must discriminate **both ways** — most work (a tool, a migration, a CI gate) *is* description-judgeable and routes straight to its PRD untaxed. Contrast `discovery`, which holds a **question** and delivers a **learning**; this lane holds a **candidate** and delivers a **validated direction**. Prototypes live in `prototype/` and never ship.
+
+`no-initiative` label = anchor-free trivia ONLY (a typo, a broken link). A chore, spike, incident, or piece of content is real work and takes its lane — that is what keeps the record honest.
 
 ## Agent run protocol (every run, in order)
 
 1. Read this file.
-2. Read the relevant `pmos/skills/*.skill` for the task type (L1 index first; body when relevant).
-   No skill fits → escalate to the PM; do not improvise a procedure.
-3. Retrieve context: `pmos/okf/` for concepts, `pmos/okf/product/` for this product's knowledge,
-   `pmos/state/runs.jsonl` + `discoveries.md` for what prior runs tried (episodic memory).
-   - **Existing surface → the PM needs the understanding too.** That retrieval warms *you*. When the
-     work touches something that already exists — the test is *would specifying this honestly require
-     reading code that already exists?* — run `skills/explain-surface.skill` on that region **before**
-     the brief/PRD is authored, in a fresh context and **not** by the agent that will write it.
-     Standard for existing surfaces, skipped for greenfield. Without it, the agent acquires the
-     understanding and the **PM approves a spec built on facts they never saw**.
-4. Anchor: the initiative file must exist at stage `intake`/`spec` with its **lane's** spec/eval
-   artifacts authored **before** build (eval-first, D13, generalized per lane — see the lane table
-   above; `feature` = PRD + rubric; the incident lane alone records post-hoc). Contract per lane:
-   `feature` = the rubric's sprint-contract section with the PM's explicit `PM_approved: true`;
-   `discovery` = the PM-approved spike brief (question + timebox); `chore` = the stated intent;
-   `content` = the PM-approved content brief; `prototype` = the PM-approved quick brief (the
-   judgement exercised + the specimen format) — and **no rubric**, which is the decision, not an
-   omission. No work before the lane's approval. Feature-lane
-   `test_method`s SHOULD be executable checks written before build (D58) — wire
-   `templates/product-ci-starter.yml` so tier 1 is never silently empty.
+2. Read the relevant `pmos/skills/*.skill` for the task type (L1 index first; body when relevant). No skill fits → escalate to the PM; do not improvise a procedure.
+3. Retrieve context: `pmos/okf/` for concepts, `pmos/okf/product/` for this product's knowledge, `pmos/state/runs.jsonl` + `discoveries.md` for what prior runs tried (episodic memory).
+   - **Existing surface → the PM needs the understanding too.** That retrieval warms *you*. When the work touches something that already exists — the test is *would specifying this honestly require reading code that already exists?* — run `skills/explain-surface.skill` on that region **before** the brief/PRD is authored, in a fresh context and **not** by the agent that will write it. Standard for existing surfaces, skipped for greenfield. Without it, the agent acquires the understanding and the **PM approves a spec built on facts they never saw**.
+4. Anchor: the initiative file must exist at stage `intake`/`spec` with its **lane's** spec/eval artifacts authored **before** build (eval-first, D13, generalized per lane — see the lane table above; `feature` = PRD + rubric; the incident lane alone records post-hoc). Contract per lane: `feature` = the rubric's sprint-contract section with the PM's explicit `PM_approved: true`; `discovery` = the PM-approved spike brief (question + timebox); `chore` = the stated intent; `content` = the PM-approved content brief; `prototype` = the PM-approved quick brief (the judgement exercised + the specimen format) — and **no rubric**, which is the decision, not an omission. No work before the lane's approval. Feature-lane `test_method`s SHOULD be executable checks written before build (D58) — wire `templates/product-ci-starter.yml` so tier 1 is never silently empty.
 5. Branch `initiative/<id>`; execute at control altitude; one commit per artifact.
-6. Self-evaluate against the contract — self-eval is unreliable; it is an input to the gates, never
-   a verdict.
+6. Self-evaluate against the contract — self-eval is unreliable; it is an input to the gates, never a verdict.
 7. Close the gates: **Quality** = this repo's CI plus the kit gate (`pmos/scripts/gate-initiative.sh`
-   + `pmos/planning/evals/check_rubrics.py`); **Review** = score against the rubric with the evaluator
-   skill (adversarial, outcome-only, default-to-refute) and append to `evals.jsonl`; **Acceptance**
-   = the human PM merges and disposes — final and non-delegable. Never merge your own PR.
+   + `pmos/planning/evals/check_rubrics.py`); **Review** = score against the rubric with the evaluator skill (adversarial, outcome-only, default-to-refute) and append to `evals.jsonl`; **Acceptance** = the human PM merges and disposes — final and non-delegable. Never merge your own PR.
 8. Log the run (`runs.jsonl`) and any friction (`discoveries.md`, `#friction`).
 
 ## Human builders & multi-repo initiatives (D58)
 
-- **A human building instead of an agent?** Same loop, plain terms: [AGENTS-HUMAN.md](AGENTS-HUMAN.md).
-  State is written with `scripts/pmos-log.sh` (validated, append-only) — never hand-edited. Mixed
-  human+agent teams write the same state through the same conventions.
-- **An initiative spanning multiple repos?** ONE repo is its **home** — the initiative record,
-  brief/PRD, rubric, and state live there. Every sibling repo's PR anchors by declaring
-  `Initiative: <id>` in the PR body (the gate's body-key path); records land in the home state
-  layer. There is no cross-repo registry — the body key IS the join. **Sibling repos either do
-  not install the pmos gate, or mirror the initiative file locally** — a vendored sibling gate
-  fails closed on a missing local record by design (S5 Review Gate finding).
+- **A human building instead of an agent?** Same loop, plain terms: [AGENTS-HUMAN.md](AGENTS-HUMAN.md). State is written with `scripts/pmos-log.sh` (validated, append-only) — never hand-edited. Mixed human+agent teams write the same state through the same conventions.
+- **An initiative spanning multiple repos?** ONE repo is its **home** — the initiative record, brief/PRD, rubric, and state live there. Every sibling repo's PR anchors by declaring `Initiative: <id>` in the PR body (the gate's body-key path); records land in the home state layer. There is no cross-repo registry — the body key IS the join. **Sibling repos either do not install the pmos gate, or mirror the initiative file locally** — a vendored sibling gate fails closed on a missing local record by design (S5 Review Gate finding).
 
 ## Decomposing an initiative into tickets (file mode has no board)
 
-When an initiative is bigger than one run, break it into **tickets** — the plain-file equivalent of
-the hosted product's SDLC board. One file per ticket in `pmos/state/tickets/NNN-slug.md`, numbered
-in **dependency order**, from [templates/ticket-template.md](templates/ticket-template.md):
-
-- Frontmatter: `id` (the NNN), `title`, `status` (`todo | doing | done`), and `blocked_by` — an
-  explicit list of the ticket ids that must be `done` first. Blocking edges are **text**, not a
-  hidden graph.
-- **Sweep the state you derive from.** `node pmos/scripts/workflow-sweep.js` audits the records and
-  the three ledgers everything else reads. Run it before a review and after any bulk edit. It reports
-  **defects** (state that contradicts reality — a torn ledger line, a row naming no initiative, a
-  duplicate `run_id`, a record pointing at a file nobody wrote) separately from **owed** work (a
-  merged initiative with no run logged, an open Acceptance Gate). `--fix` repairs only the mechanical
-  defects and writes no `.jsonl` and no judgement — closing your own loops is your job and the
-  Acceptance Gate is yours alone (D12).
-- **Work the frontier.** `pmos/scripts/frontier.sh` lists exactly the tickets that are not done and
-  whose every blocker is done — the workable set. Start only from there. If it reports the frontier
-  is *blocked*, there is a cycle or an undone blocker to resolve before more work is startable.
-- Each ticket names **one deliverable**, behaviorally (interfaces/types/contracts, never file paths
-  or line numbers — they stale while the ticket waits). Tickets decompose an initiative; they do not
-  replace it — the initiative record, PRD, rubric, and the three gates are unchanged.
+When an initiative is bigger than one run, break it into **tickets** — the plain-file equivalent of the hosted product's SDLC board. One file per ticket in `pmos/state/tickets/NNN-slug.md`, numbered in **dependency order**, from [templates/ticket-template.md](templates/ticket-template.md):
+
+- Frontmatter: `id` (the NNN), `title`, `status` (`todo | doing | done`), and `blocked_by` — an explicit list of the ticket ids that must be `done` first. Blocking edges are **text**, not a hidden graph.
+- **Sweep the state you derive from.** `node pmos/scripts/workflow-sweep.js` audits the records and the three ledgers everything else reads. Run it before a review and after any bulk edit. It reports **defects** (state that contradicts reality — a torn ledger line, a row naming no initiative, a duplicate `run_id`, a record pointing at a file nobody wrote) separately from **owed** work (a merged initiative with no run logged, an open Acceptance Gate). `--fix` repairs only the mechanical defects and writes no `.jsonl` and no judgement — closing your own loops is your job and the Acceptance Gate is yours alone (D12).
+- **Work the frontier.** `pmos/scripts/frontier.sh` lists exactly the tickets that are not done and whose every blocker is done — the workable set. Start only from there. If it reports the frontier is *blocked*, there is a cycle or an undone blocker to resolve before more work is startable.
+- Each ticket names **one deliverable**, behaviorally (interfaces/types/contracts, never file paths or line numbers — they stale while the ticket waits). Tickets decompose an initiative; they do not replace it — the initiative record, PRD, rubric, and the three gates are unchanged.
 
 ## New agent paths — the lethal-trifecta audit
 
-Before creating any new agent path or widening a tool grant, verify it does **not** hold all three
-of: **private data access + untrusted-content exposure + external communication**. An agent holding
-all three can be tricked by content it reads into exfiltrating what it knows — remove a leg
-(preferably external communication) structurally; prompt-level defenses alone are bypassed by
-adaptive attacks. If a path genuinely needs all three, its PRD/brief must name the compensating
-gate; silence is not a pass. The evaluator is the standing example: it reads adversarial diffs, so
-it stays read-only with its verdict append as the only write.
+Before creating any new agent path or widening a tool grant, verify it does **not** hold all three of: **private data access + untrusted-content exposure + external communication**. An agent holding all three can be tricked by content it reads into exfiltrating what it knows — remove a leg (preferably external communication) structurally; prompt-level defenses alone are bypassed by adaptive attacks. If a path genuinely needs all three, its PRD/brief must name the compensating gate; silence is not a pass. The evaluator is the standing example: it reads adversarial diffs, so it stays read-only with its verdict append as the only write.
 
 ## Escalation (stop and ask the PM)
 
-An architectural choice with no recorded decision; a wrong or unsatisfiable contract; scope growth;
-any destructive/irreversible action; anything that would send product data outside this repo's
-remote. Confirm-first regardless of framing.
+An architectural choice with no recorded decision; a wrong or unsatisfiable contract; scope growth; any destructive/irreversible action; anything that would send product data outside this repo's remote. Confirm-first regardless of framing.
 
 ## Evaluator leniency warning
 
-The evaluator defaults to generous scoring. Treat the Review Gate as **uncalibrated** in this
-deployment until this repo has accumulated its own PM-vs-evaluator record (append overrides to
-`pmos/planning/evals/eval-calibration.md`; the D40 classifier method applies locally).
-`pmos/scripts/metrics.py` computes the north star (human corrections per accepted run), pass rates,
-and the Goodhart tripwire from `pmos/state/`.
-
-**Model-awareness (any provider).** PMOS is provider/model-agnostic — any capable coding agent can
-run this loop — but calibration is a property of the **evaluator model**, not of "the Review Gate"
-abstractly. Record the model on every run/eval (the `model` / `evaluator_model` fields above); a
-model swap **forks** the calibration record — you do not inherit a κ another model earned, and
-`metrics.py` warns when labeled evals pool more than one evaluator model. The high-judgment roles
-(the adversarial evaluator, `explain-run`) assume a **frontier-tier reasoner**: a weaker model
-degrades *silently* to leniency and grep-clean while its output still looks well-formed — the
-per-model κ is what makes that degradation visible.
+The evaluator defaults to generous scoring. Treat the Review Gate as **uncalibrated** in this deployment until this repo has accumulated its own PM-vs-evaluator record (append overrides to `pmos/planning/evals/eval-calibration.md`; the D40 classifier method applies locally). `pmos/scripts/metrics.py` computes the north star (human corrections per accepted run), pass rates, and the Goodhart tripwire from `pmos/state/`.
+
+**Model-awareness (any provider).** PMOS is provider/model-agnostic — any capable coding agent can run this loop — but calibration is a property of the **evaluator model**, not of "the Review Gate" abstractly. Record the model on every run/eval (the `model` / `evaluator_model` fields above); a model swap **forks** the calibration record — you do not inherit a κ another model earned, and `metrics.py` warns when labeled evals pool more than one evaluator model. The high-judgment roles (the adversarial evaluator, `explain-run`) assume a **frontier-tier reasoner**: a weaker model degrades *silently* to leniency and grep-clean while its output still looks well-formed — the per-model κ is what makes that degradation visible.
 
 ## PM protocol (weekly)
 
-Scan `discoveries.md`; a friction theme seen twice with no resolving decision must be promoted to a
-decision. Read run records since last review; log overrides to `eval-calibration.md`. Run
-`pmos/scripts/metrics.py` and read the red first. **Scan the lane mix (D56):** count initiatives
-per `type` — a chore share climbing review over review, discovery spikes that never close their
-disposition, or `no-initiative` PRs that should have been chores are drift signals; a lane misused
-twice is promoted to a decision like any recurring friction. **Scan the anchor mix (D59):** feature-vs-health share of the period's initiatives; a budget over
-its cap or health-shaped work with a KR anchor is a drift signal; quarterly, review the caps.
-**Scan outcome checks (D57):**
-metrics.py lists due outcomes (accepted, past horizon, undisposed) — dispose each
-(`validated | refuted | inconclusive`, evidence for the first two) or consciously defer; a check
-deferred twice, or a horizon moved twice, is promoted like recurring friction. An accepted
-initiative with a declared outcome is NOT finished until disposed. **Read the run's explainer where
-one exists** — the `explain-run` skill writes an independently-authored literate explainer + quiz to
-`pmos/planning/evals/explainers/<run_id>-explainer.md`; start there instead of the raw transcript,
-and for a high-risk run pass its quiz as a comprehension self-check before you accept. Recommended
-discipline, not an enforced gate — accepting runs you cannot explain is the PM's own watermelon.
+Scan `discoveries.md`; a friction theme seen twice with no resolving decision must be promoted to a decision. Read run records since last review; log overrides to `eval-calibration.md`. Run `pmos/scripts/metrics.py` and read the red first. **Scan the lane mix (D56):** count initiatives per `type` — a chore share climbing review over review, discovery spikes that never close their disposition, or `no-initiative` PRs that should have been chores are drift signals; a lane misused twice is promoted to a decision like any recurring friction. **Scan the anchor mix (D59):** feature-vs-health share of the period's initiatives; a budget over its cap or health-shaped work with a KR anchor is a drift signal; quarterly, review the caps. **Scan outcome checks (D57):** metrics.py lists due outcomes (accepted, past horizon, undisposed) — dispose each (`validated | refuted | inconclusive`, evidence for the first two) or consciously defer; a check deferred twice, or a horizon moved twice, is promoted like recurring friction. An accepted initiative with a declared outcome is NOT finished until disposed. **Read the run's explainer where one exists** — the `explain-run` skill writes an independently-authored literate explainer + quiz to `pmos/planning/evals/explainers/<run_id>-explainer.md`; start there instead of the raw transcript, and for a high-risk run pass its quiz as a comprehension self-check before you accept. Recommended discipline, not an enforced gate — accepting runs you cannot explain is the PM's own watermelon.
 
 **Anti-atrophy forcing functions (complacency is structural, not a willpower problem):**
-- **Name one hand-verified fact at every Acceptance** — the `record_acceptance` note states something
-  *you* checked directly (ran it, read the hunk, reproduced it), not the evaluator's verdict restated.
-- **Watch the acceptance-friction meta-watermelon** — a run of zero-comment, fast acceptances is
-  itself a flag; mandated oversight decays into rubber-stamping that legitimizes the system.
-- **Guard the four satisficing heuristics**: plan-as-proxy, tests-as-guarantee (CI-green ≠ correct —
-  the Quality Gate is not the Acceptance Gate), eyeballing-suffices, deference-in-unfamiliar-domains.
-- **Adaptive autonomy** — drop an initiative to every-diff review on a failed eval, a reverted merge,
-  a gate-touching change, or a subsystem you haven't personally touched in ~3 months.
-- **Monthly**, do one hands-on rep — personally diagnose one defect or re-derive one diff from its
-  spec before reading the agent's version (diagnosis-shaped; comprehension decays faster than typing).
-  **Quarterly**, ask *"what would I no longer know how to fix by hand?"* — supervision cost rises as
-  runs improve.
+
+- **Name one hand-verified fact at every Acceptance** — the `record_acceptance` note states something *you* checked directly (ran it, read the hunk, reproduced it), not the evaluator's verdict restated.
+- **Watch the acceptance-friction meta-watermelon** — a run of zero-comment, fast acceptances is itself a flag; mandated oversight decays into rubber-stamping that legitimizes the system.
+- **Guard the four satisficing heuristics**: plan-as-proxy, tests-as-guarantee (CI-green ≠ correct — the Quality Gate is not the Acceptance Gate), eyeballing-suffices, deference-in-unfamiliar-domains.
+- **Adaptive autonomy** — drop an initiative to every-diff review on a failed eval, a reverted merge, a gate-touching change, or a subsystem you haven't personally touched in ~3 months.
+- **Monthly**, do one hands-on rep — personally diagnose one defect or re-derive one diff from its spec before reading the agent's version (diagnosis-shaped; comprehension decays faster than typing). **Quarterly**, ask *"what would I no longer know how to fix by hand?"* — supervision cost rises as runs improve.
 
 ## Kit maintenance
 
-`pmos/KIT-VERSION` records the kernel source. Update the kernel with
-`pmos/scripts/kit-update.sh <path-to-pmos-checkout>` — it re-vendors ONLY `skills/`, `okf/core/`,
-`scripts/`, `AGENTS.md`, `README.md` and never touches `state/`, `planning/`, or `okf/product/`.
-Review the update as a normal PR.
+`pmos/KIT-VERSION` records the kernel source. Update the kernel with `pmos/scripts/kit-update.sh <path-to-pmos-checkout>` — it re-vendors ONLY `skills/`, `okf/core/`, `scripts/`, `AGENTS.md`, `README.md` and never touches `state/`, `planning/`, or `okf/product/`. Review the update as a normal PR.

package/payload/KIT-VERSION

@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-kernel-source: pmos@fd42042
+kernel-source: pmos@6d5951a
 assembled: 2026-08-05
 mode: vendor

package/payload/scripts/anchor-resolve.js

@@ -196,8 +196,31 @@ function readBudgets(root) {
  * `index` comes from parseOkrIndex; `budgets` from readBudgets (optional — omit to skip the
  * registry check, which callers that only need the FORM can do).
  */
+/** Strip ONE layer of matching surrounding quotes.
+ *
+ *  `parent_kr` is a YAML scalar, and a value whose prose contains a colon-space MUST be quoted or
+ *  the document does not parse. The flat frontmatter reader hands the value through with its quotes
+ *  intact, so a legitimately-quoted anchor arrived here as `"health:security …` and matched no form.
+ *
+ *  This defect occurred TWICE — `sink-discipline-backport` on 2026-08-04 and
+ *  `separation-invariant-enforcement` on 2026-08-05 — and the first time it was fixed by unquoting
+ *  the one file. That is the wave's own lesson landing on the person who wrote it down: the unit of
+ *  attention was the file, the unit of the defect was the rule. "Do not quote it" is a rule that
+ *  lives in prose and depends on an author remembering; tolerating the quoting is a rule that lives
+ *  in code.
+ *
+ *  Only a MATCHING outer pair, and only one layer: a stray leading quote is still malformed, and
+ *  reporting it as such is the point. */
+function unquote(s) {
+  const t = s.trim();
+  if (t.length >= 2 && ((t[0] === '"' && t[t.length - 1] === '"') || (t[0] === "'" && t[t.length - 1] === "'"))) {
+    return t.slice(1, -1).trim();
+  }
+  return t;
+}
+
 function resolveAnchor(raw, index, budgets) {
-  const original = String(raw == null ? '' : raw).trim();
+  const original = unquote(String(raw == null ? '' : raw).trim());
   const base = { raw: original, kind: 'empty', status: 'empty', objective: null, kr: null, budget: null, period: null, form: null, reason: null };
   if (!original) return Object.assign(base, { reason: 'parent_kr is empty — unanchored work is rejected (D59)' });
 
@@ -269,6 +292,7 @@ function canonical(resolved, fallbackPeriod) {
 }
 
 module.exports = {
+  unquote,
   parseOkrIndex, readBudgets, resolveAnchor, canonical,
   objectiveId, krId, stripCommentary, listOkrFiles,
   ACCEPTED_FORMS,

package/payload/scripts/md-newlines.js

@@ -0,0 +1,204 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env node
+'use strict';
+/*
+ * md-newlines — check, and repair, the newlines in PMOS markdown.
+ *
+ * THE DEFECT. This repository hard-wraps prose at ~100 columns: 30,345 continuation lines across
+ * 1,013 of 1,022 tracked files, a ruler written down nowhere and transmitted by imitation. A newline
+ * inside a paragraph is not a line break in markdown, so this looks right in the repo, on GitHub and
+ * in the workspace — and stops looking right the moment a file is published. Jira wiki markup treats
+ * a newline as a line break, a Google Doc keeps every newline, several markdown→ADF converters emit
+ * a hard break per `\n`. The paragraph arrives as a stack of ragged short lines, and nothing on the
+ * far side can undo it: an accidental wrap and a deliberate break are the same byte in the source.
+ *
+ * THE RULES ARE NOT HERE. They are in workspace/lib/md-normalize.js — one implementation shared with
+ * the workspace's `normalize` button (the browser loads the same file), so the command, the gate and
+ * the button cannot disagree about what a normalized document is. This file is argument handling,
+ * file walking and reporting.
+ *
+ *   node scripts/md-newlines.js                      check every tracked .md
+ *   node scripts/md-newlines.js <paths…>             check just these
+ *   node scripts/md-newlines.js --fix <paths…>       repair them in place
+ *   node scripts/md-newlines.js --fix --root <dir>   repair another repository (an adopter's, a kit)
+ *   node scripts/md-newlines.js --diff <paths…>      show what --fix would change, change nothing
+ *   node scripts/md-newlines.js --changed <ref>      only the .md a diff touches — what CI runs
+ *
+ * WHY --changed EXISTS, AND WHY THERE IS NO REPO-WIDE GATE. A gate that failed on the existing
+ * corpus would fail every PR until a thousand files were rewritten, and would therefore be turned
+ * off — so CI ratchets on what the diff touches. New work is normalized from here; old work is
+ * repaired when someone touches it, or in one deliberate pass the PM chooses.
+ *
+ * Exit 0 = nothing to do (or --fix repaired it). Exit 1 = files need normalizing (check/--diff), or
+ * a write failed. Exit 2 = the invocation itself was wrong. Stdlib only, no network, no secrets.
+ */
+const fs = require('fs');
+const path = require('path');
+const { execFileSync } = require('child_process');
+
+/* The normalizer, from the checkout or from a flattened kit payload — the same two-path resolution
+ * console-state.js uses for the workflow engine. A kit ships scripts/ with the module beside it. */
+function loadNormalizer() {
+  const tried = [];
+  for (const rel of ['../workspace/lib/md-normalize.js', './md-normalize.js']) {
+    const p = path.join(__dirname, rel);
+    tried.push(p);
+    if (fs.existsSync(p)) return require(p);
+  }
+  console.error('md-newlines: could not find md-normalize.js. Looked in:\n  ' + tried.join('\n  '));
+  process.exit(2);
+  return null;
+}
+
+function parseArgs(argv) {
+  const opts = { fix: false, diff: false, root: null, changed: null, paths: [] };
+  for (let i = 0; i < argv.length; i++) {
+    const a = argv[i];
+    if (a === '--fix') opts.fix = true;
+    else if (a === '--diff') opts.diff = true;
+    else if (a === '--root') { opts.root = argv[++i]; if (!opts.root) return { error: '--root needs a directory' }; }
+    else if (a === '--changed') { opts.changed = argv[++i]; if (!opts.changed) return { error: '--changed needs a git ref' }; }
+    else if (a === '--help' || a === '-h') return { help: true };
+    else if (a.startsWith('-')) return { error: `unknown option '${a}'` };
+    else opts.paths.push(a);
+  }
+  return opts;
+}
+
+const USAGE = `md-newlines — check and repair the newlines in markdown documents
+
+  node scripts/md-newlines.js                      check every tracked .md
+  node scripts/md-newlines.js <paths…>             check just these
+  node scripts/md-newlines.js --fix <paths…>       repair them in place
+  node scripts/md-newlines.js --fix --root <dir>   repair another repository
+  node scripts/md-newlines.js --diff <paths…>      show what --fix would change, change nothing
+  node scripts/md-newlines.js --changed <ref>      only the .md a diff touches (the CI ratchet)
+
+A paragraph becomes one line, a list item becomes one line, and a list, table, fence or heading that
+follows prose gets the blank line it needs. Frontmatter, fenced and indented code, table rows,
+headings, deliberate hard breaks (two trailing spaces) and setext underlines are never touched.`;
+
+/** Every tracked markdown file under `root`, from git — never a filesystem walk, so nothing untracked or vendored is touched. */
+function trackedMarkdown(root) {
+  try {
+    return execFileSync('git', ['-C', root, 'ls-files', '*.md', '*.markdown', '*.mdown', '*.mkd'],
+      { encoding: 'utf8', maxBuffer: 64 * 1024 * 1024 })
+      .split('\n').filter(Boolean);
+  } catch (e) {
+    console.error(`md-newlines: could not list tracked files in ${root} (${(e && e.message) || e}).`);
+    console.error('  Pass explicit paths, or run inside a git repository.');
+    process.exit(2);
+    return [];
+  }
+}
+
+/** The markdown files a diff touches — added or modified, never deleted. */
+function changedMarkdown(root, ref) {
+  let out;
+  try {
+    out = execFileSync('git', ['-C', root, 'diff', '--name-only', '--diff-filter=AM', `${ref}...HEAD`],
+      { encoding: 'utf8', maxBuffer: 64 * 1024 * 1024 });
+  } catch {
+    // A shallow clone has no merge base. Fall back to a two-dot diff rather than reporting nothing:
+    // an empty list here would print a green tick over a check that looked at no files at all.
+    try {
+      out = execFileSync('git', ['-C', root, 'diff', '--name-only', '--diff-filter=AM', ref],
+        { encoding: 'utf8', maxBuffer: 64 * 1024 * 1024 });
+    } catch (e) {
+      console.error(`md-newlines: could not diff against '${ref}' (${(e && e.message) || e}).`);
+      process.exit(2);
+      return [];
+    }
+  }
+  return out.split('\n').filter((f) => /\.(md|markdown|mdown|mkd)$/i.test(f));
+}
+
+/** A minimal unified-ish diff: the lines that differ, with their numbers. Enough to read, no deps. */
+function showDiff(rel, before, after) {
+  const a = before.split('\n');
+  const b = after.split('\n');
+  const max = Math.max(a.length, b.length);
+  const rows = [];
+  for (let i = 0, j = 0; i < max || j < max;) {
+    if (a[i] === b[j]) { i++; j++; continue; }
+    // A join: one output line equals several input lines glued with spaces.
+    if (b[j] !== undefined && a[i] !== undefined && b[j].startsWith(a[i])) {
+      const from = i;
+      let glued = a[i];
+      while (glued !== b[j] && i + 1 < a.length && b[j].startsWith(glued)) { i++; glued += ' ' + a[i].trim(); }
+      rows.push(`  ${from + 1}-${i + 1} joined → ${b[j].slice(0, 96)}${b[j].length > 96 ? '…' : ''}`);
+      i++; j++; continue;
+    }
+    if (b[j] === '') { rows.push(`  ${j + 1} blank line inserted above: ${(b[j + 1] || '').slice(0, 72)}`); j++; continue; }
+    rows.push(`  ${i + 1} - ${String(a[i]).slice(0, 96)}`);
+    rows.push(`  ${j + 1} + ${String(b[j]).slice(0, 96)}`);
+    i++; j++;
+  }
+  if (rows.length) console.log(`\n${rel}`), console.log(rows.slice(0, 40).join('\n'));
+  if (rows.length > 40) console.log(`  … ${rows.length - 40} more`);
+}
+
+function main() {
+  const opts = parseArgs(process.argv.slice(2));
+  if (opts.error) { console.error(`md-newlines: ${opts.error}\n\n${USAGE}`); process.exit(2); }
+  if (opts.help) { console.log(USAGE); process.exit(0); }
+
+  const { normalize } = loadNormalizer();
+  const root = path.resolve(opts.root || path.join(__dirname, '..'));
+  if (!fs.existsSync(root)) { console.error(`md-newlines: no such directory: ${root}`); process.exit(2); }
+
+  let files;
+  if (opts.paths.length) files = opts.paths.map((p) => path.relative(root, path.resolve(p)));
+  else if (opts.changed) files = changedMarkdown(root, opts.changed);
+  else files = trackedMarkdown(root);
+
+  const need = [];
+  let repaired = 0, joins = 0, blanks = 0, unreadable = 0;
+
+  for (const rel of files) {
+    const full = path.join(root, rel);
+    let src;
+    try { src = fs.readFileSync(full, 'utf8'); }
+    catch (e) {
+      // A file named on the command line that cannot be read is a FAILURE, not a silent skip: a
+      // repair tool that quietly passes over what it could not open reports success over nothing.
+      console.error(`✗ ${rel} — could not read: ${(e && e.message) || e}`);
+      unreadable++; continue;
+    }
+    const r = normalize(src);
+    if (!r.changed) continue;
+    need.push(rel);
+    joins += r.joins; blanks += r.blanks;
+    if (opts.diff) showDiff(rel, src, r.text);
+    if (opts.fix) {
+      try { fs.writeFileSync(full, r.text); repaired++; }
+      catch (e) { console.error(`✗ ${rel} — could not write: ${(e && e.message) || e}`); unreadable++; continue; }
+      console.log(`✓ ${rel} — ${r.joins} line(s) joined, ${r.blanks} blank line(s) inserted`);
+    } else if (!opts.diff) {
+      console.log(`✗ ${rel} — ${r.joins} wrapped line(s), ${r.blanks} missing blank line(s)`);
+    }
+  }
+
+  const scope = opts.changed ? `changed since ${opts.changed}` : (opts.paths.length ? 'named' : 'tracked');
+  if (unreadable) {
+    console.error(`\nmd-newlines: ${unreadable} file(s) could not be read or written.`);
+    process.exit(1);
+  }
+  if (!need.length) {
+    console.log(`✅ md-newlines: ${files.length} ${scope} markdown file(s) checked — every paragraph is already one line.`);
+    process.exit(0);
+  }
+  if (opts.fix) {
+    console.log(`\n✅ md-newlines: repaired ${repaired} of ${files.length} ${scope} file(s) — ${joins} line(s) joined, ${blanks} blank line(s) inserted.`);
+    process.exit(0);
+  }
+  console.log(`\n❌ md-newlines: ${need.length} of ${files.length} ${scope} markdown file(s) carry hard-wrapped prose`
+    + ` (${joins} wrapped line(s), ${blanks} missing blank line(s)).`);
+  console.log('   A newline inside a paragraph is invisible here and a line break in Jira, a Google Doc or any');
+  console.log('   plain-text destination. Repair them with:');
+  console.log(`     node scripts/md-newlines.js --fix ${need.slice(0, 3).join(' ')}${need.length > 3 ? ' …' : ''}`);
+  console.log('   or inspect first with --diff. See planning/prd/markdown-newlines-prd.md.');
+  process.exit(1);
+}
+
+if (require.main === module) main();
+module.exports = { parseArgs, trackedMarkdown, changedMarkdown };