devrites 6.1.0 → 6.1.2

package/pack/.claude/skills/rite-build/reference/wright-dispatch.md

@@ -144,8 +144,8 @@ TTL is crash recovery, not normal cleanup.
    **Do not land on control until review and proof are both green.** Isolated
    `transfer_commit` stays on the worker branch; same-worktree diffs stay
    uncommitted. Serial: [`checkpoint.md`](checkpoint.md), then host may remove the
-   worktree. Parallel: `record-green` only; land with `parallel integrate
-   --apply-to-control` after the batch; `parallel cleanup` removes worktrees.
+   worktree. Parallel: `record-green`, then `parallel integrate
+   --slice <id> --apply-to-control`; `parallel cleanup` removes worktrees.
 5. Reconcile returned reuse, conventions, principles, sources, assumptions,
    decisions, dead ends, follow-ups, gates, and touched files. Persist the
    relevant facts in canonical artifacts, not the wholesale report. A plan-gap

package/pack/.claude/skills/rite-define/SKILL.md

@@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ Pull these via `Read` when shaping the plan:
    meaning-changing mappings block. Then run
    `devrites-engine check task-graph <slug>`; a malformed dependency graph blocks
    before Vet rather than spending a reviewer context on invalid tasks. Resolve each
-   `ADVISORY size:` line now (split, or `Size rationale:`); it never blocks.
+   `ADVISORY size:`/`hub:` line now (split or seam slice, or a rationale); never blocking.
 7. **Readiness gate** (`plan-template.md`): require CLEAR coverage; complete acceptance,
    wiring, shared-contract proof, applicable outputs, and rollback; risk-first acyclic order;
    justified deviations; and every horizon item present, with blockers resolved, planning

package/pack/.claude/skills/rite-handoff/SKILL.md

@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ themselves. The workspace is the canonical store; the handoff is the chat-only d
 6. **In-flight work.** Every dispatch wave opened or sealed without a return (`devrites-engine
    dispatch <slug> status`), running writer handle, held claim id plus paths (`devrites-engine
    claim list --all`), and consumptive action started, each `terminal: yes|unknown` (`yes` only with
-   an admitted return, release, or proof of stop). The live handle exists only in chat. Any
+   an admitted return, release, `dead` claim, or proof of stop). The live handle exists only in chat. Any
    `unknown` row makes item 1 a reconcile step (`dispatch <slug> status`, `parallel status`,
    `claim list --all`), never a writer command: otherwise the next session dispatches a second writer.
 7. **How to resume:** fixed boilerplate (see template below).

package/pack/.claude/skills/rite-plan/SKILL.md

@@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ Before classifying any Reslice, read `.claude/skills/devrites-lib/reference/stan
 
 When invoked inline by a controlling rite, return the completed Plan checkpoint
 to that caller so it can invoke Vet immediately. The phase boundary is not a
-user-facing stop unless a genuine HITL, safety/access, or exhausted-recovery
+user-facing stop unless a genuine HITL, safety/access, or parked-recovery
 condition was recorded.
 
 When invoked directly with no controlling caller and a planning artifact

package/pack/.claude/skills/rite-plan/reference/slicing.md

@@ -168,3 +168,8 @@ Order by dependency, but minimize coupling. A slice that needs three other slice
 is a smell: look for a thinner cut that stands alone. An edge exists only when this slice
 reads something the other produces: write it as `SLICE-001 (via <interface>)`. If you
 cannot name what crosses, drop the edge; a shallow, wide graph runs in parallel.
+
+Slices sharing a file never build side by side: put a hub file's shared edit
+(registry, command table, test harness) in one seam slice the others depend on.
+`check task-graph` prints the `schedule:` and `ADVISORY hub:` lines; inseparable
+writes get `Serial rationale: <why>`. Never merge slices or drop acceptance to widen it.

package/pack/.claude/skills/rite-prove/SKILL.md

@@ -37,8 +37,10 @@ TTHW, and exact signal-bearing errors; never assert DX (trigger `devex`).
   validates it. Only the bounded wright fixes product source/tests.
 - **Prove remains the controlling caller** during technical backtracking. Save
   its cursor; run Plan repair, Recovery Vet, remediation, and re-proof inline;
-  consume nested boundaries; resume the failed rung. Recovery exhausts after
-  three no-progress attempts on the exact same fingerprint. Closing one or exposing a distinct
+  consume nested boundaries; resume the failed rung. A strategy is spent after
+  three no-progress attempts on the exact same fingerprint; escalate it per the
+  [retry contract](../devrites-lib/reference/standards/afk-hitl.md#retry-cap-no-progress-loops-and-self-resolve)
+  instead of stopping. Closing one or exposing a distinct
   Critical/Important invariant is progress, not a reason to hand work off.
 <!-- workflow-artifact-adapter: {"module":"devrites-lib/reference/standards/workflow-artifacts.md","entry":"Prove consumes installed Workflow Artifact or CLEANED rerun","action":"VERIFY_EXISTING or admitted proof path ending PROVE_AND_RETURN","return":"saved Prove cursor; stop before real action"} -->
 ## Released-workspace refresh

package/pack/.claude/skills/rite-prove/reference/failure-triage.md

@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ loop to `devrites-debug-recovery`.
 - Three no-progress attempts on the exact same causal fingerprint consume the
   shared recovery cap. A recheck that closes the reproduction is progress; a
   different evidenced Critical/Important invariant gets its own fingerprint.
-  Preserve the reproduction and dead ends, then stop once as a technical blocker.
+  Preserve the reproduction and dead ends, then escalate or park per the
+  [retry contract](../../devrites-lib/reference/standards/afk-hitl.md#retry-cap-no-progress-loops-and-self-resolve).
   Ask only when the remaining decision is human-owned.
 - A failure you can't fix in scope is a recorded **blocker**, not a silent skip.

package/pack/.claude/skills/rite-spec/reference/state-workspace.md

@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ None.
 | slice_mode | none |
 | risk | none |
 | spec_gate | <passed <iso>; marker sweep: <n> files, <k> hits, <d> discarded — absent until /rite-spec passes> |
-| next_action | <single command + reason, or terminal: none — technical recovery exhausted for an unchanged causal fingerprint> |
+| next_action | <single command + reason; parked recovery names the invoking command> |
 | return_phase | <originating later phase; clarification or agent-owned technical backtracking only> |
 | return_next_action | <saved originating command> |
 | schema | 4 |
@@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ Before an active caller moves backward, it copies its current phase and
 non-empty action into the two return rows. Nested Plan, Vet, Build, and proof
 work preserves that valid cursor. Once the prerequisite chain is green, the
 controlling caller restores the saved phase/action and removes both rows in one
-rewrite. A real HITL or exhausted-recovery stop retains the cursor for cold
+rewrite. A real HITL or parked-recovery stop retains the cursor for cold
 resume. Never overwrite an existing valid return cursor, and preserve every
 unrelated Markdown byte. `/rite-clarify` applies its stricter native cursor protocol in `/rite-clarify`.
 

package/pack/.claude/skills/rite-vet/reference/artifacts.md

@@ -101,6 +101,14 @@ From /rite-vet on <iso>. Runner + conventions: <detected framework + command>.
 Link any disposable parser fixture. Preflight values are planning evidence, not post-build proof;
 Prove recaptures the observed command, candidate identity, and result.
 
+## Feature gates
+| Gate | Command | Cwd | Expected |
+|---|---|---|---|
+| <full suite / workspace lint / audit> | <exact command> | <path> | <exit/output> |
+
+Whole-repository rows only: Build runs them per landing
+([tiers](../../rite-build/reference/phase-contract.md#proof-tiers)), Prove on the final candidate.
+
 Commands in this durable artifact are portable repository commands: no RTK or local shell
 aliases, user-specific absolute paths, or temporary proof trees. Evidence records
 the command actually executed.

package/pack/.claude/skills/rite-vet/reference/review-axes.md

@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ Before implementation review, check for work beyond the settled spec.
    (over-budget `tasks.md`/`plan.md` from slice or AC count) is a scope finding, not a
    `Budget override`: route to `/rite-plan course-correct` (`MVP cut`) with the
    continuation sequence named; do not vet the whole epic. An `ADVISORY size:`
-   slice without `Size rationale:` is a non-blocking Suggestion to split it.
+   or `hub:` line without its rationale is a non-blocking Suggestion to split or seam it.
 4. **Built-in check.** For each new pattern/infra/concurrency approach, invoke
    `devrites-source-driven` inline to verify current framework/runtime support and cite it. Custom
    work where a built-in suffices is a scope-reduction finding.

package/pack/generated/claude/agents/devrites-plan-drafter.md

@@ -21,7 +21,8 @@ seams supplied by the orchestrator.
   planning artifacts while preserving settled intent.
 
 Reuse existing seams and dependencies before proposing new ones. Build vertical
-slices in dependency order. Map every REQ and AC to a slice and executable proof,
+slices in dependency order; put a hub file's shared edit in one seam slice
+([slicing.md](../skills/rite-plan/reference/slicing.md#slice-independence)). Map every REQ and AC to a slice and executable proof,
 name rollback and failure paths; keep acceptance-changing proposals separate. Durable
 proof commands must be portable repository commands, never host-local wrappers,
 user-specific absolute paths, or temporary proof trees.

package/pack/generated/claude/agents/devrites-slice-wright.md

@@ -103,7 +103,8 @@ unclear boundary is underspecified: return `Escalation` without proceeding.
      that source in the result. Never invent an API.
    - **No process residue.** Do not put `SLICE-###`, slice numbers, or "this slice"
      in product source, tests, comments, or filenames.
-4. **VERIFY (fail-on-red).** Run writer-safe tests/types/lint. Report required
+4. **VERIFY (fail-on-red).** Run writer-safe tests/types/lint: `Tests/proof` plus
+   tests of changed code; `## Feature gates` rows are root-owned. Report required
    build/browser/E2E as `not-run` (root-owned, artifact-producing gates), and only
    when the exact command, cwd, and prerequisites already appear in the unchanged
    vetted `test-plan.md`; never synthesize or rewrite a root command. Root runs

package/pack/generated/claude/skills/devrites-debug-recovery/SKILL.md

@@ -87,13 +87,14 @@ has no clear next move. Optional slug selects the active workspace; defaults to
   with that fingerprint. Reclassify only on new causal evidence. On cold resume,
   a retained fingerprint with fewer than three such attempts remains runnable
   even if the previous action wrote a terminal cursor.
-- **A maximum of three no-progress attempts per exact causal fingerprint stops the loop.**
+- **A strategy is spent after three no-progress attempts per exact causal fingerprint.**
   Count an attempt only when its recheck preserves the same decisive failure.
   Record attempt number, exact failure, hypothesis, probe, and failed idea after
   each; closure is progress and a different Critical/Important invariant is a new
   fingerprint. There is no JSONL ledger,
   counter command, or reset-on-green operation. Product/acceptance ambiguity, irreversible risk, or
-  human-only access becomes a human gate; otherwise return reproducible `blocked` with
-  `Next: none — technical recovery exhausted for <causal fingerprint>`, never request
-  attempt four. While budget remains, coupled failure requiring behavior change routes
+  human-only access becomes a human gate; otherwise return the spent strategy and
+  reproduction to the caller, which escalates or parks per the
+  [retry contract](../devrites-lib/reference/standards/afk-hitl.md#retry-cap-no-progress-loops-and-self-resolve);
+  never request attempt four of the same strategy. While budget remains, coupled failure requiring behavior change routes
   `/rite-plan repair` inline; behavior-neutral rerouting uses `unblock` inline.

package/pack/generated/claude/skills/devrites-lib/reference/parallel-dispatch.md

@@ -127,7 +127,8 @@ child's handle, path/resource ownership and capacity reservation until the
 native host confirms a terminal state and returned work has been reconciled.
 Query or wait on that handle; do not replace the child, release its slot, or
 reuse its resources while it may still run. If terminal state cannot be
-established, record a gap and retain ownership. A result classification alone
+established, record a gap and retain ownership; for a child launched by an earlier
+session, the claim proof below settles it. A result classification alone
 does not prove host termination.
 
 On resume (compaction or a new session), run `devrites-engine dispatch <slug>
@@ -135,7 +136,11 @@ status`, `parallel status`, and `claim list --all` before any dispatch. A read-o
 wave whose handles this session cannot query: `abandon` it, record each unreturned
 role `gap`, and re-dispatch fresh on the current digest; its late returns are
 `stale`. A writer keeps its claim and lease — no relaunch on those paths until the
-claim is released or its holder is proven terminal. A wright that never returned an
+claim is released or its holder is proven terminal. For an unqueryable writer,
+`claim list --all` showing its claim `released` or `dead` (the engine proved the
+holding session exited on this host) is that proof: `abandon` the wave, record the
+role `gap`, claim the paths, and re-dispatch without waiting on the launching
+session. `live` or `expired` stays held. A wright that never returned an
 admitted result leaves unadmitted bytes: task-path changes since its pre-dispatch
 `git diff --name-only` baseline are never cited as built nor discarded, and are
 named in the re-dispatch contract; changes outside task paths stop for the human

package/pack/generated/claude/skills/devrites-lib/reference/reply-contract.md

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ When an active rite is the controlling caller, Intermediate `NEEDS_REPLAN` (the
 token for the workspace's `NEEDS REPLAN` readiness value), a nested phase `STOP`, and a
 routine Plan/Vet `Next step` are not eligible completion states. Autocomplete may
 use the shapes below only after its requested rest point or a shared genuine
-human/safety/access/exhausted-recovery stop is reached.
+human/safety/access/parked-recovery stop is reached.
 
 ```text
 Done: <result in one sentence>
@@ -104,23 +104,20 @@ Record: .devrites/archive/<slug>/ship.md
 Claims such as proved, reviewed, sealed, shipped, or complete must point to real
 output or an artifact. A NOT-RUN verification keeps its marker in `Evidence:` or `Open:`
 per [`core.md`](standards/core.md#gate-contract) § Gate contract.
-Use exactly one recommended next action except for
-terminal agent-owned technical exhaustion, which has no runnable action.
+Use exactly one recommended next action.
 
-Use that terminal case only per [`one-shot-actions.md`](standards/one-shot-actions.md):
-three recorded no-progress corrections of the exact fingerprint, or required evidence
-irretrievably absent with **no safe in-scope diagnostic-amplification seam**. A spent
-consumptive-action authorization plus a retained new fingerprint is not terminal. For a
-true terminal case use:
+Agent-owned recovery never ends with `Next: none`. Per the
+[retry contract](standards/afk-hitl.md#retry-cap-no-progress-loops-and-self-resolve),
+a spent strategy escalates inline and a fully escalated fingerprint parks while
+independent work continues; with **no safe in-scope diagnostic-amplification seam**,
+escalate or park instead of stopping. A spent consumptive-action authorization plus a
+retained new fingerprint keeps recovering. Once nothing runnable remains, use:
 
 ```text
-Stopped: Technical recovery exhausted
+Stopped: Technical recovery parked
 Blocking: <causal fingerprint and invariant>
-Attempts: <three failed approaches and decisive reproduction>
-No runnable recovery command: unchanged reinvocation remains blocked
-Next: none — requires new evidence or changed failure conditions
+Attempts: <each strategy, its class, and decisive reproduction>
+Completed: <independent work finished after parking>
+Next: <invoking command> — reopens parked fingerprints with fresh escalation
 Record: <artifact path>
 ```
-
-The terminal cursor marker is `Next: none` exactly as shown; a stored `Next step: none`
-names the same exhausted state.

package/pack/generated/claude/skills/devrites-lib/reference/standards/afk-hitl.md

@@ -223,8 +223,9 @@ project/decision docs, and authoritative dependency sources; make and record rev
 implementation/test choices. Ask only about product, scope, acceptance, architecture policy,
 irreversible risk, or human-only access/action.
 
-Objective test/build/tool failure runs bounded `devrites-debug-recovery`; fix it or record a
-technical blocker. Never ask permission for another attempt, test, parser repair, or probe.
+Objective test/build/tool failure runs bounded `devrites-debug-recovery`; fix it, or escalate and
+park it under the [retry contract](#retry-cap-no-progress-loops-and-self-resolve). Never ask
+permission for another attempt, test, parser repair, or probe.
 Close decisions at the earliest informed phase: product in spec, coverage in clarify,
 scope/risk in temper, architecture/dependencies in define, and proof/toolchain in vet. Build
 keeps only unavailable-pre-code or mandatory action-time checkpoints.
@@ -350,7 +351,7 @@ access, safety and irreversible-action boundaries independently stop work.
   invariant + defect mechanism + minimal reproduction/decisive failure signal.
   DEC/DRIFT IDs, line numbers, wording and splitting one cause create no new budget.
 - **Cap no-progress retries:** three no-progress attempts per exact causal fingerprint
-  across wright/recovery. Only a correction whose narrow recheck leaves that cause
+  and strategy across wright/recovery. Only a correction whose narrow recheck leaves that cause
   open or reproduces its failure consumes an attempt.
   Closing a prior finding with discriminating evidence is progress: resolve it,
   do not charge. A new Critical or Important finding gets its own budget only for
@@ -384,11 +385,30 @@ access, safety and irreversible-action boundaries independently stop work.
 - **Reconcile terminal cursors.** Retained distinct Critical/Important evidence below
   cap resumes despite stale `Next step: none`; age/spent action authority is not exhaustion.
 <!-- workflow-artifact-adapter: {"module":"devrites-lib/reference/standards/workflow-artifacts.md","entry":"unattended root reaches current admitted Workflow Artifact work","action":"invoke classifier; execute returned route without wright/slice charge","return":"saved lifecycle phase/action; no intermediate reply"} -->
-- **Classify exhaustion:** human-owned contract/risk/access gaps open their gate.
-  Otherwise preserve reproduction/dead ends, set `Status: blocked` and
-  `Next step: none — technical recovery exhausted; requires new evidence or changed failure conditions`.
-  Emit no phase command, retry-permission question or `/rite-resolve`.
-  Reinvocation with unchanged cause stays blocked; it never resets the cap.
+- **Escalate a spent strategy; never stop on it.** Three no-progress attempts spend
+  the fingerprint's current *strategy*, not the work. Record that strategy and its
+  attempts under `## Dead ends`, then the controlling caller escalates inline in the
+  same invocation: re-diagnose from the reproduction and dead ends, take the first
+  class below that still has an untried strategy, run `/rite-plan repair` plus
+  narrow Vet for it, and resume with a fresh three-attempt budget. Classes, in order:
+  (1) **shared root cause**: fix the owner every failing path routes through and
+  enforce it across all callers instead of another local guard; (2) **boundary
+  redesign**: acceptance-preserving reslice or redesign of the failing seam;
+  (3) **diagnostic amplification**: add discriminating probes or fixtures, then
+  correct from that evidence. A recorded strategy, or a rewording of one, never
+  repeats. Escalation never weakens tests, validators or acceptance. Each
+  fingerprint gets at most three escalations per activation; record each in
+  `drift.md` with its class and strategy.
+- **Park, finish the rest, then stop once.** Human-owned contract/risk/access gaps
+  open their gate. Otherwise, with every escalation spent, mark the fingerprint
+  `parked` in `drift.md`, keep its reproduction and dead ends, and continue every
+  step that does not depend on it. Only when nothing runnable remains, set
+  `Status: blocked` and
+  `Next step: <invoking command> — technical recovery parked; reinvoke to reopen with fresh escalation`.
+  Emit no retry-permission question or `/rite-resolve`. A genuinely new
+  user-issued activation appends `reopened: <date>` to each parked fingerprint and
+  grants it three fresh escalations, counted from that line; wakes, compaction and
+  nested re-entry of the same run never reset counts.
 - **Resolve agent-owned questions first** from code/docs/decisions. Human communication
   is for blocked environment, handover, inaccessible critical information or missing
   credentials/permission—not writing, testing or review. Blocking/escalating/

package/pack/generated/claude/skills/devrites-lib/reference/standards/agents.md

@@ -62,7 +62,9 @@ a human plus an agent) can share one working tree. Before a same-tree writer
 starts, it records an advisory claim — `devrites-engine claim add --session
 <id> <paths>` — retains the returned `<claim-id>`, then checks the same paths
 with `devrites-engine claim check --session <id> <paths>`; a held claim from a
-live foreign session is a stop-and-report, not a merge-later problem. On every
+live foreign session is never merged later or overridden. Unattended, skip only
+work that needs those paths, run independent work, and re-check `claim list --all`
+before stopping; stop and report the holder only when nothing independent remains. On every
 host-confirmed terminal path after `add` ([unknown outcomes keep it](../parallel-dispatch.md#cancellation-and-terminal-reconciliation)) — return,
 rejected result, stop, or a launch refused with no handle — run
 `devrites-engine claim release --session <id> --id <claim-id>`. Claims expire
@@ -73,7 +75,9 @@ Claims cover product paths only; root-authored `.devrites/**` files use
 Expiry is not proof the holder stopped: size `claim add --ttl <minutes>` to the
 expected write (engine max 240) and re-add before it lapses; before writing, also
 read `claim list --all` — a foreign `expired` claim on overlapping paths whose
-session is not proven terminal counts as held (stop and report). **Failing case:**
+session is not proven terminal counts as held (stop and report). `dead` (engine-proven
+exited holder) or `released` is terminal: reconcile per
+[§ Cancellation](../parallel-dispatch.md#cancellation-and-terminal-reconciliation). **Failing case:**
 session B's `claim check` passes at minute 35 over session A's still-running wright.
 
 ## Independence

package/pack/generated/claude/skills/devrites-lib/reference/standards/core.md

@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ Verdict discipline — no vacuous verdicts:
 
 ## Caller-owned technical backtracking
 
-When a rite invokes an earlier rite inline to repair an agent-owned technical gap, the original rite stays the controlling caller: a nested `STOP` is a phase boundary, not user-facing. The caller re-reads `state.md`, follows the return cursor/`next_action`, and resumes unless a human-owned, safety, access, budget, or exhausted-recovery stop is active ([Persistence before stopping](#persistence-before-stopping-handoff-discipline)). Derive `exhausted-recovery` from the fingerprint's recorded no-progress attempts, not from a stale `state.md` label; one consumed authorization doesn't exhaust offline recovery from retained new evidence.
+When a rite invokes an earlier rite inline to repair an agent-owned technical gap, the original rite stays the controlling caller: a nested `STOP` is a phase boundary, not user-facing. The caller re-reads `state.md`, follows the return cursor/`next_action`, and resumes unless a human-owned, safety, access, budget, or parked-recovery stop is active ([Persistence before stopping](#persistence-before-stopping-handoff-discipline)). Derive `parked-recovery` from the fingerprint's recorded no-progress attempts and escalations, not from a stale `state.md` label; one consumed authorization doesn't exhaust offline recovery from retained new evidence.
 
 An intermediate `Next step` is cold-resume metadata. Do not ask the human to
 copy routine `/rite-plan repair`, `/rite-vet`, `/rite-build`, or proof-rerun

package/pack/generated/claude/skills/devrites-lib/reference/standards/one-shot-actions.md

@@ -73,8 +73,9 @@ Keep two budgets separate:
 Cold resume does not make that fingerprint old or exhausted. Derive its offline
 no-progress count from `drift.md` and `evidence.md`; while the count is below the
 cap, resume recovery even if a prior writer stored `blocked` / `Next step: none`.
-That terminal cursor is valid only for a human/safety gate, an actually exhausted
-fingerprint, or a proven absence of any safe retention/amplification design.
+A blocked cursor is valid only for a human/safety gate or a parked fingerprint
+with no independent work left; a missing safe retention/amplification design
+escalates to the next correction class.
 
 A new real attempt is normally admissible only after the affected plan and fixtures
 are re-vetted, the failure condition is shown changed, and any required fresh
@@ -98,7 +99,7 @@ claim the runtime failure condition changed: the independently proven change is
 evidence-acquisition invariant, and the attempt's acceptance signal is the promised
 unique retained boundary (or action success).
 
-Terminal `Next: none` is valid only when no safe in-scope diagnostic-amplification
-seam exists, the required change is human/risk/scope owned, or the exact evidence-gap
-fingerprint exhausts bounded recovery. A missing old artifact alone is not terminal,
-and an amplification attempt never inherits authorization from the failed action.
+When no safe in-scope diagnostic-amplification seam exists, escalate or park per
+[`afk-hitl.md`](afk-hitl.md#retry-cap-no-progress-loops-and-self-resolve); only a
+human/risk/scope-owned change stops for a human. A missing old artifact alone is not
+terminal, and an amplification attempt never inherits authorization from the failed action.

package/pack/generated/claude/skills/devrites-lib/reference/standards/workflow-artifacts.md

@@ -326,12 +326,16 @@ Epoch starts 1. `FAILED` records preimages/cleanup/epoch/fingerprint/reason/
 boundary/route/no-progress count. Resolved fingerprints close; a different
 invariant gets a distinct fingerprint. Handoff death resumes its retry epoch with
 prior rows immutable. `WA-OP-011/012` enforce independent fingerprint/epoch caps
-and terminal source cleanup. Exhaustion records:
+and terminal source cleanup. Exhaustion closes this admission, not the work:
+the controlling caller escalates it under the
+[retry contract](afk-hitl.md#retry-cap-no-progress-loops-and-self-resolve)
+through `PLAN_VET_REPAIR`, and a re-vetted changed design re-admits under a new
+identity with fresh epochs. A fully escalated fingerprint parks. Exhaustion records:
 
 ```text
-status=blocked
+status=running
 exhaustion_cause=<same-fingerprint-count|total-epoch-limit>
-next_action=none — technical recovery exhausted; requires new evidence or changed failure conditions
+next_action=/rite-plan repair <slug> — escalate exhausted workflow attempt
 ```
 
 The journal, evidence section, and observer retain that cause; epoch exhaustion
@@ -343,7 +347,7 @@ Precedence: busy owner; safety/access/approval gate; completed historical; activ
 journal; `CLEANED`; missing/stale authority; stale writer evidence; current
 admission. `PROVED|CLEANING` resumes cleanup; install-through-`PROVING`, rollback,
 or failure cleanup routes offline; retryable `FAILED` routes correction/retry;
-`EXHAUSTED` blocks; `PREPARING|PREPARED` resumes only with current authority.
+`EXHAUSTED` escalates; `PREPARING|PREPARED` resumes only with current authority.
 There is no actor-history migration or backfill.
 
 |Route|Owner|Exact action|Durable state/status/next action|Cursor/output|
@@ -356,7 +360,7 @@ There is no actor-history migration or backfill.
 | `VERIFY_EXISTING`|controlling root|verify `CLEANED`, targets, proof, and product separation; do not reinstall|restore saved return phase/action|no retry/slice/action budget|
 | `NO_BACKFILL`|controlling root|no action|completed state unchanged|no new output|
 | `WAIT_ACTIVE_OWNER`|non-owner|no write; stop invocation|shared state unchanged|fixed owner-busy diagnostic|
-| `BLOCKED_EXHAUSTED`|controlling root|no attempt 4|blocked with exact exhausted next action|fixed exhausted diagnostic|
+| `BLOCKED_EXHAUSTED`|controlling root|no attempt 4 on this admission; escalate through `PLAN_VET_REPAIR` or park per retry contract|`status=running`, exact exhausted `next_action`; parked keeps the parked-recovery action|fixed exhausted diagnostic; no intermediate reply|
 | `BLOCKED_GATE`|controlling root|follow existing safety/access/approval gate|gate-owned state|gate output; never reinterpret as retry|
 
 |Scenario ID|Trigger|Exact route / action|Durable consequence|Forbidden behavior|
@@ -422,7 +426,7 @@ pairs remain injective for actionable seams.
 | `devrites-debug-recovery/SKILL.md`|durable active failure or ambiguous admitted state|`OFFLINE_RECOVERY`; correct offline, re-preflight, narrow Vet, retry only under cap|saved caller or exact Plan/Vet route|
 | `rite-autocomplete/SKILL.md`|lifecycle cursor encounters admitted set or resumable journal|invoke classifier; execute returned route internally|saved phase/action; zero intermediate reply|
 | `rite-autocomplete/reference/loop.md`|loop tick sees Workflow Artifact trigger/state|invoke classifier once under owner lock; no actor-history migration|same loop cursor; no budget charge for verify/rerun|
-| `rite-autocomplete/reference/stop-conditions.md`|classifier returns owner-busy, exhausted, or existing hard gate|stop on exact `WAIT_ACTIVE_OWNER`, `BLOCKED_EXHAUSTED`, or `BLOCKED_GATE` result|unchanged cursor plus fixed route-owned output|
+| `rite-autocomplete/reference/stop-conditions.md`|classifier returns owner-busy, exhausted, or existing hard gate|escalate `BLOCKED_EXHAUSTED`; on `WAIT_ACTIVE_OWNER` run independent work and recheck; stop on exact `BLOCKED_GATE` result|unchanged cursor plus fixed route-owned output|
 | `rite-build/SKILL.md`|Vet-ready admitted bytes require root authorship outside product wright|`ROOT_TRANSACTION`; root writes only admitted `.devrites/**` targets|saved Build slice cursor; wright product allowlist unchanged|
 | `rite-build/reference/phase-contract.md`|Build gate enters or resumes transaction|invoke canonical operation table; reconcile exact result|same slice/checkpoint cursor or Plan/Vet route|
 | `rite-prove/SKILL.md`|Prove consumes installed Workflow Artifact or `CLEANED` rerun|`VERIFY_EXISTING` or admitted proof path ending `PROVE_AND_RETURN`|saved Prove cursor; stop before real action|

package/pack/generated/claude/skills/devrites-lib/reference/workspace-artifact-schema.md

@@ -237,7 +237,7 @@ slices; use `none` when they do not apply. Complexity above 3 triggers reslicing
 unless the stated reason makes the boundary irreducible. A Writer allowlist of 12+
 files prints an engine `ADVISORY size:` line (`check task-graph`, `check slice`;
 never blocking): split it acceptance-preserving, or add `Size rationale:` naming
-the inseparable capability.
+the inseparable capability; `ADVISORY hub:` takes a seam slice or `Serial rationale:`.
 
 ## Read next by phase
 

package/pack/generated/claude/skills/rite-autocomplete/SKILL.md

@@ -49,14 +49,16 @@ executable controller/harness/bundle bytes or a missing writer, read
   likewise internal when current authority resolves it.
 - Always follow agent-owned backward edges through repair, affected Vet,
   correction, and proof. A nested `STOP`/`Next step` is not a user handoff.
-  Pause only for a shared human/safety/access/exhaustion condition.
+  Pause only for a shared human/safety/access condition.
 - **Do not confuse an action budget with recovery exhaustion.** Spent action
   authority blocks another real execution, not offline correction of retained
   Critical/Important evidence. Stop for fresh GO only after changed conditions
   and READY Vet.
-- Every exact causal fingerprint gets at most three no-progress corrections.
-  Closing one is progress; a distinct Critical/Important invariant has its own
-  budget. Lower severity cannot prolong recovery.
+- Every exact causal fingerprint gets three no-progress corrections per strategy.
+  A spent strategy escalates to a new correction class inline; after three
+  escalations it parks while independent work continues. Never ask permission to
+  retry. Closing one is progress; a distinct Critical/Important invariant has its
+  own budget. Lower severity cannot prolong recovery.
 - Do not stop on `--max-slices`, sentinel `max_slices`, `max_agents`,
   `max_minutes`, or `max_review_queue`. Count failed, malformed, and
   unavailable leaf calls.
@@ -79,7 +81,7 @@ executable controller/harness/bundle bytes or a missing writer, read
    Before honoring `blocked` with terminal `next_action`,
    reconcile retained consumptive evidence and fingerprint attempts from
    `drift.md`/`evidence.md`; a retained fingerprint below its cap resumes offline
-   recovery.
+   recovery, and this new invocation reopens each parked fingerprint.
 <!-- workflow-artifact-adapter: {"module":"devrites-lib/reference/standards/workflow-artifacts.md","entry":"lifecycle cursor encounters admitted set or resumable journal","action":"invoke classifier; execute returned route internally","return":"saved phase/action; zero intermediate reply"} -->
    Reconstruct a missing return cursor only from
    the current phase and exact approved action in `test-plan.md`/evidence, never
@@ -106,8 +108,8 @@ executable controller/harness/bundle bytes or a missing writer, read
    `/rite-review` → `/rite-seal`. Read and execute each skill; durable files, not
    chat, carry state. Apply the mutable post-vet budget before first Build.
    Build runs the largest eligible path-disjoint batch (cap: this invocation's
-   `--parallel N`, else sentinel `max_parallel`, else 10) and recomputes after
-   every completed round until no pending slice remains; a one-slice round is serial for that round only, then
+   `--parallel N`, else sentinel `max_parallel`, else 10) and refills a slot
+   per landing until no pending slice remains; a one-slice round is serial for that round only, then
    selection runs again (host isolation still forces serial when concurrent writers
    cannot be separated). When `--parallel N`
    is present, pass it into `/rite-build` and do not consult leftover sentinel
@@ -118,15 +120,15 @@ executable controller/harness/bundle bytes or a missing writer, read
    route agent-owned red results through bounded recovery.
    Red gates block forward advancement and enter caller-owned recovery. Stop on
    hard risk, escalating, irreversible-risk, access, blocking with no
-   recommended option, remaining NO-GO, or the exact fingerprint's proven
-   exhaustion. An open blocking question that already names a ranked recommended
+   recommended option, remaining NO-GO, or parked fingerprints with no
+   independent work left. An open blocking question that already names a ranked recommended
    option (`proposed` or option 1 labelled Recommended) auto-resolves through
    `devrites-engine state resolve` and continues (a missing or failing resolver is
    the bounded resolver-failure stop); do not emit `/rite-resolve` as
    a user handoff. Exception: a question whose answer would add acceptance or
    product scope is never auto-resolved by a recommended option; it stops for a human.
-   Technical exhaustion records terminal
-   `Next step: none`, never a routine phase command. **Completion:** no stop is active, or its cursor and reason are durable.
+   A spent strategy escalates; parked recovery records
+   `Next step: /rite-autocomplete`, never a routine phase command. **Completion:** no stop is active, or its cursor and reason are durable.
 6. **Seal boundary.** Without a ship flag, leave the sealed workspace unshipped and
    open the next recorded continuation
    ([loop.md § Sequence continuation](reference/loop.md#sequence-continuation))

package/pack/generated/claude/skills/rite-autocomplete/reference/loop.md

@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ Workspace files carry state; chat does not. Read and execute each phase skill:
 | 3 | `/rite-temper` | harden or reduce; `expand` and extra acceptance stop for a human; irreversible risk still pauses |
 | 4 | `/rite-define` | approved plan/tasks/traceability |
 | 5 | `/rite-vet` | every plan; derive mutable budget after READY |
-| 6 | `/rite-build` batch loop | largest eligible path-disjoint set (cap: this invocation's `--parallel N`, else sentinel `max_parallel`, else 10; one-slice round when <2 eligible); recompute after each round; charge once per green built slice |
+| 6 | `/rite-build` batch loop | largest eligible path-disjoint set (cap: this invocation's `--parallel N`, else sentinel `max_parallel`, else 10; one-slice round when <2 eligible); refill per landing; charge once per landed slice |
 | 7 | `/rite-prove` | all slices built; approved proof; recovery on red |
 | 8 | `/rite-polish` | re-prove after code edits |
 | 9 | `/rite-review` | in-scope correction then fresh proof |
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ parent's counter (same values, never a second charge); a child with no recorded
 parent/position is not a sequence member and the chain stops.
 
 Stop instead when: no recorded next entry; the cap or review-queue bound is
-reached; a human-owned, safety, access, or exhaustion condition fires; or Seal returns
+reached; a human-owned, safety, access, or parked-recovery stop fires; or Seal returns
 `NO-GO`. On stop, report the sequence position, the sealed-but-unshipped workspaces, and
 the single release command (`/rite-autocomplete <release milestone> --ship`, or
 `/rite-ship` for the current sealed workspace when the sequence is complete).
@@ -140,14 +140,16 @@ agent-owned earlier-phase gap:
 Ask only for a human-owned decision or mandatory safety/access action. An open
 blocking question with `proposed` or option 1 labelled Recommended is not that
 decision: resolve it and continue. Three no-progress corrections of one exact
-fingerprint exhaust; preserve its reproduction and dead ends without another
-Plan/Vet command.
+fingerprint spend only its strategy: escalate inline per the
+[retry contract](../../devrites-lib/reference/standards/afk-hitl.md#retry-cap-no-progress-loops-and-self-resolve),
+and park it after three escalations while independent work continues.
 
 ## Continuous caller obligation
 
 No user-facing reply is permitted while durable state contains agent-owned
 `NEEDS_REPLAN`, an intermediate Plan/Vet action, a distinct retained
-Critical/Important fingerprint below its cap, or an open blocking question that
+Critical/Important fingerprint below its cap or with an escalation left, runnable
+work independent of a parked fingerprint, or an open blocking question that
 already names a ranked recommended option. Invoke the next internal repair or
 `devrites-engine state resolve` immediately, unless that writer already hit the
 [resolver-failure stop](stop-conditions.md#other-stop-classes). **Failing case:**
@@ -157,4 +159,4 @@ Critical/Important invariant is progress, not exhaustion.
 The number of completed repair/Vet cycles is not a stop condition. Context
 pressure, compaction, session duration, and nested completion do not convert an
 internal checkpoint into a handoff. Persist it and resume until the requested
-rest point or a shared human/safety/access/exhaustion condition.
+rest point or a shared human/safety/access/parked-recovery condition.