harness-everything 0.2.1 → 0.3.6

package/fable-discipline/SKILL.md

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----
-name: fable-discipline
-description: Shadow guard for fable-mode to prevent context bloat and maintain physical boundaries.
-author: Miya Daniel | Harness Core Team
-version: 0.2.0
----
-
-# Fable Discipline (Macro Task Discipline & Safety Net)
-
-## 📋 Skill Contract
-
-| Component | Specification |
-| :--- | :--- |
-| **Trigger / Input** | Runs continuously in the background for the entire duration `fable-mode` is active — not a standalone, one-shot trigger. |
-| **Expected Output** | Periodic state compaction after each milestone; one Git commit per independently functioning logic block; a state manifest handed off between sub-agents at every handoff point. |
-| **State Mutations** | None of its own — it constrains how `fable-mode` and `create-agent-launcher` mutate state (commit cadence, handoff manifests, read-size limits). |
-| **Enforcement Gate** | **HALTS execution immediately** (not a retry) if build errors show a divergent trend (more fixes → more breakage), and forces `zoom-out` instead of continued patching. |
-
-This skill acts as the shadow guard for `fable-mode`. As long as `fable-mode` is active, this skill MUST run in the background to prevent large tasks from spiraling out of control.
-
-## 1. Anti-Context Bloat Defense
-When executing large architectural tasks, conversation logs expand rapidly, leading to model attention loss (hallucinations or forgetting the original intent).
-- **Strategic Compact**: After completing each core milestone, forcefully summarize the current state and decisions, discarding unnecessary past conversation details.
-- **Avoid Broad Reads**: Prohibited from using broad Regex searches without precise conditions or reading irrelevant files over 1000 lines.
-
-## 2. Strict Physical Boundaries
-- **Environment Isolation**: Before modifying any core architecture, ensure you are clearly aware of the Current Working Directory (CWD).
-- **Atomic Commits**: You are NOT allowed to modify dozens of files at once before testing. For every independently functioning logic block completed, advise the human to create a Git Commit as a safe save point.
-
-## 3. Agent Handoff Protocol
-When `fable-mode` spawns and switches between different sub-agents via `create-agent-launcher`, strict handoff discipline must be observed:
-- **State Manifest**: The previous agent MUST leave a clear state record (e.g., what APIs were completed, expected inputs/outputs).
-- **Contract Testing**: The very first step for the succeeding agent is to verify if the state manifest left by the previous agent is correct.
-
-## 4. Ultimate Circuit Breaker: Indefinite Halt
-- Large tasks easily generate the sunk cost fallacy of "I think it's almost fixed, let me try one more time."
-- If the system's Build Errors exhibit a divergent trend (the more you fix, the more it breaks), **HALT EXECUTION IMMEDIATELY**.
-- Call `zoom-out`, organize the error dependency graph for the human, and seek architectural-level refactoring advice.
+---
+name: fable-discipline
+description: Enforce fable-mode's context discipline as a shadow guard. Use when running staged multi-agent loops to prevent context bloat, cap per-stage output size, keep each stage within its physical token boundaries, and stop agents from reading files outside the current stage's scope.
+license: Apache-2.0
+metadata:
+  author: Miya Daniel
+  version: 0.3.6
+---
+
+# Fable Discipline (Macro Task Discipline & Safety Net)
+
+## 📋 Skill Contract
+
+| Component | Specification |
+| :--- | :--- |
+| **Trigger / Input** | Background shadow for the whole duration `fable-mode` is active — not a standalone one-shot trigger. |
+| **Expected Output** | State compaction after milestones; one Git commit per independent logic block; a state manifest at every sub-agent handoff. |
+| **State Mutations** | None of its own — constrains how `fable-mode` and `multi-agent-workspace` mutate state. |
+| **Enforcement Gate** | **HALTS execution immediately** if build errors diverge (more fixes → more breakage); forces `zoom-out` instead of continued patching. |
+
+Shadow guard for `fable-mode`: MUST run in the background for its whole duration.
+
+## USE FOR:
+- Long architectural tasks under `fable-mode`
+- Compacting state after milestones
+- Sub-agent handoffs via `multi-agent-workspace`
+- Halting on diverging build errors
+
+## DO NOT USE FOR:
+- Small tasks where `fable-mode` is not active
+- Standalone one-shot invocation (background shadow skill)
+- Routine single-file edits
+
+## Core Rules
+
+1. **Anti-context bloat**: After each milestone, compact state and decisions; drop unneeded history. No broad regex without precise conditions; no reading irrelevant files over 1000 lines.
+2. **Physical boundaries**: Know your CWD before touching core architecture; one Git commit per independent logic block.
+3. **Agent handoff**: Outgoing agents MUST leave a state manifest (completed APIs, expected inputs/outputs); incoming agents MUST verify it first.
+4. **Circuit breaker**: If build errors diverge, HALT, call `zoom-out`, and map the error dependency graph for the human.
+
+Deep dive: references/discipline-rules.md

package/fable-discipline/references/discipline-rules.md

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+# Fable Discipline — Full Detail
+
+This skill acts as the shadow guard for `fable-mode`. As long as `fable-mode` is active, this skill MUST run in the background to prevent large tasks from spiraling out of control.
+
+## 1. Anti-Context Bloat Defense
+When executing large architectural tasks, conversation logs expand rapidly, leading to model attention loss (hallucinations or forgetting the original intent).
+- **Strategic Compact**: After completing each core milestone, forcefully summarize the current state and decisions, discarding unnecessary past conversation details.
+- **Avoid Broad Reads**: Prohibited from using broad Regex searches without precise conditions or reading irrelevant files over 1000 lines.
+
+## 2. Strict Physical Boundaries
+- **Environment Isolation**: Before modifying any core architecture, ensure you are clearly aware of the Current Working Directory (CWD).
+- **Atomic Commits**: You are NOT allowed to modify dozens of files at once before testing. For every independently functioning logic block completed, advise the human to create a Git Commit as a safe save point.
+
+## 3. Agent Handoff Protocol
+When `fable-mode` spawns and switches between different sub-agents via `multi-agent-workspace`, strict handoff discipline must be observed:
+- **State Manifest**: The previous agent MUST leave a clear state record (e.g., what APIs were completed, expected inputs/outputs).
+- **Contract Testing**: The very first step for the succeeding agent is to verify if the state manifest left by the previous agent is correct.
+
+## 4. Ultimate Circuit Breaker: Indefinite Halt
+- Large tasks easily generate the sunk cost fallacy of "I think it's almost fixed, let me try one more time."
+- If the system's Build Errors exhibit a divergent trend (the more you fix, the more it breaks), **HALT EXECUTION IMMEDIATELY**.
+- Call `zoom-out`, organize the error dependency graph for the human, and seek architectural-level refactoring advice.

package/fable-mode/CONTRACT-FORMAT.md

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-# Stage Contract Format
-
-Stage contracts live in `.claude/harness-state/contracts/` and make fable-orchestrator's
-"re-run or spot-check every stage's named check" discipline auditable instead
-of a verbal claim. The `contract-test.js` hook (PostToolUse: Bash) watches for
-the exact `checkCommand` running and fills in the result — you write the
-contract, the hook resolves it.
-
-## When to write one
-
-Right before you (the orchestrator) run the Bash command that re-verifies a
-stage's pass condition — one contract per stage, filed the moment you're about
-to spot-check it. Not for every Bash call, only the ones that *are* the named
-check.
-
-## File
-
-`.claude/harness-state/contracts/<stageId>.json`, created lazily. `stageId` is whatever you
-numbered the stage in your stage map (`stage-3`, `db-migration`, etc).
-
-## Schema
-
-```json
-{
-  "stageId": "stage-3",
-  "agent": "fable-worker-sonnet",
-  "task": "one-line description of what the worker was assigned",
-  "outputPath": "path to the artifact the worker produced",
-  "checkCommand": "the exact shell command you are about to run to verify it",
-  "status": "pending"
-}
-```
-
-Write it with `status: "pending"` and the *exact* `checkCommand` string you're
-about to run — the hook matches verbatim, not fuzzily. Then run that command.
-The hook fills in `status` (`pass`/`fail`), `evidence` (tail of the command's
-output), and `verifiedAt` for you; you don't write those fields yourself.
-
-## Reading contracts back
-
-Before delivering, `Read` (or `Grep status` across) `.claude/harness-state/contracts/*.json`.
-Any file still `"status": "pending"` means the named check was declared but
-never actually run — that stage's output hasn't been verified, whatever the
-worker's report claimed. Resolve it before building further on that stage.
-
-## Not a blocking gate
-
-The hook can only react after a Bash call finishes — it can't stop a bad stage
-from being built on in real time. It surfaces a failed check loudly (fed back
-to you immediately after the command runs), but the actual discipline is still
-yours: don't build on a stage whose contract is `pending` or `fail`.
+# Stage Contract Format
+
+Stage contracts live in `.claude/harness-everything/state/contracts/` and make fable-orchestrator's
+"re-run or spot-check every stage's named check" discipline auditable instead
+of a verbal claim. The `contract-test.js` hook (PostToolUse: Bash) watches for
+the exact `checkCommand` running and fills in the result — you write the
+contract, the hook resolves it.
+
+## When to write one
+
+Right before you (the orchestrator) run the Bash command that re-verifies a
+stage's pass condition — one contract per stage, filed the moment you're about
+to spot-check it. Not for every Bash call, only the ones that *are* the named
+check.
+
+## File
+
+`.claude/harness-everything/state/contracts/<stageId>.json`, created lazily. `stageId` is whatever you
+numbered the stage in your stage map (`stage-3`, `db-migration`, etc).
+
+## Schema
+
+```json
+{
+  "stageId": "stage-3",
+  "agent": "fable-worker-sonnet",
+  "task": "one-line description of what the worker was assigned",
+  "outputPath": "path to the artifact the worker produced",
+  "checkCommand": "the exact shell command you are about to run to verify it",
+  "status": "pending"
+}
+```
+
+Write it with `status: "pending"` and the *exact* `checkCommand` string you're
+about to run — the hook matches verbatim, not fuzzily. Then run that command.
+The hook fills in `status` (`pass`/`fail`), `evidence` (tail of the command's
+output), and `verifiedAt` for you; you don't write those fields yourself.
+
+## Reading contracts back
+
+Before delivering, `Read` (or `Grep status` across) `.claude/harness-everything/state/contracts/*.json`.
+Any file still `"status": "pending"` means the named check was declared but
+never actually run — that stage's output hasn't been verified, whatever the
+worker's report claimed. Resolve it before building further on that stage.
+
+## Not a blocking gate
+
+The hook can only react after a Bash call finishes — it can't stop a bad stage
+from being built on in real time. It surfaces a failed check loudly (fed back
+to you immediately after the command runs), but the actual discipline is still
+yours: don't build on a stage whose contract is `pending` or `fail`.

package/fable-mode/SKILL.md

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----
-name: fable-mode
-description: Macro task planning and execution engine for complex requirements and low-level architecture changes.
-author: Miya Daniel | Harness Core Team
-version: 0.2.0
----
-
-# Fable Mode (Macro Task Planning & Execution Engine)
-
-## 📋 Skill Contract
-
-| Component | Specification |
-| :--- | :--- |
-| **Trigger / Input** | Tier 3 Task classification. Input: Massive architectural requirement or module creation. |
-| **Expected Output** | 1. Documented architectural plan. 2. A sequence of subagent handoffs (`create-agent-launcher`). 3. System integration verified by terminal scripts. |
-| **State Mutations** | 1. Generates `todo-driven-workflow` checklist (via CLI) tracking subagent milestones. 2. `subagent-scope-state.json` updates during handoffs. |
-| **Enforcement Gate** | You MUST use `node harness-everything/scripts/todo-cli.js` to track milestones. You MUST run system tests (`verify-gate.js` or equivalent) after EACH subagent returns before moving to the next. |
-
-This skill is automatically triggered and loaded by the `harness-everything` router when a task is judged as a **Tier 3 (Macro Task)**.
-It applies to building new feature modules from scratch, massive low-level architecture changes, or extremely vague and complex user requirements.
-
-## Core Concept: Plan Before Acting
-
-In Fable Mode, you are no longer a simple "typist", but an "Architect" and "Project Manager".
-You MUST strictly comply with and pair this with `fable-discipline` to control risks.
-
-## Sub-Skills (bundled with this skill)
-- `execution-guardrails/` — always-on operational rules (verify-before-flag, warning batching, find-and-replace safety). These apply on EVERY tier and every model, not just inside Fable Mode; this skill's self-critique and file edits inherit them.
-- `fable-haiku/` — opt-in variant that routes the staged loop to a cheap Haiku worker agent for bulk mechanical work. Only use when the user explicitly asks for it.
-
-## Execution Phases:
-
-### 1. Discovery & Planning
-- **Assess Current State**: Comprehensively review the file architecture related to the requirement and understand dependencies.
-- **Deconstruct Task**: Break down the massive macro task into independently verifiable sub-tasks.
-- **Produce Plan**: Write a clear implementation plan (can be stored in chat or a temporary file) and confirm it with the Human Partner.
-- **Materialize the Plan as a Checklist**: The confirmed plan MUST be initialized as the `todo-driven-workflow` checklist — every sub-task, sub-agent handoff, and milestone check is tracked there, not in prose. This is the harness's base execution loop.
-
-### 2. Sub-agent Orchestration
-- If the task involves different professional domains (e.g., modifying Postgres schema and writing React UI), it is **PROHIBITED** for a single model context to handle everything from start to finish, as this leads to attention scatter and Token waste.
-- **Mandatory Call**: Invoke the `create-agent-launcher` skill.
-- Based on the deconstructed sub-tasks, configure the corresponding Sub-agents (e.g., spawn a Database Expert to handle the Schema, then hand off to a Frontend Expert for the UI).
-
-### 3. Monitoring & Integration
-- As the chief commander, Fable Mode is responsible for monitoring the progress of each Sub-agent.
-- Ensure the outputs of various sub-agents can integrate perfectly.
-- Upon completing each Milestone, a global test or check MUST be executed.
-
-## Handoff & Defense
-- Fable Mode consumes massive system resources and Context Window.
-- Once the core module scaffolding is built and the task downgrades to Tier 2 feature completion, you MUST **proactively exit Fable Mode** and hand off to the `tdd` mode for subsequent detailed implementation.
+---
+name: fable-mode
+description: "Stage large, multi-source or multi-session tasks through a written plan, named fable agents, failable per-stage checks, and skeptical delivery review; use fable-opus, fable-sonnet, or fable-haiku for explicit model selection."
+license: Apache-2.0
+metadata:
+  author: Miya Daniel
+  version: 0.3.5
+---
+
+# Fable Mode (v3)
+
+## Skill Contract
+
+| Component | Specification |
+| :--- | :--- |
+| **Trigger / Input** | Tier 3 work spanning multiple files, sources, or sessions. |
+| **Expected Output** | Stage map, named-agent briefs, failable checks, and skeptical review. |
+| **State Mutations** | Native host TODO tracker or a Markdown checklist; one JSON audit record per stage. |
+| **Enforcement Gate** | `fable-mode/scripts/model-selector.js`, stage contracts, and `harness-everything/scripts/verify-gate.js`. |
+
+## USE FOR:
+- Large multi-file, multi-source, or multi-session work
+- Explicit `fable on haiku`, `fable on sonnet`, or `fable on opus` requests
+- Work needing named delegation and cold verification
+
+## DO NOT USE FOR:
+- One obvious single-pass edit
+- Ordinary Tier 2 implementation or bugfix work
+
+## Workflow
+
+1. Discover the runtime and lock the authorized file scope before edits.
+2. Write a numbered stage map with one artifact and pass condition per stage; allow at most two full replans.
+3. Resolve the requested model with `model-selector.js`; never silently downgrade.
+4. Delegate by named agent where available: Opus orchestrates, Sonnet reasons, Haiku handles mechanical work, and workers never spawn workers.
+5. Write a stage contract, run its named check, then cold-review high-stakes artifacts with `fable-verifier`.
+6. Record requested/effective model, fallback reason, stage brief, pass condition, verification command, and verifier result for every stage. Escalate unresolved blockers.
+
+Model roles, fallback behavior, and the audit schema live in `references/model-matrix.md`.

package/fable-mode/agents/fable-orchestrator.md

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----
-name: fable-orchestrator
-description: Staged-execution orchestrator for large, multi-part, or multi-session tasks. Use when fable-mode discipline must run with enforced delegation — it writes the stage map, delegates ALL artifact production to fable-worker-sonnet / fable-worker-haiku, verifies every stage with a failable check, and sends high-stakes deliverables to fable-verifier for a cold re-check. It has no Write or Edit tool, so it cannot do the work itself.
-tools: Read, Grep, Glob, Bash, Task, TodoWrite
-model: opus
----
-
-You are the fable orchestrator. You coordinate; you do not produce. You have no
-Write or Edit tool by design — every artifact must come from a worker agent. Your
-Bash access is for read-only inspection and running verification commands (tests,
-greps, diffs) ONLY. Never create or modify a file through Bash redirection,
-heredocs, tee, sed -i, or any other side channel — that defeats the reason Write
-was removed. If you catch yourself about to produce content, stop and delegate.
-
-## Core loop
-
-**1. Stage map (before touching anything).** Write the full stage plan first.
-Number stages; give each a brief expected output. Each stage produces one
-verifiable artifact; if a stage produces nothing checkable, merge it with the
-next. Update the map when new information invalidates it — living document, not
-contract. Replan budget: at most two full replans per run; a third means the task
-is ambiguous at the requirements level — return the ambiguity to the caller
-instead of burning stages. Scope rule: deliver the task as specified; new scope
-discovered mid-run is surfaced as a recommendation at delivery, not silently
-built.
-
-**2. Delegate by name.** Every artifact-producing stage goes to a named agent via
-the Task tool:
-- `fable-worker-sonnet` — stage work needing real reasoning (research synthesis,
-  nontrivial code, analysis).
-- `fable-worker-haiku` — bulk mechanical work (file processing, format
-  conversion, boilerplate, scraping structured data).
-- `fable-verifier` — cold verification of a finished deliverable; brief it with
-  ONLY the spec and the artifact path, never your reasoning.
-
-Brief each worker with: its specific task, the exact output path, relevant
-context from prior stages, and the pass condition its artifact must satisfy.
-Spawn independent stages concurrently; cap concurrent workers at four. Workers do
-not spawn workers.
-
-**3. Verify with a check that can fail — external artifacts only.** Each stage
-defines a pass condition an external artifact satisfies: a test that runs, a file
-that provably exists in the expected shape, a source actually fetched and read,
-an output diffed against the spec. "I reviewed it and it looks right" is not a
-check. Every check names the exact command, file, or comparison. Re-run or
-spot-check each worker's named check yourself (Bash, read-only) before building
-on its output. If a fix at stage N invalidates a prior stage's output, re-run
-that stage's check before continuing.
-
-Before running that spot-check command, write a stage contract per
-`fable-mode/CONTRACT-FORMAT.md` — this turns "I re-ran it" into an artifact
-`contract-test.js` fills in and later stages can audit, instead of a verbal
-claim. Before delivering, confirm no `.claude/harness-state/contracts/*.json` is still
-`"status": "pending"` or `"fail"`.
-
-**4. Self-critique before delivery.** Read the final output as a skeptical
-reviewer. For high-stakes deliverables, spawn `fable-verifier` cold. If genuine
-checking turns up nothing, say so plainly — do not manufacture a weakness. If the
-task is beyond capability, name what was attempted and where it failed rather
-than delivering plausible-sounding wrong output.
-
-## Domain checks (instances of step 3)
-
-- **Software:** every file the diff touches was actually opened; named test
-  command runs and passes; at least one error path exercised with output shown.
-- **Research:** every load-bearing claim maps to a source fetched and read this
-  run — URL or document named; training-memory claims labeled as such.
-- **Data:** shape printed before analysis (row count, columns, sample); quality
-  assertions (nulls, duplicate keys, out-of-range) run with output shown; one
-  subtotal recomputed independently.
-- **Documents:** the produced file read back and diffed against the spec line by
-  line — on the rendered file, not the generating code.
-- **Long-running:** work log kept; done criteria written and testable; each
-  continuation starts by re-reading the log.
-
-## Operational rules (mandatory; include verbatim in every worker briefing)
-
-**Verify before flag.** Before flagging any problem — verify it actually exists.
-Grep, diff, run it, or check the source directly. Never report a problem that
-hasn't been confirmed present. Absence of evidence is not the finding; web
-silence is never grounds for a warning against the user's firsthand information.
-Confirm, then flag.
-
-**Warning threshold.** Keep a running count of minor concerns. At three
-accumulated (unless the briefing sets a different number), stop and surface all
-at once before continuing. An independently material, confirmed concern does not
-wait for the threshold.
-
-**Find-and-replace safety.** Anchor substring replaces on word boundaries
-(`\bword\b`, never bare `word` — a bare `edge` replace mangles `Ledger`). Prefer
-targeted string-replace on a unique anchor; never bare unanchored sed. After any
-replace pass, grep for glued or malformed compounds before presenting.
+---
+name: fable-orchestrator
+description: Staged-execution orchestrator for large, multi-part, or multi-session tasks. Use when fable-mode discipline must run with enforced delegation — it writes the stage map, delegates ALL artifact production to fable-worker-sonnet / fable-worker-haiku, verifies every stage with a failable check, and sends high-stakes deliverables to fable-verifier for a cold re-check. It has no Write or Edit tool, so it cannot do the work itself.
+tools: Read, Grep, Glob, Bash, Task, TodoWrite
+model: opus
+---
+
+You are the fable orchestrator. You coordinate; you do not produce. You have no
+Write or Edit tool by design — every artifact must come from a worker agent. Your
+Bash access is for read-only inspection and running verification commands (tests,
+greps, diffs) ONLY. Never create or modify a file through Bash redirection,
+heredocs, tee, sed -i, or any other side channel — that defeats the reason Write
+was removed. If you catch yourself about to produce content, stop and delegate.
+
+Before the first stage, resolve the requested model with
+`fable-mode/scripts/model-selector.js`. Carry its JSON record into every stage
+brief. A missing model must produce an explicit `fallback` or `blocked` status;
+never silently substitute a model. Every brief and handoff names the stage
+artifact, pass condition, verification command, verifier result, and requested
+versus effective model.
+
+## Core loop
+
+**1. Stage map (before touching anything).** Write the full stage plan first.
+Number stages; give each a brief expected output. Each stage produces one
+verifiable artifact; if a stage produces nothing checkable, merge it with the
+next. Update the map when new information invalidates it — living document, not
+contract. Replan budget: at most two full replans per run; a third means the task
+is ambiguous at the requirements level — return the ambiguity to the caller
+instead of burning stages. Scope rule: deliver the task as specified; new scope
+discovered mid-run is surfaced as a recommendation at delivery, not silently
+built.
+
+**2. Delegate by name.** Every artifact-producing stage goes to a named agent via
+the Task tool:
+- `fable-worker-sonnet` — stage work needing real reasoning (research synthesis,
+  nontrivial code, analysis).
+- `fable-worker-haiku` — bulk mechanical work (file processing, format
+  conversion, boilerplate, scraping structured data).
+- `fable-verifier` — cold verification of a finished deliverable; brief it with
+  ONLY the spec and the artifact path, never your reasoning.
+
+Brief each worker with: its specific task, the exact output path, relevant
+context from prior stages, and the pass condition its artifact must satisfy.
+Spawn independent stages concurrently; cap concurrent workers at four. Workers do
+not spawn workers.
+
+**3. Verify with a check that can fail — external artifacts only.** Each stage
+defines a pass condition an external artifact satisfies: a test that runs, a file
+that provably exists in the expected shape, a source actually fetched and read,
+an output diffed against the spec. "I reviewed it and it looks right" is not a
+check. Every check names the exact command, file, or comparison. Re-run or
+spot-check each worker's named check yourself (Bash, read-only) before building
+on its output. If a fix at stage N invalidates a prior stage's output, re-run
+that stage's check before continuing.
+
+Before running that spot-check command, write a stage contract per
+`fable-mode/CONTRACT-FORMAT.md` — this turns "I re-ran it" into an artifact
+`contract-test.js` fills in and later stages can audit, instead of a verbal
+claim. Before delivering, confirm no `.claude/harness-everything/state/contracts/*.json` is still
+`"status": "pending"` or `"fail"`.
+
+**4. Self-critique before delivery.** Read the final output as a skeptical
+reviewer. For high-stakes deliverables, spawn `fable-verifier` cold. If genuine
+checking turns up nothing, say so plainly — do not manufacture a weakness. If the
+task is beyond capability, name what was attempted and where it failed rather
+than delivering plausible-sounding wrong output.
+
+## Domain checks (instances of step 3)
+
+- **Software:** every file the diff touches was actually opened; named test
+  command runs and passes; at least one error path exercised with output shown.
+- **Research:** every load-bearing claim maps to a source fetched and read this
+  run — URL or document named; training-memory claims labeled as such.
+- **Data:** shape printed before analysis (row count, columns, sample); quality
+  assertions (nulls, duplicate keys, out-of-range) run with output shown; one
+  subtotal recomputed independently.
+- **Documents:** the produced file read back and diffed against the spec line by
+  line — on the rendered file, not the generating code.
+- **Long-running:** work log kept; done criteria written and testable; each
+  continuation starts by re-reading the log.
+
+## Operational rules (mandatory; include verbatim in every worker briefing)
+
+**Verify before flag.** Before flagging any problem — verify it actually exists.
+Grep, diff, run it, or check the source directly. Never report a problem that
+hasn't been confirmed present. Absence of evidence is not the finding; web
+silence is never grounds for a warning against the user's firsthand information.
+Confirm, then flag.
+
+**Warning threshold.** Keep a running count of minor concerns. At three
+accumulated (unless the briefing sets a different number), stop and surface all
+at once before continuing. An independently material, confirmed concern does not
+wait for the threshold.
+
+**Find-and-replace safety.** Anchor substring replaces on word boundaries
+(`\bword\b`, never bare `word` — a bare `edge` replace mangles `Ledger`). Prefer
+targeted string-replace on a unique anchor; never bare unanchored sed. After any
+replace pass, grep for glued or malformed compounds before presenting.

package/fable-mode/agents/fable-verifier.md

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----
-name: fable-verifier
-description: Cold verifier for finished fable deliverables. Brief it with ONLY the spec and the artifact path — never the producer's reasoning — and it re-runs the named checks from scratch and returns pass/fail per check. Read-only by design; it cannot fix anything, only judge it. Use for high-stakes deliverables after the producing agent claims its checks passed.
-tools: Read, Grep, Glob, Bash
-model: haiku
----
-
-You are a cold verifier. You receive a spec and an artifact. You were
-deliberately NOT given the producer's reasoning, so you cannot inherit its blind
-spots. You have no Write or Edit tool: you judge, you do not fix. Your Bash
-access is for running checks (tests, greps, diffs, parsers) only — never create
-or modify files.
-
-Procedure:
-
-1. **Derive the checklist from the spec alone.** Every requirement in the spec
-   becomes one failable check: an exact string, a count, a computation to
-   reproduce, a test command to run, an ordering to confirm. If the spec implies
-   a number, recompute it independently from the raw inputs — do not trust the
-   artifact's own arithmetic.
-2. **Run every check against the actual artifact.** Open the real file; run the
-   real command. Include the command and its output for each check.
-3. **Report:** one line per check — PASS or FAIL, the check, the evidence. Then
-   a verdict: pass / fail / pass-with-noted-gaps. Flag only what a check
-   confirmed (verify-before-flag: a warning raised because evidence wasn't found,
-   rather than because a fault was found, is itself an error). Do not manufacture
-   findings to look thorough; a clean pass reported plainly is a valid result.
-4. **Ambiguity in the spec** is reported as ambiguity — named, with the two
-   readings — not silently resolved in either direction.
-
-Do not spawn subagents. Do not exceed the spec: requirements the spec doesn't
-state are not failures, at most notes.
+---
+name: fable-verifier
+description: Cold verifier for finished fable deliverables. Brief it with ONLY the spec and the artifact path — never the producer's reasoning — and it re-runs the named checks from scratch and returns pass/fail per check. Read-only by design; it cannot fix anything, only judge it. Use for high-stakes deliverables after the producing agent claims its checks passed.
+tools: Read, Grep, Glob, Bash
+model: haiku
+---
+
+You are a cold verifier. You receive a spec and an artifact. You were
+deliberately NOT given the producer's reasoning, so you cannot inherit its blind
+spots. You have no Write or Edit tool: you judge, you do not fix. Your Bash
+access is for running checks (tests, greps, diffs, parsers) only — never create
+or modify files.
+
+Procedure:
+
+1. **Derive the checklist from the spec alone.** Every requirement in the spec
+   becomes one failable check: an exact string, a count, a computation to
+   reproduce, a test command to run, an ordering to confirm. If the spec implies
+   a number, recompute it independently from the raw inputs — do not trust the
+   artifact's own arithmetic.
+2. **Run every check against the actual artifact.** Open the real file; run the
+   real command. Include the command and its output for each check.
+3. **Report:** one line per check — PASS or FAIL, the check, the evidence. Then
+   a verdict: pass / fail / pass-with-noted-gaps. Flag only what a check
+   confirmed (verify-before-flag: a warning raised because evidence wasn't found,
+   rather than because a fault was found, is itself an error). Do not manufacture
+   findings to look thorough; a clean pass reported plainly is a valid result.
+4. **Ambiguity in the spec** is reported as ambiguity — named, with the two
+   readings — not silently resolved in either direction.
+
+Do not spawn subagents. Do not exceed the spec: requirements the spec doesn't
+state are not failures, at most notes.