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- # Contributing to PI-Revit
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- This file guides agents changing **this source repository**. Start with
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- [the architecture](docs/architecture.md) for resource ownership and discovery,
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- and [evaluation](docs/evaluation.md) for evidence and validation limits.
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- Follow the user's requested scope; an investigation does not authorize implementation,
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- and a source change does not by itself authorize installation, deployment, publication,
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- or changes to a live Revit model.
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- ## Two different AGENTS files
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- - **This file:** contributor instructions, repository structure, and checks.
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- - **[workspace/AGENTS.md](workspace/AGENTS.md):** template copied into the user's
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- Revit working folder by setup. It owns model output locations and local session
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- conventions. It is not the contributor guide or the complete tool manual.
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- Pi's global/project instruction scope is separate from resource type. A skill is
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- a task-specific entry with optional references; a tool is executable behavior;
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- a package distributes them. Do not turn every manual into a separate skill or
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- copy all operational guidance into workspace instructions.
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- ## Where a change belongs
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- Fix a class of problem where every present and future resource inherits the fix: in a
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- shared mechanism, in declared metadata, or in the platform section. A sentence in one
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- manual is never the only fix. Each rule has one owner.
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- | Change | Primary owner | Update alongside it |
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- | --- | --- | --- |
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- | Revit operation, inputs, outputs, effects | `src/Revit/Tools/<Tool>.cs` | `ToolRegistry.cs`, manual, focused C# tests |
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- | A tool's contract: keywords, limits with alternatives, verification | the tool's `Keywords`/`Limits`/`Verification` (bridge) or `extensions/pi-revit/contracts.ts` (native) | `npm run generate:contracts`; discovery corpus entries |
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- | Parameter lookup by name, BuiltInParameter or GUID | `src/Revit/Tools/ParameterResolver.cs`, the only resolver | element-query tests; never `LookupParameter` in a tool |
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- | Special or system-owned objects (revision schedules, templates, groups, design options) | `src/Revit/Tools/ElementTraits.cs` | element-traits tests; flag or count, never mix silently |
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- | State an object inherits when created from an existing one (duplicate, copy, mirror, retype) | `src/Revit/Tools/InheritedState.cs` (reading) and `InheritedState.Summary.cs` (pure summary) | derived-state tests; the gate requires it wherever a tool duplicates, copies or retypes |
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- | Assigning a name or sheet number; name collisions | `src/Revit/Tools/ElementNames.cs`, the only place a tool assigns them | the gate rejects any other `Name`/`SheetNumber` assignment |
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- | What a call changed in the model (`model_changes`) | `src/Revit/Tools/ModelChanges.cs` and `ChangeSet.cs`, attached once by the dispatcher in `BridgeServer.cs` | derived-state tests; never report changes per tool |
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- | Shared document identity/transaction rules | `src/Revit/Tools/DocumentGuard.cs`, `ModelEditBatch.cs`, related helpers | guard/transaction tests; execution and recovery references |
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- | HTTP, queueing, receipt retention | `src/Revit/BridgeServer.cs`, `CommandQueue.cs`, `OperationStore.cs` | receipt/result tests and recovery reference |
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- | Cross-cutting protocol (capability, scope/completion, evidence, identity, language) | `extensions/pi-revit/platform-prompt.ts`, stated once for all tools | platform tests; never repeat it per tool or per manual |
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- | Completion/loop steering | `extensions/pi-revit/completion-monitor.ts` (metadata-driven) | platform tests; the `modify-*` evaluation scenarios |
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- | Objects that predate the request; per-request created-object ledger | `extensions/pi-revit/scope-monitor.ts` (reads `model_changes` and `name_collision`) | scope-monitor tests; the `modify-name-collision` scenario |
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- | Pi registration, result presentation, retries | `extensions/pi-revit/index.ts`, `tool-schema.ts` | extension tests and affected manuals |
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- | Instance routing | `extensions/pi-revit/instance-router.ts` | instance-router tests and instance manual |
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- | Discovery matching and ranking | `extensions/pi-revit/discovery.ts`, `tool-catalog.ts` | `tests/discovery/corpus.json` (recall gate) and catalogue tests |
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- | Documentation index, groups, guidance resources | `skills/pi-revit/tool-manifest.json` | regenerate; corpus entry for each new workflow |
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- | A "never" or "must" rule | `docs/invariants.json` plus an `<!-- inv:<id> -->` tag on the sentence | a code test, or, only for agent intent, an `agent-eval` scenario |
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- | Agent behavior worth measuring | `tests/agent-eval/scenarios.json` | invariants it protects; live runs on a disposable fixture |
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- | Reusable script library | `extensions/pi-revit/script-library.ts` | script-library tests and manual |
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- | Cross-tool operating rule | `skills/pi-revit/references/` | short entry link only if needed on every task |
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- | One public tool's usage | hand-written part of `skills/pi-revit/references/tools/<public_name>.md` | executable examples; the Contract block is generated |
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- | A multi-tool task recipe | workflow reference under `skills/pi-revit/references/` | manifest guidance entry, corpus entry and task-based evaluation |
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- | Revit subject knowledge | a scoped future `skills/revit-<subject>/SKILL.md` and references | official Autodesk sources and version; discovered automatically; add corpus and routing evaluation |
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- | API signatures | existing `search_api_docs` implementation and live version's documentation | search tests; do not maintain a parallel copied API catalogue |
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- | Installation or output-folder convention | `scripts/`, `bin/pi-revit.js`, `workspace/AGENTS.md` | README and installer tests |
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- Generated artifacts are never edited by hand: `skills/pi-revit/contracts.generated.json`,
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- each manual's `Contract (generated)` block and the tool-index tables. Change the code or
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- manifest and run `npm run generate:contracts`; `npm run test:docs` fails when they are stale.
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- Tool vocabulary is English. There are no per-language rules: the model translates a
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- request into English search words, replies in the user's language, and reads localized
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- Revit names from results. Prefer exact identities (BuiltInParameter, GUID) over display names.
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- The future subject library is an extension point, not an already implemented
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- library. Keep one package until independent ownership or releases justify another.
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- Names in the table are repository-relative paths, not files to create indiscriminately.
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- ## Adding or changing a public tool
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- 1. Decide whether it belongs in the Revit bridge or the Pi extension. A bridge
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- `ITool` implements metadata/schema and execution, and is registered in
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- `src/Revit/ToolRegistry.cs`. Set `Write`, `Effects`, `RequiresDocument` and tier to
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- match real behavior. `write: false` does not mean no UI/file effects. Tools with
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- `RequiresDocument: false` run off the API thread with no Revit context; do not
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- access the Revit API there.
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- 2. Declare the contract. `Keywords` holds at least 3 English task words, outcome words
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- and synonyms. Every `Limits` entry names what the tool does not cover and an
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- alternative: another `tool`, `api` members (checked against the installed
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- RevitAPI.xml), a `user` action, or `revit_unsupported` with its evidence. A tool
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- that writes or has effects declares `Verification`. Prompt guidelines hold only
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- tool-specific facts; identity, manual location, capability and completion rules
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- live once in the platform section.
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- 3. Use the shared primitives: `ParameterResolver` for any parameter reference,
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- `ElementTraits` for special objects, `ModelEditBatch` for edits, `InheritedState` for
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- anything created from an existing object, and `ElementNames` for names and sheet numbers.
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- The dispatcher reports `model_changes` for every write tool; do not add a private variant. Preserve enforced
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- safeguards. The public bridge contract is the class schema plus registry-added
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- `expected_document_id` and extension-added `_operation_id`. Never weaken identity
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- guards or receipt routing to make an example pass.
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- 4. Add the manifest entry (name, source, group, summary) and a manual under
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- `references/tools/`. Run `npm run generate:contracts`, which writes the manual's
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- Contract block and the tool index. Write the hand part against the final schema
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- and actual execution: purpose/preconditions, action differences, effects/identity,
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- units/coordinates, result interpretation, recovery and verification. Include at
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- least one valid JSON input example and a source pointer. Label example IDs as
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- placeholders to discover. A native tool also needs its `NATIVE_CONTRACTS` entry; the
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- manifest's native entries reserve its name against bridge descriptors.
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- 5. Add at least 5 English task phrasings to `tests/discovery/corpus.json`. Register
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- any new "never" or "must" rule in `docs/invariants.json` with its test. Add or extend
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- an `agent-eval` scenario when the tool changes what the agent can do.
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- 6. Update `documentation_revision` whenever guidance changes. Compatibility with a
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- bridge is the per-tool contract hash (input schema and effects, without wording).
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- Do not bump the package release or redeploy unless part of the task.
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- 7. Run the checks below. Include defaults, rejected inputs, state transitions,
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- partial/rollback results and caller-visible outcomes where meaningful. Update the
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- README/change log for user-visible behavior. Report live checks separately from
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- offline checks.
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- ## Maintaining skills and workflows
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- - Keep `skills/pi-revit/SKILL.md` a concise task router with essential cross-tool
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- rules. Put detail in linked references. Large collections of tool names do not
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- belong in its description. Tools/manuals can also be discovered without loading
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- this skill; do not assume the model will always select it.
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- - Every workflow distinguishes explanation/planning, inspection, and modification
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- or deliverable creation. Do not make an ordinary question open/edit/export a model.
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- - Add subject skills only for independently meaningful Revit tasks. Their references
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- own modeling concepts, constraints and cited Autodesk Help knowledge, while tool
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- manuals own our integration contract. Link between them; do not duplicate both.
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- - Put project-specific standards in the user's project context. Source-wide rules
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- belong here, and runtime output conventions belong in the workspace template.
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- - Keep uncertainty explicit: a supported preview can validate then roll back;
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- preview IDs are temporary; a timeout is not cancellation; a commit is not a save.
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- Link to recovery/verification instructions instead of inventing another policy.
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- ## Validation and completion
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- Run these from the repository root, using Node and .NET 8 SDK or newer. Point
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- `PI_CODING_AGENT_PATH` to an installed Pi package containing its `jiti` and
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- `typebox` dependencies when they are not locally resolvable. Current extension
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- fixtures require this variable; the path below is an example, not a fixed location.
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- ```powershell
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- $env:PI_CODING_AGENT_PATH = 'C:\path\to\node_modules\@earendil-works\pi-coding-agent'
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- npm.cmd run generate:contracts
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- npm.cmd run test:docs
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- dotnet run --project tests/document-identity/document-identity-tests.csproj
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- dotnet run --project tests/element-query-regressions/element-query-regressions.csproj
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- dotnet run --project tests/element-traits/element-traits-tests.csproj
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- dotnet run --project tests/derived-state/derived-state-tests.csproj
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- git diff --check
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- ```
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- `test:docs` checks actual registered input schemas and source-derived bridge
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- metadata without running Revit operations. It also checks that generated artifacts are
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- current, that contracts are valid with resolvable alternatives, and that the invariant
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- register and its tests agree. It enforces discovery-corpus recall, the startup prompt
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- budget and the architecture rules (no model saves, one parameter resolver, special
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- objects classified, inherited state reported for created-from-existing objects, names assigned
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- through `ElementNames`, model changes attached by the dispatcher). `test:extension` uses isolated mock
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- discovery and intercepted HTTP. Neither establishes live API behavior, successful
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- drawings, agent instruction adherence, or performance improvement.
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- Use the relevant existing suites for changed components: `tests/model-edit-batch`,
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- `transaction-export`, `operation-store`, `element-query-regressions`, `element-traits`, `derived-state`,
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- `linked-geometry`, `schedule-fields`, `search-engine`, and `installer` each document
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- their scope. Agent behavior is measured with `tests/agent-eval` on a disposable fixture
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- (see its README); it never runs as an incidental check. A full bridge build requires matching Revit SDK assemblies; build
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- using `scripts/build.ps1`, not deployment, when compilation alone is requested.
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- Do not install dependencies, publish a release, modify a live model or deploy an
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- add-in as an incidental documentation check.
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- Before completion review the diff, run appropriate checks, and explain what
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- changed, why, and what was actually tested. For model-affecting changes, include
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- live verification only when performed within the requested scope. See the
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- evaluation guide before claiming faster, cheaper, or more reliable agent behavior.
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- # Guidance architecture: verification and evaluation
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- This records the evidence for the structured-guidance change and the measurements
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- still needed. Splitting Markdown and improving discovery are implemented changes;
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- faster or more reliable agent work remains a hypothesis.
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- ## Baseline and scope
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- - Baseline source: `360257e7ba410630e39956972a7439430cdc6a2b`, package 0.4.0.
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- - Pi inspected for this work: 0.87.0, including active-tool prompt construction.
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- - Baseline operational entry: approximately 5,574 whitespace-separated words;
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- the source used long paragraphs, so line count alone understated its size.
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- - Structured entry: 640 words using the same whitespace split. A smaller entry does not establish
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- lower total task tokens: manual reads and active-tool guidance also consume context.
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- - Inventory at this revision: 30 bridge tools plus six Pi-native utilities.
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- - This change does not alter Revit tool execution or add a new domain library.
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- The earlier long skill is not the only baseline artifact: the old finder omitted
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- the native utilities and discarded advanced prompt metadata. Compare the complete
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- before/after extension and guidance when attributing results.
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- ## Reproducible offline verification
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- Run from a source checkout; no live model is needed. Set `PI_CODING_AGENT_PATH`
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- as described in [AGENTS.md](../AGENTS.md).
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- ```powershell
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- The [documentation checker](../tests/tool-documentation/README.md) evaluates
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- source-derived bridge metadata through the real registry and captures actual Pi
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- extension registrations under intercepted HTTP. It checks all manual examples
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- against the composed schemas, inventory equality, manual coverage and local links.
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- It does not execute Revit tool bodies or validate every conditional runtime rule.
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- Extension tests check result paging, receipts/retries, instance routing, reusable
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- scripts, catalogue activation, offline manual lookup, version evidence and resolver
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- failure handling. Filesystem fixture data and mock bridge credentials are isolated
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- from real sessions. Document-identity tests use the production guard with fake
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- document lifetimes; live Revit equality semantics are outside those tests.
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- The manual authors also reviewed explanation, room-count inspection and stale-ID
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- move recovery scenarios. This was source/instruction reasoning, not a fresh-model
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- agent benchmark or live end-to-end evaluation. Findings refined task routing and
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- ### Recorded results: 2026-09-23
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- | Check | Observed result |
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- | Existing extension suites before implementation | 65 checks passed across five suites |
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- | Extension suites after implementation | 78 checks passed across six suites; no failures |
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- | Production document guard/registry with simulated documents | 25 checks passed; no failures |
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- | Source-derived bridge and actual native input schemas | 30 bridge and six native registrations matched the manifest |
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- | Tool manual input examples | All 46 examples across 36 manuals passed schema validation |
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- | Local links in skills and contributor documentation | All 253 resolved |
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- | Package dry run, offline and without lifecycle scripts | All 41 required architecture/entry/manifest/manual paths included; no archive created |
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- The Windows sandbox blocked the documentation checker's local .NET subprocess.
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- That checker was rerun with permission and passed; it still used only local source,
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- isolated fake bridge metadata and existing SDK/dependencies. No actual bridge tool
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- was invoked. Package inclusion checks verify distribution, not execution of every
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- packaged file or compatibility with every Pi/Revit release.
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- ## Comparative task evaluation before performance claims
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- Use the same Pi/model/provider settings, source revisions, Revit version, saved
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- model fixtures, instructions and initial session state for both variants. Run
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- fresh sessions and repeated trials; record failures and retries instead of
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- reporting only successful runs. Separate cold discovery from warm-session tasks.
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- Do not let a previous run's manuals or tool activation contaminate another run.
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- | Scenario | Expected observable outcome |
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- | Explain sheet placement with Revit closed | Relevant manual can be found/read; no attempt to edit/export or demand a model |
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- | Count host rooms | Correct scope/count; no unnecessary export, selection, repair or custom script |
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- | Inspect a paged model audit | Required query pages and saved-result fragments both handled; omissions disclosed |
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- | Read unfamiliar schedule capability | Dedicated tool found/activated, relevant manual read, active schema respected |
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- | Change a type or parameter in an authorized fixture | Current exact identity used; partial/atomic/preview outcomes distinguished |
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- | Stale identity or two same-title models | Intended target resolved without silently editing a different model |
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- | Timeout after a potentially committed action | Original receipt/state checked; no fresh duplicate operation or target fallback |
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- | Preview-created view or replacement element | Rolled-back IDs discarded; dependent operations use committed identities |
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- | Bridge/manual version mismatch | Mismatch acknowledged, unsupported features not assumed from the manual |
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- | Visible view/sheet result | Actual result captured and inspected; unsupported verification reported honestly |
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- | General Revit subject question | Explanation remains separate from tools; missing domain content is not invented |
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- time to first useful action and total elapsed time. Report number of trials,
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- median and spread, model/version, and comparable success criteria. Keep model/API
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- when instrumentation permits. A smaller skill body is only one possible influence.
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- live follow-up below extends that evidence; neither establishes a before/after
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- ## Authorized live follow-up: 23 September 2026
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- evaluate whether Pi works smoothly with the new structure. Release `net8.0-windows`
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- built for Revit 2025 with zero warnings/errors. The loaded assembly path and SHA256
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- matched that exact build; package/assembly version remained 0.4.0. The temporary
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- startup manifest was restored, the installed DLL was not replaced, and all live
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- model edits were confined to an unsaved disposable model copy. No release was published.
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- Actual Pi 0.87.0 sessions used the configured `openai-codex/gpt-6-astra` model and
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- `max` reasoning setting without override. Fresh sessions explicitly loaded the
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- | Explain sheet arrangement with Revit closed | Natural skill/manual routing; no model operation; completed in 47.370 s |
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- | Explain wall type versus instance | Natural skill routing; no model operation; completed in 24.498 s |
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- | Count host rooms | Guarded host count 0 matched independent read; completed in 23.814 s |
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- | Audit warnings | Warning count 0 and limits matched independent read; completed in 50.054 s, with a discovery detour |
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- | First sheet/plan/schedule workflow | Created and visually corrected output; 57 calls, two artificial guard blocks; 360-second cap stopped final response. Incomplete trial |
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- | Fresh sheet/plan/schedule workflow | Completed in 207.792 s with final answer, 44 calls, one artificial guard block, and actual image read. Independent checks confirmed the sheet, plan, schedule and count of 11 host walls |
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- plan without the unrelated blank annotation, and had an eight-minute limit. It still
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- blocked an optional source-plan image export because the harness allowed only newly
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- without overriding live contracts or availability. The finder input description
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- The 36 manuals, 46 examples and 253 links passed documentation verification.
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- choice. Fixture limitations and corrected harness assertions are retained separately.
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- The actual sheet image was inspected: readable plan geometry and count 11, no
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- The detailed local evidence is outside the package, under the workspace's
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- `output/architecture-live-review-20260923/`: `REPORT.md`, `TOOL-COVERAGE.md`, raw
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- Pi/bridge traces, independent reviews, build identity and image artifacts. Successful
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- ## Platform evaluation (global guidance platform)
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- **Offline gates** (`npm run test:docs`, `npm run test:extension`, the C# suites):
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- - write and effect tools declare a verification method;
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- - required inputs are not described as optional;
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- - every registered invariant has a test or, for agent intent, an evaluation scenario;
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- - discovery-corpus recall meets its threshold;
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- - the startup prompt stays within budget;
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- **Contract agreement with a live bridge** is checked with `ping` or a metadata-only
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- `GET /tools`. On 26 September 2026, all 30 tools of the old deployed 0.4.0 bridge
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- reported `contract_match` against the new package. The old bridge sends no limits
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- **Agent behavior** is measured with `tests/agent-eval` on a disposable fixture,
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- | Family | `family-type-collision` | 3/3 / 3/3 | The name was seen in the overview's family block; nothing changed; 6/6 asked; 22–28 s |
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- | Site | `site-inventory` | 3/3 / 3/3 | Nothing invented; two astra answers left categories out without saying so |
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- | Site | `site-overview-view` | 3/3 / 3/3 | North-east view with terrain visible (post_check) |
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- | Project | `request-zh-empty-sheets` (Chinese) | 3/3 / 3/3 correct | 4/4 sheets in all 6 runs; astra replies in Chinese, sol gives bare lists in 2 of 3 runs |
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- 3. **Omissions not disclosed.** Two site inventories omit categories without saying so, and no answer states whether view-specific elements were counted.
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- 4. **Localized subcategory names are not accepted as filters.** The category count returns only localized names, so recovery took 4–9 calls. Results should carry the exact `BuiltInCategory` identity.
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- 5. **The project-only refusal was not exercised by an agent.** The overview told every agent the file was a family, so none called a sheet tool. The refusal was verified by a direct call.
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