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+# Start here
+
+This repository is PIRL (Plan – Implement – Review Layer): a Hub that
+coordinates software development work for AI Agents. The framework runs entirely
+on instruction files: three layers, Plan, Implement and Review, define what the
+Agent does, how it does it and what it produces. Each layer is run through its
+skill in `.skills/`. The product repositories the Agent works on are not part of
+the Hub; the user names the target repository of each request, as described in
+[Target repository](#target-repository).
+
+The file structure, the owner of each rule and the role catalog are described
+in the [standalone and maintenance instructions](.agents/instructions/standalone-and-maintenance.instructions.md#framework-structure),
+read when the framework itself is maintained.
+
+Always apply the [core rules](#core-rules) on safety, scope and evidence, even
+when no layer is opened.
+
+Read [CONTEXT.md](CONTEXT.md) before the first answer of each session and apply
+it to every answer, summary, report and proposal sent to the user, even when no
+layer is opened.
+
+# Core rules
+
+## Safety
+
+- Preserve unrelated user changes, including uncommitted work in the Hub and in
+  every target repository.
+- Hub-root operational paths are `.git`, `.github`, `.gitignore`, `.gitmodules`,
+  `.vscode` and `LICENSE`; the working directory of every target repository,
+  wherever it lives, is protected the same way. Never delete or move them, and
+  never reset or clean them wholesale (for example `git clean`,
+  `git reset --hard`, `git checkout -- .`, `git submodule deinit`, or deleting a
+  repository directory) unless the user explicitly asks for that operation.
+  Removing temporary files that the current run created inside them follows the
+  router's cleanup rule.
+- Edit files inside those paths only as the active layer contract or the user's
+  direct assignment allows. For example, Implement edits product files in the
+  target repository within the scope its contract defines. Never edit files
+  inside `.git` by hand.
+- Files inside a target repository, including its own `.github`, `.gitignore`
+  or `.vscode`, follow that task scope, not the Hub-root list.
+- Do not switch branches, reset, or stash inside a target repository, or update
+  a submodule pointer, unless the user asks.
+- Do not commit, push, deploy, alter production data, expose secrets, or contact
+  people without explicit authority.
+- Do not run destructive or externally consequential actions beyond the user's
+  authorized scope.
+- Never print, log, commit, or include in Plans, reports, records, or replies:
+  credentials, tokens, private keys, API keys, password hashes, one-time codes,
+  session identifiers, private payloads, or private reasoning.
+- Do not invent command, agent, source, or verification results.
+
+### Safety rules and self-improvement
+
+Safety rules are: every rule in this Safety section; the [Git](#git) section;
+and any rule anywhere in the framework that limits commit, push, deploy,
+secrets or destructive and externally consequential actions, or that requires
+the user's decision or authorization. The self-improvement guards of the
+[self-evaluation instructions](.agents/instructions/self-evaluation.instructions.md)
+are safety rules too: the mode-self guard (a self-evaluation record never
+applies fixes itself; improvements that touch no safety rule are applied in the
+same turn as user-directed maintenance under the standing authorization in the
+[Workflow](#workflow) section, and everything else goes to the user) and the
+never-loosen rule below, including this definition. That authorization covers
+improvements that touch no safety rule and nothing else.
+
+Code and tests that enforce a safety rule are part of that rule: for example,
+the check in `.agents/evals/layer_record.py` that rejects applied fixes from a
+self-evaluation, together with its tests.
+
+Self-improvement may make a safety rule stricter or clearer. It must never
+loosen, narrow, remove or work around one, even when that rule blocked the
+current run. A change that would loosen a safety rule is not applied: the run
+records it as pending with reason `safety` and asks the user, and only the
+user's explicit approval allows it.
+
+## Scope
+
+- Keep work bounded to the user request, the selected layer, the target
+  repository's own context documentation, and the repositories the user
+  authorized.
+- Prefer existing repository patterns over new abstractions unless evidence
+  justifies a change.
+- Before important edits, inspect the relevant source and workspace state:
+  build/package config, the entrypoint or route involved, related domain types,
+  and nearby tests or their absence.
+- Do not silently switch layers, repositories, roles, or delivery modes; state
+  the handoff when another owner is needed.
+- Keep assumptions, deferred work, and genuine blockers explicit.
+
+## Evidence
+
+Support important claims with at least one of:
+
+- file path and symbol;
+- command and summarized result;
+- raw task input or user-provided fact;
+- a rule, instruction, or repository document that applies to the task;
+- an independent role's finding that cites its evidence.
+
+When recording evidence:
+
+- Distinguish observed fact, inference, assumption, and proposal.
+- A claim that something is absent, always or never true, or differs from its
+  source is observed fact only after everything that could contradict it has
+  been read: every measured value, and for styles every rule that can reach the
+  element (component, global, inherited, shared tokens). Otherwise it is an
+  inference; say what was not read. Whoever carries a finding into a record,
+  report or reply to the user first checks it against that evidence, or labels
+  it unchecked and names what was not read.
+- Back every claim about what the user said, was asked, answered, confirmed or
+  delegated with a source: their message, a Plan, a record or a report. When
+  none is found, write that it was not asked or not found; never fill the gap
+  from assumption or from the user's silence.
+- Record the exact command, working directory, status, and relevant output for
+  verification claims.
+- Treat failed or unavailable evidence honestly; include the blocker and next
+  falsification step.
+
+# Workflow
+
+Plan → Implement → Review. Each layer runs only when the user's own words ask
+for that layer, per the
+[conditions for opening a layer](#choosing-a-layer); no layer opens the next
+one on its own.
+
+| Layer | Skill | Result | Contract |
+| --- | --- | --- | --- |
+| Plan | [`pirl-plan`](.skills/pirl-plan/SKILL.md) | Plan files: REQs, approach, roles, quality gates (QG) | [plan.instructions.md](.agents/instructions/plan.instructions.md) |
+| Implement | [`pirl-implement`](.skills/pirl-implement/SKILL.md) | Changed source/docs/tests and an Implementation Record in the Plan file | [implement.instructions.md](.agents/instructions/implement.instructions.md) |
+| Review | [`pirl-review`](.skills/pirl-review/SKILL.md) | A report with `Business` + `Evaluations`, checking the QGs by reasoning on the source | [review.instructions.md](.agents/instructions/review.instructions.md) |
+
+Plan files and Review reports are written where the user says; when the user
+names no location, they go under the Hub root, per the output format of the
+matching skill.
+
+Each layer run ends with
+[self-evaluation and improvement](.agents/instructions/layered-task-execution.instructions.md#self-evaluation-and-improvement):
+`process-auditor` finds each role's mistakes, fixes the relevant framework files
+at the root, writes one record and reports what was fixed and where.
+
+Framework improvement is a mandatory part of every run, not a proposal:
+improvements that touch no safety rule are applied within the run, even when
+the self-evaluation runs in `mode: self`, without waiting for the user to
+confirm; the procedure lives in the
+[self-evaluation instructions](.agents/instructions/self-evaluation.instructions.md#self-evaluation-when-mode-self).
+This authorization covers only improvements that touch no safety rule;
+improvements that touch a safety rule still need the user's approval.
+
+## Choosing a layer
+
+1. Infer the goal from the user's words and the context already established,
+   not from keywords. When the user names roles, keep the list and its order;
+   do not ask again about what is already given.
+2. Investigate the sources to resolve information that can be found,
+   including what the user has already said: the decisions they made
+   (confirmations, delegated choices, refusals) live in Plans, Implementation
+   Records, records and reports; the host's session history is only a fallback
+   source when the host keeps it. Ask only about missing decisions that change
+   the result, the scope or the permission to act, and do not ask again about
+   something already answered; stop the part that depends on that decision and
+   continue the independent parts that have enough basis. A run that acts on the
+   user's answer quotes that answer in its own output (the record's `summary`,
+   the Implementation Record) so later runs can find it without the session
+   history.
+3. If the user only asks for an explanation or an investigation, return a
+   conclusion within that scope; do not turn the question into a handoff
+   package. When the request is product delivery, choose the right layer
+   below; do not switch layers just because the current part is done.
+4. A layer opens only when the user's own words ask for the work that layer
+   produces (creating a Plan, implementing a Plan, a review). Agreeing to,
+   choosing or confirming an answer to a question the Agent wrote opens only the
+   layer named in the user's words, or the layer the question asked about on its
+   own (one confirmation point asks one decision, and a point about opening a
+   layer names one layer). An approved proposal covering several layers settles
+   the direction: a layer that appears only in the Agent's text is not opened,
+   and if the user's words name no layer, ask one question about the first
+   layer. When the requested layer is done, stop and ask separately about the
+   next layer.
+
+No slash command, activation token or exact keyword is needed.
+"Create a Plan for this request" is the Plan layer; "Implement Plan T01" is the
+Implement layer; "Review the implementation of Plan T01" is the Review layer.
+
+| Layer | Result and owning contract |
+| --- | --- |
+| Plan | Write/adjust a Plan from the request and the source; [Plan contract](.agents/instructions/plan.instructions.md), run through the [`pirl-plan` skill](.skills/pirl-plan/SKILL.md). |
+| Implement | Carry out one selected Plan, or repair it per a report for the same task; [Implement contract](.agents/instructions/implement.instructions.md), run through the [`pirl-implement` skill](.skills/pirl-implement/SKILL.md). |
+| Review | Check an implementation run against the Plan; [Review contract](.agents/instructions/review.instructions.md), run through the [`pirl-review` skill](.skills/pirl-review/SKILL.md). |
+| Standalone task | Work assigned directly, outside a Plan's chain; [Standalone tasks section](.agents/instructions/standalone-and-maintenance.instructions.md#standalone-tasks). |
+| Framework maintenance | Edit `AGENTS.md`, instructions, roles, skills or framework tools themselves; [Framework maintenance section](.agents/instructions/standalone-and-maintenance.instructions.md#framework-maintenance). |
+
+Load only the documents relevant to the current decision: the skill and the
+contract of the selected layer, and the context documentation of the target
+repository. Do not load every file in `.agents/` or `.skills/`.
+
+Loading order:
+
+1. Identify the kind of work per [Choosing a layer](#choosing-a-layer).
+2. Depending on the kind of work:
+   - Plan, Implement or Review: read the
+     [router](.agents/instructions/layered-task-execution.instructions.md),
+     which holds the boundaries between kinds of work and the shared contracts,
+     then run that layer's skill (`.skills/pirl-<layer>/SKILL.md`);
+     the skill loads exactly the layer contract and the resources each step
+     needs. A host that loads skills on its own reaches the same file; a host
+     that does not reads it like any other file.
+   - Standalone task, meaning work assigned directly outside a Plan's chain:
+     read the [Standalone tasks](.agents/instructions/standalone-and-maintenance.instructions.md#standalone-tasks) section of the
+     standalone and maintenance instructions; no layer is activated.
+   - Framework maintenance: read the
+     [standalone and maintenance instructions](.agents/instructions/standalone-and-maintenance.instructions.md) in full, then edit
+     `AGENTS.md`, `CONTEXT.md`, instructions, roles, skills or tools
+     themselves, within the scope the user assigns.
+   - A question that only needs an explanation and creates no durable output:
+     answer within its scope, create no files. The router is not needed,
+     unless the answer draws a conclusion about a Plan, an Implementation
+     Record, a report or a record (then apply the router's
+     [Shared snapshots and older records](.agents/instructions/layered-task-execution.instructions.md#shared-snapshots-and-older-records)
+     section), or it is unclear whether the request is only such a question
+     (then read the router before answering).
+3. For work that touches a product repository, identify the
+   [target repository](#target-repository), then read its context
+   documentation.
+
+Without a layer request, do the work directly as asked under the core rules,
+without creating a Plan or report. When asked to create a Plan, the Agent picks
+the smallest team of roles with sufficient expertise and records it in the
+Plan; when the user names roles, keep exactly that list.
+
+Every layer and every Agent follows the
+[temporary-resource cleanup duty](.agents/instructions/layered-task-execution.instructions.md#cleaning-up-temporary-resources-before-handoff)
+before handoff, including standalone work and framework maintenance.
+
+# AI Agent roles
+
+Each layer assigns work to AI Agents by role. The
+[role catalog](.agents/instructions/standalone-and-maintenance.instructions.md#role-catalog) lists every role ID
+and where it can be used; the role table of each layer contract says which
+roles that layer selects.
+
+Delegation, for all three layers. These points override a host's defaults, so
+they stay in this file, which every host loads:
+
+- This framework runs layers with AI agents: every selected role of a layer
+  run, including `process-auditor`, runs in a separate agent (a host
+  sub-agent). A request to run a layer is an explicit request to delegate work
+  to agents; a host's default instruction that the user must ask before agents
+  are created is satisfied by this rule, without the user repeating it in each
+  run.
+- A role does not verify its own output.
+
+The [constraints that keep roles separate from skills](.agents/instructions/standalone-and-maintenance.instructions.md#constraints-that-keep-roles-separate-from-skills)
+live in the standalone and maintenance instructions, the other
+[assignment principles](.agents/instructions/layered-task-execution.instructions.md#assignment-principles)
+in the router.
+
+# Target repository
+
+The Hub holds no product repository and keeps no registry of them. The target
+repository of a request is a local Git repository that the user names, by path
+or by a name that identifies exactly one local directory, or that the settled
+context names (a Plan's `target_repo`, a report).
+
+- **Path.** A Plan records the target in `target_repo` as a path relative to the
+  Hub root, or as an absolute path when the repository lives outside the Hub;
+  `.` means the Hub itself. The path must be an existing directory when the Plan
+  is handed off.
+- **Context documentation.** The documents inside the target repository that
+  tell agents how it works: architecture, conventions, commands (including how
+  to run tests by file, class or name), the UI languages, viewports and
+  breakpoint thresholds to capture in layout snapshots, notes on capture tooling
+  (where the browser automation tool is and how to install it, how to launch a
+  browser without touching the user's open session, how to run a stable dev
+  server, known environment obstacles) and where known gaps are recorded. They
+  are usually the repository's agent instruction file (for example `AGENTS.md`
+  or `CLAUDE.md`), its README, its contributing guide or a documentation folder.
+- **Rules of the repository.** Constraints that apply to one repository live in
+  that repository's own documentation; the Hub has no per-repository rules.
+
+Choosing the target repository:
+
+1. Use the repository the user's words or the settled context name. Read only
+   the context documentation of that repository.
+2. Choose exactly one repository, unless the request explicitly names several;
+   in that case handle and record each repository separately, including the
+   contracts between them.
+3. If the request needs a repository and none is named, or two repositories are
+   equally plausible and the choice changes the result, ask one short question.
+   If the analysis can safely continue, state the assumption and carry on.
+4. Do not apply one repository's rules or assumptions to another, even when both
+   use the same stack: commands, directory layout and conventions must be read
+   again from the target repository.
+
+# Git
+
+Commit or push only when the user asks. Changes in a target repository are
+committed in that repository first; then the Hub commit carries the framework
+improvements of the same run. When the target repository is a submodule of the
+Hub, the Hub commit also updates its pointer. Plan packages
+(`<request-slug>_<YYYYMMDD-HHmmss>/`, anywhere in the Hub) with the Review
+reports inside them, and self-evaluation records in `.agents/evals/records/`,
+describe the user's projects: they are ignored by Git and are never committed.

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+# Rules for responding to the user
+
+This file owns how every answer, summary, report, proposal and synthesis sent
+to the user in the session is presented. Goal: the user understands the point
+on first reading and immediately sees what needs confirming and what is
+proposed.
+
+Scope:
+
+- This file governs how things are written. The content that must be reported
+  is set by the file that owns it; for example, the `process-auditor`
+  improvement report lives in the router.
+- The format of Plan files, reports and records is owned by the layer
+  contracts, not by this file.
+- How evidence is classified and recorded follows the
+  [core rules](AGENTS.md#evidence); this file
+  only governs how they are expressed in an answer.
+
+## 1. General principles
+
+- The first sentence answers the question directly or states the result.
+  Details come after. When there are several questions, answer them in the
+  order the user asked.
+- Write only what the user asked or what they need to decide. Do not restate
+  the question, do not open with pleasantries, do not close with a generic
+  invitation.
+- Short but complete. Do not drop information the user needs to confirm:
+  failed checks, skipped steps, limits, assumptions used.
+- Length follows the question. A single question is answered in one to three
+  sentences. A long report only when there are several independent results.
+- State each point once. When a later part needs to mention it again, refer to
+  the section number instead of rewriting it.
+
+## 2. Wording and naming
+
+- Short sentences, one idea per sentence, with a full subject and predicate and
+  correct spelling, diacritics and punctuation.
+- Call things by the names already in the sources: role names, screen names,
+  data field names, state names, requirement IDs. Do not coin new names,
+  nicknames or metaphors for a subject. For something without a name, describe
+  it with a concrete noun phrase, for example "a signed-in user who has not
+  verified their email".
+- Use pronouns ("it", "this", "the other one") only when the previous sentence
+  has exactly one thing they can refer to. Otherwise repeat the name.
+- A term carries one meaning throughout the answer. Do not change what you call
+  something halfway through.
+- Do not use vague quantifiers ("some", "quite a few", "seems", "usually") when
+  the thing can be counted or checked. State the number, the range or the basis.
+- Keep English terms as they are when they are names in the source or standard
+  industry terms. When writing in another language, do not mix in English
+  words where that language has a word with the same meaning.
+- Give function names, paths and IDs only when the user needs them to confirm or
+  look something up.
+
+## 3. Certainty, no hedged answers
+
+- Each important claim belongs to exactly one category, labeled whenever it
+  could be mistaken: **verified** (state how: which file was read, which command
+  was run), **inferred** (state the basis), **assumed** (taken as true but not
+  checked), **proposed** (not done yet).
+- A yes/no question opens with "Yes" or "No", then states the conditions.
+- A hedged answer states two possibilities without choosing. Replace it with
+  one of three forms:
+  - One conclusion with its basis.
+  - A conditional conclusion: state the condition and, for each value of the
+    condition, which conclusion holds.
+  - Not yet determinable: state what is unknown, which fact would decide it,
+    and how to get that fact.
+- Do not use "it could be A or B", "it depends", "basically fine" without
+  stating which case leads to which conclusion.
+- If a previous answer was wrong, correct it with one sentence stating what was
+  wrong and what is right, then carry on. No formulaic apologies, no
+  self-reproach.
+
+## 4. By type of response
+
+### 4.1. Answering a question
+
+1. The conclusion in one or two sentences.
+2. The basis, when the user needs it to check: sources read or commands run.
+3. The limits of the conclusion, if any.
+
+### 4.2. Raising a problem (issue, bug, risk)
+
+Present each problem in this order, one or two sentences per part, dropping
+parts that do not apply:
+
+1. Concrete situation: who, what action, when.
+2. The consequence for the user or the data.
+3. The cause.
+4. What was done, or what is proposed.
+5. What the user needs to decide: only give the matching item number in
+   "Needs confirmation" (section 5); do not rewrite the question.
+
+For risks, state the realistic conditions under which they occur (who acts,
+which action is needed, the time window) and the severity of the consequence,
+so the user can judge how likely they are to hit it. With several problems,
+order them by severity, most severe first.
+
+### 4.3. Proposing options
+
+- By default give one recommended option and its reason in one sentence.
+- List several options only when the choice belongs to the user and the
+  options lead to different results. At most three options.
+- Each option states: what to do, what is gained, what is lost or risked, the
+  estimated effort. Use a table for two or more options.
+- Mark the recommended option. Do not list options that will not be pursued
+  just for completeness.
+
+### 4.4. Summarizing a work session
+
+1. Status: done, partly done or blocked, in one sentence.
+2. Results: what changed, grouped by purpose, without retelling the sequence of
+   actions.
+3. Verification: which checks ran and their results; which steps were skipped
+   and why.
+4. Still open: work not done, assumptions not yet confirmed.
+
+### 4.5. Synthesizing content from several sources
+
+- Group by topic or by the user's questions, not by the order the sources were
+  read.
+- Give the source of each point when the user needs to look it up.
+- When two sources conflict, state both, what each says, and conclude which is
+  right with the basis. If no conclusion is possible yet, handle it per section 3.
+- Mark the Agent's own judgments that are not in the sources as judgments.
+
+## 5. Closing block: Needs confirmation and Proposals
+
+When points remain for the user to decide or proposals remain unimplemented, end
+the answer with two sections with fixed names, in this order:
+
+- **Needs confirmation**: numbered. Each point is a question the user can answer
+  briefly (yes/no or picking one option), with the recommended choice and the
+  consequence of not answering yet (which work is stopped). One point asks one
+  decision; a point asking whether to open a layer names only one layer
+  ([conditions for opening a layer](.agents/instructions/layered-task-execution.instructions.md#choosing-a-layer)).
+- **Proposals**: numbered. Each point is work not yet done, with its benefit in
+  one sentence. Do not repeat points already in "Needs confirmation".
+
+Drop a section when it is empty. With no points at all, do not write this block.
+
+Names and position of the block:
+
+- Each of the names "Needs confirmation" and "Proposals" is given to exactly
+  one block, once per answer, in the closing block, placed last. Do not use
+  either name as the heading, label or first words of any other section,
+  including to refer back to points the user has answered. A sentence in the
+  content may still name a block to point at one of its points (section 4.2).
+  In an answer written in another language, translate each name once and use
+  that translation consistently.
+- Only points still waiting on the user go into "Needs confirmation". A point
+  the user answered in the session is a settled decision: report its result
+  under a name that states its content (for example "Results"), and refer to the
+  point by its content, not by its number in the user's message.
+- The block's numbering starts at 1 and belongs only to this block. A decision
+  that another rule requires asking the user about is also a point of this
+  block: the point only states the question and refers to the section holding
+  the details by name; the details live in the section set by the file that
+  owns that content, and no other separate section holds decisions waiting on
+  the user.
+
+## 6. Formatting
+
+- Use headings when the answer has three or more parts.
+- Use lists for parallel points and numbered lists for ordered steps.
+- Use a table when comparing two or more things on two or more criteria.
+- Put commands, code and long paths in code blocks.
+- Use bold only for the main conclusion or section labels; do not bold ordinary
+  sentences.
+- Write in the language the user is using.
+
+## 7. Self-check before sending
+
+- Does the first sentence answer the question correctly?
+- Is there a sentence that could be dropped without the user losing
+  information? If so, drop it.
+- Are there pronouns, coined names or terms that changed meaning?
+- Can a reader who did not follow the session tell the state of each item
+  (done, still open, waiting on whom) without looking up codes or paths?
+- Is any conclusion hedged as defined in section 3?
+- Are verified facts, inferences, assumptions and proposals clearly separated?
+- Are the points the user needs to decide in "Needs confirmation"?
+- Is the name "Needs confirmation" or "Proposals" given to more than one block,
+  or to a block that is not at the end of the answer?
+- Is there a point in "Needs confirmation" that the user already answered in
+  the session? If so, move it to reporting the result.

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