ralphctl 0.6.2 → 0.7.0

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- # Sprint Feedback — Implement User Feedback
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- The sprint owner has sent you a concrete change request to carry out in this repository. Treat the **User Feedback**
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- block below as a direct instruction — a new piece of work to implement, not a review comment to reflect on. Read it
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- carefully, identify exactly which files need to be created or edited, apply the change, verify, and signal completion.
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- {{HARNESS_CONTEXT}}
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- ## Sprint: {{SPRINT_NAME}}
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- ## User Feedback — Implement this
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- ## Protocol
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- 1. **Parse the feedback as an instruction** — Identify the concrete change(s) requested. If it says "create X", create
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- 2. **Implement the change** — Create or edit the files required to satisfy the feedback. Make the smallest change that
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- 3. **Run verification** — If the project has a check script (test, typecheck, lint, or build command), run it and
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- 4. **Output verification results** — Wrap any verification output in `<task-verified>...</task-verified>`. If you
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- Only signal `<task-blocked>reason</task-blocked>` if the feedback is literally impossible to carry out (e.g., asks
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- - **The feedback is the authoritative instruction** — implement it even if it seems unrelated to the completed tasks.
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- - **Do the smallest change that fully satisfies the feedback** — no speculative refactors, no adjacent cleanup.
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- - **Make the edits — don't just describe them** — the harness does not apply edits for you; you must write the files.
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- - **Never reference sprint-local identifiers in code** — do not mention acceptance-criterion labels (`AC1`, `AC2`,
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- - **Must commit** — Create a git commit before signaling completion. Uncommitted changes leave the sprint branch dirty
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- - **Empty feedback** — If the feedback block is empty, signal `<task-blocked>No feedback provided</task-blocked>` rather than applying no change.
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- # Code Review: {{TASK_NAME}}
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- ## Review Protocol
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- **You are a reviewer — do not edit files.** If you believe a fix is needed, emit `<evaluation-failed>` with a concrete
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- 1. **Run the check script** (if provided above) — this is the same gate the harness uses post-task. If it fails, the
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- ## Phase 1: Reconnaissance (feedforward — understand before acting)
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- - Anthropic, _Claude Code Memory (CLAUDE.md)_ — empirical basis for the 200-line / 7-H2 caps and the adherence-degradation claim: https://code.claude.com/docs/en/memory
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- - Anthropic, _Claude Code Best Practices_ — source of the "no slash commands / hooks / MCP / IDE settings in the project context file" rule: https://code.claude.com/docs/en/best-practices
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- - Gloaguen et al., _Evaluating AGENTS.md_ (arXiv 2602.11988) — redundant context measurably reduces agent success rate