Every checklist command is emitted on exactly one line, however long; a
legacy backslash continuation in the runbook is joined at instantiation,
and bootstrap / learn patches write runbook lines the same way. After the
checklist the hand-back carries a Post-deploy tests block derived from the
delta diff: by-hand checks tied to delta files plus Suggestions for gaps.
Cold-resume re-display and re-hand-back regenerate both.
RED/GREEN on a scratch runbook: 4/4 baseline runs reproduced the
continuation verbatim and printed no tests; 4/4 runs on the edited skill
joined it and printed the block in the recipe's shape.
graphify: `graphify claude install` (install-plugins.sh STEP graphify)
writes SKILL.md, references/ and .graphify_version straight into the repo,
because ~/.claude/skills is a symlink to skills/. Every `pipx upgrade
graphifyy` therefore dirtied the tree and cost a `chore(graphify): sync
vendored skill X -> Y` commit. Now gitignored and untracked; a fresh clone
gets them back from `make plugin`. test-prompts.json is hand-written for
darwin and stays tracked. The accepted trade-off, documented in CLAUDE.md,
is that an upstream release can change the skill's prompt with no diff to
review.
settings.local.json (gitignored, so not in this commit) went from 14.6 KB
to 6.2 KB. It was a near-complete shadow copy of the global settings at a
higher precedence tier, which hid its own drift until the global moved.
Two entries were actively defeating BDR-090, merged an hour earlier:
- local `deny` still carried rsync / kill -9 / killall / pkill, the four
rules deliberately moved out of global deny. deny wins across sources,
so autoMode.soft_deny was a dead letter in this repo.
- local `allow` carried `sed *`, `cp *` and `python3 -`. An allow rule
short-circuits the classifier, punching a hole through the same
soft_deny rules.
deny and ask are dropped whole (102 and 27 of their entries duplicated the
global; ask gates nothing under defaultMode auto). allow went 185 -> 98:
81 duplicates plus six policy conflicts, the three above and
Read(//home/bchanot/**), WebSearch, and a leftover command-injection test
payload that had been allowlisted verbatim. Every non-permissions key was
a verbatim copy of the global, including a hooks block whose only original
entry pointed at hooks/config-protection.sh, a script that exists nowhere.
Two or more project paths dispatch one general-purpose runner per repo,
all in a single message, instead of processing repos one by one. The
runner inherits the session model — no pin, it carries tour's reflection
(fix decisions, convergence) — and every agent inside keeps its defined
tier (security-auditor sonnet, Phase B opus, doc-syncer sonnet). A dead
or mute runner becomes an explicit RUNNER FAILED summary row; the gated
capitalize offer stays in the main loop, never in a runner.
Bounded LRN-083 derogation recorded in BDR-084: the per-project fix loop
moves into its runner, but nothing a runner decides touches shared state
— independent repos, per-repo chore branches, branches left unmerged for
human review exactly as inline. Mechanics proven before building: nested
probe, 3 sub-agent windows all overlapping, 9.1s vs ~18s sequential.
Census §12: 6 locks, flip-tested. Single-project path unchanged.
The include is authoritative, but feat/bugfix/ship-feature/init-project
each restate the verify loop inline — an orchestrator following the
restatement alone would have skipped the floor. Each now carries the
GATE 0 bullet ahead of GATE 1 (4 new structure locks, flip-tested).
The contract-interview weight table stops promising a hotfix oracle
nothing executes: hotfix runs no floor, the hotfixer runs the suite
itself. CHANGELOG extended with the wiring + the RED result.
- MANAGED_EXTERNALS (emil-design-eng, frontend-design,
design-motion-principles, impeccable) + MANAGED_MCPS (magic):
cmd_set now trims both when the profile does not list them —
design leftovers no longer survive a 'set backend'
- cmd_set refactored to 4 symmetric trim helpers; nothing outside
the MANAGED_* allowlists is ever auto-toggled (darwin-skill manual)
- enable_skill external: from-source fallback (ln -sf
skills-external/<name>), mirrors toggle-external.sh
- stale usage() NOTE + SKILL.md updated to the both-ways reality
- hermetic test: 16 checks, fixture repo + fake claude shim (gstack
on-demand, from-source, park/restore, magic add/remove, non-managed
untouched); shellcheck + full make test green
Fresh-opus whole-chantier ronde (17fbe51..HEAD, EVAL-023 style): axes
severed-wires / gate-regressions / fail-open PROVEN CLEAN (all 7 new
handoffs traced end-to-end both sides). Fixed: init 5b now dispatches the
FULL-AUDIT path (auto-mode gated a missing README as SIGNIFICANT →
[CREATE-AUTO] unconditional restored, sole greenfield README path);
census locks added for /geo ERROR CONTRACT + never-re-derive (deleting
the fail-closed handler would have stayed green), doc-audit
model=opus override x5 flows, SYNTH REPORT grammar; doc-syncer ex-STEP-8
prose repointed to the dispatcher gate; plugin-advisor anim rows read
the PROBE REPORT ANIM field (no Bash anymore); client-handover 9.7
cleans the transient draft. Census caught one more line-wrapped lock
before it shipped vacuous. 133 pass / 0 fail, make test exit 0.
seo-analyzer + geo-analyzer gain MODE: collect|judge|template around the
dispatcher (mode-based, zero body-text moves — seo-data fetch-wiring
locks survive; opus pin kept = fail-safe direction, a forgotten override
over-tiers but never downgrades judgment). Run-scoped gitignored
signals handoff (.audit/*-signals-<RUNID>.md + COLLECTION COMPLETE
sentinel), judge fails closed on absent/mismatched/unsealed signals.
/seo rewired to 3 phases (domains parallel per phase) + DISPATCHER ERROR
CONTRACT (mute/ERROR judge never carried into templating; retry once,
escalate); /geo same single-domain; legacy no-MODE single-shot kept on
the opus pin for /harden narrow-scope + /onboard report-only. Dropped
/geo's 'ask and I relay' fiction (dispatched agents cannot ask).
In-wave smokes PASSED disk-verified: collect signals+sentinel; judge
ERROR-verdict on wrong RUNID; real judge = honest N/A + deterministic
engine + full scoring grammar; template = complete envelope + verbatim
sentinel + zero re-derivation. Census §18 (125 pass — one vacuous
line-wrapped lock caught by the census itself and fixed), make test
exit 0.
Reverses the BDR-066 rejected alternative (opus pins on audit agents):
session default is now Fable, so inherit burned Fable quota on every
dispatched audit/challenge. analyzer, plan-challenger, seo/geo/
validator-analyzer pinned model: opus; onboard's 6 general-purpose
audit dispatches carry model="opus"; tour Phase B repointed.
interviewer + client-handover-writer stay unpinned (inline-load only,
a pin there is inert). settings.json default: claude-fable-5[1m].
Census flipped: model-routing §3 + new §11 (61 pass), loops-light 35,
full make test green.
STEP 1.8 (Option B): skip purely cosmetic fixes (CSS/copy/typo), run the 3-lens
challenge only when the fix touches control flow/behaviour (off-by-one, wrong
operator, behaviour-changing config, execution-altering import); a BLOCKER means
it was never a hotfix -> escalate to /bugfix. 12th orchestrator wired.
- skills/hotfix/SKILL.md — STEP 1.8 guarded challenge
- lib/tests/plan-challenger.test.sh — lock hotfix into the census (43 assertions)
After a plan/reflection is elaborated and before it executes, three fresh blind
sub-agents (correctness / robustness / simplicity) attack it on the big model;
the main loop RE-THINKS every aspect a BLOCKER lands (a named plan change, or
[deferred]) and re-challenges once if the plan materially changed. Advisory into
each skill's existing human gate — the human stays the decider.
- lib/challenge-plan.md — reusable phase: fail-safe (never fail open),
severity-driven (any single-lens BLOCKER = must-address), RE-THINK loop
- agents/plan-challenger.md — challenger role (read-only, big-model per BDR-066)
- lib/tests/plan-challenger.test.sh — 41-assertion structure lock
- wired into 11 orchestrators: ship-feature/init-project/feat/bugfix (build-plan),
onboard/audit-delta/code-clean (proposals), seo/geo/harden/web-validate (fix-bundle)
Hardened by dogfooding: 3 blind challengers reviewed this feature's own v1 plan
and caught 4 BLOCKERs (fail-open, consensus-buries-lone-finding, wrong model
tier vs BDR-066, false on-disk-plan premise) — all fixed here.
STEP 0 told the user to run `mkdir -p .claude/audits/external` themselves
before handing over an external report. Three things wrong with that:
- The skill runs dozens of bash commands but outsourced this one to a human.
- The timing was impossible: to "drop the export in" that directory the user
needed it to already exist, so the instruction arrived after the moment it
would have been useful.
- The directory is not needed at all. `:218` already reads "File path given
→ Read it" — any path works — and nothing in skills/ or agents/ ever
writes to that path. Grep confirms it is referenced by exactly these two
lines and known to nothing else: a convention the skill invented, asked
the user to create, and never used.
Fix removes the precondition instead of automating it: give a path from
anywhere, the tidy location stays a suggestion.
Verified: make test 35 GREEN / 0 RED.
Headers were scored three ways: seo-analyzer priced them into the Technical
axis at both depths (:619 FULL, :635 LOCAL), depth-matrix.md:29 said drop
them, and /harden re-audits them 0-100 against three external validators.
The dedup rule and the agent spec contradicted each other; the agent won by
default, so the same finding moved two scores in two reports.
Arbitrated (user): /harden keeps them, /seo drops them. That confirms the
rule that already existed — seo-analyzer was the violator.
Constraint: /harden REUSES seo-analyzer, so the capability cannot be
deleted, only scoped. Reading is not scoring:
- Technical axis definitions no longer name security headers.
- STEP 4 still curls them — needed for X-Robots-Tag, canonical/redirect
coherence, and the §14 observed-list — but they earn no points under /seo.
- Dispatched from /harden: unchanged, headers ARE the job (verified: its
scope spec untouched, 16 header references intact).
Carve-out: X-Robots-Tag stays in /seo under indexability. It is an indexing
directive wearing a header's clothes — `noindex` there deindexes as surely
as a meta robots tag. That is what depth-matrix.md:29 means by "unless it
directly affects indexability"; the security headers do not.
Drop is not silence: mandatory §14 line on FULL naming what was observed
live plus a "run /harden <url>" pointer. A user who never runs /harden must
not read a clean Technical score as clean headers — same principle as the
mandatory COVERAGE line (I5).
Verified: make test 35 GREEN / 0 RED.
Upstream skill refresh, present in the working tree before this session —
committed here rather than left dangling. Not authored work.
- uv invocation fix: `uv tool run graphifyy python` -> `uv tool run --from
graphifyy python`. Without --from, uv resolved the command name against
the package instead of running the interpreter.
- default output is now HTML viz; --obsidian opts into the vault.
- description reworded to trigger on codebase questions generally, not
only when graphify-out/ already exists.
code-cleaner is now a pure fix executor (was audit+gate+execute). Reroute the two
read-only-audit consumers (onboard STEP 6, tour Phase B) to a big-model agent
(general-purpose/analyzer) — an audit must stay on the big model, never the sonnet
executor. Refactor now runs on sonnet inside the executor (inline-load pin was inert).
Reroute hotfix's deeper-bug escalation to the /bugfix skill (bugfixer is now a
pure executor, not loadable standalone). loops-light locks repointed to the
bugfix orchestrator + bugfixer-executor shape.
Bastien Chanot