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type: decisions_registry
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entry_prefix: BDR
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schema:
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id: BDR-XXX
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date: YYYY-MM-DD
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title: string (<= 80 chars)
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decision: string (what was chosen)
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why: string (motivation, context)
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alternatives: list of strings (what was rejected + why)
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status: [proposed | accepted | deprecated | superseded]
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supersedes: BDR-XXX (optional)
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rules:
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- Append-only. Never rewrite past entries - add new one with status superseded if needed.
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- One entry per non-trivial choice. Trivial = reversible under 10 min, no cross-file impact.
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- Capture why more carefully than what - what rots, why lasts.
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---
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# Decisions registry (BDR)
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## Index
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| ID | Date | Title | Status |
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|----|------|-------|--------|
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| BDR-001 | 2026-04-22 | Uniform --help helper via session-start hook (option C) | accepted · won't-build 2026-06-30 |
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| BDR-002 | 2026-04-23 | Move tasks/ + introduce memory + audits under .claude/ | accepted |
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| BDR-003 | 2026-04-23 | Gitignore wildcard + negations pattern for .claude/ | accepted |
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| BDR-004 | 2026-04-27 | Adopt auto permission mode as default | accepted |
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| BDR-005 | 2026-04-27 | `motion` as default animation library; advisor stays read-only | accepted |
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| BDR-006 | 2026-05-03 | Caveman as 4th always-on plugin (output compression) | accepted |
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| BDR-007 | 2026-05-04 | Skill profiles partition gstack by usage (design / dev / qa / audit / minimal) | accepted |
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| BDR-008 | 2026-05-04 | Profile system v2: extend to plugins + MCPs + CLIs (web/seo/web-full/backend) | accepted |
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| BDR-009 | 2026-05-05 | Mandate caveman format on .claude/memory/ registries | accepted |
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| BDR-010 | 2026-05-07 | Gate GEO independently at ≥17/20 in client-handover pipeline | accepted |
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| BDR-011 | 2026-05-07 | Client handover deliverable: 4-chapter structure + ZenQuality branded HTML/PDF | superseded by BDR-013 (6-chapter doc) |
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| BDR-012 | 2026-05-07 | client-handover cover: white bg + green accents + PNG logo default | accepted |
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| BDR-013 | 2026-05-11 | client-handover: 6-chapter doc — promote scores §2 + NAP §4 | accepted |
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| BDR-014 | 2026-05-11 | Personal SKILL.md descriptions: "Use when [triggers]…" pattern + 1024-char spec limit | accepted |
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| BDR-015 | 2026-05-12 | Exclude broken gstack symlinks from /darwin-skill scope (external ownership) | accepted · trigger cleared by BDR-043 |
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| BDR-016 | 2026-05-15 | doc-syncer: README AUTO+unconditional, DEPLOY.md prod-only + 14-section VPS template | accepted |
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| BDR-017 | 2026-05-18 | `full` profile = web-full + plan + dev superset for /init-project MVP | accepted |
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| BDR-018 | 2026-06-02 | `profile gstack on/off` verb — toggle gstack keeping active-profile label | accepted |
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| BDR-019 | 2026-06-09 | Remove `disable-model-invocation` repo-wide — align skills with CLAUDE.md routing | accepted |
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| BDR-020 | 2026-06-11 | `/audit-delta`: per-axis SHA markers + always-on fix gate + unreachable-first-run = full report-only | accepted |
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| BDR-021 | 2026-06-27 | CLAUDE.md restructure: contradiction purge, project-specific sections labeled, critical sections never compressed | accepted |
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| BDR-022 | 2026-06-18 | doc-syncer scoped to public docs; `.claude/` + `CLAUDE.md` read-only context, never targets; conventions + clean mode | accepted |
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| BDR-023 | 2026-06-19 | Merge /close into /capitalize — 2 modes + TODO reconcile; /close alias | accepted |
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| BDR-024 | 2026-06-27 | `profile show --plain` = claude-free parse contract for the design gate | accepted |
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| BDR-025 | 2026-06-27 | Design gate profile-based; remedy `/profile design`; magic required-but-manual; unknown → fail-visible; claude via PATH-repair | accepted |
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| BDR-026 | 2026-06-27 | Secret source-of-truth outside the repo (`~/.claude/.env`) reached via a `repo/.env` symlink | accepted |
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| BDR-027 | 2026-06-27 | Minimal npm-via-nvm bootstrap over a centralized prereq lib | accepted |
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| BDR-028 | 2026-06-27 | Hand-curated config install-immutable (auto-revert guard) + de-vendor installer-managed skills | accepted |
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| BDR-029 | 2026-06-27 | Installer auto-fixes gstack browser on an OS newer than its pinned Playwright supports | accepted |
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| BDR-030 | 2026-06-27 | gstack skills activated ON-DEMAND per profile, not pre-installed; OFF by default stays | accepted |
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| BDR-031 | 2026-06-27 | global CLAUDE.md lightening = COMPRESSION, not path-scope / externalization | accepted · 275-line target superseded by BDR-062 |
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| BDR-032 | 2026-06-27 | skill `/validate` → `/web-validate` (rename user surface, keep internals) | accepted |
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| BDR-033 | 2026-06-27 | design-gate §4: anim-lib suggestion — suggest-only, non-blocking, stateless 1-line | accepted |
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| BDR-034 | 2026-06-26 | Coupled-capitalize invariant v1 — memory commit auto per dev flow (Frame 2) | accepted |
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| BDR-035 | 2026-06-26 | Analyze-before-plan invariant v1 — read-before bookend of coupled-capitalize | accepted |
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| BDR-036 | 2026-06-27 | Doc-sync coupled invariant — commit docs doc-syncer patches (twin of BDR-034, BUILT not reordered) | accepted |
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| BDR-037 | 2026-06-27 | v2 capitalize Stop-hook rejected → wire /capitalize+/close to the include | accepted |
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| BDR-038 | 2026-06-27 | deploy skill: per-project learning runbook, two-moment cold-resume | superseded by BDR-054 (NEXT.sh, hand-back) |
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| BDR-039 | 2026-06-29 | Gitea branch protection = Option-1 owner-pushable, not require-PR | accepted |
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| BDR-040 | 2026-06-29 | doc-syncer MINOR-shape oracle: deterministic floor under LLM's MINOR call | accepted |
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| BDR-041 | 2026-06-30 | /reconcile = deterministic declared-vs-real engine + thin gated skill (reconciler, not lister) | accepted |
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| BDR-042 | 2026-06-30 | /release-candidate = thin orchestrator over gitflow release; the tag lives in the skill, not the lib | accepted |
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| BDR-043 | 2026-06-30 | BDR-015 trigger cleared — 5 ex-broken gstack symlinks repaired → darwin re-baseline back in scope (unblocked, NOT run) | accepted |
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| BDR-044 | 2026-06-30 | auto-skill-dispatch won't-build — under-routing fear inverted to over-routing by cartography, then measured: model discriminates (clear→route, ambiguous→ask, trivial→abstain) | accepted · won't-build |
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| BDR-045 | 2026-07-01 | Standalone memory/doc skills branch to chore/* via aiguillage (hook exemption kept) | accepted |
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| BDR-046 | 2026-07-01 | Claude Code installs via official native installer (curl claude.ai/install.sh), drop npm from install.sh | accepted |
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| BDR-047 | 2026-07-01 | ECC audit → zero import; local config ahead of reference | accepted |
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| BDR-048 | 2026-07-03 | semgrep security gate: engine version + rulesets PINNED, never --config auto; upgrade = deliberate visible human jump | accepted |
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| BDR-049 | 2026-07-03 | verifier = fresh + blind (no iteration history) + disk-contract + PROOF-or-fail; mute ≠ PASS; scope enrichment via human micro-gate | accepted |
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| BDR-050 | 2026-07-03 | universal pipeline (contract→dev inline→fresh verify→fresh security, loops bounded 3× in main loop) with per-flow weighting; hotfix failure = revert not loop | accepted |
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| BDR-051 | 2026-07-04 | contract enrich-at-gate: the contract grows ONLY at a human micro-gate ([gated] marker); the verifier judges the ENRICHED contract, not the seed | accepted |
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| BDR-052 | 2026-07-05 | /tour auto mode = branch-as-gate: no mid-run approval gates; unmerged chore branch + per-project TOUR.md = deferred human gate; reconcile report-only; loop bounded 3× | accepted |
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| BDR-053 | 2026-07-06 | ctx7 single surface: keep find-docs skill, kill context7.md rule | accepted |
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| BDR-054 | 2026-07-06 | supersede BDR-038 NEXT.sh/hand-back artifacts — shipped impl removed both (52f6678, LRN-102) | accepted |
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| BDR-055 | 2026-07-07 | job5: delete memory-commit/doc-commit `pending` verbs — v2 hook rejected (BDR-037), J4-17 closed MOOT | accepted |
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| BDR-056 | 2026-07-07 | job6: deps policy = latest gated by integration, not KEEP-PINNED by default | accepted |
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| BDR-057 | 2026-07-07 | job7: secrets by reference not by value; redact at capture, not just at rest | accepted |
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| BDR-058 | 2026-07-07 | job8: darwin-skill reinstall full pinned tree, detached HEAD (skills CLI single-file-fetch gap) | accepted |
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| BDR-059 | 2026-07-07 | job8: explicit ask-gate for all 4 magic MCP tools, empty allow stays empty | accepted |
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| BDR-060 | 2026-07-08 | job9: CC orchestration floor = v2.1.172 (nested dispatch), supersedes implicit v2.1.83 whole-system floor | accepted |
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| BDR-061 | 2026-07-08 | job9: seo/geo analyzers → fix-bundle→L1 by doctrine (validator-analyzer pattern), not by version constraint | accepted |
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| BDR-062 | 2026-07-08 | supersede BDR-031's 275 CLAUDE.md target — 305 assumed reality (extraction done at job1; more compression costs clarity > tokens); guard threshold realigned 280→320 | accepted |
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| BDR-063 | 2026-07-10 | GSC multi-account: OAuth2 installed-app flow + label-keyed token store, explicit (account,property) args, no global state | accepted |
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| BDR-064 | 2026-07-14 | global memory split: repo file → CLAUDE.global.md (deployed name unchanged), CLAUDE.md freed for project scope; consumer/maintainer wording rule | accepted |
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| BDR-065 | 2026-07-14 | transient planning artifacts (superpowers spec/plan): committed during run, deleted post-merge; git history = archive; codified in project CLAUDE.md | accepted |
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| BDR-066 | 2026-07-15 | Model routing: reflection inline (session big model) + sonnet-pinned executors + blocking gate | accepted |
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| BDR-067 | 2026-07-16 | first public release: versioning reset to v1.0.0 (override "never restart at v1.0.0") — 2026-07-16 | SHIPPED |
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| BDR-068 | 2026-07-16 | /capitalize + /close auto-persist memory (finish→develop + push); scoped LRN-069 exception — 2026-07-16 | implemented on feature/close-auto-persist |
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| BDR-069 | 2026-07-16 | permissions deny: keep broad `.env.*` glob, keep `.env.example` name (option A) — 2026-07-16 | implemented on chore/fix-inert-write-deny-rules |
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| BDR-070 | 2026-07-17 | claude-seo: cherry-pick scripts into our tree, never install; /seo stays sole entry | accepted |
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| BDR-071 | 2026-07-17 | No viable free backlink source → Off-page axis stays brand-mentions-only (FINAL, not placeholder) | accepted |
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| BDR-072 | 2026-07-17 | SPA: honest refuse (On-page N/A, not zero), no headless browser (R2 over R1) | accepted |
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| BDR-073 | 2026-07-17 | Scoring: LLM judges findings+severity, engine does the arithmetic (deterministic /20) | accepted |
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| BDR-074 | 2026-07-17 | Remove config-protection edit-block guardrail | accepted |
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| BDR-075 | 2026-07-17 | Framework-wide 3-way adversarial plan-challenge phase | accepted |
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| BDR-076 | 2026-07-19 | Dispatched judgment agents pinned OPUS; session model = orchestration + inline reflection ONLY | accepted |
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| BDR-077 | 2026-07-19 | Model-tiering v2: 4-tier explicit routing, mode-based splits, no-inherit dispatches | accepted |
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| BDR-078 | 2026-07-20 | ctx7 coverage: central fast-libs list + once-per-session reminder hook; every code path covered | accepted |
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| BDR-079 | 2026-07-20 | profile `set` symmetric on managed externals + MCPs | accepted |
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| BDR-080 | 2026-07-21 | Bug routing inverted: /bugfix primary, /investigate explicit-only | accepted |
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| BDR-081 | 2026-07-30 | Config recalibrated for Claude 5 family (Opus 5 dispatch tier) | accepted |
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| BDR-082 | 2026-08-02 | seo/geo analyzers de-prescribed for Opus 5 (C1) | accepted |
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| BDR-083 | 2026-08-24 | Contract gates: deterministic floor (GATE 0) under the fresh verifier | accepted |
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| BDR-084 | 2026-08-24 | /tour multi-project: parallel runners (LRN-083 derogation, bounded), runner inherits session model | accepted |
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| BDR-085 | 2026-08-25 | User permanent rules: writing-style always-on in rules/, web build+security path-scoped | accepted |
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| BDR-086 | 2026-08-26 | darwin: threshold gates full loops; verified defects fixed regardless of unit score (paired-validated, batched checkpoint) | accepted |
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| BDR-087 | 2026-09-03 | Stop hook = attention signal only, never control flow; one script for Notification + Stop | accepted |
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| BDR-088 | 2026-09-15 | gstack Playwright bump shared via lib, re-applied after submodule update; update helper never touches the submodule tree | accepted |
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| BDR-089 | 2026-09-15 | No Playwright browser-cache pruner; read-only doctor report — .links proved 0 bytes reclaimable | accepted |
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| BDR-090 | 2026-09-15 | Destructive shell work → autoMode soft_deny/hard_deny; `ask` tier abandoned (inert under auto) | accepted |
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| BDR-091 | 2026-09-16 | Ask, don't guess: open-choice sweep (3 classes) at plan step + mid-run CLASS channel supersede "one question upfront" | accepted |
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| BDR-092 | 2026-09-16 | docker + node framed by the classifier via autoMode.allow + soft_deny; ask entries retired | accepted |
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| BDR-093 | 2026-09-22 | 21st.dev: magic MCP → CLI + skill pack; staged install past the ~/.claude/skills symlink; CLI = gate's required-manual | accepted |
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| BDR-094 | 2026-09-22 | impeccable: global-scope install through the repo symlinks, pin + @latest fallback, output-read failure check | accepted |
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| BDR-095 | 2026-09-22 | Data-loss guardrails: static deny for transfer/destructive tools, push every commit, brief ≠ user authority | accepted |
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| BDR-096 | 2026-09-24 | Branch deletion guard: lib-only delete after verified merge, main/develop undeletable at the ref layer | accepted |
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| BDR-097 | 2026-09-24 | graphify from 200 tracked code files: the banner informs, the user decides | accepted |
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| BDR-098 | 2026-09-24 | CLAUDE.global.md density pass 352 → 270: compression only, three name-obvious routing lines dropped | accepted |
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| BDR-099 | 2026-09-24 | C2 coherence: 30 doctrine/skill tensions resolved, doctrine wins, BDR-068 kept as the written exception | accepted |
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| BDR-100 | 2026-09-24 | Guardrail evasion and partial rule changes get mechanisms, not lessons: refusal ends the attempt, citers census in make test | accepted |
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| BDR-101 | 2026-09-25 | `full` = default profile: no selection ⇒ full in force, `reset` applies it, install applies it | accepted |
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| BDR-102 | 2026-09-27 | agent-skills: no plugin, vendor 3 skills + build floor-guard + routing census + rest-api rule | accepted |
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| BDR-103 | 2026-09-27 | 6-repo review: 5 verdicts, 3 criteria (grep-verified coverage, per-session cost, doctrine conflict); stars decided nothing | accepted |
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| BDR-104 | 2026-09-28 | MengTo motion pack: vendor 5 scroll skills pinned via shared lib/vendor-skills.sh + build personal skill site-motion; 17 skipped | accepted |
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| BDR-105 | 2026-09-28 | skill-catalog prune: 9 gstack out via GSTACK_REMOVED, full ⊇ every profile, max = everything, brightdata + frontend-design plugin off, security-guidance Stop review off, design gate asks `21st login` and waits | accepted |
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| BDR-106 | 2026-09-28 | superpowers: 7 wired skills vendored at v6.4.1 via lib/vendor-skills.sh (always_on lock class), plugin + marketplace dropped, citers by bare name, doctrine map for the 4 non-vendored refs | accepted |
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| BDR-107 | 2026-09-28 | Effort tiering: session high, effort pins on 20 agents (BDR-077 second axis), entry level on 30 skills, five paired shifter skills, max at loop caps + ship-feature 4b | accepted |
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| BDR-108 | 2026-09-29 | Effort round: level on every skill next to its model pin (3 repo + 25 vendored via `lib/effort-pins.txt` re-applied after the LAST vendoring step of install + resync), design stack ONE level (high), model pins stay tier aliases: quality/price trade-off = tier × effort, never version | accepted |
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## BDR-001 — Uniform --help helper via session-start hook (option C)
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- **Date**: 2026-04-22
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- **Status**: accepted
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- **Decision**: every skill expose `--help` via shared snippet injected by session-start hook, not duplicate helper in each SKILL.md.
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- **Why**: 25+ skills — keep same helper synced across every file guarantees drift. Single injection point = single source of truth.
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- **Alternatives rejected**:
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- Option A (copy helper into each SKILL.md) — rejected: maintenance entropy.
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- Option B (external wrapper `/help <skill>`) — rejected: breaks "one command = one skill" experience.
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- **Reference**: commit 3968a29.
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- **Won't-build (2026-06-30)**: accepted but never built. MEASURED before building — behavioral RED, 6 reps (`/web-validate` + `/harden`, no instruction): **6/6 already render rich help AND stop without dispatching** (even `/harden` didn't start its audit). The intended behavior is already spontaneous (universal `--help` convention); the ONLY residual value of the global instruction = format CONSISTENCY across 6 divergent shapes — judged not worth ~5 lines in a [[BDR-031]]-compressed CLAUDE.md on a solo repo. Not "abandoned" — measured non-rentable. Per-skill option stays rejected (original Decision above). See [[LRN-080]], [[LRN-075]].
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## BDR-002 — Move tasks/ + introduce memory + audits under .claude/
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- **Date**: 2026-04-23
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- **Status**: accepted
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- **Decision**: migrate `./tasks/` to `.claude/tasks/`, create `.claude/memory/` (5 registries BDR/LRN/BLK/journal/EVAL) and `.claude/audits/` for AUDIT_* files. Adapt skills/agents/CLAUDE.md. Integrate CAPITALIZE step into completion skills (ship-feature, feat, bugfix, hotfix, commit-change), add `/close` skill for session-end ritual.
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- **Why**: group all meta-project state (AI config + tasks + memory + audits) under `.claude/` isolate Claude governance from real code. Aligned with official Claude Code memory docs. Without integration in completion skills, registries stay empty (aspirational text).
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- **Alternatives rejected**:
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- Keep `./tasks/` at root — rejected: clutters repo, mixes code signal with governance signal.
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- Use `.claude/agent-memory/` for everything — rejected: `agent-memory/` has distinct role (already used by other tools).
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- Ritual as aspirational text only in CLAUDE.md — rejected: zero execution guarantee, registries stay empty.
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- `Stop` hook to ask 3 questions every turn — rejected: too noisy.
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## BDR-003 — Gitignore wildcard + negations pattern for `.claude/`
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- **Date**: 2026-04-23
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- **Status**: accepted
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- **Decision**: use `.claude/*` (wildcard match of immediate children) + negations `!.claude/tasks/`, `!.claude/memory/`, etc., not `.claude/` (recursive ignore).
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- **Why**: when parent ignored via `.claude/`, git no descend (performance optimization) and negations on children **ignored** — documented in `gitignore(5)`. With `.claude/*`, git matches each child individually, negations active.
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- **Alternatives rejected**:
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- `.claude/` + `!.claude/tasks/` (naive) — rejected: negations no effect, everything stays ignored.
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- Drop `.claude/` from gitignore entirely — rejected: `.claude/settings.local.json` and `.claude/agent-memory/` must stay ignored (per-machine).
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- Track paths via `.gitattributes` or external tool — rejected: over-engineering, git handles natively.
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- **Reference**: commit `499cd07`, `git check-ignore -v` verified on 4 paths (2 tracked, 2 ignored).
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## BDR-004 — Adopt auto permission mode as default
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- **Date**: 2026-04-27
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- **Status**: accepted
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- **Decision**: set `permissions.defaultMode` to `"auto"` in user-scope `settings.json`, drop `disableAutoMode: "disable"`. Auto mode runs classifier on every action, blocks risky operations (`curl|bash`, prod deploys, force push, IAM grants, mass deletes, exfiltration to external endpoints), auto-approves local edits, lockfile-declared dep installs, read-only HTTP.
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- **Why**: prompt fatigue under `default` mode big on multi-step autonomous work. Auto mode keeps safety net (classifier review) without per-tool friction. Classifier re-evaluates conversation-stated boundaries ("don't push", "wait for review") on every check, verbal constraints carry weight.
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- **Alternatives rejected**:
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- Keep `default` — too many prompts, breaks flow on long tasks.
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- `acceptEdits` — eliminates prompts but no classifier, blanket trust on Bash beyond filesystem helpers.
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- `bypassPermissions` — skips all checks, no prompt-injection guard. Only for isolated containers.
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- `dontAsk` — full denylist, breaks anything not pre-approved. Suited to CI, not interactive work.
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- **Caveats**: requires Claude Code v2.1.83+, plan ≠ Pro (Max/Team/Enterprise/API only), Sonnet 4.6 / Opus 4.6 / Opus 4.7, Anthropic API provider. On entering auto mode, blanket allow rules (`Bash(*)`, `Bash(python*)`, package-manager run, `Agent`) dropped, restored on exit.
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- **Reference**: commit `1421578`.
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## BDR-005 — `motion` as default animation library; advisor stays read-only
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- **Date**: 2026-04-27
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- **Status**: accepted
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- **Decision**: when project stack supports it, framework installs `motion` (or `motion-v` for Vue 3 / Nuxt) as default animation library. Install **automatic** in `/init-project` STEP 5e (post-scaffold), **opt-in** in `/onboard` STEP 2.5 (existing projects). `plugin-advisor` only **detects and reports** status — never runs `npm install` itself. Detection logic in `lib/animation-lib-check.sh` (sourced by all three layers).
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- **Why**: framer-motion rebranded `motion` in November 2024 (single package supporting React `motion/react`, Svelte, vanilla JS; `motion-v` parallel package for Vue). Bake new name now to avoid legacy-import sprawl across new projects. Split init-vs-onboard behavior follows trust gradient: at init, user just validated entire scaffold so silent install fine; at onboard, touching existing `package.json` invasive without explicit consent. Plugin-advisor kept read-only to preserve "Never modify files" contract (PHASE 4 already mutates plugin state with confirmation; piling npm installs on top blurs responsibility).
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- **Alternatives rejected**:
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- Pin `framer-motion` (legacy name) — rejected: package in maintenance mode, every new project inherits old import path.
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- Auto-install during `/onboard` without asking — rejected: silently adds runtime dep + ~50 KB gzip to project user did not ask to modify.
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- Make `plugin-advisor` install missing libs — rejected: violates read-only spec, breaks separation of concerns (advisor advises; orchestrators mutate).
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- React-only scope — rejected: Vue/Svelte teams should benefit; `motion-v` makes Vue case clean.
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- **Eligibility rules** (helper output):
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- `eligible|motion`: React, Next.js, Remix, Astro+React, Svelte/SvelteKit
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- `eligible|motion-v`: Vue 3, Nuxt
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- `no|-`: backend, CLI, embedded, Flutter, static HTML, **React Native** (use `react-native-reanimated`), Astro without UI integration, no `package.json`
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- **Reference**: helper at `lib/animation-lib-check.sh`; integration in `skills/init-project/SKILL.md` STEP 5e, `skills/onboard/SKILL.md` STEP 2.5, `agents/plugin-advisor.md` PHASE 1/2/3, `lib/design-gate.md`.
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## BDR-006 — Caveman as 4th always-on plugin (output compression)
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- **Date**: 2026-05-03
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- **Status**: accepted
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- **Decision**: install `JuliusBrussee/caveman` in always-on tier alongside `security-guidance`, `superpowers`, `rtk`. "Full" install = plugin (`/caveman` + cavecrew agents + plugin-scoped SessionStart/UserPromptSubmit hooks) + standalone hooks (statusline + stats badge in `~/.claude/hooks/`) + `caveman-shrink` MCP scaffold (NOT auto-registered — proxy needs upstream wrapper). `install-plugins.sh` STEP 5.5 calls `enable_plugin "caveman" "caveman"` to write into `enabledPlugins`. Hook paths in `settings.json` normalized to `~/.claude/hooks/...` post-install so user home dir no leak across machines.
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- **Why**: caveman compresses Claude output ~75% via caveman-speak, preserves technical substance. Symmetrical with rtk (input compression hook) — rtk shrinks tool I/O, caveman shrinks model output. Both hooks pay zero passive cost in clean session, amortize across long runs. Always-on justified: plugin auto-deactivates with phrases like "stop caveman" / "normal mode", toggle would be friction without benefit.
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- **Alternatives rejected**:
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- Toggle plugin (start OFF) — rejected: misses by-default benefit; user need remember `claude plugin enable caveman@caveman` per session, negates auto-compression value.
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- `--minimal` install (plugin only) — rejected: loses standalone stats badge surfacing token-saving telemetry.
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- `--all` install (adds per-repo `caveman-rules.md` etc. into `$PWD`) — rejected: would litter THIS config repo (cwd at install time) with rule files meant for project repos. Let users opt in per-repo when wanted.
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- Auto-register `caveman-shrink` MCP — rejected: proxy errors with "missing upstream command" without upstream MCP to wrap, fails health checks. Print snippet instead, let user pick which upstream they want compressed (filesystem, github, …).
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- **Caveats**:
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- Caveman `hooks/install.sh` writes absolute paths (`$HOME/.claude/hooks/caveman-*.js`) into `settings.json`. `settings.json` symlinked into repo, absolute path commits username. STEP 5.5 runs Python post-process to rewrite to portable `~/.claude/hooks/...` form (bash expands `~` before passing to `node`).
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- Caveman hook files materialize in `hooks/` (repo dir, not `~/.claude/hooks/`) because latter is symlink. Added to `.gitignore` to prevent accidental commit of user-scope state.
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- **Reference**: install-plugins.sh STEP 5.5, lib/detect-plugins.sh `detect_caveman*` + `plugin_enabled`, doctor.sh caveman block, commit `9b20b84`.
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## BDR-007 — Skill profiles partition gstack by usage (design / dev / qa / audit / minimal)
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||
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- **Date**: 2026-05-04
|
||
- **Status**: accepted
|
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- **Decision**: ship `lib/profile.sh` + `lib/profiles/*.profile` to give user fine-grained, task-shaped activation of skills. Profile = plain-text file listing skill names + types (`gstack`, `external`, `personal`, `plugin`, `mcp`). `profile set <name>` enables listed skills, disables every gstack-origin skill not in profile, by moving symlinks between `skills/` and `skills-disabled/`. `profile reset` re-enables all of gstack. Plugin/MCP entries advisory — script prints manual `claude plugin enable` / `claude mcp add` command but never runs it. Surface area: one CLI (`bash lib/profile.sh`), one slash command (`/profile`), four Makefile targets, section in `agents/plugin-advisor.md`.
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- **Why**: when user works on focused kind of task (design only, qa only, audit only) full gstack (~38 skills) injects irrelevant skill descriptions into every session. Existing `lib/toggle-external.sh enable|disable gstack` too coarse — disables whole gstack including infrastructure skills user does want (checkpoint, ship, learn). Profiles give curated middle ground: keep gstack repo installed, hide skills not relevant to this session.
|
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- **Alternatives rejected**:
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- Fork SKILL.md files to strip ~70-line gstack preamble — rejected: every gstack upgrade needs re-fork, preamble already degrades gracefully (`|| true`) when `gstack/bin/` unavailable. Hiding skill cheaper than rewriting.
|
||
- Per-skill toggle via `claude plugin enable/disable` — rejected: gstack skills not marketplace plugins, symlinks owned by `skills-external/gstack/`. CLI no reach them.
|
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- Disable via removing symlinks (rm + recreate on enable) — rejected: lossy if user has local edits, re-creation requires running gstack own setup. Move-based toggle preserves symlink intact.
|
||
- Auto-toggle plugins (`ui-ux-pro-max`) and MCPs as part of `set` — rejected: those affect global Claude Code state, may carry API keys (magic). Keep advisory; user runs CLI command knowingly.
|
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- Build giant `gstack-profile` CLI wrapping `gstack/bin/*` directly — rejected: scope creep into gstack internals. Repo already has own toggle infra (`lib/toggle-external.sh`); profile.sh sits alongside as finer tool.
|
||
- **Caveats**:
|
||
- Profiles do NOT change `gstack/bin/` infrastructure — preamble in disabled skills still references it, re-enabling restores normal behavior. No telemetry/learnings data touched.
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||
- `cmd_set` only auto-disables skills returned by `gstack_skills()` (those with `SKILL.md` under `skills-external/gstack/*/`). Personal skills (real dirs in `skills/`) never auto-disabled by `set` — only added back if listed in profile.
|
||
- `cmd_current` returns "full" when nothing disabled, even if profile happens to be 100% covered by current state. Active-profile heuristic requires at least one `gstack__*` entry in `skills-disabled/` so we no lie about profile being "set" when no `set` ever ran.
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- Personal skills use `external`-style move (no `gstack__` prefix) so name-collision with gstack skills cannot happen during disable.
|
||
- **Reference**: `lib/profile.sh`, `lib/profiles/{design,dev,qa,audit,minimal}.profile`, `skills/profile/SKILL.md`, `agents/plugin-advisor.md` (DETECT block + TOGGLING EXTERNAL TOOLS section), `Makefile` targets `profile*`, `lib/toggle-external.sh` header pointer.
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||
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||
## BDR-008 — Profile system v2: extend to plugins + MCPs + CLIs (web/seo/web-full/backend)
|
||
|
||
- **Date**: 2026-05-04
|
||
- **Status**: accepted
|
||
- **Decision**: extend `profile.sh` to actually toggle Claude plugins (`claude plugin enable|disable <name>@<marketplace>`) and MCP servers (delegated to `lib/toggle-external.sh` for `magic` MCP, advisory for others), add CLI status reporting. New profile syntax uses `plugin@<marketplace>` so script knows where to enable from. New profiles shipped: `web` (frontend website), `seo` (SEO/GEO/W3C audit), `web-full` (web + seo combined), `backend` (API/system dev — no design, no SEO). Reverted v1 decision (BDR-007 alternative #4 "advisory only for plugins/MCPs"): user explicitly asked for actual toggling so `set web` actively enables `ui-ux-pro-max` + `magic`, `set seo` actively disables `ui-ux-pro-max`. Always-on plugins (`caveman`, `security-guidance`, `superpowers`) protected by both allowlist (`MANAGED_PLUGINS`) and denylist (`PROTECTED_PLUGINS`).
|
||
- **Why**: v1 profiles only managed skills (symlink toggle). User feedback: "active TOUT le splugins necessaire pour tel profile et desactive les autre". Pure-skill toggling left ui-ux-pro-max/magic always loaded regardless of profile, passive token cost no drop as much as expected when switching to non-design profile. Auto-toggling plugins shifts design from "show me right skills" to "set up right session" — closer to what user actually wants.
|
||
- **Alternatives rejected**:
|
||
- Keep plugins advisory + add `--apply-plugins` flag — rejected: user has to type flag every time, defeats "switch profile to switch context" workflow.
|
||
- Disable ALL non-listed plugins (including third-party user-installed ones) — rejected: too aggressive. Profile system has no business touching plugins user installed for own reasons. Solution: explicit `MANAGED_PLUGINS` allowlist (currently 3 entries) — script touches only those.
|
||
- Treat MCPs identically to plugins (auto-toggle any MCP) — rejected: MCPs typically need env vars / API keys / specific commands. Auto-registering with wrong config produces broken MCPs (LRN-006). Compromise: auto-toggle ONLY `magic` because already have its config in `lib/toggle-external.sh`. Other MCPs stay advisory.
|
||
- Track plugin state across `set/reset` cycles, restore on reset — rejected: complexity not worth it. `reset` re-enables gstack skills only. To re-enable managed plugin, user runs `apply <profile>` or explicit `claude plugin enable` command. Documented in `info` line printed at end of `reset`.
|
||
- **Caveats**:
|
||
- `MANAGED_PLUGINS` hardcoded — adding new toggle-managed plugin requires editing `profile.sh`. Acceptable for now (3 entries, rarely changes); revisit if grows.
|
||
- `claude plugin enable` returns success even for already-enabled plugins, parser greps for "enabled|already" in stdout/stderr. Works on current Claude CLI; brittle if CLI rewords messages. Acceptable risk.
|
||
- `current` heuristic now counts `installed` (CLI status) as available. Without that, profiles listing CLIs would never reach 100% match. Tiebreaker: when two profiles tie on %, larger total wins (web-full > web > design when all are 100%).
|
||
- `cmd_show` widened TYPE column to 30 chars to fit `plugin@ui-ux-pro-max-skill` without breaking alignment.
|
||
- `mcp magic` toggle delegates to `lib/toggle-external.sh enable magic` which requires `MAGIC_API_KEY` in `.env`. If key missing, profile.sh prints info line and continues — rest of profile still applies.
|
||
- **Reference**: `lib/profile.sh` (`MANAGED_PLUGINS`/`PROTECTED_PLUGINS` arrays, `skill_status` plugin@/cli/mcp branches, `enable_skill`/`disable_skill` plugin@ + mcp branches, `cmd_set` plugin disable loop, `cmd_current` available-counting), `lib/profiles/{web,seo,web-full,backend}.profile`, refined `lib/profiles/{design,dev,qa,audit}.profile` (use `plugin@<marketplace>` syntax + `cli` entries), `skills/profile/SKILL.md` (updated profile table + mechanism table), `agents/plugin-advisor.md` (extended profile recommendation table).
|
||
|
||
## BDR-009 — Mandate caveman format on .claude/memory/ registries
|
||
|
||
- **Date**: 2026-05-05
|
||
- **Status**: accepted
|
||
- **Decision**: all writes to `.claude/memory/*.md` (decisions, learnings, blockers, journal, evals) MUST use caveman style — drop articles (a/an/the), drop filler (just/really/basically/actually/simply), fragments OK, short synonyms (big not extensive, fix not "implement a solution for"). Keep technical terms exact, code blocks unchanged, error messages quoted exact, IDs (BDR-XXX, LRN-XXX, BLK-XXX, EVAL-XXX) and dates unchanged. Pattern: `[thing] [action] [reason]. [next step].` Rule added to `CLAUDE.md` "Memory registries" section. Applied retroactively to existing 5 registries via `/caveman:compress`. Pre-compression backups saved as `*.original.md` (gitignored).
|
||
- **Why**: registries loaded every session start (per CLAUDE.md "Session start" step 1) — every token compressed cuts permanent input cost. Measured ~40% input-token reduction across 5 files (164→97 lines on average per registry). Caveman style preserves all technical substance (code, IDs, error strings, refs) while dropping prose padding that no engineer needs at re-read. Rule mirrors English-only rule that already governs registries — both about read-efficiency, not aesthetics.
|
||
- **Alternatives rejected**:
|
||
- Compress only on new entries, leave existing prose untouched — rejected: every session-start still pays 40% prose tax on legacy entries (largest part of file). Mixed-style file harder to scan than uniform compressed file.
|
||
- Use lighter compression (drop only fillers, keep articles) — rejected: half-measure. Caveman lite saves ~15%, full saves ~40%. Cost identical (one /caveman:compress run).
|
||
- Move registries to JSON/YAML for max density — rejected: registries are narrative (BDR rationale, LRN context). YAML/JSON would lose nuance, force schema rigidity. Caveman keeps prose readable, just compressed.
|
||
- Skip rule, rely on writers to compress organically — rejected: untested writers (skills, future agents) revert to verbose prose. Explicit rule + caveman-mode-active hook ensures consistency without per-skill enforcement.
|
||
- **Caveats**:
|
||
- Code blocks, error strings, commit refs, IDs, dates, file paths MUST stay byte-exact — caveman applies to prose only.
|
||
- User-facing CAPITALIZE prompts may stay verbose / mirror user language; rule applies only to written entry.
|
||
- `*.original.md` backups gitignored (BDR-009 commit `639486a`) — recoverable via git history of pre-compression commit.
|
||
- Existing registries entries compressed in commit `e4a9259`; new entries written caveman from start (BDR-009 itself is first such entry).
|
||
- **Reference**: `CLAUDE.md` "Format — registries ALWAYS caveman" section, commits `520188a` (rule added), `e4a9259` (5 registries compressed), `639486a` (gitignore backups).
|
||
|
||
## BDR-010 — Gate GEO independently at ≥17/20 in client-handover pipeline
|
||
|
||
- **Date**: 2026-05-07
|
||
- **Status**: accepted
|
||
- **Decision**: client-handover gates SEO classique AND GEO (IA) independently — both must reach `≥17/20`. Was: combined display only, gate fired on first `/20` line found (de facto SEO classique alone). Now: `ALL_PASS = (SEO_AFTER ≥ 17) AND (GEO_AFTER ≥ 17) AND (HARDEN_AFTER ≥ 17) AND (VALIDATE_AFTER ≥ 17 OR SKIPPED)`. SEO subagent re-dispatched if either axis below threshold (same agent fixes both). Score table + roadmap + client doc §4 split rows accordingly.
|
||
- **Why**: handover deliverable claims "site ready" — bar must hold on classical search (Google/Bing) AND AI search (ChatGPT/Perplexity) given AI traffic growth. Combined gate (e.g. global pondéré ≥17) lets GEO stay weak while combined passes — false confidence shipped to client. Independent gates close gap.
|
||
- **Alternatives rejected**:
|
||
- Gate on `Score global pondéré ≥17` only — rejected: SEO=20 + GEO=10 → global=18 → passes despite GEO=10. Same false-confidence issue.
|
||
- Keep GEO informational (Phase A initial design) — rejected: breaks "every gated audit ≥17 or stop" rule. Two-tier system (gated vs informational) confuses client + breaks score-table semantics.
|
||
- Lower GEO threshold to ≥15 — rejected by user: weakens signal. Real fix is optimize GEO, not lower bar.
|
||
- Split into two parallel subagents (one SEO, one GEO) — rejected: /seo skill runs both inside one envelope-merge dispatcher. Splitting at handover layer duplicates context discovery (STEP 0) + doubles wall-clock.
|
||
- **Caveats**:
|
||
- GEO ≥17 hard on existing sites — most lack llms.txt, Speakable/QAPage Schema, entity SEO (sameAs/Wikidata @id), TL;DR/Q→A content shape. Expect more fix-loop iterations on GEO than SEO. Override option C still per-axis with explicit user consent.
|
||
- `SCORE_GEO_AFTER = "UNKNOWN"` treated as fail — legacy single-score SEO.md triggers re-dispatch with explicit demand for both labeled lines (`Score SEO (classique) : X.X / 20` + `Score GEO (IA) : X.X / 20`).
|
||
- Backward compat split: `extract_score_labeled` SEO uses `allow_fallback=yes` (legacy single-score parses as SEO classique); GEO uses `allow_fallback=no` (no silent duplicate of SEO score).
|
||
- Loop logic axis-aware: `while (SEO < 17 OR GEO < 17) AND iter ≤ MAX`. Re-dispatch prompt labels both scores with PASS/FAIL + lists axis-specific fixes (SEO: meta/canonical/sitemap; GEO: llms.txt/Schema AI/entity SEO).
|
||
- **Reference**: commit `5569a80`, `agents/client-handover-writer.md` (STEP 3 `extract_score_labeled`, STEP 4 axis-aware loop + re-dispatch prompt, STEP 8 gate rule + score table + threshold strictness, STEP 12 §4 client doc table), `skills/client-handover/SKILL.md`.
|
||
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||
## BDR-011 — Client handover deliverable: 4-chapter structure + ZenQuality branded HTML/PDF
|
||
|
||
- **Date**: 2026-05-07
|
||
- **Status**: superseded by BDR-013
|
||
- **Decision**: client handover doc restructured to 4 chapters — §1 *Ce qu'il fallait faire (et pourquoi)* (briefing+motivation, 100–180 words), §2 *Ce qui a été fait* (lay summary, **≤300 words hard cap, zero jargon, no internal tool/skill names**), §3 *Ce qui vous reste à faire* (action-only checklist with cadences), §4 *Détails techniques (pour les curieux)* (scores, key choices, phases, optional glossary — internal labels allowed here only). Plus optional §5 (external platforms, web), §6 (build & deploy). Replaces old 9-section structure. Output now triple: `LIVRAISON.md` (editable source) + `LIVRAISON.html` (always, branded) + `LIVRAISON.pdf` (when PDF engine on host). HTML/PDF use ZenQuality identity — green palette `#1A3A25 / #2D5A3D / #4A7C59 / #87A878`, cream BG `#F5F0EB`, fonts Inter (body) + Playfair Display (headings), cover page with logo + tagline "La sérénité numérique, la qualité en plus", running header (project name) + footer (page N/M, `ZenQuality — zenquality.fr`). Renderer cascade: MD→HTML via pandoc > python markdown > `npx marked`; HTML→PDF via weasyprint > wkhtmltopdf > chromium > headless Chrome. STEP 15 enforces gates before render: chapter 2 word count ≤300 (`wc -w`) AND forbidden-token grep on chapters 1–3 (no `/seo`, `/harden`, `/validate`, `/cso`, `seo-analyzer`, `SEO.md`, `SCORE_*`, etc.).
|
||
- **Why**: client reads top-down, may stop after §2 — old 9 sections diluted the read. Bare markdown unreadable by non-tech client. Branded PDF = professional deliverable matching company identity (ZenQuality), suitable to email/print/sign. Per-section gates prevent regression to skill-name leaks or jargon bloat.
|
||
- **Alternatives rejected**:
|
||
- Keep 9-chapter structure + bolt PDF wrapper on top — rejected: doesn't fix dilution + leak risk; client still scans through "Lessons learned (optional)" / "Pour aller plus loin" before useful actions.
|
||
- Render PDF only (no HTML intermediate) — rejected: no fallback if engine missing; HTML doubles as browser preview + manual print-to-PDF route. Triple output (`md` + `html` + `pdf`) covers all cases.
|
||
- Single PDF engine (e.g. weasyprint only) — rejected: assumes Python installed; cascade gives graceful degradation. Order chosen: weasyprint (best CSS), wkhtmltopdf (mature), chromium (always-bundled on dev hosts).
|
||
- Pandoc with custom template only — rejected: pandoc often not installed (was missing on this host); shell cascade with multiple converters more portable.
|
||
- Soft 300-word target — rejected: without hard `wc -w` gate, drift inevitable. Cap+gate forces rewrite when over.
|
||
- **Caveats**:
|
||
- Word-count + leak gates run at STEP 15 *after* synthesis, not during. Worst case: re-write step needed. Acceptable trade-off vs in-flight enforcement (would require word counter inside agent prompt — fragile).
|
||
- ZenQuality logo URL hardcoded as `https://zenquality.fr/logo-horizontal.svg`; `LOGO_URL` env var allows local file override (bake into PDF for offline robustness if branding changes / SVG breaks).
|
||
- PDF cascade detects via `command -v` only — assumes engines on `$PATH`. Custom installs need `$PATH` adjusted before invocation.
|
||
- Bash heredoc + stdin-pipe collision bug in v1 (silent empty output) — fixed via env-var pass-through (LRN-012).
|
||
- Renderer always outputs HTML + tries PDF; on PDF failure exits 2, prints install hints. STEP 16 reports `PDF: NOT GENERATED` with hints in final report.
|
||
- Optional glossary in §4.4 listed terms (HSTS, CSP, WCAG, Schema.org, llms.txt, SEO/GEO) — only renders if ≥4 of these appear in §4 body.
|
||
- **Reference**: commit `e06b52a`, `agents/client-handover-writer.md` (STEP 12 4-chapter doc structure + tone rules, STEP 15 word-count + leak gates, STEP 16 RENDER pipeline, STEP 17 final report), `skills/client-handover/scripts/handover-to-pdf.sh` (cascade renderer), `skills/client-handover/resources/branding/zenquality.css` (ZenQuality print stylesheet), `skills/client-handover/resources/branding/zenquality-template.html` (HTML wrapper with placeholders).
|
||
---
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||
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||
## BDR-012 — client-handover cover: white bg + green accents + PNG logo default
|
||
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||
- **Date**: 2026-05-07
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||
- **Context**: original `.cover` CSS used cream `--white-cream` (#F5F0EB) bg + 8mm green stripe top. Washed out. SVG logo `logo-horizontal.svg` blended into cream bg = low contrast. User feedback: "couleur du fond n'est pas bon", "utiliser une icone non white". Tried green-dark bg first (rejected — too heavy for client-facing doc, hurt readability of long meta block).
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||
- **Choice**: `.cover` bg → `--white-pure` with two subtle radial tints (sage top-right rgba(135,168,120,0.18), green-forest bottom-left rgba(45,90,61,0.06)). Body text → `--black-deep`. Title `--black-deep`. Eyebrow/meta labels/footer → `--green-forest` (medium green). Meta border-left + meta-strong → `--green-forest`. Removed `.cover::before` 8mm stripe. Default `LOGO_URL` → `https://zenquality.fr/assets/logo-horizontal-1024.png`.
|
||
- **Alt rejected**: (a) cream `#F5F0EB` bg — washed-out, original problem. (b) solid green-dark bg — too heavy, hurt long-text readability, felt like marketing brochure not deliverable. (c) generic white + black — no brand signal.
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||
- **Why**: light theme with green accents matches zenquality.fr without overpowering. White bg keeps long client-facing text readable. Green-forest on white = WCAG AA contrast + brand cue. Subtle radial gradients add depth without weight.
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||
- **Status**: shipped.
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||
- **How to apply**: ZenQuality client-facing print docs default to white bg + green-forest accents. Body interior keeps cream `--white-cream` as accent (code blocks, blockquote bg) — not as page bg. Solid green-dark reserved for marketing covers, not deliverables.
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||
- **Reference**: `skills/client-handover/resources/branding/zenquality.css` `.cover` block (line 71-86 bg, 119-149 typography); `scripts/handover-to-pdf.sh` line 107 (LOGO_URL default); `agents/client-handover-writer.md` line 1218-1222 (doc updated).
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||
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||
---
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||
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## BDR-013 — client-handover: 6-chapter doc — promote scores §2 + NAP §4
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||
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||
- **Date**: 2026-05-11
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||
- **Status**: accepted (supersedes BDR-011 4-chapter structure)
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||
- **Decision**: deliverable restructured 4→6 chapters. §1 brief+why (100–180 words). **§2 NEW = score table (avant/après)** promoted from old §4 technical annex to top of doc. §3 = lay summary ≤300 words zero jargon (formerly §2). **§4 NEW = NAP single-source-of-truth table** (Nom/Adresse/Téléphone/Email/Catégorie/Description courte/Horaires) promoted from §7 annex. §5 = action checklist by cadence (formerly §3). §6 = tech details for curious (formerly §4, score table removed — now in §2). §7/§8 still optional annexes (external platforms, build+deploy).
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- **Why**: local-business client opens deliverable, scans first 30s — needs **immediate visual proof of impact** (scores §2) before reading prose. Tested with handover clients: scores up-front converts "what did I pay for?" doubt within 30 seconds. NAP §4 prerequisite chapter before §5 todo list — client's todos reference NAP values constantly ("create Google Business with these values"); if NAP buried in §7 annex, client scrolls deep mid-todo, types inconsistent values across platforms, degrades Google NAP-consistency signal.
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- **Alternatives rejected**:
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||
- Keep 4-chapter + add score sentence inside §2 prose — rejected: lost the visual proof-of-impact moment, table reads stronger than prose.
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||
- Keep NAP in §7 external-platforms annex — rejected: client types 10 different descriptions/addresses while working through §5 todos before reaching §7.
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- Compact 3-chapter doc with scores+NAP inline — rejected: too dense, kills lay-summary flow + chapter 3 word-count gate harder to enforce.
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- Two-doc deliverable (summary PDF + NAP/todos PDF) — rejected: doubles attachments, client opens only one.
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- **Caveats**:
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- Forbidden-token grep gate at STEP 15 now covers §1–§3 (was §1–§3 already, no change). §4 NAP table contains only client input placeholders [À COMPLÉTER] — no tool/skill leak risk.
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- Pandoc requires `gfm+gfm_auto_identifiers` extension to resolve `[§4](#nap)` internal links (LRN-014).
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- §2 score lecture-rapide must stay plain French — numbers OK but no internal labels (`Score SEO classique` allowed because vulgarized; `seo-analyzer`/`SEO.md` forbidden).
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- **Reference**: commit `b15b275`, `agents/client-handover-writer.md` (chapter list lines 20–60, prose framing §2 + §4 rationale lines 30–55, STEP 12 template), `skills/client-handover/scripts/handover-to-pdf.sh` line 121 (pandoc gfm_auto_identifiers).
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---
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## BDR-014 — Personal SKILL.md descriptions: "Use when [triggers]…" pattern + 1024-char spec limit
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||
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- **Date**: 2026-05-11
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- **Status**: accepted
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||
- **Decision**: all personal SKILL.md descriptions must follow `Use when [specific triggering conditions and symptoms]` pattern. Workflow summaries forbidden in description (e.g. `Ship feature: design → plan → implement → review`). Frontmatter total ≤1024 chars per agentskills.io spec. Workflow detail belongs in SKILL.md body, not description. Triggers list compressed and deduped.
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- **Why**: superpowers:writing-skills documented (with test evidence) that workflow summaries in description create **shortcut risk** — Claude reads description, treats it as the skill, and skips reading the body. Test case: description "code review between tasks" caused Claude to do ONE review when skill flowchart had TWO. Removing workflow summary → Claude read flowchart, did 2 reviews. Description's job is to TRIGGER retrieval, not to BE the skill. 1024-char cap is the platform spec limit (agentskills.io/specification); 5 personal skills (client-handover, doc, seo, geo, validate) were 1050–1920 chars — non-compliant.
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- **Alternatives rejected**:
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- Free-form descriptions (status quo) — rejected: drift + shortcut risk, 5 skills already spec-violating.
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- Hard cap ≤500 chars per writing-skills target — preferred for new skills but hard retrofit on multi-language trigger lists (FR+EN keywords blow past 500). Use 1024 as enforced ceiling, ≤500 as aspirational.
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- Per-skill judgment with no rule — rejected: inconsistent, no enforcement gate.
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- Move trigger keywords to body — rejected: triggers in description is what Claude uses for routing; body content doesn't help routing.
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- **Caveats**:
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- Orchestrators still describe orchestration role explicitly (e.g. client-handover: "Multi-agent orchestrator: dispatches the client-handover-writer agent which spawns parallel /seo + /harden subagents") — that's role identification, not workflow summary.
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- Other 10 personal skills (analyze, bugfix, code-clean, commit-change, feat, hotfix, plugin-check, refactor, status, skills-perso) still partially summarize workflow but stay under 1024 chars. Not retrofitted in this pass — flagged for follow-up only if shortcut symptoms observed.
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- **Reference**: commit `1da6a31`, 8 SKILL.md files (client-handover, doc, geo, seo, validate, ship-feature, init-project, onboard), superpowers:writing-skills "CSO" section, agentskills.io/specification.
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---
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## BDR-015 — Exclude broken gstack symlinks from /darwin-skill scope (external ownership)
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||
- **Date**: 2026-05-12
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- **Status**: accepted
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- **Decision**: 5 dirs in `~/Documents/claude/skills/` whose `SKILL.md` symlinks point to non-existent gstack paths (`skills-external/gstack/<name>/SKILL.md` missing) — `benchmark-models`, `context-restore`, `context-save`, `make-pdf`, `plan-tune` — are excluded from `/darwin-skill` baseline + optimization. Marked `status=error` in `results.tsv` with note `broken gstack symlink — out of scope`. NOT scored, NOT optimized, NOT deleted.
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- **Why**: darwin-skill constraint #1 forbids changing a skill's core function — implies external/gstack-owned skills are out of scope. Symlinks resolve to `skills-external/gstack` which is third-party submodule. Plus the targets are broken — gstack's actual layout (`benchmark/`, `health/`, `qa/`, etc.) doesn't include these 5 names, suggesting upstream rename or removal. Repairing them is a separate triage task, not darwin's concern.
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- **Alternatives rejected**:
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- Fix symlinks first then darwin-optimize → out of scope, blocks the optimization queue on gstack archaeology.
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- Score them with `FILE_NOT_FOUND` and include in averages → biases stats, mixes signal with infrastructure issue.
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- Optimize the gstack source files directly → external ownership, never modify.
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- Delete the broken symlinks → would obscure that the user once expected these to exist; leave for triage.
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- **Caveats**:
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- If/when symlinks are repaired (real gstack target exists), re-run baseline to bring them in scope.
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- Bigger picture: `benchmark-models` looks like a deliberate rename of gstack's `benchmark` to disambiguate from the gstack-skill called `/benchmark`. Could be a planned migration that stalled. Worth a one-line ticket separate from darwin.
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---
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## BDR-016 — doc-syncer: README AUTO+unconditional, DEPLOY.md prod-only + 14-section VPS template
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||
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- **Date**: 2026-05-15
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||
- **Status**: accepted
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||
- **Decision**: `agents/doc-syncer.md` STEP 5/6/8/A4 rewritten. README creation now AUTO + unconditional in both interactive and AUTO modes. Validation gate offers only `yes` or `edit` for README — no `skip`/`no`. Any project-level "no README" opt-out (e.g. `CLAUDE.md` "Exceptions: No README at scaffold") gets struck through during same patch. README template expanded: features, Stack, Quick start (dev), Verifying a change, Build & deploy, Documentation, License — all rendered from real manifest/`.env.example`/scripts data, no placeholders. DEPLOY.md becomes prod-only, expanded into 14-section VPS-deploy structure (topology table, env vars, VPS provisioning, two-layer firewall, Docker tuning, first-time setup, routine deploys, persistence, backups, TLS, observability, hardening, rollback, runbook). Dev quick-start lives ONLY in README "Quick start (dev)" section; mixed dev/prod DEPLOY.md flagged as drift, dev content proposed for move to README during same patch round.
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- **Why**: README opt-out makes repo look abandoned to anyone landing on it — universal "always render" beats opt-in. Mixed dev/prod DEPLOY.md was drift source: devs read DEPLOY for local setup, ops read DEPLOY for prod, both edit independently, conflicts pile up. Clean audience split — README = dev + features audience, DEPLOY = ops + SRE audience — gives each doc one owner mental model. 14-section VPS template mirrors real Scaleway/Hetzner/OVH/DO/Vultr deploy shape (reference: Scaleway DEV1-S walkthrough) so the doc maps 1:1 to the runbook ops actually execute.
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- **Alternatives rejected**:
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- Keep README gated on HUMAN approval (status quo) — rejected: opt-outs proliferated, repos shipped with no README. Friction wins.
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- Single ARCHITECTURE+DEPLOY doc — rejected: mixed-audience doc is the drift source we're fixing. Don't recombine.
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- Trim DEPLOY.md to single "Production" section — rejected: real VPS deploys need topology + firewall + Docker tuning + backups + TLS + observability. Single section becomes wall-of-text nobody reads.
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- Optional README in AUTO mode (default skip) — rejected: AUTO mode purpose is friction removal. README is most-missed doc; auto-render it.
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- Auto-write the README without surfacing draft — rejected: rendered draft still shown at validation gate so user can `edit` before write. "No skip" ≠ "no review".
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- **Caveats**:
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- Real-project-data rule still binds — license = "Not specified — set one before public release" (explicit gap, not fabricated SPDX).
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- 14-section DEPLOY template drops sections that don't apply (e.g. "Managed DB" if no DB). Template = ceiling not floor.
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- If `DEPLOY_COMPLEXITY == TRIVIAL`, no DEPLOY.md created — deploy stays in README. Threshold = no Docker + no compose + no fly.toml + no k8s + no scripts/deploy.* → trivial.
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||
- Existing DEPLOY.md with `Local development` / `Dev setup` section → surfaced as drift, content moved to README, section removed from DEPLOY. Not a silent rewrite.
|
||
- **Reference**: commit `7ee9b42`, `agents/doc-syncer.md` STEP 5 (README mandatory clause + template lines 223–335), STEP 6 (14-section DEPLOY.md template lines 338–541), STEP 8 (validation gate `yes/edit` for README, `yes/no/edit` for HUMAN), STEP A4 (AUTO MODE README-missing → SIGNIFICANT). Linked to [[doc-syncer-two-doc-split]] (LRN-019).
|
||
|
||
---
|
||
|
||
## BDR-017 — `full` profile = web-full + plan + dev superset for /init-project MVP
|
||
|
||
- **Date**: 2026-05-18
|
||
- **Status**: accepted
|
||
- **Decision**: New `lib/profiles/full.profile` covers brainstorm → design → architecture review → scaffold → implement → ship → audit pipeline in one profile. Superset of `web-full` (design + dev + seo/geo/validate/harden + perf) plus plan-mode reviews (office-hours, plan-ceo/eng/design/devex-review, autoplan), full dev stack (investigate, code-clean, land-and-deploy, setup-deploy, codex), full audit (cso), full QA (qa), docs (doc, document-release), session hygiene (close, prune-memory, status, learn, retro, careful/freeze/unfreeze/guard), and `pr-review-toolkit` plugin + `gsd` CLI. Sentinel "full" in `cmd_current` renamed to "none" to avoid collision with profile name.
|
||
- **Why**: `/init-project` orchestrates 13 steps that touch nearly every skill family — brainstorm, plan, design, scaffold, implement, ship, audit. Existing profiles only cover a slice (web-full = website end-to-end but no plan/dev breadth, dev = code only, audit = audit only). Without a maximal profile, init-project users must either run `reset` (everything on, noisy) or piece together `apply web-full && apply dev && apply audit` (3 commands). One named profile = one command = right tool for MVP scaffolding sessions.
|
||
- **Alternatives rejected**:
|
||
- Extend `web-full` to absorb plan + dev — rejected: `web-full` is "production website end-to-end"; init-project covers non-website projects too (CLI, library, backend MVP). Different semantic.
|
||
- Make init-project profile-agnostic (just run with all skills enabled) — rejected: noise. `/profile reset` exists for that; named profile gives explicit signal "this session is MVP-scale".
|
||
- Multiple sub-profiles chained — rejected: 3 `apply` commands less ergonomic than one `set full`; profile-of-profiles not supported by current schema.
|
||
- **Caveats**:
|
||
- `full` excludes a few rarely-used gstack skills (devex-review, pair-agent, gstack-upgrade, skills-perso). `set full` will disable those; user can `apply <profile>` after to add back.
|
||
- Sentinel rename "full" → "none" is breaking for any tooling that grepped `cmd_current` output for literal "full". No known consumers in this repo.
|
||
- **Reference**: commit message references `lib/profiles/full.profile` (new), `lib/profile.sh:421` sentinel, `skills/profile/SKILL.md` table row. Linked to [[profile-sentinel-collision]] (LRN-020).
|
||
|
||
---
|
||
|
||
## BDR-018 — `profile gstack on|off` verb keeps active-profile label
|
||
|
||
- **Date**: 2026-06-02
|
||
- **Status**: accepted
|
||
- **Decision**: New `cmd_gstack()` in `lib/profile.sh`. `gstack on` = re-enable all parked gstack (move `skills-disabled/gstack__*` back), DON'T touch `.active-profile`. `gstack off` = disable gstack skills not in active profile (errors if active=none). Wired into `main()` dispatch + `usage()` + header block + `skills/profile/SKILL.md` (argument-hint + examples + output-policy).
|
||
- **Why**: User wanted central command for "enable all gstack" + "disable gstack not needed by profile". Both ops existed (`reset`, `set`) but `reset` clobbers `.active-profile` to "none" — loses profile context in statusline. New verb does same skill-toggle WITHOUT clearing label, so user layers full gstack on top of current profile (e.g. `dev`) and statusline still reads `dev`.
|
||
- **Alternatives rejected**:
|
||
- 3 new profiles (current+gstack, current+gsd, current+gsd+gstack) — rejected: `gsd` = standalone CLI (not profile-toggleable, always-on, 0 passive token), so 2 of 3 meaningless. `full` already = current+gstack+gsd advisory. `apply` already additive.
|
||
- Just document `reset`/`set` — rejected: user wanted clearer centralized verb + label preservation.
|
||
- **Impl note**: extracted 3 shared helpers (`enable_all_gstack`, `disable_gstack_not_in`, `parked_gstack_count`); `cmd_reset`+`cmd_set` refactored to reuse (behavior preserved exact, verified by test). See [[dry-helper-extract-sibling-command]] (LRN-024).
|
||
- **Reference**: `lib/profile.sh` cmd_gstack + helpers, `skills/profile/SKILL.md`. Linked to [[full-profile-superset-init-project]] (BDR-017), [[gstack-source-only-skills-unlinked]] (BLK-007).
|
||
|
||
---
|
||
|
||
## BDR-019 — Remove `disable-model-invocation` repo-wide, align skills with CLAUDE.md routing
|
||
|
||
- **Date**: 2026-06-09
|
||
- **Status**: accepted
|
||
- **Decision**: Stripped `disable-model-invocation` frontmatter key from all 19 editable `skills/*/SKILL.md`. Absent key = default = model invocation ENABLED. 8 were `true` (blocked model + orchestrator routing: `status`, `plugin-check`, `analyze`, `onboard`, `refactor`, `init-project`, `pdf-translate`, `ship-feature`); 11 were `false` (already enabled, line was noise).
|
||
- **Why**: `true` blocked model AND orchestrator from self-routing to those skills — contradicted CLAUDE.md "Skill routing" intent (e.g. "multi-file feature → ship-feature", "refactor → /refactor"). User hit it live: model detected feature intent, wanted `ship-feature`, couldn't fire. Setting binary (no per-caller granularity) → enabling orchestrator-chaining also enables model auto-fire; accepted as the cost.
|
||
- **Alternatives rejected**:
|
||
- Keep `true` on 4 heavy orchestrators (`init-project`, `ship-feature`, `onboard`, `refactor`) — rejected: "destructive" framing wrong. `ship-feature` only commits + pushes a feature branch + opens PR (reversible, gated by internal STEPs); no prod deploy (that's `land-and-deploy`/`canary`). Real destructive ops (`rm -rf`, force-push, prod deploy) guarded by careful/guard hooks INDEPENDENT of this flag — verified live (`rm -rf` blocked this session). Flag bought ~0 data-safety, only suppressed auto-fire (token/time cost) while breaking routing.
|
||
- Remove only the 8 `true` ones — rejected: leaves 11 noise `false` lines; uniform removal cleaner.
|
||
- **Durability**: all 8 ex-`true` skills are repo-only files (not gstack submodule) → edits not clobbered on gstack upgrade.
|
||
- **Reference**: 18 `skills/*/SKILL.md` modified + `skills/capitalize/` new. Linked to [[disable-model-invocation-false-not-blocking]] (LRN-026).
|
||
|
||
---
|
||
|
||
## BDR-020 — `/audit-delta` design: per-axis SHA markers, always-on fix gate, unreachable-first-run = full report-only
|
||
|
||
- **Date**: 2026-06-11
|
||
- **Status**: accepted
|
||
- **Decision**: New skill `skills/audit-delta/SKILL.md` — recurring multi-axis audit (conformity/errors/deadcode/security) scoped to delta since last run. 3 design choices: (1) state = `.claude/audits/audit-delta-state.json`, SHA marker PER AXIS (partial runs would desync single marker); (2) approval gate per axis ALWAYS fires — advance pre-auth ("fix what you find") never skips it, findings unknown at request time; user unreachable → audit + report only, no fix, marker still advances; (3) first-run axis + unreachable user → default full codebase report-only, never "from HEAD" (would skip entire existing codebase silently). Axis order fixed security→errors→conformity→deadcode (critical first, session-death safe). Re-verify = same-axis re-audit on modified files + project checks, lint alone insufficient. Built via superpowers:writing-skills TDD (RED 7 gaps / GREEN pass under pressure / REFACTOR 1 hole patched + re-tested).
|
||
- **Alternatives rejected**:
|
||
- Extend `/code-clean` or `/health` — rejected: no recurrence state (health re-scans all, tracks scores not scope; code-clean one-shot), no multi-axis checkbox selection, cost not proportional to delta.
|
||
- 4 separate skills (1 per axis) — rejected: user wants checkbox combo in one run; shared marker protocol + gate + re-verify loop would quadruplicate.
|
||
- Single global marker — rejected: run "security only" then "conformity" → conformity range wrong.
|
||
- Date-based boundary — rejected: drifts on rebase/timezone/amend (baseline agent failure, see LRN-027).
|
||
- **Reference**: `skills/audit-delta/SKILL.md`. Linked to [[periodic-skill-state-file]] (LRN-027), [[capitalize-skill]] (skill TDD precedent, BDR-019 era).
|
||
|
||
---
|
||
|
||
## BDR-021 — CLAUDE.md restructure: contradiction purge, project-specific sections labeled, critical sections never compressed
|
||
|
||
- **Date**: 2026-06-12
|
||
- **Status**: accepted
|
||
- **Decision**: Full refactor global CLAUDE.md (commit e7e9dac), Fable 5 audit. 4 contradictions resolved (2 graphify sections merged conditional on graph.json existing; "in doubt skip plan" no longer cancels plan mandate — borderline = single-file small obvious change; deviations minor/justified→after vs significant/shaky→before; append-only reconciled with /prune-memory). 3 dead refs fixed (/caveman-compress, design-gate → ~/.claude/lib/ portable, LESSONS note). Structure: Tooling & skills + "This repo only" top-level sections — Health Stack/routing/graphify no longer nested under Communication mode. Routing +8 skills + explicit gstack-OFF rule. Compression caveman on workflow/memory/routing ONLY: **Architecture decisions + Security stay verbatim — ambiguity there costs more than tokens saved**. Net -1471 chars despite added content.
|
||
- **Alternatives rejected**:
|
||
- Compress whole file incl. Security/Architecture — rejected: precision > tokens on non-negotiable rules; misread security default = real damage.
|
||
- Split global vs repo-specific into 2 files — rejected: symlink setup (~/.claude/CLAUDE.md → repo) means 1 file everywhere; "This repo only" section header cheaper than 2-file sync.
|
||
- Delete graphify section (graph.json absent) — rejected: conditional phrasing keeps rules dormant-but-ready; regenerating graph re-activates without doc edit.
|
||
- **Durability**: heading "Design work — full toolchain (tiered by scope)" preserved verbatim — design-toolchain-reminder.sh quotes it. Norms 25/80/5/5 unchanged — audit-delta conformity axis cites them.
|
||
- **Reference**: CLAUDE.md, commit e7e9dac. Linked to [[audit-delta-design]] (BDR-020), LRN-029 (exception edits need blanket-rule cross-ref — applied here).
|
||
|
||
---
|
||
|
||
## BDR-022 — doc-syncer scoped to public docs only; `.claude/` + `CLAUDE.md` read-only context
|
||
|
||
- **Date**: 2026-06-18
|
||
- **Status**: accepted
|
||
- **Decision**: Rewrote `agents/doc-syncer.md`. Sync targets = PUBLIC docs ONLY: README, INSTALL, CONFIGURE, USAGE, DEPLOY, CONTRIBUTING, CHANGELOG, SECURITY, ARCHITECTURE, LICENSE, docs/**. `.claude/**` + `CLAUDE.md` = read-only context: agent MAY read them to understand archi/features/constraints, NEVER modifies them, NEVER lists as targets, NEVER copies their content into a public doc. Removed STEP 4 blocks auditing TODO.md / audits/*.md / decisions-learnings-blockers. Added normative CONVENTIONS (Standard-Readme, Diátaxis doc-type split, Keep a Changelog + SemVer, Conventional Commits). README lean — dropped Status + Project layout, forbids roadmap/todo/internal-state, links to Diátaxis docs not duplicate. Added CLEAN mode (`clean` arg) → propose removal of out-of-convention sections + copied-`.claude/` content from existing public docs, HUMAN-gated. Conserved: stack detection, 14-section DEPLOY gate, validation gate, AUTO/HUMAN tagging, never-invent, AUTO MODE (input `auto-mode scope:` unchanged → callers unaffected).
|
||
- **Alternatives rejected**:
|
||
- Keep `.claude/` + `CLAUDE.md` as sync targets (old behavior) — rejected: leaked internal state (TODO/roadmap/decisions) into public-facing docs; doc-syncer writing under `.claude/` blurred the read-only registry boundary (registries are `/prune-memory`-curated, not doc-synced).
|
||
- Drop only `.claude/`, keep `CLAUDE.md` writable (old strike-through README opt-out) — rejected: CLAUDE.md = agent config not public doc, absent from the modifiable-targets list; uniform read-only treatment cleaner.
|
||
- Inline config table in README — rejected: violates Diátaxis (CONFIGURE.md = single config reference); README must link, not duplicate.
|
||
- **Reference**: `agents/doc-syncer.md`, commit edff761. Extends [[doc-syncer-readme-deploy-policy]] (BDR-016, README-AUTO + DEPLOY 14-section — conserved, not superseded).
|
||
|
||
---
|
||
|
||
## BDR-023 — Merge /close into /capitalize — 2 modes + TODO reconcile; /close alias
|
||
|
||
- **Date**: 2026-06-19
|
||
- **Status**: accepted (supersedes /close-creation part of BDR-002)
|
||
- **Decision**: `/close` merged into `/capitalize`. capitalize 2 modes: default (pre-wipe flush) + `--ritual` (adds 3-question end-of-session reflection; trigger = `--ritual` flag OR "close"/"ritual" in `$ARGUMENTS`, OR `/close`). Both modes dedup (STEP 2) + reconcile `.claude/tasks/TODO.md` (new STEP 2B). STEP 2B: PASS A done-detection = restraint rule only (flip `[ ]`→`[x]` only on clean task↔commit map; partial/umbrella/vague stay unchecked, never guess); PASS B explicit-capture + anti-noise filter (never track commit/deploy/push/release/tag) + orientation-directive→decisions.md (BDR) routing. Ritual answers go thru dedup, footer shows existing ID — unlike legacy /close (wrote fresh). STEP 3 gate gains separate TODO block; journal+handoff report TODO ops. TODO stays plain prose (caveman = registries only). `/close` kept = thin alias → `/capitalize --ritual`, zero duplicated logic.
|
||
- **Why**: /close + /capitalize overlapped (both flush session memory), /close never deduped → re-logged on re-run. 1 skill 2 modes kills dup + gives /close dedup; TODO reconcile = new capability. Alias file (not merged-triggers-only) because /close resolves by directory name — deleting dir breaks literal `/close` command.
|
||
- **Alternatives rejected**:
|
||
- Merged-triggers-only (drop close dir, fold triggers into capitalize desc) — breaks literal `/close` command (dir-name resolution).
|
||
- Keep 2 separate skills — duplication persists + /close never dedups.
|
||
- **TDD**: built via superpowers:writing-skills. RED v1 baseline too easy (passed). RED v2 (pressured fixture: semantic dup + ambiguous umbrella task + parasite-as-task + orientation directive + rushed prompt) failed on anti-noise (folded push/tag into TODO) + invented subtask + no approval stop. GREEN passed. Gate STOP itself UNTESTED (non-interactive harness printed gate then proceeded "all approved") — flagged in skill Red flag + TDD note; verify on first real use.
|
||
- **Reference**: `skills/capitalize/SKILL.md`, `skills/close/SKILL.md`, commits 9dc2b83 (skill) + be0f047 (docs routing) + 765e9d7 (PASS A trim). Linked to [[BDR-002]] (close created), [[BDR-019]] (capitalize created), [[LRN-031]] (skill-value lesson).
|
||
|
||
---
|
||
|
||
## BDR-024 — `profile show --plain` = claude-free parse contract for the design gate
|
||
|
||
- **Date**: 2026-06-19
|
||
- **Status**: accepted
|
||
- **Decision**: added `profile.sh show <name> --plain` → one `type<TAB>name` per line, grouped by type (gstack/external/personal/plugin/mcp/cli order), NO status, ZERO claude calls, derived purely from the `.profile`. Bare `show` keeps runtime status (human value) + grouped layout; `--plain` = machine path. Canonical names verbatim (`magic` stays `magic`; plugin marketplace `plugin@<mp>` collapsed to category `plugin`).
|
||
- **Why**: upcoming design gate must derive "which profile contains tool X". Needs fast + hook-safe parse. Bare `show` calls `claude plugin list`/`claude mcp list` per plugin/mcp entry → slow + fails in non-terminal/hook context (degrades to "disabled").
|
||
- **Alternatives rejected**:
|
||
- Gate re-reads `.profile` directly — duplicates `read_profile` parsing in the gate; two parsers drift.
|
||
- Gate parses full `show` output — pays claude calls per plugin/mcp, fragile in hook context.
|
||
- **Reference**: `lib/profile.sh` `cmd_show` (+ `--plain` branch), `skills/profile/SKILL.md`, commit 5776195. Linked to [[BDR-018]] (prior `profile.sh` command addition).
|
||
|
||
---
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||
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||
## BDR-025 — Design gate = profile-based; remedy always `/profile design`; magic required-but-manual; unknown → fail-visible; claude resolved via PATH-repair
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||
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||
- **Date**: 2026-06-21
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||
- **Status**: accepted
|
||
- **Decision**: `design-tool-gate.sh` checks whether the `design` profile's design-core tools are active and, if not, points at ONE command — `/profile design`, never an atomic per-tool toggle. **tier = profil**: every non-trivial tier (Build / design-system / review) draws from the one `design` profile (a superset of all tiers) → the gate checks that profile, so ZERO hardcoded tier→tools list. Gate scope = the `# GATE-BLOCK:` allowlist in `design.profile` (only real design tools trip; bundled browser/plan/shotgun/graphify ignored). Structure + types from `profile.sh show design --plain` (BDR-024 contract); per-tool state per channel (skill symlink / `claude plugin list` / `claude mcp list` / `command -v`), mirroring `profile.sh:skill_status()`. Three outcomes: blocking/manual → INCOMPLETE exit 10; unknown-only → READY-BUT-UNVERIFIED exit 11 (fail-visible); else READY exit 0. **magic = required-but-manual** class: TRIPS the gate (NOT advisory), names the `MAGIC_API_KEY` step. **claude resolved via `ensure_claude_on_path()`** (probe known dirs + nvm glob `sort -V | tail -1` = newest, prepend the bin dir carrying claude AND node) — because `command -v claude` depends on PATH carrying the nvm bin, absent in a sanitized subshell/hook; integral to the final gate design, not a detail.
|
||
- **Why**: single source of truth = profile system → no CLAUDE.md tier→tools dup (P3/P5 just removed it), no tool→profile map to drift. Credible gate: trips only on real design tools, not bundled infra → not ignored by reflex. magic is the load-bearing design tool, so silence on it would defeat the gate's purpose. Gate runs from hooks/skills where PATH may be sanitized → robust claude resolution is required for it to verify at all.
|
||
- **Alternatives rejected**:
|
||
- Hardcoded tier→tools list — reintroduces the CLAUDE.md dup just removed; drifts when a tool is added to a profile.
|
||
- magic advisory (mention, don't trip) — fail-OPEN on the very tool the gate exists to catch.
|
||
- Strict fail-closed on unknown — false blocks when claude merely slow/unreachable → gate gets ignored. fail-VISIBLE (exit 11) chosen.
|
||
- Depend on `command -v claude` alone — fails in sanitized-PATH hook → unknown. Proven by `PATH=/usr/bin:/bin` test (magic-on → READY/0, magic-off → INCOMPLETE/10).
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||
- **Reference**: `lib/design-tool-gate.sh`, `lib/design-gate.md`, `lib/profiles/design.profile` (`# GATE-BLOCK:`), commits 3eefb8a / 4d19135 / f963318. Linked to [[BDR-024]] (the `--plain` parse contract this consumes), [[LRN-036]] (`command -v` PATH dependence, the real cause), [[LRN-037]] (proven on the real subject in real context).
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---
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## BDR-026 — Secret source-of-truth outside the repo (`~/.claude/.env`) reached via a `repo/.env` symlink
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||
- **Date**: 2026-06-21
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- **Status**: accepted
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- **Decision**: real secret lives in `~/.claude/.env` (outside git tree); `repo/.env` = symlink → it. `source "$REPO/.env"` follows symlink → ZERO change to any read path (`toggle-external.sh` `load_env`, `install-plugins.sh` check, gate). `link.sh` `link_env()` defensive: links only when `repo/.env` absent or already the right link; a residual REAL `repo/.env` is left untouched with a migrate hint — never clobbered, so the secret can't be destroyed. Idempotent. `.gitignore` hardened to `.env` + `.env.*` + `!.env.example`. Messages point at `~/.claude/.env` (canonical edit location).
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- **Why**: secret never enters the git tree — not as content (it's a link) nor by accident (gitignored). Even a stray `git add .` can't stage the real key. Repo stays usable: symlink visible/editable from repo. Read paths follow the link → no script logic changed.
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- **Alternatives rejected**:
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- Secret in `repo/.env`, gitignored (status quo) — one `git add -f` or `.gitignore` slip leaks it; secret sits in tree.
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- Scripts read `~/.claude/.env` directly — symlink redundant, rewrites every read path, loses repo-local visibility.
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- **Reference**: `link.sh` `link_env()`, `.gitignore`, `lib/toggle-external.sh`, `install-plugins.sh`, `.env.example`, commits 131d0bc / f9cc866. Linked to [[BDR-025]] (magic's `MAGIC_API_KEY`, consumed by the gate's required-but-manual class).
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- **Update 2026-07-02 (incident — copies of secrets)**: `claude mcp add --env` MATERIALIZES the key into `~/.claude.json` (`mcpServers.magic.env`) — 2nd live copy OUTSIDE `~/.claude/.env` canonical and outside repo deny rules' reach. Audit query printed it into a session transcript → key rotated (21st.dev). Rule: secrets have COPIES (tool configs, transcripts, caches) — protect/audit the copies, not just the canonical; when inspecting MCP config, filter env fields (`jq 'del(.. | .env?)'`). Same audit: `~/.claude/.env` hardened 0664→0600.
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- **Update 2026-07-07 (job7 — backup vector closed)**: `~/.claude.json` copy from 2026-07-02 kept re-leaking into `~/.claude/backups/.claude.json.backup.*` (native auto-backup, ring-buffer of 5, plaintext) — every backup taken while live file held the value = fresh copy; scrubbing backups alone would recur forever. Closed at the source instead ([[BDR-057]]): `~/.claude.json`'s `mcpServers.magic.env.API_KEY` rewritten to `"${MAGIC_API_KEY}"` (Claude Code `${VAR}` expansion, confirmed supported at user scope), `lib/toggle-external.sh` writes the reference form for future `enable magic` runs, var reaches `claude` only via a scoped `~/.bashrc` wrapper (never the ambient shell). New backups taken after the fix carry the reference, not the value — confirmed empirically (2 of 5 rotating backups mid-fix still had the old value; scrubbed once, not expected to recur). MAGIC_API_KEY itself still needs rotation (this closes the storage vector, not the already-exposed value).
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||
---
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||
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## BDR-027 — Minimal npm-via-nvm bootstrap over centralized prereq lib (reverses the reverted approach)
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||
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||
- **Date**: 2026-06-23
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||
- **Status**: accepted (supersedes the reverted `lib/install-prereqs.sh` centralization, commit 1ddeed1 removed from history)
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||
- **Decision**: the only real bootstrap blocker = `npm` absent on fresh machine. `install.sh` now installs current LTS via nvm (`v0.39.7` → `nvm install --lts`) ONLY when node/npm missing (`install_node_via_nvm`). Keep the inline per-tool prereq blocks in `install-plugins.sh` (no shared `ensure_*` lib). Re-add `jq` inline (Step 1) + `doctor.sh` fail-level — `jq` is an active-hook dep that was never installed.
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||
- **Why**: a 1-function fallback fixes the actual blocker. Folding 9 prereqs into a 245-line lib was scope-creep for "npm missing"; user reverted it. Inline blocks stay readable + co-located with their step.
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||
- **Alternatives rejected**: centralized `lib/install-prereqs.sh` (commit 1ddeed1 — over-engineered for the real blocker, reverted); leave `npm` as a hard `err` (the original bug — aborts before the CLI install).
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||
- **Reference**: `install.sh` `install_node_via_nvm`, `install-plugins.sh` Step 1 jq, `doctor.sh`, commits b6cc8b1 / 2194b11. Linked to [[BLK-008]] (the chromium half of the same fresh-Ubuntu-26.04 session).
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||
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||
---
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||
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||
## BDR-028 — Hand-curated config is install-immutable (auto-revert guard) + de-vendor installer-managed skills
|
||
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||
- **Date**: 2026-06-23
|
||
- **Status**: accepted
|
||
- **Decision**: `install-plugins.sh` snapshots `CLAUDE.md` + `settings.json` + `.claude/settings.json` at start, restores them on EXIT (trap) → installer never mutates hand-curated config. `frontend-design` un-tracked (`git rm --cached` + gitignore `skills-external/frontend-design/`) — re-synced from the example-skills plugin cache every run, so vendoring = pure churn. npx-skills pollution (`/.agents/`, `/skills-lock.json`) gitignored, anchored so our `agents/` stays tracked.
|
||
- **Why**: a fresh `make install` drifted all 4: graphify clobbered `CLAUDE.md` (deleted the `# This repo only` header) + injected aggressive MANDATORY pre-tool hooks; `claude plugin install` flipped `example-skills`→true + added `plugin-dev`; frontend-design diffed on every upstream update; darwin-skill polluted repo `.agents/` at project scope. Guard = these files maintained by hand+commit only; gitignore = generated artifacts never tracked.
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||
- **Caveat**: guard makes the 3 config files install-immutable — anything the installer SHOULD add must be committed by hand. Safe today: committed `settings.json` already carries the rtk hook (install skips init). `update-all.sh` needs no guard (only `claude plugin update`, no enable flips, no graphify reconfig).
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||
- **Alternatives rejected**: `git checkout` post-install (nukes legit uncommitted edits, depends on git state); surgical JSON/markdown patching (fragile); accept graphify's generic CLAUDE.md (loses curation).
|
||
- **Reference**: `install-plugins.sh` guard block + `restore_curated_configs` trap, `.gitignore`, commits 51afe9b / 7de8761. Linked to [[LRN-039]].
|
||
|
||
---
|
||
|
||
## BDR-029 — Installer auto-fixes gstack browser on OS newer than its pinned Playwright supports
|
||
|
||
- **Date**: 2026-06-23
|
||
- **Status**: accepted
|
||
- **Decision**: `install-plugins.sh` makes gstack's browser work on too-new distros without manual steps. (1) `gstack_bump_playwright_if_unsupported()` runs before `./setup`: if the pinned Playwright's support list lacks the running distro (grep `node_modules/playwright-core/lib` for the `ubuntuXX.04` tag), `bun add playwright@latest` in the submodule, then `./setup`'s frozen-lockfile install picks it up + rebuilds the browse binary. Idempotent (skips when already supported). (2) Persist `GSTACK_CHROMIUM_NO_SANDBOX=1` to the shell profile, gated on `sysctl kernel.apparmor_restrict_unprivileged_userns=1`.
|
||
- **Why**: fresh `make install` on Ubuntu 26.04 must yield a working gstack browser. Submodule pins Playwright 1.58.2; upstream hasn't bumped; can't wait. Local bump in the installer = "just works" + self-heals after a `git submodule update` (re-applies next run).
|
||
- **Caveats**: the installer EDITS the submodule (goes dirty each run on a too-new OS) — invasive, but the user chose it over waiting upstream. `bun add playwright@latest` could pull a Playwright that breaks gstack's build → non-fatal (`./setup` fail warns, install continues). The local bump is reset by `git submodule update`. The `.bashrc` env can be wiped if the user restores a hand-managed `.bashrc` (theirs is managed — the first install's lines were already lost that way).
|
||
- **Alternatives rejected**: `PLAYWRIGHT_HOST_PLATFORM_OVERRIDE` (fallback build HANGS at extraction — [[BLK-008]]); wait for gstack upstream Playwright bump (no ETA); leave browser unavailable (user wanted it); system chromium + executablePath (needs gstack code change).
|
||
- **Reference**: `install-plugins.sh` `gstack_bump_playwright_if_unsupported()` + Step 9 sysctl-gated env, commit 3b8ffb1. Linked to [[LRN-040]], [[BLK-008]].
|
||
|
||
---
|
||
|
||
## BDR-030 — gstack skills activated ON-DEMAND per profile, not pre-installed; OFF by default stays
|
||
|
||
- **Date**: 2026-06-23
|
||
- **Status**: accepted
|
||
- **Decision**: gstack stays OFF by default (no per-skill symlink in `skills/`, zero context cost) — but `profile.sh set <profile>` that LISTS a gstack skill activates it for that profile. `enable_skill gstack` gained a branch: skill not in `skills/` and not parked in `skills-disabled/` but present in the `skills-external/gstack/<name>` submodule → `ln -s` it into `skills/`. `disable_gstack_not_in()` parks it again when an unrelated profile is set. The gstack/bin + browse/dist infra those skills need is created independently by `link.sh`.
|
||
- **Why**: user wanted `make install` self-sufficient AND `set full` (lists 35 gstack skills) to work without 35 `missing — try: bash link.sh` warnings, WITHOUT abandoning gstack's OFF-by-default context-cost policy ([[BDR-029]] install comment). On-demand-per-profile threads both: gstack invisible until a profile needs it, then auto-on for exactly that profile. Source of truth = the submodule (`gstack_skills()` already reads `skills-external/gstack/*/SKILL.md`), so activation needs no gstack `./setup` skill-registration (which this gstack version writes to the WRONG dir anyway — [[LRN-042]]).
|
||
- **Caveats**: the symlink form (`skills/<name> -> skills-external/gstack/<name>`) differs from what gstack `./setup` would create (real dir + symlinked SKILL.md) — fine here because `./setup` never populates `skills/` in this layout, so no mixed-form collision. Browse RUNTIME still needs the built binary + sandbox env ([[BDR-029]]) — on-demand makes the skill DISCOVERABLE, not the browser functional on an unsupported OS. The old "try: bash link.sh" message was wrong (link.sh never creates gstack skills) → replaced with submodule-aware messages.
|
||
- **Alternatives rejected**: full gstack integration (make `./setup` install into `skills/`) — user picked option 1, too invasive/version-fragile; leave `full` broken with honest 1-line warning — worse UX; pre-symlink all gstack at install — violates OFF-by-default context policy.
|
||
- **Reference**: `lib/profile.sh` `GSTACK_SRC` + `enable_skill` gstack branch. Verified: `set full` → 0 missing, 35 on-demand; `minimal`↔`full` cycle re-parks/restores; git clean (gstack symlinks gitignored, [[LRN-025]]). Linked to [[LRN-042]], [[LRN-022]], [[BDR-018]] (gstack on/off verb).
|
||
|
||
---
|
||
|
||
## BDR-031 — global CLAUDE.md lightening = COMPRESSION, not path-scope / externalization
|
||
|
||
- **Date**: 2026-06-25
|
||
- **Status**: accepted
|
||
- **Decision**: lighten the universal global CLAUDE.md (`~/.claude/CLAUDE.md`, loaded every session in every project) by COMPRESSION only — denser prose, drop name-obvious routing lines, trim decorative whitespace. NOT by path-scoping rules under `~/.claude/rules/`, NOT by externalizing sections to on-demand files. Result: 317 → 275 lines.
|
||
- **Why**: user-level path-scoped rules (`paths:` frontmatter under `~/.claude/rules/`) do NOT load in CC 2.1.190 (#21858, [[BLK-009]]) — proven by probe. Conditional/scoped loading is therefore an unreliable lever for this user; compression is the only mechanism that actually cuts every-session token cost without depending on the broken feature.
|
||
- **Caveats**: future GLOBAL memory must stay tiny — with conditional loading broken, anything global loads in EVERY project unconditionally; fold that constraint into the global-memory design once a backup exists. Caveman pass to ~250 was explicitly DECLINED: marginal ~25-line gain vs real risk (changes the nature of instructions-to-follow; no evidence caveman is followed better than prose; CLAUDE.md is the most-edited file → caveman = painful to re-read/amend). 275 readable > 250 caveman.
|
||
- **Alternatives rejected**: path-scoped `~/.claude/rules/` (broken, [[BLK-009]]); externalize sections to on-demand-loaded files (same conditional-load dependency); caveman to ~250 (readability + instruction-fidelity risk).
|
||
- **Reference**: `~/.claude/CLAUDE.md` (symlink → `~/Documents/claude/CLAUDE.md`), commits ba743cf (compress routing+design+graphify) + 990318c (trim separators/blanks). Linked to [[BLK-009]], [[LRN-043]], [[LRN-044]].
|
||
|
||
---
|
||
|
||
## BDR-032 — skill `/validate` → `/web-validate` (rename user surface, keep internals)
|
||
|
||
- **Date**: 2026-06-25
|
||
- **Status**: accepted (shipped `e5e673a`)
|
||
- **Decision**: rename W3C+WCAG skill `/validate` → `/web-validate` (clearer scoped name, less generic). Renamed the USER-FACING surface ONLY: folder (`git mv`), frontmatter `name`, H1, command refs, CLAUDE.md routing line, 6 `lib/profiles/*.profile` entries (FUNCTIONAL — profiles activate skills by folder name, a miss = broken activation), cross-refs (harden/seo/depth-matrix/client-handover), agent dispatch refs, README + USAGE tables. Leak-guard regex extended to `web-validate|validate` ([[LRN-045]]).
|
||
- **Why — 4 deliberate KEEPs**:
|
||
- agent `validator-analyzer` name KEPT — internal, lockstep with `subagent_type=` + harness registry; rename = wider blast radius, zero discoverability gain.
|
||
- `.validate-cache/` + `VALIDATE.md` KEPT — names derive from the AUDIT TYPE, family `{SEO,GEO,HARDEN,CSO,VALIDATE}.md`; renaming makes VALIDATE the odd one out + orphans already-generated reports (`MIGRATION.md` cleanup loop hardcodes the name). Same logic kept the dispatch label `description="validate — ..."`.
|
||
- `.claude/` history KEPT (memory + completed TODO block) — append-only, true at the time. The forward-pointing OPEN TODO item was ANNOTATED additively (`désormais /web-validate`), not rewritten — append-only protects history, not pointers to future actions.
|
||
- CHANGELOG old entry KEPT, new "renamed" entry ADDED (Keep-a-Changelog: don't rewrite the past).
|
||
- NL trigger keywords ("validate"/"validation") KEPT in the description so "validate my site" still routes here.
|
||
- **Alternatives rejected**: rename agent + artifacts too (cosmetic symmetry, ~45 extra edits, breaks audit-file family + report back-compat); blind `sed s/validate/web-validate/` (breaks third-party `html-validate`, `validator.nu`, English-verb prose — discrimination must be at the `/validate` token, proven by `.validate-cache/html-validate.json` staying intact).
|
||
- **Reference**: commit `e5e673a` (18 files). Verified complete: `/validate` = 0 in active code (only `.claude/` history + CHANGELOG), `html-validate` = 15 intact, regex `client-handover-writer.md:1462` shows both names. Linked to [[LRN-045]], [[BDR-031]] (CLAUDE.md routing), [[LRN-043]] (validate routing line).
|
||
|
||
## BDR-033 — design-gate §4: anim-lib suggestion — suggest-only, non-blocking, stateless 1-line
|
||
|
||
- **Date**: 2026-06-25
|
||
- **Status**: accepted
|
||
- **Decision**: `lib/design-gate.md` gains §4. When a non-trivial design task hits a MOTION signal (`animation`/`transition`/`hover`/`motion`/`animate`, added to §DETECTION) AND `detect_anim_eligibility`=`eligible` AND `is_anim_lib_installed` finds none → surface ONE line suggesting the recommended `motion` pkg. Suggest-only (install ONLY on explicit consent, never auto), non-blocking (sole STOP stays §3 exit 10), stateless (ALWAYS the single line, no marker). Calls the helper — no 3rd copy of the lib list.
|
||
- **Why**: gate runs mid-build; a 2nd blocking stop on an OPTIONAL dep = friction. Dedup goal is not "prevent re-fire" but "make the surface minimal enough that re-fire is never noise" → deterministic by construction (nothing to remember → no fragile behavioral guard, cf [[LRN-046]]/[[LRN-047]]). **Conditional to stakes**: the deduped thing here is a NON-DESTRUCTIVE 1-line cosmetic note → re-fire is annoyance, not risk, so importing marker-grade infra (file + gitignore + permanent state) is not justified. On a DESTRUCTIVE op a deterministic marker IS worth its cost — that is where [[LRN-046]]/[[LRN-047]] were forged. Same determinism bar, opposite cost/benefit; pick by stake. Self-heal: condition-3 (`is_anim_lib_installed`, 10 libs incl gsap/react-spring/lottie) kills it the instant any anim lib lands → re-fire only ever hits "eligible + pure-CSS + actively declined".
|
||
- **Alternatives rejected**:
|
||
- File marker `.design-anim-suggested` (once-forever) — "session"→"forever-per-project" (1 decline = permanent silence, no cleanup but manual rm); adds write + gitignore mgmt to a non-mutating doctrine; `.claude/` tracked here → suppression leaks via git.
|
||
- Blocking yes/skip prompt à la `/onboard` STEP 2.5 — a 2nd STOP mid-build on an optional dep.
|
||
- Prose "agent remembers not to re-suggest" — fragile behavioral guard, contradicts [[LRN-046]]/[[LRN-047]].
|
||
- **Reference**: commit `11792cc`, `lib/design-gate.md` §4 + §DETECTION (`+motion`/`+animate`). Helper `lib/animation-lib-check.sh` unchanged. Live via symlink (`~/.claude/lib/`→repo). Builds on [[BDR-005]]. See [[LRN-049]].
|
||
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||
## BDR-034 — Coupled-capitalize invariant v1 — memory commit auto per dev flow (Frame 2)
|
||
|
||
- **Date**: 2026-06-26
|
||
- **Status**: accepted
|
||
- **Decision**: Dev flows committing code now auto-commit memory same breath, via include `lib/capitalize-commit.md` + helper `lib/memory-commit.sh` (surgical: stages+commits `.claude/memory`+`.claude/tasks` only, pathspec, never `git add -A`). 4 inline flows (feat/hotfix/bugfix/commit-change) ref the include at their capitalize step; ship-feature reordered (CAPITALIZE STEP 7 before FINISH STEP 8 — fixes memory committed after push/PR + stranded outside it); init-project gains STEP 10b founding-decisions capitalize. 1 memory commit/flow (F3). Capitalize CONTENT keeps its approval gate — only the COMMIT of approved entries is automated.
|
||
- **Why**: Real pain = the 2nd (memory) commit forgotten/manual — ~42% of recent history (17/40 commits) was emergent `chore(memory)`. Frame chosen = "couplé après-code" not "avant commit": keeps hash-anchoring (>50% entries carry `Reference: commit`) + code/memory concern separation; attacks the forgetting, not the ordering. "Capitalize before commit" rejected — inverts a deliberate property AND can't anchor the code hash (hash exists only post-commit).
|
||
- **Alternatives rejected**:
|
||
- (a) each orchestrator calls capitalize-before-commit — duplicated across 5+ flows (each has bespoke inline capitalize), breaks hash-anchoring, forgettable on next skill added.
|
||
- (b) commit-change as the single gate — not on the path of feat/hotfix/bugfix/ship-feature/init-project (they commit inline or via external superpowers); can't detect "pending capitalize".
|
||
- (c) single commit chokepoint — doesn't exist; 3 distinct commit mechanisms, one external/unmodifiable (`superpowers:finishing-a-development-branch`).
|
||
- Frame 3 (single unified commit, drop hash) — sacrifices >50% entries' anchoring for history aesthetics.
|
||
- **Reference**: commits `58cb91d` (helper+tests) · `bbef41c` (hash/stdout + T6/T7) · `b44791b` (include) · `2763678` (4 flows) · `e8eff7e` (ship-feature reorder) · `df60df6` (init-project). Hook (v2, Stop-hook non-blocking BDR-033-style) + doc-sync twin chantier (same PR bug, reorder before FINISH) deferred. See [[LRN-051]], [[LRN-052]], [[EVAL-007]].
|
||
|
||
## BDR-035 — Analyze-before-plan invariant v1 — read-before bookend of coupled-capitalize
|
||
|
||
- **Date**: 2026-06-26
|
||
- **Status**: accepted
|
||
- **Decision**: Dev flows now READ related memory before planning (ship-feature also reads related code), mirroring how [[BDR-034]] made them WRITE memory after. Shared include `lib/analyze-before-plan.md` (tête-bêche of `lib/capitalize-commit.md`). Invariant = DISPOSITION, not reading: the plan must NAME each surfaced ID (in-force / already-seen / non-binding) — a verifiable trace in the artifact, not "did it look". Two-pass: grep `## <PREFIX>-` body headings → select on titles → full-read only the selected bodies. Wiring: ship-feature STEP 0d (analyzer subagent code+memory, fed to brainstorm/plan by INPUT INJECTION + STEP 3 reconciliation gate); bugfix STEP 2.5 (blockers-first); feat STEP 0.6 (decisions-first, MINI-PLAN names in-force or states none); hotfix opt-in blockers-only; init-project + onboard = no-op exceptions. Guarded no-op (`[ -d .claude/memory ]`).
|
||
- **Why**: coupled-capitalize gave every flow a write-after; NO flow read the memory it feeds — bookend half-open. A bugfix wrote BLK at the end but never checked blockers.md for the same root cause already solved. Closes Gap B (memory, universal) + Gap A (code, ship-feature — the lone cold-planner).
|
||
- **Alternatives rejected**:
|
||
- Index two-pass — `## Index` drifted on this mature repo (decisions 11/34, learnings 21/52, blockers 2/9 missing) in scattered blocks → an Index-based selector silently misses a large unpredictable fraction. Body headings drift-immune (100% coverage). See [[LRN-055]].
|
||
- Extend analyzer only — inline flows (feat/bugfix/hotfix) never call analyzer pre-plan → would close Gap B for none. Needed both: include + analyzer RELATED MEMORY section.
|
||
- PASS-2 skip-if-already-in-context — no deterministic oracle for "in context"; reintroduces the behavioral guard. See [[LRN-054]].
|
||
- **Reference**: commit `67c6a81`, `lib/analyze-before-plan.md`, `agents/analyzer.md`. Bookend of [[BDR-034]]. See [[LRN-053]], [[LRN-054]], [[LRN-055]], [[LRN-056]], [[LRN-057]].
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||
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||
## BDR-036 — Doc-sync coupled invariant — commit the docs doc-syncer patches (twin of BDR-034, BUILT not reordered)
|
||
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||
- **Date**: 2026-06-27
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||
- **Status**: accepted
|
||
- **Decision**: doc-sync flows now COMMIT the public docs doc-syncer patches, via new `lib/doc-commit.sh` (helper) + `lib/doc-commit.md` (include) — mirror of memory-commit/capitalize-commit, 4 DELTAS: (Δ1) dynamic scope = patched files as argv, not a fixed pathspec; (Δ2) INVERSE exclusion = fail-closed + loud guard rejecting `.claude/**`+`CLAUDE.md` (dedicated exit 4), opposite of memory-commit which TARGETS `.claude/`; (Δ3) no hash anchoring (docs carry no SHA, [[LRN-052]]); (Δ4) `docs:` msg. doc-syncer emits `PATCHED_FILES` (one path/line) → agent splits on newline → each as DISTINCT argv (space-safe, [[LRN-060]]). 2 orchestrators reordered DOC SYNC before FINISH (ship-feature STEP 9→8, init-project STEP 12→10c, GSD 13→12); 3 inline flows wired (feat/bugfix/hotfix DOC SYNC). Consumption MECHANICAL ([[LRN-057]] case a, = BDR-034).
|
||
- **Why**: doc-syncer PATCHED docs but COMMITTED nothing (grep-proven, zero git commit) → push/PR path = docs stranded outside PR (orchestrators); inline = docs left dirty. Twin of [[BDR-034]] but NOT same fix: memory ALREADY had a commit helper (only mis-timed); doc-sync had NONE → had to BUILD the mechanism, not just reorder. "Reorder alone" (the deferred note's framing) REFUTED in read-phase ([[LRN-058]]).
|
||
- **Honest scope/choices** (engraved, not glossed):
|
||
- (a) MINOR doc content stays NON-gated yet auto-committed — CONSCIOUS, not memory's always-gated content; the VISIBLE surface (files + AGENT-composed change summary, not a bare count) REPLACES the gate as the review surface. Strengthening the MINOR gate = separate doc-syncer chantier.
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||
- (b) init-project PARTIAL — scaffold + bootstrap-README commit gap ([[BLK-010]], unborn HEAD + worktree) + GSD ROADMAP post-FINISH ([[BLK-011]]) deferred = NEW work, not replication.
|
||
- (c) scope EXPANDED mid-chantier via the ref-sweep to 3 inline flows — asymmetry vs memory (BDR-034 wired ALL flows) was the decider.
|
||
- **Alternatives rejected**:
|
||
- Reorder-only (the deferred note) — refuted: doc-syncer commits nothing, reordering uncommitted docs still misses the merge.
|
||
- Static-glob scope (`*.md`/`docs/`) — over-reach onto a user-edited doc / `MIGRATION.md`; chose touched-files argv (in-thread list already in hand).
|
||
- Silent-filter the forbidden path — masks an upstream BDR-022 bug; guard must REFUSE-ALL loudly ([[LRN-060]]).
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||
- **Reference**: commits `ae1f218` (helper+tests) · `4a54a65` (include) · `fb1f359` (doc-syncer PATCHED_FILES) · `636b491` (ship-feature reorder) · `e81f629` (init-project reorder) · `1b01b95` (3 inline flows). See [[BDR-034]], [[LRN-058]], [[LRN-059]], [[LRN-060]], [[BLK-010]], [[BLK-011]], [[EVAL-008]].
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## BDR-037 — v2 capitalize Stop-hook REJECTED → wire /capitalize+/close to the include
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- **Date**: 2026-06-27
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- **Status**: accepted
|
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- **Decision**: Deferred "v2 hook" ([[BDR-033]]-style non-blocking stateless Stop-hook nagging dirty `.claude/memory`) REJECTED — no code written. No Claude Code event supports an end-of-session nag: `Stop` fires PER-TURN (self-defeating — would nag during /capitalize's own write→commit window, [[LRN-047]]); `SessionEnd` is debug-log-only (can't nag) + would bypass the content gate (half-written entries). Real gap ≠ forgetting → CÂBLAGE manquant: `/capitalize` + `/close` never call `lib/capitalize-commit.md`. Redirect: wire the include into `/capitalize` STEP 5B (`/close` = thin alias, follows free), same one-liner as the 6 dev flows. Content gate (STEP 3) first → commit of approved entries automated ([[BDR-034]] contract). Deterministic, zero-noise, at source.
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- **Why**: 3 git proofs — (1) memory already committed by hand 35× as pure `chore(memory)` (zero code mixed); (2) orphans self-heal — `commit_memory` stages whole `.claude/memory` dir, next flow sweeps up; (3) cost on common path (per-turn noise / non-gated commit), benefit marginal (residual self-healing) → a hook polices a discipline already in evidence. OUBLI not choice: include + helper born 2026-06-26; `/capitalize` last edit 2026-06-19 (created 2026-06-09), `/close` 2026-04-23 — skills predate the machinery 7-60d; wiring commits (`2763678`/`e8eff7e`/`df60df6`) touched neither. No control removed: the commit was never gated, just done by hand in the exact `chore(memory): <IDs> — <ctx>` style the include reproduces.
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- **Alternatives rejected**:
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- (a) Stop per-turn memory-only wrapper — fires during the very flush it nags about → [[LRN-047]] self-defeat (frequent ignored nag = risk, not annoyance).
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- (b) SessionEnd auto-commit (FAIT) — bypasses STEP 3 content gate, embarks half-written entries, can't report actionably.
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- (c) abandon with no redirect — leaves the real wiring gap open; fix for an unwired skill = wire it.
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- **Reference**: read-phase analysis (no hook code ever written); wiring commit (capitalize STEP 5B) follows. Completes [[BDR-034]] rollout; applies [[BDR-033]] doctrine to REJECT (not all nudges — the determinism split is [[LRN-061]]). See [[LRN-061]], [[LRN-047]], [[LRN-049]], [[LRN-054]].
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## BDR-038 — deploy skill: per-project learning runbook, two-moment cold-resume
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- **date**: 2026-06-27
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- **status**: accepted
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- **decision**: New `/deploy` skill = per-project runbook in `.claude/deploy/`. 5 artifacts: `PROCEDURE.md` (runbook, in-place edits), `INCIDENTS.md` (`DEP-NNN` ledger, append-only), `STATE.json` (deploy oracle, committed), `PENDING.json` (cold-resume bridge, gitignored), `NEXT.sh` (instantiated checklist, gitignored, hand-run). Two-moment spine: BEFORE (delta-instantiate `NEXT.sh` + hand back) → user deploys OUT-OF-BAND → AFTER (react: MARK success or LEARN from failure). Cold cross-session resume via `PENDING.json` (disk = only memory across the gap). Learn = atomic patch+incident (one `deploy-commit.sh` call, both files). New helper `lib/deploy-commit.sh` (allowlist `.claude/deploy/`). Built via subagent-driven-development (4 tasks).
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- **why**: deployment memory that LEARNS (runbook patched in place per failure) beats a frozen runbook; disk-bridge so a resume survives session loss.
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- **alternatives**: tag-oracle (rejected — lightweight-tag date unreliable, rebase-fragile, [[LRN-063]]); separate append-only ERRORS log (rejected — git history of `PROCEDURE.md`+`INCIDENTS.md` suffices, no `resolved-by` field); `NEXT.sh`-as-bridge (rejected — ephemeral ≠ persistent → separate `PENDING.json`); reuse doc/memory-commit (rejected — neither can commit `.claude/deploy/`, [[LRN-064]]).
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- **reference**: `skills/deploy/SKILL.md`, `lib/deploy-commit.sh`, `templates/deploy/`; branch `feat/deploy-skill` (b210e8d..79741e3, kept un-merged); spec `docs/specs/2026-06-27-deploy-skill-design.md`, plan `docs/plans/2026-06-27-deploy-skill.md`.
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## BDR-039 — Gitea branch protection = Option-1 owner-pushable, not require-PR
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- **date**: 2026-06-29
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- **status**: accepted
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- **decision**: Protect `main` + `develop` on every gitflow-migrated Gitea repo with **Option 1 (owner-pushable)**: `enable_push=true` + `enable_push_whitelist=true` + `push_whitelist_usernames=[owner]`. Blocks force-push, branch deletion, and pushes by non-owners — while letting the owner push their LOCAL gitflow merges directly. NOT require-PR / required-review.
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- **why**: gitflow integrates by **local directed merges** — `gitflow finish` runs `git merge --no-ff` on the owner's machine then pushes the merge commit. require-PR would REJECT those pushes: every feature/bugfix/release merge would need a manual PR, and the **hotfix fan-out** (hotfix → main + develop + each open `release/*`) becomes 3+ manual PRs per hotfix. For a solo-owner Gitea, required reviews add zero review value, only friction. Owner-pushable keeps the protection's real teeth (no force-push, no deletion, no non-owner push) without breaking the local-merge workflow. Protection is a BACKSTOP — the per-repo pre-commit hook + the "finish only on an explicit human signal" rule are the primary controls.
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||
- **alternatives**: require-PR + required reviews (rejected — breaks `gitflow finish`'s local merges; the 3-way hotfix fan-out becomes manual PRs; no review value for a solo owner, pure friction); no protection (rejected — leaves force-push + branch deletion + accidental non-owner push open; it is the deterministic backstop the advisory rules can't guarantee); protect `main` only (rejected — `develop` is equally a protected base in the model, needs the same force-push/deletion guard).
|
||
- **reference**: `lib/gitflow-migrate.sh` `_protect()` (POST `/repos/{o}/{r}/branch_protections`, owner whitelist); applied to all 6 repos 2026-06-29 (journal). Hook backstop in `lib/gitflow.sh` (pre-commit); CLAUDE.md "Version control — gitflow (universal)". Pairs with [[LRN-069]] (the `git push` ASK gate at the tool-call layer).
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||
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||
## BDR-040 — doc-syncer MINOR-shape oracle: deterministic floor under LLM's MINOR call
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||
- **date**: 2026-06-29
|
||
- **status**: accepted
|
||
- **Problem**: doc-syncer AUTO MODE classifies drift NONE/MINOR/SIGNIFICANT by LLM judgment, no deterministic backstop. SIGNIFICANT mislabeled MINOR → silent auto-patch + auto-commit, skips the SIGNIFICANT gate (RISK-1). Follow-up [[BDR-036]] flagged.
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||
- **Decision**: `lib/doc-shape.sh` re-checks SHAPE of each MINOR patch BEFORE the silent auto-commit. Envelope (per path, `git diff HEAD`): adds ATX heading | added > DOC_SHAPE_MAX_ADDED (def 20) | removed > MAX_REMOVED (def 20) | new/untracked file | non-doc → EXCEEDS. Aggregate: ANY path exceeds → whole set escalates to the EXISTING SIGNIFICANT gate (STEP A4 `Apply? yes/no/select`; no=revert all, select=keep subset). Thresholds env-overridable.
|
||
- **Oracle NOT a blocking gate (B rejected)**: [[BDR-036]] graved MINOR-non-gated as CONSCIOUS (visible surface replaces gate; blocking gate = friction disproportionate). Oracle does NOT gate genuine MINOR (auto-commit untouched, zero friction) — only re-routes shape-suspect patches. Tightens the DEFINITION of MINOR deterministically ([[LRN-046]] oracle > judge), adds no gate. Option B (human gate on every MINOR) REJECTED — contradicts [[BDR-036]], rejects the premise the reading refuted.
|
||
- **ENGRAVED LIMIT — do not over-read the guarantee**: oracle catches STRUCTURAL/size significance, NOT semantic. A 3-line edit that CHANGES MEANING, no heading, small → still reads MINOR (rc 0) and auto-commits. Deterministic FLOOR under LLM judgment = REDUCTION of RISK-1's gross cases, NOT elimination. LLM owns the semantic call above the floor; the visible surface ([[BDR-036]]) stays the content backstop.
|
||
- **Scope tranché**: ① oracle + ② [[LRN-071]] masked-commit fix built. ③ branch-guard (doc-commit refusing main/develop) DEFERRED — duplicates the protected-base predicate a 3rd time (lib + gitflow hook + here); migrated repos have the hook → ③ guards a state that shouldn't exist. Reconsider only for repos outside `gitflow init`.
|
||
- **Build**: TDD RED→GREEN. run-doc-shape.sh 19/19 (incl. threshold boundary + env-override) + behavioral Scenario D. Wired doc-syncer STEP A4 + doc-commit.md ACKNOWLEDGMENTS coherence. shellcheck clean.
|
||
|
||
## BDR-041 — /reconcile = deterministic declared-vs-real engine + thin gated skill (reconciler, not lister)
|
||
- **Date**: 2026-06-30
|
||
- **Status**: accepted
|
||
- **Decision**: `/reconcile` answers "what work is REALLY open?" by confronting DECLARATIVE sources (TODO `[x]`/`[ ]`/`[~]`, registry statuses, `## Index`) against REAL state (git/fs, registry BODY). Split: `lib/reconcile.sh` (deterministic engine — body enumeration, `reconcile_oracle_*`, BLK last-block-wins, lexical deferral sweep, contradiction candidates, pure `reconcile_verdict` kernel) + `skills/reconcile/SKILL.md` (thin orchestration + A/B/C write-back gate). Founding principle = RECURSIVE COHERENCE: never use a declarative source as oracle (Index/checkbox/status/path-name) — enumerate from BODY `## ID` headings, decide done/stale from git/fs. TESTED: run-reconcile.sh T1 reds if engine reads `## Index` (shim → 51≠72, canary LRN-020 dropped). Registries READ-ONLY (curation = /prune-memory).
|
||
- **Why**: RED proved a capable agent reconciles when GUIDED ("use git + justify") but MIRRORS the TODO when not (false positives + missed contradiction), and even guided hits the compound-status trap (BLK-008). Value = determinism + cheapness + gate, NOT teaching ([[LRN-031]], [[LRN-075]]). Mechanical 80% → script; judgment 20% → thin skill (writing-skills: automate mechanical, document judgment).
|
||
- **Alternatives rejected**: monolithic teaching/discipline skill (agents reconcile when guided → no teaching value); `grep '[ ]'` lister (reproduces the lie); trust Index (drift, [[LRN-055]]); blocking write-back gate (friction — A/B/C surface chosen).
|
||
- **Honest limits (graven)**: deferral detection LEXICAL (marked-only; unmarked "à reprendre quand X" missed); contradictions = CANDIDATES (token overlap), surfaced not asserted; cross-repo "not verifiable here"; cross-ref verdicts ("[~] done because chantier X below complete") surfaced, not auto-resolved.
|
||
- **Reference**: `lib/reconcile.sh`, `lib/tests/run-reconcile.sh` (20/20) + `lib/tests/fixtures/` (neutral-named, [[LRN-077]]), `skills/reconcile/SKILL.md`, CLAUDE.md "Skill routing". Born of the 2026-06-29 manual inventory (its known-good oracle). Built via superpowers:writing-skills. See [[LRN-075]], [[LRN-076]], [[EVAL-011]].
|
||
|
||
## BDR-042 — /release-candidate = thin orchestrator over gitflow release; the tag lives in the skill
|
||
- **Date**: 2026-06-30
|
||
- **Status**: accepted
|
||
- **Decision**: `/release-candidate <X.Y.Z>` cuts a release by ORCHESTRATING the existing `lib/gitflow.sh` mechanic, NOT rewriting it. Flow: preconditions (clean tree, identity, develop ahead of main) → `gitflow start release` → prep (version.txt + CHANGELOG, breaking documented) → run-tests gate → HUMAN "WHEN to release" gate → `gitflow finish` (fan-out main+develop+delete, lib L108-111) → **`git tag -a vX.Y.Z main`** → push gated. The `git tag` lives in the SKILL, lib UNTOUCHED — the tag is release-specific (version + message + human call), the lib's fan-out is generic. Scheme `vX.Y.Z`, CONTINUES the version.txt/CHANGELOG lineage (never restart at v1.0.0 — desyncs from a CHANGELOG already at 3.x).
|
||
- **Why**: gitflow release was wired (start base=develop L49, finish fan-out main+develop L108-111) but had NO tag step (grep-confirmed: zero `git tag` in gitflow.sh). The tag is the only gap; an orchestrator supplies it without touching the tested mechanic.
|
||
- **Consequence (accepted)**: a release cut by calling `gitflow finish` directly, bypassing the skill, fans out but is NOT tagged → `/release-candidate` is the CANONICAL sole release path. Acceptable for a solo repo; revisit (tag in lib) only if direct-lib releases become a need.
|
||
- **Alternatives rejected**: tag inside `gitflow_finish` (atomic but modifies the tested generic mechanic for a release-specific concern — lib=mechanic/skill=judgment); restart tags at v1.0.0 (desyncs tag↔CHANGELOG lineage).
|
||
- **Reference**: `skills/release-candidate/SKILL.md`, `lib/tests/run-release-candidate.sh` (RED no-tag → GREEN 5/5), CLAUDE.md routing. Built via writing-skills TDD. Consumes the gitflow model [[BDR-039]]. See [[LRN-078]], [[LRN-079]], [[EVAL-012]].
|
||
|
||
## BDR-043 — BDR-015 trigger cleared: 5 ex-broken gstack symlinks repaired → darwin re-baseline back in scope
|
||
- **Date**: 2026-06-30
|
||
- **Status**: accepted (requalifies [[BDR-015]] — append-only, BDR-015 left intact)
|
||
- **Decision**: the 5 dirs [[BDR-015]] excluded from `/darwin-skill` (`benchmark-models`, `context-restore`, `context-save`, `make-pdf`, `plan-tune`) are no longer broken. gstack now ships those skills — all GENERATED by `gen-skill-docs` in the `make plugin` run → real submodule targets exist, symlinks resolve. VÉRIF audit 2026-06-30 = 0 broken among 83 symlinks (skills/ 41 + skills-disabled/ 33 + nested 5 + top-level 4). Per BDR-015's own caveat ("if/when symlinks repaired → re-run baseline to bring them in scope"), the 5 RETURN to darwin scope → re-baseline UNBLOCKED.
|
||
- **Why**: BDR-015's exclusion was CONDITIONAL on the targets being broken (external-ownership + missing-target). Precondition gone → exclusion no longer applies to these 5.
|
||
- **Action (NOT done)**: verify `~/.agents/skills/darwin-skill/results.tsv` still marks these 5 `status=error` ("broken gstack symlink — out of scope"); if so, re-run darwin baseline to bring them in. Status = UNBLOCKED, execution PENDING — do NOT read as "re-baselined".
|
||
- **Distinct from [[BLK-007]]**: BLK-007/`f928a53` (2026-06-02) = a DIFFERENT symlink episode (`spec` + 5 iOS device-farm skills, source-only after a submodule bump; fixed by linking `spec`, skipping iOS). NOT the 5 of BDR-015 — kept separate to avoid a false causal link.
|
||
- **Reference**: VÉRIF audit (subagent, filesystem-only, 2026-06-30). [[BDR-015]] caveat. darwin eval log `results.tsv`.
|
||
|
||
---
|
||
|
||
## BDR-044 — auto-skill-dispatch won't-build: under→over reframe, measured — model already discriminates
|
||
- **Date**: 2026-06-30
|
||
- **Status**: accepted · won't-build
|
||
- **Decision**: do NOT add L2 routing prose to CLAUDE.md for "auto-trigger skills on intent". Chantier retired won't-build — 3rd measured moot of the session (after [[BDR-001]] --help + [[BDR-043]]/[[LRN-082]] darwin re-baseline).
|
||
- **Why — the dependent variable inverted**: the initial fear was UNDER-routing (model ignores skills, does the task by hand). Cartography refuted it — routing is a STACK and L1 (superpowers "1% chance → you MUST invoke") already SUR-determines invocation → "does it route?" = "already yes". The real open question became DISCERNMENT (clear→route, ambiguous→ASK, trivial→abstain), and the real hazard inverted to OVER-routing. Measured in REAL fresh main-loop sessions (8 prompts, 3 classes): CLEAR→routes ✓, AMBIGUOUS→asks (refuses to guess, investigates to ask a USEFUL question) ✓, TRIVIAL→abstains ✓. The L1-vs-Workflow-rules textual tension ("1% → MUST invoke" vs "ask one question if needed / pragmatic on trivial") is resolved well in behavior — the model balances. Adding L2 bounding prose = phantom value AND risks DEGRADING an already-good discernment.
|
||
- **Alternatives rejected**:
|
||
- Add a routing-reinforcement instruction (original intent) → phantom value: L1 already over-determines routing; more mandate worsens the only real risk (over-routing).
|
||
- Add an over-routing bound (clear→route / ambiguous→ask / trivial→abstain) at L2 → measurement shows the model ALREADY does this; codifying it risks perturbing it, zero upside.
|
||
- Keyword hook on intent verbs → too noisy — the design-hook mis-fired on "design" in "auto-skill-dispatch" 3× this session; intent verbs (corrige/crée) are everywhere.
|
||
- **Reference**: cartography L0–L4 + discernment-RED (user-run, fresh sessions). Subagent under-routing RED RETIRED as non-discriminating ([[LRN-083]]). [[LRN-080]] (measure-first), [[LRN-049]] (bound noise). TODO "auto-skill-dispatch" → won't-build.
|
||
|
||
## BDR-045 — Standalone memory/doc skills branch to `chore/*` via the aiguillage (hook exemption kept)
|
||
|
||
- **Date**: 2026-07-01
|
||
- **Status**: accepted
|
||
- **Decision**: Standalone memory/doc skills (`/capitalize` `/close` `/prune-memory` `/reconcile`) run the gitflow aiguillage BEFORE writing: on a protected base they `gitflow start chore <name>` off develop → commit lands on `chore/*`, not direct on main/develop. New `chore` type in `lib/gitflow.sh` (`base_for`→develop, `branch_type`, `finish`→develop like feature/bugfix); hook UNCHANGED (`chore/*` non-protected; the `.claude/**`-on-main exemption KEPT — T3 still green). `gitflow-aiguillage.md` broadened (caller→type map); 3 skills wired (`capitalize` covers `/close` via alias, `prune-memory`, `reconcile`); tests +T1 chore predicates +T6b finish chore→develop +T10 coherence chore/m → 64/64. Reused the EXISTING aiguillage include, not a new mechanism. Commit `e8807a7`.
|
||
- **Why**: the `.claude/**` exemption is scoped to the SIDE-CAR ([[BDR-034]]: memory following a code branch). When memory IS the work (standalone reconcile/prune/capitalize) there is no branch to follow → it fell back to `main`. A multi-repo raccord committed 5 `chore(memory)` direct on `main` and nothing flagged it — the exemption worked as designed, masking the divergence with the "all via branch" rule ([[LRN-084]]). The aiguillage closes the SKILL path without taxing the side-car. The hook can NEVER enforce "from develop" (only "not on a protected base") → that half lives ONLY in `gitflow_start`.
|
||
- **Alternatives rejected**:
|
||
- (A) remove the `.claude/**` exemption — breaks standalone `/capitalize`+`/close` on main/develop (commit in place, no branch of their own — `memory-commit.sh` has no protected-base guard) AND every side-car commit; over-reaches the leak.
|
||
- (C) codify exemption + human habit — enforces NOTHING mechanically; goal was automatic.
|
||
- (D) narrow the exemption by size/scope in the hook — fuzzy, false positives.
|
||
- **Honest residual**: a MANUAL `git commit` of `.claude/**` on `main` still passes — B covers the skill path only. Non-blocking hook WARN on manual `.claude/**`-on-main = DEFERRED. See [[BDR-034]], [[BDR-039]], [[LRN-084]].
|
||
|
||
---
|
||
|
||
## BDR-046 — Claude Code installs via the official native installer, not npm
|
||
|
||
- **Date**: 2026-07-01
|
||
- **Decision**: install.sh fresh-machine branch installs Claude Code via `curl -fsSL https://claude.ai/install.sh | bash` (official native installer), not `npm install -g @anthropic-ai/claude-code`. Skip-if-present guard unchanged. update-all.sh stays channel-aware (native → `claude update`, legacy npm → npm).
|
||
- **Why**: official quickstart (code.claude.com/docs) lists Native (recommended) / Homebrew / WinGet / apt only — npm is NO longer a documented channel. npm collided with the native symlink `~/.local/bin/claude` → EEXIST ([[BLK-014]]), and npm bypasses native background auto-update. install-plugins.sh already pointed to code.claude.com (native) — install.sh was the npm outlier; this aligns them.
|
||
- **Alternatives rejected**:
|
||
- (A) keep npm on fresh install — deprecated channel, re-introduces the EEXIST class on any machine with a prior native install, no auto-update.
|
||
- (B) `claude install` subcommand — needs claude already present (chicken-and-egg on fresh machine); curl bootstrap is the documented first-time path.
|
||
- (C) Homebrew/apt — platform-specific; curl covers macOS/Linux/WSL uniformly and matches the doc's "recommended".
|
||
- **Honest residual**: `curl | bash` = pipe-to-remote-bash (accepted: official Anthropic domain, same pattern already used for nvm at install.sh:29). node/npm still installed as prereqs — needed by the plugins step (gsd-pi), not by claude. PATH export added so the auth step finds the freshly-installed binary. See [[BLK-014]], [[LRN-085]].
|
||
- **Status**: accepted. Commits 8dc4027 + 6be627e, branch bugfix/install-claude-idempotent, pending merge.
|
||
- **Update 2026-07-01**: MERGED `2393ca5` → develop, pushed — supersedes "pending merge".
|
||
|
||
---
|
||
|
||
## BDR-047 — ECC audit → zero import; local config ahead of reference
|
||
|
||
- **Date**: 2026-07-01
|
||
- **Status**: accepted
|
||
- **Decision**: audited affaan-m/ECC (legit original, NOT the arabicapp malware
|
||
clone) read-only for value vs this config. Result: ZERO import. Nothing taken.
|
||
Clean measure-first outcome — analysis closed.
|
||
- **Safety** (durable, avoids re-audit): ECC = genuine original — 2232 commits,
|
||
~1480 by Affaan Mustafa, real contributor long-tail, sequential PRs. No payload:
|
||
postinstall = echo, install.sh runs only its 3 reputable deps (@iarna/toml, ajv,
|
||
sql.js), ships own supply-chain IOC scanner. Zero injection flags across ALL
|
||
categories. NOTE: ECC install.sh auto-runs `npm install` → never run their
|
||
installer casually; this analysis stayed read-only.
|
||
- **Why zero import** (each intuition CHALLENGED, not confirmed):
|
||
- RULES (122 files, by-language): ~80% redundant w/ CLAUDE.md, rest dormant
|
||
reference. INERT at ECC — nothing reads rules/, their README admits "plugins
|
||
cannot distribute rules automatically", `paths:` frontmatter aspirational (no
|
||
auto-routing exists). "take all" refuted.
|
||
- CONTEXTS (dev/research/review, 3 tiny files): least load-bearing. Delivery via
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||
`claude --system-prompt "$(cat)"` would OVERWRITE global CLAUDE.md. Harmful
|
||
as-shipped. "important" refuted.
|
||
- GUIDELINES: ECC itself demoted to docs/example. Per-project CLAUDE.md
|
||
(git-tracked) superior.
|
||
- INSTRUCTION FILES (AGENTS/RULES/SOUL/WORKING-CONTEXT): redundant or
|
||
ECC-specific. AGENTS.md "proactive delegation" already mandated here.
|
||
- MEMORY/learning: auto hook-capture → confidence-scored instincts. CONFLICTS
|
||
measure-first (observe-first vs approve-first). Instinct schema parked (gated
|
||
only).
|
||
- eval-harness (the spike): DOCS-ONLY — 271-line SKILL.md, no runner,
|
||
`/eval define|check|report` exist NOWHERE. Same "belle méthodo / câblage
|
||
vaporware" pattern as rules. Executable-eval ALREADY covered locally:
|
||
lib/tests/run-*.sh (code graders) + darwin dim8 (with/without-baseline
|
||
sub-agent effect testing + git ratchet) + RED-before-GREEN discipline. evals.md
|
||
= ledger of REAL runs (EVAL-011 ran 20/20, dogfooded) — spike premise
|
||
"descriptif pas exécuté" was FALSE, corrected.
|
||
- **Lesson**: external repo — even prestigious / "d'un boss" — judged on REAL added
|
||
value to THIS config's axes (typed memory, real harness, gitflow), NOT author
|
||
reputation. Measuring it revealed local config AHEAD on those axes. Taking a thing
|
||
"since we analyzed" = sunk-cost. Zero is the honest conclusion. Don't re-propose
|
||
auditing ECC expecting treasure.
|
||
- **2 real gaps FOUND (not rejected — the only concrete fruit of the audit)**:
|
||
1. pass@k / reliability-under-repetition — local harness proves PRESENCE (guard
|
||
fires, often N=1), not RELIABILITY (right output 9/10 under repetition). Blind
|
||
spot for non-deterministic skill/agent behavior (EVAL-006 flagged "N=6 fleet
|
||
NOT exhausted").
|
||
2. re-runnable regression battery indexed on model upgrades — bespoke
|
||
per-chantier tests, no one-command "re-run behavioral evals for load-bearing
|
||
skills" when model changes. darwin optimizes on-demand, not a standing gate.
|
||
- **Both = home-grown ~10-line bash over darwin's test-prompts.json if ever
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wanted — NOT ECC imports.** eval-harness delivers neither (no runner). Separate
|
||
later decision.
|
||
- **Alternatives rejected**:
|
||
- Import eval-harness anyway (sunk-cost "we analyzed it") — rejected: docs-only,
|
||
capability already covered, adds vocabulary not machinery.
|
||
- Import rules by-language + build wiring hook — parked: low ROI (bash/md, not
|
||
polyglot); hookify-rules would be the mechanism, someday-if-polyglotte.
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- Adopt instinct auto-capture — rejected: conflicts measure-first.
|
||
- **Optional zero-cost nicety** (not now): tag evals.md entries w/ grader-type + k
|
||
(e.g. `method: code-grader, pass^3`) — writing convention, not an import.
|
||
- **Reference**: read-only clone (scratchpad), 4 parallel analyzer agents +
|
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eval-harness spike, this session. No branch on ECC, no import. See [[BDR-045]]
|
||
(chore/ aiguillage), [[BDR-009]] (caveman registries).
|
||
- **Corroboration 2026-07-03** (Opus 4.8 re-audit; repo UNCHANGED — HEAD 81af407
|
||
2026-06-29, 2232 commits identical, zero commits since 01/07): 6 parallel analyzer
|
||
agents re-verified every BDR-047 fact w/ fresh file:line. rules/ inert (paths: 0
|
||
consumers, rules/README.md:333 "cannot distribute rules automatically"); contexts/
|
||
overwrite (the-longform-guide.md:68-74 `--system-prompt`); eval-harness no runner
|
||
(/eval absent; gan-harness.sh + skill-improvement/evaluate.js exist but hors-scope,
|
||
deliver NEITHER pass@k nor model-upgrade battery); memory auto-capture conflicts
|
||
approve-first (continuous-learning-v2 observer-loop.sh:160-164 "Do NOT ask for
|
||
permission"); distribution = product scaffolding, N/A. ZERO factual divergence.
|
||
ONE scope gap: BDR-047 never opened hooks/ — ECC's only WIRED subsystem. Fruit:
|
||
config-protection hook (own idiom, NOT ECC import), shipped
|
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feature/config-protection-hook. Lesson holds + refined by [[LRN-090]].
|
||
|
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## BDR-048 — Deterministic security gate: pinned engine + pinned rulesets (semgrep)
|
||
|
||
- **Date**: 2026-07-03
|
||
- **Decision**: semgrep = BLOCKING gate (verify-loops chantier) → engine version PINNED in plugins.lock.json (gsd-pin pattern; update-all.sh honors pin + displays jump cur→pin before `pipx install --force`). Rulesets PINNED in-agent: `p/security-audit` + `p/secrets`. Never `--config auto` (registry telemetry + ruleset resolved per-run = non-deterministic gate, [[LRN-077]] class). Never auto `semgrep login` — Pro rules optional, guide-only (ctx7 pattern).
|
||
- **Rationale**: gate blocks HIGH/CRITICAL only ([[LRN-047]]); silent engine/rule upgrade = new BLOCKs on unchanged code w/o human decision → gate crying false → ignored. Version jump must be deliberate + visible (bump pin, then `make update` shows the jump).
|
||
- **Alternatives rejected**: `latest` (pipx house default, graphifyy-style) — fine for comfort tools, wrong for a blocking gate; `--config auto` — telemetry + non-determinism.
|
||
- **Reference**: plugins.lock.json `semgrep` entry, install-plugins.sh STEP 7.5, update-all.sh step 6.2 — branch feature/semgrep-install `ccfecc9`. Conditions [[LRN-047]], [[LRN-085]]. Coverage caveat of the community rulesets: [[LRN-092]].
|
||
- **Addendum 2026-07-03** (lot 3, measured): rulesets = `p/security-audit` + `p/secrets` + **`p/owasp-top-ten`**. owasp-top-ten is REQUIRED not optional — measured on realistic Flask code, the 2-ruleset baseline missed SQL injection + path traversal ENTIRELY (0 findings); owasp's taint rules catch them. Severity map: secrets ERROR→CRITICAL, other ERROR→HIGH (block), WARNING/INFO→reported. Blocking threshold = ERROR (per-RULE, not per-vuln — same class can straddle ERROR/WARNING; blocking WARNING too floods FP). FP measured shell/md only (faunosteo, game: sole added blocking ERROR = Dockerfile `missing-user` hygiene, contained by gate-mode diff-scoping). **Re-evaluate owasp FP at the first real web/python app project** (shell/md repos don't represent where the gate runs). See [[LRN-094]], agents/security-auditor.md branch feature/security-auditor `2b297bd`.
|
||
|
||
## BDR-049 — Verifier doctrine: fresh + blind + disk-contract + proof-or-fail
|
||
|
||
- **Date**: 2026-07-03
|
||
- **Decision**: conformity verdict comes ONLY from a FRESH verifier subagent per iteration. Input = contract PATH (read from disk — dev restatement structurally unable to interpose) + diff range + optional test cmd. NEVER iteration history: blind, complete verification every time (cost bounded by the main-loop max-3 cap, [[LRN-083]]: loops decided in main loop). CONFORME ⇔ all criteria MET + zero out-of-scope. PROOF line mandatory ([[LRN-048]]). Mute/unparsable verifier NEVER a PASS: 1 fresh retry, 2nd structural failure = human escalation. Dev-justified out-of-scope enters FILE SCOPE only via a human micro-gate (`[gated]` marker) — else the dev justifies everything and scope constrains nothing. Contract on DISK at creation (`.claude/tasks/contracts/<date>-<slug>-<HHMM>.md`, committed; aborted run → deleted or `status: aborted`, never left dirty).
|
||
- **Rationale**: dev self-score is always confident → not a gate. Verifier fed history anchors on prior verdicts → telescopic drift. Context-only contract dies at compaction, the verbatim with it.
|
||
- **Alternatives rejected**: dev self-assessment as gate; cumulative verifier context ("cheaper" but anchored); gitignored run files (lose escalation reference + session-death survival).
|
||
- **Reference**: lib/contract-interview.md + agents/verifier.md + lib/tests/contract-verifier.test.sh (31 locks) — branch feature/contract-verifier `6aed5ee`. Behavioral GREEN: planted-gap → ECARTS(2) exact; conform-under-injected-history → CONFORME (blindness held). Twin of [[BDR-048]] (security gate). Conditions [[LRN-048]], [[LRN-083]].
|
||
|
||
## BDR-050 — Universal verify+secure pipeline, weighted per flow (loops in the main loop)
|
||
|
||
- **Date**: 2026-07-03
|
||
- **Decision**: every dev flow = contract (verbatim, on disk) → dev INLINE → fresh verifier (request conformity) → fresh security-auditor (`MODE: gate`) → commit. Loops BOUNDED at 3 and decided in the ORCHESTRATOR MAIN LOOP ([[LRN-083]]), never in a subagent. Order invariant: on any security re-loop, re-verify the REQUEST before re-scanning security. Per-flow weight: feat/bugfix = both gates, both loop (nominal 2 dispatches); hotfix = NO fresh verifier (its smoke-check verifies the trivial autofill contract), security gate whose FAILURE REVERTS (`git restore` + escalate to /bugfix), never loops — the 1-attempt model preserved (nominal 1 dispatch). Shared include `lib/verify-secure-loop.md` for feat/bugfix; hotfix inline variant.
|
||
- **Rationale**: the value is the INDEPENDENCE of the gate (fresh subagent vs a rich contract), NOT delegating the dev — so dev stays inline in light flows and weighting lives on loops+questions, never on skipping a gate. hotfix reverts because a 3× loop would reintroduce the weight its identity excludes.
|
||
- **Alternatives rejected**: dispatch the dev too (turns feat into ship-feature-bis); one merged "quality" gate (see [[LRN-095]] — orthogonal gates degrade if fused); hotfix loops like feat (breaks its 1-attempt identity).
|
||
- **Reference**: lib/verify-secure-loop.md + wired feater/bugfixer/hotfixer + lib/tests/loops-light.test.sh (27 locks) — feature/verify-loops `0f0162d`. Behavioral GREEN (feat fixture): CONFORME→BLOCK(1) SQLi→fix→re-verify CONFORME→re-scan PASS, order invariant held. Builds on [[BDR-048]] [[BDR-049]]. Conditions [[LRN-083]] [[LRN-095]].
|
||
|
||
## BDR-051 — Contract enrich-at-gate: the contract grows only at a human micro-gate
|
||
- **Date**: 2026-07-04
|
||
- **Decision**: CONTRACT's REQUEST immutable; ACCEPTANCE CRITERIA + FILE SCOPE may GROW — exclusively at a human gate, each added entry tagged `[gated <date>]`. Heavy flows (ship-feature STEP 3, init-project GATE #1): approved DESIGN appends design-derived criteria to the contract; the fresh verifier then judges the diff against the ENRICHED contract, never the seed. Same mechanism as the out-of-scope micro-gate ([[BDR-049]]) — a dev never enriches; only the human validating a gate does.
|
||
- **Rationale**: raw request underspecifies (one-line "add validation" hides the schema-rejection requirement the design surfaces); verifier judging only the seed → every design decision unverified. Gating the growth keeps the contract honest (no silent scope creep) AND complete (design criteria are verified). Only flow where the contract is mutable mid-run — bounded to gate moments.
|
||
- **Alternatives rejected**: freeze contract at creation (design criteria unverified — seed too thin); let dev enrich ([[BDR-049]] failure mode — dev justifies everything, scope constrains nothing); second contract per design (loses single-reference property).
|
||
- **Reference**: ship-feature STEP 0e+3, init-project STEP 1+4, feature/verify-loops `1c69de2`. Behavioral GREEN: a `[gated 2026-07-04]` design criterion (reject unknown config keys) was read + judged NOT-MET by a fresh verifier across 3 rounds (dogfood). Builds on [[BDR-049]] [[BDR-050]].
|
||
|
||
## BDR-052 — /tour auto mode: branch-as-gate, declared state read-only
|
||
|
||
- **Date**: 2026-07-05
|
||
- **Decision**: /tour (grouped sweep clean+security+reconcile+doc, 1..N projects) runs auto, NO mid-run approval gates. Compensations: (1) fixes on `chore/tour-<date>` via gitflow lib, skill NEVER finish/merge/push — unmerged branch + per-project append-only `.claude/audits/TOUR.md` = the human gate, deferred not deleted; (2) reconcile phase REPORT-ONLY even in auto — target TODO + registries read-only, gaps = `suggested` rows applied later via /reconcile; (3) convergence loop bounded 3× ([[LRN-083]]), residuals reported honestly; (4) security floor = security-auditor (pinned semgrep, [[LRN-047]] BLOCK HIGH/CRITICAL) every iteration + cso posture once (gstack ON); CRITICAL/HIGH contract-changing fix applied but tagged **BREAKING** in report+summary; (5) dirty tree / no develop / no lib → report-only, never stash, never hand-branch.
|
||
- **Rationale**: mid-run gates defeat the skill's point (hands-off grouped sweep, user away). Auto-checking TODO reproduces the exact lie /reconcile catches — RED-proven, baseline did it. Branch+report = same approval semantics as audit-delta's 3c gate, moved after the fact where a headless run can afford it.
|
||
- **Alternatives rejected**: per-phase AskUserQuestion gates (audit-delta model — blocks headless); one consolidated pre-fix gate (still blocks); auto-edit TODO on oracle proof (inference ≠ approval); plain-branch fallback on non-gitflow repos (violates lib-only doctrine → report-only instead).
|
||
- **Reference**: skills/tour/SKILL.md + CLAUDE.md routing (feature/tour-skill `73e6a1c`). TDD trail [[LRN-099]] [[LRN-100]] [[EVAL-014]].
|
||
|
||
## BDR-053 — ctx7 single surface: keep find-docs skill, kill context7.md rule
|
||
|
||
- **Date**: 2026-07-06
|
||
- **Decision**: ctx7 gets ONE session surface = `skills/find-docs` (lazy body, description-only cost). `rules/context7.md` deleted + install-plugins.sh STEP ctx7 purges it unconditionally post-setup (`rm -f`, generator has no skip-rule flag — `--claude`/`--cli` = target/mode only). darwin-skill entry dropped from skills-lock.json same pass (F8: lock stale `6bbcda37…` vs disk `c3220018…`, no re-pin verb in npx skills — unpinned rather than hand-edit undocumented hash).
|
||
- **Rationale**: rule = ~490 tok/session session-start duplicate of the skill (job1 F10 + job2); skill self-suffices (876-char description carries the triggers, body has full CLI flow). Purge-in-installer beats one-shot rm: survives re-runs + manual `ctx7 setup`.
|
||
- **Alternatives rejected**: kill skill keep rule (rule always-on, costs every session even non-lib work; skill lazy — wrong direction); hand-trim generated files (fight the generator, LRN-039 class); hand-edit lock hash (algo undocumented).
|
||
- **Reference**: chore/ctx7-single-surface; job1 F10, job2 F8/F13. User decision 2026-07-06.
|
||
|
||
## BDR-054 — supersede BDR-038: NEXT.sh file + AskUserQuestion hand-back removed from /deploy
|
||
|
||
- **Date**: 2026-07-06
|
||
- **Status**: accepted (supersedes BDR-038 on 2 points: NEXT.sh artifact, hand-back mechanism)
|
||
- **Decision**: /deploy ships WITHOUT NEXT.sh file (checklist display-only, conversation-only) and WITHOUT AskUserQuestion hand-back (plain final-text print, turn ends, no tool call after). BDR-038's original 5-artifact list (PROCEDURE.md, INCIDENTS.md, STATE.json, PENDING.json, NEXT.sh) shrinks to 4 committed/bridge artifacts — NEXT.sh no longer written. Two-moment spine (BEFORE/AFTER), PENDING.json bridge, deploy-commit.sh atomic patch+incident — all unchanged, still current per BDR-038.
|
||
- **Why**: LRN-102 — deliverable text printed before a tool call may never render (harness guarantees only the turn's FINAL text); AskUserQuestion after the checklist swallowed it silently, live run 2026-07-05 (bchanot-cv). NEXT.sh-to-disk also useless in practice (user: throwaway once deployed) — display-only kills a stale-file-drift class for free.
|
||
- **Alternatives rejected**: keep NEXT.sh, fix hand-back only (leaves ephemeral-file-nobody-reads problem); keep AskUserQuestion, cram checklist into its options text (char-limited, brittle); revert to file+question (reproduces the exact LRN-102 bug).
|
||
- **Reference**: commits `31443ba` (inline hand-back print), `52f6678` (checklist display-only, no NEXT.sh); `skills/deploy/SKILL.md:74-77,295-297,313-318,440-441`; [[LRN-102]]; job3 docs-drift audit D6/D7/D9 (`.audit/job3-report.md`).
|
||
|
||
## BDR-055 — job5: delete pending verbs, close J4-17 MOOT
|
||
|
||
- **Date**: 2026-07-07
|
||
- **Status**: accepted
|
||
- **Decision**: `memory_pending()` + `docs_pending()` + `pending` dispatcher arms deleted from `lib/memory-commit.sh` / `lib/doc-commit.sh`, plus stale "for the v2 hook" header mentions. `commit`/`commit <message> <file>...` = only verb left. J4-17 (job4 backlog: "extend run-deterministic.sh to test pending") closed MOOT — its premise gone with the verb.
|
||
- **Why**: headers earmarked both funcs "for the v2 hook" — [[BDR-037]] REJECTED v2 hook, no code ever written. J4-17 queued TEST not DELETE, but deferred to the newer/wrong branch — v2 hook dead means nothing left to test toward. Zero prod/test callers confirmed (job5 audit) before delete.
|
||
- **Alternatives rejected**: keep+test per J4-17 (tests a dead-end, [[BDR-037]] already closed that door); keep unused (dead code, no consumer).
|
||
- **Reference**: commit `da3abf9`; `.audit/job5-report.md` J5-13/§3b; supersedes J4-17 (`.audit/job4-report.md:35`). Same supersession-trace discipline [[BDR-054]] had to backfill for BDR-038/job3 D6-D9 — written here at delete time, not reconstructed later.
|
||
|
||
---
|
||
|
||
## BDR-056 — job6: deps policy = latest gated by integration, not KEEP-PINNED by default
|
||
|
||
- **Date**: 2026-07-07
|
||
- **Status**: accepted (reverses job6-batch-3 KEEP-PINNED-unless-CVE default)
|
||
- **Decision**: default posture = pull latest, gated per-dep by real integration checks (make test + named smoke), not "keep pinned unless a CVE forces the hand". Sequenced by risk, one upgrade = one commit = one gate, immediate rollback on red. Applied job6: ctx7 0.5.3→0.5.4, gsd-pi 2.64.0→3.0.0, gstack 070722a→11de390 (v1.52.1.0→v1.58.5.0), graphifyy binary 0.9.6→0.9.8 (hook-adoption declined separately, see below).
|
||
- **Why**: job6-batch-3's expected verdict for gstack was KEEP-PINNED sauf CVE; user overrode it — a fail-open security-guard fix (#1911, no formal CVE) counts as the CVE clause in substance, and staying pinned to avoid work means carrying live-vulnerable tooling. Gating on integration tests (not on "did upstream file a CVE") catches the real risk (format/behavior breaks) that pin-forever also fails to prevent — gsd-pi 3.0.0 broke status-reporter's ROADMAP.md parser silently (0/0 instead of an error); the gate caught it before merge, KEEP-PINNED would have avoided the break but also frozen out #1688 (gsd-pi data-loss fix) and the gstack #1911 guards indefinitely.
|
||
- **Alternatives rejected**: KEEP-PINNED unless CVE (job6-batch-3 default) — optimizes for zero-gate-work, pays for it by sitting on fail-open security guards and data-loss bugs with no formal CVE filed; blanket "always latest, no gate" — the gsd-pi break shows why the gate stays mandatory, this is not a license to skip it.
|
||
- **Caveats**: not every dep took the full pull — graphifyy's hook-guard rewrite (a config-protected file) was surfaced with a diff and the user declined to adopt it this round (binary upgraded, hook install skipped); MCP magic version pin was declined by user call. Policy is "latest, gated", not "latest, no exceptions".
|
||
- **Reference**: `.audit/job6-report.md`; commits `b4896c9` (gsd-pi), `2813e55` (gstack), `00c97bc` (docs); [[LRN-107]] (secrets-subagent value-copy ban, same job's incident).
|
||
|
||
---
|
||
|
||
## BDR-057 — job7: secrets by reference not by value; redact at capture, not just at rest
|
||
- **Date**: 2026-07-07
|
||
- **Status**: accepted
|
||
- **Decision**: two-part posture from the job7 triage (`.audit/job7/ALL-REDACTED.json`, 5+ leak classes across `~/.claude` and repos). (1) Wherever the consuming tool supports it, wire secrets BY REFERENCE (`${VAR}` expansion), not by value — closed the concrete case: `lib/toggle-external.sh`'s `claude mcp add magic --env API_KEY="$MAGIC_API_KEY"` materialized the key as plaintext into `~/.claude.json` (a 2nd copy outside the `~/.claude/.env` canonical); fixed to `--env 'API_KEY=${MAGIC_API_KEY}'`, with the var reaching `claude` only via a scoped `~/.bashrc` wrapper function (subshell + exec — never the ambient shell). (2) Redact AT THE CAPTURE POINT, not just after the fact: `hooks/rtk-rewrite.sh` now appends a redaction pipe to bare `printenv`/`env` dumps before they can reach stdout/the transcript (the GITEA leak's actual vector), instead of relying solely on scrubbing artifacts after the fact.
|
||
- **Why**: the job6 incident ([[LRN-107]]) and the GITEA leak both trace back to a secret VALUE existing somewhere it didn't strictly need to (a config field, a raw env dump) rather than a reference/redacted form. Fixing storage-at-rest (scrub backups) treats the symptom and must be redone every time a new copy appears (5 rotating `.claude.json.backup.*` files, 2 of 5 still had it live mid-job7 despite the canonical fix already applied) — fixing the SOURCE (don't materialize the value; redact before the dump leaves the process) is the only version that doesn't need repeating.
|
||
- **Alternatives rejected**: scrub-only (job7's own fallback if reference support were absent) — verified Claude Code DOES support `${VAR}` expansion in `mcpServers` config (user + project scope, `env`/`command`/`args`/`url`/`headers` fields — code.claude.com/docs/en/mcp.md) → reference form available, preferred; global `export MAGIC_API_KEY` in `~/.bashrc` — works but exposes the secret to every subprocess of every shell, defeats the redaction hook (user rejected, scoped wrapper kept).
|
||
- **Reference**: `lib/toggle-external.sh:191-192`, `hooks/rtk-rewrite.sh`, `README.md` "Adding an MCP server that needs a secret", `.gitleaks.toml`, `lib/gitflow.sh` `_gitflow_emit_pre_commit`, `Makefile` `scan-secrets`; commits `b9300c3`/`3340c7d`/`17bdd08`/`5d5b386`. Linked to [[BDR-026]] (canonical vault this closes a leak vector against), [[LRN-108]] (the `claude mcp add --env` trap).
|
||
- **Caveat — contradicts job6's own finding same day**: job6 journal (2026-07-07, earlier same day): "`${VAR}` env-expansion confirmed unsupported at `~/.claude.json` user scope after 2 rounds of sourced doc lookup". job7 lookup (claude-code-guide agent, same day): IS supported at user scope, citing code.claude.com/docs/en/mcp.md + a v2.1.161 changelog entry. Not reconciled — could be a version bump between the two lookups, or job6's research being wrong. `${MAGIC_API_KEY}` rewrite live (`claude mcp list` recognizes the reference, reports the var missing → CLI PARSED the `${...}` syntax); end-to-end confirmation (restart terminal + Claude Code, magic MCP reconnects) still a user residual — see BDR-057's own commit message.
|
||
|
||
## BDR-058 — job8: darwin-skill reinstall full pinned tree, detached HEAD
|
||
|
||
- **Date**: 2026-07-07
|
||
- **Status**: accepted
|
||
- **Decision**: darwin-skill non-functional past SKILL.md text — `references/`, `scripts/`, `templates/` absent, referenced but never fetched. Root cause: `~/.agents/.skill-lock.json` `skillPath: "SKILL.md"` — installer (`skills` CLI, vercel-labs/skills) fetches ONLY that one file, not sibling dirs. Upstream repo HEAD (`7c7b7909b630dc3b5cbb91bd4bcb1b10bfb1f894`) matches lockfile hash exactly — zero drift, zero tamper, SKILL.md byte-identical old vs new. Fix: cloned upstream at that SHA, copied full tree into `~/.agents/skills/darwin-skill/`, verified all 5 referenced paths present, HEAD detached (no branch tracking, no silent advance on a stray `git pull`). Old single-file dir backed up to `~/.agents/skills/.job8-backups/darwin-skill.single-file.<ts>` first.
|
||
- **Why**: user picked reinstall-pinned over remove/keep-broken (job8 audit §4 item 4, 3-way choice). Unverifiable skill can't be trusted; user wants the optimizer kept, not removed.
|
||
- **Alternatives rejected**: remove entry (kills wanted function); keep as-is (fails job8's own audit bar — unverifiable); flat-copy without `.git` (matches other 34 dormant skills' convention but drops verifiable pin — kept `.git` detached instead, darwin-skill now 2nd real SHA-pin in the whole trust chain after gstack, job8 report §5).
|
||
- **Reference**: `~/.agents/skills/darwin-skill/` (detached HEAD `7c7b790`), `~/.agents/.skill-lock.json` (untouched, hash still accurate), backup at `~/.agents/skills/.job8-backups/`. Outside this repo — no commit here covers the file placement itself, this entry is the record. Git-commit whole-`.claude/skills`-tree scope (job8 C.2, `SKILL.md:115/201`) NOT restricted — 3rd-party pinned code, patching it breaks the pin; accepted as documented risk, human-checkpoint-gated per job8 report. Linked to [[LRN-109]].
|
||
|
||
## BDR-059 — job8: explicit ask-gate for all 4 magic MCP tools, empty allow stays empty
|
||
|
||
- **Date**: 2026-07-07
|
||
- **Status**: accepted
|
||
- **Decision**: `settings.json` `permissions.ask` now explicitly lists all 4 `mcp__magic__*` tools (`21st_magic_component_builder`, `21st_magic_component_refiner`, `21st_magic_component_inspiration`, `logo_search`). `permissions.allow` gets ZERO magic entries — no allowlist tightening, the job8 report's "frictionless" diff (allowlist logo_search + inspiration) was explicitly rejected. Confirmation required on every magic call, no exceptions, no auto-exec ever, no wildcard.
|
||
- **Why**: job8 §3/§4 found zero real `mcp__magic__*` invocations ever (transcript census) and one SUSPECT finding (`21st_magic_component_builder` unauthenticated callback-injection channel, [[LRN-110]]). Prior state relied on undocumented absence-means-ask fallthrough — user wants the gate EXPLICIT so it can't silently regress if `permissions.allow` ever gets a careless wildcard or the default-mode semantics change.
|
||
- **Alternatives rejected**: leave everything absent (report's own recommended default) — works today but is silent/undocumented, exactly the posture the user wanted to close; allowlist `logo_search` + `21st_magic_component_inspiration` for frictionless design work (job8 report §3 "frictionless" diff) — explicitly declined, real usage is zero so friction costs nothing.
|
||
- **Reference**: `settings.json` `permissions.ask`, commit `bb7f25a`. Linked to [[LRN-110]] (component_builder risk), [[LRN-111]] (empty-allowlist validity when usage is zero).
|
||
|
||
## BDR-060 — job9: CC orchestration floor = v2.1.172 (nested dispatch), supersedes implicit v2.1.83 whole-system floor
|
||
|
||
- **Date**: 2026-07-08
|
||
- **Status**: accepted
|
||
- **Supersedes**: implicit "v2.1.83 = whole-system floor" premise (a misread of [[BDR-004]]'s `decisions.md:133` auto-mode caveat).
|
||
- **Decision**: orchestration floor for any NESTED subagent dispatch = Claude Code **v2.1.172** (nesting stabilized: "let subagents spawn their own subagents", hard cap 5 levels, `Agent` must be in the subagent's `tools:` to nest). Live env confirmed **v2.1.203** (user, nesting supported, cap 5). BDR-004:133 stays UNCHANGED — its `v2.1.83+` is correct for AUTO MODE specifically; the nesting floor is a distinct, higher constraint recorded here (registry is append-only, and BDR-004 is factually right for its scope).
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- **Why**: the whole job1-9 audit series operated on the premise *"CC flattens to 1 level → a 2-level subagent design is silently broken."* That describes the **pre-2.1.172** regime. Corrected in job9 via `claude-code-guide` (official docs `code.claude.com/docs/en/agent-sdk/subagents.md`) + user confirmation of live v2.1.203 → depth findings are VERSION-CONTINGENT, not broken. Path b ([[BDR-061]]) removes the seo/geo analyzers' dependence on nesting, but client-handover's `general-purpose → /seo → seo-analyzer` chain still nests (L1→L2), so the floor stands for the orchestration design.
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- **Alternatives rejected**: keep the implicit v2.1.83 floor — predates nesting, mislabels version-contingent flows as "BROKEN"; hard-gate CC version in `doctor.sh` — deferred (path b de-risks the analyzers; a doctor warn-gate is an optional follow-up, and `doctor.sh` is config-guarded → sentinel cost not justified now); raise BDR-004:133 to v2.1.172 — WRONG, that caveat is auto-mode-specific (auto mode works from 2.1.83) and rewriting it would violate append-only + inject a factual error.
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- **Reference**: `.audit/job9-report.md` §Premise + §6 D-version-floor; `decisions.md:133` (BDR-004 auto-mode caveat, unchanged). Linked to [[BDR-061]] (path-b), [[LRN-112]] (nesting mechanics).
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## BDR-061 — job9: seo/geo analyzers emit a fix-bundle applied at L1 by doctrine (validator-analyzer pattern)
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- **Date**: 2026-07-08
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- **Status**: accepted
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- **Decision**: `seo-analyzer` + `geo-analyzer` re-architected to the `validator-analyzer` contract — they AUDIT and EMIT a machine-parseable `## FIX BUNDLE` terminated by the verbatim `READY TO APPLY — awaiting dispatcher confirmation` sentinel; they NEVER edit code and NEVER dispatch a sub-agent (`Agent` dropped from both `tools:`). The DISPATCHER applies at **L1 from its own main loop**: `/seo` (new STEP 1.5) + `/geo` (rewritten to dispatch+apply, mirrors `/web-validate`) dispatch `hotfixer`/`feater` at L1; `/harden` keeps its existing direct-Edit STEP 3 (already end-to-end path-b); `/onboard` stays audit-only (bundle produced, deferred to backlog STEP 9). AUTO tier applies unconfirmed; GATED tier (seo D/E · geo G5) requires explicit accord; USER ACTIONS → report §11.
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- **Why**: by DOCTRINE, not version constraint. Before: analyzer STEP 12/13 dispatched hotfixer/feater; when the analyzer was itself a subagent (`/seo` → analyzer at L1), that dispatch was **L2 nesting** → silent no-op on CC<2.1.172, and both analyzers forbade direct edits → the reported bug: *report produced, ZERO fix applied*. The bundle→L1 pattern (a) lands fixes on ANY CC version (single dispatch level), (b) gives fresh-context specialist fixes without depth risk, (c) dissolves the `/seo` parallel-edit race (fixes now applied serially by the dispatcher, by file ownership). `/harden` already proved the pattern in-repo. Chosen even though [[BDR-060]] confirms live nesting works — version-robust by design beats version-contingent.
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- **Alternatives rejected**: only raise the version floor (BDR-060 alone) — leaves the analyzers version-contingent, and the `/seo` nested-fix design fragile; keep analyzers self-applying but require CC≥2.1.172 — works on current env but not robust and keeps the parallel-edit race; make the dispatcher apply via direct Edit everywhere (like /harden) instead of hotfixer/feater — loses the fresh-context specialist fix; kept direct-Edit only for /harden's tiny scope.
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- **Verification**: `make test` green + 4 real smokes — analyzer emits bundle + edits nothing (md5 unchanged); AUTO fix lands on disk via L1 hotfixer with no confirmation (the exact previously-broken path); GATED withheld pre-approval then applied post-accord; /onboard writes only the report, zero source files.
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- **Reference**: `agents/seo-analyzer.md` STEP 12, `agents/geo-analyzer.md` STEP 13, `skills/seo/SKILL.md` STEP 1.5, `skills/geo/SKILL.md`, `agents/validator-analyzer.md` (reference contract), `.audit/job9-report.md` §6 option (b); commits `a5a7b54`/`6df42e4`/`c498b93`/`70fb3b4`. Linked to [[BDR-060]] (nesting floor), [[LRN-112]] (nesting mechanics).
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## BDR-062 — supersede BDR-031's 275-line CLAUDE.md target: 305 is the assumed reality
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- **Date**: 2026-07-08
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- **Status**: accepted (supersedes the 275-line density TARGET of [[BDR-031]] only; BDR-031's core principle — lightening = compression, not path-scope/externalization — stands unchanged)
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- **Decision**: global CLAUDE.md sits at 305 lines, stays there. job1's density pass took it 319→305 and no later job re-inflated it; the extraction BDR-031 called for is done. Old 275 target (or the 280 guard) now costs clarity more than it saves tokens. The `hooks/session-start.sh` guard threshold is realigned 280→320: still catches genuine regression (real bloat past 320) but stops firing a permanent "density pass requis" warning on an assumed-final 305.
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- **Why**: the review (`.audit/review-release-1.0.0.md` A6) found the guard had warned every session since job1 without the target ever being met — a self-inflicted permanent warning, not an actionable signal. A gate that never goes green trains you to ignore it. Realign to reality; 15-line margin keeps real regressions visible.
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- **Alternatives rejected**: (a) finish the compression 305→≤275 — the remaining lines are load-bearing constraints, not filler; further squeeze loses clarity for a marginal token gain on a solo repo. (b) leave the guard at 280 and accept the permanent warning — a permanently-red non-blocking gate is noise. (c) rewrite BDR-031 — registries append-only; supersede the target, keep the principle.
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- **Reference**: `hooks/session-start.sh:202-211`; supersedes the 275 target in [[BDR-031]] (principle kept). Review remediation A6, 2026-07-08.
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## BDR-063 — GSC multi-account: OAuth2 installed-app flow + label-keyed token store
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- **Date**: 2026-07-10
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- **Status**: accepted (shipped `bb1fbb2`, develop)
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- **Decision**: `/seo` FULL pulls real Search Console + CrUX via a `lib/seo-data/` engine. Auth = OAuth2 installed-app flow (one-time interactive consent, `make seo-connect`), scope `webmasters.readonly` ONLY (least priv). Refresh tokens in per-label store `~/.claude/seo-data/tokens.json` (0600 file / 0700 dir, atomic tmp→fsync→rename under fcntl lock, tokens redacted from listing, gitleaks-allowlisted). `(account, property)` explicit args on every call — NO global mutable "current account" → two concurrent site audits never conflict.
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- **Why**: user needs real field data (the one edge marketplace `claude-seo` had that personal skills lacked); multi-account without cross-site leakage; secrets never in code (all from `~/.claude/.env`).
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- **Alternatives rejected**: (a) service-account — GSC needs per-property owner grant + no interactive consent, wrong for a personal multi-client tool. (b) API-key-only — GSC has no key auth (CrUX does → `CRUX_API_KEY`). (c) single "current account" global + switch verb — a race the moment two audits run; explicit args dissolve it by construction.
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- **Reference**: `lib/seo-data/` (tokenstore.py, connect.py, google_seo.py, fetch.sh), `lib/seo-data/README.md`; fronted by [[LRN-119]] (fail-open contract).
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---
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## BDR-064 — Global memory split: repo global file → CLAUDE.global.md, CLAUDE.md freed for project scope
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- **Date**: 2026-07-14
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- **Status**: accepted (shipped feature/claude-global-md-rename, merge pending human GO)
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- **Decision**: repo-root global memory `git mv` → `CLAUDE.global.md`; deployed name unchanged (`~/.claude/CLAUDE.md` symlink via link.sh). `CLAUDE.md` name freed → real project-scope memory for claude-config (Health Stack + rules/ doctrine — ex-"This repo only" section + ex-rules/README body; rules/README = 3-line pointer, keeps `paths:` frontmatter). Wording rule (user-arbitrated): consumer-facing hook strings say "global CLAUDE.md" (deployed name — foreign sessions resolve via symlink, repo filename means nothing there); maintainer comments say `CLAUDE.global.md`. Guards follow: session-start 320-guard path, doctor EXACT readlink-target check (new), GUARDED_CONFIGS 4 entries (keeps "CLAUDE.md" — graphify rewrite target = project file now), doc-commit exclusions, CHANGELOG BREAKING(layout) line ("run bash link.sh once after pull").
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- **Why**: "This repo only" section + rules/README doctrine loaded in EVERY project (~40+280 tok waste + foreign-project glob over-match); repo had no project-scope memory slot — filename occupied by global content.
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- **Alternatives rejected**: `CLAUDE.prod.md` name ("prod" implies deploy env that doesn't exist); project `.claude/rules/repo.md` (works, less idiomatic than project CLAUDE.md, no natural home for future repo-specific content). NOT a revival of BDR-021's rejected 2-file split — that was global content in 2 SYNCED files; here scopes disjoint, zero sync.
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- **Reference**: feature/claude-global-md-rename (9496538 rename R98%, e9a38a0 guards), spec `docs/superpowers/specs/2026-07-12-claude-global-md-rename-design.md`. Linked [[BDR-021]], [[BDR-031]], [[BDR-062]], [[LRN-122]], [[LRN-123]].
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## BDR-065 — Transient planning artifacts: committed during run, deleted post-merge
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- **Date**: 2026-07-14
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- **Status**: accepted
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- **Decision**: superpowers spec/plan docs (`docs/superpowers/{specs,plans}/`) = run-time artifacts. Lifecycle: committed as feature branch's first commit (subagent briefs extracted from plan on disk; verifier + final review reference them; survive compaction + foreign worktrees) → DELETED in post-merge cleanup chore. Git history at the feature commits = the archive (`git show <sha>:docs/...` recovers them). Durable knowledge lives in `.claude/memory/` registries + contract files, never in spec/plan. Codified in project CLAUDE.md §Transient planning artifacts.
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- **Why**: user call 2026-07-14 — registries already capture decisions; a stale plan describes a superseded intermediate state and misleads future readers; accumulation pollutes the repo. Precedent: gsc-crux cleanup (8a1fac0, 2026-07-10) did the same — this makes it law, not habit.
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- **Alternatives rejected**: never-commit (gitignore docs/superpowers) — breaks mid-run: briefs, reviewers, other-machine checkouts need the files; superpowers brainstorming commits the spec by convention. Keep-forever — the drift + pollution complained about.
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- **Reference**: project CLAUDE.md; cleanup commit this chore; precedent 8a1fac0. Linked [[BDR-064]], [[LRN-124]].
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- **Amendment (2026-07-22)**: DELETE side now AUTOMATED — `lib/gitflow.sh` `_gitflow_purge_transient` at `gitflow finish` (feature/bugfix, pre-merge, on HEAD) git-rm's `docs/superpowers/{specs,plans}` + scoped commit → develop TIP clean, feature commits stay reachable (`git show <sha>:…` archive intact). Best-effort: NEVER aborts finish (nothing-tracked no-op / dirty-path skip / commit-fail index+tree restore). Opt-out `GITFLOW_PURGE_TRANSIENT=0`. Retires the manual chore that slipped (655e364). Universal via `~/.claude/lib`→repo symlink (ship-feature STEP 9 + init-project STEP 11 both finish through it). gitignore STILL rejected — unchanged: breaks superpowers' `git add` of the spec (silently skipped, no travel to SDD worktree). `.claude/tasks/{contracts,plans}` kept versioned (user call — durable, referenced by decisions.md). Tests: gitflow-test.sh T17 a-d. [[LRN-138]].
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## BDR-066 — Model routing: reflection inline (session big model), executors pinned sonnet, blocking gate
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- **Date**: 2026-07-15
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- **Status**: accepted (partial supersede of BDR-050: /feat dev no longer inline; bugfix/hotfix dev-inline CONSERVED)
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- **Decision**: reflection (brainstorm, plan, contract, audit judgment, loop decisions) runs on session model (Fable; Opus fallback) — inline or inherit subagents, never pinned down. Execution (code from closed plan, fix-bundle application) runs sonnet-pinned subagents: feater + hotfixer pinned sonnet; SDD implementation+review subagents dispatched `model: "sonnet"` (ship-feature/init-project); web-validate fixes via hotfixer L1 (was inline Edit). analyzer haiku pin REMOVED (digest feeds plan = reflection tier). verifier + security-auditor STAY sonnet (job9 confirmed — procedural gates, ≤3×/loop). Blocking gate `lib/model-gate.md` (self-check + witness `lib/model-check.sh`) wired in 12 reflection orchestrators; small → STOP, unknown → fail-visible; census guard `lib/tests/model-routing.test.sh` flip-tested.
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- **Why**: big-model quota burned on mechanical execution (Fable exhausted mid-job8); plan closed at dispatch → executor needs obedience not judgment; fresh sonnet gates catch executor drift.
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- **Alternatives rejected**: opus pins on audit agents (session-independent) — rejected: session assumed big + blocking gate as backstop, one tier fewer; advisory gate — rejected by user, blocking; split bugfix/hotfix too — rejected: bugfix investigation interleaved w/ fix, hotfix gain marginal vs dispatch overhead.
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- **Caveats**: client-handover-writer conversion (inline-load → sonnet dispatch, 11 human-gate sites to relocate) DEFERRED to own plan — its opus pin stays inert meanwhile; feater cannot ask → NEED-DECISION report = escalation valve, plan must close decisions; witness reads settings.json — lags `--model`-launched sessions (self-check compensates).
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- **Caveat (execution)**: /feat re-arch broke 5 stale assertions in lib/tests/loops-light.test.sh (locked OLD feater architecture) — repointed to skills/feat/SKILL.md (FSK, mirrors HOT/HSK split) + new dispatch lock + 1-line reflow in feat SKILL for single-line grep lock (LRN-093 class).
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- **Wave 2 (2026-07-15, user directive)**: wave-1 exclusion list left execution running on the big session model = the waste this split kills. REVERSES the "split hotfix rejected" alternative above (reason held for bugfix — investigation interleaved w/ fix — but NOT hotfix: LOCATE→apply is linear/separable). Changes: /hotfix split like /feat (LOCATE reflection inline + MODEL GATE, hotfixer sonnet EXECUTOR — rewritten dual-use: also the seo/geo/web-validate L1 applier; revert-not-loop preserved) → hotfix JOINS gated group, census 12→13. /commit-change dispatches sonnet commit-changer (propose→dispatcher gates→apply; grouping ON sonnet so NO model gate; AskUserQuestion dropped from agent). /release-candidate dispatches new sonnet release-executor (2 spans prep/finish; when-to-release + push + version-number decision STAY in dispatcher). /doc → doc-syncer (sonnet) dispatch; /status → status-reporter (kept HAIKU — right tier for read-only collection; win = off big model, not the tier). Gate exclusion list now = commit-change/doc/status/release-candidate. Consumer-staleness swept (LRN-113): feat Rule 1 DOWNGRADE + feat commit-split both repointed off the bare executor agents to the /hotfix + /commit-change skills.
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- **Wave 3 (2026-07-15/16, user directive)**: split the last two inline execution-carrying agents like /feat. /bugfix: investigation+diagnosis+contract inline behind the gate; bugfixer = sonnet EXECUTOR (fix + regression test from a closed FIX PLAN; no Agent/AskUserQuestion; BUGFIX-EXEC REPORT). verify+secure loop stays in main loop, executor = its re-dispatched dev (verify-secure-loop.md intro now: BOTH consumers dispatched, no inline branch). FINISHES reversing the "split bugfix rejected" carve-out (hotfix went wave 2, bugfix now) — investigation↔fix coupling accepted, mitigated by structured DIAGNOSIS + verify loop. /code-clean: PHASE-1 audit + validation gate inline (reflection); code-cleaner = sonnet PHASE-2 EXECUTOR (delete approved dead code, inline-load refactorer, re-audit) — refactor NOW on sonnet (inline-load pin was inert on big model). exported-symbol per-item consent stays AT THE GATE. Consumer-staleness swept: hotfix deeper-bug escalation → /bugfix skill (not bare agent); onboard STEP 6 + tour Phase B read-only-audit → general-purpose/analyzer (big model, NEVER the sonnet executor — audit stays big). Both skills STAY gated. Also: Explore built-in kept inheriting session (search feeds reflection = big deserved; custom sonnet override created then reverted — built-in already inherits + no owned prompt). census 36→42, loops-light repointed 35/0.
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- **Wave 4 (2026-07-16)**: client-handover doc-gen → sonnet, REDACTION-ONLY (user flipped from whole-writer after the full read). Key finding: nested audits (/seo,/harden,/web-validate — gated wave 1) must run BIG either way → whole-writer = ~7 extra gate-yields + resumable state machine on a CLIENT deliverable for ~0 extra sonnet work. Design: client-handover-writer TRIMMED to ship pipeline (STEP 1-8, all interactive gates native on big, nested audits inherit big) + doc-gen orchestration (resolve questions/NAP/precheck/overwrite/client-name inline → PACKAGE) → dispatches NEW sonnet handover-doc-writer (STEP 9-16: reads memory+git, synthesizes 6-chapter doc, word-count/skill-leak/anchor gates, renders HTML+PDF; GATE-FREE, no AskUserQuestion/Agent). client-handover JOINS gated group (orchestrates audits = reflection); its opus pin dropped (inherits big via inline-load). census 42→46. Branch feature/client-handover-dispatch (off develop, waves 1-3 merged first).
|
||
- **Reference**: spec `docs/superpowers/specs/2026-07-15-model-routing-design.md` + plan `docs/superpowers/plans/2026-07-15-model-routing.md` (transient, BDR-065 lifecycle), branches `feature/model-routing` (waves 1-3, merged), `feature/client-handover-dispatch` (wave 4).
|
||
|
||
## BDR-067 — first public release: versioning reset to v1.0.0 (override "never restart at v1.0.0") — 2026-07-16
|
||
- **Decision**: first PUBLIC release cut as **v1.0.0**, treating internal v1.0.0→v4.0.0 as pre-release history. version.txt 4.0.0→1.0.0; CHANGELOG: new `[1.0.0] — Initial public release` on top (= former `[Unreleased]` content), old 1.0-4.0 lineage moved UNCHANGED under a `## Pre-release (internal history)` banner (provenance). Tag v4.0.0 DELETED (local+origin), v1.0.0 tagged on main. Repo goes public on THIS Gitea (user flips visibility separately — not a git op).
|
||
- **Why**: launching publicly at v4 misrepresents (implies missed v1-3 to newcomers); v1-4 were private dev. First public impression should be v1.0.0. User directive.
|
||
- **Overrides**: BDR-055-era release-candidate rule "never restart at v1.0.0 — desyncs tag↔CHANGELOG lineage". That guards ACCIDENTAL mid-lineage restart; a DELIBERATE public-launch reset is the sanctioned exception. **CONSEQUENCE for next release**: continue from public 1.0.0 (→ 1.0.1 / 1.1.0 / 2.0.0), NEVER back to the old 4.x. The [Unreleased]-BREAKING(CLAUDE.global.md) folds into 1.0.0 harmlessly (first release = breaking vs nothing).
|
||
- **Safety (git cherry)**: found a STALE abandoned `release/1.0.0` (July-4 prep, 227 commits behind develop, pushed to origin). `git cherry develop release/1.0.0` + content checks confirmed all its real changes (rtk PATH fix, drop-AI-attribution settings backstop, find-skills drop, BLK-016/LRN-098/LRN-101/EVAL-015, all features) ALREADY in develop → nothing orphaned → deleted it (local+origin). Cut fresh v1.0.0 from CURRENT develop, not the stale branch.
|
||
- **Method**: release-candidate skill gates honored (when-to-release, push) but PREP done manually — backward version (4.0.0→1.0.0) + CHANGELOG restructure exceed the sonnet release-executor's forward-bump assumption (reflection, stays big). LRN candidate: a version RESET is editorial, not mechanical — don't dispatch the forward-only executor for it.
|
||
- **Status**: SHIPPED. origin main=dc4f78b, develop=6c23d6f, tag v1.0.0 sole tag; v4.0.0 + stale release/1.0.0 removed from origin.
|
||
|
||
## BDR-068 — /capitalize + /close auto-persist memory (finish→develop + push); scoped LRN-069 exception — 2026-07-16
|
||
- **Decision**: when /capitalize (or /close = --ritual) writes entries AND the aiguillage branched a `chore/<name>` off develop THIS run, new STEP 5C auto-finishes that branch → develop + pushes origin/develop. Default ON. `--no-push` holds it on the chore branch (pre-BDR-068 behavior). WORKING branch (memory rides feature/bugfix) or rc-3 commit-fail → 5C skips. push-fail → merge already local, report + manual push (no retry/reset).
|
||
- **Why**: memory's value = cross-session persistence; a ritual commit stranded on an unmerged chore branch is INVISIBLE to the next session on develop → the ritual defeats itself (user-identified gap). Memory = append-only/low-risk; the human-gated MERGE (aiguillage) is a CODE safeguard, and LRN-069's push-gate guards surprise CODE/release pushes — neither applies to an end-of-session memory persist.
|
||
- **Scope**: /capitalize + /close ONLY. /prune-memory + /reconcile stay fully human-gated (curation/report may want review before landing). NEVER auto-finish a branch the run did not create.
|
||
- **Amends**: [[LRN-069]] (push needs explicit go) — scoped exception for memory-only ritual persist; `gitflow-aiguillage.md` "never gitflow finish" — carved for capitalize/close.
|
||
- **Files**: skills/capitalize/SKILL.md (STEP 5C + aiguillage branch-capture + STEP 6 outcomes + Rules + arg-hint `--no-push`), lib/gitflow-aiguillage.md (exception note). Tests unaffected (run-deterministic covers memory-commit.sh surgical scope, not the persist step).
|
||
- **Status**: implemented on feature/close-auto-persist, UNMERGED (human gate).
|
||
|
||
## BDR-069 — permissions deny: keep broad `.env.*` glob, keep `.env.example` name (option A) — 2026-07-16
|
||
- **Decision**: `Write(path)` deny rules inert (Claude Code matches `Edit(path)` only) → 5 secret-write bans converted to `Edit()`. Mirrored 9 secret patterns Read denied but Edit did not → Read/Edit parity 14/14. New read-allowed/write-denied class: lockfiles (`*.lock`, `package-lock.json`, `pnpm-lock.yaml`, `go.sum`) + `node_modules/**`. Kept `Edit(**/.env.*)` BROAD despite matching `.env.example` (mandated by CLAUDE.global.md:206). No rename.
|
||
- **Why**: deny glob = absolute, no exemption mechanism ([[LRN-130]]). Only lever = glob shape. Narrowing to `.env*.local` fails open on `.env.production`/`.staging` — real secrets outside Next.js convention.
|
||
- **Cost accepted**: scaffolder/doc-syncer degraded on `.env.example` — Edit/Write/Read/Grep/Glob blocked; Bash heredoc still works (`Bash(cat *)` allowed). Ergonomic tax on /init-project, not a hard block.
|
||
- **Alternatives rejected**: (B) narrow glob → weakens `.env.production`; blocked by auto-mode classifier as unauthorized self-modification ([[EVAL-024]]). (C) rename → `env.example` sidesteps glob at zero security cost, but ~30 refs (scaffolder, doc-syncer, init-project, deploy, 3 archetypes, link.sh, install-plugins.sh, toggle-external.sh) + repo's own root `.env.example` + seo-data.test.sh + gitignore `!.env.example` (BDR-030) → refactor, user declined.
|
||
- **Files**: settings.json, templates/settings/SETTINGS.md (taught the broken `Write()` pattern → fixed at source so /onboard stops propagating it).
|
||
- **Status**: implemented on chore/fix-inert-write-deny-rules (07ca738), UNMERGED (human gate).
|
||
|
||
## BDR-070 — claude-seo (github.com/AgriciDaniel): cherry-pick, never install — 2026-07-17
|
||
- **Decision**: adapt useful scripts into our tree, /seo stays sole entry. Do NOT run install.sh / plugin install.
|
||
- **Why**: their CODE is real (326 tests, render_page.py 428l Playwright, url_safety.py 622l SSRF) — their INSTALLERS destroy our work. install.sh:49 `cp -r skills/seo/*` overwrites our SKILL.md. uninstall.sh:45 globs `~/.claude/agents/seo-*.md` → deletes our seo-analyzer.md (42K) it never installed (verified dry-run). extensions/*/install.sh:42 replaces settings.json with `{"env":{...}}` on parse error. skills/seo/SKILL.md:119 injects Skool upsell footer into deliverables (leaks to /client-handover client PDFs). hooks.json registers global PostToolUse exit-2 → blocks our dispatcher mid-bundle.
|
||
- **Alternatives rejected**: (plugin install) → both `/seo` coexist namespaced → non-deterministic dispatch, silently loses our FR-legal axis on an unpredictable fraction of runs. (install nothing) → forgoes render_page/url_safety/unlighthouse we lack.
|
||
- **Verdict on parity**: their README lies (dual JSON-LD validator = 2 hyperlinks, zero `.py` calls; "zero-network"/"fully offline" false). Our system is more honest; we keep FR-legal (their whole repo: 2 hits), fix-bundle+ownership, trajectory-17/20, NAP anti-seed.
|
||
- **Files**: none installed. Findings drove the whole seo-geo-integrity branch (21 commits).
|
||
|
||
## BDR-071 — no viable free backlink source: Off-page axis stays brand-mentions-only — 2026-07-17
|
||
- **Decision**: I1's narrowed Off-page axis (brand mentions from STEP 6 only, backlinks+authority declared §14-unauditable) is the FINAL state, not a placeholder awaiting data.
|
||
- **Why**: measured, not assumed. GSC has no links endpoint (API = Search Analytics/Sitemaps/Sites/URL-Inspection only; links report UI-only). Common Crawl hyperlinkgraph domain-edges = **17.3 GB gzipped** (+879MB vertices, +2.3GB ranks), HEAD-measured live. Scanning it per-audit is non-viable + abusive to a nonprofit. The reference impl (claude-seo commoncrawl_graph.py:169) caps download at 500 MiB = **2.9% of edges**, sorted by source ID → arbitrary slice reported as a backlink profile, "70/100 health". A random sample dressed as a measurement — the exact failure class the branch removes.
|
||
- **Consequence**: B1/B2/B3 all killed. Weight (10-15%) unchanged — re-deriving for an axis that won't widen churns historical scores for nothing.
|
||
- **Only free viable source**: Bing GetUrlLinks — first-party only (never a competitor), blocked on client's Bing account → raises W2's value ([[BLK-017]]), does not unblock it.
|
||
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## BDR-072 — SPA: honest refuse, no headless browser (R2 chosen over R1) — 2026-07-17
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- **Decision**: rendercheck verdict `client-rendered` → On-page axis N/A, excluded from weighted global, NEVER scored zero. No Playwright, no Chromium. User-arbitrated.
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- **Why**: a zero says "your on-page is bad"; N/A says "we couldn't see it" — only one is true, and /client-handover gates on 17/20. curl on a shell returns "missing" for every meta/H1/JSON-LD → a page of FALSE findings + a bundle that "fixes" tags that already exist. STEP 2 recorded `RENDERING: SPA` since forever and NOTHING acted on it. Verdict from what the server SENT (package.json can't tell React-SPA from Next-SSR).
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- **GEO angle (sharper)**: AI crawlers (GPTBot/PerplexityBot/ClaudeBot) are WORSE at JS than Googlebot — fetch HTML, largely don't execute. A client-rendered site is near-invisible to the engines the audit serves → §0 alert + SSR/SSG top user action, aligns CLAUDE.global "public sites never SPA".
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- **Alternatives rejected**: R1 Playwright (~300MB Chromium, breaks bash+curl purity) — user chose refusal. Refusing IS the finding.
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- **Files**: lib/seo-data/render_check.py, seo/geo STEP-5 gates (20d3082).
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## BDR-073 — deterministic scoring: split LLM judgement from arithmetic — 2026-07-17
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- **Decision**: LLM emits WHICH findings + severity (irreducible judgement); engine computes the /20. Reuses /harden's scale (-15/-8/-3/-1, clamp, /5 into /20) → one vocabulary across the family.
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- **Why**: /harden had a real scale (SKILL.md:435), /seo had NONE → every axis felt → two runs over identical code diverged, while /client-handover gates on 17/20. H2 sharpened it: once drift reports real change, a self-moving score is visibly noise. Same principle as engine-side cannibalisation grouping — never hand a model 1000 rows to add.
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- **Makes computable (was prose)**: "N/A is not a zero" (R2 on-page, I1 off-page) → axis excluded + weights renormalised, verified all-20 with 2 N/A → global 20.0. Prevalence: affected/sampled shift severity ONE step (≥50% escalate, single de-escalate).
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- **Files**: lib/seo-data/score.py (4818c61).
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## BDR-074 — Remove config-protection edit-block guardrail [accepted] (2026-07-17)
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Deleted hooks/config-protection.sh + its settings.json PreToolUse registration + lib/tests/config-protection.test.sh. Hook blocked model Edit/Write on quality-gate files (settings.json, gitflow.sh, .githooks, doctor.sh, hooks, lib/tests, lint) via one-shot .claude/.config-edit-ok sentinel. Removed per user req — friction editing own config > guardrail value; user = human operator. Residual: gitflow pre-commit guard + Gitea branch protection still block direct code commits main/develop; only edit-time block gone. Alts rejected: warn-only (exit0+log), targeted relaxation. Supersedes any prior config-protection decision.
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## BDR-075 — Framework-wide 3-way adversarial plan-challenge phase [accepted] (2026-07-17)
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After a plan/reflection elaborated + before execution, 3 fresh blind sub-agents (correctness/robustness/simplicity) attack it; main loop RE-THINKS every aspect a BLOCKER lands (named change or [deferred]) + re-challenges once if plan materially changed. Reusable lib/challenge-plan.md + new agents/plan-challenger.md (read-only, big-model per [[BDR-066]] — audit judgment, NOT sonnet). Fail-safe (never fail open: mute→retry→escalate), severity-driven (any single-lens BLOCKER=must-address, NOT consensus — lenses orthogonal), advisory into existing human gate. KIND tunes lenses: build-plan/proposals/fix-bundle. Wired 11 orchestrators: ship-feature/init-project/feat/bugfix + onboard/audit-delta/code-clean + seo/geo/harden/web-validate. Excluded (no real plan): hotfix/tour/analyze/client-handover/release-candidate/spec. Audit found 0 repo-owned plan-challengers pre-existing (only vendored gstack autoplan, sequential+unwired). See [[EVAL-026]].
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### BDR-075 amendment (2026-07-18) — hotfix INCLUDED via logic-only guard
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Supersedes the "Excluded: hotfix" clause of [[BDR-075]]. hotfix now wired (STEP 1.8, Option B): GUARD skips purely cosmetic fixes (CSS/copy/typo), fires 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 → escalate to /bugfix (its STEP 3b runs the full phase). 12 orchestrators wired. Still excluded (no forward plan): tour/analyze/client-handover/release-candidate/spec. Per user (Option B). Branch feature/hotfix-challenge-guard, unmerged.
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## BDR-076 — Dispatched judgment agents pinned OPUS; session model = orchestration + inline reflection ONLY [accepted] (2026-07-19)
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Reverses the BDR-066 rejected alternative "opus pins on audit agents (session-independent)". Context changed: session default now Fable (Mythos tier, /model 2026-07-19) — inherit meant every dispatched audit/challenge burned Fable quota, exactly the waste BDR-066 killed for executors. New rule: Fable does ONLY main-loop orchestration + reflection (brainstorm, plan, contract, synthesis, gates); EVERY dispatched subagent pinned. Pinned `model: opus` (big tier, session-independent; NEVER sonnet — silent audit downgrade, the thing old §F5 guarded): analyzer, plan-challenger, seo-analyzer, geo-analyzer, validator-analyzer + onboard's 6 general-purpose audit dispatches (`model="opus"`) + tour Phase B. NOT pinned (justified deviation from approved "7 agents"): interviewer + client-handover-writer — inline-load only, never dispatched → frontmatter pin inert + misleading (BDR-066 wave-4 precedent: its inert opus pin was dropped); they ARE the main loop = Fable per the rule. Explore built-in stays inherit (wave-3 decision conserved: no owned prompt, search feeds inline reflection). Local session pin `opus-4-8[1m]` dropped from `.claude/settings.local.json` (gitignored) — Fable default from settings.json now applies in this repo too. model-gate.md unchanged (still guards inline reflection, Fable-or-Opus = big). Census: model-routing.test.sh §3 flip + §11 (61 pass), loops-light 35 pass, full `make test` green. User directives via gate: "Opus partout" + "Supprimer le pin". Branch feature/opus-pin-audit-agents, unmerged.
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## BDR-077 — Model-tiering v2: 4-tier explicit routing, mode-based splits, no-inherit dispatches [accepted] (2026-07-19)
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Supersedes BDR-076 scope + amends BDR-066. Doctrine: session model (Fable) = main-loop reflection/orchestration/planning/logic ONLY; main-loop retention criteria = interactive | conversation-context access | orchestration decision | dispatch overhead > step cost. NOTHING dispatched inherits: typed agents = frontmatter pin, built-ins = `model=` at every call site (`fable` for skill-runner reflection children, else complexity tier). Spike+smoke proven: `model:"fable"` resolves claude-fable-5 (enum-validated, loud fail, no silent fallback); call-site override BEATS a typed pin (sonnet-pinned verifier ran haiku). Fail-safe pin rule: mixed-mode agents keep the HIGH tier as pin, overrides go DOWN — forgotten override over-tiers (cost), never downgrades judgment. Mode-based splits (commit-changer precedent generalized; file splits rejected): doc-syncer audit(opus)/patch(sonnet) — ALSO fixed a latent defect: /doc dispatched an agent whose STEP 8 interactive gate could never fire; gates hoisted to a DISPATCHER PROTOCOL section; handover-doc-writer synthesize(opus)/render(sonnet) via run-scoped `.audit/handover-draft-<RUNID>.md` + DRAFT COMPLETE sentinel; seo/geo collect(sonnet)/judge(OPUS PIN)/template(sonnet) via `.audit/*-signals-<RUNID>.md` + COLLECTION COMPLETE + fail-closed judge + dispatcher ERROR contract (mute/ERROR judge NEVER carried into templating; retry once, escalate). File split only for a genuinely new role: plugin-probe (sonnet, facts-only) + plugin-advisor repinned opus reasoner (fail-closed on missing PROBE REPORT) + lib/plugin-gate.md (checkpoint + apply gate, doc-commit ×N include pattern). Inline→dispatch conversions: scaffolder, onboarder, doc-commit steps ×5 flows — their sonnet pins were INERT since creation, now live; CHANGE SUMMARY crosses the doc dispatch into doc-commit (LRN-126 wire). Tier moves: validator-analyzer opus→sonnet (deterministic runner); commit-changer propose=opus/apply=pin; ship-feature/init-project code-review dispatches = opus explicit (WAS an inherit leak); client-handover-writer's 7 skill-runners = model:"fable". Every wave shipped an IN-WAVE planted-input smoke as its merge gate — all PASSED disk-verified. Census §12-18 (125 pass; one vacuous line-wrapped lock self-caught = LRN-093 live). 6 waves, branches feature/model-tiering-w1..w6, merged on user standing signal. Plan: challenged 3 blind lenses + 1 confirmation (1 BLOCKER closed by spike, 8 MAJORs + 8 MINORs closed by named changes, 0 deferred). Refs: `.claude/tasks/plans/2026-07-19-model-tiering-v2-{analysis,plan}.md`.
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## BDR-078 — ctx7 coverage: central fast-libs list + once-per-session reminder hook; every code path covered [accepted] (2026-07-20)
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Refines BDR-053 (single surface). Audit 2026-07-20: coverage PARTIAL — find-docs fired on user doc-questions only; ship-feature 0c / init-project 5c pre-fetched; /feat //bugfix executors + ad-hoc coding NEVER consulted ctx7; fast-libs list hardcoded 3× (drift risk). 4 closures shipped: (a) find-docs description += BEFORE-writing-code trigger (fast-moving lib, even without doc question, unless fresh cache) + cache-first rule in body (tee fetched docs to .ctx7-cache/); (b) feater+bugfixer briefs += fast-lib docs rule — read fresh `.ctx7-cache/<lib>*.md`, else `npx ctx7@latest` fetch max 2 topics, else `ctx7 cache miss: <lib>` in NOTES + proceed (executors lack Skill tool → Bash path); (c) hooks/ctx7-reminder.sh UserPromptSubmit — ONE fire/session (sentinel on session_id), only when project manifest carries fast-libs; reports cache state; skips <task-notification> turns; always exit 0; (d) lib/fast-libs.sh = SINGLE SOURCE (detect / cache-status verbs, JS package.json anchored full-key match + Python requirements/pyproject, 7-day freshness, LC_ALL=C sort locale-independent) consumed by hook + 3 pipeline skills + 2 briefs. 2nd session surface DELIBERATE, not a BDR-053 reversal: 053 killed a 490-tok ALWAYS-ON rule duplicate; hook costs ~0 quiet, 1 line once when fast-libs present. Alternatives rejected: PreToolUse Edit/Write gate (fires per-edit = noise); description-only fix (probabilistic, executors unreachable). Tests: lib/tests/fast-libs.test.sh 11 checks (anchored/near-miss/py/none, cache fresh/stale/missing, hook fire/sentinel/quiet×2); shellcheck + full make test green. Branch feature/ctx7-coverage, unmerged (human gate).
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Amendment (same session): skills/find-docs = machine-owned dist (gitignored, ctx7 regenerates on fresh clone) → durable copy of closure (a) lives in install-plugins.sh STEP ctx7 (idempotent grep-guarded python patch, fixture-verified); live SKILL.md carries the same edit uncommitted by design.
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## BDR-079 — profile `set` symmetric on managed externals + MCPs [accepted] (2026-07-20)
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Audit (user ask "profile toggles externals both ways?"): ASYMMETRIC. Enable side OK — gstack on-demand from submodule when pack off (shared `skills-disabled/gstack__*` convention with toggle-external.sh, interoperable), externals restored from parked, magic delegated to toggle-external. Disable side MISSING: `cmd_set` trimmed only gstack + MANAGED_PLUGINS → `set backend` left emil/frontend-design/design-motion/impeccable active + magic registered; SKILL.md claimed both-ways toggle (true only at enable). Shipped: (1) `MANAGED_EXTERNALS` (emil-design-eng, frontend-design, design-motion-principles, impeccable = exact union of profile `external` usage; darwin-skill excluded — not task-type-driven) + `MANAGED_MCPS` (magic) allowlists, same doctrine as MANAGED_PLUGINS; (2) cmd_set refactored to 4 trim helpers (`disable_{gstack,plugins,externals,mcps}_not_in`) — symmetric, nothing outside allowlists ever auto-touched; (3) enable_skill external += from-source fallback (`ln -sf skills-external/<name>`, mirrors toggle-external) — closes the "missing symlink" warn; (4) stale usage() NOTE ("NOT toggled automatically") + SKILL.md fixed. Hermetic test profile-set-managed.test.sh 16 checks: fixture repo (both *_REPO_OVERRIDE), fake `claude` shim on PATH logging calls + flat-file MCP registry — gstack on-demand, external from-source, park/restore round-trip, magic add/remove calls, non-managed untouched. shellcheck + make test green. Branch feature/profile-managed-externals, unmerged (human gate).
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## BDR-080 — bug routing inverted: /bugfix primary, /investigate explicit-only [accepted] (2026-07-21)
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Old routing "Bug → investigate (bugfix if gstack off)" + gstack ON by default → every bug took path bypassing own quality pipeline (gitflow aiguillage, contract, fresh verifier + security gates, doc-sync, `.claude/memory` registries) — /bugfix relegated to near-never fallback. Skill comparison: same core doctrine (root-cause iron law, hypothesis loop, regression test, 3-strike stop, >5-files alert) but incompatible wrappers — investigate monolithic (same context investigates+fixes+verifies, ~1075-line SKILL.md w/ gstack preamble/telemetry/onboarding, capitalizes to `~/.gstack` learnings.jsonl framework never reads at session start); bugfix orchestrator (reflection inline, sonnet bugfixer executor, fresh gates — BDR-066, LRN-083). Composition rejected: skills superpose in context, don't compose — invoking investigate inside bugfix = two full workflows, two completion protocols, two memory systems loaded at once. Decision: CLAUDE.global.md routing line inverted — bugfix primary; investigate ONLY on explicit ask for gstack ecosystem (cross-project learnings, /freeze scope lock, long no-commit investigation). Alternatives rejected: keep investigate primary (bypasses framework), embed investigate inside bugfix (context conflict, dual memory). Known drift noted at write time: Index table rows BDR-074..079 missing (pre-existing, /prune-memory scope).
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## BDR-081 — Config recalibrated for Claude 5 family (Opus 5 dispatch tier) [accepted] (2026-07-30)
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Opus 5 (released 2026-07-24) now backs every `model: opus` pin (BDR-076/077) + any `/model opus` session. Research (official migration guide + web + registries): Opus 5 OVER-delegates (inverts LRN-030 Opus 4.8 trait that CLAUDE.global.md:43-47 compensated), self-verifies (explicit verify instructions → over-verification, "removing them reduces wasted tokens with no loss in quality"), literal following (conservative-reporting clauses depress recall; MUST/CRITICAL over-triggers), scope expansion = named regression, written deliverables +30-40%. Claude Code injects Opus-5-only anti-delegation prompt sections (heron_brook + subagent_steer_delegation, issue #80988, server-gated, no opt-out) — prose caps would triple-stack. Shipped: delegation block → model-neutral WHEN-guidance + explicit gates carve-out (verifier/security/challenge still dispatch as written); "staff engineer" self-check bar dropped; finish-whole-task clause folded into Deviations (gone-WRONG→STOP still wins); deliverable-length rule; design hook `\bux\b` dropped (`\bui\b` KEPT — 0 FP, 1 logged TP, lock-tested); plan-challenger grounded-doubt→[MINOR] in-place reword (grammar byte-identical). Plan challenged by 3 blind Opus 5 plan-challengers: correctness CONCERNS(4) / robustness FATAL(5, BLOCKER: all surfaces symlink-deployed LIVE — gates fire post-deployment) / simplicity CONCERNS(4); every fix adopted as prescribed (scratch-validation before live hook write, minimal diffs, ux-only, MINOR-routing). Alternatives rejected: leave as-is (nudge actively counter-productive); hard spawn caps in prose (harness injects one); confidence axis on challenger grammar (consumer unwired); dropping \bui\b (no evidence). NOT touched: verify-secure-loop + fresh gates (harness architecture BDR-049/050, ≠ model self-check prose); Security/Architecture sections (BDR-021); settings effortLevel xhigh (user pref — Opus 5 carry-over trap → LRN-139); superpowers plugin wording (external upstream). Plan+synthesis: .claude/tasks/plans/2026-07-30-opus5-config-tuning-1238.md. Branch feature/opus5-config-tuning, unmerged (human gate).
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## BDR-082 — seo/geo analyzers de-prescribed for Opus 5 (C1) [accepted] (2026-08-02)
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BDR-081 N5 follow-on, user-directed apparatus (plan+3-lens challenge+census+dogfood). Method: audience×mode-range invariant — dedup ONLY verbatim same-audience (spec rule / bundle-item payload / phase-local caveat) same-mode-range repeats; cross-mode + agent↔dispatcher twins stay (standalone paths need them). Census-FIRST: lib/tests/seo-geo-contract.test.sh 71 locks (verdict grammar, sentinels, ALL STEP headers incl. interiors, item fields, score labels, envelope keys), flip-proven 7 mutations→7 FAILs, committed BEFORE reword. Shipped: self-output verification removed (":970 run twice"→conditional integrity guard; ":1217"→single-shot-scoped), 2 pre-BDR-061 vestigials fixed, caps softened (P0-rule/MANDATORY/ALWAYS→plain content rules), 2 essays compressed, checklist :1309→routing map rows verbatim (challenger caught it = routing table, NOT self-check), true same-range dups only (seo Handoff+landing-page blocks; geo ZERO — all claimed pairs distinct on inspection). FROZEN: guard-first url-guard orderings, :550 denominator-before-sampling (ordering IS the honesty mechanism), R2/NAP/COVERAGE/citation invariants, external-freshness checks (world drift ≠ self-verification). Deltas: seo 1528→1503 l ("P0 rule" 2→0, ALWAYS 1→0, MUST 5→4, NEVER 9→9 = class-B bans kept); geo 1106→1107 (MANDATORY 1→0, MUST 4→3). Plan challenged correctness FATAL / robustness FATAL(3 BLOCKER) / simplicity CONCERNS + confirmation FATAL(9) — every BLOCKER closed by named change (§5bis record). Dogfood before/after on frozen zenquality copy: judge-replay on frozen signals (zero collect variance) + templates + fresh collects + e2e judge + 42/42 assert battery BOTH sets + blind reader "interchangeable; all deltas = presentation variance both directions OR after MORE spec-conformant". Alternatives rejected: keyword dedup (challengers proved audience/range-blind — most annex "twins" were distinct obligations), FULL/aggressive dogfood (billing gate killed nested CLI; left as user option), banner/shape locks (LLM-convention layers wobble — lock strings only). Evidence: .audit/dogfood-baseline/ (18 artifacts + DOGFOOD-VERDICT.md), plan .claude/tasks/plans/2026-07-30-seo-geo-deprescription-1402.md. Branch feature/seo-geo-deprescription, UNMERGED (human gate).
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## BDR-083 — contract gates: deterministic floor (GATE 0) under the verifier [accepted] (2026-08-24)
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User asked what to take from `unlazy` skill (Leonxlnx/unlazy 2.1.0, MIT). Verdict on its verification ARCHITECTURE: teaches nothing we lack — contract + fresh blind verifier + bounded loops + order invariant already shipped (BDR-049/050/066, LRN-083). Real gap found elsewhere: between executor and GATE 1, NO deterministic floor. GATE 1 = LLM dispatch; verifier's mandatory `PROOF:` line = a line the verifier WRITES — nothing structurally stops it being produced without executing anything (LRN-048 demands a pass prove it looked; the proof is self-reported prose). Decision: import unlazy's gate ledger INTO the existing contract, never alongside it. Palier 2, user-chosen over doctrine-only / defer.
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TAKEN: criterion carries an oracle (indented `CHECK:` cmd + `EXPECT:` success-only marker + `EVIDENCE:` slot); fail-closed = exit 0 AND marker (a nonzero process never passes because its error text carries the token); evidence persisted INTO the contract → the fresh verifier reads fact, not the executor's report; `ABANDON: <id> <non-blank reason>` = impossible criterion never deleted, blocks CONFORME, routes to human gate (new verdict token `ABANDONED(n)` — distinct routing from ECARTS ⇒ distinct token, not a sub-line to re-derive); 4 gate-authoring rules (observe the named artifact / success-only marker / positive control before any absence check / recompute supplied numbers, never copy one into EXPECT); 4-pass executor discipline (feater full; bugfixer narrowed to fix+test under "keep the fix minimal", pass 3 = negative control proving the regression test fails without the fix).
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REFUSED + why: Stop hook `decision:"block"` — contradicts "STOP + human escalation", "gone WRONG → STOP re-plan", "merge only on explicit human signal"; a hook FORCING continuation is the inverse of our gates; its 6-block release either traps the session or gives up; each block = an agent continuation = real tokens. Approval store `~/.unlazy/approved` (binds ledger+cmd+CWD+shell+timeout+platform+full PATH) — exists to execute ledgers INHERITED from untrusted repos; our contracts are authored by our own orchestrator in our own repo ⇒ biggest chunk of their 28k checker closes zero threat here. `.unlazy/<scope>/` tree (PLAN+GATES+gates/+status.log+session+hook-state+locks/) — a 4th bookkeeping tree beside .claude/tasks/{contracts,plans} + memory/ + audits/. `tree N` Depth-Tree effort arithmetic — disowned by unlazy's OWN research/validation-protocol.md (v1 six-run figures unreproducible), while the repo DESCRIPTION still advertises the retracted claim. Node checker (28k .mjs + 54k .mjs tests) — lib stack is 100% bash, Health Stack = `shellcheck *.sh hooks/*.sh lib/*.sh` would cover none of it. `OWNS:` ownership leases — deferred (Palier 3): our parallel dispatches (seo/geo, 3 plan-challengers) are read-only, the write-collision problem does not exist yet.
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Shipped: lib/gates.sh (~250 l bash; `status` never executes and never writes · `run` ALWAYS re-executes every runnable criterion — trusting written evidence is the failure being closed, so there is no incremental mode to get wrong; rc 0 MET / 2 UNMET|malformed / 3 ABANDONED; parse fails closed on partial oracle, duplicate id, unindented attribute, runnable-without-EVIDENCE, and executes nothing when the ledger is malformed). GATE 0 in lib/verify-secure-loop.md (red floor → executor re-dispatch with the NOT-MET rows, NO verifier spawned; own 3-iteration budget, separate from conformity; malformed ledger fixed in the main loop, never dispatched to a dev). Order invariant now GATE 0→1→2 on every re-loop. lib/contract-interview.md: ORACLES section + template + ABANDONMENT lifecycle + per-flow oracle weight. agents/verifier.md: oracle-consumption rules — a red or unrun oracle is NEVER overridden by reading code; a MET oracle proves the ORACLE, not the English sentence ⇒ vacuous oracle = NOT-MET, the one judgement no command can make; verifier may re-run a CHECK but never edits the contract. lib/tests/gates.test.sh 64 assertions (sentinel-proved non-execution, with its own positive control asserted first).
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Alternatives rejected: Palier 1 doctrine-only (CHECK:/EXPECT: become decorative without an executant); port the Node checker (stack break, shellcheck-blind); fold ABANDONED into ECARTS (would send a dev to fix the impossible and eat the 3-iteration budget); `status` revalidating old evidence (that trust is the failure being closed).
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Branch feature/contract-gates, UNMERGED (human gate). `make test` rc 0, shellcheck clean, e2e verified on a real contract in the documented template.
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## BDR-084 — /tour multi-project: parallel runners, bounded LRN-083 derogation [accepted] (2026-08-24)
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User asked whether agent parallelism on independent tasks is ACTIVE. Measured first (LRN-080): (a) mechanics — nested probe, 1 dispatched orchestrator fanned 3 sub-agents, execution windows all overlap, 9.1s vs ~18s sequential ⇒ nested parallel dispatch WORKS; (b) doctrine — already prescribed at 3 layers (harness "single message" injection; /seo, challenge-plan, /cso, graphify explicit same-message mandates; graphify even anti-sequential wording); remaining serializations all MOTIVATED (audit-delta crash-resilience documented, verify-secure-loop order invariant); (c) behavior — probe orchestrator batched spontaneously without being told "parallel" (N=1), this session fanned 8+7 agents/message during the RED. Conclusion: nothing to add globally — a CLAUDE.md "parallelize" line would duplicate-stack the harness injection (BDR-081 anti-pattern).
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ONE real sequential-but-independent candidate: /tour multi-project (independent repos, one by one, no documented reason). User gate: option "tout paralléliser" chosen over report-only-only and no-change, WITH the model invariant "orchestrateur garde le modèle orchestrateur; skills/agents suivent leurs orchestrateurs définis".
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Decision: STEP 0 routes (1 project = inline unchanged; ≥2 = STEP 0b fan-out). One general-purpose runner per project, ALL in ONE message, dispatched with NO model override — inherits the session model (model-gate already validated big; a runner carries tour's reflection: fix decisions, convergence). Inside a runner every agent keeps its defined tier (security-auditor sonnet, Phase B opus, doc-syncer sonnet two-mode). Dead/mute runner ⇒ explicit `RUNNER FAILED` summary row (mute is never a pass). Capitalize offer stays MAIN LOOP ONLY (registries = shared state).
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LRN-083 derogation, bounded: per-project fix loop + convergence now run INSIDE the dispatched runner. Bounded because nothing a runner decides touches shared state — independent repos, per-repo chore branches, branches stay UNMERGED for human review exactly as inline (report-as-approval-gate design unchanged). Precedent: client-handover-writer already a dispatched orchestrator running parallel audit loops (BDR-077).
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Alternatives rejected: report-only-only parallel (my recommendation — user overrode: full parallel wanted); one sub-orchestrator agent .md file (drift risk vs SKILL.md, the runner reads the skill from disk instead — client-handover→/seo precedent); pinning the runner (would put tour reflection on an executor tier — inverts BDR-076); global CLAUDE.md parallelism line (duplicate of harness injection). Census §12: 6 locks (fan-out present, no-pin, single-message, capitalize main-loop, RUNNER FAILED, no pinned runner), flip-tested. Branch feature/tour-parallel, UNMERGED (human gate).
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## BDR-085 — user permanent rules: writing-style always-on in rules/, web rules path-scoped [accepted] (2026-08-25)
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User supplied 4-block permanent rule text (writing / website / code security / self-check), asked: coverage check, conflict check, integrate. Coverage verdict: security CORE (parameterized queries, input validation, env-var secrets, AuthN/AuthZ split + default deny, no stack traces, fail closed, least privilege) ALREADY in CLAUDE.global.md §Security — NOT duplicated. NEW: entire writing-style block, design anti-default list, public-site done-checklist, web-app specifics (browser-exposed keys, service-key/client split, RLS, server-side auth, IDOR, hashed passwords + cookie flags, field minimization, rate limiting, upload restrictions).
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Placement: CLAUDE.global.md at 308/320 (session-start density guard) → no room for ~30 always-on lines. Decision: rules/writing-style.md WITHOUT paths: (always-on load, same session cost, outside the 320 budget) + rules/web-building.md + rules/web-security.md WITH paths: (lazy-load = token win, fire only on web/code files). Project CLAUDE.md doctrine line amended with the budget exception. Feeds C2 self-contradiction audit.
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Conflict carve-outs, stated INSIDE the rules: registries keep caveman format (fragments, em-dashes, bullets); code comments keep code style; structured skill/report templates keep their formats; robuste/transformer banned in buzzword sense only (robustness lens, math transform allowed); no-Inter default rule carries "existing brand identities keep their fonts" (ZenQuality deliverables use Inter+Playfair by brand decision — client-handover BDR).
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Self-check rule scoped to DELIVERABLES (text, site, feature), not every conversational reply — literal "avant de me rendre quoi que ce soit" would append a compliance note to every chat answer, pure noise. User can re-widen.
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Alternatives rejected: compress into CLAUDE.global.md (~11 lines to fit → loses the carve-outs, zero headroom left); path-scope writing-style (applies to conversation, not file reads → would never fire in chat-only sessions); one merged web file (two concerns, one-rule-one-file).
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Branch feature/user-writing-web-rules, UNMERGED (human gate).
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## BDR-086 — darwin bug-pass scope: verified defects fixed above threshold
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- **Date**: 2026-08-26
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- **Decision**: units < threshold get full weighted-gap optimization loops (per-unit checkpoint). Judge-VERIFIED defects (file:line, confirmed) in above-threshold units get targeted fixes in a grouped pass — same paired 3-judge validation, one batched checkpoint. User-gated at the scorecard.
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- **Why**: leaving a verified destructive path (hotfix `git restore .` wiping tolerated user edits, file scored 85) unfixed = score-worship; rubric serves quality, not the inverse.
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- **Alternatives rejected**: strict threshold (ships known bugs); optimize-everything (cost, HL-4 diminishing returns).
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- **Reference**: run 2026-08-26, commits 6eceedb..6eac7fb, `.claude/audits/DARWIN-2026-08-26.md`.
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## BDR-087 — Stop hook = attention signal only, never control flow
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- **Date**: 2026-09-03
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- **Decision**: `hooks/notify-attention.sh` wired on BOTH `Notification` (matcher = input-needed set) AND `Stop` (no matcher). One script, branches on `.hook_event_name` when `.message`/`.notification_type` absent → Stop yields "Claude has finished responding". Bell + toast now fire every turn end.
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- **Why**: Notification types cover input-needed ONLY. Turn-end had no event; nearest was `idle_prompt`, ~60s late — useless for Remote-SSH user away from screen. User enumerated turn-end as required case.
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- **Alternatives rejected**: second dedicated script (duplicates terminalSequence + jq logic, two files to keep in sync); `idle_prompt` alone (60s lag); SubagentStop too (noise, subagent completion not user-visible moment).
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- **Guard vs prior refusal**: [[BDR-083]] (unlazy review, GATE 0) REFUSED a Stop hook using `decision:"block"` (forces continuation, inverts human gates). THIS Stop hook returns `terminalSequence` + `suppressOutput` only, exit 0, zero control-flow effect. Signal ≠ control. Do not read the refusal as banning Stop outright.
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- **Status**: accepted.
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- **Reference**: [[LRN-146]] event-coverage gap, [[BLK-020]] client-side faults, [[LRN-145]] terminalSequence pattern. Verified live: turn-end + AskUserQuestion both ring; `permission_prompt` unexercisable under `defaultMode: auto`.
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---
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## BDR-088 — gstack Playwright bump shared via lib; update helper never touches submodule tree
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- **Date**: 2026-09-15
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- **Decision**: `gstack_bump_playwright_if_unsupported` moved out of `install-plugins.sh` into `lib/gstack-playwright.sh`, sourced by install-plugins + update-all + doctor. update-all's submodule block now calls `gstack_submodule_update_with_bump`: re-applies bump after successful `submodule update --remote`; on failure prints git's own message, hints `make plugin`, returns 1. Never touches submodule worktree.
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- **Why**: [[BDR-029]] caveat open — bump survived only till next `make plugin`, update path never re-checked OS support. Real gap, user-reported.
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- **Alternatives rejected**: conflict-RECOVERY branch (discard package.json+bun.lock → retry → backup/restore). Withdrawn at human gate after 4-agent challenge: concentrated 3 BLOCKER + 4 MAJOR. Worst case = bump discarded, re-apply silently no-ops (bun absent / registry down — bump returns 0 on every path), `./setup` rebuilds browse against unsupported Playwright → [[BLK-008]] returns. Pre-existing behavior just failed the update and kept bump intact, so the "improvement" could regress a working install.
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- **Deviations carried from "code MOVED not changed"**: `|| true` on ostag capture (line exited 1 on every non-Ubuntu host → aborted caller under inherited errexit, reproduced); `timeout` on all 3 bun calls, exit 124 → warn + no bump (TERM'd install leaves node_modules half-written, poisons the support grep).
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- **Status**: accepted.
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- **Reference**: commit 2cebecb, `lib/gstack-playwright.sh`. Links [[BDR-029]], [[LRN-070]], [[LRN-071]], [[LRN-150]], [[BLK-008]].
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---
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## BDR-089 — No Playwright browser-cache pruner; read-only doctor report instead
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- **Date**: 2026-09-15
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- **Decision**: `doctor.sh` gains own `── Playwright browsers ──` section — cache size, per-revision the installs requiring it, counts of unreferenced dirs + broken links. Zero deletion anywhere in the lib.
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- **Why**: measured, not assumed. `~/.cache/ms-playwright/.links/` registers 3 installs — gstack 1.61.1 → rev 1228, gsd-pi nvm 1.61.0 → 1228, gsd-pi ~/.local 1.63.0 → 1243. Every dir on disk referenced → 0 bytes reclaimable. Playwright's own `_deleteStaleBrowsers` already unions across all registered installs on every `install`.
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- **Alternatives rejected**: hand-rolled pruner guarded on "revision resolved by gstack's local playwright" (the originally requested shape) — that guard keeps 1228 and DELETES 1243, breaking gsd-pi. The guard was wrong, not just its implementation.
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- **Status**: accepted.
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- **Reference**: commit 2cebecb. Links [[LRN-151]], [[BDR-088]].
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## BDR-090 — Destructive shell work → autoMode soft_deny/hard_deny; `ask` tier abandoned
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- **Date**: 2026-09-15
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- **Decision**: 10 rules leave the static tiers (user's own edit): `rsync` `kill -9` `killall` `pkill` out of `deny`; `python3 -c` `python -c` `xargs` `sed` `cp` `mv` out of `ask`. Cover rebuilt in `autoMode` — 7 `soft_deny` (write outside cwd, `rsync --delete`, SIGKILL/kill-by-name, in-place edit spanning >1 file, directory move, inline interpreter or `xargs` that deletes or writes outside cwd) + 3 `hard_deny` (secret exfiltration, prod deploy, disarming guardrails). Intent clears a soft block for the CURRENT TURN only — encoded as a rule line, no setting exists for it. `classifyAllShell` stays false. `permissions.deny` +10 `.env` reader rules (`sed awk cut tr sort uniq diff od xxd strings`), 6 of which sat in `allow`.
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- **Why**: `ask` raises no prompt under `defaultMode: auto` ([[LRN-146]], verified live). It gated nothing, so a destructive rule moved deny→ask was a silent loosening dressed as a confirmation. `soft_deny` = the tier the classifier enforces and user intent clears. `hard_deny` = the 3 classes no command pattern can express — read-then-send spans turns, a prod target is a name not a verb, widening a deny list is self-disarming.
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- **Alternatives rejected**: keep them in `ask` — inert, false sense of a gate. Back to `deny` — blocks legit process cleanup and inter-project copy, and the user works Bash-first under auto mode. `classifyAllShell: true` — closes the allow-tier blind spot but bills a classifier call on every `git status`. Published-history rewrite as `hard_deny` — user declined; `rebase` then an ordinary push stays uncovered, known gap.
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- **Scope fix (same commit)**: `autoMode.environment` named `/home/bchanot/Documents/atlast`, its FTP deploy target and its customer data, inside the file `link.sh:21` symlinks to `~/.claude/settings.json`. Every project received atlast's facts, and this repo's own Gitea remote contradicted the block's "no remote configured". Global block now machine-generic; atlast facts moved to atlast's gitignored `.claude/settings.local.json`.
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- **Caveat**: the guardrail `hard_deny` bars REMOVING a `deny`/`soft_deny`/`hard_deny` entry, not adding one. Future loosening goes through `/permissions` or the user's own edit — deliberate, confirmed with the user.
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- **Status**: accepted.
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- **Reference**: `settings.json`, `doctor.sh` `check_automode`, `templates/settings/SETTINGS.md`. Links [[LRN-153]], [[LRN-146]], [[BDR-004]].
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## BDR-091 — Ask, don't guess: open-choice sweep + mid-run channel supersede "one question upfront"
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- **Date**: 2026-09-16
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- **Decision**: `CLAUDE.global.md` rule → ask on a VISIBLE (placement, wording, order, behavior), PUBLIC NAME (command, flag, endpoint, file) or SCOPE ("X too?") choice the request leaves open, even mid-task; class 4 (internal technical, no observable effect) never. `lib/contract-interview.md` STEP 2 = CLARIFY: pass A (gaps: outcome / scope / constraints) at contract time; pass B (open-choice sweep, 3 classes) ONCE at each flow's PLAN step, no question cap, >5 open → under-specified, list + stop; "you decide" recorded `A: delegated — <default>`, never re-asked. New MID-RUN CLARIFICATION: executor halts `NEED-DECISION` + `CLASS:` tag; visible / public-name / scope → human verbatim; internal → loop decides, max 2 round-trips. New HOW TO ASK (LRN-102: ≤4 → one AskUserQuestion, context in option descriptions; else plain text ending the turn). Wiring: feat STEP 1, bugfix STEP 3, hotfix LOCATE (pass A stays silent autofill; one re-dispatch on class-tagged BLOCKED = the sole hotfix re-dispatch), ship-feature STEP 2, init-project STEP 3; interviewer: class 1-3 item never `(assumed)`, one extra targeted question. Executors (feater, bugfixer, hotfixer) report the class. Locks: contract-verifier (9), loops-light (hotfix), gates (3).
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- **Why**: gap-only trigger structurally blind to taste — "add a share icon" passes outcome / scope / constraints and the icon lands wherever the executor put it; raising the 3-question cap changes nothing. feat:153 / bugfix:165 told the orchestrator "make the decision HERE", twice, before escalating = institutional guessing. Fresh re-dispatch keeps the tree, loses the executor's reasoning → a plan-time batch costs less than the same question mid-run; the mid-run channel stays for leftovers.
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- **Alternatives rejected**: bigger budget (quota was never the limiter); new `lib/clarify.md` (extra hop, STEP 2 already the mandatory passage every orchestrator runs); global rule only (skills carried explicit counter-instructions — `zero questions ever`, `make the decision HERE`, `max 3 questions` — the specific beats the general).
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- **Risk watched**: chattiness. Brakes = class 4 exclusion + over-5 guard. hotfix identity (speed, silence) = the flow to watch; if pass B fires on most hotfixes the class definitions are too wide, not the flow.
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- **Status**: accepted. Behavioral check OPEN: `/feat "add a share icon to the header"` must ask placement before dispatch; the fully specified variant must ask nothing → record in `evals.md`.
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- **Reference**: spec + plan `docs/superpowers/{specs,plans}/2026-09-16-ask-dont-guess*` (purged at finish, in history at `22ce57f`), commits `9eb6934..22ce57f`, merge `56bd035`. Supersedes the `CLAUDE.global.md:51` rule line. Refines [[BDR-049]] (contract), applies [[LRN-102]]. Links [[LRN-157]].
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## BDR-092 — docker + node framed by the classifier (`autoMode.allow`), `ask` rules retired
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||
- **Date**: 2026-09-16
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- **Decision**: `Bash(docker run|exec *)`, `Bash(docker[-| ]compose up*)`, `Bash(node -e *)` out of `permissions.ask`. New `autoMode.allow` (`$defaults` first): (1) local dev containers — `docker exec/run/compose` against a workstation container whose name lacks `prod`/`production`, running a repo SQL file or script inside, output piped; Remote Shell Writes / Production Reads / Sensitive Remote Exec scoped to sensitive-named hosts; a literal `DROP/TRUNCATE/DELETE` on the command line stays under Mass Delete. (2) project-local node — `node <file>`, `npm run`/`pnpm`/`yarn` scripts, `npx`/`pnpm exec` of a lockfile-declared package, effects in cwd. +2 `soft_deny`: docker data destruction (`rm -f`, `volume rm/prune`, `system prune`, `compose down -v`, `--privileged`, bind mount outside cwd); undeclared node packages (`npx`/`dlx` absent from lockfile, `npm install <name>`). `model` bump to fable 5.1 committed alongside.
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- **Why**: real gate = built-in `Remote Shell Writes` / `Production Reads` soft_deny catching `docker exec` into `supabase_db_game`; inside the classifier `allow` = exception tier (hard_deny > soft_deny > allow > explicit intent). Static `Bash(node *)` allow is suspended under auto (wildcarded interpreter) → prose is the only lever for a conditional node permission; `awk`/`echo` statics short-circuit, `node` cannot. `ask` inert on 2.1.273 (probe, [[LRN-155]]) — retiring it is forward-safe: if the documented prompt behavior lands, those entries would prompt for exactly what should run free.
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- **Alternatives rejected**: static `permissions.allow` for docker (short-circuits the classifier, framing impossible); keep the `ask` entries (inert today, wrong tomorrow); strict on every `.sql` (blocks the repo's verify scripts).
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- **Trade-off accepted**: a repo SQL file runs even when its content is opaque to the classifier — local dev DB only, resettable.
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- **Guardrail**: S6 (loosening = user's own edit) overridden explicitly by the user for this change; diff reviewed on the branch before merge.
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- **Status**: accepted. Verified: `jq` valid; `claude auto-mode config` shows the 4 entries with `$defaults` expanded; `doctor.sh` autoMode PASS; live `docker exec -i supabase_db_game psql … -f - < verify/0043 … | tail` → `ROLLBACK`, exit 0, no prompt. `claude auto-mode critique` printed nothing (2.1.273).
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- **Reference**: `settings.json`, `templates/settings/SETTINGS.md` (`autoMode.allow` row + interpreter note), commit `5eccc3f`, merge `ddadca6`. Links [[BDR-090]], [[LRN-153]], [[LRN-155]], [[LRN-156]].
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## BDR-093 — 21st.dev: magic MCP retired for the `21st` CLI + skill pack
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||
- **Date**: 2026-09-22
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- **Decision**: `@21st-dev/magic` MCP out, `@21st-dev/cli` (bin `21st`) in — upstream supersedes it (README 1.17.1: "one unified CLI", old magic config now a thin proxy to the same endpoint). Auth = `21st login`, browser token in `~/.config/21st`; no API key, no MCP process. `install-plugins.sh` Step 8.7: `npm i -g` (pin `21st` in plugins.lock.json) + staged `21st skills install --global --agent claude` + TTY-only login offer + pack disabled by default. `toggle-external.sh` manages `21st` as a pack (names globbed from `skills-external/21st-*`, parked under plain names = interoperable with profile.sh's external path). 5 design skills (`21st-ui-build`, `-ui-explore`, `-ui-review`, `-cli-use`, `-ai`) in design/web/web-full/full + `MANAGED_EXTERNALS`; `-registry`/`-design-sync` installed, parked. `MANAGED_MCPS` now empty (mcp type kept, advisory). Gate: `GATE-BLOCK: 21st 21st-ui-build` — CLI = required-manual class, `magic`'s old slot. Outward-facing verbs (`publish*`, `submit`, `edit`, `delete`, `remove-from-catalog`, `profile set|upload`) → one `autoMode.soft_deny` entry, NOT `ask` ([[LRN-153]]).
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- **Why**: user ask ("plus besoin de mcp / api, juste en cli"), confirmed at the source, not the marketing page — the 21st.dev web docs still show the MCP `init --client` flow and an API key; the npm package README is what states the supersession. Net wins: one less MCP loaded per session, no API key to protect by reference ([[BDR-026]]/[[BDR-057]] vector gone), no unauthenticated local callback server ([[LRN-110]] gone with the tool).
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- **Blocker + shape it forced**: `21st skills install --global` writes `<HOME>/.claude/skills/<n>/SKILL.md` and calls `assertNoSymlinkComponents` on every path segment — `~/.claude/skills` IS a symlink to `repo/skills`, so the documented `21st install-skill` fails hard ("Refusing to access symbolic link …/.claude/skills", reproduced live). → install under `mktemp -d` as HOME, move each skill into `skills-external/21st-*` (gitignored), symlink on demand. Same impeccable/ctx7 machine-owned pattern.
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- **Alternatives rejected**: project-scope install (`<cwd>/.claude/skills`) — Claude Code would ALSO scan it as project skills in this repo = every 21st skill listed twice; add the pack to `link.sh`'s `EXTERNAL_SKILLS` — that loop force-creates symlinks, resurrecting a default-disabled pack on every `make link`; all 7 skills in the design profiles — publishing flows cost 2 descriptions/session for a workflow the user does not run; `ask` entries for the publish verbs — inert under auto ([[LRN-153]], [[BDR-090]]/[[BDR-092]] already retired that tier).
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- **Status**: accepted. Verified: toggle enable/disable/restore/idempotent round-trip (7 skills), `profile.sh show design`, gate INCOMPLETE→names `21st` with the two commands, gate PATH repair proven under `env -i PATH=/usr/bin:/bin` with an nvm-stub, `profile-set-managed.test.sh` 17/17, `make test` (2 pre-existing FAILs, gitleaks binary absent on this host), shellcheck clean. OPEN for the user: `npm i -g @21st-dev/cli && 21st login` — the deny rule `Bash(npm install -g *)` means the agent cannot run it.
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||
- **Reference**: `install-plugins.sh` Step 8.7, `update-all.sh` 7.4, `lib/toggle-external.sh`, `lib/profile.sh`, `lib/profiles/*.profile`, `lib/design-tool-gate.sh`, `lib/design-gate.md`, `CLAUDE.global.md`, `README.md`, `settings.json`, `.gitignore`, `.gitleaks.toml`, `.env.example`, `link.sh`. Supersedes the operative parts of [[BDR-059]] (the 4 `mcp__magic__*` ask entries) and the magic instance of [[BDR-026]]/[[BDR-057]]; [[BDR-025]]'s required-manual class stands, its magic example does not. Links [[LRN-158]], [[LRN-110]].
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## BDR-094 — impeccable: global-scope install through the repo symlinks, pin + @latest fallback, output-read failure check
|
||
- **Date**: 2026-09-22
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- **Decision**: `install-plugins.sh` Step 8d + `update-all.sh` run `npx -y impeccable@<pin> skills install -y --providers=claude --scope=global --no-hooks` straight through the `~/.claude/{skills,agents}` symlinks → lands in `skills/impeccable` + `agents/impeccable-*.md` (both gitignored, machine-owned). No staging, no `mv`. Precondition guard: both symlinks must already point into the repo, else "run make link first". Pin failure → `@latest` + loud "bump plugins.lock.json" warn. Profile-parked copy stays parked (install to live slot, `mv` back to `skills-disabled/`). Success = rc 0 AND installer output free of `Download failed|Could not check for skill updates` (`imp_install`, mirrored in both scripts, sets `IMP_FAIL`). Pin 3.2.0 → 4.1.0 (CLI only; skill dist 4.3.1 + engine 0.1.5 own tracks). `link.sh` `EXTERNAL_SKILLS` drops impeccable; `skills-external/impeccable/` gone. `lib/design-gate.md` §5: suggest `/impeccable init` once when frontend project lacks `PRODUCT.md`.
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||
- **Why**: (1) 3.2.0 skill dist gone upstream → rc 1 → `make plugin` printed "run manually" forever. (2) `--scope=project` + staged `mv` moved skill dir only, dropped the 4 subagents the same run wrote. (3) Global scope IS the repo install under the symlink model; staging bought nothing. (4) rc lies once a copy exists. Probe 2026-09-22, sandbox HOME, real installer: 4.1.0 then 3.2.0 → rc 0, "Could not check for skill updates: invalid zip data … Existing skills were left unchanged"; same-pin rerun → rc 0, "Skills are up to date (v4.3.1)"; both leave SKILL.md byte-identical (same mtime, same sha).
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||
- **Alternatives rejected**: before/after skill-version compare (first idea) → cannot separate rotted-pin no-op from up-to-date no-op, identical files + rc 0 both times → false warn on every rerun. `--force` → re-downloads ~15 MB engine + dist on every `make plugin`, and the CLI's own update check already refreshes without it. Shared `lib/impeccable.sh` for `imp_install` → deferred: two mirrored 12-line helpers vs new lib + test; revisit at a third caller. Project-scope install inside this repo → Claude Code scans `.claude/skills` too = skill listed twice, shadows the global copy (seen live, TODO T6).
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- **Status**: accepted. Verified: harness on extracted Step 8d, sandbox HOME, real installer, 4/4: fresh install (skill 4.3.1, 4 agents); rotted pin over a copy → fallback fires; same pin rerun → no false warn; parked + rotted → fallback, returned to `skills-disabled/`. `make test` green minus 2 pre-existing T16a (gitleaks absent), shellcheck clean. `update-all.sh` block: `bash -n` + shellcheck only, same helper, not run end to end.
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- **Reference**: `install-plugins.sh` Step 8d, `update-all.sh`, `plugins.lock.json`, `.gitignore`, `link.sh`, `lib/design-gate.md` §5. Links [[LRN-159]], [[LRN-158]] (21st: opposite case, installer refuses symlinks → stage), [[LRN-077]] (pin doctrine), [[BLK-021]].
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## BDR-095 — Data-loss guardrails: static deny for transfer/destructive tools, push every commit, brief ≠ user authority
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||
- **Date**: 2026-09-22
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- **Decision**: layer C of the post-incident plan (layers A OS/backup and B sandbox/managed-settings = user's side). (1) `permissions.deny` static: lftp/sftp/ftp/curl -T, `rsync --delete`, `xargs rm`, pipe-to-shell, `chmod/chown -R`, sudo/doas/pkexec, dd/mkfs/shred/wipefs/fdisk/parted, chattr, docker volume drops/system prune/compose down -v/--privileged/docker.sock/`-v /:`, git push --delete/--mirror/:ref/--force-with-lease, branch -D, filter-branch, reflog expire, stash clear/drop, clean -f, --no-verify, core.hooksPath. `ask` entries for pipe-to-shell + stash drop/clear retired into deny. (2) `hard_deny`: destructive tool against a local path from a variable/`~`/`..`/wildcard/outside cwd+tmp, trace or rehearsal included, brief carries no user authority. (3) `soft_deny`: docker entry reworded (promoted items out), + discarding uncommitted work. (4) `environment`: incident, push discipline, Claude never deploys. (5) `lib/gitflow.sh`: `start` pushes `-u origin`, `_gitflow_merge_into` pushes target, `install-hook` writes post-commit + post-merge push hooks (`--follow-tags`, timeout 30, `GITFLOW_NO_PUSH=1`, warn-never-block). (6) `hooks/unpushed-guard.sh` SessionStart+Stop systemMessage. (7) doctrine section "Destructive tools & data loss" + 4 report-only agents clause. (8) `lib/tests/guard-bash.test.sh` = spec of the PreToolUse guard, hook not shipped ([[BLK-022]]).
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||
- **Why**: 21/09 wipe ([[LRN-160]]): prose tiers named neither lftp nor a local trace, the orchestrator's brief authorized it, auto mode inherited by the sub-agent, nothing pushed for 4 days. User: Claude never deploys, only explains; test = dev server on this machine → lftp has zero legitimate use. Static deny resolves before the classifier and inside sub-agents (doc verified 2026-09-22); prose is judgment, static is a rule.
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- **Alternatives rejected**: `ask` tier → doc says it prompts under auto, LRN-155 probe says inert, unresolved → nothing entrusted to ask. Keep docker volume drops in soft_deny (BDR-092) → "à tout prix" beats in-turn convenience; user runs them by hand. Post-commit hook alone for push → `git merge` fires post-merge, not post-commit (T18f caught it) → lib pushes the target explicitly AND post-merge hook emitted. Force-push allowance after amend → static deny stays; a rejected push warns and the user decides. Stop-hook `decision: block` on unpushed work → BDR-083 refused control-flow hooks; systemMessage only.
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- **Status**: accepted, on feature/destructive-guardrails. `gitflow-test.sh` T18 7/7 + T19 3/3, unpushed-guard 9/9, `make test` green minus 2 pre-existing T16a, shellcheck clean, doctor 0 errors. NOT DONE: `hooks/guard-bash.sh` ([[BLK-022]]). Existing projects need `gitflow install-hook` re-run for the push hooks.
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- **Reference**: `settings.json`, `lib/gitflow.sh`, `.githooks/{post-commit,post-merge}`, `hooks/unpushed-guard.sh`, `lib/tests/{guard-bash,unpushed-guard}.test.sh`, `CLAUDE.global.md`, `templates/settings/SETTINGS.md`, `agents/{verifier,plan-challenger,analyzer,security-auditor}.md`. Extends [[BDR-090]] [[BDR-092]] (ask inert, soft_deny doctrine); links [[LRN-114]] (T19 drift gate), [[LRN-155]], [[BDR-083]].
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- **Amendment 2026-09-22 (user go: "je valide les deux")**: no per-project `install-hook` step. (a) GLOBAL: `make link` runs `gitflow global-hooks` → generates `githooks/` from the emitters + `git config --global core.hooksPath ~/.claude/githooks` (symlinked into the repo) → every repo on the machine is protected + auto-pushed, gitflow-initialized or not (faunosteo class). Git precedence: a repo's local `core.hooksPath` wins. (b) RECONCILE: `hooks/session-start.sh` calls `gitflow reconcile-hooks` once per session → rewrites a lagging `.githooks/` (LRN-114 automated), banner line + commit reminder; pre-commit whitelist extended to `.githooks/**` so that refresh commits on develop. (c) Opt-outs per repo (foreign clone): `git config gitflow.protect false`, `gitflow.autopush false` — human-only, static deny on `git config gitflow.*` and on the `GIT_CONFIG_GLOBAL=`/`GIT_CONFIG=` env bypass. (d) Hermetic tests: `make test` + the two suites committing on `main` export `GIT_CONFIG_GLOBAL=/dev/null`, else the machine's global hooks fire in throwaway repos. (e) doctor: global setting + `githooks/` == emitted. Tests T18h, T19d, T20, T21. Rejected: `init.templateDir` (new repos only, ignored once hooksPath is set); dropping the per-repo `.githooks/` (portability to a machine without claude-config). Status: verified once /tmp was freed — gitflow 127/129 (2 pre-existing T16a), review-guards G5 flagged this repo's own stale `.githooks/` (the LRN-114 gate doing its job; refreshed via install-hook), shellcheck clean. `make link` (global `core.hooksPath`) refused to the agent by the classifier twice → user runs it. Doctor gained a "Scratchpad" check ([[BLK-021]] mechanism).
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## BDR-096 — Branch deletion guard: lib-only delete after verified merge, main/develop undeletable at the ref layer
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- **Date**: 2026-09-24
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- **Decision**: user rule "auto-delete OK only once merged into develop or main; main/develop never". (1) `gitflow_delete` = single delete path (finish + CLI `delete <br>`): rc 2 unknown, rc 6 protected base, rc 5 not ancestor of develop or main (`gitflow_merged_into_base`, fail closed when neither base exists), then `git branch -d` kept as 2nd layer. (2) 4th generated hook `reference-transaction`: `prepared` call, `refs/heads/main|develop` with all-zero new value → exit 1, whatever issued it (branch -d/-D, update-ref -d, rename, script, sub-agent); `gitflow.protect false` opt-out checked only on a hit. `GITFLOW_HOOKS` array = single hook list (write/emit/reconcile, T19d, doctor via `gitflow.sh hooks`). (3) static deny `git branch -d|--delete|-dr|-rd *`, `-m|-M main|develop*`; hard_deny "Branch deletion by hand"; Disarming entry now covers all 4 hooks + `gitflow.*` config; environment protected-branches line. (4) doctrine CLAUDE.global.md gitflow §, SKILL.md `delete` op + rc 5/6 rows, guard-bash spec T8w flips to deny, SETTINGS.md/README/CHANGELOG.
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- **Why**: since [[BDR-095]] `start` pushes `-u origin` → `git branch -d` checks merge into the UPSTREAM (origin/<br>, kept in sync by post-commit), not HEAD → its valve is dead; T22a proves it. `_gitflow_delete` survived only because finish chained it after a successful merge. Same doctrine as 21/09 ([[LRN-160]]): mechanical + static before prose; ref-layer hook holds for nested commands and sub-agents where the Bash deny cannot see.
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- **Alternatives rejected**: hook also refusing UNMERGED deletion → files backend rename = delete + create in separate transactions, `branch -d` passes zeros as old oid → merged check impossible/false positives on `branch -m`, user-shell friction; lib + deny carry that rule. Remote cleanup after finish (`push --delete origin/<br>`) → in static deny since BDR-095, not requested; origin/<br> accumulates, flagged to user. `-D` in the lib → no, `-d` stays as defense in depth. Interactive brainstorm → user absent (autonomous run), request unambiguous; trade-off (hook blast radius) stated in the report instead.
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- **Status**: accepted, on feature/branch-delete-guard, UNMERGED (human gate). gitflow-test 152/154 (2 pre-existing T16a, gitleaks absent), T22 12/12 + T23 11/11, shellcheck clean incl. emitted hook, doctor 4/4 hooks match. Hook LIVE machine-wide via global `githooks/` while the branch is checked out (symlink follows the checkout).
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- **Reference**: `lib/gitflow.sh`, `lib/gitflow-test.sh` T22/T23, `githooks/reference-transaction`, `.githooks/reference-transaction`, `settings.json`, `doctor.sh`, `skills/gitflow/SKILL.md`, `CLAUDE.global.md`, `templates/settings/SETTINGS.md`. Extends [[BDR-095]]; links [[LRN-161]], [[LRN-114]].
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- **Amendment 2026-09-24 (user go: "nettoie aussi les branches distantes une fois mergées")**: `_gitflow_delete_remote` runs after the local delete — `ls-remote --exit-code` reads the remote tip, `gitflow_merged_into_base <tip>` re-checks it (unknown or unmerged sha → remote copy KEPT, loud), then `push origin --delete`. Best effort like the pushes: no origin / `GITFLOW_NO_PUSH=1` / `gitflow.autopush false` → skip; unreachable or refused → "NOT removed" + the hand command, rc 0. Explicit protected-base guard inside the helper too. Static deny on hand `git push --delete` UNCHANGED: it matches the Bash tool's command string, the lib's sub-process is the sanctioned path (prose says so). Rejected: making a failed remote delete fail `finish` (merge done, local gone → nothing to roll back; loud is enough); deleting without re-checking the remote tip (a push from another clone would be lost). T24 9/9, suite 161/163 (2 pre-existing T16a). Live: origin/feature/branch-delete-guard + origin/feature/destructive-guardrails removed by `gitflow.sh delete` (both tips verified merged), bases untouched. On feature/remote-branch-cleanup, UNMERGED (human gate).
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## BDR-097 — graphify from 200 tracked code files: the banner informs, the user decides
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- **Date**: 2026-09-24
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- **Decision**: deterministic threshold, not AI judgment. `lib/graphify-gate.sh`: `git ls-files` code extensions (graphify's AST set), vendored trees (`vendor|node_modules|third_party|dist|build`) excluded, ≥ 200 AND no `graphify-out/graph.json` → one banner-sized line `graphify? N code files ≥ 200, no graph` + `→ /graphify (AST, seconds) — you decide` in session-start. Nothing built, installed or updated by the hook. Doctrine: CLAUDE.global.md graphify § carries the threshold + "never `graphify claude install` without a go"; plugin-advisor thresholds stop pre-enabling graphify at scaffold time. `GRAPHIFY_MIN_CODE_FILES` overrides (tests).
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- **Why**: user question "when is graphify worth it, can the AI suggest it, even set it up". Measured first ([[LRN-162]]): value = localisation (who calls what), not editing (the file is read anyway); code-only build is free (AST), docs cost session tokens; a query costs 2-3k tokens ≈ two file reads. Below ~200 files grep beats the graph. User's own words: "tu informes, je décide" — an AI-estimated trigger is judgment (irreproducible, invisible when silent), a count is a rule. Fits `graphify-out/` being a per-project write the user owns.
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- **Alternatives rejected**: AI "estimates the project needs graphify" → not reproducible. Auto-build at threshold → writes ~8 MB into the project, user's decision. Interconnection metric (import graph density) → needs the graph itself to compute; file count is the honest proxy. Post-commit `graphify update` in the gitflow hooks → deferred to a pilot (user picked the inform-only compromise); note `update` refuses a smaller graph without `--force`, and `graphify hook install` is inert under the global `core.hooksPath`. `graphify claude install` → rejected again (PreToolUse nudges on every Read/Glob = the context tax, [[BDR-028]]).
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- **Status**: accepted, on feature/graphify-threshold-banner, UNMERGED (human gate). Test 11/11, shellcheck clean; live: this repo silent (74 files), robin_petier fires (214).
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- **Reference**: `lib/graphify-gate.sh`, `lib/tests/graphify-gate.test.sh`, `hooks/session-start.sh`, `CLAUDE.global.md` § graphify, `agents/plugin-advisor.md`, CHANGELOG. Links [[LRN-162]], [[BDR-028]], [[BDR-021]] (conditional graphify rules).
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## BDR-098 — CLAUDE.global.md density pass 352 → 270: compression only, three name-obvious routing lines dropped
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- **Date**: 2026-09-24
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- **Decision**: user go "fais la passe de densité". [[BDR-031]] principle kept (compression, no path-scoping, no externalization, no caveman); [[BDR-062]]'s 320 guard kept. Method: prose tightened section by section, blank lines after headings removed, the 6 classic Security subsections folded into one bold-labelled bullet list (`### Destructive tools & data loss` kept as a heading, referenced from Workflow), Session-start / Planning / After-code numbered lists collapsed, Memory-registries prose rewritten (routing list → one sentence, language + format paragraphs merged, close ritual → one sentence), radical-honesty tenets paired two per bullet, gitflow paragraphs re-flowed. Deliberately dropped: routing lines `release-candidate`, `audit-delta`, `init-project`/`onboard` (name-obvious, the skill descriptions carry them — BDR-031's own criterion), rationale clauses (why English, why caveman), `~/.claude/githooks` literal, `T22a` cite, pa11y/HTML-CSS detail in the web-validate line. Every `##` heading verbatim (`Design work — full toolchain (tiered by scope)` is matched by the design-toolchain hook). graphify section left byte-identical: `feature/graphify-threshold-banner` (unmerged) edits it, a clean merge matters more than 2 lines.
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- **Why**: 352 lines after BDR-085/091/095/096/097 growth, banner red since 2026-09-22. Words 2694 → 2302 (−15%), doctor passive estimate ~3.9k tokens; loaded every session in every repo. Token-diff audit of the old vocabulary: 174 tokens absent, all rephrasings or the listed drops, no constraint lost.
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- **Alternatives rejected**: path-scope Design work / Web sections into `rules/` (BDR-031 principle; the design hook needs the section in context regardless of file type); caveman doctrine (BDR-031: instructions-to-follow must stay prose); raise the 320 guard again (BDR-062 already moved it once; a guard that follows the file is not a guard).
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- **Status**: accepted, on chore/claude-global-density, UNMERGED (human gate). make test unchanged (2 pre-existing T16a), banner density warning gone, doctor 0 errors.
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- **Reference**: `CLAUDE.global.md`, `hooks/session-start.sh` (320 guard), `hooks/design-toolchain-reminder.sh` (heading match). Links [[BDR-031]], [[BDR-062]], [[BDR-085]].
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## BDR-099 — C2 coherence: 30 doctrine/skill tensions resolved, doctrine wins, BDR-068 kept as the written exception
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- **Date**: 2026-09-24
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- **Decision**: user go on all four groups. G3 judgment calls: (12) BDR-068 auto-finish of the memory-only `chore/*` by /capitalize+/close KEPT, written into CLAUDE.global.md + gitflow SKILL as the one finish without a live signal; (13) memory commit on develop: hook exemption for a commit that follows merged work, aiguillage `chore/*` for a standalone memory task — both written; (14) `chore/*` widened to "maintenance without new behaviour" (memory, docs, cleanup, /refactor, /tour fixes), /commit-change asks the type (public name); (15) /tour never applies a contract-breaking fix → `open — needs decision (BREAKING)`; (16) client-handover: children audit and return FIX BUNDLEs, the main loop applies AUTO items and gates the rest at ONE gate (harden whole bundle, seo D/E, geo G5, CSO dependency bumps); (17) /hotfix on develop → type `bugfix`, `hotfix/*` = prod incidents only; (18) /seo aggressive + /web-validate --fix → feature branch, /refactor → chore, via the aiguillage; (19) /doc → chore row + STEP 0. G1/G2/G4 = doctrine wins mechanically (see CHANGELOG). Lib: `gitflow init` socle via `chore/gitflow-adopt` merge (T2c).
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- **Why**: TODO C2 (2026-08-25). Three read-only Plan-agent audits (doctrine+rules / skills A-H / skills I-W), 39 raw → 30 unique pairs, heaviest spot-checked by grep. Two classes dominated: today's own partial fixes (graphify 200 rule missing in init-project/onboard; density pass removed a heading 5 skills cited; deploy routing line) and BDR-095 staleness (push everywhere made deploy/release/tour/capitalize push wording false; global hooks broke init on existing repos). LRN-164 applied to myself: a rule change must grep every citer.
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- **Alternatives rejected**: revoke BDR-068 for a strict human gate → 2 months of clean memory auto-persists, memory-only scope, `--no-push` opt-out exists; a new branch type for tour/commit-change code → widen chore instead, fewer types; child-held gates in handover → a dispatched child cannot hold a gate (LRN-165 class); keep `push_deploy_tags`/release push gate as no-ops → false statements in doctrine-bearing skills are worse than absence.
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- **Status**: accepted, feature/c2-coherence, UNMERGED (human gate). 33 files, make test 168/170 (2 pre-existing T16a), shellcheck clean, doctor 0 errors, CLAUDE.global.md 282 lines.
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- **Reference**: `CLAUDE.global.md`, `lib/gitflow.sh` `_gitflow_adopt_socle`, `lib/gitflow-test.sh` T2c, `lib/gitflow-aiguillage.md`, `lib/verify-secure-loop.md`, `lib/design-gate.md`, 16 skills, 4 agents, CHANGELOG. Links [[BDR-068]], [[BDR-095]], [[BDR-097]], [[BDR-098]], [[LRN-164]], [[LRN-165]], [[LRN-169]].
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## BDR-100 — Guardrail evasion and partial rule changes get mechanisms, not lessons: refusal ends the attempt, citers census in make test
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- **Date**: 2026-09-24
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- **Decision**: user asked "why did you make these errors, fix the causes". (1) Evasion: `permissions.hard_deny` entry "Routing around a guardrail" (wrapper, alias, heredoc, Makefile target, env file, other shell, other agent = same action; refusal → report command + rule, wait; a brief ordering a refused form is wrong); same clause in 14 agents (executors + reviewers) and in CLAUDE.global.md's sub-agent rule; `make test suite=<file>` so a single hermetic suite needs no hand-typed env prefix. (2) Partial rule changes: `lib/tests/doctrine-citers.test.sh` in `make test` — every `CLAUDE.md "Section"` / `§ Label` citation across skills/agents/lib/rules/hooks must resolve to a heading or bold label, flip-tested (LRN-096); doctrine "After code changes" step 4: changed rule/heading/label/threshold → grep every citer, patch in the same commit; thresholds live in one lib file that skills call (graphify-gate pattern).
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- **Why**: root causes established on evidence, not guessed. Evasion: MY brief to E2 said "run the suite with `GIT_CONFIG_GLOBAL=/dev/null … exported first`" — I ordered the exact form the static deny lists; the executor was refused, then wrote `run-rc.sh` carrying the prefix one level down and ran it. LRN-160's mechanism verbatim (brief = user voice), plus two gaps: the hard_deny forbade WEAKENING a guard, not evading it, and no target existed to run one suite hermetically, so the denied form was the only path. Partial fixes: for the 200-file rule I patched the files in my head (doctrine, advisor) and never grepped consumers of the old rule ("30%" listed the two orchestrators); for the density pass I hand-picked `##` headings to check and missed a bold label five skills cited. Both happened inline, outside any skill gate; the lesson (LRN-164) was in memory and did not fire — a prose lesson does not execute.
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- **Alternatives rejected**: static deny on `bash <scratch>/*.sh` → would kill every legitimate scratch script (this session ran ~30); the content-aware PreToolUse guard is the real floor and stays blocked ([[BLK-022]]). Re-run every rule change through /feat for its verifier gate → the citers census gives the deterministic part of that gate at zero ceremony; semantic consumers (numbers, flags) stay grep-by-discipline, now a numbered step. Deleting the wrapper → session scratch, dies with the session; the mechanism matters, not the file.
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- **Status**: accepted, feature/guardrail-evasion-citers, UNMERGED (human gate). doctrine-citers 5/5 (flip + repo, one real dangling fixed), make test 168/170 (2 pre-existing T16a), `make test suite=` verified, shellcheck clean, CLAUDE.global.md 287 lines.
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- **Reference**: `Makefile`, `settings.json` hard_deny, `CLAUDE.global.md` Workflow + After code changes, `agents/*.md` (14), `lib/tests/doctrine-citers.test.sh`, `lib/project-archetypes/rest-api-node.md`. Links [[LRN-160]], [[LRN-164]], [[LRN-169]], [[EVAL-030]], [[BLK-022]], [[BDR-095]], [[BDR-099]].
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## BDR-101 — `full` = default profile: no selection ⇒ full in force, `reset` applies it, install applies it
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- **Date**: 2026-09-25
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- **Status**: accepted, feature/default-profile-full, UNMERGED (human gate)
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- **Decision**: `DEFAULT_PROFILE="full"` once in `lib/profile.sh`; `active_profile()` resolves cache absent / empty / legacy `none` → full. `reset` = `set full` (exclusive: enable full's list, park non-listed gstack/managed items). `current` label-driven: names `active_profile()`, scores THAT profile only, `default — not applied yet` until set/apply/reset wrote cache; cross-profile best-guess scan + `none`/`custom` sentinels gone. Statusline reads constant (sed, literal fallback), shows `full` not `?`. `make plugin` Step 11: no selection → `reset`, selection → `set <sel>` (Steps 2/10 rewrite skill state every run); Step 8.7 no longer parks 21st pack (profile governs: full links 5 design skills, 2 publishing stay on demand). User-gated: reset semantics, install applies default, README one history line, `.env` line deleted.
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- **Why**: user ask "profil par défaut = full". [[LRN-020]] kept honest: full made the REAL default (state = label), not a relabelled sentinel. Parked-gstack count was false signal: gstack OFF on real tree ([[BDR-030]]), 0 parked ≠ all enabled.
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- **Alternatives rejected**: label-only reset (lies about plugins/externals); additive reset (`gstack on` + `apply full`, state ⊇ full, label ambiguous); keep `none` sentinel + statusline `?` (request unmet); install display-only (fresh machine ≠ full, 21st pack parked); public `profile.sh default` verb for installer (reset already IS "go to default"); one shared cache parser (statusline must not spawn profile.sh → 3 copies kept, each commented).
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- **Caveats**: `make plugin` re-run re-applies selected profile → manual layering (`gstack on` over `dev`) trimmed back. Plugin legs of Step 11 install-immutable ([[BDR-028]] EXIT guard; committed enabledPlugins already match full). LOW security note: cache content not charset-checked before path use (pre-existing in `read_profile`) → follow-up.
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- **Reference**: commits e196328 (residue scrub), 0d035fc (profile), 1bbdad0 (install); contract/plan `2026-09-25-default-profile-full-1254`; `lib/tests/profile-default.test.sh` 29 checks. Links [[BDR-017]] [[BDR-018]] [[BDR-079]] [[BDR-093]] [[LRN-170]] [[EVAL-031]].
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## BDR-102 — agent-skills: no plugin, vendor 3 skills + build floor-guard + routing census + rest-api rule
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- **Date**: 2026-09-27
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- **Status**: accepted, feature/agent-skills-borrow, UNMERGED (human gate)
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- **Decision**: addyosmani/agent-skills (99.4k stars, 25 skills) NOT installed as plugin. Borrowed 4 things, user go: (1) `observability-and-instrumentation`, `deprecation-and-migration`, `ci-cd-and-automation` vendored emil-way at pinned commit 2686b620 (lock `agent-skills`, install Step 8e tmp+mv, update-all 7.3, link.sh, toggle-external per-name, profiles full/backend/dev); (2) `lib/floor-guard.sh` diff-scoped bar-weakening detector, verifier STEP 3 mandatory, waiver `floor-guard: allow <reason>`; (3) `lib/tests/skill-routing-census.test.sh` TF-IDF description-collision census, WARN 0.50 / FAIL 0.75; (4) `rules/rest-api.md` path-scoped, distilled from api-and-interface-design minus the one-version rule.
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- **Why**: 20/25 skills already covered (superpowers, personal skills, gstack, built-ins). Real gaps grep-verified: observability (archetype question only), migration (one strangler line), CI build (ship/cso only detect), bar-weakening guard (security-auditor flags nosemgrep only), collision census (routing section exists because of collisions; darwin scores quality not collisions). Upstream comparison doc: never stack two skill routers.
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- **Alternatives rejected**: plugin install (1.8k tok/session for 20 % novelty, `/spec` `/review` `/ship` collide with gstack, `/code-simplify` vs `/simplify`, trunk-based git + one-version API contradict doctrine, second router); vendor api-and-interface-design whole (one-version rule vs § Web APIs → distilled); grouped `agent-skills` toggle pack (no shared installer, per-name like emil); web-full profile for the trio (design-class, allowlist wins over "lists bugfix"); Tier 2 prompt ranking (follow-up).
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- **Caveats**: vendored prompts = third-party content loaded into sessions, the pin is the review point (security-auditor scanned: benign, no hidden Unicode); floor-guard waiver is self-service, WAIVED informational → security MEDIUM, design decision pending with user (require CLARIFICATIONS ack outside test fixtures?); floor-guard prints raw diff snippets a verifier reads (LOW, framing follow-up); update-all 7.3 failure branch leaves `.tmp` like emil (parity, not fixed); `make link` after merge to symlink the trio (user).
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- **Reference**: commits d28c45e (trio), 2b25cb4 (floor-guard), 409db51 (census), 1a8e6de (rest-api); contracts `.claude/tasks/contracts/2026-09-27-{agent-skills-vendor,floor-guard,skill-routing-census,rest-api-rule}-1525.md`; gates MET ×4, verifiers CONFORME ×4 (2 re-dispatches), security PASS ×2. Links [[BDR-100]] [[LRN-172]] [[LRN-173]] [[EVAL-032]]. Case 1 of the same review: ladder in doctrine, feature/yagni-ladder 9315c6c.
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- **Amendment 2026-09-27**: waiver policy strict, user go: `WAIVED` outside a test file = gap unless the contract's CLARIFICATIONS names file + reason (verifier STEP 3, loop doc). Commit 6617889. Closes the security MEDIUM caveat above.
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## BDR-103 — 6-repo review: 5 verdicts, 3 criteria; stars decided nothing
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- **Date**: 2026-09-27
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- **Status**: accepted, chore/six-repo-review-notes, merge on user go 2026-09-27
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- **Decision** (user-approved case by case, order = layer touched per turn → orthogonal):
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| repo | stars | verdict | one-line why |
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|---|---|---|---|
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| ponytail + chisle | 146.7k / 566 | no plugin; ordered YAGNI ladder + `shortcut:` marker into § Code style (feature/yagni-ladder) | per-turn + per-subagent injection, prose rules vs writing-style.md, caveman purge precedent, rtk covers the input axis |
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| addyosmani/agent-skills | 99.4k | no plugin; vendor 3 skills, build floor-guard + routing census, distil rest-api rule ([[BDR-102]]) | 20/25 covered, 1.8k tok/session, /spec /review /ship collide, trunk-based + one-version vs doctrine, second router |
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| ibelick/ui-skills | 9.2k | nothing installed; 14 micro-rule lines in rules/web-building.md | CLI/MCP = curl of raw SKILL.md, third router, baseline-ui stack mandates vs Astro-first; registry of 36 third-party skills (mengto motion pack) NOT evaluated |
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| reticlehq/reticle | 898 | parked, 4-step pilot recipe in TODO | only real capability gap (store state, verdict with file:line, replayable flows, CI gate); FSL server, PostHog telemetry, per-project build instrumentation, skill auto-runs `init` |
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| OmniRoute | 70.6k | rejected, no recipe | subscription cannot pass a keyed gateway; fail-open guardrails, default JWT secret, Socket.dev block on 3.8.5, JA3/JA4 spoofing + free-tier pools |
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- **Criteria that decided every case**: (1) coverage verified by grep on local assets (skills, agents, rules, archetypes), never from the README; (2) permanent per-session cost (descriptions, hooks, MCP schemas) against the share of novelty; (3) conflict with doctrine (gitflow, versioned APIs, Astro-first, ask-don't-guess, fail-closed). Stars decided nothing: 566-star chisle beat 146.7k-star ponytail on method; 898-star reticle is the only real capability.
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- **Alternatives rejected**: install-then-prune (sunk cost, [[BDR-047]] ECC lesson); one bulk verdict (user wanted one case per turn, each with a build-vs-install call); building reticle's engine (1 286 server files).
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- **Caveats**: borrowed prompts change upstream with no diff, the pin is the review point; do not re-audit these six expecting more; mengto motion pack from the ui-skills registry is the open follow-up if site-level choreography (GSAP/ScrollTrigger, WebGL hero, masked reveals) proves thin locally.
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- **Reference**: branches feature/yagni-ladder (9315c6c, de7371d), feature/agent-skills-borrow (d28c45e 2b25cb4 409db51 1a8e6de 7401383 6617889 d71f3a7), feature/web-building-microrules (a2e654d 5a27372), chore/six-repo-review-notes (da35cde 197225a). Links [[BDR-102]] [[LRN-172]] [[LRN-173]] [[EVAL-032]] [[BDR-047]] [[BDR-006]].
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## BDR-104 — MengTo motion pack: vendor 5 scroll skills via a shared helper + build `site-motion`; 17 skipped
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- **Date**: 2026-09-28
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- **Status**: accepted, feature/mengto-site-motion, UNMERGED (human gate)
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- **Decision**: (1) `lib/vendor-skills.sh` = one `vendor_pinned_skills <lock-key> [refresh]` for every curl-vendored upstream (agent-skills moved onto it; lock `skills` as list or dict of file lists; python argv lock read; `..`/charset guard; `VENDOR_BASE_URL` only as `file://`; tmp+mv; refresh skips never-installed skills, update-all convention). (2) Vendored at a965851: scroll-world-storytelling, build-threejs-scroll-worlds (+5 refs incl. scroll-conductor.js), scroll-scrubbed-visual-sequence, scroll-scrubbed-word-reveal, scroll-progress-timeline; text only, never demo/agents/binaries; design/web/web-full/full profiles. (3) `skills/site-motion` personal: invariants of the other 17 (gates, engine choice, Lenis sync, Astro ClientRouter lifecycle, numbered recipes, pitfalls); routed in CLAUDE.global.md Build UI chain + design-gate (not GATE-BLOCK).
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- **Why**: user asked whether the UI profiles carry motion knowledge for lively sites. Census: component polish deep (emil 27 KB, motion cookbook, impeccable animate), site choreography thin as workflows; ui-ux-pro-max CSVs cover terms but as search rows ([[LRN-174]]). Two analyzers read 22 skills: 5 clean workflows/recipes absent locally; 17 covered, generic, buggy (reduced-motion `clearProps`, gate before `registerPlugin`, no-JS opacity 0, refresh-rate `phi`) or Codex/Xcode machinery → distil per [[LRN-141]]. Registry sample (11) ≠ catalog (88): always list the tree.
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- **Alternatives rejected**: vendor all 22 (bugs + duplicates + 17×~100 tok descriptions); distil only (loses the two deep workflows whose value is their full text); second inline curl loop (duplication; helper instead); `VENDOR_BASE_URL` gated by a companion var (file:// prefix check suffices); grouped toggle pack (per-name like emil).
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- **Caveats**: vendored prompts change upstream with no diff, pin = review point; GSAP-first content vs [[BDR-005]] `motion` default, site-motion states the allowance; LOW hardening open: `re.match` `$` accepts a trailing newline, `source`/`path`/`sha` lock fields not charset-checked; `make link` + `bash lib/profile.sh apply full` after merge (user); sub-agent leftovers `/tmp/mengto-verify` (user removes).
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- **Reference**: commits 2a1ad17 (helper + vendoring), ba14b5e (site-motion); contracts `.claude/tasks/contracts/2026-09-27-{mengto-vendor,site-motion-skill}-0002.md`; gates MET, verifiers CONFORME after 3 re-dispatches (frontmatter shape, refresh convention, security env override + traversal), security PASS ×2, `make test` 36 suites green minus 2 pre-existing T16a. Links [[BDR-103]] [[BDR-102]] [[LRN-141]] [[LRN-174]] [[EVAL-033]].
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- **Amendment 2026-09-28**: the two LOW caveats closed on user ask (415b44e): `re.fullmatch` guard, `commit`/`source`/`path` validated before URL construction, 4 more hermetic cases (12). Security PASS, verifier CONFORME 9/9.
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- **Amendment 2026-09-28 (doctor)**: `make doctor` now checks every vendored external (6394fa7, feature/doctor-vendored-skills): lock files present, symlink per active profile, parked ≠ failed, hints. Lib sourceable for the hermetic suite (11 cases); doctor mirrors `active_profile()` instead of sourcing profile.sh (its main runs on source). Security: lock shape-validated, allowlists on profile/item names. Closes the gap that emil/frontend-design/motion had since their install.
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## BDR-105 — skill-catalog prune: 9 gstack removed, `full` ⊇ every profile, `max` = everything, two plugins off, Stop review off, 21st sign-in gate
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- **Date**: 2026-09-28
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- **Status**: accepted, feature/skill-catalog-prune, merged to develop 2026-09-28 (user go "merge le tout")
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- **Decision**: (1) `lib/gstack-removed.sh` = single denylist (ship, land-and-deploy, setup-deploy, autoplan, context-save, learn, careful, guard, design-shotgun): in no profile, `max` included; `profile.sh gstack on` and `toggle-external enable gstack` skip them. (2) User rule: `full` (default) carries everything every other profile carries, one allowlisted exception pr-review-toolkit; `max` (`# SUPERSET-OF: full`) = full + parked (make-pdf, diagram, 21st-ai/ui-explore/ui-review) + pr-review-toolkit. 21st trio out of full/web/web-full/design. `lib/tests/profile-census.test.sh` locks the three invariants live + baseline/mutant fixtures. (3) Live plugin state: brightdata-plugin@synced `false`, frontend-design@claude-plugins-official uninstalled (byte-dup of the managed skills-external copy). (4) settings.json `env.ENABLE_STOP_REVIEW=0`: security-guidance keeps regex + commit/push agentic review, loses the Opus call per code-changing turn. (5) `lib/gstack-links.sh` builds the whole helper tree under `~/.claude/skills/gstack/` (83 hardcoded paths), one lib for link.sh, install-plugins.sh, update-all.sh; `lib/doctor-skills.sh` counts through symlinks with the census parser. (6) Routing: Ship/PR → ship-feature, never gstack ship. (7) Design gate exit 12 `SIGN-IN REQUIRED`: installed-but-signed-out 21st → ask `! 21st login`, end turn, re-run; explicit "proceed without 21st" = only skip; unknown whoami → 11 with diagnostic.
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- **Why**: 5-analyzer audit over 150 skills / 53.5k chars of descriptions; harness shows ~19k, least-invoked lose theirs → 78 name-only this session ([[LRN-175]]). ship base = origin/HEAD = main on Gitea; land-and-deploy `gh pr merge --squash` + deploy; autoplan/make-pdf/diagram/careful/guard/freeze hardcode paths only bin + browse/dist linked ([[LRN-177]]); context-save without restore; brightdata keyless + `bright-data-mcp` orders WebFetch replaced; security-guidance 0 findings / 6 days, 1 FP ([[EVAL-024]]); doctor undercount ×6. 21st CLI `Not logged in` → user: ask and wait, not skip.
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- **Alternatives rejected**: rm symlinks by hand (set/reset re-materialize, `gstack on` restores everything → denylist instead); per-skill toggles inside ui-ux-pro-max (all-or-nothing, unverified); drop superpowers in the same run (7 skills wired in ship-feature/init-project → tier 2, own branch); keep the 21st trio in design profiles (redundant with impeccable + ui-ux-pro-max, CLI signed out); raise `SLASH_COMMAND_TOOL_CHAR_BUDGET` (costs context, the opposite goal); keep the official frontend-design plugin and drop the copy (copy is profile-managed and gate-checked); shared 21st auth helper across 3 scripts (breaks 4 fixture suites, changes installer semantics — [[LRN-178]]); in-session `export TWENTYFIRST_TOKEN` remedy (env does not persist across tool calls).
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- **Caveats**: kept gstack skills still route to removed names in their upstream prose (Skill call fails, doctrine applies); helper tree links every top-level submodule entry (no SKILL.md exposed, asserted); security-guidance commit review quota unmeasured; doctor constants rebased on 2026-09-28 measures; `apply` is additive → other machines run `set full`, not `apply`.
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- **Reference**: f83f8f7 02b62f7 4c86d6d 729d715 (prune), bd3e525 132bcdf (21st gate); contracts `2026-09-28-skill-catalog-prune-0554` (18 criteria, oracles in `.oracles/`) and `2026-09-28-21st-signin-gate-1215` (7); plans r4 / r3 after 3 challengers + 1 confirmation each; GATE 0 MET, verifiers CONFORME (iter 2 / iter 1), security PASS ×2; 42 suites green minus 2 pre-existing T16a. Links [[BDR-030]] [[BDR-101]] [[BDR-093]] [[BDR-095]] [[BDR-080]] [[BDR-025]] [[BDR-070]] [[LRN-175]] [[LRN-176]] [[LRN-177]] [[LRN-178]] [[BLK-023]] [[EVAL-034]].
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## BDR-106 — superpowers: 7 skills vendored at v6.4.1, plugin dropped
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- **Date**: 2026-09-28
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- **Status**: accepted, feature/superpowers-vendored, merged to develop 2026-09-28 (user go "merge le tier 2")
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- **Decision**: (1) plugins.lock.json `superpowers` entry (obra/superpowers @ 5bf4e78 = tag v6.4.1, path `skills`, per-skill file lists, `always_on: true`), fetched byte-for-byte by lib/vendor-skills.sh: brainstorming, writing-plans, subagent-driven-development, test-driven-development, requesting-code-review, using-git-worktrees, writing-skills; STEP 8e vendors, update-all refreshes at the pin, link.sh links, .gitignore ignores. (2) Plugin + marketplace uninstalled (one shot by hand after the fetch proved byte-identical), settings.json keys removed by hand, PROTECTED_PLUGINS = security-guidance only; `detect_superpowers` = `[ -f ~/.claude/skills/brainstorming/SKILL.md ]`, no plugin fallback; doctor/session-start no longer charge the injection. (3) doctor-vendored `always_on` class: third lock column, `_dv_check_link` 5th param — always-on externals are link-checked, never "parked". (4) Citers call the bare names; CLAUDE.global.md maps the four non-vendored skills the vendored text still references (executing-plans → SDD, finishing-a-development-branch → gitflow finish, systematic-debugging → bugfix, verification-before-completion → verifier gates). Vendored text never edited (BDR-104 rule).
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- **Why**: 7 skills wired (ship-feature, init-project, writing-skills TDD), 8 duplicate personal flows; SessionStart injection 3.6 KB per start/clear/compact + a competing router ("1 % → MUST invoke", BDR-080 conflict); 15 descriptions → 7. Tier 2 of [[BDR-105]].
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- **Alternatives rejected**: shared auth/detect helpers sourced at top level (break the fixture `cp` suites, [[LRN-178]]); installer-side uninstall (plugin gone before the fetch on a network failure; precedent = comment only, one-shot by hand); detect with plugin-cache fallback (the marketplace dir matches `*superpowers*` → "vendored" on a plugin-only machine, fail-open); rewriting vendored text to fix cross-refs; vendoring all 15; map text spelling the colon form or wrapping identifiers (criteria 3/7 grep line by line — both caught by challengers).
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- **Caveats**: upstream cross-refs to the plugin prefix and the 8 dropped skills remain in the vendored text (a call on a dropped name fails, doctrine map applies); no upstream auto-update (bump the pin deliberately); the harness hot-loaded the 7 bare names in the running session after link.sh, the plugin names leave at restart; `superpowers-marketplace` cache dir may linger empty; other machines: `make plugin` (vendors) + `make link`, then uninstall the cached plugin by hand (CHANGELOG).
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- **Reference**: 18f8c89 (wiring), ddea411 (citers/docs/settings); contract `2026-09-28-superpowers-vendored-1357` (12 criteria, oracles in `.oracles/`), plan r3 after 3 challengers (simplicity CONCERNS(2), robustness CONCERNS(3), correctness FATAL(5)) + confirmation CONCERNS(1); executors 2/2 DONE first pass; GATE 0 MET, verifier CONFORME 12/12, security PASS; catalog 82 skills, plugin passive cost 670 t (ui-ux-pro-max only). Links [[BDR-105]] [[BDR-102]] [[BDR-104]] [[BDR-065]] [[LRN-178]] [[EVAL-034]].
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- **Amendment 2026-09-28 (merge)**: `gitflow finish` → 65665a5, no conflict, pushed, local + origin copies removed; the 7 vendored skills stay linked after the merge. Whole prune (tiers 1 + 2) on develop.
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## BDR-107 — Effort tiering: session high, agent pins, skill entry levels, paired phase shifts, max at escalation [accepted] (2026-09-28)
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- **Decision**: settings `effortLevel` high (was xhigh). `effort:` pin on 20 repo-authored agents by role: low appliers (hotfixer, release-executor, plugin-probe, validator-analyzer), medium executors (feater, bugfixer, code-cleaner, onboarder, scaffolder), high judgment (refactorer, analyzer, commit-changer, doc-syncer, handover-doc-writer), xhigh challengers + gates (plan-challenger, plugin-advisor, verifier, security-auditor, seo-analyzer, geo-analyzer); none on interviewer/client-handover-writer (inline-load), status-reporter (haiku), impeccable-* (vendored). `effort:` on 28 tracked user-invoked skills = run entry level (low bookkeeping, medium gitflow/prune-memory, high feat/hotfix/bugfix/refactor/audits-with-fix, xhigh orchestrators) + xhigh on vendored brainstorming/writing-plans (skills-external/, re-applied by install-plugins STEP 8e). Five shifter skills `effort-{low,medium,high,xhigh,max}` loaded by orchestrators per `lib/effort-shift.md`: medium at dispatch span, own level before challenge synthesis, low at bookkeeping tail, max at verify-secure caps (GATE 0/1/2) + ship-feature 4b; re-assert after nested skill / prose gate. STOP texts name `$CLAUDE_EFFORT`, suggest `/effort-max`. statusline shows `$CLAUDE_EFFORT`; banner warns on `CLAUDE_CODE_EFFORT_LEVEL`. Census `lib/tests/effort-routing.test.sh`. Audit script `lib/effort-audit.py`.
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- **Why**: session-wide xhigh burned thinking on bookkeeping; EVAL-035: 97 % of thinking in the main loop, sonnet subagents ~26 tok/request → main-loop levers (entry level, shifts) carry the savings; pins = explicitness + future models. A/B `/reconcile` high→low: requests 18→15, output −27 %, thinking −28 %, time −19 % (EVAL-036).
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- **Harness facts (2.1.283)**: skill `effort:` applies on user slash invocation and on interactive Skill-tool load; the Skill-tool load applies ONLY when paired with another tool call in the same message (lone call = no-op); re-load re-applies (text deduped); not applied in `-p`/SDK; prompt cache kept across a shift; `CLAUDE_CODE_EFFORT_LEVEL` beats every frontmatter; one effort per agent file, no call-site override; unpinned agents inherit the level in force at dispatch.
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- **Alternatives rejected**: executor pins only (they barely think); escalation-diagnoser agent fable+max (no context, one more agent; main-loop max keeps the failure context); reflection in fable skill-runner children with session medium (loses interactivity); settings.json rewrite mid-run (LRN-098 class); `maxEffortLevel` caps (hide a mis-pin the census should fail); pins on machine-generated skills (find-docs: ctx7 regenerates, gitignored) or gstack skills (spec, skillify).
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- **Caveats**: shifts inert headless; a prose gate ending the turn resets to session level (re-assert wired in bugfix and ship-feature 4b); mode-based agents pin their judgment mode; a shift paired with a built-in judgment dispatch would downgrade it (pair with Read/Bash instead); `lib/gitflow-test.sh` T16a red on this machine = gitleaks not installed, unrelated.
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- **Refs**: spec `docs/superpowers/specs/2026-09-28-effort-tiering-design.md`, plan `docs/superpowers/plans/2026-09-28-effort-tiering.md`, [[LRN-179]], [[EVAL-035]], [[EVAL-036]], [[BDR-077]].
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- **Correction (2026-09-28)**: EVAL-035 counted one record per content block (~2.8× on request counts); deduped figures in [[EVAL-037]]: main-loop thinking 99.9% of total thinking (was 96.6%), thinking 5.6% of weighted cost (was 8.4%), sonnet think/request 26→0.2 tok. Conclusions hold, sharper: main loop still carries almost all thinking, executors stay cheap.
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## BDR-108 — Effort round: every skill carries a level next to its model pin; model pins stay tier aliases [accepted] (2026-09-29)
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- **Decision**: 3 repo skills pinned (skills-perso low, pdf-translate medium, site-motion high). 25 vendored externals (superpowers 7, agent-skills 3, design stack 9, 21st pack 6) get level from `lib/effort-pins.txt`, applied by `lib/effort-pins.sh` after LAST vendoring step of install-plugins.sh (21st pack, STEP 8.7) AND update-all.sh (§7.4). Design stack = ONE level, high. hotfix stays high. Model pins stay aliases (`sonnet` `opus` `haiku` `fable`). Doctrine: design stack loads paired with first Read; census order-locked by line number; `lib/effort-audit.py` prints thinking coverage.
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- **Why**: user rungs (low fix-a-line · medium day-to-day · high refactor/resisting bug · xhigh architecture/audit · max stuck). Latest version of each tier = cheapest or same price (Sonnet 5.5 = Sonnet 5, Opus 5.5 < Opus 5, Haiku 4.5 alone, Fable 5.1 = Fable 5) → no version arbitration, only tier × effort. Stacked skills: last loaded wins → two levels in a stack = effort depends on load order. Aliases track generation free (transcripts: `sonnet` → sonnet-5 then sonnet-5-5).
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- **Alternatives rejected**: full model IDs in frontmatter (maintenance, Agent-tool call site enum cannot pin a version, older gen never cheaper); hotfix → medium (no A/B on a reflection skill yet, [[EVAL-036]]); design stack medium; untrack design-motion-principles (only tracked external, gated in contract instead); pins on gstack / impeccable / graphify / find-docs / darwin (machine-owned, [[BDR-107]]).
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- **Gates**: GATE 0 MET; verifier ECARTS(3): resync re-apply sat BEFORE the 21st refresh (real, fixed by fresh executor), tracked file out of scope (gated), shellcheck directive unauthorized (clarified) → CONFORME 7/7; security PASS + 4 LOW hardened (criteria 8-9); `make test` 44 suites rc 0.
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- **Refs**: contract `.claude/tasks/contracts/2026-09-29-effort-round-1315.md`, [[BDR-107]], [[BDR-077]], [[LRN-181]], [[LRN-182]], [[BLK-024]], [[EVAL-038]].
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