Close the canvas A1-A5 field-intake round: eleven dispositions and two §5 loop rules (0.10.0) - #25
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Machine-local absolute paths neutralized to the repo's name (header and verbatim section), per the same sanitization discipline as the 0.8.0 fixture captures. docs/field-reports/ stays excluded locally for other drafts; this one file is force-added so the round's todos.md and ledger rows can cite a path that resolves for a later reader. Story: docs/superpowers/stories/2026-08-17-field-intake-canvas-a1-a5-report-story.md
…o §5 loop rules (0.10.0) The kit's heaviest consumer relayed a field report of eleven items from real use. Each now has exactly one recorded disposition in this repo, and the report is citable from those records. Two of the items became prompt rules, shipped in CLAUDE.md §5 and mirrored in the /workflow-init inline template: - **What a loop absorbs, and what stops it.** A finding correcting the correction just made is inside the loop only if it also stays inside the assigned fix set, which is fixed before the pass being answered. A correction that leaves that set stops the loop even when it opens no new question; a finding opening a new structural or contract question stops it whatever its set membership; where a finding is both, novelty wins. Ancestry decides where a finding belongs, never what you do with it. - **A reporting duty from pass 4 onward.** Every pass report carries three lines — trend, cluster, require↔withdraw — in the agent's own status report to the user, never the Codex reply and never the findings file. Those lines expose five tells, and any two make stop-and-surface mandatory rather than discretionary. The remaining nine items are `todos.md` rows, one upstream note against `mcp-codex-dev`, and one reasoned rejection. The consumer repo was not touched. This cycle exercised the rules it ships. The pass-2 stop produced a revert: two further clauses drafted inside the cycle were withdrawn because they required qualifying three §5 rules outside the assigned fix set. The pass-5 stop produced a bounded close. Both were maintainer decisions, neither the loop's. The evidence behind both, and the three contract questions they leave open, are recorded for a review-economics story. Gate B: 7 valid passes, final clean (spec 2 Minor, quality none; no Blocker or Major since pass 2). Findings 14, 24, 12, 3, 6, 6, 2. Blockers 3, 4, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0. Collected, not iterated on: no literal example of the three-line format in either copy; no `Target model:` line in the root prompt or the scaffolded CLAUDE template; `docs/field-reports/` absent from the AGENTS.md architecture tree; numeric line citations in two closed plan artifacts; the dispositions file's title date; append-as-analogy wording in the malformed-entries section; the stuck-availability phrasing in the evidence entry below; and `todos.md` item 9's stop-path examples. Evidence: docs/superpowers/stories/2026-08-17-field-intake-canvas-a1-a5-report-story.md Battery: green — shellcheck clean on all six shell files; hook suite passed under both sh and dash; check-invariants 148 assertions; check-version-bump 36 assertions plus the live run against main; claude plugin validate . --strict passed. Check — named verification, no automated route: two tables under "The named verification behind the `battery+check` entry" in docs/field-reports/2026-08-16-canvas-a1-a5-dispositions.md. They split by the inputs they read, not one per shipped rule: the nine-state matrix scores scope and action for the absorb-vs-stop rule and, at states 8 and 9, the three conditions of the "clearly stuck" exit; the five-state table beside it scores the pass-4-onward reporting duty on pass number, tell count, carrier, and stuck-reading availability — inputs the first table does not read, which is why deleting that duty would have left all nine of its results unchanged. Both are scored against the old text and the new text, and against the CLAUDE.md copy and the /workflow-init template copy independently. No automated test can adjudicate whether prose decides anything; two weaker checks were tried and rejected before these — a keyword grep of the prior file (a self-supplied lexical oracle, since the keywords came from the new prose) and a paragraph diff plus mirror-parity comparison (which would pass equally if both copies omitted the same clause). Counterfactual, observed against the committed prior state. Matrix: on the seven states where scope or the stuck exit is genuinely open, the old text decides 0 of 7 and the new text 7 of 7. Reporting-duty table: on the four states where anything is required, the old text decides 0 of 4 and the new text 4 of 4. In both the old text fails by being ABSENT — `git show 17d5ad3:CLAUDE.md` and `git show 17d5ad3:plugins/dev-workflow/commands/workflow-init.md` contain no absorb-vs-stop block, no stuck criterion, and no reporting duty, tells or threshold; they carry only the undefined phrase "clearly stuck". Matrix states 6 and 7 and reporting state R1 are controls the old text already decides, where the new text must agree rather than override. Named failure modes the second table would catch: deleting the duty flips R2-R5; raising its threshold from two tells to three flips R4 and R5; moving the three lines out of the status report flips the carrier column. What neither table covers, stated in the record itself: which of the five tell predicates produced a given tell count. Three false framings of this counterfactual were caught by this cycle's own gate and removed — that the parent defined the assigned fix set inclusively (pass 1), that the parent was contradictory on a two-tell state (pass 2), and that the tables split one per shipped rule (pass 6). Wiring: every old-text state is scored from the committed parent blob via `git show`, never from the working tree, so the check cannot report success by reading the file the change already edited. Both copies are scored separately, so the counterfactual for "the rule reached only one copy" is a row where the two disagree; there is none. Scope note: two clauses drafted inside this cycle — a clean-completion precedence over the two-tell stop, and a defined exit for a declined scope expansion — were reverted on the maintainer's decision rather than shipped, because Gate-B pass 2 showed they require qualifying three §5 rules outside the assigned fix set. Four further pass-5 findings were parked on the same authority. Both records are in .context/codex-reviews/gate-b-fic2-parked-review-economics.md.
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Greptile SummaryThe PR records eleven field-report dispositions and releases two new §5 loop-control rules in the root policy and the
Confidence Score: 4/5The PR should not merge until the pass-4 reporting rule defines how to proceed when prior-pass history is unavailable. The new mandatory stop calculation depends on historical trend and withdrawal data that the required findings protocol cannot retain completely, while the relevant durable companion artifacts remain optional and no unavailable-input behavior is defined. Files Needing Attention: CLAUDE.md and plugins/dev-workflow/commands/workflow-init.md Important Files Changed
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When a gate cycle resumes at pass 4 or later without complete prior-pass files or optional dispositions, this rule still requires trend and require↔withdraw reporting even though the mandatory findings format cannot retain all of that history. The agent must then invent or omit inputs to the two-tell decision, causing an unsupported stop or continuation.
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Validated manually rather than by subagent triage: this PR edits CLAUDE.md and plugins/dev-workflow/commands/workflow-init.md, and /dev-workflow:process-pr-review's instruction-path precheck forbids delegating claims on a PR that changes the instruction files a subagent would itself be running under.
Split verdict: the gap is real, the stated mechanism is not.
The mechanism is false. The claim is that "the mandatory findings format cannot retain all of that history". It can, and does. §5 requires one findings file per pass per branch at a pass-numbered slot (gate-b-<spec|quality>-pass-<p>.md), one finding per line, severity as a leading field from a closed set, and a terminator carrying the count. Both inputs the three-line report needs from history are therefore mechanically derivable from the mandated artifacts alone:
- trend — findings and Blocker counts per pass:
grep -cE '^(BLOCKER|MAJOR|MINOR|NIT) \|'andgrep -c '^BLOCKER'over each pass's two files. - require↔withdraw — a pass demanding what an earlier pass had removed: a comparison across those same per-pass files.
Run against this PR's own cycle it reproduces the reported figures exactly — findings 14, 24, 12, 3, 6, 6, 2 and Blockers 3, 4, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0. Nothing was invented or omitted, and no optional artifact was consulted. The deletion rule does not erase this history either: §5 deletes only the slot about to be written, and slots are pass-numbered, so earlier passes survive by construction.
The gap is real, but it is availability, not format. If a cycle resumes where those prior-pass files are genuinely absent — a fresh checkout, a cleared .context/, another machine — §5 defines no behaviour for the report. Its resume note is explicitly optional and cycle-stable ("Nothing depends on it existing", CLAUDE.md:224), so it is not the fallback either. That is a true defect in the rule this PR ships, and it is being escalated to the maintainer rather than fixed in this PR.
Why not fixed here. Closing it requires new normative §5 content, and this cycle has a standing maintainer decision that it does not absorb §5 surgery — the same decision already reverted two clauses drafted inside the cycle (a clean-completion precedence and a declined-expansion exit) for that exact reason, with the three contract questions they raised parked unanswered for a follow-up story. Adding a fourth clause now, after the closing pass, would reverse that decision unilaterally. Per /dev-workflow:process-pr-review item 2 this is "contrary to a settled decision" and terminates at item 4: the maintainer decides.
Thanks — the availability half is a genuine find, and it lands in the same place as the questions this cycle already parked.
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Daniel, you're right. I conflated the optional resume note with the mandatory, pass-numbered findings artifacts. Those artifacts preserve the prior-pass history: trend is directly countable, and require↔withdraw can be compared across the surviving slots; deleting the current slot does not erase earlier passes. So the original “cannot retain” mechanism is incorrect.
The valid finding is narrower: if those pass files are unavailable when a cycle resumes, §5 defines no reporting behavior or fallback. That is an availability/setup gap, not a findings-format gap. I withdraw the original mechanism and agree with the disposition to escalate it rather than add §5 surgery against the settled cycle decision.
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Final disposition: parked, confirmed by the maintainer.
Thanks for withdrawing the mechanism — that is the right split. The availability gap is recorded as an open question alongside the three this cycle already parked: what the pass-4-onward report does when the prior-pass record is unavailable, with the candidate answers noted as genuinely unequal (report the computable lines and name the missing ones · treat unavailable history as a stop condition of its own · make the resume note mandatory across a session boundary, which would change an artifact §5 currently calls advisory · start the duty's clock at the first pass of the current record rather than of the cycle).
It is not fixed in this PR because closing it needs new normative §5 content, and this cycle has a standing decision not to absorb §5 surgery — the decision that already reverted two clauses drafted inside it.
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In `@docs/hardening-log.md`:
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The acceptance criterion required "every machine-local absolute path replaced by the repo's name" and then offered `grep -c '/Users/'` as the check. That covers one prefix and would miss `/home/`, `/var/folders/`, `/private/` and Windows drive paths, so the check could not establish what the sentence above it claimed — this repo's most-recorded defect class, a check described as proving more than it compares. Old-condition accounting, per the convention this repo applies to any amended decision procedure: - the report must be committed at the named path — KEPT, unchanged - every machine-local absolute path replaced by the repo's name — KEPT, unchanged; this is the requirement, and it was never the thing at fault - the check returns 0 on the committed file — KEPT, and widened from `grep -c '/Users/'` to `grep -cE '/Users/|/home/|/var/folders/|/private/|[A-Za-z]:\\'` - the local-drafts exclusion still holds for other files in that directory — KEPT, unchanged - ADDED: an explicit statement that the five forms are what this environment produces rather than every absolute path a machine could emit, and that the check is a floor while the sentence above it is the criterion. Naming the axes a check covers, and saying whether that list is exhaustive, is required of any sentence describing what a mechanism proves. Nothing this round certified changes: the widened check returns 0 on the committed report, as the narrow one did. Found by CodeRabbit on PR #25 (Major): #25 (comment) Amending a criterion already checked off is a human call, per the AC-row precedent set in PR #23. Daniel approved this amendment before it was written. Gate B: N/A. The single staged path is `docs/superpowers/stories/…md`, which is `docs/**.md` — §5's prose exemption, which is defined by path and carries no gate. Staged alone on purpose: a mixed commit would forfeit the exemption.
A story acceptance criterion claimed more than its named check could establish: "every machine-local absolute path replaced by the repo's name", checked by `grep -c '/Users/'`. Found by CodeRabbit on PR #25, fixed in 47e4bf5. Recorded at the existing rung, NOT escalated. The reason is guard scope rather than leniency: the fourth-correction rung recorded on 2026-08-16 guards a claim being refined repeatedly, and this was a first correction caught by a reviewer before any refinement spiral began. It sits outside that guard, so the guard did not fail and supplies no escalation — escalating on an incident a rung was never meant to prevent is the over-escalation these rows warn about by name. The row also carries a count note: this is plausibly the third compliance miss against the 2026-07-19 Don't rather than a seventh fresh instance of the class, being the same shape as PR #21's C4 — a criterion outrunning its own named check. That is the trigger the parked C4/C5 row in todos.md names. The annotation to that row is deliberately NOT made here: todos.md is not prose-exempt in a mixed commit, and it belongs to the next gated cycle touching it (the guard-scope story, next in the queue). Gate B: N/A. The single staged path is `docs/hardening-log.md`, which is `docs/**.md` — §5's prose exemption, defined by path and carrying no gate. Staged alone on purpose: a mixed commit would forfeit the exemption.
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Summary
The kit's heaviest consumer (
infinite-portfolio-canvas) ran tickets A1–A5 under this kit and relayed a field report of eleven items from real use. None of it was in the backlog, and the report itself was a local file outside git history, so nothing in the repo could cite it. This round gives every item exactly one recorded disposition and makes the report citable from those records.Two items became prompt rules, shipped in
CLAUDE.md§5 and mirrored in the/workflow-initinline template:The other nine items are
todos.mdrows, one upstream note filed againstmcp-codex-dev, and one reasoned rejection. The consumer repo has no file created, modified or deleted by this round.Also in the diff: a
todos.mdrow parking the gap that the ledger's supersession convention names a repair only for a mistyped locator; a self-contained governing entry indocs/hardening-log.md; verbatim guard quotations for all three prior rows the guard-scope precheck examined; and thebattery+checknamed verification behind the round.The cycle exercised the rules it ships
This is the part worth reading, because it is evidence rather than intention.
Pass 2 → a revert. Two further clauses were drafted inside the cycle — a clean-completion precedence over the two-tell stop, and a defined exit for a declined scope expansion. Both answered real defects pass 1 found, and both were confirmed by the maintainer. Pass 2 then established that shipping them requires qualifying three §5 rules nobody proposed changing: the universal Blocker/Major-resolve duty, the rule that a surfaced finding stays open with resolution unwaived, and the rule that no pass carrying it counts as clean. That is a scope expansion, so the clauses came back out.
Pass 5 → a bounded close. Pass 5 returned zero product-behaviour findings: three on the verification instrument, three on the acceptance criterion of a parked, unstarted story. Two cheap true fixes were taken; the rest were parked.
Both stops were mandatory under the shipped two-tell threshold, and both were decided by the maintainer rather than by the loop — which is the distinction the absorb-vs-stop rule exists to preserve.
Gate B
Seven valid passes, floor of three, final pass clean.
No Blocker or Major since pass 2. The gate caught three successively subtler false framings of this change's own counterfactual — that the parent defined the assigned fix set inclusively (pass 1), that the parent was contradictory on a two-tell state (pass 2), and that the two verification tables split one per shipped rule (pass 6). Each was a repair introducing a milder version of the same defect, which is the failure mode
AGENTS.mdrecords by name.Evidence entry
Story:
docs/superpowers/stories/2026-08-17-field-intake-canvas-a1-a5-report-story.md— Risk: standard · Security: none · Validation:battery+check.Battery: green — shellcheck clean on all six shell files; hook suite passed under both
shanddash;check-invariants148 assertions;check-version-bump36 assertions plus the live run againstmain;claude plugin validate . --strictpassed.Check — named verification, no automated route: two tables under "The named verification behind the
battery+checkentry" indocs/field-reports/2026-08-16-canvas-a1-a5-dispositions.md. They split by the inputs they read, not one per shipped rule: the nine-state matrix scores scope and action for the absorb-vs-stop rule and, at states 8 and 9, the three conditions of the "clearly stuck" exit; the five-state table beside it scores the reporting duty on pass number, tell count, carrier, and stuck-reading availability. Both are scored against the old text and the new text, and against theCLAUDE.mdcopy and the/workflow-inittemplate copy independently. Two weaker checks were tried and rejected first — a keyword grep of the prior file (a self-supplied lexical oracle, since the keywords came from the new prose) and a paragraph diff plus mirror-parity comparison (which would pass equally if both copies omitted the same clause).Counterfactual, observed against the committed prior state: on the matrix's seven genuinely open states the old text decides 0 of 7 and the new text 7 of 7; on the reporting table's four, 0 of 4 and 4 of 4. In both the old text fails by being absent —
git show 17d5ad3:CLAUDE.mdand the parent template contain no absorb-vs-stop block, no stuck criterion, and no reporting duty, tells or threshold; they carry only the undefined phrase "clearly stuck". Matrix states 6 and 7 and reporting state R1 are controls the old text already decides, where the new text must agree rather than override. What neither table covers, stated in the record itself: which of the five tell predicates produced a given tell count.Wiring: every old-text state is scored from the committed parent blob via
git show, never from the working tree, so the check cannot report success by reading the file the change already edited. Both copies are scored separately, so the counterfactual for "the rule reached only one copy" is a row where the two disagree; there is none.Collected, not iterated on
No literal example of the three-line format in either copy · no
Target model:line in the root prompt or the scaffolded CLAUDE template ·docs/field-reports/absent from theAGENTS.mdarchitecture tree · numeric line citations in two closed plan artifacts · the dispositions file's title date · append-as-analogy wording in the malformed-entries section · the stuck-availability phrasing in the evidence entry ·todos.mditem 9's stop-path examples.On merge
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CLAUDE.md§5 Mechanics, the squash body must carry the evidence entry above verbatim. There are no human-exception records in this range.Summary by CodeRabbit
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