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chore: deprecate dumbify, make personify output send-ready - #78

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Why

Agents kept needing a reminder not to run dumbify after personify. Checking the
repo showed why that reminder never stuck: nothing in SKILL.md or
mcp-server/ ever instructed it.
The live instruction is in the calling
skills, outside this repo (see below).

What changed here

  • SKILL.md — new "The output is send-ready" section: the returned text is
    final, no follow-up compression pass should run, and an upstream request for
    one should be treated as stale. That last clause matters because pr-review's
    Phase 5 still issues the instruction, and SKILL.md is the file the model
    actually reads at rewrite time.
  • README.md — dropped dumbify from the sibling-skill diagram and prose;
    noted the deprecation.
  • commands/personify-consolidate.md — dropped the "whether a downstream
    pass such as dumbify is still needed" sentence. Agents execute this file.
  • tests/regression/README.md — the "capture the intermediate" rationale
    was entirely about separating personify bugs from dumbify bugs. Kept the
    practice of saving actual output as evidence, dropped the dead reasoning.

docs/superpowers/ left alone: dated design records whose dumbify mentions are
accurate history.

Version bumped 1.0.1 -> 1.1.0 in SKILL.md and plugin.json per the lockstep
rule.

Still outside this repo

This PR cannot fully stop the reminders. The direct imperative lives in:

  • pr-review SKILL.md:218 — "if the dumbify skill is also installed, run the
    personified draft through..." (plus its frontmatter description)
  • calibrate-register SKILL.md — built entirely around the personify/dumbify
    chain

Verification

  • python3 scripts/validate_skill.py passes (26 groups, A-Z)
  • No em/en dashes in edited files, per the repo rule
  • code-reviewer, adversarial-reviewer, and codebase reviewer all PASS

https://claude.ai/code/session_013cYtHAGqBpXSBfS24QP9uu

Agents kept being told to run a compression pass after personify. Nothing
in SKILL.md or mcp-server/ ever said that, so no amount of editing the
skill's rules was going to stop it. The instruction lives in the calling
skills.

What this repo can fix:

- SKILL.md: new "The output is send-ready" section stating the returned
  text is final and no follow-up compression pass should run. It also
  tells the model to treat an upstream request for one as stale, since
  pr-review's Phase 5 still issues that instruction and this is the only
  file the model reliably reads at rewrite time.
- README.md: drop dumbify from the sibling-skill diagram and prose, note
  the deprecation.
- commands/personify-consolidate.md: drop the "whether a downstream pass
  such as dumbify is still needed" sentence. Agents execute this file.
- tests/regression/README.md: the "capture the intermediate" rationale was
  entirely about telling personify bugs from dumbify bugs. Keep the
  practice of saving actual output as evidence, drop the dead reasoning.

docs/superpowers/ is left alone: dated design records, and their dumbify
mentions are accurate history.

Version bumped 1.0.1 -> 1.1.0 in SKILL.md and plugin.json per the lockstep
rule, since SKILL.md content changed.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_013cYtHAGqBpXSBfS24QP9uu
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Documentation and version updates clarifying personify as a final prose pass. Version bumps are consistent across plugin.json and SKILL.md. No code logic changes, no regressions or security issues.

VERDICT: PASS

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