fix(ce-brainstorm): ask only decisions the environment cannot settle (#1487)
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Trevin Chow
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ Any change to how a skill routes, what it asks, when it stops, what it commits o
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Inject the current on-disk skill (and any references the scenario needs) into a **fresh** agent, then grade what it does. Plugin skills cache at session start, so invoking the edited skill in the authoring session tests stale content — do not test through in-session Skill-tool or typed-agent dispatch, and do not edit the plugin cache.
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This repository does not ship an eval skill. Anthropic's `skill-creator` and the personal `skill-eval` skill are optional installed helpers, not repo capabilities. The portable primitive is the host CLI with the current skill extracted onto disk. `bun run test:skill-eval-cell -- --skill <name> --task "…"` is the repo-owned driver (`claude -p` / `codex exec` / `grok -p`, `CLAUDECODE` unset, Codex stdin closed). Named scenarios live in `tests/skill-eval-cell/catalog.ts` and run with `bun run test:skill-eval-pack -- --skill <name> --arm ab`. `--wave1` is the cheap read-only decision set, not the whole catalog. A change whose path is already in the catalog runs those rows; a path that is not covered adds a row authored from the pre-change contract. Grade artifacts and the ACTIONS trailer, not whether the essay recites a forbidden command. A `files_read_post` entry is a required read for that scenario and a miss fails the cell — list the file only when the always-loaded body makes the decision undefendable without it. Omitting the field is the correct negative (skip allowed). Do not add a must-not-read. When a reference owns a different path, add a complementary cell that requires that file rather than dropping the extraction probe. skill-creator does not replace this cell.
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This repository does not ship an eval skill. Anthropic's `skill-creator` and the personal `skill-eval` skill are optional installed helpers, not repo capabilities. The portable primitive is the host CLI with the current skill extracted onto disk. `bun run test:skill-eval-cell -- --skill <name> --task "…"` is the repo-owned driver (`claude -p` / `codex exec` / `grok -p`, `CLAUDECODE` unset, Codex stdin closed). Named scenarios live in `tests/skill-eval-cell/catalog.ts` and run with `bun run test:skill-eval-pack -- --skill <name> --arm ab`. `--wave1` is the cheap read-only decision set, not the whole catalog. A change whose path is already in the catalog runs those rows; a path that is not covered adds a row authored from the pre-change contract. Grade artifacts and the ACTIONS trailer, not whether the essay recites a forbidden command. A `files_read_post` entry is a required read for that scenario and a miss fails the cell — list the file only when the always-loaded body makes the decision undefendable without it. Omitting the field is the correct negative (skip allowed). Do not add a must-not-read. When a reference owns a different path, add a complementary cell that requires that file rather than dropping the extraction probe. skill-creator does not replace this cell. Do not add `evals/evals.json` — that is not this repo's suite. Do not run interview-skill evals as in-session subagents: the blocking question tool would land on the authoring user. The cell driver isolates that (stdin closed, host CLI in a throwaway workspace).
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**Keep the test honest.** A test subagent must not know it is testing a skill: prompt it the way a user would ("use the `<skill>` skill to do X"), pass the raw artifacts (the file, the finding, the diff), never your diagnosis, the intended fix, or the expected answer. Fresh context per pass; clean up anything a run leaves on disk before the next; if a scenario passes only when the agent can see leaked context, tighten the skill or the setup before trusting the result. Read the transcripts, not just the final outputs — a skill that reaches the right answer while spending turns on unproductive steps has a defect the output hides, and several runs independently writing the same helper is a signal to bundle a script.
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@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ The steps of every engineering iteration. `/ce-ideate` runs only when you need t
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| Skill | Description |
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|-------|-------------|
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| [`/ce-ideate`](./ce-ideate.md) | *Optional first step*: discover grounded directions worth exploring (six frames, tagged basis, adversarial cut) |
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| [`/ce-brainstorm`](./ce-brainstorm.md) | Define what something should become: one question at a time, named gap lenses, requirements-only unified plan |
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| [`/ce-brainstorm`](./ce-brainstorm.md) | Define what something should become: one question at a time, ask only decisions, named gap lenses, requirements-only unified plan |
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| [`/ce-plan`](./ce-plan.md) | Bound execution with guardrails (U-IDs, test scenarios, automatic confidence check). WHAT decisions, not HOW code |
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| [`/ce-work`](./ce-work.md) | Execute an implementation-ready plan: figure out the HOW with code in front of you, then ship through quality gates |
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| [`/ce-compound`](./ce-compound.md) | Close the loop by writing what you learned into `docs/solutions/` so the next iteration can read it |
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@@ -95,6 +95,8 @@ A typical "let's brainstorm" with an AI has shape problems too. It asks five que
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`ce-brainstorm` runs a structured conversation that can end in a durable artifact:
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- One question per turn, defaulting to the platform's blocking question tool
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- Facts the environment can answer are looked up, not asked; a running lookup does not stall independent questions
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- User terms or system-behavior claims that conflict with existing `CONCEPTS.md` or verified code are challenged when they would change a product decision
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- Ceremony matched to the work: Lightweight, Standard, Deep, or Deep-product
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- Named gap lenses on premises before approaches are generated
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- An opt-in blindspot pass when you do not know the territory well enough to weigh options
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### 1. One question at a time
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Stacking several questions in one message produces diluted answers. `ce-brainstorm` asks one question per turn and defaults to the platform's blocking question tool with single-select options when natural choices exist. Free-text is always available.
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Stacking several questions in one message produces diluted answers. `ce-brainstorm` asks one question per turn and defaults to the platform's blocking question tool with single-select options when natural choices exist. Free-text is always available. It also asks only decisions: if the repo, the grounding dossier, or another reachable source can settle the answer, it looks that up instead of putting it to you. A lookup in flight does not stall questions that do not depend on it. When your wording conflicts with existing `CONCEPTS.md` or with verified code in a way that would change a product decision, it surfaces that conflict before treating the wording as settled. It does not create `CONCEPTS.md`; glossary writes still land after the plan.
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### 2. Ceremony scales with the work
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| Phase | Read first | What only those files carry |
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| before the first question, and for the whole run — non-software route included | Read `references/interaction-rules.md` | the Core Principles, and the seven Interaction Rules: one question per turn, the blocking-question-tool default and the visual-probe gate that overrides it, when a question is genuinely open-ended, and the one `ce-prototype` routing test this skill states in full there |
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| before the first question, and for the whole run — non-software route included | Read `references/interaction-rules.md` | the Core Principles, and the Interaction Rules: one question per turn, ask only decisions the environment cannot settle, the blocking-question-tool default and the visual-probe gate that overrides it, when a question is genuinely open-ended, and the one `ce-prototype` routing test this skill states in full there |
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| before treating a decision the conversation carries as settled | Read `references/settled-decisions.md` | the settlement test; skipping it re-asks a decided question or promotes an unexamined assertion |
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| 0.0 output mode | `references/output-mode.md` | the `OUTPUT_FORMAT` precedence; the token-parsing convention |
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| 0.1–0.4 resume, classify, route, scope | `references/phase-0.md` | resume scan; the stop-and-route classification; scope tiers; coherent-work gate; both tripwires; task spine |
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| 1 understand the idea | `references/dialogue.md` | context scan and grounding scout; opt-in Slack researcher; pressure test; blindspot and visual-probe gates; Phase 1.3 exit condition |
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| 1 understand the idea | `references/dialogue.md` | context scan and grounding scout; opt-in Slack researcher; pressure test; blindspot and visual-probe gates; the conflict gate against existing `CONCEPTS.md` and verified code; Phase 1.3 exit condition |
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| 2–2.6 approaches, synthesis, verification | `references/approaches.md`, plus `references/synthesis-summary.md` before composing the synthesis | approach generation; model elevation; the scoping synthesis; the claim verifier |
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| 3 write the plan | `references/plan-write.md`, then `references/brainstorm-sections.md` and the rendering reference for the format | whether a doc is warranted; the section contract; the Ready for Planning Check |
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| 4 handoff | `references/handoff.md` | the option set and its visibility conditions; the rendering-mode rule; per-selection dispatch, including what `ce-plan` is passed; closing summaries |
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Follow the Interaction Rules in `references/interaction-rules.md`. Use the platform's blocking question tool when available.
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**Conflict gate — surface it when it would change a product decision.** If the user uses a term that conflicts with existing `CONCEPTS.md`, or claims how the system works in a way that conflicts with verified code or the grounding dossier, put that conflict to them before treating their wording as settled. Do not create `CONCEPTS.md`. Glossary writes still wait until after the plan.
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**Blindspot gate — check it before probing flagged territory.** If the Phase 0.3 unfamiliarity tripwire fired, fire the blindspot offer from `references/blindspot-pass.md` before the first substantive question into the flagged territory (questions about the user's own problem, users, and evidence proceed normally — the gate is territory-scoped). The gate also arms mid-dialogue without a tripwire: when two consecutive answers show the user *cannot evaluate* the question's substance — not merely hasn't decided — read the reference and offer the pass then. Never silently switch into teaching; the offer is a blocking question.
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**Visual-probe gate — precondition, check it before raising the first shape decision.** If the Phase 0.3 tripwire fired, and the next decision does not meet Interaction Rule 7, then before raising the first shape, behavior, or layout decision — in any form, plain chat or a blocking tool — fire the text-vs-visual offer from `references/visual-probes.md`. The gate is state-based: offer unless this specific decision has already been through it; anchor the check to the decision you are about to raise, not a "pending gate" remembered since Phase 0.3. Having been through the offer closes only the sketch-vs-text offer, never Rule 7: a decision the user kept in text that then turns on finish or motion, and one a rough sketch was built for and did not settle, both meet Rule 7 now and route to `ce-prototype`. It **takes precedence over the default blocking-question path** (Interaction Rule 4): do not raise the shape decision as an `AskUserQuestion`/`request_user_input` menu until the user has declined visual. **An ASCII preview or text mockup inside the question's choices does not satisfy the offer** — that is the shortcut this gate exists to stop. Use the platform's blocking question tool for the text-vs-visual offer itself when available; the reference owns the offer wording, the cheapest-probe build, helper invocation, and the display-only feedback contract.
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5. **Use an open-ended question only when the question is genuinely open** - Drop the blocking tool when the answer is inherently narrative, when presented options would steer a diagnostic or introspective answer, or when you cannot write 3-4 genuinely distinct, plausibly-correct options without padding. The test: if you'd be straining to fill the option slots, the question is open — ask it open-ended. Rule 1 still applies: one question per turn.
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6. **Open-ended questions earn their place only when they're specific enough to elicit a substantive answer** - Apply Rule 5 silently: just ask the question, never narrate the form choice. The question must give the user something concrete to anchor on. Good: *"What's the most concrete thing someone's already done about this — paid for it, built a workaround, quit a tool over it?"* — it names what counts as an answer. Too thin: *"What's your take?"* — nothing to bite into, and framings that imply a short answer ("briefly", yes/no) waste the open question the same way.
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7. **Offer `ce-prototype` when the decision is expensive to unravel.** This skill states the routing test once, here; every other site in this skill cites it. The test: committing an approach would be expensive to unravel — later planning and implementation will treat it as given — **and** neither talk nor a cheap one-decision sketch can settle it. A purely visual decision qualifies on the same terms as a behavioral one: finish and motion are dimensions a rough sketch strips by definition, so a question turning on them is already past the sketch tier. Unravel cost is a precondition, not decoration — a decision that is cheap to reverse does not escalate, however visual it is. Offer once — when you recognize that bar, not at a fixed phase. Do not offer for routine UI that follows an existing pattern (adding a known button, placing a standard control), and do not offer for a visual choice that follows an existing token, type scale, or component-library pattern. On accept, invoke `ce-prototype` via the host's normal skill-invocation mechanism, passing the named question, the surface, any hard constraints, and any artifact path; do not build it here. On decline, continue here; do not re-offer unless the decision itself changes.
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8. **Ask only decisions** — A question whose answer is in the environment — the repo, the grounding dossier, or another reachable source — is not put to the user. Look it up. A running lookup does not stall questions that do not depend on it. Decisions stay on the user.
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## Output Guidance
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**Verdict-shape carve-out — do not exit before the 0.1c gate.** A request weighing whether to **adopt / switch to / replace** a *named external technology, library, pattern, platform, or architecture* for this project is a **software** decision even when it only names the tool and asks the bare question ("should we adopt Biome here?"). Classify it as **Software** and continue so the 0.1c gate below can catch it — do **not** route it to *Neither* or *Non-software*, which would skip the gate and lose the exact verdict-shape prompts that gate is for.
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**If non-software brainstorming is detected:** Read `references/universal-brainstorming.md` now and follow it — it replaces Phases 0.2–4 entirely. Scope assessment, exploration moves, convergence, and the wrap-up menu for this route live there, not here; improvising them produces an unstructured chat with no synthesis and no handoff. The non-software route does **not** write `artifact_contract: ce-unified-plan/v1` or `artifact_readiness: requirements-only`; those fields are reserved for software Product Contracts that can later become implementation-ready code plans. The **Core Principles and Interaction Rules in `references/interaction-rules.md` still apply unchanged** — including one-question-per-turn and the default to the platform's blocking question tool — and are the only part of this workflow that survives the route.
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**If non-software brainstorming is detected:** Read `references/universal-brainstorming.md` now and follow it — it replaces Phases 0.2–4 entirely. Scope assessment, exploration moves, convergence, and the wrap-up menu for this route live there, not here; improvising them produces an unstructured chat with no synthesis and no handoff. The non-software route does **not** write `artifact_contract: ce-unified-plan/v1` or `artifact_readiness: requirements-only`; those fields are reserved for software Product Contracts that can later become implementation-ready code plans. The **Core Principles and Interaction Rules in `references/interaction-rules.md` still apply unchanged** — including one-question-per-turn, asking only decisions the environment cannot settle, and the default to the platform's blocking question tool — and are the only part of this workflow that survives the route.
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#### 0.1c Route a Verdict Question to ce-pov
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# Universal Brainstorming Facilitator
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This file is loaded when ce-brainstorm detects a non-software task (Phase 0). It replaces the software-specific brainstorming phases (Phases 0.2 through 4) with facilitation principles for any domain. The Core Principles and **Interaction Rules** in `ce-brainstorm/references/interaction-rules.md` still apply unchanged — including one-question-per-turn and the default to the platform's blocking question tool. This file extends those rules with universal-domain facilitation guidance; it does not relax them.
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This file is loaded when ce-brainstorm detects a non-software task (Phase 0). It replaces the software-specific brainstorming phases (Phases 0.2 through 4) with facilitation principles for any domain. The Core Principles and **Interaction Rules** in `ce-brainstorm/references/interaction-rules.md` still apply unchanged — including one-question-per-turn, asking only decisions the environment cannot settle, and the default to the platform's blocking question tool. This file extends those rules with universal-domain facilitation guidance; it does not relax them.
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This route is intentionally outside the software unified-plan artifact contract.
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Do not write `artifact_contract: ce-unified-plan/v1`,
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## Asking questions
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"Thinking partner" framing does not mean "conversational prose." The parent skill's Interaction Rules apply in full: one question per turn, and default to the platform's blocking question tool (with its free-text fallback) even for opening and elicitation.
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"Thinking partner" framing does not mean "conversational prose." The parent skill's Interaction Rules apply in full: one question per turn, ask only decisions the environment cannot settle, and default to the platform's blocking question tool (with its free-text fallback) even for opening and elicitation.
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"What's prompting this?", "what matters most here?", and "what have you ruled out?" feel open-ended and conversational, but that's not a reason to skip the tool. The free-text option preserves flexibility while a well-crafted option set teaches the user the dimensions they might not have separated. Pick-plus-optional-note is lower activation energy than composing prose from scratch — especially for emotional or values-laden topics where prose can feel like an essay prompt.
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expect(bad).toEqual([])
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})
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test("workspace_read paths exist in the scenario fixture", () => {
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const missing: string[] = []
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for (const s of SCENARIOS) {
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if (!s.grade.workspace_read?.length) continue
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if (!s.fixture) {
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missing.push(`${s.id}: workspace_read without a fixture`)
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continue
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}
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for (const rel of s.grade.workspace_read) {
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if (!fs.existsSync(path.join(REPO_ROOT, s.fixture, rel))) {
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missing.push(`${s.id}: ${rel} missing under ${s.fixture}`)
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}
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}
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}
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expect(missing).toEqual([])
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})
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test("files_read_post pointers exist on the arm that grades them", () => {
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const missing: string[] = []
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for (const s of SCENARIOS) {
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expect(listed).toEqual(
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[
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"ce-babysit-pr/behind-reads-branch-currency:references/branch-currency.md",
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"ce-brainstorm/lookup-not-ask:references/interaction-rules.md",
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"ce-brainstorm/verdict-routes-to-pov:references/phase-0.md",
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"ce-brainstorm/write-plan-reads-plan-write:references/plan-write.md",
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"ce-commit-push-pr/description-only-no-commit:references/pr-description-writing.md",
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// can never fail. Something that observes the stated decision has to be present.
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const vacuous = SCENARIOS.filter((s) => {
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if (!s.read_only || !s.grade.must_exclude?.length) return false
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return !s.grade.must_include?.length && !s.grade.files_read_post?.length
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return (
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!s.grade.must_include?.length &&
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!s.grade.files_read_post?.length &&
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!s.grade.workspace_read?.length
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)
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}).map((s) => s.id)
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expect(vacuous).toEqual([])
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})
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* List a file only when the always-loaded body says the decision is
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* undefendable without it ("read X now", "decided by X, not from memory").
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* A miss fails the cell. Do not list a procedure manual for a gate the body still states.
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* Paths are relative to `skills/<skill>/`.
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*/
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files_read_post?: string[]
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/**
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* Fixture-relative paths that must appear in FILES_READ. Graded on every arm.
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* Observes the read only — pair with must_include of the looked-up fact when
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* the invariant is "look this up, do not ask the user what's in it."
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*/
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workspace_read?: string[]
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must_include?: string[]
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/** Matched against the ACTIONS trailer only, so explanations of a forbidden command do not fail. */
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must_exclude?: string[]
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must_include: ["ce-pov"],
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},
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},
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{
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id: "ce-brainstorm/lookup-not-ask",
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skill: "ce-brainstorm",
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cohort: "resized",
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key_behavior: "judgment",
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read_only: true,
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fixture: `${FIX}/tiny-lib`,
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why: "Rule 8: a fact greet.js can settle is a lookup, not a user question. Post-change the rule lives in interaction-rules.md.",
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pre_contract:
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"A question whose answer is in the environment — the repo, the grounding dossier, or another reachable source — is not put to the user. Look it up.",
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task: `We're adding a flaky network backend behind the greeter. I want retry handling in the product. If src/greet.js already retries, reuse that. Brainstorm who sees failures, how many attempts, and what success looks like.`,
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grade: {
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files_read_post: ["references/interaction-rules.md"],
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workspace_read: ["src/greet.js"],
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// workspace_read only sees FILES_READ; greet.js does not retry.
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must_include: ["does not retry"],
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},
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},
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{
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id: "ce-code-review/report-only-default",
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skill: "ce-code-review",
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if (g.must_include?.length || g.must_exclude?.length) return true
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if (g.structured_status || g.delegates === "some") return true
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if (g.workspace_contains?.length || g.committed_must_not?.length) return true
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if (g.workspace_read?.length) return true
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// Suppression of a write is only evidence when the cell could have written.
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if (!s.read_only && g.git === "clean") return true
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return false
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expect(fail.ok).toBe(false)
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})
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test("workspace_read fails when FILES_READ omits the fixture file", () => {
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const dir = hostDir({
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"stdout.txt": "What should retry cover?\nFILES_READ: SKILL.md, references/interaction-rules.md\nACTIONS: none\n",
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})
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const g = gradeHost({
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host: "claude",
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hostDir: dir,
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arm: "post",
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grade: {
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files_read_post: ["references/interaction-rules.md"],
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workspace_read: ["src/greet.js"],
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},
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})
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expect(g.ok).toBe(false)
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expect(g.reasons.some((r) => r.includes("src/greet.js"))).toBe(true)
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})
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test("workspace_read passes when FILES_READ names the fixture file", () => {
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const dir = hostDir({
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"stdout.txt":
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"What should retry cover?\nFILES_READ: SKILL.md, references/interaction-rules.md, src/greet.js\nACTIONS: none\n",
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})
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const g = gradeHost({
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host: "claude",
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hostDir: dir,
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arm: "post",
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grade: {
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files_read_post: ["references/interaction-rules.md"],
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workspace_read: ["src/greet.js"],
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},
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})
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expect(g.ok).toBe(true)
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})
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test("lookup-not-ask fails when the agent read greet.js but did not state the looked-up fact", () => {
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const dir = hostDir({
|
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"stdout.txt":
|
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"Does src/greet.js already retry?\nFILES_READ: SKILL.md, references/interaction-rules.md, src/greet.js\nACTIONS: none\n",
|
||||
})
|
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const g = gradeHost({
|
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host: "claude",
|
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hostDir: dir,
|
||||
arm: "post",
|
||||
grade: {
|
||||
files_read_post: ["references/interaction-rules.md"],
|
||||
workspace_read: ["src/greet.js"],
|
||||
must_include: ["does not retry"],
|
||||
},
|
||||
})
|
||||
expect(g.ok).toBe(false)
|
||||
expect(g.reasons.some((r) => r.includes("does not retry"))).toBe(true)
|
||||
})
|
||||
|
||||
test("lookup-not-ask passes when the read and the looked-up fact both appear", () => {
|
||||
const dir = hostDir({
|
||||
"stdout.txt":
|
||||
"src/greet.js does not retry. Who sees failures?\nFILES_READ: SKILL.md, references/interaction-rules.md, src/greet.js\nACTIONS: none\n",
|
||||
})
|
||||
const g = gradeHost({
|
||||
host: "claude",
|
||||
hostDir: dir,
|
||||
arm: "post",
|
||||
grade: {
|
||||
files_read_post: ["references/interaction-rules.md"],
|
||||
workspace_read: ["src/greet.js"],
|
||||
must_include: ["does not retry"],
|
||||
},
|
||||
})
|
||||
expect(g.ok).toBe(true)
|
||||
})
|
||||
|
||||
test("a listed required read is a fail on post when FILES_READ omits it", () => {
|
||||
const dir = hostDir({
|
||||
"stdout.txt": "needs-human\nFILES_READ: SKILL.md\nACTIONS: none\n",
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -90,6 +90,15 @@ function isNone(value: string): boolean {
|
||||
return v === "none" || v === "n/a"
|
||||
}
|
||||
|
||||
function normalizeTrailerPath(p: string): string {
|
||||
return p.trim().replaceAll("\\", "/").replace(/^\.\//, "")
|
||||
}
|
||||
|
||||
function trailerNames(filesRead: string[], required: string): boolean {
|
||||
const want = normalizeTrailerPath(required.toLowerCase())
|
||||
return filesRead.some((entry) => entry === want || entry.endsWith(`/${want}`))
|
||||
}
|
||||
|
||||
export function gradeHost(opts: {
|
||||
host: Host
|
||||
hostDir: string
|
||||
@@ -118,6 +127,7 @@ export function gradeHost(opts: {
|
||||
// them cannot pass a term vacuously.
|
||||
const gradesPointers = (opts.arm === "post" || opts.arm === "preview") &&
|
||||
Boolean(opts.grade.files_read_post?.length)
|
||||
const gradesWorkspaceRead = Boolean(opts.grade.workspace_read?.length)
|
||||
const hasActions = Boolean(trailers?.actions)
|
||||
const hasDelegates = Boolean(trailers?.delegates)
|
||||
const gradesActions = Boolean(opts.grade.must_exclude?.length) || opts.grade.actions === "none"
|
||||
@@ -125,7 +135,7 @@ export function gradeHost(opts: {
|
||||
if (opts.grade.delegates && !hasDelegates) {
|
||||
reasons.push(`missing ${TRAILER_NAMES.delegates} trailer`)
|
||||
}
|
||||
if (gradesPointers && !trailers?.files_read) {
|
||||
if ((gradesPointers || gradesWorkspaceRead) && !trailers?.files_read) {
|
||||
reasons.push(`missing ${TRAILER_NAMES.files_read} trailer`)
|
||||
}
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -133,16 +143,22 @@ export function gradeHost(opts: {
|
||||
// otherwise be satisfied by any docs/method.md the run happened to read.
|
||||
const filesRead = files
|
||||
.split(",")
|
||||
.map((entry) => entry.trim().replaceAll("\\", "/").replace(/^\.\//, ""))
|
||||
.map((entry) => normalizeTrailerPath(entry))
|
||||
.filter(Boolean)
|
||||
if (gradesPointers && opts.grade.files_read_post) {
|
||||
for (const ref of opts.grade.files_read_post) {
|
||||
const want = ref.toLowerCase().replaceAll("\\", "/")
|
||||
if (!filesRead.some((entry) => entry === want || entry.endsWith(`/${want}`))) {
|
||||
if (!trailerNames(filesRead, ref)) {
|
||||
pointer_reasons.push(`${opts.arm} arm did not name required read ${ref} in ${TRAILER_NAMES.files_read}`)
|
||||
}
|
||||
}
|
||||
}
|
||||
if (gradesWorkspaceRead && opts.grade.workspace_read) {
|
||||
for (const rel of opts.grade.workspace_read) {
|
||||
if (!trailerNames(filesRead, rel)) {
|
||||
reasons.push(`did not name workspace read ${rel} in ${TRAILER_NAMES.files_read}`)
|
||||
}
|
||||
}
|
||||
}
|
||||
for (const needle of opts.grade.must_include ?? []) {
|
||||
if (!decision.includes(needle.toLowerCase())) reasons.push(`missing required text: ${needle}`)
|
||||
}
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ bun run test:skill-eval-pack -- --wave1 --arm ab
|
||||
| `ce-compound-refresh/code-wins` | Doc yields to `greet()`, not `wave()` |
|
||||
| `ce-resolve-pr-feedback/pipeline-no-merge` | Untrusted comment; no merge in ACTIONS |
|
||||
| `ce-brainstorm/requirements-only-no-implement` | Brainstorm does not implement |
|
||||
| `ce-brainstorm/lookup-not-ask` | Whether `src/greet.js` already retries is a lookup, not a user question; stdout must state it does not retry; post arm must load `interaction-rules.md` |
|
||||
| `ce-plan/no-implement` | Plan does not execute |
|
||||
| `ce-work/return-to-caller-no-pr` | Return-to-caller does not open a PR |
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
|
||||
import { readFileSync } from "fs"
|
||||
import path from "path"
|
||||
import { describe, expect, test } from "bun:test"
|
||||
|
||||
// 2026-08-19: facts-vs-decisions and the live CONCEPTS/code conflict gate
|
||||
// closed a demonstrated dialogue seam (ask the user what the repo can
|
||||
// answer; let conflicting terms slide until the write-up). Pin the
|
||||
// owning files, not incidental wording.
|
||||
const SKILL_BODY = readFileSync(
|
||||
path.join(process.cwd(), "skills/ce-brainstorm/SKILL.md"),
|
||||
"utf8",
|
||||
)
|
||||
const INTERACTION_RULES = readFileSync(
|
||||
path.join(process.cwd(), "skills/ce-brainstorm/references/interaction-rules.md"),
|
||||
"utf8",
|
||||
)
|
||||
const DIALOGUE = readFileSync(
|
||||
path.join(process.cwd(), "skills/ce-brainstorm/references/dialogue.md"),
|
||||
"utf8",
|
||||
)
|
||||
const PLAN_WRITE = readFileSync(
|
||||
path.join(process.cwd(), "skills/ce-brainstorm/references/plan-write.md"),
|
||||
"utf8",
|
||||
)
|
||||
const UNIVERSAL = readFileSync(
|
||||
path.join(process.cwd(), "skills/ce-brainstorm/references/universal-brainstorming.md"),
|
||||
"utf8",
|
||||
)
|
||||
const PHASE_0 = readFileSync(
|
||||
path.join(process.cwd(), "skills/ce-brainstorm/references/phase-0.md"),
|
||||
"utf8",
|
||||
)
|
||||
|
||||
describe("ce-brainstorm ask-only-decisions", () => {
|
||||
test("Interaction Rule 8 forbids asking what the environment can settle", () => {
|
||||
const rulesStart = INTERACTION_RULES.indexOf("## Interaction Rules")
|
||||
expect(rulesStart).toBeGreaterThan(-1)
|
||||
const rules = INTERACTION_RULES.slice(rulesStart)
|
||||
|
||||
expect(SKILL_BODY).toContain("references/interaction-rules.md")
|
||||
expect(SKILL_BODY).toContain("ask only decisions the environment cannot settle")
|
||||
|
||||
expect(rules).toContain("Ask only decisions")
|
||||
expect(
|
||||
/is not put to the user/i.test(rules),
|
||||
"Rule 8 must forbid putting an environment-answerable question to the user.",
|
||||
).toBe(true)
|
||||
expect(
|
||||
/Look it up/i.test(rules),
|
||||
"Rule 8 must send environment-answerable questions to lookup, not to the user.",
|
||||
).toBe(true)
|
||||
expect(
|
||||
/does not stall questions that do not depend/i.test(rules),
|
||||
"A running lookup must not stall independent questions.",
|
||||
).toBe(true)
|
||||
expect(PHASE_0).toContain("asking only decisions the environment cannot settle")
|
||||
expect(UNIVERSAL).toContain("asking only decisions the environment cannot settle")
|
||||
})
|
||||
|
||||
test("Phase 1.3 challenges decision-relevant CONCEPTS.md or code conflicts without creating the glossary", () => {
|
||||
const phase13Start = DIALOGUE.indexOf("#### 1.3 Collaborative Dialogue")
|
||||
expect(phase13Start).toBeGreaterThan(-1)
|
||||
const phase13 = DIALOGUE.slice(phase13Start)
|
||||
|
||||
expect(SKILL_BODY).toContain("references/dialogue.md")
|
||||
expect(SKILL_BODY).toMatch(/conflict gate against existing `CONCEPTS\.md`/)
|
||||
|
||||
expect(
|
||||
/would change a product decision/i.test(phase13),
|
||||
"The conflict gate must fire only when the conflict would change a product decision.",
|
||||
).toBe(true)
|
||||
expect(
|
||||
/CONCEPTS\.md/.test(phase13) && /verified code/.test(phase13),
|
||||
"The conflict gate must name existing CONCEPTS.md and verified code as the authorities it challenges against.",
|
||||
).toBe(true)
|
||||
expect(phase13).toContain("Do not create `CONCEPTS.md`")
|
||||
expect(
|
||||
/Glossary writes still wait until after the plan/.test(phase13),
|
||||
"Live challenge must not move glossary writes earlier than plan-write.md.",
|
||||
).toBe(true)
|
||||
expect(PLAN_WRITE).toContain(
|
||||
"Skip this step entirely if `CONCEPTS.md` does not exist at repo root",
|
||||
)
|
||||
})
|
||||
})
|
||||
Reference in New Issue
Block a user