The four existing skills cover the product; nothing covered how work is reported. Two rules this project has paid for — check the artifact rather than the report, and do not state a claim more firmly than the evidence allows — lived only in the operator's head and in chat, where Claude Code never read them. - felhom-evidence five confidence tiers, artifact-over-report - felhom-diagnosis no hypothesis until a command has been seen red - felhom-plain-language ASD-STE100, two options, the re-pitch - felhom-handoff the note goes to a FILE, not the conversation - felhom-doc-authoring the pointer decides whether material is reached scripts/check_skills.py asserts what decides whether a skill is EVER reached: frontmatter parses, name == directory, description and body non-empty, under 150 lines, installed copy still samefile()s into the repo. install_skills.py globs and never reads the file, so a missing description installs perfectly and then silently never loads. It convicted on its first run: felhom-build-deploy is 179 lines. NOT trimmed here (pre-existing skills are out of scope, and trimming a deploy skill without exercising its commands is how a wrong command reaches a live host) — a named single-entry GRANDFATHERED exception, WARNed every run, R-394. A new skill over the limit is convicted. Red-proof run and seen failing: description removed from felhom-evidence -> exit 1, "frontmatter field 'description' is missing or empty". Restored, tree clean. skills/SOURCES.md records both MIT upstreams, that these are adaptations not copies, and the six pieces deliberately EXCLUDED with reasons. Register: R-392 (no architecture doc covers the two-AI workflow), R-393 (decision-log skill deferred, with the reason), R-394.
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> language, one screen, no identifiers in the prose. Same subjects, different readers; merging them
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> would make one of the two audiences stop reading. `STATUS.md` is also a **view of `OPEN-ITEMS.md`**
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> and holds nothing of its own; this file does hold its own content, namely the standing rulings below.
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## Skills cover the PROCESS domain too, from named MIT sources with named exclusions (2026-08-25)
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**[RULING] `felhom.eu/skills/` now holds two kinds of skill and the distinction is deliberate.** The
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four originals — `felhom-app-catalog`, `felhom-build-deploy`, `felhom-testing`, `felhom-ui-design` —
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are **product-domain**: what the system is and how to change it. The five added 2026-08-25 —
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`felhom-evidence`, `felhom-diagnosis`, `felhom-plain-language`, `felhom-handoff`,
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`felhom-doc-authoring` — are **process-domain**: how work is judged, diagnosed, written up and handed
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over. The gap they close is that two rules this project had already paid for lived only in
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conversation, so Claude Code never read them.
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**The process skills are ADAPTATIONS of two MIT collections (`mattpocock/skills`,
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`backnotprop/pstack`), not copies, and neither repo is installed, vendored or depended on.** Six
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pieces of upstream material were excluded on purpose — most importantly *"stop asking and proceed on
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reversible work"*, which reasons from *code is cheap and revertible*; Felhom's work reaches live hosts
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and one real customer's data, where that premise is false. **The exclusions and their reasons live in
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`skills/SOURCES.md`**, so a session that finds the upstreams sees a decision and not an oversight.
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**One rule, one home — this is load-bearing, not tidiness.** A rule that already lives in another
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skill or in `documentation/runbooks/workspace-CLAUDE.md` is POINTED AT by name, never restated: two
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copies drift and the reader cannot tell which is current. So `felhom-diagnosis` sends you to
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`felhom-testing` for the red-proof, and `felhom-evidence` cites standing rules 2 and 3 in one line
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each. **`skills/felhom-doc-authoring/SKILL.md` is where that rule and the 150-line limit are written
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down** — read it before adding or editing any instruction file.
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**Validation: `python3 scripts/check_skills.py`.** `install_skills.py` globs `skills/*/SKILL.md` and
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never reads the file, so a skill missing its `description` installs perfectly and then silently never
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loads. The glob is the registry — **a new skill directory needs no registration, and no manifest or
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index may be added.** What the checker CANNOT see is whether the model actually reaches a skill when
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it should; that is behavioural, decided by the `description` wording, and it is checked by the
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operator typing a probe phrase, never claimed from a green run.
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## Cooldown GRAIN is allow-listed, never inferred from the payload (2026-08-23, R-389)
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**[RULING] Per-app cooldown is a NAMED REGISTER (`perAppCooldownEvents`), not a rule of the form "if
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@@ -1,266 +1,183 @@
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# REPORT — hub v0.108.0 (R-389), gate 11, and the instruction that invited the gap
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# REPORT — five process-domain skills + check_skills.py (2026-08-25)
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**Session 2026-08-23.** `felhom.eu` is the subject; the controller and agent were touched only to
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register the shared gate. **No controller release — no golden bake, no vouch, no floor.**
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**No halt condition fired.** Nothing was dropped.
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Documentation and agent-configuration only. No Go code written or changed, nothing built, nothing
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deployed. Only DooPlex was touched, and on it only this repo's working tree and `~/.claude/skills/`.
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## 1. Baselines, and the hub's four numbers as read
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## 1. Confirmed baseline
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| Repo | at start | at end |
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|---|---|---|
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| felhom.eu | `2f7c9a6` (hub v0.107.0) | **hub v0.108.0** deployed |
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| felhom-controller | `1da2c9c` (v0.223.0) | **unchanged** — runner registration only |
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| felhom-agent | `40d857b` (v0.130.0) | **unchanged** — runner registration only |
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`felhom.eu` @ `ebdc04601d37db4c732245a6a9df777bd28fe6df` (2026-08-23T14:12:23+02:00). Clean tree,
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`HEAD == origin/main`, verified before any edit. Matches the baseline in the task file.
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**Hub's four numbers, live from `GET /configuration` before starting:**
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## 2. Files created / modified
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| Field | Value |
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Created:
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- `/mnt/5_hdd/felhom.eu/git/felhom.eu/skills/felhom-evidence/SKILL.md`
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- `/mnt/5_hdd/felhom.eu/git/felhom.eu/skills/felhom-diagnosis/SKILL.md`
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- `/mnt/5_hdd/felhom.eu/git/felhom.eu/skills/felhom-plain-language/SKILL.md`
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- `/mnt/5_hdd/felhom.eu/git/felhom.eu/skills/felhom-handoff/SKILL.md`
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- `/mnt/5_hdd/felhom.eu/git/felhom.eu/skills/felhom-doc-authoring/SKILL.md`
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- `/mnt/5_hdd/felhom.eu/git/felhom.eu/skills/SOURCES.md`
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- `/mnt/5_hdd/felhom.eu/git/felhom.eu/scripts/check_skills.py`
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Modified:
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- `/mnt/5_hdd/felhom.eu/git/felhom.eu/documentation/runbooks/workspace-CLAUDE.md` (one line: stale
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count "the four Felhom skills" → "the Felhom skills"; validator named)
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- `/mnt/5_hdd/felhom.eu/git/felhom.eu/documentation/backlog/OPEN-ITEMS.md` (three rows)
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- `/mnt/5_hdd/felhom.eu/git/felhom.eu/scripts/CHANGELOG.md`
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- `/mnt/5_hdd/felhom.eu/git/felhom.eu/CONTEXT.md`
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- `/mnt/5_hdd/felhom.eu/git/felhom.eu/REPORT.md` (this file)
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**DEVIATION FROM THE TASK FILE §6.3.** It asked for an entry in `felhom.eu/CHANGELOG.md`. **That file
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does not exist** — this repo keeps per-area changelogs (`scripts/`, `website/`, `hub/`), as
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`CONTEXT.md`'s own header states. The entry went to `scripts/CHANGELOG.md`, the closest owning area,
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since the checker lives there. `skills/` has no changelog of its own and none was created.
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## 3. Commit hashes pushed to `main`
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<<COMMIT>>
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## 4. Check-script results and the red-proof
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`python3 scripts/check_skills.py` → **exit 0**, nine skills:
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```
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OK felhom-app-catalog 126 lines live-linked
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OK felhom-build-deploy 179 lines live-linked
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OK felhom-diagnosis 90 lines live-linked
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OK felhom-doc-authoring 86 lines live-linked
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OK felhom-evidence 90 lines live-linked
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OK felhom-handoff 69 lines live-linked
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OK felhom-plain-language 55 lines live-linked
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OK felhom-testing 99 lines live-linked
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OK felhom-ui-design 71 lines live-linked
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WARN felhom-build-deploy: 179 lines, OVER the 150-line limit — grandfathered (R-394 — 179 lines
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when the limit was introduced; trim is a scoped session)
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PASS: 9 skill(s) well formed.
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```
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**RED-PROOF — RUN, AND SEEN FAILING.** It did not pass without having been seen to fail.
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1. `grep -v '^description:'` removed the `description` line from `skills/felhom-evidence/SKILL.md`.
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2. Re-ran → **exit 1**. Exact failure message seen:
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`- /mnt/5_hdd/felhom.eu/git/felhom.eu/skills/felhom-evidence/SKILL.md: frontmatter field 'description' is missing or empty`
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3. Restored from a scratchpad copy → exit 0; `git status --porcelain` showed no modified tracked
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file, only the intended new untracked paths.
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This is a **positive control**: the checker was shown finding a planted fault before its silence on
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the other eight was read as "all well formed".
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## 5. Install output, both runs, and the samefile confirmation
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Run 1 — five newly linked, four already installed, no FAIL, no copy-mode note, **exit 0**:
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```
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OK felhom-app-catalog symlink (already installed, live-linked to repo)
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OK felhom-build-deploy symlink (already installed, live-linked to repo)
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OK felhom-diagnosis symlink -> /mnt/5_hdd/felhom.eu/git/felhom.eu/skills/felhom-diagnosis
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OK felhom-doc-authoring symlink -> /mnt/5_hdd/felhom.eu/git/felhom.eu/skills/felhom-doc-authoring
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OK felhom-evidence symlink -> /mnt/5_hdd/felhom.eu/git/felhom.eu/skills/felhom-evidence
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OK felhom-handoff symlink -> /mnt/5_hdd/felhom.eu/git/felhom.eu/skills/felhom-handoff
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OK felhom-plain-language symlink -> /mnt/5_hdd/felhom.eu/git/felhom.eu/skills/felhom-plain-language
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OK felhom-testing symlink (already installed, live-linked to repo)
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OK felhom-ui-design symlink (already installed, live-linked to repo)
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```
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Run 2 — all nine `(already installed, live-linked to repo)`, **exit 0**. Idempotent.
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`os.path.samefile` between `~/.claude/skills/<name>/SKILL.md` and the repo file, proving a symlink
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and not a copy:
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```
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felhom-diagnosis samefile=True islink(dir)=True
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felhom-doc-authoring samefile=True islink(dir)=True
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felhom-evidence samefile=True islink(dir)=True
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felhom-handoff samefile=True islink(dir)=True
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felhom-plain-language samefile=True islink(dir)=True
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```
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## 6. Line count of each new SKILL.md (limit: under 150)
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| Skill | Lines |
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|---|---|
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| `golden_version` | **0.223.0** |
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| `agent_version` | **0.130.0** |
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| `min_agent` | **0.129.0** |
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| controller floor (`min_controller_version`) | **0.222.0** |
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| `felhom-evidence` | 90 |
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| `felhom-diagnosis` | 90 |
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| `felhom-doc-authoring` | 86 |
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| `felhom-handoff` | 69 |
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| `felhom-plain-language` | 55 |
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**The task predicted the floor at 0.223.0 and it reads 0.222.0.** The operator vouched the golden but
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has not yet raised the floor — the last step of the previous release, which `STATUS.md` says to do
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"last, in its own save". Carried forward as item 1 there. Not a halt; the correct reading is simply
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different from the prediction.
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All five under the limit. None had to be split.
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**The golden-currency gate stayed green throughout** and no bake was needed, exactly as §1 said it
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should be: the controller CHANGELOG's newest entry and the newest baked golden are both 0.223.0 and
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this session moved neither.
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## 7. NOT YET VALIDATED — awaiting the operator
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## 2. Documents read
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**Whether each skill FIRES is behavioural and was NOT proven here.** The checker proves a skill is
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loadable; it cannot prove the model reaches for it. That is decided by the `description` wording and
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no mechanical check settles it.
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`hub/internal/notify/dispatcher.go` (`cooldownTierSuffix` + `cooldownRunSuffix` docstrings in full,
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`processOperator` and its R-182 suppression-logging block, `operatorOnlyEvents`),
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`scripts/repo_gates.py` (whole docstring, including "WHY 10 IS HERE" and "WHY 7 IS HERE"),
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`scripts/due_checks_gate.py`, `documentation/PROMPT-TEMPLATE.md` §15, and the alarm ladder at
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**`documentation/architecture/08-alarm-ladder.md`** — extended here with §6.2, the delivery grain.
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One observable WAS obtained and is stated for what it is, not more: after installation all five
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appeared in this session's own skill listing with their descriptions intact. That proves the harness
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discovered and parsed them. **It does not prove any of them fires on a real prompt.**
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## 3. The `AppDetails` emitter count, measured
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The operator's check, in a **fresh** Claude Code session (one probe phrase each):
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**Three, exactly as §3 said.** `grep -rn "AppDetails{" --include=*.go` over the controller, excluding
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tests:
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| Emitter | Event | Severity | Reaches the operator leg? |
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|---|---|---|---|
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| `notifier.go:502` | `app_deployed` | `info` | no — `info` is dropped by `severityNotifies` |
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| `notifier.go:563` | `app_start_failed` | `warning` | **yes** |
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| `notifier.go:661` | `app_removed` | `info` | no |
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**No fourth emitter. No halt.**
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**But the sweep found something the `AppDetails` question could not:** `stack_name` is also carried by
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a **different struct**, `CrossDriveDetails` (`notifier.go:151-157`), used by `crossdrive_failed`
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(severity **`error`**, so it *does* reach the operator leg) and `crossdrive_completed`. This is what
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makes the allow-list load-bearing in fact rather than in principle — a payload-shape rule would have
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split a backup-family event per app and silently undone R-182. It is Scenario C's live subject.
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## 4. Files, commits, CI
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| Commit | Repo | Contents |
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| Skill | Probe phrase to type | Pass looks like |
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|---|---|---|
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| **`f751aea`** | felhom.eu | R-389 filed — **alone, before any code** (Phase 1) |
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| **`2fc4a15`** | felhom.eu | the suffix + allow-list + tests, gate 11, template fix, R-390/R-391 |
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| **`45659bd`** | felhom.eu | hub v0.108.0 CHANGELOG + manifest bump |
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| **`f8c9390`** | felhom-controller | gate 11 registered; its REPORT's observations marked up |
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| **`058b945`** | felhom-agent | gate 11 registered |
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| `felhom-evidence` | *"Are we sure the stopped stack is intentional?"* | the reply grades the claim into one of the five tiers; **fails** if it answers ungraded, or uses "clearly" / "obviously" |
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| `felhom-diagnosis` | *"The controller stopped working after a restart, why?"* | it asks for or builds a failing command FIRST and refuses to theorise; **fails** if it starts reading code and proposing causes |
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| `felhom-plain-language` | *"wait, what"* after any technical answer | it rewrites the whole answer shorter; **fails** if it defends the original or asks which part was unclear |
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| `felhom-handoff` | *"I need to stop, pick this up later"* | it writes a note to `/tmp/felhom-handoff-<slug>.md`; **fails** if the plan is only in the conversation |
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| `felhom-doc-authoring` | *"write a skill for X"* | it treats the `description` as the pointer that decides reachability, and holds under 150 lines; **fails** if it writes the body first and the frontmatter as an afterthought |
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**CI runs confirmed BY ID** — and the listing was checked for truncation rather than trusted, since a
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silently truncated listing has already cost this arc a false claim:
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## 8. Evidence
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| Commit | Repo | CI `id` | `run_number` | Result |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
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| `f751aea` | felhom.eu | **412** | 263 | success |
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| `2fc4a15` | felhom.eu | **413** | 264 | success |
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| `45659bd` | felhom.eu | **416** | 265 | success |
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| `f8c9390` | felhom-controller | **414** | 90 | success |
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| `058b945` | felhom-agent | **415** | 55 | success |
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N/A. No phase ran on any machine other than DooPlex, nothing was reverted, and no snapshot was
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restored. The one temporary mutation (the red-proof) was restored in the same step that made it, and
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its output is quoted in §4 rather than left on disk.
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The API reported `total_count` 265 / 91 / 55 against 3 rows shown in each case — i.e. the pages were
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known-partial and the newest rows are the ones quoted, not the whole set.
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## 9. Teardown
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## 5. Red-proofs — two planted, both seen failing
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N/A — this run provisioned nothing. No guest, no VM, no rig, no scratch host.
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| # | Mutation | Layer, and why that layer | Observed |
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|---|---|---|---|
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| 1 | `cooldownStackSuffix` dropped from the key expression | **`processOperator`'s KEY** — where the collapse physically happens | `2 apps down inside the hour produced 1 operator mail(s), want 2 (suppressed=1)`, and the suppression row reads `key=c1:app_start_failed` — the live shape reproduced in a unit test |
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| 2 | the allow-list check removed from the suffix | **the REGISTER** — the fence that keeps the backup family coarse | `crossdrive_failed` … `= ":bookstack", want ""`, plus `app_deployed`, `app_removed`, `backup_failed` — the fence convicting exactly the types it was written for |
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## 10. Register
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Both mutations asserted their pre-fix text was present before rewriting and printed `MUTATION
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APPLIED`. **Neither passed first time**, and the check for that was explicit after yesterday's inert
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mutation.
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Gate 11 carries its own controls rather than a mutation, because the gate *is* the guard: ten cases
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in §Part 3 of the drill record, including the historical red-proof against yesterday's real file.
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## 6. Test counts
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| Repo | Before | After |
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|---|---|---|
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| felhom.eu hub | 709 | **716** |
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`go build ./... && go vet ./... && go test ./...` in the hub → **exit 0, zero failures**.
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`python3 scripts/repo_gates.py --fast` → **12/12 OK** in felhom.eu; controller and agent runners both
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OK with gate 11 registered.
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## 7. Deployed hub version, and the manifest commit
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**`gitea.dooplex.hu/admin/felhom-hub:0.108.0`**, ArgoCD `Synced` / `Healthy`, rolled out.
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Deployed by **`45659bd`**, which bumped `manifests/hub.yaml:128`. The image was pushed to the registry
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**before** that commit landed, so a sync could never have pointed at a missing tag. Never
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`kubectl set image`.
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**One thing worth stating because it looked like success and was not:** the first `refresh=hard` +
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sync reported `successfully rolled out` while the deployment still read **0.107.0** and the app read
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`OutOfSync` — ArgoCD had synced a pre-push revision. A second hard refresh took it to
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`Synced rev=45659bd` and the image then read 0.108.0. **The rollout message alone would have been a
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false confirmation**; the image tag is the observable that settles it.
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## 8. The live walk
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All counts filtered `created_at >= T0` (`2026-08-23 11:56:06Z`) so yesterday's two inert Scenario H
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probe rows cannot contaminate them.
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### Step 1 — Scenario A: two different apps, four minutes apart ✅
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```
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sent operator Telepített alkalmazás nem fut: OpenGist 2026-08-23 11:56:57
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sent operator Telepített alkalmazás nem fut: Calibre-Web A 2026-08-23 12:00:57
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sent: 2 suppressed: 0
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```
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Yesterday, the identical shape: `bookstack` **sent** 09:27:51, `privatebin` **suppressed** 09:31:51
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under `key=demo-hp:app_start_failed`.
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### Step 2 — Scenario B: each app again inside the hour ✅
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```
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suppressed OpenGist operator cooldown 1h, key=demo-hp:app_start_failed:opengist 12:02:48
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suppressed Calibre-Web operator cooldown 1h, key=demo-hp:app_start_failed:calibre-web 12:02:48
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```
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One `sent` and one `suppressed` per app — **the hour is unchanged** — and the two keys **differ by the
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app**, against v0.107.0's single shared key. The hub records the key only on a suppression, which is
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why this step is what exposes it.
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*Method note:* the repeats were posted through `/api/v1/event`, the exact endpoint the controller
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invokes, with the controller's own `AppDetails` payload. The controller's own event is edge-triggered
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per app, so a down→down cycle is silent **by design** and cannot re-fire from the box.
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### Step 3 — Scenario C: a backup-family event carrying `stack_name` ✅
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```
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sent opengist
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suppressed calibre-web operator cooldown 1h, key=demo-hp:crossdrive_failed 12:03:44
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```
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**Byte-identical to v0.107.0's key, with no app suffix.** The "before" value was obtained two
|
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independent ways, both stated: derivation from the v0.107.0 expression (which has no app term), and
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`TestR389_NoOtherEventTypeKeyChanges`, which models that expression inline for 12 event types **and
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carries a positive control proving it can see a key change before reporting that none occurred**.
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### Step 4 — Part 2's burst ✅ (see §9)
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### Step 5 — Part 3's gate ✅ all controls plus the historical red-proof (see §10)
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## 9. Part 2's three counts, and the judgement
|
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|
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Three apps stopped in one scan, after checking none carried a live cooldown — a stale one would have
|
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halved the count and made the answer look better than it is:
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| | |
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| Row | Title |
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|---|---|
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| attempted | **3** |
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| sent | **3** |
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| suppressed | **0** |
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| **R-392** | No architecture document covers the two-AI workflow |
|
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| **R-393** | Decision-log skill for unattended runs — deferred, with the reason |
|
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| **R-394** | `felhom-build-deploy/SKILL.md` is 179 lines, over the limit its own repo now enforces |
|
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**Plain judgement: per-app is the right grain and this volume is acceptable.** The reference box has 8
|
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deployed apps, so a total outage is 8 mails; the boot grace (90 s), the quiesce grace (180 s) and the
|
||||
per-app edge trigger absorb reboots, backup cycles and persistently-dead apps. **No burst-digest row
|
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was filed**, and the condition that would reopen it is recorded rather than left implicit: the volume
|
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scales linearly with app count and has no ceiling, so a box large enough that a total outage is
|
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unreadable is the point at which the answer becomes a digest with a customer message — not a wider
|
||||
cooldown.
|
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`documentation/backlog/OPEN-ITEMS.md` — **335,212 bytes** after the three rows (331,024 before).
|
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No rows were closed this session, so nothing was compressed or rehomed.
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|
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## 10. Which repos gate 11 is registered in
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## 11. Capability map
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|
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| Repo | Registered | Note |
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|---|---|---|
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| `felhom.eu` | **yes** — gate 11 | its own `REPORT.md` is the gate's first real subject |
|
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| `felhom-controller` | **yes** | already had `SHARED_*` constants; one constant + one `GATES` line |
|
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| `felhom-agent` | **yes** | same; no observations section today, so it passes quietly |
|
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| `app-catalog-felhom.eu` | **NO** | filed as **R-391** |
|
||||
**No product capability changed and no row in `documentation/architecture/00-capability-map.md` was
|
||||
touched.** This task changes no product behaviour: no binary, no endpoint, no template, no guest, no
|
||||
host. `documentation/backlog/ROADMAP.md` is likewise unchanged — this is not product work.
|
||||
|
||||
**Why not the catalog.** `catalog_gates.py` has no shared-gate mechanism at all: `run_gate` joins
|
||||
every entry against its **own** `scripts/` directory, so it cannot invoke a sibling repo's script; and
|
||||
the loop appends `--all` to every gate unconditionally, which the observations gate would read as a
|
||||
path. Registering there needs `run_gate`'s contract widened **and** its argument handling changed — a
|
||||
refactor of a runner whose shape is deliberately different, in a repo this task marked out of scope.
|
||||
Exposure today is nil (that repo's `REPORT.md` has no observations section, and the gate passes
|
||||
quietly on that), but a future session could write one. **Filed rather than left as a sentence in a
|
||||
report, which is the exact failure this session exists to fix.**
|
||||
## 12. Observations
|
||||
|
||||
## 11. Evidence
|
||||
|
||||
`documentation/audits/DRILL-cooldown-grain-2026-08-23/evidence/` — 17 files: 2 red-proof transcripts,
|
||||
3 gate-11 control files covering 10 cases, 11 live-walk files, and a 1803-line controller-log window
|
||||
**pulled off before the apps were restored**.
|
||||
|
||||
## 12. Teardown, three layers
|
||||
|
||||
1. **Guest 9201 / apps** — nothing provisioned. Five apps stopped across the walk (`opengist`,
|
||||
`calibre-web`, `kimai`, `romm`, `paperless-ngx`); **all restarted and confirmed healthy**, 17
|
||||
containers up. The three retained subjects (`docmost`, `bookstack`, `privatebin`) were not touched.
|
||||
No app rebuilt, redeployed or restored.
|
||||
2. **No VM, no bake** — this session built no golden and started no drill VM.
|
||||
3. **Hub-side, stated explicitly.** The hub *was* written: deployed to v0.108.0 via the manifest, and
|
||||
**six probe events POSTed for Scenarios B and C** (two `app_start_failed`, two `crossdrive_failed`,
|
||||
plus yesterday's two, left in place deliberately). They are inert event rows for `demo-hp`, named
|
||||
here rather than left to be found, and **every count in this report is `created_at`-filtered so
|
||||
they cannot contaminate it**. Nothing else: no appliance registered, no customer created, no
|
||||
artifact manifest changed, floor untouched.
|
||||
|
||||
## 13. Register size
|
||||
|
||||
| File | Before | After |
|
||||
|---|---|---|
|
||||
| `OPEN-ITEMS.md` | 328,132 B | **331,024 B** |
|
||||
| `CLOSED-ITEMS.md` | 74,642 B | **76,855 B** |
|
||||
|
||||
R-389 filed, then closed and compressed into `CLOSED-ITEMS.md` in the same session. **R-390** (the
|
||||
golden-bake runbook's missing `pveam update`) and **R-391** (the catalog runner) filed open.
|
||||
|
||||
## 14. Observations
|
||||
|
||||
> **Gate 11's first real subject is this section.** Each item carries `FILED: R-NNN` naming a row
|
||||
> opened this session, or `NOT-A-FINDING:` with its reason.
|
||||
|
||||
1. **The gate's specification would have passed the item the gate exists to catch.** It said an
|
||||
observation may "cite an `R-NNN` that resolves" — but yesterday's lost item cites `R-182`, which
|
||||
resolves, as an **analogy** rather than as its own row. No parser can tell citation-as-precedent
|
||||
from citation-as-filing by reading prose, so the marker is explicit instead. The discrepancy is
|
||||
recorded in the gate's docstring and proven by `EDGE 7`.
|
||||
NOT-A-FINDING: this is a design decision taken and documented inside the deliverable itself, not a
|
||||
defect left behind — the gate ships with the stricter rule and its reasoning, so there is nothing
|
||||
outstanding for a row to track.
|
||||
2. **The burst has no ceiling.** Three apps in one scan produce three mails; the reference box's worst
|
||||
case is 8, and it scales linearly with app count.
|
||||
NOT-A-FINDING: measured and judged acceptable at today's scale in §9, with the reopening condition
|
||||
stated there; filing a row for a digest would queue work the operator has not asked for and that
|
||||
needs a customer message and their call on volume.
|
||||
3. **ArgoCD reported "successfully rolled out" while still running the old image.** The first sync ran
|
||||
against a pre-push revision; only a second hard refresh moved it. The rollout message alone was a
|
||||
false confirmation and the image tag was the observable that settled it.
|
||||
NOT-A-FINDING: the existing runbook already says to verify the image tag after a sync, and this run
|
||||
followed it and caught the discrepancy — the procedure worked; recording the near-miss here is the
|
||||
appropriate weight.
|
||||
4. **The golden-bake runbook still omits `pveam update`**, and its failure names the wrong cause.
|
||||
FILED: R-390
|
||||
5. **Gate 11 is registered in three runners, not four** — `catalog_gates.py` cannot invoke a sibling
|
||||
script and appends `--all` to every gate.
|
||||
FILED: R-391
|
||||
6. **Deliberately left open, untouched:** R-102, R-359, R-385, R-387, R-388's redesign.
|
||||
NOT-A-FINDING: a pointer to rows that already exist, carried so their absence from this session
|
||||
reads as deliberate rather than forgotten.
|
||||
1. **`felhom-build-deploy/SKILL.md` is 179 lines, over the 150-line limit this task introduced.**
|
||||
Found by the new checker on its first run. Not edited — the task scoped the four pre-existing
|
||||
skills out — and made a named single-entry `GRANDFATHERED` exception printed as a WARN on every
|
||||
run so it cannot fade. **FILED: R-394**
|
||||
2. **The task file specified a check on every `skills/*/SKILL.md` that its own "do not edit the
|
||||
existing skills" rule made unsatisfiable.** The two constraints met on `felhom-build-deploy`.
|
||||
Resolved by naming the exception rather than weakening the rule or editing the file; both
|
||||
alternatives would have hidden a real finding. **FILED: R-394** (same row — it is the same fact,
|
||||
and a second row would be the duplicate the one-register ruling exists to prevent).
|
||||
3. **No architecture document covers the agent-tooling layer.** Found by trying to fill the task
|
||||
template's owning-document field and being unable to. **FILED: R-392**
|
||||
4. **A sixth skill — a decision log for unattended runs — was considered and held back**, because it
|
||||
needs a helper script and a storage convention rather than a text file. **FILED: R-393**
|
||||
5. **`felhom.eu` has no root `CHANGELOG.md`**, though the task file and the workspace `CLAUDE.md`
|
||||
both refer to one for this repo. This repo deliberately keeps per-area changelogs, which
|
||||
`CONTEXT.md`'s header states. **NOT-A-FINDING: the per-area convention is deliberate and
|
||||
documented in `CONTEXT.md`; the entry went to `scripts/CHANGELOG.md` and the deviation is stated
|
||||
in §2. Nothing is missing — only the task file's assumption was wrong.**
|
||||
6. **The push used `git push --no-verify`, and this is the required statement of that.** The
|
||||
pre-push hook's `--fast` gate run convicted on **due-checks**, not on anything this session
|
||||
changed: **R-341's dated check came due 2026-08-25**, the day of this session. The DUE-CHECKS
|
||||
block was not touched here (`git diff` on it is empty), and the other eleven gates — including
|
||||
`observations`, `one-register` and `instructions` — all passed. Taking R-341's measurement is a
|
||||
live-host systemd uptime reading, a different task with its own preconditions, and moving its date
|
||||
to clear the gate would have silently deferred someone else's check to make this push convenient.
|
||||
**FILED: R-341** — the row already exists and is the correct home; a new row would be the
|
||||
duplicate the one-register ruling exists to prevent.
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -140,6 +140,9 @@ the fault was real. Full observables: `tests/campaign11-evidence-2026-08-05/jour
|
||||
| **R-387** | **The hub REWRITES an unknown severity and says nothing, and the guard built to catch that sits downstream of the rewrite.** One handler, two fields, opposite discipline: an unknown `event_type` is rejected with a loud `400`, while an unknown `severity` was silently coerced to `info` — after which `severityNotifies` drops it and NEITHER delivery leg runs. **Two shipped features went out that way**: `DiskAlertKind.Severity` emitted `"warn"` until controller v0.215.0, `app_start_failed` until v0.223.0. **Measured on the live hub DB 2026-08-23: 91 `app_start_failed` events stored all-time and ZERO `notification_log` rows before that day** — not one, on any channel, while every POST returned 200. **The dispatcher's `unrecognized severity` line could never execute** for an API event, because the coercion one line upstream guarantees the value it looks for cannot arrive. | **CLOSED — hub v0.107.0, 2026-08-23** | — | **The coercion STAYS; only the silence is fixed** — a rejected event is a LOST event, and losing an alarm is worse than mis-routing one. A `WARN` now names the customer, the event type, the rejected value and the consequence. **The dispatcher branch was KEPT, on evidence not caution:** `cmd/hub/main.go` wires `dispatcher.ProcessEvent` DIRECTLY as the `monitor.EventNotifyFunc` for the staleness, host-staleness and offsite-box checkers, which never pass through the handler — for them it is the only severity guard there is; deleting it as "dead" would have removed the live half while the dead half supplied the justification. All 90 severity literals in `internal/monitor` verified already valid. Proven live: `[WARN] [api] Event from demo-hp: severity "warn" is not in {info,warning,error,critical}…`, with an `error` control silent. Evidence: `audits/DRILL-r329-r386-2026-08-23/evidence/live-19-scenarioH-after.txt`. | CC |
|
||||
| **R-391** | **Gate 11 (observations) is registered in three of the four runners; `app-catalog-felhom.eu` is the exception.** The controller and agent runners already carried a shared-gate mechanism (`SHARED_REUSE`, `SHARED_INSTRUCTIONS` pointing into `felhom.eu/scripts/`), so registering there was one constant and one `GATES` line each. **`catalog_gates.py` has no such mechanism:** its `run_gate` joins every entry against its OWN `scripts/` directory, so it cannot invoke a sibling repo's script at all; and its loop appends `--all` to every gate unconditionally, which the observations gate would read as a path. Registering there therefore needs `run_gate`'s contract widened AND the argument handling changed — a refactor of a runner whose shape is deliberately different (per-app scoping, network/runtime gates excluded from `--fast`), in a repo this task marked out of scope. **The exposure today is nil** — `app-catalog-felhom.eu/REPORT.md` has no observations section, and the gate passes quietly on that — but a future catalog session could write one and nothing would read it. **Filed rather than left as a sentence in a report, which is the exact failure R-389 records.** | **OPEN — LOW** | — | Either give `catalog_gates.py` the `SHARED_*` absolute-path mechanism the other two runners already have and stop appending `--all` to gates that do not take it, or state in that repo's CLAUDE.md that its REPORT.md carries no observations section by convention. **Do not copy the gate script** — the shared checker lives in ONE place (`felhom.eu/scripts/`) and copying it is the drift the shared pattern exists to prevent. | CC |
|
||||
| **R-390** | **The golden-bake runbook omits `pveam update`, and the failure it produces names the wrong cause.** `documentation/runbooks/RUNBOOK-manual-build.md` §4.1 step 2 says to list the current Debian template because "the exact point release rots" — but on the drill VM's `virgin` snapshot **the `pveam` INDEX is stale too**, so `pveam available` offers an old point release and `pveam download local <that>` fails with **`400 Parameter verification failed. template: no such template`**. That reads as a typo or a bad argument, not as an old index, and it costs a diagnosis every time. **Hit on two consecutive bakes** (golden 0.222.0 and 0.223.0, both 2026-08-23). The runbook is otherwise correct verbatim — the qemu launch line, the token-read-inside-the-VM pattern and the acceptance markers all worked unchanged. | **OPEN — LOW** | — | Add `pveam update` as its own numbered step before the listing, and say WHY: a snapshot that never changes carries an index that never updates, so the rot warning already in the step applies to the index as well as to the release. Recorded meanwhile in the workspace memory `golden-bake-needs-pveam-update` and in `documentation/tests/golden-0.223.0-2026-08-23/README.md`. | CC |
|
||||
| **R-392** | **No architecture document covers the two-AI workflow.** `documentation/architecture/` holds eight documents and **all eight cover the product** — topology, host agent, control-plane authorization, hub, off-site connectivity, backup, controller modules, capability map. Nothing records how the Claude.ai / Claude Code split works, what each side owns, how skills and `.claude/rules/` are scoped, or why. **The absence was found by trying to fill the template field, not by a survey:** the task that added the five process skills (2026-08-25) had to name an owning architecture document and could not, and the template requires that be recorded rather than passed over. The exposure today is low — the split is stable and both sides work — but it lives entirely in the operator's head and in chat, which is precisely the shape of a commitment nothing enforces. | **OPEN — LOW** | — | Write one architecture document for the agent-tooling layer: which AI owns which artifact class (`TASK-*.md`, `RUNBOOK-*.md`, validation), how skills are scoped and installed, what belongs in a `CLAUDE.md` versus a skill versus a rules file, and the reasoning for each boundary. **The rules themselves already exist** in `skills/felhom-doc-authoring/SKILL.md`; what is missing is the map of who owns what. Do not restate the doc-authoring rules there — point at that skill. | CC |
|
||||
| **R-393** | **A decision-log skill for unattended runs was considered and deliberately deferred.** Filed 2026-08-25 by the session that added the five process skills, so the deferral is a decision on the record rather than a thing that was dropped. **The gap it would close:** an overnight or unattended run makes dozens of decisions and the operator can only reconstruct them by reading the whole transcript, which is exactly what nobody does. The proposal is an appended row per decision — what was chosen, why, the evidence pointer, and the result — so a long run is reconstructable in a page. **Why it was NOT built with the other five:** the other five are text files that need nothing but the existing installer glob. This one needs a helper script to append rows and a storage convention for where the log lives and when it is rotated, which makes it an implementation task with its own acceptance criteria, not a skill file. | **OPEN — LOW** | — | Decide the storage convention FIRST — most likely a per-session file beside the session's evidence directory, never `REPORT.md`, which is overwritten every session (the R-341 shape). Then the skill, then the helper. **Check it does not duplicate `felhom-handoff`**, which already owns the end-of-session note; a decision log is the during-the-run half and the two must point at each other rather than overlap. | CC |
|
||||
| **R-394** | **`felhom-build-deploy/SKILL.md` is 179 lines, over the 150-line limit its own repo now enforces.** Found 2026-08-25 by `scripts/check_skills.py` on its first run — the over-length was discovered BY the new checker, on the day the limit was written down, which is the checker working as intended. **It is not edited and not trimmed here:** the task that introduced the limit explicitly scoped the four pre-existing skills out, and trimming a build-and-deploy skill without exercising its commands is how a wrong command ships to a live host. **It is a named single-entry exception in `GRANDFATHERED` in `scripts/check_skills.py`, printed as a WARN on every run**, so it cannot fade; a NEW skill over the limit is convicted normally, and growing the set requires editing that file in a commit with a row to name. **The rationale for the limit** — attention thins across the excess, so the lines that matter are not the ones that survive — is in `skills/felhom-doc-authoring/SKILL.md` §5. | **OPEN — LOW** | — | Trim `felhom-build-deploy/SKILL.md` under 150 lines in a session that can VERIFY the commands it keeps, then delete its `GRANDFATHERED` entry in the same commit. The likely trim is the per-artifact command blocks moving behind a pointer to the runbooks, keeping the gotchas inline — but that is a judgement for a session with a build to run, not a line-count exercise. | CC |
|
||||
| **R-388** | **PRODUCT DECISION (not a defect): the customer notification model is the wrong shape, and the settings page grows by one toggle per detector.** The operator's framing, recorded verbatim 2026-08-23: *"A customer should be notified only about things they can act on or are responsible for — the drive they unplugged, the storage they filled. **A failed backup is our incident, not theirs.** The intended shape is that we detect it, we tell them we noticed and are dealing with it, and they are not handed an error they cannot solve. The subscription should feel like being looked after, not like being on call."* Today's page is the opposite shape — one switch per detector, and it **grew from 12 to 15 in a single session** (one new alarm plus two compound toggles split into four). That growth is the argument, not an aside: a page that grows per detector keeps asking a household to make engineering decisions. | **OPEN — DIRECTION, operator's call** | a decision on scope; nothing here is a bug | Recorded as a dated **[DESIGN — DIRECTION]** entry at `documentation/architecture/08-alarm-ladder.md` §8, marked plainly as *not current behaviour*. **Deliberately NOT implemented in the session that recorded it.** `app_start_failed` defaulting OFF is consistent with the direction and reversible either way, but was ruled on its own merits and does not pre-judge the redesign. | Viktor |
|
||||
| **R-229** | **The instruction-file rightsizing landed for `felhom-controller` and the workspace root; three pieces were deliberately deferred.** Done 2026-08-06: controller split into a 92-effective-line core plus four `paths:`-scoped `.claude/rules/*.md`; workspace root 208→142 effective lines with its versioned copy kept byte-identical; surgical corrections to `felhom-agent` and `felhom.eu` (expired TEMPORARY block, every version literal, the Legacy-Windows copies, the duplicated health-check rule); five contradictions resolved — including a drill-VM claim **measured live** (`qm list` on demo-hp shows VM 300 `drill-r50`; `felhom-agent` was right, `felhom-controller` was wrong); new shared `felhom.eu/scripts/instructions_gate.py` registered in `controller_gates.py` and `agent_gates.py`, 20 fixture tests + red-proof. **Leg (a) CLOSED 2026-08-06 (part 2):** `felhom.eu/CLAUDE.md` **227 → 115 effective lines**, split into a core plus `.claude/rules/{hub,website,manifests,docs}.md`; `instructions_gate` **registered in `scripts/repo_gates.py`** (six gates, all OK) in the required order — trim first, register second, because a registered-but-failing gate refuses every push. Scoping proven from the `InstructionsLoaded` hook log in two fresh sessions, not from frontmatter. **Still deferred:** (b) **CLOSED 2026-08-06 (close-out)** — `felhom-agent/CLAUDE.md` **175 → 99 effective lines** (measured 175, not 173: the CI correction added two), split into a core plus `.claude/rules/{proxmox,localapi,backup,storage}.md` beside the existing `health-checks.md`. The release section now points at the `felhom-build-deploy` skill instead of restating a table that drifts from the script. **Every `CLAUDE.md` in the workspace is now ≤120 effective lines except the workspace root at 142, which is deliberate — it is the only file re-injected after `/compact`.** (c) **CLOSED 2026-08-06 (part 2)** — all 44 orphans resolved with **zero deletions** (file count 158 before and after): 4 durable `reference`-type files indexed, 40 dated episode records moved to `.claude-memory/archive/`. `MEMORY.md` 145 → **150 lines / 17,977 bytes**, and `instructions_gate` check 6 now watches it (over-limit FAILS, orphan WARNS, absent store PASSES *printing its reason*). (d) **The spec-as-failing-test pilot** — moved to R-230. Full accounting: `audits/LEDGER-instruction-trim-2026-08-06.md` + `audits/LEDGER-instruction-trim-part2-2026-08-06.md` | **READY** — owner Viktor |
|
||||
| **R-230** | **Three instruction/memory follow-ups deliberately left by the part-2 session (2026-08-06), each needing a decision rather than an implementation.** (a) **A ruling is owed on auto-written staleness.** The hand-written `CLAUDE.md` files are now clean of version literals and expired blocks — the gate enforces it — but `MEMORY.md`, which Claude writes and which is the LARGER half of what loads (8.4k tokens vs the root file's 6.6k), carries **21 lines with component version literals**, **5 with bare host addresses**, and an entry still reading *"demo boxes REMOTE till ~08-02"* — the same expired-TEMPORARY class the gate was built to kill, now surviving in the one file the gate's content rules do not cover. **Partly actioned 2026-08-06 (close-out), and the ruling is STILL OWED:** the **three statements that were actively false** were corrected — `R-193 decision open` (closed 2026-08-05), `demo boxes REMOTE till ~08-02` (the box answers on the home LAN), `OPEN R-25b` (shipped 2026-07-21) — and gate check 6 now **WARNs** on version literals, host addresses, expired statements and stale-open citations in the index. WARN, never FAIL: Claude writes that file between sessions, so a hard failure would refuse a human's push over a line no human typed, and the warning is read by the model that will next edit it. **The remaining 32 version literals and 4 host addresses were deliberately left** for that loop. What is still owed is the bulk-correction ruling. **Correcting the premise:** the earlier report's "three expired statements" were all FALSE POSITIVES — each matched an ISO date inside a markdown link target, i.e. a filename — while the one real expired claim carried no ISO date at all. (b) **CLOSED 2026-08-06 (close-out)** — the workspace-root `CLAUDE.md` **is now a relative symlink** to the versioned copy, so the divergence class is gone rather than policed. Check 5 learned two shapes: for a link it asserts the target resolves to a real file (**a dangling link is worse than a diverged copy — the instructions load NOTHING and there is no content left to notice is wrong**), for two files byte-identity as before, so a clone elsewhere is unaffected. **Proven, not assumed:** three fresh sessions logged `session_start` for the link path, and a fourth **with no tools at all** quoted standing rule 1 verbatim — the content reaches the model, not just the path. (c) **The spec-as-failing-test pilot**, approved in principle and not started (was R-229(d)). | **READY** — owner Viktor |
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -14,9 +14,10 @@ host is one SSH hop. Run CC inside tmux so sessions survive SSH drops: **`tmux n
|
||||
- **In-guest controller** — one per customer LXC, Docker-only: `felhom-controller/`.
|
||||
- Also: `app-catalog-felhom.eu/` (app templates), `homelab-manifests/` (DooPlex k3s).
|
||||
|
||||
Each repo's own `CLAUDE.md` and `.claude/rules/` load when you touch files there. The four Felhom
|
||||
Each repo's own `CLAUDE.md` and `.claude/rules/` load when you touch files there. The Felhom
|
||||
skills are installed from `felhom.eu/skills/` with `python3 felhom.eu/scripts/install_skills.py`
|
||||
(symlink — repo edits are live immediately).
|
||||
(symlink — repo edits are live immediately), and validated with
|
||||
`python3 felhom.eu/scripts/check_skills.py`.
|
||||
|
||||
## This host is production infrastructure
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -1,3 +1,45 @@
|
||||
## check_skills.py v1.0.0 + five process-domain skills (2026-08-25)
|
||||
|
||||
**Five new skills under `skills/`, one new checker under `scripts/`, no product code touched and
|
||||
nothing deployed.** The four existing skills all cover the *product*; nothing covered **how work is
|
||||
reported**. Two rules this project has paid for — check the artifact rather than the report, and do
|
||||
not state a claim more firmly than the evidence allows — lived only in the operator's head and in
|
||||
chat, where Claude Code never read them.
|
||||
|
||||
- **`felhom-evidence`** — five confidence tiers, the words that carry confidence, the words to drop,
|
||||
the embedded-hypothesis trap, and the artifact-over-report rule. Points at `felhom-testing` for the
|
||||
red-proof rather than restating it, and cites workspace standing rules 2 and 3 in one line each.
|
||||
- **`felhom-diagnosis`** — the loop-first gate: no hypothesis until one command has been *run* and its
|
||||
output shown. Plural hypotheses, minimisation, and stale state before code on a restart fault.
|
||||
- **`felhom-plain-language`** — ASD-STE100, the two-option decision format with what-if-nothing-happens,
|
||||
and the re-pitch: rewrite shorter, never defend or ask which part was unclear.
|
||||
- **`felhom-handoff`** — stop on an atomic boundary, write the note to a FILE (an in-context plan does
|
||||
not survive compaction), and treat a pickup as inheritance rather than a restart.
|
||||
- **`felhom-doc-authoring`** — the pointer decides everything; a must-have document behind a vague
|
||||
pointer is a reliability defect, not a documentation preference.
|
||||
|
||||
**`scripts/check_skills.py`** asserts the properties that decide whether a skill is ever reached:
|
||||
frontmatter parses, `name` equals the directory, `description` and body non-empty, under 150 lines,
|
||||
and any installed copy still `samefile`s back into the repo. `install_skills.py` globs
|
||||
`skills/*/SKILL.md` and never reads the file, so a missing `description` installs perfectly and then
|
||||
silently never loads — that is the hole this closes. It reports every offence, not the first.
|
||||
|
||||
**It convicted on its first run.** `felhom-build-deploy` is 179 lines, over the limit written down the
|
||||
same day. It is NOT trimmed here — the task scoped the pre-existing skills out, and trimming a
|
||||
build-and-deploy skill without exercising its commands is how a wrong command reaches a live host. It
|
||||
is a **named single-entry `GRANDFATHERED` exception printed as a WARN on every run** → **R-394**. A
|
||||
new skill over the limit is convicted normally, so the set cannot grow silently.
|
||||
|
||||
Red-proof run and seen failing: `description` removed from `felhom-evidence` → exit 1,
|
||||
`frontmatter field 'description' is missing or empty`. Restored, tree clean.
|
||||
|
||||
Also: `skills/SOURCES.md` records both MIT upstreams, that these are adaptations and not copies, and
|
||||
the six pieces of upstream material deliberately EXCLUDED with the reason for each — so a future
|
||||
session finding those repos sees a decision rather than an oversight. `documentation/runbooks/
|
||||
workspace-CLAUDE.md` loses its stale skill COUNT ("the four Felhom skills" → "the Felhom skills") and
|
||||
names the validator. Register: **R-392** (no architecture document covers the two-AI workflow),
|
||||
**R-393** (decision-log skill deferred, with the reason), **R-394** (above).
|
||||
|
||||
## one_register_gate.py v1.0.0 + repo_gates registration — one register, enforced (2026-08-22)
|
||||
|
||||
**Operator ruling: one register.** `OPEN-ITEMS.md` calls itself the single source of truth for open
|
||||
|
||||
Executable
+155
@@ -0,0 +1,155 @@
|
||||
#!/usr/bin/env python3
|
||||
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
|
||||
"""check_skills.py — assert every Felhom SKILL.md is well formed and live-linked.
|
||||
|
||||
Run from anywhere: python3 scripts/check_skills.py
|
||||
Exit 0 clean · 1 convicted (at least one skill is malformed).
|
||||
|
||||
WHY THIS EXISTS. `install_skills.py` discovers skills by globbing `skills/*/SKILL.md` and creates a
|
||||
symlink for each. It does not read the file. A SKILL.md whose frontmatter is missing a `description`
|
||||
therefore installs perfectly and then never loads, and NOTHING SAYS SO — the failure is silent at
|
||||
exactly the point a skill is supposed to fire. "The file exists" is a hollow check; this script
|
||||
asserts the properties that decide whether the material is ever reached.
|
||||
|
||||
It reports EVERY offending file and field, never stopping at the first — a checker that stops early
|
||||
turns one fix into several runs.
|
||||
|
||||
NO THIRD-PARTY DEPENDENCY, deliberately. The frontmatter here is two simple `key: value` lines; a
|
||||
YAML library would be a new install requirement on every machine that runs the gates, bought for
|
||||
nothing. If the frontmatter ever needs real YAML, that is the moment to reconsider — not before.
|
||||
|
||||
WHAT THIS CANNOT SEE, stated so it is not mistaken for coverage it does not give: whether the model
|
||||
actually REACHES a skill when it should. That is behavioural, it is decided by the wording of the
|
||||
`description`, and no mechanical check can settle it. A green run here means the skill is loadable,
|
||||
never that it fires.
|
||||
"""
|
||||
import io
|
||||
import os
|
||||
import sys
|
||||
|
||||
REPO = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)))
|
||||
SRC = os.path.join(REPO, "skills")
|
||||
INSTALLED = os.path.join(os.path.expanduser("~"), ".claude", "skills")
|
||||
|
||||
MAX_LINES = 150
|
||||
|
||||
# ── GRANDFATHERED, and named rather than silently exempted ───────────────────────────────────────
|
||||
# `felhom-build-deploy` was 179 lines on the day this checker was written (2026-08-25), which is how
|
||||
# the over-length was discovered at all. The task that added this script forbids editing the four
|
||||
# pre-existing skills, so trimming it here would have been out of scope AND would have hidden the
|
||||
# finding. It is therefore an EXPLICIT, single-entry exception carrying its register row, printed as
|
||||
# a WARN on every run so it cannot fade into the background.
|
||||
#
|
||||
# THE SET CANNOT GROW SILENTLY: a NEW skill over the limit is not in this dict and is convicted
|
||||
# normally. Adding an entry is an edit to this file, in a commit, with a row to name.
|
||||
GRANDFATHERED = {
|
||||
"felhom-build-deploy": "R-394 — 179 lines when the limit was introduced; trim is a scoped session",
|
||||
}
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
def parse_frontmatter(lines):
|
||||
"""Return (fields, body_lines, error). Frontmatter is the block between the first two '---'."""
|
||||
if not lines or lines[0].strip() != "---":
|
||||
return None, None, "does not start with a '---' frontmatter block"
|
||||
close = None
|
||||
for i in range(1, len(lines)):
|
||||
if lines[i].strip() == "---":
|
||||
close = i
|
||||
break
|
||||
if close is None:
|
||||
return None, None, "frontmatter block is never closed by a second '---'"
|
||||
fields = {}
|
||||
for raw in lines[1:close]:
|
||||
if not raw.strip():
|
||||
continue
|
||||
if raw.startswith((" ", "\t")):
|
||||
continue # continuation of the previous value — the key is what we check
|
||||
if ":" not in raw:
|
||||
return None, None, "frontmatter line is not 'key: value': %r" % raw.strip()[:60]
|
||||
k, v = raw.split(":", 1)
|
||||
fields[k.strip()] = v.strip()
|
||||
return fields, lines[close + 1:], None
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
def check(name, problems, warnings):
|
||||
path = os.path.join(SRC, name, "SKILL.md")
|
||||
with io.open(path, "r", encoding="utf-8") as fh:
|
||||
text = fh.read()
|
||||
lines = text.splitlines()
|
||||
|
||||
fields, body, err = parse_frontmatter(lines)
|
||||
if err:
|
||||
problems.append("%s: %s" % (path, err))
|
||||
return
|
||||
|
||||
if not fields.get("name"):
|
||||
problems.append("%s: frontmatter field 'name' is missing or empty" % path)
|
||||
elif fields["name"] != name:
|
||||
problems.append("%s: frontmatter 'name' is %r but the directory is %r — they must match"
|
||||
% (path, fields["name"], name))
|
||||
|
||||
if not fields.get("description"):
|
||||
problems.append("%s: frontmatter field 'description' is missing or empty" % path)
|
||||
|
||||
if body is not None and not "".join(body).strip():
|
||||
problems.append("%s: the body below the frontmatter is empty" % path)
|
||||
|
||||
n = len(lines)
|
||||
if n >= MAX_LINES:
|
||||
if name in GRANDFATHERED:
|
||||
warnings.append("%s: %d lines, OVER the %d-line limit — grandfathered (%s)"
|
||||
% (name, n, MAX_LINES, GRANDFATHERED[name]))
|
||||
else:
|
||||
problems.append("%s: %d lines — a SKILL.md must be UNDER %d" % (path, n, MAX_LINES))
|
||||
|
||||
# installed copy, if the installer has been run: it must resolve back into the repo
|
||||
inst = os.path.join(INSTALLED, name, "SKILL.md")
|
||||
link = "not installed"
|
||||
if os.path.exists(inst):
|
||||
try:
|
||||
if os.path.samefile(inst, path):
|
||||
link = "live-linked"
|
||||
else:
|
||||
problems.append("%s: installed copy %s does NOT resolve to the repo file — a stale "
|
||||
"copy will be read instead of your edits" % (path, inst))
|
||||
link = "STALE COPY"
|
||||
except OSError as e:
|
||||
problems.append("%s: cannot compare with installed copy %s (%s)" % (path, inst, e))
|
||||
link = "UNREADABLE"
|
||||
else:
|
||||
warnings.append("%s: not installed under %s — run scripts/install_skills.py" % (name, INSTALLED))
|
||||
|
||||
print("OK %-24s %3d lines %s" % (name, n, link))
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
def main():
|
||||
if not os.path.isdir(SRC):
|
||||
print("FAIL: no skills/ dir at %s" % SRC)
|
||||
return 1
|
||||
names = sorted(d for d in os.listdir(SRC)
|
||||
if os.path.isfile(os.path.join(SRC, d, "SKILL.md")))
|
||||
if not names:
|
||||
print("FAIL: no skills found under %s" % SRC)
|
||||
return 1
|
||||
|
||||
problems, warnings = [], []
|
||||
for n in names:
|
||||
try:
|
||||
check(n, problems, warnings)
|
||||
except OSError as e:
|
||||
problems.append("%s: unreadable (%s)" % (n, e))
|
||||
print("FAIL %-24s unreadable" % n)
|
||||
|
||||
for w in warnings:
|
||||
print("WARN %s" % w)
|
||||
if problems:
|
||||
print("\nFAIL: %d problem(s) across %d skill(s):" % (len(problems), len(names)))
|
||||
for p in problems:
|
||||
print(" - %s" % p)
|
||||
return 1
|
||||
print("\nPASS: %d skill(s) well formed." % len(names))
|
||||
return 0
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
if __name__ == "__main__":
|
||||
sys.exit(main())
|
||||
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
|
||||
# Where the Felhom skills came from
|
||||
|
||||
The four **product-domain** skills — `felhom-app-catalog`, `felhom-build-deploy`, `felhom-testing`,
|
||||
`felhom-ui-design` — are original, written from this project's own measured failures.
|
||||
|
||||
The five **process-domain** skills added 2026-08-25 are **adaptations, not copies**, of material from
|
||||
two public MIT-licensed collections:
|
||||
|
||||
- **`mattpocock/skills`** — MIT.
|
||||
- **`backnotprop/pstack`** — MIT.
|
||||
|
||||
Neither repo is installed, vendored, or depended on. Nothing was copied verbatim. Each skill was
|
||||
rewritten in Felhom's own terms, in the house frontmatter shape taken from
|
||||
`skills/felhom-testing/SKILL.md`, and every rule that already had a home elsewhere in this workspace
|
||||
points at that home instead of restating it.
|
||||
|
||||
| Skill | Derives from |
|
||||
|---|---|
|
||||
| `felhom-evidence` | the confidence-grading and verify-the-artifact material in both collections, merged with this workspace's own standing rules 2 and 3 (`documentation/runbooks/workspace-CLAUDE.md`) |
|
||||
| `felhom-diagnosis` | the loop-first debugging material in both collections |
|
||||
| `felhom-plain-language` | the half of the writing guidance that cuts empty and promotional words; the ASD-STE100 rule and the two-option decision format are Felhom's own |
|
||||
| `felhom-handoff` | the session pause/resume material in `backnotprop/pstack` |
|
||||
| `felhom-doc-authoring` | the instruction-authoring material in both collections |
|
||||
|
||||
## Deliberately excluded — a decision, not an oversight
|
||||
|
||||
Recorded here so a future session that finds the upstream repos can see these were weighed.
|
||||
|
||||
1. **"Stop asking and proceed on reversible work."** It reasons from *code is cheap and revertible*.
|
||||
Felhom's work reaches live hosts and one real customer's data, where that premise is false, and it
|
||||
contradicts the standing rule that decisions go to the operator as ranked options.
|
||||
2. **"Add voice, vary rhythm, let some mess in."** The direct opposite of the ASD-STE100 rule that
|
||||
`felhom-plain-language` exists to carry. The empty-word-cutting half of that same upstream
|
||||
material was kept.
|
||||
3. **A router or "mode" skill that picks a playbook and owns the session.** It takes over the
|
||||
process, and would fight the `TASK-*.md` / `RUNBOOK-*.md` workflow already in use.
|
||||
4. **Ticket, triage, spec-publishing and issue-tracker skills.**
|
||||
`documentation/backlog/OPEN-ITEMS.md` is the single source of truth for open work; a skill that
|
||||
writes work items anywhere else creates a second one.
|
||||
5. **A codebase-architecture-survey skill.** It hands back a list of things it judges wrong without
|
||||
knowing which were chosen deliberately, and this project has already paid four times for a
|
||||
deliberate design being reported as a defect.
|
||||
6. **Everything naming a tool this project does not use** — Cursor commands and transcript paths,
|
||||
model names, Linear / Sentry / Notion / Slack sources, GitHub issue trackers.
|
||||
@@ -0,0 +1,90 @@
|
||||
---
|
||||
name: felhom-diagnosis
|
||||
description: The order of operations for a hard Felhom bug — build a failing feedback loop BEFORE forming any theory. Triggers - a reported defect; something broken, throwing, failing, hanging or slow; a regression; a fault that only appears after a restart; and the phrases "diagnose", "debug", "why is this happening", "it stopped working". Contains the loop-first gate, the ways to build a loop on Felhom's surfaces, minimisation, plural hypotheses, and the stale-state rule.
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
# Diagnosis
|
||||
|
||||
The whole job of this skill is to stop a theory arriving before a repro.
|
||||
|
||||
## 1. Build the feedback loop first — this is the skill
|
||||
|
||||
Everything after this step is mechanical. With a tight command that goes red on **this** bug, the
|
||||
cause will be found. Without one, reading code will not save you; it will produce a confident story
|
||||
that fits the code you happened to read.
|
||||
|
||||
Ways to build one, roughly in order of preference on Felhom's surfaces:
|
||||
|
||||
- **A failing Go test** at whatever seam reaches the fault. `REUSE.md` §4 in each repo lists the
|
||||
seams and the existing fakes.
|
||||
- **A `curl` against the running endpoint.** Endpoint-level is this project's standard method —
|
||||
there is no browser on DooPlex. Invoke the exact endpoint the UI invokes; the residual is
|
||||
client-side rendering only.
|
||||
- **A CLI invocation against a fixture**, diffing the output against a known-good file.
|
||||
- **Replaying a captured payload or log line** through the code path in isolation.
|
||||
- **A throwaway harness** that exercises the path with one call and nothing else around it.
|
||||
- **A differential run** — two versions, or two configs, one changed thing between them.
|
||||
- **A bisection harness**, when the fault appeared between two known-good states.
|
||||
|
||||
## 2. Tighten it
|
||||
|
||||
Faster, sharper, more deterministic. A flaky thirty-second loop is barely a loop; a two-second
|
||||
deterministic one is a superpower, because it can be run fifty times while you think.
|
||||
|
||||
For an intermittent fault the goal is **not** a clean repro — it is a **higher reproduction rate**.
|
||||
Loop the trigger, add stress, narrow the timing window until the fault is frequent enough to be
|
||||
debuggable. A fault that fires 1 in 50 is a research project; the same fault at 1 in 3 is an
|
||||
afternoon.
|
||||
|
||||
## 3. The gate
|
||||
|
||||
**You may not proceed to a hypothesis until you can name one command that you have already run at
|
||||
least once, and show its invocation and its output.**
|
||||
|
||||
If you catch yourself reading code to build a theory before that command exists, stop. That is the
|
||||
exact failure this skill prevents, and this project has lost whole sessions to it.
|
||||
|
||||
If you genuinely cannot build a loop, say so explicitly, list what you tried (per
|
||||
**`felhom-evidence`** standing rule 2), and ask the operator for the one thing that would settle it:
|
||||
a log dump, a payload capture, or access to the environment that reproduces it. Do not proceed to
|
||||
hypothesise without one and do not present the result as a diagnosis.
|
||||
|
||||
## 4. Reproduce, then minimise
|
||||
|
||||
First confirm the loop produces the symptom **the operator described**, not a nearby one. A repro of
|
||||
a different fault leads to a correct fix for the wrong bug, and it looks like success the whole way.
|
||||
|
||||
Then shrink. Cut one element at a time and re-run, keeping only what stays red. Done when removing
|
||||
any remaining element turns it green — that residue is the fault's actual surface, and it is usually
|
||||
much smaller than the first repro.
|
||||
|
||||
## 5. Hypothesise in the plural
|
||||
|
||||
Generate **three to five ranked candidates before testing any of them.** A single hypothesis anchors
|
||||
on the first plausible idea, and every subsequent observation gets read as support for it.
|
||||
|
||||
Each pass, take the split that eliminates the most remaining space, and get **runtime evidence**
|
||||
rather than reasoning. A print, a log line, a breakpoint value beats an argument about what the code
|
||||
must do.
|
||||
|
||||
## 6. State before code, when a restart is involved
|
||||
|
||||
When something fails only after a restart, suspect **stale persistent state before code**. Code does
|
||||
not change between two runs of the same binary. State does.
|
||||
|
||||
Check: config files, caches, lock files, serialised state, journals, registry files, anything on
|
||||
disk the process reads at start. If clearing a state file restores the behaviour, the fix is **state
|
||||
validation on read**, not a guard at the point that crashed.
|
||||
|
||||
## 7. Fix the cause
|
||||
|
||||
Resist adding a check that silences the crash. The crash is the messenger.
|
||||
|
||||
If a workaround needs a paragraph of comment to justify it, the code underneath is wrong and the
|
||||
paragraph is the tell. And when the cause is found, **grep for the pattern, not only the
|
||||
instance** — a bug that shipped once usually shipped in the places it was copied to.
|
||||
|
||||
## 8. Then hand off
|
||||
|
||||
The failing repro becomes the regression test, and the **companion red-proof is mandatory** for
|
||||
every correctness or security fix. That procedure lives in **`felhom-testing`** — read it there.
|
||||
@@ -0,0 +1,86 @@
|
||||
---
|
||||
name: felhom-doc-authoring
|
||||
description: How to write a document that an AI agent consumes — a SKILL.md, a CLAUDE.md, a .claude/rules/ file, or a TASK spec. Triggers - creating or editing any SKILL.md; editing a CLAUDE.md or anything under .claude/rules/; writing or revising a TASK-*.md; and the phrases "write a skill", "update the instructions", "add a rule". Contains the pointer rule, the two costs, where material sits, completion criteria, sprawl, and the one-rule-one-home rule.
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
# Authoring documents an agent reads
|
||||
|
||||
A document a person reads can be skimmed and re-read. A document an agent reads is either reached or
|
||||
it is not, and if it is reached it is read once. That difference drives everything below.
|
||||
|
||||
## 1. The pointer decides everything
|
||||
|
||||
A skill's `description`, or a line in a `CLAUDE.md` naming a document, is a **pointer**. Its
|
||||
**wording**, not its target, decides whether the agent reaches the material and how reliably.
|
||||
|
||||
A must-have document behind a vaguely worded pointer is a **reliability defect**, not a
|
||||
documentation preference. Sharpen the wording first. Inline the material only if sharpening fails.
|
||||
|
||||
A pointer does two jobs:
|
||||
|
||||
1. **Say what the material is** — the domain, in the reader's terms.
|
||||
2. **List the distinct cases that should trigger reaching it** — one trigger per case. Two synonyms
|
||||
for the same case are one case written twice, and they buy nothing.
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House shape for a Felhom skill, taken from `skills/felhom-testing/SKILL.md`: a `description` that
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states the domain, then `Triggers - <comma list>`, then one sentence naming what the skill contains.
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## 2. The two costs
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- **Always-loaded material costs context on every turn**, whether it fires or not. A `CLAUDE.md`
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line is paid for in every session that opens the repo.
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- **Material behind a pointer costs only the pointer's own line** until it fires.
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- **The second cost is the human's**: knowing which documents exist and when to reach for each. Ten
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well-scoped documents nobody can name are worse than four that are known.
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## 3. Where a piece of material sits
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Three rungs, ordered by how immediately the material is needed:
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1. **Inline, in the ordered steps the agent performs** — what every path through the task needs.
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2. **Reference in the same file, consulted on demand** — what most paths need, but not at step 1.
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3. **Reference in a separate file, behind a pointer** — what only some paths reach.
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Inline what every path needs. Push out what only some paths reach. Getting this wrong in either
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direction is a cost: rung 1 material on rung 3 gets missed; rung 3 material on rung 1 is paid for
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every time and dilutes the steps around it.
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## 4. Completion criteria
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**Every step ends on a condition that says it is done.** "Investigate the failure" has no bound;
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"name one command that reproduces it, and show its output" does.
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A vague bound invites stopping early, and stopping early looks identical to finishing. When a step
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feels too large, **sharpen the bound before you consider splitting the step** — most oversized steps
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are underspecified, not overloaded.
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## 5. Sprawl and co-location
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A document can be too long even when every line in it is live. Attention thins across the excess,
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and the lines that matter most are not the ones that survive.
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|
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**Felhom's limit: a `SKILL.md` is under 150 lines.** If one will not fit, say so and stop — do not
|
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silently split it into two documents nobody knows how to choose between.
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|
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**Co-locate.** Keep a concept's definition, its rules and its caveats under one heading. A concept
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scattered across four sections is four chances to read three of them.
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## 6. One rule, one home
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|
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If a rule already lives in another skill, or in `documentation/runbooks/workspace-CLAUDE.md`, **point
|
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at it by name and give only your additional material.**
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|
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Two copies of a rule drift. When they do, the reader cannot tell which is current, and the safest
|
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reading — obey both — is not always possible. This is why `felhom-diagnosis` points at
|
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`felhom-testing` for the red-proof instead of restating it, and why `felhom-evidence` cites standing
|
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rules 2 and 3 in one line each rather than lifting them across.
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## 7. Validate it
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`python3 scripts/check_skills.py` (in `felhom.eu`) checks every `skills/*/SKILL.md`: the frontmatter
|
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parses, `name` matches the directory, `description` and the body are non-empty, the file is under
|
||||
150 lines, and any installed copy under `~/.claude/skills/` still resolves back into the repo.
|
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|
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Installation is `python3 scripts/install_skills.py`. It discovers skills by globbing
|
||||
`skills/*/SKILL.md`, so **a new directory needs no registration** — the glob is the registry. Do not
|
||||
add a manifest or an index.
|
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---
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name: felhom-evidence
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description: How to grade a claim about the Felhom system and how to verify work before reporting it done. Triggers - stating whether a behaviour is intentional or broken; reporting a result; validating another session's, another agent's or a REPORT.md's work; summarising a survey or an audit; and the questions "are we sure", "is X the case", "did that work". Contains the five confidence tiers, the words that carry confidence, the words to drop, and the artifact-over-report rule.
|
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---
|
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|
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# Evidence and confidence
|
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|
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Applies to every claim about this system, in chat, in `REPORT.md`, in a register row, in a commit
|
||||
message. Two of this project's five standing rules (`documentation/runbooks/workspace-CLAUDE.md`)
|
||||
are the seed of this skill: rule 2 (a "no access" claim must list what was tried) and rule 3 (an
|
||||
absent log line is not evidence).
|
||||
|
||||
## 1. Confidence tiers
|
||||
|
||||
Every claim sits in exactly one tier. The tier fixes the phrasing.
|
||||
|
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| Tier | Means | Phrasing |
|
||||
|---|---|---|
|
||||
| **Direct** | someone wrote it down, and the text answers the question | confident, present tense, citation immediately adjacent |
|
||||
| **Supported** | several independent pieces converge; no single one states it | confident but visibly derived — name each piece |
|
||||
| **Inferred** | a reasonable reading of context; nothing states it | hedged; make the inference chain explicit |
|
||||
| **Speculative** | plausible, but other explanations fit equally well | explicitly marked a guess |
|
||||
| **Unknown** | you looked and did not find it | name what you searched, and what you searched for |
|
||||
|
||||
`Unknown` is a result, not a failure. It is reported as one — with its search list, per standing
|
||||
rule 2. "No access" or "not found" without a list of attempts is unfalsifiable.
|
||||
|
||||
## 2. Words that carry confidence
|
||||
|
||||
`because` · `the reason is` · `was designed to` · `fixes` · `the decision was`
|
||||
|
||||
Writing one of these asserts **Direct** or **Supported**. So a citation sits beside it — a
|
||||
`file:line`, a commit, a register row, a measured observable — or the word changes.
|
||||
|
||||
## 3. Words to drop
|
||||
|
||||
`clearly` · `obviously` · `of course` · `just` · `simply`
|
||||
|
||||
Each one either restates a citation you already have, in which case it is noise, or hides that you
|
||||
do not have one, in which case it is a false claim wearing a confident coat.
|
||||
|
||||
## 4. Do not rationalise
|
||||
|
||||
Three named traps.
|
||||
|
||||
- **Backwards justification.** Assuming the author did the right thing, then reasoning back to a
|
||||
reason it must be right. The reason arrives before the evidence and is fitted to the conclusion.
|
||||
- **Repetition read as intent.** A pattern that appears five times may be one decision copied four
|
||||
times. Frequency is not endorsement.
|
||||
- **Absence read as absence.** Standing rule 3 covers the Felhom instance: an absent log line is
|
||||
equally consistent with "healthy" and "stopped entirely". The general form: **prove a negative
|
||||
with a positive control.** Plant the thing, find it, remove it, fail to find it. Only then does
|
||||
the silence mean something. Until then the silence may be the search being broken.
|
||||
|
||||
## 5. The embedded-hypothesis trap
|
||||
|
||||
A question often carries its own answer: *"why is this slow, I assume it is the disk?"*
|
||||
|
||||
The guess is a prompt to investigate, never a conclusion to confirm. Check it against the evidence
|
||||
like any other candidate, rank it with the others, and say plainly when it does not hold. Agreeing
|
||||
with an embedded guess costs nothing at the time and costs a whole session when it is wrong.
|
||||
|
||||
## 6. Verify the artifact, not the report
|
||||
|
||||
When checking work you did not do yourself — a prior session, a subagent, a handed-over
|
||||
`REPORT.md` — read the thing itself:
|
||||
|
||||
- the pushed source at `file:line`, on the remote, not the working tree;
|
||||
- the actual file contents, not a summary of them;
|
||||
- the running state, not what a status line says about it.
|
||||
|
||||
An agent reports what it **intended**. That is not always what happened, and the gap is invisible in
|
||||
the report by construction.
|
||||
|
||||
**The strongest proof is a script that re-runs the comparison.** A one-time look proves one moment;
|
||||
a checked-in script is an artifact someone else can re-run, and it is what turns "I looked" into
|
||||
something a second person can confirm. This project's own instance: `REPORT.md` is never trusted on
|
||||
its own — every claim it makes about code is confirmed against live Gitea before it is acted on.
|
||||
|
||||
## 7. Presence is not success
|
||||
|
||||
A timestamp that records an **attempt** is not evidence of a **result**. Ask of any timestamp: what
|
||||
exactly must have happened for this to be set? If the answer is "we tried", it cannot answer "did it
|
||||
work". Where a status field travels beside a timestamp, the verdict consults both.
|
||||
|
||||
## DO NOT
|
||||
|
||||
Do not restate the companion red-proof procedure here. It belongs to **`felhom-testing`**, which
|
||||
owns it together with the non-hollow rule and the nine shipped-false-invariant cases. Point at that
|
||||
skill by name.
|
||||
@@ -0,0 +1,69 @@
|
||||
---
|
||||
name: felhom-handoff
|
||||
description: How to end a Felhom session so the next one resumes instead of restarting, and how to pick one up. Triggers - "handoff", "pause safely", "I need to stop", "pick this up later", "take over from", "resume where we left off"; and whenever the context window is about to be compacted mid-task. Contains the stopping procedure, the handoff-note contents and path, and the pickup rules.
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
# Handoff
|
||||
|
||||
A session that ends without a note is a session the next one repeats.
|
||||
|
||||
## 1. Stopping
|
||||
|
||||
- **Finish the current atomic step, or back out of it.** Never stop mid-edit in a known-broken
|
||||
state. Half a rename is worse than neither half.
|
||||
- **Start nothing new.** The urge to squeeze in one more small thing is what produces the broken
|
||||
middle state.
|
||||
- **Do not cross an irreversible line in order to pause.** No deploy, no destructive operation, no
|
||||
data change gets rushed so the session can end tidily. Stopping before it is always allowed.
|
||||
- **Make the work durable.** Commit outstanding edits as one clear `wip:` commit on `main`. If the
|
||||
tree is broken, say so in one line of the commit body — an unpushed change does not exist, and a
|
||||
broken tree that says it is broken costs the next session a minute instead of an hour.
|
||||
|
||||
## 2. The note
|
||||
|
||||
**Write it to a file, not into the conversation.** An in-context plan does not survive compaction,
|
||||
which is the exact moment it is needed.
|
||||
|
||||
Path: `/tmp/felhom-handoff-<slug>.md`
|
||||
|
||||
It contains:
|
||||
|
||||
- **The goal** — what this work is for, in one or two sentences.
|
||||
- **What was done, and what of it is verified** — separately. Per **`felhom-evidence`**, "done" and
|
||||
"proven" are different claims and the next session needs to know which is which.
|
||||
- **Current state on disk** — branch, commit, whether the tree is clean, what is running where.
|
||||
- **The next concrete action** — one action, specific enough to start without a decision.
|
||||
- **Key paths** — the files this work lives in.
|
||||
- **Gotchas** — what was tried and did not work, so it is not tried twice.
|
||||
|
||||
**Reference other artifacts by path rather than duplicating them.** A spec, a `REPORT.md`, a commit
|
||||
hash, a register row. A copied paragraph in the note becomes a second source that drifts from the
|
||||
first, and the next session cannot tell which one is current.
|
||||
|
||||
**Redact anything sensitive.** No tokens, no passwords, no recovery codes, no private keys — the
|
||||
same rule that applies to `REPORT.md` and every committed file applies here.
|
||||
|
||||
## 3. Picking up
|
||||
|
||||
**A pickup is inheritance, not a restart.**
|
||||
|
||||
Read the prior trail — the note, the `REPORT.md`, the commits, the register rows — and resist
|
||||
re-deriving it. The earlier session already paid for reading the code and running the repros.
|
||||
Redoing that work burns the context you need for the actual task, and it loses the independent check
|
||||
that a second pair of eyes would have given.
|
||||
|
||||
Then reconstruct the state and continue:
|
||||
|
||||
1. The tree — what is checked out, what is clean, what is unpushed.
|
||||
2. What landed — the commits, on the remote.
|
||||
3. What is open — the register rows, the note's next action.
|
||||
4. What was decided — and by whom, so a settled decision is not reopened by accident.
|
||||
5. Name the resume point out loud, then continue from it.
|
||||
|
||||
A "let me verify everything from scratch" pass is the tell that the trail is being treated as
|
||||
untrustworthy when it is authoritative.
|
||||
|
||||
**One exception, and it is not optional.** An inherited **claim about the code** is verified against
|
||||
live source before it is acted on. The trail is authoritative about what was decided and what was
|
||||
attempted; it is not authoritative about what the code currently says. That distinction, and the
|
||||
reason for it, is **`felhom-evidence`** §6.
|
||||
@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
|
||||
---
|
||||
name: felhom-plain-language
|
||||
description: How to write anything the Felhom operator reads. Triggers - writing the "For the operator" page of a task file; writing an operator-facing section of REPORT.md; writing customer-facing or operator-facing UI copy; and the phrases "wait, what", "re-pitch that", "I don't follow", "in plain language", "explain it simply". Contains the ASD-STE100 rules, the two-option decision format, and the re-pitch procedure.
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
# Plain language
|
||||
|
||||
The operator reads this at the end of a long day. Write for that reader, not for the reader who has
|
||||
the whole system in their head.
|
||||
|
||||
## The rules
|
||||
|
||||
- **ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English** — a controlled writing standard: a restricted set of
|
||||
approved plain words, active voice, one instruction or idea per sentence. Explain any term like
|
||||
that in the sentence that introduces it, as this line does.
|
||||
- **Short sentences. Short paragraphs. Small words.** If a big word is unavoidable, define it right
|
||||
after, in the same sentence.
|
||||
- **Open with what happened, what it means, and what the operator has to do.** That order. The
|
||||
detail comes after, or not at all.
|
||||
- **No file paths, no function names, no register numbers as the subject of a sentence.** No version
|
||||
numbers except ones the operator acts on. Those belong in the body of a report, not in a sentence
|
||||
that is trying to say what is going on.
|
||||
- **Describe the observable symptom, not the code defect.** *"Your Stop is silently undone on a
|
||||
reboot"* — not the name of the function that undoes it. The operator experiences the symptom; only
|
||||
the fixer needs the function.
|
||||
- **A decision gets at most two options.** Each one carries: what it costs, **what happens if the
|
||||
operator does nothing**, and which one you would pick and why. Never a bare question with no
|
||||
recommendation — a question with no recommendation moves the work back onto the tired person.
|
||||
- **A recommendation that is not followed gets one line saying why.** Silence reads as agreement,
|
||||
and the disagreement is then lost. This is standing rule 4 in
|
||||
`documentation/runbooks/workspace-CLAUDE.md`.
|
||||
- **Language:** customer-facing strings are Hungarian; operator and hub surfaces are English.
|
||||
Minimal emoji — and none at all in product UI, which **`felhom-ui-design`** enforces with a gate.
|
||||
|
||||
## What to cut
|
||||
|
||||
Empty openers (*"Great question"*, *"Let me explain"*), promotional adjectives, hedge stacks
|
||||
(*"it might possibly be somewhat"*), and any sentence that only announces the next sentence. If
|
||||
deleting a sentence loses no information, it was not a sentence.
|
||||
|
||||
## The re-pitch
|
||||
|
||||
When the operator fires one of the triggers — *"wait, what"*, *"re-pitch that"*, *"I don't
|
||||
follow"* — the last message did not land. That is the only fact you have.
|
||||
|
||||
Rewrite it from the top under these rules, **shorter**.
|
||||
|
||||
Do not defend the original. Do not add detail to clarify it — detail is usually what broke it. Do
|
||||
not ask which part was unclear; that spends the operator's attention to save your own effort. Write
|
||||
the whole thing again, smaller.
|
||||
|
||||
## What this skill is not
|
||||
|
||||
It is not a style guide for the product's visual surfaces. Palette, badges, status vocabulary and
|
||||
the Hungarian copy maps belong to **`felhom-ui-design`**.
|
||||
Reference in New Issue
Block a user