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Make a Parked Decision Something the Session Still Owes the User - #1435
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A question an agent files as an issue instead of asking is recorded and never asked again. Nothing said it was still owed, nothing reported how many were waiting, and nothing put them back in front of the maintainer. Twenty-six had accumulated here, the oldest from 2026-08-11, none ever answered. Each session filed correctly and moved on, and presenting the accumulation was the step nobody owned. Two bullets in GOVERNANCE.md "Communicating with the User", which the agent-conduct Skill already carries whole as a generated include. The first separates filing from asking and requires the issue to carry the reserved label and state the choices it is between. The second binds the presenting to writing the handoff, rather than to the session ending, since a session also ends by interruption or exhausted context where no agent acts at all, and asks one question per parked decision carrying that decision's own answers as its options. Beside them the Skill gains a Before Writing a Handoff section so an ending session finds its moment, its irreversible-step list goes from four steps to the six host-setup/agent-safety/claude/claude-md-safety.md names, adding force-pushing and changing branch protection, and a pronoun that read as an instruction not to load the always-on AGENTS.md layer names both its referents. AGENTS.md is deliberately untouched. Importing only the recording half of the obligation into a session-closing procedure yields a complete-looking checklist whose sole duty is writing a number into a file, which is the park-instead-of-ask failure this rule exists to stop. Relates #1433, #1315, #1316, #1434. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The five whole-unit passes each read one unit and could not see these. docs/fleet-map.md declared the agent-conduct contract as three moments, which this branch makes four. A later conformance pass reading the skill against its own committed contract would have seen the fourth as unbacked drift and removed it. The label bootstrap said to reserve a label where the instruction set names none. This repository already carries `decision`, declared in hub-only repo-config/labels.json and named in no instruction-set file, so a session here would have reserved a second label beside it and split the queue into two nobody enumerates together, which is the outcome the bullet exists to prevent. It now says to adopt what the repository already carries before reserving anything, and names the split as the reason. AGENTS.md "Session Scope" enumerates what a handoff carries and stayed a closed four-item list while GOVERNANCE.md cited it as authority and added two requirements to it, so a handoff written from AGENTS.md alone was conformant and stated no count. The enumeration now names the obligation and says it is one to present as well as to record, and that it is stated whole in GOVERNANCE.md rather than here, which signals the duty without importing half of it as a complete-looking one. Five wording findings against the new label sentence are filed rather than fixed, per the review-round budget. One is a self-contradiction worth naming: the rationale says a session has nowhere else to learn the label while the sentence after it says where else. Relates #1433, #1434. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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This PR updates the fleet governance and the agent-conduct skill so that questions filed as issues are explicitly treated as “parked decisions” that remain owed to the maintainer, and so the handoff step must surface the parked-decision queue instead of letting it silently accumulate.
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- Add two new “Communicating with the User” bullets defining parked decisions as still owed and binding queue presentation to the handoff moment.
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agent-conduct(source + generated distributions) to include a fourth decision moment (“Before Writing a Handoff”) and expand the irreversible-step list. - Refresh canonical-review ledger entries and update the fleet map / handoff guidance to reflect the new obligation.
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| reports/canonical-review.json | Updates the canonical-review ledger entries for the affected units. |
| GOVERNANCE.md | Adds parked-decision rules and handoff obligations under “Communicating with the User”. |
| docs/fleet-map.md | Updates the agent-conduct skill summary to include the handoff/parked-decision moment. |
| AGENTS.md | Extends the handoff checklist to include the parked-decision account required by governance. |
| .agents/skills/agent-conduct/SKILL.md | Updates the canonical skill source to cover the new decision moment and related guidance. |
| .github/skills/agent-conduct/SKILL.md | Regenerated GitHub-distributed skill copy reflecting the updated source. |
| .claude-plugin/fleet-skills/skills/agent-conduct/SKILL.md | Regenerated Claude plugin skill copy reflecting the updated source. |
| .claude-plugin/fleet-skills/.source-digests/agent-conduct | Updates the recorded source digest for the regenerated skill. |
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In `@docs/fleet-map.md`:
- Line 282: Update the fleet-map trigger description to match the agent-conduct
skill and GOVERNANCE.md: require conduct checks for every handoff and when a
session is about to file a question as an issue instead of asking it, while
preserving the other listed decision-point triggers.
In `@GOVERNANCE.md`:
- Around line 218-219: Reconcile the parked-question rules between the
Governance parked queue and the README open-question guidance by selecting one
canonical record surface and updating the other rule to match it. Ensure
continuable decisions are recorded in the chosen surface, included in the parked
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…rigger GOVERNANCE.md said a session had "nowhere else" to learn the reserved label name, one sentence before telling it to adopt a label the repository already carries. A local pass graded that wording rather than behavior and it was filed; Copilot raised it independently on the pull request, so it is fixed here instead. The rationale now says the session reads the recorded name rather than inferring it from whichever labels happen to exist, which is scoped to the case where a name is recorded and no longer overlaps the fallback for the case where none is. docs/fleet-map.md described the durable-lesson trigger as a failure alone, where the skill triggers on a failure or a review finding. The contract block and the G12 register row 35 lines above it both said so, and both now match the skill. Three further findings against this section are filed rather than fixed, the strongest being that "presenting the accumulation is the step nobody owns" is unqualified in a section whose next bullet assigns that step. Relates #1433, #1434. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The new parked-decision and handoff-accounting obligations are implemented consistently across GOVERNANCE, AGENTS, the canonical skill source, and the generated distributions without introducing contract drift.
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…stination The skill's handoff moment was deliberately de-conditioned in an earlier round, because a moment conditioned on knowing a question is parked is one a session skips whenever it believes none is, which defeats the enumerate-and-count the rule exists for. docs/fleet-map.md carried the superseded conditioned wording, so the map described a narrower trigger than the skill it is the contract for, and an agent reading the map could skip the skill at a moment the skill requires it. The map now carries the unconditional handoff moment and the file-instead-of-ask moment beside it. README.md's "Questions or Issues" sends an open question that is not yet a defect to Discussions. A decision an agent parks for the maintainer is literally that, so a session could route one to Discussions, where no label query reaches it and the parked queue silently under-reports. README.md now carves that case out and names the issue-with-label destination the queue enumerates. Relates #1433, #1434. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…d It The maintainer's call, and it deletes four sentences that produced most of this branch's findings. An earlier round removed a claim that `decision` was a label "in this fleet's own set", because a live check found it on this repository and on none of five others. That measurement was right and the conclusion drawn from it was wrong: the label is declared fleet-wide in repo-config/labels.json and configure.sh apply creates it on any repo it runs against, so its absence downstream is an unrun rollout tracked on #1315, not a design constraint. The indirection written to route around it, whatever label the repository reserves, where that name is recorded, adopt before reserving, went on to produce a false claim, a split-queue defect, a self-contradiction, a hanging imperative, two lost antecedents, and finally the blocking finding that it pointed carriers at a closed four-file instruction set where an undeclared section is drift the audit flags. All of it is gone. The rule now says the issue carries the fleet's `decision` label and states the choices it is between. Two defects the simplification exposed are fixed with it. The enumerate clause lost its only scoping word when "the repository reserves" went, so it now names this repository's open issues explicitly rather than leaving a session to guess between one repo and the fleet. And the sentence explaining why the rule binds to writing the handoff claimed a session ends by exhausting its context, while citing AGENTS.md "Session Scope" in the same breath, which says compaction restarts and the session keeps acting. It names interruption only. Relates #1433, #1434, #1315. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…er-Claimed The maintainer's call on a blocking finding: the `decision` label means an issue needs his decision before it can be worked, and 26 issues carry it today, most of them defect findings that state no choices. The rule scoped parked questions to the opposite case, work that can continue, and then defined the queue as everything carrying the label, so a session would have had to invent options for an issue that states none, which the rule itself names as the failure. The queue is now every open issue carrying the label, an issue that states no choices is put as the open question it is, and the filing clause covers a question asked once and deferred as well as one never blocking. Widening the queue changed what a queue item is, and the exit clause did not move with it. Removing an item by closing its issue is right for an issue that held nothing but the question and destroys tracked work for a defect issue that outlives its decision. An item now leaves by losing the label, and the issue closes only where it held nothing else. The success path had no exit at all, so an answered question kept its label and would have been re-presented at every later handoff. Three sentences were deleted rather than reworded, each after failing review twice on the same over-claim: that the label was in every carrier's set, that a session had nowhere else to learn it, and that an omitted item is omitted again by every session after. The last one was false in two successive rewordings and its true form duplicated a claim made three sentences earlier, so it is gone. Every deletion made the text more true rather than less binding. Relates #1433, #1434, #1436, #1316. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The new parked-decision rule text and the agent-conduct skill description have internal/declared-scope inconsistencies that should be corrected to match the PR’s stated intent and avoid misleading carriers.
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GOVERNANCE.md:218
- This rule says the parked-question issue must carry "the fleet's
decisionlabel", but the PR description explicitly states the rules should not name a specific label because it is not consistently present across the fleet. Reword this to refer to the label the repository reserves for parked decisions, so the rule stays true for carriers and matches the stated intent.
- **A question filed as an issue is parked rather than asked, and it stays owed.** Where the work cannot continue without the answer, the bullet above governs and the question is asked at the point the work stops. Wherever the answer is recorded rather than asked, whether because the work can continue without it or because it was asked once and deferred, recording it is the right thing to do and recording it is still not asking it, so the issue carries the fleet's `decision` label and states the choices it is between where the filing session knows them, which is what lets a session that was not there when it was filed find the question and put it without inventing its answers. **The parked queue is the failure, not the parking.** An issue holding a question the user has never seen reads to every later session as tracked work rather than as a block, so each session files correctly, moves on, and presenting the accumulation is the step nobody owns.
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…igger Copilot's finding, and a local pass raised the same one. The register's Trigger bullet listed five items under "at decision moments" while the skill declares four and carries exactly four moment sections. The fifth, about to file a question as an issue instead of asking it, is a "use this whenever" trigger in the skill rather than a moment of its own, and the rule it reaches is one of the four. The register now lists the four moments and names that trigger separately, saying why it is not a fifth. A reader auditing the register against the skill, which is what the register is for, now gets one count from both. Relates #1433. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Declined. The premise is a misreading of the description, and the reworded form is the one this The description states the label rollout as a merge dependency, tracked on #1434 and #1315. It The suggested wording, "the label the repository reserves for parked decisions", is the exact text
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…d Copy Fifth break of this section on this branch, caused by the fix to the fourth. Removing the word "class" replaced "beside whatever class the issue also carries" with "beside whichever of the four", which re-narrowed the rule two ways an earlier commit had already widened: it presupposes the issue carries one of the four, so the pure parked question has no legal form, and it excludes `enhancement`, which the invariant names as an alternative. The cause is not the wording. The section stated the coexistence rule three times, in the invariant, the paragraph, and the bullet, so every edit fixed one and left the other two, four times running. It is now stated once, in the bullet, which is where a triager reads a label's definition and which already matched labels.json. The invariant says the marker is not one of the four and points down. The paragraph keeps only the rationale, why a question that did not block its work is still owed an answer. Also binds a pronoun in the invariant, where "which carries `decision` alone" attached to the question rather than to the issue. Relates #1433, #1437, #1317. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…empting a Case Sixth break of this section, and the same hole the fifth commit reopened while collapsing the rule to one home: deleting the restatement took the exemption clause with it, so the invariant again obliged an issue holding nothing but a question to carry a triage label no bullet fits. Patching the exemption back would be the fourth time this sentence is edited to name a case. The defect is the invariant's scope rather than its list of exceptions. The four labels classify an issue "by the kind of work it needs", which the section's own first sentence says, so an issue recording no work needs none of them. The invariant now says that, and the question-only case follows from it rather than being carved out of it. Two smaller ones settled with it. The pronoun in "carries none of them" bound to "surface labels", the nearest plural, which is the third appearance of that shape in this section, so it names the noun instead. And labels.json read "beside whatever else the issue carries", which standing alone in the GitHub label UI tells a triager the marker accompanies something, excluding the alone case the bullet names. It now reads "alone or beside whatever else the issue carries", 85 characters against the API's 100. Relates #1433, #1437, #1317. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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There is a grammatical error in the newly added GOVERNANCE rule text that should be corrected to avoid ambiguity in the normative guidance.
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- The sentence "since a subjective key nobody records is one two sessions order differently" is grammatically incorrect and reads like a missing word, which makes this rule harder to follow.
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CodeRabbit's finding, accepted. The clause read "since a subjective key nobody records is one two sessions order differently", which parses only if the reader supplies a missing "that" and is a garden path either way. It now reads "since two sessions order the same queue differently where the key is subjective and nobody records it", which states the same reason without the elision, and its restrictive "where" keeps it clear of the longest-waited key beside it, which is objective and recorded. Worth recording why this survived so long. Eighteen adversarial whole-unit passes read that sentence and none flagged it, because each was asked whether the rule was correct, and the rule was correct. The sentence states a true reason unreadably. A reviewer reading for whether the prose is followable rather than whether the rule is right caught it on the first look. Relates #1433. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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- The clause "so that the parked queue ... can enumerate it" reads ungrammatically (the queue doesn't enumerate; it is enumerated by a session). Reword so the
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…es It CodeRabbit's finding, accepted. README.md read "so that the parked queue GOVERNANCE.md "Communicating with the User" requires a session to present can enumerate it", which makes the queue the enumerator. The queue is what a session enumerates, so the sentence inverted the relation it was describing and left a reader to reconstruct it. It now says the labelled issue appears in that queue, which is what the label actually does. Second readability finding on this branch from a PR-hosted reviewer that eighteen local whole-unit passes read past, both in sentences whose rule is correct and whose prose is not. The local passes were asked whether the rule holds, and it does. Relates #1433. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The maintainer's call, answering a pass run for readability alone rather than for correctness. Two PR-hosted reviewers had each caught a sentence that stated a true thing unreadably, and nineteen local passes had read past both, because each was asked whether the rule was correct and it was. A pass asked instead whether a competent reader parses each sentence on one reading found sixteen more of the same class. The recurring shapes were an elided "that" producing a noun pile, five times over, as in "the handoff AGENTS.md "Session Scope" defines"; unmarked pronouns carrying several referents, worst at three "it"s in one clause meaning the queue, the issue and the work; broken parallelism across coordinated clauses; stranded elliptical verbs; and one agent and patient swapped, where an answer was described as being asked when a question is. One rewrite did change a rule, which is why the verification asked whether meaning survived before it asked whether the prose parsed. Adding a comma before "at triage where a later change has already answered or overtaken its decision" made the clause non-restrictive, so the condition became a gloss and triage read as removing an item unconditionally. That authorizes a session to drop the label from a question the user has never seen, which is the failure the bullet exists to prevent. The comma is gone and the clause is restrictive again. Relates #1433, #1438. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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…re Three Surfaces Restated (#1441) Relates #1317, #1237, #1435, #1440. Two steps of #1317, scoped by the #1440 assessment: lift `build_dist.py`'s include **destination** restriction, then convert the restatements on the three uncarried surfaces that drifted on #1435. The first landed as scoped. The second did not survive contact, and what it turned into is the more useful half of this pull request. ## The mechanism `filled_lines()` refused an include region in any file outside `skill_documents()`, so only `.agents/skills/**/*.md` could hold one. The restriction was on the destination, never on the source, which has always accepted any authored file under the root. `INCLUDE_DESTINATIONS` replaces it: a declared tuple of files the walk visits in addition to the skills tree, so `--check` holds a region there to its source exactly as it holds one in a skill. A destination is held to the same path rules a source is (no symlink, no generated tree, spelled as the tree spells it), and then to the carry manifest. `manifest_carried_destination()` refuses a destination whose bytes `spec/files.json` carries, reading an entry's `path`, its `sections`, its `reference`, a carrying `fidelity`, and any `trees` source. A carrier receives the filled text either way, so markers reaching one are not the problem; the mirrors already carry live markers to every repository and are safe doing it because `regenerate()` rebuilds them wholesale on every run. A carried authored file is copied rather than rebuilt, so a region in one would put generated text into a file that repository holds as its own. Discovery would have spared the maintenance and is wrong here: whether a file may hold generated text is a judgment about where that text ends up, not a property of where the file sits. ## The tuple ships empty, and that is the finding Measured across every heading body in the tree: outside the seven regions already generated, **no restatement anywhere in this repository is copy-shaped.** The largest non-generated overlap between any two sections is two sentences. The seven passages that drifted on #1435 are a contributor-facing routing sentence in `README.md`, a taxonomy paragraph in `repo-config/README.md`, and a design-record block in `docs/fleet-map.md`. Each adapts one rule for a different audience rather than copying it. An include fills a region with a heading's whole body, so converting them would have dropped 6.4 KB of `GOVERNANCE.md` into a README bullet. #1317 says to decide per restatement, pointer or include. All seven decide pointer. So the mechanism lands with no in-tree user, deliberately and with the measurement recorded, and the tuple is where the first copy-shaped restatement gets named. ## The pointer sweep `README.md` keeps the routing that is its own subject, that a parked question is filed as an issue rather than raised in Discussions, and stops restating the queue mechanics `GOVERNANCE.md` "Communicating with the User" sets. `repo-config/README.md` keeps the taxonomy and points for when the `decision` marker goes on and comes off. Its `gate` and `decision` bullets now carry `repo-config/labels.json`'s own wording rather than a paraphrase of it; those two were the only bullets whose prose and data had drifted apart. `docs/fleet-map.md` stated the `agent-conduct` trigger set in two places, in the G12 resolution and in the "Proposed Skills" block that section calls the contract its skill implements. G12 names that block now instead of re-enumerating it. `scripts/README.md` and the `skill-lifecycle` skill both still said the fill lands in `.agents/skills/` itself. The skill is carried verbatim fleet-wide, so that would have shipped stale. ## Verification All gates green: `build_dist.py --check`, 1164 unit tests, `ruff format` and `check`, `mypy`, `prose_lint.py` diff-scoped and whole-tree, `repo_gate.py` on all three checks, `spec/validate.py`, `canonical_review.py check`, and `docker_lint.py`'s seven linters. Seven adversarial passes ran over the branch diff and four over `.agents/skills/skill-lifecycle/SKILL.md > The Pipeline`, the carried unit this change moves. The final pass over each reports no false statement and no bug. Every earlier pass found something real. Behavior is measured rather than reasoned about: eleven tree-source spellings including both root forms, both wrong-typed fidelities, three missing-key shapes, both spellings of a presence declaration, all four `reference` targets, and the sibling-prefix non-match. Every new test fails when its own fix is reverted, checked one at a time. ## Found by review, not by me Worth stating plainly, because it is the evidence for the rule this pull request builds. Three separate rounds fixed one rule on some of its surfaces and left its siblings, which is the defect class #1317 exists to remove, reproduced inside the change that removes it. Two bugs, one regression introduced while fixing a non-problem, and three tests that could not fail were all caught by a pass rather than by the round that wrote them. The code converged in two rounds; everything after was prose and test assertions claiming more than had been verified. ## Known and filed, not fixed here `is_stale()` never checks the plugin tree's own root entries, so a stray file beside `skills/` passes `--check` while the same file in `.github/skills/` is caught. The generated-tree symlink cases are undocumented. The source-path rules are stated incompletely, the "regenerating changes the bytes of every including unit" claim is over-broad, `--report`'s non-zero exit has five causes where one is named, and `skills_install.py` exits 0 having installed only the overlay half when `claude` is absent. The `resolve()`-then-write TOCTOU window, unreachable while the tuple is empty. The three new exit-2 causes have no test asserting `main()` returns 2. The refusal offers a remedy that is closed for a manifest-carried file, and `tree_source()` returns `None` for a missing `source` where its sibling raises. <!-- This is an auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai --> ## Summary by CodeRabbit - **New Features** - Distribution builds now support generated include regions in declared documentation destinations, including recursive includes. - Destination paths and manifests are validated before content is generated or mirrored. - **Bug Fixes** - Invalid, missing, unreadable, or disallowed destination configurations now fail clearly instead of being silently accepted. - Consistency checks detect unvisited or undeclared include regions. - **Documentation** - Updated guidance for skill lifecycle workflows, governance labels, parked questions, generated includes, destination rules, and validation outcomes. <!-- end of auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai --> --------- Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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…d the parked-decision rule (#1442) Promotes two changes from `develop`. ## #1441: a declared destination list for the include mechanism, and pointers where three surfaces restated Relates #1317, #1237, #1440. `build_dist.py` filled an include region only in a file under `.agents/skills/`. The restriction was on the destination, never on the source, and it is why the hub surfaces that restate a rule could not be generated from that rule's home. `INCLUDE_DESTINATIONS` replaces it, with a destination held to the same path rules a source is and then to the carry manifest, so a file `spec/files.json` carries content from can never be one. The tuple ships empty, which is the measured finding rather than an omission. Across every heading body in the tree, no restatement outside the seven regions already generated is copy-shaped, the largest overlap between any two sections being two sentences. The seven passages that drifted on #1435 each adapt one rule for a different audience, so all seven became pointers. `repo-config/README.md`'s `gate` and `decision` bullets now carry `repo-config/labels.json`'s own wording rather than a paraphrase, `docs/fleet-map.md` no longer states the `agent-conduct` trigger set twice, and `scripts/README.md` and the `skill-lifecycle` skill no longer say the fill lands in `.agents/skills/` itself. ## #1435: a parked decision is something the session still owes the user Relates #1433, #1315, #1316, #1434, #1436. Two bullets in `GOVERNANCE.md` "Communicating with the User", carried whole into `agent-conduct`: a question filed as an issue is parked rather than asked and stays owed, and the session that writes a handoff presents the parked queue in the same act. **Merge dependency this promotion inherits.** That rule enumerates the fleet's `decision` label, which exists on this repository and on none of the other 24 in the registry. Until the rollout tracked on #1434 runs, a downstream session enumerates an empty queue and reports it as healthy. Nothing shipping here is broken where it ships, since the hub has the label, and landing it ahead of that rollout is a maintainer decision rather than an oversight. It was stated on #1435 and is restated here because promotion is where it reaches the carriers. ## Verification Every gate green on `develop`: `build_dist.py --check`, 1165 unit tests, ruff format and check, mypy, `prose_lint.py` diff-scoped and whole-tree, `repo_gate.py` on all three checks, `spec/validate.py`, `canonical_review.py check`, and `docker_lint.py`'s seven linters. #1441 took three review rounds and ten local adversarial passes. Copilot and CodeRabbit each found one real defect, and both were defects a local pass had already found and filed as unreachable rather than fixed. That is recorded on the pull request because it is the useful part: in a check whose only job is to refuse, upstream validation making a defect unreachable ranks it lower and does not close it. CodeRabbit is rate limited and did not review the last two heads of #1441. It is advisory here, so its absence blocked nothing, and Copilot covered the final head at full file coverage. ## Not merged by this pull request Nothing in #1317 beyond the two steps above. The include mechanism has no in-tree user yet, by decision, and the remaining restatement classes are their own pull requests.
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Relates #1433, #1315, #1316, #1434, #1436.
A question an agent files as an issue instead of asking is recorded and never asked again. Nothing
said it was still owed, nothing reported how many were waiting, and nothing put them back in front of
the maintainer. Twenty-six had accumulated here, the oldest filed on 2026-08-11, and none had ever
received a maintainer answer. Each session filed correctly and moved on. Presenting the accumulation
was the step nobody owned.
Merge dependency, stated first because it decides when this should land
This rule enumerates the fleet's
decisionlabel, and that label exists on this repository and onnone of the other 24 in the registry.
repo-config/labels.jsondeclares the whole fleet set andrepo-config/configure.sh apply owner/repo release|operationalcreates it, but that has never beenrun for labels downstream, and nothing in
spec/,registry/,AUDIT.md,scripts/,STANDUP.mdor
RESYNC.mdprovisions or audits it. Verified across all six surfaces, and live:gh issue list --repo ptr727/PlexCleaner --label decision --state openreturns nothing and exitszero.
The section is
fidelity: verbatim,appliesTo: "*", so it ships byte-identical into every fleetrepository. Until the rollout runs, a downstream session enumerates an empty queue and reports it as
healthy, which is the failure this rule exists to prevent arriving through the provisioning layer
rather than the rule text. Nothing this branch ships is broken where it ships, since the hub has the
label. The rollout is tracked on #1434, with #1315 covering the label set generally. Landing this
before that rollout is a maintainer decision rather than an oversight.
What changes
Two bullets in
GOVERNANCE.md"Communicating with the User", which theagent-conductSkill alreadycarries whole as a generated include:
cannot continue, the existing interactive-prompt bullet governs and the question is asked where the
work stops. Wherever the answer is recorded rather than asked, including a question asked once and
deferred, the issue carries the
decisionlabel and states the choices it is between where thefiling session knows them.
the handoff rather than to the session ending, because a session also ends by interruption, where no
agent acts at all. The session enumerates this repository's open issues carrying the label, states
the count, and asks one question per parked decision carrying that decision's own answers as its
options. An issue that states no choices is put as the open question it is, never as invented
options. An item leaves the queue by losing the label, and the issue closes only where it held
nothing but the question.
Beside them, in the Skill and the fleet map:
Before Writing a Handoffsection, so asession that is ending finds its moment rather than hunting under
Before Assuming.host-setup/agent-safety/claude/claude-md-safety.mdnames, adding force-pushing and changing branchprotection. An agent about to force-push was reading the carried list and finding force-push absent
from the steps that stop.
AGENTS.mdlayer, whichinverts the rule. Both referents are now named.
README.mdsent an open question that is not yet a defect to Discussions, which would route aparked decision where no label query reaches it.
AGENTS.md"Session Scope" names the parked-decision account as a fifth handoff item and points,rather than restating. An earlier revision imported only the recording half, and a whole-unit read
showed why that was wrong: it produces a complete-looking checklist whose sole duty is writing a
number into a file, which is the park-instead-of-ask failure this rule exists to stop, reproduced
inside the rule's own rollout.
Verification
All gates green:
build_dist.py --check,repo_gate.py,prose_lint.pyon both CI invocations,spec/validate.py,docker_lint.py,canonical_review.py check,markdownlint-cli2.Seventeen adversarial passes ran over the changed units and the branch diff, on the strongest
available tier, each whole-unit read taking the unit's full text rather than the diff. They raised
roughly fifty findings, most against text this change wrote.
Three claims were deleted rather than reworded, each after failing review twice on the same
over-claim: that
decisionwas a label in every carrier's own set, that a session had nowhere else tolearn the label name, and that an item omitted from a presentation is omitted again by every session
after. The last was false in two successive rewordings, and its true form duplicated a claim made
three sentences earlier, so the sentence is gone. Every deletion made the text more true rather than
less binding, and the normative statement has not changed since the first draft. What kept failing
was rationale.
One finding was declined with evidence: the trigger phrase "about to claim work is done, verified,
green, or fixed" was flagged as comma-heavy, and
local-strict-reviewquotes it verbatim, sorewording it would break a live cross-reference.
Known and filed, not fixed here
GOVERNANCE.md"Communicating with the User" unit tracker.
section. Measured and filed as evidence on P1: Define the Normative-Statement Format, Lint It, and Pilot It on "Verification Discipline" #1316, which defines the normative-statement format, with
this bullet nominated as a pilot candidate. The maintainer's decision is that it ships at this length
and is reshaped there rather than hand-shaped ahead of the format.
backlog-burndownfiles the most parked questions in the fleet and never applies the label, so itsquestions are invisible to this enumeration. Tracked on backlog-burndown Ranks Every Open Issue, So a Round Can Dispatch a Worker at a Question Only the Maintainer Can Answer #1436, along with its ranking of
decision-labelled issues it cannot work.TODO.mdholds seven clusters atState: decision, which this rule's count does not cover.Summary by CodeRabbit
decisionlabel for questions awaiting resolution.