The ship40 concept pipeline had reversed the proven a-series mechanisms:
the seed's roll decayed into a shortlist nomination that taste functions
(model ranking, candidate floor, simulated user) then argmaxed into the
safest card; the costume check returned as the Translation veto and
carrier-removal test; and the 07-15 rewrite deleted the calibration,
reflex-font lanes, color strategies, and commit-every-atom language that
had held off the cream-editorial default since the alpha era. Five of six
frozen craft directions converged on the same warm-paper family and both
builders obeyed them.
This lands the repair on top of the in-progress simplification:
- new-work.md: the script assigns the build index again on both scopes;
catalog challengers are fused (challenger supplies form and grammar,
product supplies every fact, clarity wins conflicts) and weighed on the
two proven axes only; attended runs present one fully committed
direction with re-roll and an optional steer instead of a ranked
lineup; the color-strategy picker, reflex-face list, saturated-look
calibration, first-viewport thesis and memory test, commit-every-atom,
scroll pacing, and prove-don't-claim return; the direction contract
returns as five lean blocks audited by the separate-agent finish.
- concept-seed.mjs: PROMOTED INDEX becomes ASSIGNED INDEX with
build-assignment semantics; self re-roll only on named factual grounds.
- craft-floor.md: hook-active sessions act on findings instead of
re-auditing; the Refuse list is framed as category defaults the brief
can earn; a closing commitment line keeps a ban list from being the
last word before code.
- codex.md / shape.md: contract references restored for flow coherence.
Adopts the concurrent session's ceremony cuts, softened challenger
instruction, seed SOURCE IDs and --candidate-count, detector-ownership
fix, and the removal of the hook-side contract audit (the audit now
belongs to the separate reviewer at finish).
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910 words to 682, same 35 rule markers, no guidance dropped.
- Two sections instead of three. "Absolute bans" and "detector-blind
reflexes" split the same list by whether our scanner happens to catch
it, which is a fact about our tooling and tells the model nothing about
the design. Merged into one Refuse list, grouped as page scaffolds and
surface habits, which is a distinction the model can act on.
- Folded three duplicates: text-overflow was already in the Type check,
the uniform section reveal was the other half of the Motion check, and
card-everything was already inside the card-grid ban.
- Cut explanation the model does not need. It knows what gradient text
is and what group-hover does; it needs the refusal, not the mechanism.
The gemini block goes from four sentences to three short ones, and the
motion palette line drops the CSS tutorial for "reach past transform
and opacity."
- The authority note moves to the header so no item has to hedge.
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The detector-blind slop review existed because the AI-tell rules had been
stripped out of SKILL.md and nothing carried them. The floor is a better
home: it loads after concept ideation and immediately before editing UI,
which is the placement that made stripping them necessary in the first
place. Models tread lightly when a ban list is present during ideation;
by the time the floor loads, the direction is already committed.
- Rename build-floor.md to craft-floor.md and restore the absolute bans
(side-stripes, gradient text, glassmorphism, hero-metric, identical card
grids, eyebrow-on-every-section, numbered markers, text overflow), the
codex and gemini defect lists, and the reflexes no scanner catches.
Rule ids match the ones the ablation catalog already knows.
- Delete lib/slop-review.mjs and both injections. The Stop hook is now
purely a mechanical pass and stays silent with nothing to report.
- context.mjs replaces AI_SLOP_REVIEW_REQUIRED with the narrower
MANUAL_DETECTOR_REQUIRED, emitted only when a session has no hook at
all. A per-edit hook already covers the mechanical gap, and the floor
covers the judgment one either way.
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