Harnesses with no subagent capability now run each role inline from the
same single source. The build emits reference/degraded/<role>.md for every
agent in skill/agents/ (role name is the agent name minus the impeccable-
prefix), stripping frontmatter and prepending the inline-substitution
preamble. These pass through the same provider-block compilation and
placeholder replacement as ordinary reference files, so <codex> blocks and
{{placeholders}} resolve per target, and they land in the committed harness
dirs on build:release like every reference file.
Repoint the three capability-first fallback sites in the prose at the
generated files: new-work.md reviewer and documenter fallbacks, and
visualize.md asset-producer fallback.
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From the paired Opus and Codex manual-run analyses. DESIGN.md moves to
the end of the flow and into a shipped documenter subagent that derives
the system from the built artifact: a rulebook written before the build
gets defended against reality, and a half-stable DESIGN.md hands the
design-system detector an unstable target that buries the build in
noise and invites laundering. The finish reviewer gains the handoff
that failed three times live: the parent captures desktop and mobile
screenshots and passes paths, the reviewer never attempts to render
and names missing inputs in one line, the parent verifies the
five-section return and respawns once on empty. Fidelity against the
approved comp joins its checks; the card keeps commitment only. The
comp ingredient inventory becomes a written gate with raster-by-default
materials and no gradient-as-texture, comps persist under
.impeccable/mocks, the degraded seed names the sandboxed-exec cause,
and the finish line is explicit: a clean detector pass is not finished.
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The eb686f36 session read the separate-reviewer rule and spawned
nothing: an unnamed "separate agent" is an improvisation prompt, not an
affordance. The skill now ships impeccable-finish-reviewer next to the
asset producer: persistence first, ceiling against the card and comp
second, contract promise by promise, truth; ordered material fixes
back to the parent, no editing, no second detector. new-work names it
so the finish step invokes a thing that exists.
The asset producer was gated providers: codex, so Claude Code never
shipped it; the gate is removed and its two codex-only workflow lines
made provider-neutral with codex blocks.
Dist rebuild still deferred for the running campaign.
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codex.md becomes visualize.md and loads for every harness with any
image generation, native or the API fallback: after the direction
locks, three distinct compositional comps are rendered and put before
the user for approval, in-harness when it can display images,
otherwise on the decision page. Three is the number; one comp invites
rubber-stamping, and this approval round has repeatedly produced the
most compositional and ambitious work, so new-work now marks it
never-skipped. The codex-only subagent stays as a codex note.
The recent rule additions are tightened by a third: the asset and
imagery bullets merge into one, the canon exit loses its restatements,
the DESIGN.md-rule and chosen-card and ceiling clauses each shed their
second clause saying the first clause again. Same laws, fewer words;
prose that grows without bound recreates the attention gravity it was
written to fight.
Dist rebuild still deferred; the release-gate campaign reads the
pinned dist.
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