Paul reproduced the Opus smoke failure in a fresh repo: given a
natural-language build intent, the model runs concept-seed directly and
skips the init divert entirely, so PRODUCT.md never exists and nothing
grounds the challenger fusion. Prose already says init-first in both
SKILL.md routing and new-work.md; prose alone does not hold the floor.
The deal path now refuses with a NO_PRODUCT_MD directive routing to
reference/init.md when loadContext finds no PRODUCT.md. The --chosen
telemetry ping stays ungated.
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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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A single staging input was too weak a counterweight to the model's
habitual page skeleton: beside six identity challengers it read as one
optional flourish rather than a real search over composition. Roll three
from distinct staging families so a roll tests materially different
hierarchy, sequence, and interaction laws.
selectApprovedStagings replaces the single-pick selector; the old
selectApprovedStaging stays as a count-1 wrapper for smoke tests. Re-rolls
exclude every earlier set, and an absent mode still returns nothing rather
than falling back across modes.
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The public repo keeps the OSS promise surface: skill, CLI, extension,
tests, and the provider build. The site, labs, concept/composition
catalogs, image pipeline, Cloudflare functions, and authoring guide move
to pbakaus/impeccable-site.
concept-seed tests run against a synthetic fixture catalog; the plugin
icon and skill categories moved in-repo; build validation narrows to
README prose and non-site counts; release notes read from a sibling
impeccable-site checkout.
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