The build-path preference shipped as a question only `init` asks, written to
a file only `init` writes. Nothing routes an initialized project back through
init, so every existing project took the comp-first default without anyone
choosing it, and the only recourse was a footer toggle that binds one session.
Neither the setting nor the round that preceded it ever reached a release
(skill-v4.0.4 has no `buildPath`, no `comp-led`, no `.impeccable/settings.json`),
so the PRODUCT.md standing-commitment fallback describes an era that never
existed publicly. It is deleted rather than honored: told a field might exist,
models go hunting for it and preserve it.
- `buildPath` moves from `.impeccable/settings.json` into the unified
`.impeccable/config.json`, which already has a known-keys registry, doctor
coverage, and a gitignored `config.local.json` override. Whether a machine
has an image tool is a property of that machine, so the local file wins.
- new-work captures the answer from behavior instead of an interview: a toggle
flip on a project recording nothing asks once, after the round closes,
whether to keep it. The answer is written either way, because a declined
offer nothing writes down is an offer the next session makes again.
- Two findings: `config-invalid-build-path` (an unread value rides the default
rather than the opposite path) and `config-build-path-unset`, gated on a
product record plus evidence of direction work so polish-and-audit projects
never hear about a setting they do not use.
- init treats a recorded value as a confirmed answer, resolving its conflict
with Step 1's "do not reopen confirmed fields".
- The setting was undocumented in the README and doctor.md. Both now cover it.
Also records a measured skill-behavior baseline. Three cells fail on unmodified
main (scenarios 9 and 15, `initialized natural build`), verified against a clean
worktree; the suite README now says so, so the next person does not spend the
hour attributing them to their own branch.
Written with AI assistance (Claude Code).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Paul BakausandClaude Opus 5
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