v1.56.0.0 Token-reduction Phase B + AUQ paranoid safety net#1849
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Carve the largest skill (138,838 B) into a skeleton + one on-demand
section, the documented next Phase B target after /ship (v2_PLAN.md:216).
- sections/review-sections.md(.tmpl): the 11-section deep review, codex/
outside-voice rules, how-to-ask, Required Outputs, registries, Completion
Summary, Review Log, REVIEW_DASHBOARD, PLAN_FILE_REVIEW_REPORT, Next Steps,
docs/designs promotion, Formatting Rules, and the Mode Quick Reference.
- sections/manifest.json: passive registry (CM2), one entry.
- SKILL.md.tmpl: {{SECTION_INDEX}} after the system audit, a single
{{SECTION:review-sections}} STOP-Read after Step 0 mode selection, and a
Section self-check. All of Step 0 (the scope/mode conversation) stays in
the always-loaded skeleton; only EXIT_PLAN_MODE_GATE follows the section.
Measured: always-loaded skeleton 138,838 -> 80,731 B (-42%, ~14.4K tokens
off every invocation). Union (skeleton + section) 139,110 B, behavior held.
Boundary honors Codex P1: nothing review-governing (formatting rules, mode
reference, how-to-ask, required outputs) sits in the skeleton below the
STOP. Housekeeping resolvers ride in the section, matching the ship
precedent (adversarial.md carries LEARNINGS_LOG + GBRAIN_SAVE_RESULTS).
Tests (atomic with the carve — skill-docs.yml gates gen:skill-docs
freshness on every push, so source + regen + tests must land together):
- parity-harness: plan-ceo flipped to sectioned, maxSkeletonBytes 90_000
(measured 80,731 + headroom); content/minBytes run against the union.
- skill-size-budget: plan-ceo-review added to SECTIONS_EXTRACTED.
- section-manifest-consistency: generalized to discover every carved skill,
vars computed per-skill-case (Codex P2).
- skill-ceo-section-ordering (new, gate): per-PR static guard — STOP after
Step 0, review body absent from skeleton, report writer in the section,
nothing review-governing below the STOP.
- skill-e2e-plan-ceo-review-section-loading (new, periodic): refreshes the
installed skill first (Codex P1), drives full Step 0, asserts the section
is Read before the report.
- gen-skill-docs + skill-validation: read the skeleton+sections union for
carved skills so relocated prose still counts.
- touchfiles: plan-ceo-section-loading registered (periodic).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
MINOR: carves the largest skill into skeleton + on-demand section, dropping plan-ceo-review's always-loaded cost 42% (138,838 -> 80,731 B, ~14.4K tokens off every invocation). User-facing release notes lead with the measured token win. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…nce blocks Surfaced by /plan-eng-review on the plan-ceo-review carve: per-skill section carves stay modest because the ~40-50KB shared preamble dominates the always-loaded surface. A single preamble-reference carve would help every tier->=2 skill at once. Records the why, the cold-vs-hot split to measure, and the guards it needs. Not implemented this PR. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Deterministic, free, per-PR keystone for the token-reduction era. For every interactive (tier>=2) skill, asserts the full AskUserQuestion decision-brief format (ELI10/Recommendation/Pros-cons/checks/Net/(recommended)/Stakes/ self-check) lives in the always-loaded SKILL.md skeleton, NOT only in an on-demand section. Plus a roster guard (a carve can't silently drop the block) and per-skill rule survival in the skeleton+sections union. 51 cases + a negative control. Fails the instant a future carve strands AUQ-governing text where it won't be loaded when a question fires. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds the reusable SDK $OUT_FILE capture engine (auq-sdk-capture.ts): drives a skill to its AUQ and captures the verbatim text the model GENERATES, cleanly (real-PTY mangles plan-mode AUQs via cursor escapes). Pins the skill to an absolute path with Read/Write-only tools so the agent can't wander to the global install. gradeAuqRecommendation normalizes a non-"because" connective before grading so substantive reasons aren't false-flagged (without touching the pinned shared judge). The A/B drives the same prompt through the carved 80KB skeleton and the pre-carve 137KB monolith and fails if carved scores worse. Result: both 7/7 format, substance 5 — proven no degradation, transcript-verified each side read its own planted SKILL.md. Periodic tier. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Drives the carved /plan-ceo-review AUQ N=3 times and fails if any format element appears in one run but not another, or substance craters. Targets the "fine one run, broken the next" failure class a single snapshot can't see. Result: 3/3 stable, 7/7 + substance 5 every run. Periodic tier. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Data-driven test that drives each AUQ-heavy skill (plan-eng/design/devex, office-hours, cso, spec, design-consultation) to its first AskUserQuestion and grades it to the plan-ceo bar: 7/7 decision-brief format + recommendation substance >=4. One case per skill (isolated failures), env-subsettable via AUQ_MATRIX_ONLY. Browser/design-binary skills are intentionally excluded (comparison boards, not format-AUQs; Layer 0 covers their spec). All targeted skills pass 7/7 with substance 4-5. Periodic tier. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Closes the gap where /codex's synthesis recommendation was only checked statically (template grep) and via fixtures. Drives the real /codex skill over a flawed diff and grades the emitted "Recommendation: ... because ..." line with judgeRecommendation (present/commits/has_because/substance>=4). The named weak spot holds up: substance 5. Periodic tier. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
A bare /plan-ceo-review against a repo whose work is already implemented makes the model improvise an off-script "what should I review?" scope question that skips the decision-brief format, which the gate test then times out waiting for. Hand it a concrete plan to review (FORCING_FLOOR_CEO) so it reaches the real Step 0 mode-selection AUQ that is the intended format check. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Third Phase B carve (v2_PLAN.md:216, after ship and plan-ceo-review). Moves Phase 5 (Design Doc templates) + Phase 6 (tiered relationship handoff) — the session's output + closing tail, only reached after the conversation and alternatives are done — into sections/design-and-handoff.md, behind a single STOP-Read after Phase 4.5. The live conversation (Phases 1-4.5) and the always-run Important Rules stay in the always-loaded skeleton. Measured: always-loaded skeleton 118,280 -> 88,975 B (-24.8%). Union preserved. The carved AUQ is identical to pre-carve (matrix: 7/7 format, substance 5), and Layer 0 confirms the AUQ format spec stays in the skeleton — the AUQ paranoid suite de-risked this carve end to end. Atomic with tests + regen (skill-docs.yml gates gen:skill-docs freshness on every push, so source + regen + tests land together; --host all regenerates the inlined non-Claude variants): - sections/manifest.json: passive registry, one entry. - parity-harness: office-hours flipped to sectioned, maxSkeletonBytes 96_000 (measured 88,975 + headroom); content/minBytes run against the union. - skill-size-budget: office-hours added to SECTIONS_EXTRACTED. - gen-skill-docs + skill-validation: read the skeleton+sections union for office-hours so relocated Phase 5/6 prose still counts. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…1.57.0.0) Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The AskUserQuestion format block is inlined into every interactive skill (~33). It carried the full multi-paragraph non-ASCII/CJK escaping manual inline, but that rationale only matters when a question contains CJK text and the operative rule already lives in the always-loaded self-check. Moved the justification to docs/askuserquestion-cjk.md (read on demand); kept the rule + a pointer. Corpus: Claude-host SKILL.md total 3,087,499 -> 3,057,975 B (-29,524 B, ~900 B x ~33 skills). Layer 0 still passes — the core decision-brief format stays always-loaded; only the rare CJK rationale moved. Atomic with the all-host regen (skill-docs.yml freshness gate). VERSION + package.json -> 1.58.0.0. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Fourth Phase B carve (v2_PLAN.md:220). Moves the 4-section review (Architecture, Code Quality, Tests, Performance), outside voice, required outputs, and review report — everything after Step 0 scope — into sections/review-sections.md behind a single STOP-Read. Step 0 (scope challenge) and EXIT_PLAN_MODE_GATE stay in the always-loaded skeleton. Measured: skeleton 106,984 -> 54,892 B (-48.7%). Union preserved. Atomic with tests + all-host regen (freshness gate): parity flipped to sectioned (maxSkeletonBytes 62K), plan-eng-review added to SECTIONS_EXTRACTED, gen-skill-docs reads the union for relocated review/TEST_COVERAGE/dashboard prose. Layer 0 green. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Fifth Phase B carve (v2_PLAN.md:220, bundled with plan-eng). Moves the 7 design passes, required outputs, and review report — everything after Step 0 scope and the mockup/rating phase — into sections/review-sections.md behind a STOP-Read. Step 0, Step 0.5 mockups, the rating method, and EXIT_PLAN_MODE_GATE stay in the always-loaded skeleton. Measured: skeleton 112,057 -> 76,024 B (-32.2%). Union preserved. Atomic with tests + all-host regen: parity sectioned (maxSkeletonBytes 82K), added to SECTIONS_EXTRACTED, gen-skill-docs reads the union. Layer 0 green. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Sixth Phase B carve. Moves the 8 DX passes, required outputs, and review report — everything after the Step 0 DX investigation — into sections/review-sections.md behind a STOP-Read. All of Step 0 (persona, empathy, benchmark, journey trace, roleplay) + the rating method + EXIT_PLAN_MODE_GATE stay always-loaded. Measured: skeleton 110,621 -> 69,658 B (-37%). Union preserved. Atomic with tests + all-host regen: added to SECTIONS_EXTRACTED, gen-skill-docs reads the union. Layer 0 green. (No parity invariant entry for plan-devex-review.) Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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…rves Two follow-ups the carve commits should have carried (caught by the full suite, missed by targeted subsets): - ship golden baselines (claude/codex/factory) regenerated: the preamble CJK trim (v1.58) changed ship's always-loaded AskUserQuestion block. - gbrain-detection-override probes the office-hours skeleton+section union: GBRAIN_SAVE_RESULTS moved into sections/design-and-handoff.md when office-hours was carved, so the detection assertions now check both files. Full `bun test` green. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The real-PTY version grepped the stripAnsi'd interactive AUQ picker. Verified directly that this cannot work: plan-mode AUQs render as a cursor picker whose cursor-positioning escapes stripAnsi can't flatten — the picker renders fine for a human (cursorSeen=45) but the flattened text drops ELI10:/(recommended) and parseNumberedOptions returns 0. The test was grading a lossy projection and failed by construction. Rewritten to drive /plan-ceo-review via the SDK $OUT_FILE capture (the agent writes the verbatim question it would have shown — clean text, no rendering loss) and grade 7/7 format + kind-note + recommendation substance >=4. Same property, reliable, environment-independent; shares the engine with the periodic A/B and matrix evals. Result: 7/7 format, substance 5. Touchfiles key renamed ask-user-question-format-pty -> auq-format-gate (no longer a PTY test). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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E2E Evals: ✅ PASS64/64 tests passed | $13.27 total cost | 12 parallel runners
12x ubicloud-standard-8 (Docker: pre-baked toolchain + deps) | wall clock ≈ slowest suite |
Two CI eval jobs failed on the carved plan-* skills because they read content that moved into sections/: - llm-judge (skill-llm-eval): runWorkflowJudge sliced SKILL.md between markers like "## Review Sections" / "## CRITICAL RULE" that now live in sections/review-sections.md. The markers vanished from the skeleton, so the judge scored empty/wrong content. Fix: read the skeleton+sections union. Verified: plan-ceo modes / plan-eng sections / plan-design passes all PASS (25/25). - e2e-plan (skill-e2e-plan): setupPlanDir copied only <skill>/SKILL.md into the fixture, not sections/. The carved skill's STOP pointed at a section file that was absent, so the model improvised a compressed report table instead of the canonical "| Review | Trigger | Why | Runs | Status | Findings |". Fix: copy sections/ alongside SKILL.md in all 6 setup sites. Verified: report test PASS, canonical table emitted. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…blind CI fails) Proactive sweep beyond the two CI logs: every e2e test that copies a carved skill's SKILL.md into a temp fixture must also copy its sections/, or the model hits a STOP pointing at a missing section file and improvises/degrades. - skill-e2e.test.ts: plan-ceo/plan-eng/plan-design/office-hours copies across planDir/reviewDir/ohDir/benefitsDir dests now copy sections/. - skill-e2e-plan.test.ts: the office-hours copy + the 4-skill codex-offering loop now copy sections/. - skill-e2e-design.test.ts: plan-design-review copy now copies sections/. - skill-e2e-office-hours.test.ts: both office-hours copies now copy sections/. - skill-e2e-office-hours-brain-writeback.test.ts: GBRAIN_SAVE_RESULTS moved into the section, so check the regenerated skeleton+section UNION for the gbrain put block, ship both into the workdir, and restore both (the section regen was also leaking into the working tree — finally now restores it). ship copies (single-file Step-0 slices) and review/retro (not carved) untouched. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Resolve VERSION/package.json to 1.59.0.0 (branch ahead of main's 1.55.1.0) and interleave main's 1.55.1.0 CHANGELOG entry between 1.56.0.0 and 1.55.0.0. Regenerated all SKILL.md from merged sources (main's telemetry-consent + gstack-slug-sanitize resolver changes layered under this branch's carves). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The /ship and /plan-ceo-review section-loading tests drove a real PTY and scraped the ANSI screen buffer for sections/<file>.md paths. That silently saw nothing in a Conductor PTY (cursor-positioned tool renders and an unanswered Step 0 question loop both defeat the regex), so both reported read: [] even when the agent did the work. They now run the skill through claude -p (the same SDK path the AUQ matrix uses) and detect section reads from the tool-use stream — Read calls whose file_path contains sections/<file>.md — with no rendering layer to mangle. The run is also hermetic: the freshly-generated worktree skeleton + sections are copied into a throwaway fixture with the absolute path pinned, so the test validates this branch's carve without mutating the user's ~/.claude install. Validated EVALS_TIER=periodic: both pass (plan-ceo Reads review-sections.md; ship Reads review-army.md + changelog.md), ~6.5 min for both vs ~23 min combined on the old PTY path where both were failing. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The branch bumped VERSION several times during development (1.56 → 1.57 → 1.58 → 1.59), but none of those landed on main (main is at 1.55.1.0). Per the "never orphan branch-internal versions" discipline, collapse all four into a single 1.56.0.0 entry — one MINOR release covering the whole branch: five skills carved (plan-ceo, office-hours, plan-eng, plan-design, plan-devex), the shared AskUserQuestion preamble CJK trim, and the paranoid AUQ no-degradation test suite + lossless section-loading tests. VERSION and package.json set to 1.56.0.0; main's 1.55.1.0 entry preserved below the consolidated entry. No SKILL.md drift (VERSION is not embedded in generated bodies). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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… keys The two section-loading E2E tests (from #1849) declared slash-form testNames ('/ship section-loading') while their E2E_TOUCHFILES and E2E_TIERS keys are hyphenated ('ship-section-loading'). The TOUCHFILES completeness test requires testName === key (the repo convention), so it failed. Hyphenate the two testNames to match their keys; this also fixes tier matching. Describe-block labels stay human-readable. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Token-reduction Phase B + a paranoid AskUserQuestion safety net (v1.59.0.0)
Carves six heavyweight skills into skeleton + on-demand
sections/, trims the shared preamble corpus-wide, and — the load-bearing part — adds a test suite that proves slimming a skill never degrades the questions it asks you.What shipped
Token reduction
(ship + plan-ceo-review were carved in v1.54/v1.56.) Each carve moves the review/output body behind a single STOP-Read; the conversational front half +
EXIT_PLAN_MODE_GATEstay always-loaded. External hosts (codex/factory/kiro/opencode) keep the full inline skill — no behavior change off Claude.AUQ paranoid safety net (the reason carving is safe)
auq-format-always-loaded.test.ts— free/per-PR keystone: every interactive skill must carry the full AskUserQuestion decision-brief spec in its always-loaded skeleton, never stranded in a section. 51 cases + a negative control.skill-e2e-auq-matrix.test.ts— drives 7 AUQ-heavy skills to their first question and grades 7/7 format + substance ≥4.skill-e2e-auq-verbose-vs-carved-ab.test.ts— proves a carved skill's question is not worse than the pre-carve monolith's.skill-e2e-auq-consistency.test.ts— same trigger ×N, fails on any element that drifts run-to-run.codex-e2e-recommendation-substance.test.ts— grades/codex's live recommendation.skill-e2e-ask-user-question-format-compliance.test.tsrewritten to grade the captured AUQ via the SDK path instead of scraping the stripAnsi'd TUI (which can't faithfully flatten the cursor-positioned picker).Verification
Honest caveat
The diff touches
test/helpers/touchfiles.ts(a global trigger), soeval:selectmarks all 174 E2E + 28 LLM-judge as selected. The full paid suite was not run as one batch — this environment SIGKILLs eval processes under load — so it was run in small foreground batches for the AUQ/carve-critical tests (all green above). The remaining periodic evals should run on CI / a stable host before merge.🤖 Generated with Claude Code