v2.9.5

The taste step now happens. design-screen asks for a Brief Inference block

• domain, audience, mood, motion depth, layout family, reference anchor - before
  any markup, and calls it "not optional". Measured on 2026-10-07, one run in three
  skipped it: the skill loaded every time and the block went unwritten, so the
  screen was designed by nobody and regressed to the statistical mean.

The cause was position. The block sat at line 35, below seven lines explaining
why the skill exists and a handoff table. Background is not an instruction. It is
now the first thing in the file, with the stop condition stated plainly: if you
are about to write markup, create a file, or call a tool that produces UI and the
block is not already in your reply, stop and write it first.

Measured after the move, same grader: 5/5, up from 2/3.

grill-me checked for the kit after it had already read from it - line 29
read tokens/*.json, line 97 checked the kit was there, and that check sat
inside the fenced BRIEF.md template, so the skill was telling the model to
write kit-check prose into the user's brief document. Both fixed.

Every harness indicator is now measured by a command. node evals/measure_harness.mjs computes the table from source rather than reading a
number someone typed - the first thing it did was contradict the old table, which
recorded 3 of 11 rules enforced when the real figure was 3 of 9.

New: plugin-evals/, a 13-case claude plugin eval suite covering
invocation. Four triggers, three near-misses, five invitations to the
user-started skills, and the taste case. It exists because all 19 skills once
carried invocation: user|model, a key Claude Code does not read, so the six
marked user-only were auto-invocable and nothing noticed.

Harness Score 0.086 at baseline, 0.6975 here, with nothing left unmeasured.

---