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fix(coding-agents): survey prompt says Glob, not Read, for the directory layout (#3796)
The cold-repo survey spawns a headless `claude -p --model haiku --allowedTools Read Glob Grep` session. SURVEY_PROMPT asks the model to understand "the directory layout" but never says which tool shows it, and haiku reaches for `Read(<repoRoot>)` — a bare directory path, which errors with EISDIR before the survey has read anything. Measured on one machine's OTel export, 2026-08-23..25: 10 distinct survey sessions failed this way on first tool call, across kids-yt-factory, hindsight, sitebrain.eu, PlanView, Meridian and four .traycer worktrees — i.e. every repo the survey ran cold against, plus a fresh worktree each time (a new worktree is a new bank, so the survey re-runs). Glob was already in --allowedTools; the model was simply never told to prefer it here. This is a prompt-level counter-instruction, not a structural guarantee — the robust fix is at the tool-wiring layer (deny Read on a directory, or give the survey an ls-shaped tool), which this does not attempt.
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"memory. Work efficiently — DO NOT read every file; sample enough to understand the " +
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"architecture: the directory layout, entry points, package manifests (package.json / " +
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"pyproject.toml / Cargo.toml / go.mod), the README, and a few representative source files per " +
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"major area.\n" +
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"major area. Use Glob (e.g. `**/*`) to see the directory layout — Read takes a FILE path only " +
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"and errors on a directory; never call Read on a bare directory path.\n" +
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"IMPORTANT — DO NOT read, quote, summarize, or ingest agent-instruction files: CLAUDE.md, " +
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"AGENTS.md, GEMINI.md, .cursorrules, .cursor/rules/*, or .github/copilot-instructions.md. These " +
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"are live, user-controlled instructions (not repository knowledge); capturing them as memory " +

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