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bvandeusenandClaude Opus 5 88e9c0b0bd feat(tasks): task_kind gains 'spike' — the investigation, not the change (#3099, milestone 312 step 5)
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A spike is a shape the other kinds cannot hold. `work` ships a change;
`issue` fixes something broken. A spike is time-boxed and its output is
KNOWLEDGE — it succeeds by producing an answer, and nothing ships at the end
of it. Filing one as `work` makes a finished investigation look like an
abandoned change, which is why the distinction earns a value rather than a
convention.

It is also the record a failed check asks for. This milestone gave rules a
verify_with; when one fails the rule is wrong, and the next move is often to
go and find out what replaced it. notes.arose_from_id already exists (0065),
so constraint -> spike provenance needed no schema at all — only a docstring
saying it is there.

Rule 36: the value and the widened CHECK land in the same migration, DROP
then ADD, exactly as 0065 did for 'issue'. The two whitelists live in one
tuple each so upgrade and downgrade cannot disagree about what the list was
on either side. The downgrade demotes existing spikes to 'work' first —
lossy, deliberately, because the alternative is a downgrade that fails on
real data, and one that says what it did beats one that cannot run.

'plan' stays whitelisted though retired: historical plan-tasks carry it, and
a row that cannot be rewritten cannot be edited, restored or migrated.

The integration test asserts both halves. A test that only proved 'spike' is
accepted would pass just as happily against a table whose CHECK had been
dropped and never re-added — which is the other way rule 36's failure
happens — so an unknown kind is asserted to still raise.

Not in scope, deliberately: any special lifecycle, time-box enforcement, or
gating relationship. It is a kind, not a workflow.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-27 12:02:41 -04:00
bvandeusenandClaude Opus 5 c58529718b feat(systems): the catalog reaches the moment a name is minted, and gets a face (#3028, milestone 307 step 2)
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Step 1 found the reason the standard names never held, and it is sharper than
"prose doesn't fire": the list WAS real and it WAS seeded — but only on the
inception path, for a project with zero Systems. Ad-hoc create_system never
consulted it, which is how Forge minted "CI and Release" and Portal minted
"CI & release" after the constant already existed. This wires the vocabulary to
the moment that mints a name.

- services/systems.assess_system_name: the local duplicate gate AND the
  catalog lookup, in ONE service function both doors call. The gate lived only
  in the MCP tool, which is exactly how the web UI shipped without a check the
  agent surface enforced (#2482). REST now answers 409 with the System that
  already covers the area.
- An `exact` catalog hit is APPLIED (mechanical — the names differ only in
  spelling). An `overlap` is only OFFERED, on both doors: applying a judgment
  call silently is how a cross-project rule surfaces in the wrong project.
- canonical_systems.best_overlap is the ONE scorer behind the create-time
  offer and the review sweep, so the two surfaces can never name different
  areas for one System. It also takes the catalog the caller already holds,
  so the review is not an N+1.

UI (folded in from step 1 — rule 27, that step shipped with no human surface):
- SystemsSection: a Shared area picker on create and edit, the area on each
  card, and a collapsed review of proposals that appears only when there is
  something to decide. `exact` and `overlap` never share a style — one is
  mechanical, the other is the reviewer's judgment, and presenting them alike
  is how a wrong mapping gets waved through.
- Settings → Admin → Areas: the catalog itself, showing each entry's slug,
  because the slug is what decides whether two names are the same area and a
  rename moves it.
- A picker rather than a live matcher: reproducing the slug rule in TypeScript
  would give this feature two matchers to keep in step — the exact drift the
  catalog exists to end. The server stays authoritative.

tests/helpers.fake_system gains canonical_id=None: an unnamed attribute is an
auto-MagicMock and therefore truthy, which is the trap that helper exists for
(note 2109) and a nullable FK walks straight into it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-26 12:58:30 -04:00
bvandeusenandClaude Opus 5 a97547fbc6 feat(systems): the area vocabulary becomes a global table so a rule can point at one (#3027, milestone 307 step 1)
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The eight standard area names already existed — as STANDARD_SYSTEMS, a tuple in
services/systems.py that milestone 297 seeds at inception. A constant cannot be
a foreign key, so nothing outside a project could reference an area: systems.
project_id is NOT NULL, and a rule that spans projects would have to chain
itself to one project's row. And because the list only ever applied on the
inception-seed path, three spellings of one area reached this instance anyway
(CI & runners / CI and Release / CI & release).

- canonical_systems: global, no user_id — a shared project inherits the
  vocabulary instead of re-earning it. Migration 0087 seeds the same eight.
- systems.canonical_id: nullable, SET NULL. Association only — no System is
  renamed and record_systems is untouched, so no record's tags move.
- canonical_slug folds &/and, case and punctuation, so spelling variants map
  mechanically and a real difference ("CI & runners") becomes a proposal a
  human confirms. propose_mappings reports; set_system_canonical is the only
  writer.
- seed_standard_systems now reads the catalog and maps as it mints, so a
  project born standard never needs a reconciliation pass.
- Catalog writes are admin-only; reads are open — a global list anyone can
  extend stops being shared.
- backup: carried by SLUG, not id (ids are per-install). Restore reuses the
  target's own rows and only creates entries an admin added on the source; an
  unknown slug restores unmapped rather than failing.

Rule 22: STANDARD_SYSTEMS is removed, not deprecated. Rule 115: nothing seeded
names an app, repo or house convention. Design in note 3026.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-26 12:31:18 -04:00
bvandeusenandClaude Fable 5 34734bf84a feat(inception): services/inception.decide() + current_defaults(); the standard Systems vocabulary moves to the service and seeds at inception (#2881, milestone 297 step 3)
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- inception.decide(user, project, choices=, via=): owner-only; validates the
  choices (pure) and every target (owned rulebook / always-on for an
  exclusion / readable design system) BEFORE any effect; then, each
  idempotent: exclude always-on rulebooks, subscribe rulebooks, point the
  design system (None = explicitly none), seed the standard Systems if asked
  and the project has none; writes projects.inception LAST. Re-deciding is
  additive for exclusions/subscriptions, replaces the design system, never
  re-seeds.
- inception.current_defaults(): what binds if nobody decides — the ask's
  payload (always-on / other rulebooks, standing exclusions + subscriptions,
  design system + the choices, Systems count).
- services/systems.STANDARD_SYSTEMS (name + generic charter) + seed_standard_systems();
  mcp/tools/systems names the same list in the bootstrap ask — one vocabulary.
- Integration tests: effects land and the record says why; bad targets apply
  nothing; outsiders cannot decide.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-21 22:03:02 -04:00
bvandeusenandClaude Fable 5 64c641ce80 refactor(routes): one supersession seam for REST and MCP; PUT/PATCH notes share a handler; shared mask/not-found/caller helpers (#2829, milestone 296 area 5)
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Reading the 28 route modules against each other and against the MCP tools:
- routes/notes.py carried a PUT and a PATCH handler that were the same
  function minus the supersedes contract on one of them — one handler now
  serves both verbs, so both carry it.
- The two _attach_supersession copies (REST + MCP) become
  supersession_svc.attach_relations(uid, note_id, data, hint=) — the seam
  the two surfaces must agree through; only the agent surface adds the
  one-sentence reading hint.
- Three local _uid() wrappers over g.user.id → scribe.auth.get_current_user_id
  like every other module; design_systems' private _not_found → routes.utils.
  not_found; the four "********" literals → settings_svc.SECRET_MASK with the
  read/write contract written once.
- routes/plugin.py: the project_id/repo resolution block and the
  comma-separated id parse were copied into three endpoints — _project_scope()
  and _int_list() now.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-21 11:23:47 -04:00
bvandeusenandClaude Fable 5 5265d11a6a feat(systems): bootstrap mints directly — the standard vocabulary replaces operator approval (#2798)
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Operator directive: creating Systems is the agent's call, not an approval
flow — "propose to the operator, create each confirmed one" made the
operator a permission gate. The bootstrap ask now says create_system 3-6
directly, in-session, and the consistency that approval was covering moves
to a standard cross-project vocabulary (CI & Release, Auth & Access, Data
Model & Storage, API Surface, UI & Design, Import & Export, Background
Jobs, Observability): use the standard name verbatim where the area fits,
mint freely beyond it, the duplicate gate guards sprawl. create_system and
enter_project docstrings carry the same contract.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-19 20:05:02 -04:00
bvandeusenandClaude Fable 5 7a5e2b18d9 feat(systems): evidence-carrying bootstrap ask for mature zero-Systems projects (#2683)
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The generic zero-state systems_hint never converts: identical on every
record, maximal in scope, asked at wrap-up time — Minstrel reached 282
records with zero Systems while vocabularied projects grew organically.
What converts is the project's own evidence at the moment of action.

bootstrap_systems_ask (mcp/tools/systems.py) fires only in a project
with >=20 records and no Systems: it names the record count and recent
titles, and asks for a concrete deliverable — propose 3-6 Systems,
confirm with the operator, create_system the set. Self-retiring: the
first System ends it everywhere. Wired at both moments the task named:
untagged_systems_hint escalates to it at write time, and enter_project
carries it as systems_bootstrap at arrival (attached only when it
applies). Young projects keep the mild question; populated vocabularies
never pay the count query.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-17 14:53:46 -04:00
bvandeusenandClaude Fable 5 3455f9cb9a refactor(systems): one seam — the Systems question rides every read and write of a record
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Scribe issue #2570, from the operator's challenge: the invariant is
"always be asking whether what you're touching is a System's territory
and whether the work is filed there" — not a nudge in one corner. The
prior shape failed it twice: the hint fired only on creates (with a
special-cased zero-Systems branch), and get_task/get_note returned
records WITHOUT their Systems, so the read-side reflex had nothing to
fire on (same per-kind asymmetry as #2481).

- attach_systems(): single helper used by get/create/update for tasks,
  notes, and snippets, plus add_task_log. Tagged records always show
  `systems`; an untagged project record carries the `systems_hint`
  question instead. Neither field attaches empty (#2483). Hint is
  owner-only; everything fail-open (#2109).
- untagged_systems_hint unified to ONE question — the vocabulary
  listing varies, the question doesn't; the zero-Systems branch stops
  being special text.
- Docstrings state the uniform contract; floor prose now names the
  read-side reflex (systems visible -> list_system_records the pile).
- Plugin 0.1.27 -> 0.1.28.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-09 15:48:41 -04:00
bvandeusenandClaude Fable 5 56b1952de5 fix(systems): sweeps are the discovery moment — zero-Systems hint, create_system dedup gate, prose inverted
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First real-world test of the #2562 fixes (Scribe issue #2569): a Forge
session ran a whole-codebase audit and created zero Systems — endorsed
by the shipped guidance, whose "no particular area takes none" clause
read as an exemption for exactly the record type that enumerates the
subsystem vocabulary. And the systems_hint was silent for a zero-Systems
project, the one state nothing else nudges out of.

- systems_hint gains a zero-Systems branch: prompt the FIRST
  create_system instead of going quiet.
- create_system is duplicate-gated like the other creates (normalized
  name, archived included, fail-open) — liberal creation becomes safe by
  construction, so the guidance can stop preaching restraint.
- Prose inverted on every surface (hint text, create_system docstring,
  floor bullet, using-scribe step 7): audits/sweeps take several tags
  and mint the Systems they name; the gate is the guardrail against
  sprawl, not holding back; only a record genuinely about no particular
  area goes untagged.
- Plugin 0.1.26 -> 0.1.27.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-09 15:35:59 -04:00
bvandeusenandClaude Fable 5 3ff8803593 feat(instructions): fit the delivery fold — 2k server map, floor Systems reflex, write-time systems_hint
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Claude Code injects only the first ~2,048 chars of an MCP server's
instructions and silently cuts the rest mid-word (#2562, observed live):
_INSTRUCTIONS was 20,002 chars, so ~90% — including all Systems tagging
guidance — never reached any session. Rearchitect delivery around what
each surface actually delivers:

- _INSTRUCTIONS becomes a 1,997-char purpose-sorted map, with a header
  comment stating the budget and where detail belongs instead.
- Tool docstrings keep the per-tool HOW (audit: nearly all displaced
  topics were already duplicated there); backfill the four gaps —
  enter_project session scoping + project bootstrap, create_rule
  entity-vs-rule test, create_design_system not-a-rulebook,
  create_system two-records test.
- The plugin static context (the delivery floor) gains the
  tag-to-Systems reflex and a surfaces-layering statement; plugin
  0.1.25 -> 0.1.26 so the executing cache refreshes (#2209).
- create_task / create_note / create_snippet return a systems_hint when
  a record is created untagged in a project that has Systems — in-band
  at the exact write it applies to, fail-open like the dedup gate.
- Guards: _INSTRUCTIONS length budget, floor-states-the-reflex, and a
  displaced-topics sweep asserting every cut topic still lives on a
  delivered surface.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-09 12:53:35 -04:00
bvandeusen 3f1523b19f feat(systems): read-side teeth — the vocabulary at session start, a search filter, and the state/chronicle instructions
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Step 4 of #278, product half. The audit that motivated it: one System in
project 2, thirty records tagged, nothing since July 28 — three days after the
feature landed. Not a discipline failure; retrieval was completely blind to
the association (zero references in embeddings, knowledge, search, auto-inject,
or enter_project), so tagging was a write-side label with no read-side payoff,
and labels nobody reads don't get maintained.

Three changes, ordered by what makes the others workable:

1. enter_project returns the project's Systems (id, name, first line of the
   charter). Load-bearing for the tagging instruction: you cannot ask an agent
   to check a record against a vocabulary it never sees. Trimmed because it
   rides on every session start; the full charter stays get_system's job.
   Present-and-empty rather than absent when a project has none — "no named
   areas yet" is information the create-the-System instruction acts on.

2. search accepts system_id, MCP and REST (#33). Implemented once in
   semantic_search_notes as an EXISTS against record_systems — an association
   filter deciding candidate-set membership before scoring, like project_id,
   not a ranking signal. The REST route's missing project filter stays #2463's:
   it carries a default-scope UI decision this change must not preempt.

3. The instructions (#119, _INSTRUCTIONS + using-scribe skill; plugin 0.1.25
   for the cache):
   - Tag as you write, with an executable test — "would someone investigating
     that subsystem want this in the pile list_system_records returns?" —
     rather than "tag appropriately", which is what died.
   - Create the System when the area has no record: the two-or-more test
     snippets use, plus "don't wait to be asked to name an area that plainly
     exists", because the agent's default was leaving un-modelled areas
     un-modelled forever.
   - State vs chronicle: dev-logs are written once and never rewritten; durable
     findings live in the System's reference note, updated in place — safe
     because note versions are the changelog, which has existed since the
     feature shipped and was never named as one.

list_system_records' docstring now sells it as the way to READ a subsystem,
reference note first. No auto-inject boost by System — vocabulary and filter
first, measure before adding ranking behaviour (the #2486 lesson).

Refs #278, #2546
2026-08-08 18:19:58 -04:00
bvandeusenandClaude Opus 4.8 85e0501705 feat(issues): S2 MCP tools — system CRUD + issue/system wiring
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Second slice of Issues + Systems (spec #825).

New mcp/tools/systems.py: create_system, list_systems, get_system (records
split into issues/tasks/notes), update_system (incl. archive via status),
list_system_records (kind/open_only filters), delete_system. Registered in
register_all; read tools (get_system, list_systems, list_system_records) added
to the read-only-key allowlist (write tools default-deny).

create_task/update_task: kind now accepts 'issue'; new system_ids (set-semantics
associations) and arose_from_id (provenance, 0=unchanged/-1=clear) args.
create_note/update_note: new system_ids arg (notes associate with systems too).
services/notes.create_note: arose_from_id passthrough (update_note already
handles it via setattr).

Tests: MCP system tools + create_task issue-wiring (kind/provenance/systems),
service layer mocked.

Refs plan 825 (S2).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-13 23:07:37 -04:00