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bvandeusenandClaude Opus 5.5 d5dad587f1 refactor(skills): using-scribe keeps the every-turn practices; moment-specific depth moves to reference files (#4398)
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Anthropic's skill guidance: keep SKILL.md under 500 lines, split into
reference files linked one level deep as it nears that. using-scribe was
478 and every new practice lands there.

- SKILL.md 478 -> 317 lines. It keeps orientation, one copy, the reflexes,
  scope, the judge section, UI and the process-skill index, plus a "Read
  these when the moment comes" list naming each file with its moment.
- projects.md: binding a non-git directory (.scribe) and project inception.
- writing-records.md: where a new rule goes, lesson growth, and notes that
  carry their own check (reflex 10 keeps a pointer).
- missed-retrieval.md: the record-before-dial route, verbatim.
- Text moved, not rewritten, except for the seams and one cross-reference.

Tests:
- tests.helpers.skill_text reads SKILL.md plus its reference files. The
  ownership registry, the miss-route and the verification tests use it, so
  a topic stays owned by its skill whichever file holds it.
- The force test scans every skill .md on its own, since each file is read
  on its own.
- New test_skill_structure: SKILL.md <= 350 lines, every reference file is
  linked from SKILL.md, none links another, and one over 100 lines opens
  with Contents. Each guard is shown to fail.

The plugin version is minted. That also clears 4fb53b8's red Plugin hooks
lane, which failed only because PACKAGING.md changed without a mint.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-24 09:58:41 -04:00
bvandeusen 1d65e98ac2 docs(notes): the surfaces say WHEN a note earns a check, and a guard keeps them saying it (#3168, milestone 317 step 5)
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The step that decides whether steps 1-4 were worth building. `verify_with` is
a free-text field on the highest-volume record kind in the product; described
only as "how to verify this note" it gets filled in on every note within a
week, and at that point the sweep returns the whole corpus and means nothing.
The signal is not "has a check" — it is "has a check AND almost nothing else
does".

Rule 119 puts this in the app's own instruction surfaces, never in a Scribe
rule. So:

- the using-scribe skill gains the reflex, next to "state updates in place;
  chronicles don't" — its other half, since supersession only fires once
  somebody has read a note and disagreed, which is the case where it was
  already believed;
- update_note's docstring now states the DEFAULT rather than only deferring
  to create_note for the test. Found by the new guard on its first run;
- plugin 0.1.48.

THE _INSTRUCTIONS BUDGET, decided rather than skipped. The payload is ~1980 of
the client's ~2048-char cap, so everything in it competes for the last ~68
characters. The operator declined a line for this milestone: the map's own
closing sentence says each tool's description carries the full contract, and
the sweep is a curation act rather than a session-start reflex like
enter_project or list_always_on_rules. That reasoning is now a comment beside
the constant, with the accepted cost named — an agent that never opens
create_note's docstring never learns the field exists — so the question is not
re-litigated blind.

The guard pins STRUCTURE, never wording, for the disambiguator's reason (a
test that punishes rewriting is a test that gets deleted): each write surface
must still draw the norm-vs-constraint distinction, say the empty case is
normal, and name where NOT to reach for it — plus that the skill carries the
one-question form, because the docstrings only reach a caller who already
opened the tool.

`_doc` moves to tests/helpers as `tool_doc`; it had been written twice.
2026-08-29 00:10:43 -04:00