Operator rule, 2026-09-20, for every repository: our code does not start Claude
Code. `tools/okf_adjudicate.py` did, with `subprocess.run` on a hardcoded
`/Users/.../claude` -- a path to one binary on one machine, in a public
repository.
Removed with its test file. References: **17 -> 3**, all three in the
CHANGELOG, and that is a deliberate deviation stated in the removal entry
itself: two of them describe what the tool did under the versions that shipped
it, and a changelog that edits its own past is not a record. The three K3/K4/K5
reports that used it now say so in the past tense, with the removal noted where
the tool was named.
It is the only such place, measured rather than assumed: `subprocess.*claude|
CLAUDE_CLI|claude", *"-` over `src` and `tools` gives **0** here and **3** on
`df5a118`. Every other subprocess in `tools/` starts `git`, `pytest` through
`sys.executable`, a PDF utility, or the coordination script `okf_watch.py`
owns -- none of them a model.
`okf build --gate` and the guard are untouched; nothing that judges CONTENT
moved. What this removes is a tool that asked a model to judge a proposal, and
the only measurement that ever rested on it is a 2026-09-02 baseline, which is
reported and dated.
2318 passed, 2 skipped (2334 before, minus this tool's 18 tests, plus 2 new).
`ruff check` and `ruff format --check` clean over 159 files, `mypy --strict
src/` clean over 25. Wheel built and installed into a clean venv: `okf --help`
exits 0.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Correction to `23ef6bb`: its `9 -> 6` is true of the 74 files the span touched
when it was measured, and the span has grown since -- re-measured over the
finished span's 79 files, the same pattern is **11 -> 7**, the one extra pair
being `tools/okf_adjudicate.py` (gone with this commit) and
`tests/test_okf_skill.py`'s own known-positive for the absolute-path check.
