Six follow-ups on 0d11838, three of which mattered.
The model-alias gate passed for the wrong reason: after the quoted-alias grep
it fell back to an unanchored grep for the bare word, which matches "opus"
anywhere in `claude --help` and would have reported success even if --model
stopped accepting the alias. A gate that cannot fail is worse than no gate.
Only the quoted form is matched now, and the failing aliases are named.
--last-model and --last-effort were unvalidated free text while the other two
record fields were gated. The next session READS the record back to decide
--opus-xhigh-failed, so a drifted spelling there rebuilds the exact
reader-versus-writer drift this script exists to remove, one field over. Both
are closed sets now: the row table's three model names and the verified effort
levels. That also makes the record's sanitizing dead code, so it is gone.
The skill told future sessions to write the record "every session" while
STATE documented that the effort level is not observable from inside a running
session. A session following both would have fabricated the value, and a
fabricated effort reads back later as a measurement. The skill now says: ask
the operator, and omit the record rather than guess -- explicitly including
that reading it off the previous board line measures what was PRESCRIBED, not
what was RUN.
Also: README said "seven bash scripts" (nine files, six user-facing) and its
skills badge still said 2; selftest counts updated to 50.
Verified, not assumed: the installed plugin cache at 0.9.0 contains only
board and coord-send, so route is not discoverable until a release bumps it --
the smoke test STATE had queued before release would have failed with 127 for
a reason unrelated to the skill. STATE reordered to release-then-test. The
manifest is auto_discover, so no skills array needs an entry.
check-versions.mjs is green (11 OK, 0 ERROR) with the new skill at 0.9.0.
Selftests: coord 136, board 30, route 50, node 7.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_017peNgsxVt1BR4BTuMwiPoX
The board line's next-cost field had a reader (board.sh) and no writer, so
its value was retyped by hand every session and drifted into several
competing spellings. Cleaning the data could not fix that: the cause was the
missing write path.
route.sh is that writer. Four scored traits of the next task -- path,
verification, reversibility, scope -- plus a required rationale, run through
the operator's model rubric moved here as the single copy. The row table is a
closed set of six values, so a seventh spelling cannot enter circulation, and
route-selftest.sh section 6 runs the round trip (route emits -> board parses)
inside one repo rather than across two.
Two spellings of one decision come out of one table: the rubric name for the
board line, the CLI alias for the command the operator pastes. Effort levels
are the set pinned in this marketplace; model aliases are gated against the
installed claude rather than hardcoded.
Three things worth naming:
- Escalation is asymmetric. Any single trait escalates; the cheapest row needs
all four at the cheap end. Underkill costs one session, overkill costs quota
every session -- but a wrong architecture call costs more than either.
- The Fable rows fire only from an explicit judgement flag, never inferred
from the last-session record. "The session did not finish" also covers
context exhaustion and operator interrupts, which say nothing about the
model, and Fable runs without an advisor.
- The trait block is a single-line HTML comment because board.sh's NESTE
extractor skips only lines that START with '<!--'. Measured first: a YAML
block or a multi-line comment silently replaces the repo's next step on the
board with "next_task:". Pinned by section 7.
board.sh is untouched as a program; its header now points at route.sh for the
value set so this does not reopen the two-specs defect 305f168 closed.
Selftests: coord 136, board 30, route 47 (new), node 7.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_017peNgsxVt1BR4BTuMwiPoX
