feat(route,skills): the router knows the recency question and the widening page, and every new shape is named on an agent surface

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Lane lane/agent-knowhow for 0.6.1. Six commits (plus two merges of main). The owner's framing for this round: "for this to work the whole
system needs to be put together — the answers need shortening/optimizing but the agent actually needs to
know how to use it."

2026-09-13: a review of this PR found eight defects in it, every one reproduced against this lane's own
binary before it was fixed. They are all fixed here, each with an arm; the review round has its own section
below, and the three claims the review withdrew are corrected in place in the text above it rather than left
standing.

The defects

1. The task router could not reach the recency question at all. what changed recently in DIR, who touched this lately, the newest commits here — every phrasing abstains with score="0" on
   origin/main's binary, so --rank-by=churn-decay (and the --in=DIR scope landing beside it) is
   unreachable from a task said in words. One correction to the brief, with the evidence.
   PLAN_OUTPUT_ROUTING_LOOP_2026-09-12_REPORTS/08_owner_calls_BRIEF.md §3 cites taskroute.h:136
   ("recent is a stop-word") as the cause. That line is real — recent is in kWeakSymbolStopWords —
   but that list governs symbol resolution only: it is why --expand='recent' can never be minted out
   of prose, and it has never had any bearing on which INTENT a task reads as. The cause is simply that no
   churn/recency intent existed. Nothing was taken off the stop list (those words must still never name a
   definition); they became intent evidence instead, which is exactly what the list's own comment says
   they are. Recorded in the source beside the new route, so the next reader does not re-derive it.
2. The widening page was discoverable only from a thin answer. forpage.h's next= names
   --for=TASK --limit=N — but only after serving a thin answer, which is one call too late for an agent
   choosing what to run FIRST, and the first call is what --help-task exists to pick.
3. No new shape of this release was named where an agent reads. Measured on main's skills: of the
   shapes already in the binary, --for's --limit/--offset page and its coverage= gauge appear in
   no skill body and no wrap primer within reach of the verb they belong to. --limit is named (paging a
   high-cardinality verb) and --for is named — in different files. Naming the two apart does not tell
   anyone the page exists; the PAIR is the instruction.

The change

1. recency-window (src/taskroute.h, src/cli.h, src/main.cpp). ripwire <dir> --help-task="what changed recently in db" → ripwire <dir> --rank-by=churn-decay [--in=db], under
ripwire-fresh-eyes. CONJUNCTIVE in three parts, because two are not enough: a TIME word, a MOTION word,
and a word naming the corpus (or a directory of it the task named). A time word alone is usually part of
a compound noun (the decoy the brief names, the recent-file cache); a time word plus a motion word is
also a sentence about a supplier revising their terms last quarter. An EXPLANATORY question is never this
route however many of the three it holds. Single-word cues are matched WORD-BOUNDED (review finding 1),
and multi-word phrases carry their own boundaries. The route runs LAST, only when the weighted tier named
nothing (review finding 2) — that placement is both the argument that it costs the older routes nothing
and how it reads a dirty worktree: on a dirty tree is my diff safe to merge, i changed these files recently is still review-diff's question, and review-diff (dirty-only by its own wording) wins before
this route is reached.

--in=DIR is composed only when both halves hold. The task must name a directory of the CORPUS in a
locating slot (the same cue discipline the symbol slot uses, matched on sarif::rootRelativeUri — the
one root-relative spelling the map's p= and --in= both use), and the running build must ship the
flag: cli.h's new shipsViewFlag reads the flag table itself. A router that composes a flag its own
parser has no row for hands back a command that exits non-zero on the first paste — the prerequisite
violation this file refuses from every other direction (a plan path that is not there, a reaches claim
the --verify parser rejects). --in= lands in #212; this build has no row for it, composes none,
and gains the scope with no further edit here. When the task names a directory this build cannot scope
to, the reason= says so (review finding 7) instead of handing back a whole-repository answer to a
question about one directory with nothing marking the drop. The directory walk is the shared
slotCandidate EARLIEST-match walk, so what changed lately across storage, but only in the release notes
reads the first slot in the sentence rather than whichever cue sits earlier in an array.

2. The widening step on the FIRST call. Every --for-shaped recommendation carries
next="… --limit=40" on its <choice> — keyed off the INTENT (kForShapedIntents), never off finding
the flag in the command, and spelled by forpage.h's own forWidenNext, so the recommendation's
follow-up and the answer's own follow-up are one spelling under one 120-byte ceiling (review finding 3).
Present-only: a recommendation that is not --for-shaped carries no attribute at all.

3. The --help-task document gains the LEGEND it never had in the default dialect (review finding 4):
every attribute a reader met on its only screen was undefined, with the compact layer's present-only legend
the only place any of them was explained. One line defines all twelve plus <run>, ending in the shared
kNextLegendClause; --help-task joins legendcoveragecheck's enumeration and nextverbcheck's
population.

4. The shapes are named where an agent reads — one or two sentences each, no frontmatter touched:
ripwire-fresh-eyes gains pass 1a (the history question: --rank-by=churn-decay, --in=DIR and what it
does to the map, merge_bombs_skipped= read as the disclosure it is, scope=); ripwire-orient §2 gains
the thin-answer rule (coverage=, and that the step after a thin answer is --for=TASK --limit=40, not a
body) and how to compose a selector out of a row whose identity is sc= (p::sc::n);
map-before-you-read gains the same in its pagination row (on --for a --limit is not a cut but a
wider net, and the bundle-shaping flags are refused beside it); ripwire-change-check gains the grouped
<g hops= n= p= run_unknown="1"/> row beside --affected, with the invariant it preserves.

5. test/agentsurfacecheck.sh (new). Two arms:

• (A) a RATCHET over all 163 long flags --help advertises: each is named in a skill body or the
  ripwire wrap primer, or recorded in test/agentsurfacefix/unnamed_flags_baseline.txt with the reason
  it is still a gap (5 lines today: --eval-skills, --eval-stray, --pin-census, --max-file-size,
  --sarif). The floor may only be edited DOWNWARD, and the arm ALSO fails when a recorded line is no
  longer a gap, so a closure cannot be filed and forgotten. A flag added with no agent surface goes red in
  the commit that adds it. The match is WORD-BOUNDED (review finding 5): 23 advertised flags are a
  strict prefix of another (--in inside --index-out, --not inside --notes, --for inside
  --format), and a substring test would report every one of them as named by its longer sibling — the arm
  prints that count, so the population the bounded match protects is visible.
• (B) this round's new shapes — the term AND its verb within five lines of one another on one surface.
  Each row is PROBED by RUNNING the verb (review finding 5: --help advertising a flag is not evidence
  that the flag emits anything, and the --limit=/--offset= rows had only asked --help), and TERM
  (what the binary emits, <g) is split from SURFACE_TERM (what a skill must spell, <g ) so
  <graph-query cannot satisfy a row about grouped test rows. A shape that has not landed is declared on
  the PENDING list with the lane that ships it, and the gate is SELF-HEALING on arrival: a pending shape
  that shows up in the binary with its pairing already satisfied PASSES, so the lane that ships it never has
  to edit this file. What stays red is the dishonest direction — a surface promising a shape this build
  refuses with no lane declared. The arm asserts its own population (8 of 8 rows probed), against the
  harness-reports-success-for-work-it-skipped trap. All five pending shapes (--in=, sc=, <g,
  merge_bombs_skipped=, scope=) are already paired on a surface here, so feat(churn): --in=DIR scopes recent changes to a directory, and the window discloses the merge bombs it skipped #212/perf(testmap): tests-to-run rows without a runner are grouped by hop distance, the disclosure once per group #214/perf(output): short symbol ids on maps, a present-only compact legend on --for, and compact by default on agent surfaces #215 turn those rows
  green without touching a skill.

docs/COMMANDS.md is deliberately NOT an accepted surface, and this is the one place the brief's
instruction was not followed literally: it names every flag by construction (and its recorded captures
contain every attribute), so accepting it would make this gate one that cannot fail. It is the reference,
not the file an agent loads mid-task.

Measured (bench/taskroute_eval.py; only the binary and the corpus change between rows)

stage	binary	rows (test / dev / all)	accuracy test	dev	all	precision	harmful	neg-spec
before the lane	origin/main	114 / 111 / 225	0.939	0.946	0.942	1.000	0.000	1.000
at the pushed head f31366f1	mid-lane	121 / 118 / 239	0.942	0.949	0.946	1.000	0.000	1.000
after the first review round	aaa3baa6	128 / 119 / 247	0.945	0.950	0.947	1.000	0.000	1.000
this head, after the second	342d16d9	130 / 119 / 249	0.946	0.950	0.948	1.000	0.000	1.000

Coverage at this head: 0.917 test, 0.933 dev, 0.925 all. Every miss is an abstention — harmful=0.000
and precision=1.000 on all three splits, and the confusion rows are want=… got=abstain only.

The control: this head's binary scores the pre-lane 225 rows 0.939 / 0.946 / 0.942 — the same three
numbers, with the same coverage (0.907 / 0.929 / 0.918), so no inherited row moved.

A claim WITHDRAWN by the review (finding 2). An earlier revision of this body said the 225 pre-existing
rows are byte-identical on (status, intent) across the new route, and offered that as evidence the route
steals no answer. It is true and it is nearly vacuous: measured, 0 of those 225 prompts reach the recency
route at all — they fail one of the three conjuncts, or an earlier route answers first — so the identity
was never in question. A number that cannot move is not a measurement. The evidence that the route steals
nothing is the corpus's own negatives and the gate's arms. test/taskroutefix/PROVENANCE.md records the
withdrawal.

24 rows added by this lane (225 → 249): 14 in the first round (10 positives, 4 of them naming a
directory, and 4 decoys) and 8 in the review round — four NEGATIVES, one per word-boundary class the
review found (here in where/there, source in outsource, file in profile, code in codec); one for the
dirty WORKING TREE; and three POSITIVES for vocabulary that abstained (a verb below the motion floor,
since <a day or a date>, and what is new in DIR). Split by the committed content-hash rule. Two of the
eight are labelled instrumented-cli rather than handwritten, by the rule the corpus's 2026-09-10 section
states: their trigger is a small closed phrase list, so a sentence that routes necessarily reuses one of its
phrases. Two more rows came with the second review round (below).

A second claim corrected. An earlier revision of this body, following
test/taskroutefix/PROVENANCE.md, said the contamination screen was down to 1 flagged line from 2.
That does not reproduce. Measured with one binary at three points — 5e1ae383 (the commit before this
lane), the first review round's own seal, and this head — the screen reports the same 2 flagged lines
every time: 61 (i change its, against the card literal did I change its contract?) and 176 (the value of, against the variable-slot cue). Neither is a row this lane wrote; the count never moved. The
correction is recorded in PROVENANCE.md beside the claim.

Seal at this head: sha256(prompts.tsv) = bb802dabd45bf228b51296cca2a0f35c54824895f429954959ef7219416d0f30
(rows=249, dev=119, test=130), reproduced on a fresh build of this head.

Review round — 2026-09-13, eight findings

Each was reproduced against this lane's own binary before it was fixed, and each is now an arm.
test/taskroutecheck.sh gains 20.

1. Word boundaries. The three conjuncts scored cues by substring, and four corpus cues live inside
   ordinary words — so our supplier changed their terms recently, where is that noted?, the
   counter-example this route's own comment is built on, recommended the churn window at
   confidence="high". phraseScore and its word-bounded twin are ONE scorer with the match mode as a
   parameter (CueMatch), since that is the only thing the two spellings differ in.
2. The working tree. The route ran BEFORE the weighted tier and never read dirty, contradicting this
   file's own comment and the CHANGELOG. It runs last now. (And the byte-identity claim above is withdrawn.)
3. The widening next=. Keyed off finding --for= anywhere in the COMMAND, so
   plan the new feature: replace the --for= flag scoring — where the flag sits inside another verb's
   quoted argument — handed --pack-task a page width it refuses (measured: exit 1). Keyed off the INTENT
   now, and it re-implemented forWidenNext (its own quoting, no ceiling, 197–236 B where every other
   next= stops at 120); it calls the shared one, so the task text is no longer emitted twice at full
   length.
4. The legend. next= rode a document with no legend at all in the default dialect.
5. The surface gate, both directions — probe by running the verb, TERM vs SURFACE_TERM, word-bounded
   flag matching, an asserted population, and self-healing on arrival. Verified with a shim that makes all
   five pending shapes present: 8 of 8 rows flip to "is named beside", ALL PASS, no gate edit.
6. Vocabulary. landed/merged/commit/moving/activity/updated sat below the motion floor and
   there was no since <date> or new in reading, so what landed in storage this week,
   commits since Monday under storage and what is new in the storage directory all abstained. since
   takes git's own vocabulary structurally (a weekday, a month or a digit after it); what is new in DIR is
   recognised as the phrase it is rather than by giving new a weight in two tables.
7. A dropped scope is disclosed, and the directory walk takes the EARLIEST slot, not the earliest cue in
   the array — one walk, one filler table, shared with the variable reader that already had the rule.
8. cli.h includes <algorithm> and <ranges> for its own any_of.

Second review round — CodeRabbit on aaa3baa6, one Major finding

The defect. The round above bounded the SINGLE-word cues and left the multi-word ones on substring
matching, on the reasoning that "a phrase carries its own boundaries". A phrase delimits its own INTERIOR
and nothing at its two ends: the first word of how do can finish another word and the last can begin one.
show documentation contains how do; show issues contains how is. Both of those are questions about
this repository's history, and both tripped the EXPLANATORY guard and abstained at score="0".

The reported repro did not reproduce, and the real one is narrower. The finding cited
what changed recently in the documentation directory, on the reading that how do is a prefix of
documentation. It is not — no cue is a substring of that word, and that prompt already routed
recency-window on the unfixed binary. The false positive needs the cue to SPAN two words: a word ending
in how/what followed by one beginning do/is/are/does. The finding is real; only its example was
wrong, and the arms assert the real shape.

The fix, scoped as the finding asked: the six cues are a named table (kExplanatoryCues) matched with
boundedFind — the spelling every other cue in this file already uses — and phraseScore keeps substring
semantics for the multi-word router phrases. The CueMatch comment no longer claims a phrase carries its
own boundaries; it says Substring is for cues whose first and last words do not finish or begin ordinary
words, and that a caller who cannot say that of its own cues asks for WordBounded.

Arms: test/taskroutecheck.sh +3 — the two cross-word positives (RED against the unfixed binary,
status="abstain" score="0") and the control they may not be bought at the price of,
how do i see the files in storage that changed recently, which must still abstain and does, before and
after. Corpus: +2 rows, both test by the content-hash rule. The positive names storage, which the
eval fixture holds, so the directory half is exercised: on a build whose flag table ships --in= that is
--in=storage; this build has no such row and composes none, which is why the row asserts the intent while
the existing caps-gated gate arm asserts the flag.

Gates

Red first, test/taskroutecheck.sh (11 arms in the first round, 20 more in the review round). Against
the pre-change binary of the first round, 4 FAIL:

  FAIL  recency route wrong: <task-route status="abstain" … score="0" …>
  FAIL  who-touched recency route wrong: <task-route status="abstain" … score="0" …>
  FAIL  locate-task carries no widening next=: …<choice intent="locate-task" … score="15"><run>…</run>
  FAIL  no next= recovered from the locate-task recommendation

Green here, ALL PASS. The emitted commands are EXECUTED, not just matched (the bare recency command
returns a <recent> block; the widening next= is unquoted with shlex and returns the <files> page).
route() reads every arm off the COMMENT-STRIPPED body, so a legend that names an attribute can never
satisfy an assertion about a row carrying one; routehookcheck R6 counts <run> in the body for the same
reason.

Red first, test/agentsurfacecheck.sh. Against main's skills and this binary, 3 FAIL:

  FAIL  (B) no skill body or wrap primer names --limit= within five lines of --for — the file-grain widening page is unreachable from a skill
  FAIL  (B) no skill body or wrap primer names --offset= within five lines of --for — the widening page continuation is unreachable from a skill
  FAIL  (B) no skill body or wrap primer names coverage= within five lines of --for — the thin-answer coverage gauge is unreachable from a skill

Green after the four skill edits. Arm (A) was already green and is the guard that keeps it so.

Full suite, foreground (python3 test/pargates.py . ./build/ripwire -j 6), run at all three heads —
the first review round, the merge of origin/main (#221's CHANGELOG entry), and the second review round:

a2e26426   gates=628 pass=626 skip=2 fail=0 wall=1124.4s jobs=6 tree_writes=0
aaa3baa6   gates=628 pass=625 skip=2 fail=1 wall=1614.0s jobs=6 tree_writes=0
342d16d9   gates=628 pass=626 skip=2 fail=0 wall=1258.9s jobs=6 tree_writes=0

The two skips are the environmental pair (argvdiffcheck and editchecknotecheck, both wanting a
RIPWIRE_BASE* reference binary). The second run's single failure is strkerncheck rc=124 — a TIMEOUT
at its declared 300 s budget, not an assertion: that run was 490 s slower end to end on a busier machine,
and the gate's slowest arm is an x86_64/AVX2 mirror under Rosetta 2. Re-run alone at the same head it
PASSES in 170 s, all 26 assertions plus the mutation control (3c control: … rc=1 — a red, classified as a red). Nothing in this lane touches src/strkern.h; the merge that preceded the run changed
CHANGELOG.md only. The third run, at the head this PR now carries, is clean with no re-run.

--quality-delta at 342d16d9: gating="0", no ack, one sev="minor" row —
short-horizon-churn on recencyTaskChoice, churn="self", the honest consequence of fixing that one
function three times in a day.

ASan (-DRIPWIRE_ASAN=ON, LSAN_OPTIONS=suppressions=lsan_suppressions.txt): routed tasks and the
taskroutecheck and agentsurfacecheck fixtures under asan/ripwire — exit 0, zero sanitizer lines.
Determinism (--help-task twice, byte-identical) and xmllint --noout on the routed document.

--quality-delta gating="0" at this head, no ack: gating="0" acked="0" minor="0", no regression
row of any kind. Five gating rows the review round would otherwise have raised were fixed by REUSE rather
than acked — phraseScore/wordScore became one scorer, four hand-written any_of membership tests became
isOneOf, and the three one-line call-through wrappers the shared helpers left behind were folded into
their single call sites.

Pins moved

• test/regression.sh gate loop + the generated count: 613 → 614 (docs/gatecount_build.py, 8 marked
  sites in 3 files), from the first round's new gate file; the review round adds arms to existing gates and
  moves the count no further. docs/limits_build.py --check clean; no cap changed value.
• test/taskroutefix/prompts.tsv seal re-recorded in PROVENANCE.md twice (rows 225 → 239 → 247,
  dev 111 → 118 → 119, test 114 → 121 → 128).
• A legend pin DID move, contrary to what an earlier revision of this body said. --help-task now
  carries a legend and joins legendcoveragecheck's enumeration (ALL PASS, no new baseline debt) and
  nextverbcheck's population. No --help row changed, so docs/COMMANDS.md needed no regeneration
  (docscommandscheck ALL PASS).

Depends on, and what is deliberately NOT in this PR yet

--in=DIR ships in #212, the grouped <g row in #214, and sc=/the compact-legend posture on
agent surfaces in #215. Nothing here waits for them: the router composes --in= only on a build whose
flag table has it (and says so in reason= when it cannot), and the new gate's pending rows assert nothing
until the shape arrives — then require the pairing this PR already wrote, and pass on arrival with no edit.
agentsurfacecheck covers what main has, which is the honest scope for a PR based on main.

Three edits are held for a follow-up commit on this PR, once #215 merges, because #215 owns those
exact lines and this lane must not fork them:

1. the ripwire-router skill's moment→skill row for the recency question (that file is rewritten by perf(output): short symbol ids on maps, a present-only compact legend on --for, and compact by default on agent surfaces #215);
2. the --legend=compact / --legend=full escape-hatch sentence, in the router skill and in src/wrap.h's
   primer — added only if perf(output): short symbol ids on maps, a present-only compact legend on --for, and compact by default on agent surfaces #215 has not already said it (its blurb sits at the ceiling of wrapverbscheck's
   10–20 line band, so a line added there has to displace one);
3. --legend=compact on the two commands this PR adds to skill bodies that perf(output): short symbol ids on maps, a present-only compact legend on --for, and compact by default on agent surfaces #215's new
   skilltruthcheck policy arm will require it on (--help-task in ripwire-fresh-eyes; the --for
   command stays exempt by that same policy).

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• New Features

  • Task assistance now recognizes repository-history questions such as “what changed recently” and can scope results to a directory.
  • Recommendations can provide follow-up commands to expand narrow results.
  • Affected-test output groups runner-less entries while clearly indicating unavailable run commands.
  • Help-task results include clearer legends and only applicable follow-up options.

• Bug Fixes

  • Improved phrase matching prevents accidental matches inside unrelated words or phrases.

• Documentation

  • Updated guidance covers recency searches, result paging, selectors, coverage indicators, workflows, and runtime behavior.

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  • Expanded routing, command-execution, legend, option-alignment, and evaluation coverage.

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The change adds recency-window task routing with optional directory scope, bounded cue matching, intent-based widening hints, XML legends, agent-surface validation, expanded fixtures, and updated documentation.

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Task routing and agent surfaces

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Recency routing and shared matching src/taskroute.h	The router adds a recency-window route for repository-history questions. It uses word-bounded cues, validates directory scope, and runs after weighted candidates.
CLI capability and route output src/cli.h, src/main.cpp	The CLI detects whether --in=DIR is shipped. --help-task passes this capability to the router, emits an XML legend, and adds next= only for selected intents.
Fixtures and routing validation bench/taskroute_eval.py, test/taskroutecheck.sh, test/taskroutefix/PROVENANCE.md, test/legendcoveragecheck.sh, test/nextverbcheck.sh, test/routehookcheck.sh	Fixtures and tests cover directory routing, precedence, word-boundary cases, widening commands, legends, and required flags.
Agent-surface gate and guidance test/agentsurfacecheck.sh, test/agentsurfacefix/unnamed_flags_baseline.txt, skills/*	A new gate checks bounded flag coverage and output-shape terminology. Skill documentation describes grouped rows, selectors, recency output, and file-grain widening.
Release and gate records CHANGELOG.md, README.md, docs/EVALS.md, present/deck5_ripwire_build.js, test/regression.sh	Documentation records the routing and CLI changes. Gate-count references change from 613 to 614, and declinedlistcheck joins the regression loop.

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Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant User
  participant ripwire
  participant TaskRouter
  participant RepositoryIndex
  User->>ripwire: request recent changes in DIR
  ripwire->>TaskRouter: classify task with RouterCaps
  TaskRouter->>RepositoryIndex: verify directory in indexed corpus
  RepositoryIndex-->>TaskRouter: return directory match
  TaskRouter-->>ripwire: return recency-window recommendation
  ripwire-->>User: emit scoped command and XML legend

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In `@test/agentsurfacecheck.sh`:
- Line 62: Update the flag and verb matching in the surface checks, including
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options as matching only when followed by a token boundary or “=”, and ensure
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Landing this for 0.6.1 now, on the owner's call — announcing first because the shared joyful-ii-V-I identity means I cannot tell from the branch whose session this is.

Your entry is already written into the 0.6.1 changelog draft, so this lane is in the release section either way; merging it makes the section true.

If you are the session preparing the release: main is moving under you right now. I am landing #214, #218 and #219, then resolving #212 and #215's conflicts, and only then assembling the ## [0.6.1] section from the draft. Do not tag until that section matches what actually landed — the owner has asked for the release PR to be prepared but left unmerged for their review.

Shout here if this lane is mid-edit and I should hold off.

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Correction to my previous comment — disregard it. The owner tells me an Opus session is actively working #212, #214, #215 and #218, which need tests and a push. I am not landing anything here and I am not touching #212/#215's conflicts. This lane is yours.

The one part of that comment still worth keeping, because it will bite whoever merges main into this branch: #217 re-pinned help and help_all in test/printf_parity.manifest. If this lane re-pins the same rows, do not resolve by choosing a side — the merged binary's help carries both changes, so its hash is neither side's. Merge main, then re-run UPDATE_GOLDEN=1 bash test/printffmtparitycheck.sh and review the diff. Same for docs/COMMANDS.md: regenerate it with python3 docs/docs_commands_build.py --bin build/ripwire rather than hand-resolving, or docscommandscheck goes red.

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2413-2414: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Document the skill-scan warning exit code.

docs/COMMANDS.md defines skill-scan results as exit 2 for CRITICAL and exit 1 for WARN. This table defines exit 1 only as a refusal. An agent that follows this README can misclassify a scan warning. Separate the scan-warning meaning from refusal semantics.

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In `@README.md` around lines 2413 - 2414, Update the README exit-code table to
document skill-scan WARN results as exit code 1 separately from general request
refusals, while preserving the existing CRITICAL exit-code and refusal
semantics.

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2374-2375: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Limit the legend-comment claim to XML output.

The README documents --json output, but serializeJson emits JSON keys and no equivalent legend field. JSON also cannot contain the XML legend comment. Update the wording:

-**You do not have to learn the schema, because the document carries it.** Every answer opens with a
-legend comment defining each attribute it uses, including what each count does and does not include.
+**You do not have to learn the XML schema, because each XML document carries it.** Every XML answer opens with a
+legend comment defining each attribute it uses, including what each count does and does not include.

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implication that JSON responses include a legend or schema comment. Keep the
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Inline comments:
In `@src/taskroute.h`:
- Line 1059: Update the explanatory guard in the task-routing logic to use
bounded matching for its explanatory cues instead of raw substring matching,
preventing prefixes such as “how do” in “documentation” from matching. Apply
this only to the explanatory cue checks and preserve phraseScore’s existing
substring behavior and the remaining recency/motion logic.

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In `@README.md`:
- Around line 2413-2414: Update the README exit-code table to document
skill-scan WARN results as exit code 1 separately from general request refusals,
while preserving the existing CRITICAL exit-code and refusal semantics.
- Around line 2374-2375: Update the README statement around the legend comment
to scope that guarantee specifically to XML output, avoiding any implication
that JSON responses include a legend or schema comment. Keep the existing
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