From 4a9673259c35c5cc995f56e6b8f2e5a13646614b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Brummel Date: Mon, 11 May 2026 19:48:31 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] iter gc.1: per-iter journal --- docs/journals/2026-05-11-iter-gc.1.md | 79 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 79 insertions(+) create mode 100644 docs/journals/2026-05-11-iter-gc.1.md diff --git a/docs/journals/2026-05-11-iter-gc.1.md b/docs/journals/2026-05-11-iter-gc.1.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..02d08d0 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/journals/2026-05-11-iter-gc.1.md @@ -0,0 +1,79 @@ +# iter gc.1 — Grounding-Check Agent, brainstorm Step 7.5 hard-gate + +**Date:** 2026-05-11 +**Branch:** iter/gc.1 +**Status:** DONE +**Tasks completed:** 5 of 5 + +## Summary + +This iter ships `ailang-grounding-check`, a read-only spec reviewer +dispatched between brainstorm Step 7 (self-review) and Step 8 +(user-approval). The agent reads a freshly-written spec with no +sunk-cost bias, extracts the spec's load-bearing assumptions about +current compiler / checker / codegen / schema behaviour, and for +each one searches the workspace for a currently-green test that +ratifies it. PASS or BLOCK; no PARTIAL credit. The output is the +hybrid format the agent template prescribes: a ratified-assumptions +table for fast Boss scanning plus a per-assumption prose block for +the unratified set. + +Wiring is markdown-only. `skills/brainstorm/SKILL.md` gets a new +Step 7.5 hard-gate section, two new Handoff-Contract rows +(brainstorm → grounding-check, brainstorm → roadmap on no-override +BLOCK), and a Cross-references rewrite that splits the old "No +private agents" bullet into "Private agent" (the new grounding-check +dispatch) plus "Ad-hoc dispatch" (the existing plan-recon +opt-in). `skills/README.md` gets one new agent-roster row and one +new symlink-discovery line. `.claude/agents/brainstorm` is the +matching symlink. Spec-23 (Eq/Ord prelude) is retired because the +session that produced gc.1's spec is the same session that +discovered Spec-23's polymorphic-free-fn-monomorphisation assumption +was unratified — a fact gc.1's whole machinery exists to catch from +now on. The roadmap P1 Post-22 Prelude entry is amended to record +the retirement, name the unratified mechanism, and point forward to +the re-brainstorm. + +The bootstrap irony stands: the spec for `ailang-grounding-check` +did not itself run through `ailang-grounding-check`. The agent did +not exist when its own spec was written, so per Spec §Architecture's +bootstrap-exclusion the gc.1 plan was implemented without the +gating mechanism it introduces. The first real run of the new +pipeline is the re-brainstormed Spec-23 in a separate session, not +this iter. + +## Per-task subjects + +- iter gc.1.1: agent — ailang-grounding-check definition +- iter gc.1.2: brainstorm SKILL — insert Step 7.5 (grounding-check hard-gate) +- iter gc.1.3: skills README — roster + symlink for ailang-grounding-check +- iter gc.1.4: symlink .claude/agents/brainstorm -> skills/brainstorm/agents +- iter gc.1.5: retire Spec-23, roadmap forward-pointer to re-brainstorm + +## Concerns + +- Plan §Step 2.4 and §F.2 expect `grep -c "^### Step " == 9` after + the 7.5 splice, but the brainstorm SKILL has nine *original* step + headings (Step 1 through Step 9), so adding 7.5 lands at 10. The + plan's parenthetical comment in §F.2 enumerates ten labels (1, 2, + 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 7.5, 8, 9) while asserting `wc -l = 9` — internally + inconsistent. Substantive intent (Step 7.5 between 7 and 8, leave + Step 9 in place) is unambiguous and honored; the off-by-one is a + plan-template miscount, not an implementation bug. Surfaced as a + cadence-flow signal to the Boss in the end-report. + +## Known debt + +None. + +## Blocked detail + +N/A — DONE. + +## Commits + +`606a2eb..HEAD` (5 task commits, no review-loop fixups). + +## Stats + +bench/orchestrator-stats/2026-05-11-iter-gc.1.json