The #1280 prohibition carried an explanation of how the tools misattribute and
why the failure is invisible from inside them. A reader who is not going to use
the tool cannot act on any of it. Same for rule 2's closing clause about what
reviews commonly miss. Both cut to the decree and the corrective action.
Rules 1 and 3-12 keep their trailing sentences: those are corrective actions or
the detail that makes the case recognizable, not justification.
Three guides that existed only as one host's working copy, promoted to framework
templates so every estate gets them. A working copy under ~/.mosaic binds one
host; only a template here binds all of them.
SEAT-IDENTITY.md (new) documents how a seat's git credential is actually
resolved after #1311: identity from MOSAIC_GIT_IDENTITY, then
mosaic.gitIdentity, then the stdin username; host mapped to a store prefix; then
ONE of two stores chosen by whether the seat directory exists, with no
precedence and no fallback between them. A seat with a directory and an empty
slot fails closed rather than reaching the service store, and that is the point.
It also corrects how to find the helper. credential.helper commonly names an
absolute path, so `command -v git-credential-mosaic` answers a different question
than the one git asks, and the two stop agreeing the moment the PATH copy is
removed. Git also tries EVERY configured helper in order, so a fail-closed helper
in front silently hands the request to whatever is configured behind it. The
guide says to read the whole list.
FLEET-COMMS.md (new) documents agent-send.sh: the class table, the addressing
preamble, and the exit codes — including that rc=2 means the text reached the
pane as an unsubmitted draft, so retrying double-sends it. Confirm with
capture-pane instead. It also says to measure the fleet rather than trust
roster.yaml, which on a live host was simultaneously naming a socket that did not
exist, listing seats that were not running, and omitting seats that were.
CODE-REVIEW.md gains an Evidence Discipline section: a green is not a result
until you have shown it could go red, measurement and explanation are separate
sentences, verify by content on the ref that ships rather than by ancestry of a
local sha, and confidence is part of a finding. Plus four shell-measurement rules
earned on #1311, each of which produced a wrong conclusion first — `cmd | tail;
echo rc=$?` reports tail's status, a missed glob under pipefail exits 2 and kills
the run under set -e, nonzero-with-no-output is an environment question before it
is a code question, and `git -C` in a non-repo directory answers from the
enclosing repo.
The estate-specific repository exception that lived in the working copy is not
carried here. The template says an estate may document one, scoped to a named
repository and never precedent for a second.
Both new guides are added to the two routing tables that agents read.
The `format` step of .woodpecker/ci.yml:89 (`pnpm format:check`) failed on
pipeline 2111 for this branch. Reproduced on a bench with the lockfile-pinned
[email protected] against the repo .prettierrc and .prettierignore, using CI's
exact glob: WRITING-STYLE.md was the only failing file.
The change is mechanical and semantically null: markdown table cell padding
and `*emphasis*` -> `_emphasis_`. Verified by normalizing both revisions
(whitespace removed, `_`/`*` folded, table rules collapsed) — the results are
byte-identical.
This does not address the prose findings published on #965 (P1-P4); those
await a ruling. The `test` step also failed on 2111, on a base ~40 commits
stale — attribution for that failure needs this rerun, and is not claimed here.
Co-authored-by: mos-dt-0 <[email protected]>
§5 sent the agent to read direct|friendly|formal in USER.md, but the builder
renders prose bullets, not the token — the documented lookup could not key on
the shipped file. Table now keys on the leading bullet USER.md actually
contains. Also: 'concise, technical' -> 'concise, structured' (drop the round-1
residual value name from a rule-9 guide). Docs-only, no code, no scope growth.
Written-by: jarvis (dragon-lin)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]>
F1: defaults/USER.md is never installed (generated from templates/USER.md.template
via buildCommunicationPrefs). Editing it was a no-op asserting a phantom setting —
exactly the false-green §2 warns against. Reverted.
F2: the framework already has communicationStyle (direct|friendly|formal). §5 now
maps THOSE values to output instead of inventing technical|prose|brief (rule 9).
Minor: §6 states no mechanical prose check exists today; rule 1 points at §3.4.
Written-by: jarvis (dragon-lin)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]>
Adds the agent output standard to the framework SOT so it injects at launch and
is selectable per user (closes the gap: it lived only as a jarvis-brain lab doc + issue #960).
- guides/WRITING-STYLE.md: MOS-STE (adapted ASD-STE100) for docs, Google Style for code,
verification-artifact emphasis, absolute user-voice carve-out. Written in MOS-STE.
- defaults/STANDARDS.md: Output-standards block (always injected via the prompting contract).
- defaults/AGENTS.md: routing row so writing/doc/comms work reaches the guide.
- defaults/USER.md: per-user 'Comms style' option (technical|prose|brief), default technical.
Refs mosaicstack/stack#960. Owner directive (Jason, 2026-07-30): docs->adapted ASD-STE100,
code->Google style, resumes/personal carved out, comms style a per-user choice.
Written-by: jarvis (dragon-lin)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]>
Completes the bootstrap repo migration with remaining files:
- PowerShell scripts (.ps1) for Windows support (bin/ + tools/)
- Runtime adapters (claude, codex, generic, pi)
- Guides (17 .md files) and profiles (domains, tech-stacks, workflows)
- Wizard test suite (6 test files from bootstrap tests/)
- Memory placeholder, audit history
Bootstrap repo (mosaic/bootstrap) is now fully superseded:
- All 335 files accounted for
- 5 build config files (package.json, tsconfig, etc.) not needed —
monorepo has its own at packages/mosaic/
- skills-local/ superseded by monorepo skills/ with mosaic-* naming
- src/ already lives at packages/mosaic/src/
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