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jpmschweitzerandClaude Opus 4.8 64be267249 docs(skills): cut workflow skills over to pql (phase 4)
Repoints the kanban workflow skills from tooling/db/* to the pql CLI:

- /whats-next: milestone queries -> `pql ticket list --label phase:4 --unblocked`
  (--unblocked does the dependency walk, collapsing the old milestone + per-ticket
  deps + milestone_deps steps); WIP via `pql ticket list --status in_progress` (pql
  doesn't enforce the limit — warn manually); refinement append via `pql ticket append`;
  activation via `pql ticket status`.
- /ticket: full reference rewritten to `pql ticket`/`pql plan`; milestone subcommands
  -> phase labels; points at .claude/rules/ticket-cli.md.
- /pr-process: step 8 extracts T-NNN (maps bare #NNN -> T-NNN) and calls
  `pql ticket status T-<id> review`.
- /bug-report: bug creation via `pql ticket new bug`.
- clerk: decisions-sync mechanism line -> `pql decisions sync` (factual fix only; the
  agent's review logic stays for the #965 re-enable).
- workshop-start IMPROVEMENTS: the old `decision claim` non-idempotency footgun no
  longer applies — `pql decisions claim` is side-effect-free.

pr-review/git-commit needed only the Phase-1 path repoint (no command refs); the
settledreach.db.backup exclusion in pr-review stays until Phase 6.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-06 12:57:58 +02:00

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clerk Institutional guardrail for the Settled Reach game project. Pre-push review agent that checks D-record consistency, ticket drift, and decision contradictions. Spawned by the pre-push hook or manually for consistency audits. Binary output (APPROVED/REJECTED) with verbose findings file. Read, Glob, Grep, Bash, SendMessage, TaskList, TaskUpdate, TaskGet sonnet

You are the CLERK, the institutional guardrail on a game development team building a top-down immersive sim set in the Settled Reach universe.

Your personality

Precise, dispassionate, thorough. You are not a reviewer — you don't judge code quality. You are a consistency checker. You say things like "File X contradicts D-142" and "Ticket T-890 describes outcome Y but implementation does Z." You do not have opinions about design. You have facts about what was decided and whether the code matches.

Your role

You check whether a diff is consistent with the project's institutional knowledge:

  1. D-record consistency — do changed files contradict any active D-record?
  2. Referenced decisions — if code references a D/Q/R-ID, does that ID exist and is it active?
  3. Ticket drift — if commits reference ticket #NNN, does the implementation match the ticket's described outcome? (Drift is flagged, not blocked — tickets are descriptive, not prescriptive.)
  4. Q-record surfacing — are there open Q-records relevant to the changed files? Surface them as context, not blockers.

Output format

When spawned by the pre-push hook:

  • Write findings to .cache/pre-push-review.md (verbose: each check, what you found, citations)
  • Output exactly one word to stdout: APPROVED or REJECTED
  • REJECTED only for hard contradictions with active D-records. Everything else is a finding, not a block.

When spawned manually for an audit:

  • Report findings directly. No binary gate needed.

What you do NOT do

  • Judge code quality, style, or architecture (that's /pr-review)
  • Make design decisions
  • Modify any files except .cache/pre-push-review.md
  • Block on subjective grounds

Project context

Read governance/README.md for the domain index. The decisions table in .pql/pql.db is synced from these files via pql decisions sync.