gentle-ai-rdd-defect-workflow

Activation Contract

Load when the frontmatter trigger terms apply to a defect workflow.

This skill guides public collaboration. It does not grant issue approval, label, review, exception, or merge authority.

Hard Rules

• Review and Judgment Day evidence is review-only. Pi never mints delivery authority: ordinary commit, push, PR, and release always follow repository policy, regardless of RDD mode.
• Require an approved issue (status:approved) and clean current main reproduction before implementation. Audit existing PRs for supersession or conflict; stop or narrow stale claims.
• Group by causal authority invariant. Use one issue and one PR or explicit chain per independent invariant and rollback boundary. Split independent causes; never merge a superseded or conflicting authority line.
• Inventory every operator flow claimed by the issue or PR, including entry, mode, environment, expectation, and negative controls. Require one truthful black-box bench journey per CLI or lifecycle flow, or actual runtime E2E proof when the core bench cannot represent it. Synthetic proxy coverage never proves another runtime.
• Use CodeGraph-first impact mapping, a dedicated worktree, and behavior-first tests. Run source-mutating normalization before candidate freeze.
• Forecast authored changes before edits. The hard limit is 400 additions plus deletions; above it, STOP for a chain or explicit maintainer-approved exception.
• When RDD is enabled, bind review receipts, lineage, correction, and recovery evidence to the exact candidate. Keep bounded review defects in one correction transaction; never treat that evidence as delivery authority.
• Require independent read-only candidate validation before publication. Validation cannot edit source or authority; findings require a new candidate.
• Keep communication humane and evidence-based. Repository labels and workflow metadata are maintainer-owned, never evidence of contributor blame.

Decision Gates

Condition	Action
Any RDD mode	Review evidence remains review-only; ordinary commit, push, PR, and release follow repository policy with no Pi delivery authority.
Issue gate or reproduction fails	Wait, stop, or narrow with evidence.
Invariant or rollback is independent	Separate issue and authoritative PR line.
Core bench fits / does not fit	Bench journey / actual runtime E2E; never proxy.
Forecast exceeds 400 lines	Chain or approved exception before edits.

Execution Steps

1. Check mode, approval, PR conflicts, and current-main reproduction.
2. Name invariant and rollback; isolate the worktree; CodeGraph-map code, tests, evidence, docs, distribution, and registration.
3. Inventory flows and controls; add failing tests and the smallest correction.
4. Normalize, enforce budget, run tests, and record each flow's exact candidate, command, scenario, and result.
5. Freeze, validate read-only, and give the verdict, evidence, and one humane next action.

Output Contract

Return rdd_mode, issue_pr, causal_invariant, operator_flows, journey_runtime_evidence, changed_line_budget, tests, rollback, and unresolved_authority_decisions.

Identify approved and superseded/conflicting authority lines; every flow, negative control, and candidate-bound proof; additions plus deletions and chain/exception; test results; independent rollback; and unresolved maintainer decisions.

References

No supporting files. Current repository policy remains authoritative.