## Change
Make native coding-agent execution the default AgentOps entry path with
zero mandatory skills. Preserve full bundles and add repeatable `ao
skills link --skill NAME` selection, validating the entire selection
before writes. Align product, installation, architecture and generated
command documentation.
Extend the existing trial readout to separate endpoint test results,
execution state and independently accepted work. Bind supplied judgments
to exact content, acceptance and native evidence. Reject empty
implementation subjects and require the caller's complete criterion ID
set before reporting acceptance. Preserve genuine nonempty and
deletion-only subjects, valid failures and missing-proof outcomes.
## Validation
- Native onboarding from empty home/consumer directories produces no
setup files; selective/full linking and failure boundaries are covered.
- Actual RED/GREEN regressions cover empty subjects and the
partial-criterion omission found by independent review.
- Full Go build, vet and race/shuffle tests; affected Go lint; 88 Python
readout/statistics tests passed.
- All 73 gates, generated projections, strict documentation build and
local aggregate passed (10 passed; one documented optional absence).
- All nine PR checks succeeded at
`7df0d42b12f35ffc22008cc10a40339afcfbb6a0`.
- Fresh author-distinct review passed all six acceptance criteria over
all 59 changed paths, with no findings or unchecked scope, after
repairing the criterion-coverage finding.
## Evidence limits
The real native coding repair demonstrates usability, not comparative
skill uplift. The strict live-session machine replay remains NOT_PROVEN
where execution/identity observations are unavailable; the source review
PASS is retained separately. Existing cohort limits and the historical
aggregate-enforcement gap remain unwaived. No new comparative cohort,
scheduler, skill-corpus deletion, memory migration or global
installation is included.
Executes docs/plans/2026-08-07-agentops-operations-layer-alignment.md:
AgentOps is the operations layer for agentic engineering; the federated
integration graph is the topology, the semantic work-and-proof protocol
is the contract, and RPI is the standard one-experiment traversal.
Retires the ao flywheel command family and all knowledge-flywheel
product state, tombstones the seven-move operating-loop workflow,
narrows ao init and the .agents state writers to declared destinations,
renames the core architecture page to rpi-traversal.md with a
compatibility redirect, aligns AGENTS.md, 25 skills, public and package
copy, regenerates every owned projection, and strengthens the
conformance gates with planted-negative proofs.
Both the alignment subject and the follow-up gate-bookkeeping commit
carry fresh author-distinct validation PASS verdicts with empty
not_checked scope.
Test-Removal-Reason: dead knowledge-flywheel and session-store surfaces were deleted with their tests (operations-layer alignment)
Migrate SYSTEM and AGENTS-{WORKFLOW,CI,CODEX,RUNTIME} into docs owners,
retarget consumers, rewrite the split gate, and craft-densify AGENTS,
README, PRODUCT, and GOALS under the documentation authority graph.
Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
Mine Bryan Finster's controlled study 'Agentic Workflows: Do Agents Work?'
(bryanfinster.substack.com) and fold the defensible, transferable findings
into repo doctrine:
- New reference skills/standards/references/agentic-workflow-evidence.md —
clean-room digest (findings, numbers, caveats) as the citable evidence home,
linked from skills/standards/SKILL.md.
- test-pyramid.md: add the over-testing tax — throttle mutation/BF thoroughness
to task stakes (mutation 0.93-0.98 arms lost on cost + changeability); name
refactor-after-every-green as the load-bearing move.
- operating-loop.md move 4 + implement/SKILL.md (+ codex twin): refactor-under-
green is the load-bearing move (not test-first ordering); one behavior per
cycle; invariant 'never let a refactor step change a test'; code-first as a
defensible variant on fully-specified small tasks.
- PRACTICE-REGISTRY.md: add empirical agent-workflow-measurement lineage bullet.
Confirms single-agent-first + clear-requirements doctrine; reinforces the cost
law (membrane spends review at the gate, not as a standing second author).
Folds the reference-linking repair (age-snwc).
Implements: age-ydk1
Rescope PRACTICE.md into PRACTICE-REGISTRY.md: it now owns only the
practice-slug lineage registry, not product positioning or CDLC doctrine.
Update all references (schema, validate-practice-citations.sh, bats test,
architecture-terms.md, documentation-index.md, aggregate.go comment).
Introduce the Context Density Rule as a canonical domain concept: every
high-value context token carries intent, boundary, evidence, decision,
constraint, or next action. New domain entry context-density-rule.md (+
codex mirror). Thread the BDD/Gherkin + DDD + Hexagonal + TDD narrow waist
through cdlc.md, README.md, PRODUCT.md, GOALS.md, and the rpi/domain/
post-mortem skills. Sync codex artifacts.
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