feat(preamble): AskUserQuestion repetition cut — gated, passed NOT-WORSE A/B

Removes the duplicate statements v1.71's compaction left in the
AskUserQuestion Format section: the completeness rule restated in the prose
triad, the auto-decide marker syntax stated twice, the Conductor-flakiness
explanation stated twice, and the self-check's full triad restatement. Every
verbosity floor and all 14 format pins stay (Layer 0 green).

The gate this decision rested on ran before landing (new periodic
skill-e2e-auq-repetition-cut-ab.test.ts, pre-cut ref 3263fffe vs this
render, same harness as auq-verbose-vs-carved-ab): POST 7/7 format elements,
substance 5 — identical to PRE. No degradation; the load-bearing-repetition
hypothesis did not hold for these duplicates.

Net: -236 bytes per tier-2+ skill (~9.7KB corpus). Golden ship baselines
re-captured for the deliberate change.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

autoplan/SKILL.md

@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ If `SKILL_PREFIX` is `"true"`, suggest/invoke `/gstack-*` names. Disk paths stay
 
 Branch on the skill-start STATUS lines, in this order:
 
-1. **`CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` echoed** → do NOT call AskUserQuestion at all (neither native nor any `mcp__*__AskUserQuestion` variant): render EVERY decision brief as the **prose form** below and STOP. Proactive, not a failure reaction — Conductor disables native AUQ and its MCP variant is flaky (`[Tool result missing due to internal error]`). **Auto-decide preferences still apply first:** a surfaced `[plan-tune auto-decide] <id> → <option>` result means proceed with that option, no prose — enforced HERE since no tool call ever happens. Capture each Conductor prose brief with `bin/gstack-question-log` (the PostToolUse hook never fires on a prose path; `/plan-tune` learning depends on it).
+1. **`CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` echoed** → do NOT call AskUserQuestion at all (neither native nor any `mcp__*__AskUserQuestion` variant): render EVERY decision brief as the **prose form** below and STOP. Proactive, not a failure reaction — Conductor disables native AUQ and its MCP variant is flaky (`[Tool result missing due to internal error]`). **Auto-decide preferences still apply first** (failure-fallback item 1 below): proceed with a surfaced auto-decide option, no prose — enforced HERE since no tool call ever happens. Capture each Conductor prose brief with `bin/gstack-question-log` (the PostToolUse hook never fires on a prose path; `/plan-tune` learning depends on it).
 2. **Any `mcp__*__AskUserQuestion` variant in your tool list** → prefer it (hosts may disable native via `--disallowedTools`; calling native there silently fails). Same shape, same decision-brief format.
 3. **Unavailable (no variant) OR a call fails** → do NOT silently auto-decide or write the decision to the plan file as a substitute; follow the **failure fallback** below.
 
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ Branch on the skill-start STATUS lines, in this order:
 Tell three outcomes apart:
 
 1. **Auto-decide denial (NOT a failure).** The result contains `[plan-tune auto-decide] <id> → <option>` — the preference hook working as designed. Proceed with that option. Do NOT retry, do NOT fall back to prose.
-2. **Genuine failure** — no variant in your tool list, OR the variant is present but the call returns an error / missing result (MCP transport error, empty result, host bug — e.g. Conductor's MCP AskUserQuestion is flaky and returns `[Tool result missing due to internal error]`).
+2. **Genuine failure** — no variant in your tool list, OR the variant is present but the call returns an error / missing result (MCP transport error, empty result, host bug — e.g. Conductor's flaky MCP variant, see Tool resolution above).
    - If it was present and **errored** (not absent), retry the SAME call **once** — but only if no answer could have surfaced (a missing-result error can arrive after the user already saw the question; retrying would double-prompt, so if it may have reached them, treat as pending, don't retry).
    - Then branch on `SESSION_KIND` (echoed by the preamble; empty/absent ⇒ `interactive`):
      - `spawned` → defer to the **Spawned session** block: auto-choose the recommended option. Never prose, never BLOCKED.
@@ -98,8 +98,8 @@ Tell three outcomes apart:
 **Prose fallback — render the decision brief as a markdown message, not a tool call.** Same information as the tool format below, different structure (paragraphs, not ✅/❌ bullets). It MUST surface this triad:
 
 1. **A clear ELI10 of the issue itself** — plain English on what's being decided and why it matters (the question, not per-choice), naming the stakes. Lead with it.
-2. **Completeness scores per choice** — explicit `Completeness: X/10` on EACH choice (10 complete, 7 happy-path, 3 shortcut); use the kind-note when options differ in kind not coverage, but never silently drop the score.
-3. **The recommendation and why** — a `Recommendation: <choice> because <reason>` line plus the `(recommended)` marker on that choice.
+2. **Completeness scores per choice** — per the Completeness rule in the Format section below; never silently drop the score.
+3. **The recommendation and why** — the `Recommendation: <choice> because <reason>` line plus the `(recommended)` marker on that choice.
 
 Layout: a `D<N>` title + a one-line note to reply with a letter (in Conductor this is the normal path; elsewhere it means AskUserQuestion was unavailable or errored); the issue ELI10; the Recommendation line; then ONE paragraph per choice carrying its `(recommended)` marker, its `Completeness: X/10`, and 2-4 sentences of reasoning — never a bare bullet list; a closing `Net:` line. Split chains / 5+ options: one prose block per per-option call, in sequence. Then STOP and wait — the user's typed answer is the decision. In plan mode this satisfies end-of-turn like a tool call.
 
@@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ Before calling AskUserQuestion, verify:
 - [ ] (recommended) label on one option (even for neutral-posture)
 - [ ] Dual-scale effort labels on effort-bearing options (human / CC)
 - [ ] Net line closes the decision
-- [ ] You are calling the tool, not writing prose — unless `CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` (then prose is the DEFAULT, not the tool) OR the documented failure fallback applies (then: prose with the mandatory triad — issue ELI10, per-choice Completeness, Recommendation + `(recommended)` — and a "reply with a letter" instruction, then STOP)
+- [ ] You are calling the tool, not writing prose — unless `CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` (then prose is the DEFAULT, not the tool) OR the documented failure fallback applies (then: the prose fallback's mandatory triad + a "reply with a letter" instruction, then STOP)
 - [ ] Non-ASCII characters (CJK / accents) written directly, NOT \u-escaped
 - [ ] If you had 5+ options, you split (or batched into ≤4-groups) — did NOT drop any
 - [ ] If you split, you checked dependencies between options before firing the chain

canary/SKILL.md

@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ If `SKILL_PREFIX` is `"true"`, suggest/invoke `/gstack-*` names. Disk paths stay
 
 Branch on the skill-start STATUS lines, in this order:
 
-1. **`CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` echoed** → do NOT call AskUserQuestion at all (neither native nor any `mcp__*__AskUserQuestion` variant): render EVERY decision brief as the **prose form** below and STOP. Proactive, not a failure reaction — Conductor disables native AUQ and its MCP variant is flaky (`[Tool result missing due to internal error]`). **Auto-decide preferences still apply first:** a surfaced `[plan-tune auto-decide] <id> → <option>` result means proceed with that option, no prose — enforced HERE since no tool call ever happens. Capture each Conductor prose brief with `bin/gstack-question-log` (the PostToolUse hook never fires on a prose path; `/plan-tune` learning depends on it).
+1. **`CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` echoed** → do NOT call AskUserQuestion at all (neither native nor any `mcp__*__AskUserQuestion` variant): render EVERY decision brief as the **prose form** below and STOP. Proactive, not a failure reaction — Conductor disables native AUQ and its MCP variant is flaky (`[Tool result missing due to internal error]`). **Auto-decide preferences still apply first** (failure-fallback item 1 below): proceed with a surfaced auto-decide option, no prose — enforced HERE since no tool call ever happens. Capture each Conductor prose brief with `bin/gstack-question-log` (the PostToolUse hook never fires on a prose path; `/plan-tune` learning depends on it).
 2. **Any `mcp__*__AskUserQuestion` variant in your tool list** → prefer it (hosts may disable native via `--disallowedTools`; calling native there silently fails). Same shape, same decision-brief format.
 3. **Unavailable (no variant) OR a call fails** → do NOT silently auto-decide or write the decision to the plan file as a substitute; follow the **failure fallback** below.
 
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ Branch on the skill-start STATUS lines, in this order:
 Tell three outcomes apart:
 
 1. **Auto-decide denial (NOT a failure).** The result contains `[plan-tune auto-decide] <id> → <option>` — the preference hook working as designed. Proceed with that option. Do NOT retry, do NOT fall back to prose.
-2. **Genuine failure** — no variant in your tool list, OR the variant is present but the call returns an error / missing result (MCP transport error, empty result, host bug — e.g. Conductor's MCP AskUserQuestion is flaky and returns `[Tool result missing due to internal error]`).
+2. **Genuine failure** — no variant in your tool list, OR the variant is present but the call returns an error / missing result (MCP transport error, empty result, host bug — e.g. Conductor's flaky MCP variant, see Tool resolution above).
    - If it was present and **errored** (not absent), retry the SAME call **once** — but only if no answer could have surfaced (a missing-result error can arrive after the user already saw the question; retrying would double-prompt, so if it may have reached them, treat as pending, don't retry).
    - Then branch on `SESSION_KIND` (echoed by the preamble; empty/absent ⇒ `interactive`):
      - `spawned` → defer to the **Spawned session** block: auto-choose the recommended option. Never prose, never BLOCKED.
@@ -91,8 +91,8 @@ Tell three outcomes apart:
 **Prose fallback — render the decision brief as a markdown message, not a tool call.** Same information as the tool format below, different structure (paragraphs, not ✅/❌ bullets). It MUST surface this triad:
 
 1. **A clear ELI10 of the issue itself** — plain English on what's being decided and why it matters (the question, not per-choice), naming the stakes. Lead with it.
-2. **Completeness scores per choice** — explicit `Completeness: X/10` on EACH choice (10 complete, 7 happy-path, 3 shortcut); use the kind-note when options differ in kind not coverage, but never silently drop the score.
-3. **The recommendation and why** — a `Recommendation: <choice> because <reason>` line plus the `(recommended)` marker on that choice.
+2. **Completeness scores per choice** — per the Completeness rule in the Format section below; never silently drop the score.
+3. **The recommendation and why** — the `Recommendation: <choice> because <reason>` line plus the `(recommended)` marker on that choice.
 
 Layout: a `D<N>` title + a one-line note to reply with a letter (in Conductor this is the normal path; elsewhere it means AskUserQuestion was unavailable or errored); the issue ELI10; the Recommendation line; then ONE paragraph per choice carrying its `(recommended)` marker, its `Completeness: X/10`, and 2-4 sentences of reasoning — never a bare bullet list; a closing `Net:` line. Split chains / 5+ options: one prose block per per-option call, in sequence. Then STOP and wait — the user's typed answer is the decision. In plan mode this satisfies end-of-turn like a tool call.
 
@@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ Before calling AskUserQuestion, verify:
 - [ ] (recommended) label on one option (even for neutral-posture)
 - [ ] Dual-scale effort labels on effort-bearing options (human / CC)
 - [ ] Net line closes the decision
-- [ ] You are calling the tool, not writing prose — unless `CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` (then prose is the DEFAULT, not the tool) OR the documented failure fallback applies (then: prose with the mandatory triad — issue ELI10, per-choice Completeness, Recommendation + `(recommended)` — and a "reply with a letter" instruction, then STOP)
+- [ ] You are calling the tool, not writing prose — unless `CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` (then prose is the DEFAULT, not the tool) OR the documented failure fallback applies (then: the prose fallback's mandatory triad + a "reply with a letter" instruction, then STOP)
 - [ ] Non-ASCII characters (CJK / accents) written directly, NOT \u-escaped
 - [ ] If you had 5+ options, you split (or batched into ≤4-groups) — did NOT drop any
 - [ ] If you split, you checked dependencies between options before firing the chain

codex/SKILL.md

@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ If `SKILL_PREFIX` is `"true"`, suggest/invoke `/gstack-*` names. Disk paths stay
 
 Branch on the skill-start STATUS lines, in this order:
 
-1. **`CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` echoed** → do NOT call AskUserQuestion at all (neither native nor any `mcp__*__AskUserQuestion` variant): render EVERY decision brief as the **prose form** below and STOP. Proactive, not a failure reaction — Conductor disables native AUQ and its MCP variant is flaky (`[Tool result missing due to internal error]`). **Auto-decide preferences still apply first:** a surfaced `[plan-tune auto-decide] <id> → <option>` result means proceed with that option, no prose — enforced HERE since no tool call ever happens. Capture each Conductor prose brief with `bin/gstack-question-log` (the PostToolUse hook never fires on a prose path; `/plan-tune` learning depends on it).
+1. **`CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` echoed** → do NOT call AskUserQuestion at all (neither native nor any `mcp__*__AskUserQuestion` variant): render EVERY decision brief as the **prose form** below and STOP. Proactive, not a failure reaction — Conductor disables native AUQ and its MCP variant is flaky (`[Tool result missing due to internal error]`). **Auto-decide preferences still apply first** (failure-fallback item 1 below): proceed with a surfaced auto-decide option, no prose — enforced HERE since no tool call ever happens. Capture each Conductor prose brief with `bin/gstack-question-log` (the PostToolUse hook never fires on a prose path; `/plan-tune` learning depends on it).
 2. **Any `mcp__*__AskUserQuestion` variant in your tool list** → prefer it (hosts may disable native via `--disallowedTools`; calling native there silently fails). Same shape, same decision-brief format.
 3. **Unavailable (no variant) OR a call fails** → do NOT silently auto-decide or write the decision to the plan file as a substitute; follow the **failure fallback** below.
 
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ Branch on the skill-start STATUS lines, in this order:
 Tell three outcomes apart:
 
 1. **Auto-decide denial (NOT a failure).** The result contains `[plan-tune auto-decide] <id> → <option>` — the preference hook working as designed. Proceed with that option. Do NOT retry, do NOT fall back to prose.
-2. **Genuine failure** — no variant in your tool list, OR the variant is present but the call returns an error / missing result (MCP transport error, empty result, host bug — e.g. Conductor's MCP AskUserQuestion is flaky and returns `[Tool result missing due to internal error]`).
+2. **Genuine failure** — no variant in your tool list, OR the variant is present but the call returns an error / missing result (MCP transport error, empty result, host bug — e.g. Conductor's flaky MCP variant, see Tool resolution above).
    - If it was present and **errored** (not absent), retry the SAME call **once** — but only if no answer could have surfaced (a missing-result error can arrive after the user already saw the question; retrying would double-prompt, so if it may have reached them, treat as pending, don't retry).
    - Then branch on `SESSION_KIND` (echoed by the preamble; empty/absent ⇒ `interactive`):
      - `spawned` → defer to the **Spawned session** block: auto-choose the recommended option. Never prose, never BLOCKED.
@@ -94,8 +94,8 @@ Tell three outcomes apart:
 **Prose fallback — render the decision brief as a markdown message, not a tool call.** Same information as the tool format below, different structure (paragraphs, not ✅/❌ bullets). It MUST surface this triad:
 
 1. **A clear ELI10 of the issue itself** — plain English on what's being decided and why it matters (the question, not per-choice), naming the stakes. Lead with it.
-2. **Completeness scores per choice** — explicit `Completeness: X/10` on EACH choice (10 complete, 7 happy-path, 3 shortcut); use the kind-note when options differ in kind not coverage, but never silently drop the score.
-3. **The recommendation and why** — a `Recommendation: <choice> because <reason>` line plus the `(recommended)` marker on that choice.
+2. **Completeness scores per choice** — per the Completeness rule in the Format section below; never silently drop the score.
+3. **The recommendation and why** — the `Recommendation: <choice> because <reason>` line plus the `(recommended)` marker on that choice.
 
 Layout: a `D<N>` title + a one-line note to reply with a letter (in Conductor this is the normal path; elsewhere it means AskUserQuestion was unavailable or errored); the issue ELI10; the Recommendation line; then ONE paragraph per choice carrying its `(recommended)` marker, its `Completeness: X/10`, and 2-4 sentences of reasoning — never a bare bullet list; a closing `Net:` line. Split chains / 5+ options: one prose block per per-option call, in sequence. Then STOP and wait — the user's typed answer is the decision. In plan mode this satisfies end-of-turn like a tool call.
 
@@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ Before calling AskUserQuestion, verify:
 - [ ] (recommended) label on one option (even for neutral-posture)
 - [ ] Dual-scale effort labels on effort-bearing options (human / CC)
 - [ ] Net line closes the decision
-- [ ] You are calling the tool, not writing prose — unless `CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` (then prose is the DEFAULT, not the tool) OR the documented failure fallback applies (then: prose with the mandatory triad — issue ELI10, per-choice Completeness, Recommendation + `(recommended)` — and a "reply with a letter" instruction, then STOP)
+- [ ] You are calling the tool, not writing prose — unless `CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` (then prose is the DEFAULT, not the tool) OR the documented failure fallback applies (then: the prose fallback's mandatory triad + a "reply with a letter" instruction, then STOP)
 - [ ] Non-ASCII characters (CJK / accents) written directly, NOT \u-escaped
 - [ ] If you had 5+ options, you split (or batched into ≤4-groups) — did NOT drop any
 - [ ] If you split, you checked dependencies between options before firing the chain

context-restore/SKILL.md

@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ If `SKILL_PREFIX` is `"true"`, suggest/invoke `/gstack-*` names. Disk paths stay
 
 Branch on the skill-start STATUS lines, in this order:
 
-1. **`CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` echoed** → do NOT call AskUserQuestion at all (neither native nor any `mcp__*__AskUserQuestion` variant): render EVERY decision brief as the **prose form** below and STOP. Proactive, not a failure reaction — Conductor disables native AUQ and its MCP variant is flaky (`[Tool result missing due to internal error]`). **Auto-decide preferences still apply first:** a surfaced `[plan-tune auto-decide] <id> → <option>` result means proceed with that option, no prose — enforced HERE since no tool call ever happens. Capture each Conductor prose brief with `bin/gstack-question-log` (the PostToolUse hook never fires on a prose path; `/plan-tune` learning depends on it).
+1. **`CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` echoed** → do NOT call AskUserQuestion at all (neither native nor any `mcp__*__AskUserQuestion` variant): render EVERY decision brief as the **prose form** below and STOP. Proactive, not a failure reaction — Conductor disables native AUQ and its MCP variant is flaky (`[Tool result missing due to internal error]`). **Auto-decide preferences still apply first** (failure-fallback item 1 below): proceed with a surfaced auto-decide option, no prose — enforced HERE since no tool call ever happens. Capture each Conductor prose brief with `bin/gstack-question-log` (the PostToolUse hook never fires on a prose path; `/plan-tune` learning depends on it).
 2. **Any `mcp__*__AskUserQuestion` variant in your tool list** → prefer it (hosts may disable native via `--disallowedTools`; calling native there silently fails). Same shape, same decision-brief format.
 3. **Unavailable (no variant) OR a call fails** → do NOT silently auto-decide or write the decision to the plan file as a substitute; follow the **failure fallback** below.
 
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ Branch on the skill-start STATUS lines, in this order:
 Tell three outcomes apart:
 
 1. **Auto-decide denial (NOT a failure).** The result contains `[plan-tune auto-decide] <id> → <option>` — the preference hook working as designed. Proceed with that option. Do NOT retry, do NOT fall back to prose.
-2. **Genuine failure** — no variant in your tool list, OR the variant is present but the call returns an error / missing result (MCP transport error, empty result, host bug — e.g. Conductor's MCP AskUserQuestion is flaky and returns `[Tool result missing due to internal error]`).
+2. **Genuine failure** — no variant in your tool list, OR the variant is present but the call returns an error / missing result (MCP transport error, empty result, host bug — e.g. Conductor's flaky MCP variant, see Tool resolution above).
    - If it was present and **errored** (not absent), retry the SAME call **once** — but only if no answer could have surfaced (a missing-result error can arrive after the user already saw the question; retrying would double-prompt, so if it may have reached them, treat as pending, don't retry).
    - Then branch on `SESSION_KIND` (echoed by the preamble; empty/absent ⇒ `interactive`):
      - `spawned` → defer to the **Spawned session** block: auto-choose the recommended option. Never prose, never BLOCKED.
@@ -95,8 +95,8 @@ Tell three outcomes apart:
 **Prose fallback — render the decision brief as a markdown message, not a tool call.** Same information as the tool format below, different structure (paragraphs, not ✅/❌ bullets). It MUST surface this triad:
 
 1. **A clear ELI10 of the issue itself** — plain English on what's being decided and why it matters (the question, not per-choice), naming the stakes. Lead with it.
-2. **Completeness scores per choice** — explicit `Completeness: X/10` on EACH choice (10 complete, 7 happy-path, 3 shortcut); use the kind-note when options differ in kind not coverage, but never silently drop the score.
-3. **The recommendation and why** — a `Recommendation: <choice> because <reason>` line plus the `(recommended)` marker on that choice.
+2. **Completeness scores per choice** — per the Completeness rule in the Format section below; never silently drop the score.
+3. **The recommendation and why** — the `Recommendation: <choice> because <reason>` line plus the `(recommended)` marker on that choice.
 
 Layout: a `D<N>` title + a one-line note to reply with a letter (in Conductor this is the normal path; elsewhere it means AskUserQuestion was unavailable or errored); the issue ELI10; the Recommendation line; then ONE paragraph per choice carrying its `(recommended)` marker, its `Completeness: X/10`, and 2-4 sentences of reasoning — never a bare bullet list; a closing `Net:` line. Split chains / 5+ options: one prose block per per-option call, in sequence. Then STOP and wait — the user's typed answer is the decision. In plan mode this satisfies end-of-turn like a tool call.
 
@@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ Before calling AskUserQuestion, verify:
 - [ ] (recommended) label on one option (even for neutral-posture)
 - [ ] Dual-scale effort labels on effort-bearing options (human / CC)
 - [ ] Net line closes the decision
-- [ ] You are calling the tool, not writing prose — unless `CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` (then prose is the DEFAULT, not the tool) OR the documented failure fallback applies (then: prose with the mandatory triad — issue ELI10, per-choice Completeness, Recommendation + `(recommended)` — and a "reply with a letter" instruction, then STOP)
+- [ ] You are calling the tool, not writing prose — unless `CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` (then prose is the DEFAULT, not the tool) OR the documented failure fallback applies (then: the prose fallback's mandatory triad + a "reply with a letter" instruction, then STOP)
 - [ ] Non-ASCII characters (CJK / accents) written directly, NOT \u-escaped
 - [ ] If you had 5+ options, you split (or batched into ≤4-groups) — did NOT drop any
 - [ ] If you split, you checked dependencies between options before firing the chain

context-save/SKILL.md

@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ If `SKILL_PREFIX` is `"true"`, suggest/invoke `/gstack-*` names. Disk paths stay
 
 Branch on the skill-start STATUS lines, in this order:
 
-1. **`CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` echoed** → do NOT call AskUserQuestion at all (neither native nor any `mcp__*__AskUserQuestion` variant): render EVERY decision brief as the **prose form** below and STOP. Proactive, not a failure reaction — Conductor disables native AUQ and its MCP variant is flaky (`[Tool result missing due to internal error]`). **Auto-decide preferences still apply first:** a surfaced `[plan-tune auto-decide] <id> → <option>` result means proceed with that option, no prose — enforced HERE since no tool call ever happens. Capture each Conductor prose brief with `bin/gstack-question-log` (the PostToolUse hook never fires on a prose path; `/plan-tune` learning depends on it).
+1. **`CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` echoed** → do NOT call AskUserQuestion at all (neither native nor any `mcp__*__AskUserQuestion` variant): render EVERY decision brief as the **prose form** below and STOP. Proactive, not a failure reaction — Conductor disables native AUQ and its MCP variant is flaky (`[Tool result missing due to internal error]`). **Auto-decide preferences still apply first** (failure-fallback item 1 below): proceed with a surfaced auto-decide option, no prose — enforced HERE since no tool call ever happens. Capture each Conductor prose brief with `bin/gstack-question-log` (the PostToolUse hook never fires on a prose path; `/plan-tune` learning depends on it).
 2. **Any `mcp__*__AskUserQuestion` variant in your tool list** → prefer it (hosts may disable native via `--disallowedTools`; calling native there silently fails). Same shape, same decision-brief format.
 3. **Unavailable (no variant) OR a call fails** → do NOT silently auto-decide or write the decision to the plan file as a substitute; follow the **failure fallback** below.
 
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ Branch on the skill-start STATUS lines, in this order:
 Tell three outcomes apart:
 
 1. **Auto-decide denial (NOT a failure).** The result contains `[plan-tune auto-decide] <id> → <option>` — the preference hook working as designed. Proceed with that option. Do NOT retry, do NOT fall back to prose.
-2. **Genuine failure** — no variant in your tool list, OR the variant is present but the call returns an error / missing result (MCP transport error, empty result, host bug — e.g. Conductor's MCP AskUserQuestion is flaky and returns `[Tool result missing due to internal error]`).
+2. **Genuine failure** — no variant in your tool list, OR the variant is present but the call returns an error / missing result (MCP transport error, empty result, host bug — e.g. Conductor's flaky MCP variant, see Tool resolution above).
    - If it was present and **errored** (not absent), retry the SAME call **once** — but only if no answer could have surfaced (a missing-result error can arrive after the user already saw the question; retrying would double-prompt, so if it may have reached them, treat as pending, don't retry).
    - Then branch on `SESSION_KIND` (echoed by the preamble; empty/absent ⇒ `interactive`):
      - `spawned` → defer to the **Spawned session** block: auto-choose the recommended option. Never prose, never BLOCKED.
@@ -94,8 +94,8 @@ Tell three outcomes apart:
 **Prose fallback — render the decision brief as a markdown message, not a tool call.** Same information as the tool format below, different structure (paragraphs, not ✅/❌ bullets). It MUST surface this triad:
 
 1. **A clear ELI10 of the issue itself** — plain English on what's being decided and why it matters (the question, not per-choice), naming the stakes. Lead with it.
-2. **Completeness scores per choice** — explicit `Completeness: X/10` on EACH choice (10 complete, 7 happy-path, 3 shortcut); use the kind-note when options differ in kind not coverage, but never silently drop the score.
-3. **The recommendation and why** — a `Recommendation: <choice> because <reason>` line plus the `(recommended)` marker on that choice.
+2. **Completeness scores per choice** — per the Completeness rule in the Format section below; never silently drop the score.
+3. **The recommendation and why** — the `Recommendation: <choice> because <reason>` line plus the `(recommended)` marker on that choice.
 
 Layout: a `D<N>` title + a one-line note to reply with a letter (in Conductor this is the normal path; elsewhere it means AskUserQuestion was unavailable or errored); the issue ELI10; the Recommendation line; then ONE paragraph per choice carrying its `(recommended)` marker, its `Completeness: X/10`, and 2-4 sentences of reasoning — never a bare bullet list; a closing `Net:` line. Split chains / 5+ options: one prose block per per-option call, in sequence. Then STOP and wait — the user's typed answer is the decision. In plan mode this satisfies end-of-turn like a tool call.
 
@@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ Before calling AskUserQuestion, verify:
 - [ ] (recommended) label on one option (even for neutral-posture)
 - [ ] Dual-scale effort labels on effort-bearing options (human / CC)
 - [ ] Net line closes the decision
-- [ ] You are calling the tool, not writing prose — unless `CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` (then prose is the DEFAULT, not the tool) OR the documented failure fallback applies (then: prose with the mandatory triad — issue ELI10, per-choice Completeness, Recommendation + `(recommended)` — and a "reply with a letter" instruction, then STOP)
+- [ ] You are calling the tool, not writing prose — unless `CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` (then prose is the DEFAULT, not the tool) OR the documented failure fallback applies (then: the prose fallback's mandatory triad + a "reply with a letter" instruction, then STOP)
 - [ ] Non-ASCII characters (CJK / accents) written directly, NOT \u-escaped
 - [ ] If you had 5+ options, you split (or batched into ≤4-groups) — did NOT drop any
 - [ ] If you split, you checked dependencies between options before firing the chain

cso/SKILL.md

@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ If `SKILL_PREFIX` is `"true"`, suggest/invoke `/gstack-*` names. Disk paths stay
 
 Branch on the skill-start STATUS lines, in this order:
 
-1. **`CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` echoed** → do NOT call AskUserQuestion at all (neither native nor any `mcp__*__AskUserQuestion` variant): render EVERY decision brief as the **prose form** below and STOP. Proactive, not a failure reaction — Conductor disables native AUQ and its MCP variant is flaky (`[Tool result missing due to internal error]`). **Auto-decide preferences still apply first:** a surfaced `[plan-tune auto-decide] <id> → <option>` result means proceed with that option, no prose — enforced HERE since no tool call ever happens. Capture each Conductor prose brief with `bin/gstack-question-log` (the PostToolUse hook never fires on a prose path; `/plan-tune` learning depends on it).
+1. **`CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` echoed** → do NOT call AskUserQuestion at all (neither native nor any `mcp__*__AskUserQuestion` variant): render EVERY decision brief as the **prose form** below and STOP. Proactive, not a failure reaction — Conductor disables native AUQ and its MCP variant is flaky (`[Tool result missing due to internal error]`). **Auto-decide preferences still apply first** (failure-fallback item 1 below): proceed with a surfaced auto-decide option, no prose — enforced HERE since no tool call ever happens. Capture each Conductor prose brief with `bin/gstack-question-log` (the PostToolUse hook never fires on a prose path; `/plan-tune` learning depends on it).
 2. **Any `mcp__*__AskUserQuestion` variant in your tool list** → prefer it (hosts may disable native via `--disallowedTools`; calling native there silently fails). Same shape, same decision-brief format.
 3. **Unavailable (no variant) OR a call fails** → do NOT silently auto-decide or write the decision to the plan file as a substitute; follow the **failure fallback** below.
 
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ Branch on the skill-start STATUS lines, in this order:
 Tell three outcomes apart:
 
 1. **Auto-decide denial (NOT a failure).** The result contains `[plan-tune auto-decide] <id> → <option>` — the preference hook working as designed. Proceed with that option. Do NOT retry, do NOT fall back to prose.
-2. **Genuine failure** — no variant in your tool list, OR the variant is present but the call returns an error / missing result (MCP transport error, empty result, host bug — e.g. Conductor's MCP AskUserQuestion is flaky and returns `[Tool result missing due to internal error]`).
+2. **Genuine failure** — no variant in your tool list, OR the variant is present but the call returns an error / missing result (MCP transport error, empty result, host bug — e.g. Conductor's flaky MCP variant, see Tool resolution above).
    - If it was present and **errored** (not absent), retry the SAME call **once** — but only if no answer could have surfaced (a missing-result error can arrive after the user already saw the question; retrying would double-prompt, so if it may have reached them, treat as pending, don't retry).
    - Then branch on `SESSION_KIND` (echoed by the preamble; empty/absent ⇒ `interactive`):
      - `spawned` → defer to the **Spawned session** block: auto-choose the recommended option. Never prose, never BLOCKED.
@@ -97,8 +97,8 @@ Tell three outcomes apart:
 **Prose fallback — render the decision brief as a markdown message, not a tool call.** Same information as the tool format below, different structure (paragraphs, not ✅/❌ bullets). It MUST surface this triad:
 
 1. **A clear ELI10 of the issue itself** — plain English on what's being decided and why it matters (the question, not per-choice), naming the stakes. Lead with it.
-2. **Completeness scores per choice** — explicit `Completeness: X/10` on EACH choice (10 complete, 7 happy-path, 3 shortcut); use the kind-note when options differ in kind not coverage, but never silently drop the score.
-3. **The recommendation and why** — a `Recommendation: <choice> because <reason>` line plus the `(recommended)` marker on that choice.
+2. **Completeness scores per choice** — per the Completeness rule in the Format section below; never silently drop the score.
+3. **The recommendation and why** — the `Recommendation: <choice> because <reason>` line plus the `(recommended)` marker on that choice.
 
 Layout: a `D<N>` title + a one-line note to reply with a letter (in Conductor this is the normal path; elsewhere it means AskUserQuestion was unavailable or errored); the issue ELI10; the Recommendation line; then ONE paragraph per choice carrying its `(recommended)` marker, its `Completeness: X/10`, and 2-4 sentences of reasoning — never a bare bullet list; a closing `Net:` line. Split chains / 5+ options: one prose block per per-option call, in sequence. Then STOP and wait — the user's typed answer is the decision. In plan mode this satisfies end-of-turn like a tool call.
 
@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ Before calling AskUserQuestion, verify:
 - [ ] (recommended) label on one option (even for neutral-posture)
 - [ ] Dual-scale effort labels on effort-bearing options (human / CC)
 - [ ] Net line closes the decision
-- [ ] You are calling the tool, not writing prose — unless `CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` (then prose is the DEFAULT, not the tool) OR the documented failure fallback applies (then: prose with the mandatory triad — issue ELI10, per-choice Completeness, Recommendation + `(recommended)` — and a "reply with a letter" instruction, then STOP)
+- [ ] You are calling the tool, not writing prose — unless `CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` (then prose is the DEFAULT, not the tool) OR the documented failure fallback applies (then: the prose fallback's mandatory triad + a "reply with a letter" instruction, then STOP)
 - [ ] Non-ASCII characters (CJK / accents) written directly, NOT \u-escaped
 - [ ] If you had 5+ options, you split (or batched into ≤4-groups) — did NOT drop any
 - [ ] If you split, you checked dependencies between options before firing the chain

design-consultation/SKILL.md

@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ If `SKILL_PREFIX` is `"true"`, suggest/invoke `/gstack-*` names. Disk paths stay
 
 Branch on the skill-start STATUS lines, in this order:
 
-1. **`CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` echoed** → do NOT call AskUserQuestion at all (neither native nor any `mcp__*__AskUserQuestion` variant): render EVERY decision brief as the **prose form** below and STOP. Proactive, not a failure reaction — Conductor disables native AUQ and its MCP variant is flaky (`[Tool result missing due to internal error]`). **Auto-decide preferences still apply first:** a surfaced `[plan-tune auto-decide] <id> → <option>` result means proceed with that option, no prose — enforced HERE since no tool call ever happens. Capture each Conductor prose brief with `bin/gstack-question-log` (the PostToolUse hook never fires on a prose path; `/plan-tune` learning depends on it).
+1. **`CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` echoed** → do NOT call AskUserQuestion at all (neither native nor any `mcp__*__AskUserQuestion` variant): render EVERY decision brief as the **prose form** below and STOP. Proactive, not a failure reaction — Conductor disables native AUQ and its MCP variant is flaky (`[Tool result missing due to internal error]`). **Auto-decide preferences still apply first** (failure-fallback item 1 below): proceed with a surfaced auto-decide option, no prose — enforced HERE since no tool call ever happens. Capture each Conductor prose brief with `bin/gstack-question-log` (the PostToolUse hook never fires on a prose path; `/plan-tune` learning depends on it).
 2. **Any `mcp__*__AskUserQuestion` variant in your tool list** → prefer it (hosts may disable native via `--disallowedTools`; calling native there silently fails). Same shape, same decision-brief format.
 3. **Unavailable (no variant) OR a call fails** → do NOT silently auto-decide or write the decision to the plan file as a substitute; follow the **failure fallback** below.
 
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ Branch on the skill-start STATUS lines, in this order:
 Tell three outcomes apart:
 
 1. **Auto-decide denial (NOT a failure).** The result contains `[plan-tune auto-decide] <id> → <option>` — the preference hook working as designed. Proceed with that option. Do NOT retry, do NOT fall back to prose.
-2. **Genuine failure** — no variant in your tool list, OR the variant is present but the call returns an error / missing result (MCP transport error, empty result, host bug — e.g. Conductor's MCP AskUserQuestion is flaky and returns `[Tool result missing due to internal error]`).
+2. **Genuine failure** — no variant in your tool list, OR the variant is present but the call returns an error / missing result (MCP transport error, empty result, host bug — e.g. Conductor's flaky MCP variant, see Tool resolution above).
    - If it was present and **errored** (not absent), retry the SAME call **once** — but only if no answer could have surfaced (a missing-result error can arrive after the user already saw the question; retrying would double-prompt, so if it may have reached them, treat as pending, don't retry).
    - Then branch on `SESSION_KIND` (echoed by the preamble; empty/absent ⇒ `interactive`):
      - `spawned` → defer to the **Spawned session** block: auto-choose the recommended option. Never prose, never BLOCKED.
@@ -117,8 +117,8 @@ Tell three outcomes apart:
 **Prose fallback — render the decision brief as a markdown message, not a tool call.** Same information as the tool format below, different structure (paragraphs, not ✅/❌ bullets). It MUST surface this triad:
 
 1. **A clear ELI10 of the issue itself** — plain English on what's being decided and why it matters (the question, not per-choice), naming the stakes. Lead with it.
-2. **Completeness scores per choice** — explicit `Completeness: X/10` on EACH choice (10 complete, 7 happy-path, 3 shortcut); use the kind-note when options differ in kind not coverage, but never silently drop the score.
-3. **The recommendation and why** — a `Recommendation: <choice> because <reason>` line plus the `(recommended)` marker on that choice.
+2. **Completeness scores per choice** — per the Completeness rule in the Format section below; never silently drop the score.
+3. **The recommendation and why** — the `Recommendation: <choice> because <reason>` line plus the `(recommended)` marker on that choice.
 
 Layout: a `D<N>` title + a one-line note to reply with a letter (in Conductor this is the normal path; elsewhere it means AskUserQuestion was unavailable or errored); the issue ELI10; the Recommendation line; then ONE paragraph per choice carrying its `(recommended)` marker, its `Completeness: X/10`, and 2-4 sentences of reasoning — never a bare bullet list; a closing `Net:` line. Split chains / 5+ options: one prose block per per-option call, in sequence. Then STOP and wait — the user's typed answer is the decision. In plan mode this satisfies end-of-turn like a tool call.
 
@@ -197,7 +197,7 @@ Before calling AskUserQuestion, verify:
 - [ ] (recommended) label on one option (even for neutral-posture)
 - [ ] Dual-scale effort labels on effort-bearing options (human / CC)
 - [ ] Net line closes the decision
-- [ ] You are calling the tool, not writing prose — unless `CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` (then prose is the DEFAULT, not the tool) OR the documented failure fallback applies (then: prose with the mandatory triad — issue ELI10, per-choice Completeness, Recommendation + `(recommended)` — and a "reply with a letter" instruction, then STOP)
+- [ ] You are calling the tool, not writing prose — unless `CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` (then prose is the DEFAULT, not the tool) OR the documented failure fallback applies (then: the prose fallback's mandatory triad + a "reply with a letter" instruction, then STOP)
 - [ ] Non-ASCII characters (CJK / accents) written directly, NOT \u-escaped
 - [ ] If you had 5+ options, you split (or batched into ≤4-groups) — did NOT drop any
 - [ ] If you split, you checked dependencies between options before firing the chain

design-html/SKILL.md

@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ If `SKILL_PREFIX` is `"true"`, suggest/invoke `/gstack-*` names. Disk paths stay
 
 Branch on the skill-start STATUS lines, in this order:
 
-1. **`CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` echoed** → do NOT call AskUserQuestion at all (neither native nor any `mcp__*__AskUserQuestion` variant): render EVERY decision brief as the **prose form** below and STOP. Proactive, not a failure reaction — Conductor disables native AUQ and its MCP variant is flaky (`[Tool result missing due to internal error]`). **Auto-decide preferences still apply first:** a surfaced `[plan-tune auto-decide] <id> → <option>` result means proceed with that option, no prose — enforced HERE since no tool call ever happens. Capture each Conductor prose brief with `bin/gstack-question-log` (the PostToolUse hook never fires on a prose path; `/plan-tune` learning depends on it).
+1. **`CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` echoed** → do NOT call AskUserQuestion at all (neither native nor any `mcp__*__AskUserQuestion` variant): render EVERY decision brief as the **prose form** below and STOP. Proactive, not a failure reaction — Conductor disables native AUQ and its MCP variant is flaky (`[Tool result missing due to internal error]`). **Auto-decide preferences still apply first** (failure-fallback item 1 below): proceed with a surfaced auto-decide option, no prose — enforced HERE since no tool call ever happens. Capture each Conductor prose brief with `bin/gstack-question-log` (the PostToolUse hook never fires on a prose path; `/plan-tune` learning depends on it).
 2. **Any `mcp__*__AskUserQuestion` variant in your tool list** → prefer it (hosts may disable native via `--disallowedTools`; calling native there silently fails). Same shape, same decision-brief format.
 3. **Unavailable (no variant) OR a call fails** → do NOT silently auto-decide or write the decision to the plan file as a substitute; follow the **failure fallback** below.
 
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ Branch on the skill-start STATUS lines, in this order:
 Tell three outcomes apart:
 
 1. **Auto-decide denial (NOT a failure).** The result contains `[plan-tune auto-decide] <id> → <option>` — the preference hook working as designed. Proceed with that option. Do NOT retry, do NOT fall back to prose.
-2. **Genuine failure** — no variant in your tool list, OR the variant is present but the call returns an error / missing result (MCP transport error, empty result, host bug — e.g. Conductor's MCP AskUserQuestion is flaky and returns `[Tool result missing due to internal error]`).
+2. **Genuine failure** — no variant in your tool list, OR the variant is present but the call returns an error / missing result (MCP transport error, empty result, host bug — e.g. Conductor's flaky MCP variant, see Tool resolution above).
    - If it was present and **errored** (not absent), retry the SAME call **once** — but only if no answer could have surfaced (a missing-result error can arrive after the user already saw the question; retrying would double-prompt, so if it may have reached them, treat as pending, don't retry).
    - Then branch on `SESSION_KIND` (echoed by the preamble; empty/absent ⇒ `interactive`):
      - `spawned` → defer to the **Spawned session** block: auto-choose the recommended option. Never prose, never BLOCKED.
@@ -98,8 +98,8 @@ Tell three outcomes apart:
 **Prose fallback — render the decision brief as a markdown message, not a tool call.** Same information as the tool format below, different structure (paragraphs, not ✅/❌ bullets). It MUST surface this triad:
 
 1. **A clear ELI10 of the issue itself** — plain English on what's being decided and why it matters (the question, not per-choice), naming the stakes. Lead with it.
-2. **Completeness scores per choice** — explicit `Completeness: X/10` on EACH choice (10 complete, 7 happy-path, 3 shortcut); use the kind-note when options differ in kind not coverage, but never silently drop the score.
-3. **The recommendation and why** — a `Recommendation: <choice> because <reason>` line plus the `(recommended)` marker on that choice.
+2. **Completeness scores per choice** — per the Completeness rule in the Format section below; never silently drop the score.
+3. **The recommendation and why** — the `Recommendation: <choice> because <reason>` line plus the `(recommended)` marker on that choice.
 
 Layout: a `D<N>` title + a one-line note to reply with a letter (in Conductor this is the normal path; elsewhere it means AskUserQuestion was unavailable or errored); the issue ELI10; the Recommendation line; then ONE paragraph per choice carrying its `(recommended)` marker, its `Completeness: X/10`, and 2-4 sentences of reasoning — never a bare bullet list; a closing `Net:` line. Split chains / 5+ options: one prose block per per-option call, in sequence. Then STOP and wait — the user's typed answer is the decision. In plan mode this satisfies end-of-turn like a tool call.
 
@@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ Before calling AskUserQuestion, verify:
 - [ ] (recommended) label on one option (even for neutral-posture)
 - [ ] Dual-scale effort labels on effort-bearing options (human / CC)
 - [ ] Net line closes the decision
-- [ ] You are calling the tool, not writing prose — unless `CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` (then prose is the DEFAULT, not the tool) OR the documented failure fallback applies (then: prose with the mandatory triad — issue ELI10, per-choice Completeness, Recommendation + `(recommended)` — and a "reply with a letter" instruction, then STOP)
+- [ ] You are calling the tool, not writing prose — unless `CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` (then prose is the DEFAULT, not the tool) OR the documented failure fallback applies (then: the prose fallback's mandatory triad + a "reply with a letter" instruction, then STOP)
 - [ ] Non-ASCII characters (CJK / accents) written directly, NOT \u-escaped
 - [ ] If you had 5+ options, you split (or batched into ≤4-groups) — did NOT drop any
 - [ ] If you split, you checked dependencies between options before firing the chain

design-review/SKILL.md

@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ If `SKILL_PREFIX` is `"true"`, suggest/invoke `/gstack-*` names. Disk paths stay
 
 Branch on the skill-start STATUS lines, in this order:
 
-1. **`CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` echoed** → do NOT call AskUserQuestion at all (neither native nor any `mcp__*__AskUserQuestion` variant): render EVERY decision brief as the **prose form** below and STOP. Proactive, not a failure reaction — Conductor disables native AUQ and its MCP variant is flaky (`[Tool result missing due to internal error]`). **Auto-decide preferences still apply first:** a surfaced `[plan-tune auto-decide] <id> → <option>` result means proceed with that option, no prose — enforced HERE since no tool call ever happens. Capture each Conductor prose brief with `bin/gstack-question-log` (the PostToolUse hook never fires on a prose path; `/plan-tune` learning depends on it).
+1. **`CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` echoed** → do NOT call AskUserQuestion at all (neither native nor any `mcp__*__AskUserQuestion` variant): render EVERY decision brief as the **prose form** below and STOP. Proactive, not a failure reaction — Conductor disables native AUQ and its MCP variant is flaky (`[Tool result missing due to internal error]`). **Auto-decide preferences still apply first** (failure-fallback item 1 below): proceed with a surfaced auto-decide option, no prose — enforced HERE since no tool call ever happens. Capture each Conductor prose brief with `bin/gstack-question-log` (the PostToolUse hook never fires on a prose path; `/plan-tune` learning depends on it).
 2. **Any `mcp__*__AskUserQuestion` variant in your tool list** → prefer it (hosts may disable native via `--disallowedTools`; calling native there silently fails). Same shape, same decision-brief format.
 3. **Unavailable (no variant) OR a call fails** → do NOT silently auto-decide or write the decision to the plan file as a substitute; follow the **failure fallback** below.
 
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ Branch on the skill-start STATUS lines, in this order:
 Tell three outcomes apart:
 
 1. **Auto-decide denial (NOT a failure).** The result contains `[plan-tune auto-decide] <id> → <option>` — the preference hook working as designed. Proceed with that option. Do NOT retry, do NOT fall back to prose.
-2. **Genuine failure** — no variant in your tool list, OR the variant is present but the call returns an error / missing result (MCP transport error, empty result, host bug — e.g. Conductor's MCP AskUserQuestion is flaky and returns `[Tool result missing due to internal error]`).
+2. **Genuine failure** — no variant in your tool list, OR the variant is present but the call returns an error / missing result (MCP transport error, empty result, host bug — e.g. Conductor's flaky MCP variant, see Tool resolution above).
    - If it was present and **errored** (not absent), retry the SAME call **once** — but only if no answer could have surfaced (a missing-result error can arrive after the user already saw the question; retrying would double-prompt, so if it may have reached them, treat as pending, don't retry).
    - Then branch on `SESSION_KIND` (echoed by the preamble; empty/absent ⇒ `interactive`):
      - `spawned` → defer to the **Spawned session** block: auto-choose the recommended option. Never prose, never BLOCKED.
@@ -95,8 +95,8 @@ Tell three outcomes apart:
 **Prose fallback — render the decision brief as a markdown message, not a tool call.** Same information as the tool format below, different structure (paragraphs, not ✅/❌ bullets). It MUST surface this triad:
 
 1. **A clear ELI10 of the issue itself** — plain English on what's being decided and why it matters (the question, not per-choice), naming the stakes. Lead with it.
-2. **Completeness scores per choice** — explicit `Completeness: X/10` on EACH choice (10 complete, 7 happy-path, 3 shortcut); use the kind-note when options differ in kind not coverage, but never silently drop the score.
-3. **The recommendation and why** — a `Recommendation: <choice> because <reason>` line plus the `(recommended)` marker on that choice.
+2. **Completeness scores per choice** — per the Completeness rule in the Format section below; never silently drop the score.
+3. **The recommendation and why** — the `Recommendation: <choice> because <reason>` line plus the `(recommended)` marker on that choice.
 
 Layout: a `D<N>` title + a one-line note to reply with a letter (in Conductor this is the normal path; elsewhere it means AskUserQuestion was unavailable or errored); the issue ELI10; the Recommendation line; then ONE paragraph per choice carrying its `(recommended)` marker, its `Completeness: X/10`, and 2-4 sentences of reasoning — never a bare bullet list; a closing `Net:` line. Split chains / 5+ options: one prose block per per-option call, in sequence. Then STOP and wait — the user's typed answer is the decision. In plan mode this satisfies end-of-turn like a tool call.
 
@@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ Before calling AskUserQuestion, verify:
 - [ ] (recommended) label on one option (even for neutral-posture)
 - [ ] Dual-scale effort labels on effort-bearing options (human / CC)
 - [ ] Net line closes the decision
-- [ ] You are calling the tool, not writing prose — unless `CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` (then prose is the DEFAULT, not the tool) OR the documented failure fallback applies (then: prose with the mandatory triad — issue ELI10, per-choice Completeness, Recommendation + `(recommended)` — and a "reply with a letter" instruction, then STOP)
+- [ ] You are calling the tool, not writing prose — unless `CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` (then prose is the DEFAULT, not the tool) OR the documented failure fallback applies (then: the prose fallback's mandatory triad + a "reply with a letter" instruction, then STOP)
 - [ ] Non-ASCII characters (CJK / accents) written directly, NOT \u-escaped
 - [ ] If you had 5+ options, you split (or batched into ≤4-groups) — did NOT drop any
 - [ ] If you split, you checked dependencies between options before firing the chain

design-shotgun/SKILL.md

@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ If `SKILL_PREFIX` is `"true"`, suggest/invoke `/gstack-*` names. Disk paths stay
 
 Branch on the skill-start STATUS lines, in this order:
 
-1. **`CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` echoed** → do NOT call AskUserQuestion at all (neither native nor any `mcp__*__AskUserQuestion` variant): render EVERY decision brief as the **prose form** below and STOP. Proactive, not a failure reaction — Conductor disables native AUQ and its MCP variant is flaky (`[Tool result missing due to internal error]`). **Auto-decide preferences still apply first:** a surfaced `[plan-tune auto-decide] <id> → <option>` result means proceed with that option, no prose — enforced HERE since no tool call ever happens. Capture each Conductor prose brief with `bin/gstack-question-log` (the PostToolUse hook never fires on a prose path; `/plan-tune` learning depends on it).
+1. **`CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` echoed** → do NOT call AskUserQuestion at all (neither native nor any `mcp__*__AskUserQuestion` variant): render EVERY decision brief as the **prose form** below and STOP. Proactive, not a failure reaction — Conductor disables native AUQ and its MCP variant is flaky (`[Tool result missing due to internal error]`). **Auto-decide preferences still apply first** (failure-fallback item 1 below): proceed with a surfaced auto-decide option, no prose — enforced HERE since no tool call ever happens. Capture each Conductor prose brief with `bin/gstack-question-log` (the PostToolUse hook never fires on a prose path; `/plan-tune` learning depends on it).
 2. **Any `mcp__*__AskUserQuestion` variant in your tool list** → prefer it (hosts may disable native via `--disallowedTools`; calling native there silently fails). Same shape, same decision-brief format.
 3. **Unavailable (no variant) OR a call fails** → do NOT silently auto-decide or write the decision to the plan file as a substitute; follow the **failure fallback** below.
 
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ Branch on the skill-start STATUS lines, in this order:
 Tell three outcomes apart:
 
 1. **Auto-decide denial (NOT a failure).** The result contains `[plan-tune auto-decide] <id> → <option>` — the preference hook working as designed. Proceed with that option. Do NOT retry, do NOT fall back to prose.
-2. **Genuine failure** — no variant in your tool list, OR the variant is present but the call returns an error / missing result (MCP transport error, empty result, host bug — e.g. Conductor's MCP AskUserQuestion is flaky and returns `[Tool result missing due to internal error]`).
+2. **Genuine failure** — no variant in your tool list, OR the variant is present but the call returns an error / missing result (MCP transport error, empty result, host bug — e.g. Conductor's flaky MCP variant, see Tool resolution above).
    - If it was present and **errored** (not absent), retry the SAME call **once** — but only if no answer could have surfaced (a missing-result error can arrive after the user already saw the question; retrying would double-prompt, so if it may have reached them, treat as pending, don't retry).
    - Then branch on `SESSION_KIND` (echoed by the preamble; empty/absent ⇒ `interactive`):
      - `spawned` → defer to the **Spawned session** block: auto-choose the recommended option. Never prose, never BLOCKED.
@@ -112,8 +112,8 @@ Tell three outcomes apart:
 **Prose fallback — render the decision brief as a markdown message, not a tool call.** Same information as the tool format below, different structure (paragraphs, not ✅/❌ bullets). It MUST surface this triad:
 
 1. **A clear ELI10 of the issue itself** — plain English on what's being decided and why it matters (the question, not per-choice), naming the stakes. Lead with it.
-2. **Completeness scores per choice** — explicit `Completeness: X/10` on EACH choice (10 complete, 7 happy-path, 3 shortcut); use the kind-note when options differ in kind not coverage, but never silently drop the score.
-3. **The recommendation and why** — a `Recommendation: <choice> because <reason>` line plus the `(recommended)` marker on that choice.
+2. **Completeness scores per choice** — per the Completeness rule in the Format section below; never silently drop the score.
+3. **The recommendation and why** — the `Recommendation: <choice> because <reason>` line plus the `(recommended)` marker on that choice.
 
 Layout: a `D<N>` title + a one-line note to reply with a letter (in Conductor this is the normal path; elsewhere it means AskUserQuestion was unavailable or errored); the issue ELI10; the Recommendation line; then ONE paragraph per choice carrying its `(recommended)` marker, its `Completeness: X/10`, and 2-4 sentences of reasoning — never a bare bullet list; a closing `Net:` line. Split chains / 5+ options: one prose block per per-option call, in sequence. Then STOP and wait — the user's typed answer is the decision. In plan mode this satisfies end-of-turn like a tool call.
 
@@ -192,7 +192,7 @@ Before calling AskUserQuestion, verify:
 - [ ] (recommended) label on one option (even for neutral-posture)
 - [ ] Dual-scale effort labels on effort-bearing options (human / CC)
 - [ ] Net line closes the decision
-- [ ] You are calling the tool, not writing prose — unless `CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` (then prose is the DEFAULT, not the tool) OR the documented failure fallback applies (then: prose with the mandatory triad — issue ELI10, per-choice Completeness, Recommendation + `(recommended)` — and a "reply with a letter" instruction, then STOP)
+- [ ] You are calling the tool, not writing prose — unless `CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` (then prose is the DEFAULT, not the tool) OR the documented failure fallback applies (then: the prose fallback's mandatory triad + a "reply with a letter" instruction, then STOP)
 - [ ] Non-ASCII characters (CJK / accents) written directly, NOT \u-escaped
 - [ ] If you had 5+ options, you split (or batched into ≤4-groups) — did NOT drop any
 - [ ] If you split, you checked dependencies between options before firing the chain

devex-review/SKILL.md

@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ If `SKILL_PREFIX` is `"true"`, suggest/invoke `/gstack-*` names. Disk paths stay
 
 Branch on the skill-start STATUS lines, in this order:
 
-1. **`CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` echoed** → do NOT call AskUserQuestion at all (neither native nor any `mcp__*__AskUserQuestion` variant): render EVERY decision brief as the **prose form** below and STOP. Proactive, not a failure reaction — Conductor disables native AUQ and its MCP variant is flaky (`[Tool result missing due to internal error]`). **Auto-decide preferences still apply first:** a surfaced `[plan-tune auto-decide] <id> → <option>` result means proceed with that option, no prose — enforced HERE since no tool call ever happens. Capture each Conductor prose brief with `bin/gstack-question-log` (the PostToolUse hook never fires on a prose path; `/plan-tune` learning depends on it).
+1. **`CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` echoed** → do NOT call AskUserQuestion at all (neither native nor any `mcp__*__AskUserQuestion` variant): render EVERY decision brief as the **prose form** below and STOP. Proactive, not a failure reaction — Conductor disables native AUQ and its MCP variant is flaky (`[Tool result missing due to internal error]`). **Auto-decide preferences still apply first** (failure-fallback item 1 below): proceed with a surfaced auto-decide option, no prose — enforced HERE since no tool call ever happens. Capture each Conductor prose brief with `bin/gstack-question-log` (the PostToolUse hook never fires on a prose path; `/plan-tune` learning depends on it).
 2. **Any `mcp__*__AskUserQuestion` variant in your tool list** → prefer it (hosts may disable native via `--disallowedTools`; calling native there silently fails). Same shape, same decision-brief format.
 3. **Unavailable (no variant) OR a call fails** → do NOT silently auto-decide or write the decision to the plan file as a substitute; follow the **failure fallback** below.
 
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ Branch on the skill-start STATUS lines, in this order:
 Tell three outcomes apart:
 
 1. **Auto-decide denial (NOT a failure).** The result contains `[plan-tune auto-decide] <id> → <option>` — the preference hook working as designed. Proceed with that option. Do NOT retry, do NOT fall back to prose.
-2. **Genuine failure** — no variant in your tool list, OR the variant is present but the call returns an error / missing result (MCP transport error, empty result, host bug — e.g. Conductor's MCP AskUserQuestion is flaky and returns `[Tool result missing due to internal error]`).
+2. **Genuine failure** — no variant in your tool list, OR the variant is present but the call returns an error / missing result (MCP transport error, empty result, host bug — e.g. Conductor's flaky MCP variant, see Tool resolution above).
    - If it was present and **errored** (not absent), retry the SAME call **once** — but only if no answer could have surfaced (a missing-result error can arrive after the user already saw the question; retrying would double-prompt, so if it may have reached them, treat as pending, don't retry).
    - Then branch on `SESSION_KIND` (echoed by the preamble; empty/absent ⇒ `interactive`):
      - `spawned` → defer to the **Spawned session** block: auto-choose the recommended option. Never prose, never BLOCKED.
@@ -97,8 +97,8 @@ Tell three outcomes apart:
 **Prose fallback — render the decision brief as a markdown message, not a tool call.** Same information as the tool format below, different structure (paragraphs, not ✅/❌ bullets). It MUST surface this triad:
 
 1. **A clear ELI10 of the issue itself** — plain English on what's being decided and why it matters (the question, not per-choice), naming the stakes. Lead with it.
-2. **Completeness scores per choice** — explicit `Completeness: X/10` on EACH choice (10 complete, 7 happy-path, 3 shortcut); use the kind-note when options differ in kind not coverage, but never silently drop the score.
-3. **The recommendation and why** — a `Recommendation: <choice> because <reason>` line plus the `(recommended)` marker on that choice.
+2. **Completeness scores per choice** — per the Completeness rule in the Format section below; never silently drop the score.
+3. **The recommendation and why** — the `Recommendation: <choice> because <reason>` line plus the `(recommended)` marker on that choice.
 
 Layout: a `D<N>` title + a one-line note to reply with a letter (in Conductor this is the normal path; elsewhere it means AskUserQuestion was unavailable or errored); the issue ELI10; the Recommendation line; then ONE paragraph per choice carrying its `(recommended)` marker, its `Completeness: X/10`, and 2-4 sentences of reasoning — never a bare bullet list; a closing `Net:` line. Split chains / 5+ options: one prose block per per-option call, in sequence. Then STOP and wait — the user's typed answer is the decision. In plan mode this satisfies end-of-turn like a tool call.
 
@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ Before calling AskUserQuestion, verify:
 - [ ] (recommended) label on one option (even for neutral-posture)
 - [ ] Dual-scale effort labels on effort-bearing options (human / CC)
 - [ ] Net line closes the decision
-- [ ] You are calling the tool, not writing prose — unless `CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` (then prose is the DEFAULT, not the tool) OR the documented failure fallback applies (then: prose with the mandatory triad — issue ELI10, per-choice Completeness, Recommendation + `(recommended)` — and a "reply with a letter" instruction, then STOP)
+- [ ] You are calling the tool, not writing prose — unless `CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` (then prose is the DEFAULT, not the tool) OR the documented failure fallback applies (then: the prose fallback's mandatory triad + a "reply with a letter" instruction, then STOP)
 - [ ] Non-ASCII characters (CJK / accents) written directly, NOT \u-escaped
 - [ ] If you had 5+ options, you split (or batched into ≤4-groups) — did NOT drop any
 - [ ] If you split, you checked dependencies between options before firing the chain

document-generate/SKILL.md

@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ If `SKILL_PREFIX` is `"true"`, suggest/invoke `/gstack-*` names. Disk paths stay
 
 Branch on the skill-start STATUS lines, in this order:
 
-1. **`CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` echoed** → do NOT call AskUserQuestion at all (neither native nor any `mcp__*__AskUserQuestion` variant): render EVERY decision brief as the **prose form** below and STOP. Proactive, not a failure reaction — Conductor disables native AUQ and its MCP variant is flaky (`[Tool result missing due to internal error]`). **Auto-decide preferences still apply first:** a surfaced `[plan-tune auto-decide] <id> → <option>` result means proceed with that option, no prose — enforced HERE since no tool call ever happens. Capture each Conductor prose brief with `bin/gstack-question-log` (the PostToolUse hook never fires on a prose path; `/plan-tune` learning depends on it).
+1. **`CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` echoed** → do NOT call AskUserQuestion at all (neither native nor any `mcp__*__AskUserQuestion` variant): render EVERY decision brief as the **prose form** below and STOP. Proactive, not a failure reaction — Conductor disables native AUQ and its MCP variant is flaky (`[Tool result missing due to internal error]`). **Auto-decide preferences still apply first** (failure-fallback item 1 below): proceed with a surfaced auto-decide option, no prose — enforced HERE since no tool call ever happens. Capture each Conductor prose brief with `bin/gstack-question-log` (the PostToolUse hook never fires on a prose path; `/plan-tune` learning depends on it).
 2. **Any `mcp__*__AskUserQuestion` variant in your tool list** → prefer it (hosts may disable native via `--disallowedTools`; calling native there silently fails). Same shape, same decision-brief format.
 3. **Unavailable (no variant) OR a call fails** → do NOT silently auto-decide or write the decision to the plan file as a substitute; follow the **failure fallback** below.
 
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ Branch on the skill-start STATUS lines, in this order:
 Tell three outcomes apart:
 
 1. **Auto-decide denial (NOT a failure).** The result contains `[plan-tune auto-decide] <id> → <option>` — the preference hook working as designed. Proceed with that option. Do NOT retry, do NOT fall back to prose.
-2. **Genuine failure** — no variant in your tool list, OR the variant is present but the call returns an error / missing result (MCP transport error, empty result, host bug — e.g. Conductor's MCP AskUserQuestion is flaky and returns `[Tool result missing due to internal error]`).
+2. **Genuine failure** — no variant in your tool list, OR the variant is present but the call returns an error / missing result (MCP transport error, empty result, host bug — e.g. Conductor's flaky MCP variant, see Tool resolution above).
    - If it was present and **errored** (not absent), retry the SAME call **once** — but only if no answer could have surfaced (a missing-result error can arrive after the user already saw the question; retrying would double-prompt, so if it may have reached them, treat as pending, don't retry).
    - Then branch on `SESSION_KIND` (echoed by the preamble; empty/absent ⇒ `interactive`):
      - `spawned` → defer to the **Spawned session** block: auto-choose the recommended option. Never prose, never BLOCKED.
@@ -97,8 +97,8 @@ Tell three outcomes apart:
 **Prose fallback — render the decision brief as a markdown message, not a tool call.** Same information as the tool format below, different structure (paragraphs, not ✅/❌ bullets). It MUST surface this triad:
 
 1. **A clear ELI10 of the issue itself** — plain English on what's being decided and why it matters (the question, not per-choice), naming the stakes. Lead with it.
-2. **Completeness scores per choice** — explicit `Completeness: X/10` on EACH choice (10 complete, 7 happy-path, 3 shortcut); use the kind-note when options differ in kind not coverage, but never silently drop the score.
-3. **The recommendation and why** — a `Recommendation: <choice> because <reason>` line plus the `(recommended)` marker on that choice.
+2. **Completeness scores per choice** — per the Completeness rule in the Format section below; never silently drop the score.
+3. **The recommendation and why** — the `Recommendation: <choice> because <reason>` line plus the `(recommended)` marker on that choice.
 
 Layout: a `D<N>` title + a one-line note to reply with a letter (in Conductor this is the normal path; elsewhere it means AskUserQuestion was unavailable or errored); the issue ELI10; the Recommendation line; then ONE paragraph per choice carrying its `(recommended)` marker, its `Completeness: X/10`, and 2-4 sentences of reasoning — never a bare bullet list; a closing `Net:` line. Split chains / 5+ options: one prose block per per-option call, in sequence. Then STOP and wait — the user's typed answer is the decision. In plan mode this satisfies end-of-turn like a tool call.
 
@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ Before calling AskUserQuestion, verify:
 - [ ] (recommended) label on one option (even for neutral-posture)
 - [ ] Dual-scale effort labels on effort-bearing options (human / CC)
 - [ ] Net line closes the decision
-- [ ] You are calling the tool, not writing prose — unless `CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` (then prose is the DEFAULT, not the tool) OR the documented failure fallback applies (then: prose with the mandatory triad — issue ELI10, per-choice Completeness, Recommendation + `(recommended)` — and a "reply with a letter" instruction, then STOP)
+- [ ] You are calling the tool, not writing prose — unless `CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` (then prose is the DEFAULT, not the tool) OR the documented failure fallback applies (then: the prose fallback's mandatory triad + a "reply with a letter" instruction, then STOP)
 - [ ] Non-ASCII characters (CJK / accents) written directly, NOT \u-escaped
 - [ ] If you had 5+ options, you split (or batched into ≤4-groups) — did NOT drop any
 - [ ] If you split, you checked dependencies between options before firing the chain

document-release/SKILL.md

@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ If `SKILL_PREFIX` is `"true"`, suggest/invoke `/gstack-*` names. Disk paths stay
 
 Branch on the skill-start STATUS lines, in this order:
 
-1. **`CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` echoed** → do NOT call AskUserQuestion at all (neither native nor any `mcp__*__AskUserQuestion` variant): render EVERY decision brief as the **prose form** below and STOP. Proactive, not a failure reaction — Conductor disables native AUQ and its MCP variant is flaky (`[Tool result missing due to internal error]`). **Auto-decide preferences still apply first:** a surfaced `[plan-tune auto-decide] <id> → <option>` result means proceed with that option, no prose — enforced HERE since no tool call ever happens. Capture each Conductor prose brief with `bin/gstack-question-log` (the PostToolUse hook never fires on a prose path; `/plan-tune` learning depends on it).
+1. **`CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` echoed** → do NOT call AskUserQuestion at all (neither native nor any `mcp__*__AskUserQuestion` variant): render EVERY decision brief as the **prose form** below and STOP. Proactive, not a failure reaction — Conductor disables native AUQ and its MCP variant is flaky (`[Tool result missing due to internal error]`). **Auto-decide preferences still apply first** (failure-fallback item 1 below): proceed with a surfaced auto-decide option, no prose — enforced HERE since no tool call ever happens. Capture each Conductor prose brief with `bin/gstack-question-log` (the PostToolUse hook never fires on a prose path; `/plan-tune` learning depends on it).
 2. **Any `mcp__*__AskUserQuestion` variant in your tool list** → prefer it (hosts may disable native via `--disallowedTools`; calling native there silently fails). Same shape, same decision-brief format.
 3. **Unavailable (no variant) OR a call fails** → do NOT silently auto-decide or write the decision to the plan file as a substitute; follow the **failure fallback** below.
 
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ Branch on the skill-start STATUS lines, in this order:
 Tell three outcomes apart:
 
 1. **Auto-decide denial (NOT a failure).** The result contains `[plan-tune auto-decide] <id> → <option>` — the preference hook working as designed. Proceed with that option. Do NOT retry, do NOT fall back to prose.
-2. **Genuine failure** — no variant in your tool list, OR the variant is present but the call returns an error / missing result (MCP transport error, empty result, host bug — e.g. Conductor's MCP AskUserQuestion is flaky and returns `[Tool result missing due to internal error]`).
+2. **Genuine failure** — no variant in your tool list, OR the variant is present but the call returns an error / missing result (MCP transport error, empty result, host bug — e.g. Conductor's flaky MCP variant, see Tool resolution above).
    - If it was present and **errored** (not absent), retry the SAME call **once** — but only if no answer could have surfaced (a missing-result error can arrive after the user already saw the question; retrying would double-prompt, so if it may have reached them, treat as pending, don't retry).
    - Then branch on `SESSION_KIND` (echoed by the preamble; empty/absent ⇒ `interactive`):
      - `spawned` → defer to the **Spawned session** block: auto-choose the recommended option. Never prose, never BLOCKED.
@@ -95,8 +95,8 @@ Tell three outcomes apart:
 **Prose fallback — render the decision brief as a markdown message, not a tool call.** Same information as the tool format below, different structure (paragraphs, not ✅/❌ bullets). It MUST surface this triad:
 
 1. **A clear ELI10 of the issue itself** — plain English on what's being decided and why it matters (the question, not per-choice), naming the stakes. Lead with it.
-2. **Completeness scores per choice** — explicit `Completeness: X/10` on EACH choice (10 complete, 7 happy-path, 3 shortcut); use the kind-note when options differ in kind not coverage, but never silently drop the score.
-3. **The recommendation and why** — a `Recommendation: <choice> because <reason>` line plus the `(recommended)` marker on that choice.
+2. **Completeness scores per choice** — per the Completeness rule in the Format section below; never silently drop the score.
+3. **The recommendation and why** — the `Recommendation: <choice> because <reason>` line plus the `(recommended)` marker on that choice.
 
 Layout: a `D<N>` title + a one-line note to reply with a letter (in Conductor this is the normal path; elsewhere it means AskUserQuestion was unavailable or errored); the issue ELI10; the Recommendation line; then ONE paragraph per choice carrying its `(recommended)` marker, its `Completeness: X/10`, and 2-4 sentences of reasoning — never a bare bullet list; a closing `Net:` line. Split chains / 5+ options: one prose block per per-option call, in sequence. Then STOP and wait — the user's typed answer is the decision. In plan mode this satisfies end-of-turn like a tool call.
 
@@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ Before calling AskUserQuestion, verify:
 - [ ] (recommended) label on one option (even for neutral-posture)
 - [ ] Dual-scale effort labels on effort-bearing options (human / CC)
 - [ ] Net line closes the decision
-- [ ] You are calling the tool, not writing prose — unless `CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` (then prose is the DEFAULT, not the tool) OR the documented failure fallback applies (then: prose with the mandatory triad — issue ELI10, per-choice Completeness, Recommendation + `(recommended)` — and a "reply with a letter" instruction, then STOP)
+- [ ] You are calling the tool, not writing prose — unless `CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` (then prose is the DEFAULT, not the tool) OR the documented failure fallback applies (then: the prose fallback's mandatory triad + a "reply with a letter" instruction, then STOP)
 - [ ] Non-ASCII characters (CJK / accents) written directly, NOT \u-escaped
 - [ ] If you had 5+ options, you split (or batched into ≤4-groups) — did NOT drop any
 - [ ] If you split, you checked dependencies between options before firing the chain

health/SKILL.md

@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ If `SKILL_PREFIX` is `"true"`, suggest/invoke `/gstack-*` names. Disk paths stay
 
 Branch on the skill-start STATUS lines, in this order:
 
-1. **`CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` echoed** → do NOT call AskUserQuestion at all (neither native nor any `mcp__*__AskUserQuestion` variant): render EVERY decision brief as the **prose form** below and STOP. Proactive, not a failure reaction — Conductor disables native AUQ and its MCP variant is flaky (`[Tool result missing due to internal error]`). **Auto-decide preferences still apply first:** a surfaced `[plan-tune auto-decide] <id> → <option>` result means proceed with that option, no prose — enforced HERE since no tool call ever happens. Capture each Conductor prose brief with `bin/gstack-question-log` (the PostToolUse hook never fires on a prose path; `/plan-tune` learning depends on it).
+1. **`CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` echoed** → do NOT call AskUserQuestion at all (neither native nor any `mcp__*__AskUserQuestion` variant): render EVERY decision brief as the **prose form** below and STOP. Proactive, not a failure reaction — Conductor disables native AUQ and its MCP variant is flaky (`[Tool result missing due to internal error]`). **Auto-decide preferences still apply first** (failure-fallback item 1 below): proceed with a surfaced auto-decide option, no prose — enforced HERE since no tool call ever happens. Capture each Conductor prose brief with `bin/gstack-question-log` (the PostToolUse hook never fires on a prose path; `/plan-tune` learning depends on it).
 2. **Any `mcp__*__AskUserQuestion` variant in your tool list** → prefer it (hosts may disable native via `--disallowedTools`; calling native there silently fails). Same shape, same decision-brief format.
 3. **Unavailable (no variant) OR a call fails** → do NOT silently auto-decide or write the decision to the plan file as a substitute; follow the **failure fallback** below.
 
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ Branch on the skill-start STATUS lines, in this order:
 Tell three outcomes apart:
 
 1. **Auto-decide denial (NOT a failure).** The result contains `[plan-tune auto-decide] <id> → <option>` — the preference hook working as designed. Proceed with that option. Do NOT retry, do NOT fall back to prose.
-2. **Genuine failure** — no variant in your tool list, OR the variant is present but the call returns an error / missing result (MCP transport error, empty result, host bug — e.g. Conductor's MCP AskUserQuestion is flaky and returns `[Tool result missing due to internal error]`).
+2. **Genuine failure** — no variant in your tool list, OR the variant is present but the call returns an error / missing result (MCP transport error, empty result, host bug — e.g. Conductor's flaky MCP variant, see Tool resolution above).
    - If it was present and **errored** (not absent), retry the SAME call **once** — but only if no answer could have surfaced (a missing-result error can arrive after the user already saw the question; retrying would double-prompt, so if it may have reached them, treat as pending, don't retry).
    - Then branch on `SESSION_KIND` (echoed by the preamble; empty/absent ⇒ `interactive`):
      - `spawned` → defer to the **Spawned session** block: auto-choose the recommended option. Never prose, never BLOCKED.
@@ -93,8 +93,8 @@ Tell three outcomes apart:
 **Prose fallback — render the decision brief as a markdown message, not a tool call.** Same information as the tool format below, different structure (paragraphs, not ✅/❌ bullets). It MUST surface this triad:
 
 1. **A clear ELI10 of the issue itself** — plain English on what's being decided and why it matters (the question, not per-choice), naming the stakes. Lead with it.
-2. **Completeness scores per choice** — explicit `Completeness: X/10` on EACH choice (10 complete, 7 happy-path, 3 shortcut); use the kind-note when options differ in kind not coverage, but never silently drop the score.
-3. **The recommendation and why** — a `Recommendation: <choice> because <reason>` line plus the `(recommended)` marker on that choice.
+2. **Completeness scores per choice** — per the Completeness rule in the Format section below; never silently drop the score.
+3. **The recommendation and why** — the `Recommendation: <choice> because <reason>` line plus the `(recommended)` marker on that choice.
 
 Layout: a `D<N>` title + a one-line note to reply with a letter (in Conductor this is the normal path; elsewhere it means AskUserQuestion was unavailable or errored); the issue ELI10; the Recommendation line; then ONE paragraph per choice carrying its `(recommended)` marker, its `Completeness: X/10`, and 2-4 sentences of reasoning — never a bare bullet list; a closing `Net:` line. Split chains / 5+ options: one prose block per per-option call, in sequence. Then STOP and wait — the user's typed answer is the decision. In plan mode this satisfies end-of-turn like a tool call.
 
@@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ Before calling AskUserQuestion, verify:
 - [ ] (recommended) label on one option (even for neutral-posture)
 - [ ] Dual-scale effort labels on effort-bearing options (human / CC)
 - [ ] Net line closes the decision
-- [ ] You are calling the tool, not writing prose — unless `CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` (then prose is the DEFAULT, not the tool) OR the documented failure fallback applies (then: prose with the mandatory triad — issue ELI10, per-choice Completeness, Recommendation + `(recommended)` — and a "reply with a letter" instruction, then STOP)
+- [ ] You are calling the tool, not writing prose — unless `CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` (then prose is the DEFAULT, not the tool) OR the documented failure fallback applies (then: the prose fallback's mandatory triad + a "reply with a letter" instruction, then STOP)
 - [ ] Non-ASCII characters (CJK / accents) written directly, NOT \u-escaped
 - [ ] If you had 5+ options, you split (or batched into ≤4-groups) — did NOT drop any
 - [ ] If you split, you checked dependencies between options before firing the chain

investigate/SKILL.md

@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ If `SKILL_PREFIX` is `"true"`, suggest/invoke `/gstack-*` names. Disk paths stay
 
 Branch on the skill-start STATUS lines, in this order:
 
-1. **`CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` echoed** → do NOT call AskUserQuestion at all (neither native nor any `mcp__*__AskUserQuestion` variant): render EVERY decision brief as the **prose form** below and STOP. Proactive, not a failure reaction — Conductor disables native AUQ and its MCP variant is flaky (`[Tool result missing due to internal error]`). **Auto-decide preferences still apply first:** a surfaced `[plan-tune auto-decide] <id> → <option>` result means proceed with that option, no prose — enforced HERE since no tool call ever happens. Capture each Conductor prose brief with `bin/gstack-question-log` (the PostToolUse hook never fires on a prose path; `/plan-tune` learning depends on it).
+1. **`CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` echoed** → do NOT call AskUserQuestion at all (neither native nor any `mcp__*__AskUserQuestion` variant): render EVERY decision brief as the **prose form** below and STOP. Proactive, not a failure reaction — Conductor disables native AUQ and its MCP variant is flaky (`[Tool result missing due to internal error]`). **Auto-decide preferences still apply first** (failure-fallback item 1 below): proceed with a surfaced auto-decide option, no prose — enforced HERE since no tool call ever happens. Capture each Conductor prose brief with `bin/gstack-question-log` (the PostToolUse hook never fires on a prose path; `/plan-tune` learning depends on it).
 2. **Any `mcp__*__AskUserQuestion` variant in your tool list** → prefer it (hosts may disable native via `--disallowedTools`; calling native there silently fails). Same shape, same decision-brief format.
 3. **Unavailable (no variant) OR a call fails** → do NOT silently auto-decide or write the decision to the plan file as a substitute; follow the **failure fallback** below.
 
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ Branch on the skill-start STATUS lines, in this order:
 Tell three outcomes apart:
 
 1. **Auto-decide denial (NOT a failure).** The result contains `[plan-tune auto-decide] <id> → <option>` — the preference hook working as designed. Proceed with that option. Do NOT retry, do NOT fall back to prose.
-2. **Genuine failure** — no variant in your tool list, OR the variant is present but the call returns an error / missing result (MCP transport error, empty result, host bug — e.g. Conductor's MCP AskUserQuestion is flaky and returns `[Tool result missing due to internal error]`).
+2. **Genuine failure** — no variant in your tool list, OR the variant is present but the call returns an error / missing result (MCP transport error, empty result, host bug — e.g. Conductor's flaky MCP variant, see Tool resolution above).
    - If it was present and **errored** (not absent), retry the SAME call **once** — but only if no answer could have surfaced (a missing-result error can arrive after the user already saw the question; retrying would double-prompt, so if it may have reached them, treat as pending, don't retry).
    - Then branch on `SESSION_KIND` (echoed by the preamble; empty/absent ⇒ `interactive`):
      - `spawned` → defer to the **Spawned session** block: auto-choose the recommended option. Never prose, never BLOCKED.
@@ -132,8 +132,8 @@ Tell three outcomes apart:
 **Prose fallback — render the decision brief as a markdown message, not a tool call.** Same information as the tool format below, different structure (paragraphs, not ✅/❌ bullets). It MUST surface this triad:
 
 1. **A clear ELI10 of the issue itself** — plain English on what's being decided and why it matters (the question, not per-choice), naming the stakes. Lead with it.
-2. **Completeness scores per choice** — explicit `Completeness: X/10` on EACH choice (10 complete, 7 happy-path, 3 shortcut); use the kind-note when options differ in kind not coverage, but never silently drop the score.
-3. **The recommendation and why** — a `Recommendation: <choice> because <reason>` line plus the `(recommended)` marker on that choice.
+2. **Completeness scores per choice** — per the Completeness rule in the Format section below; never silently drop the score.
+3. **The recommendation and why** — the `Recommendation: <choice> because <reason>` line plus the `(recommended)` marker on that choice.
 
 Layout: a `D<N>` title + a one-line note to reply with a letter (in Conductor this is the normal path; elsewhere it means AskUserQuestion was unavailable or errored); the issue ELI10; the Recommendation line; then ONE paragraph per choice carrying its `(recommended)` marker, its `Completeness: X/10`, and 2-4 sentences of reasoning — never a bare bullet list; a closing `Net:` line. Split chains / 5+ options: one prose block per per-option call, in sequence. Then STOP and wait — the user's typed answer is the decision. In plan mode this satisfies end-of-turn like a tool call.
 
@@ -212,7 +212,7 @@ Before calling AskUserQuestion, verify:
 - [ ] (recommended) label on one option (even for neutral-posture)
 - [ ] Dual-scale effort labels on effort-bearing options (human / CC)
 - [ ] Net line closes the decision
-- [ ] You are calling the tool, not writing prose — unless `CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` (then prose is the DEFAULT, not the tool) OR the documented failure fallback applies (then: prose with the mandatory triad — issue ELI10, per-choice Completeness, Recommendation + `(recommended)` — and a "reply with a letter" instruction, then STOP)
+- [ ] You are calling the tool, not writing prose — unless `CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` (then prose is the DEFAULT, not the tool) OR the documented failure fallback applies (then: the prose fallback's mandatory triad + a "reply with a letter" instruction, then STOP)
 - [ ] Non-ASCII characters (CJK / accents) written directly, NOT \u-escaped
 - [ ] If you had 5+ options, you split (or batched into ≤4-groups) — did NOT drop any
 - [ ] If you split, you checked dependencies between options before firing the chain

ios-clean/SKILL.md

@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ If `SKILL_PREFIX` is `"true"`, suggest/invoke `/gstack-*` names. Disk paths stay
 
 Branch on the skill-start STATUS lines, in this order:
 
-1. **`CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` echoed** → do NOT call AskUserQuestion at all (neither native nor any `mcp__*__AskUserQuestion` variant): render EVERY decision brief as the **prose form** below and STOP. Proactive, not a failure reaction — Conductor disables native AUQ and its MCP variant is flaky (`[Tool result missing due to internal error]`). **Auto-decide preferences still apply first:** a surfaced `[plan-tune auto-decide] <id> → <option>` result means proceed with that option, no prose — enforced HERE since no tool call ever happens. Capture each Conductor prose brief with `bin/gstack-question-log` (the PostToolUse hook never fires on a prose path; `/plan-tune` learning depends on it).
+1. **`CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` echoed** → do NOT call AskUserQuestion at all (neither native nor any `mcp__*__AskUserQuestion` variant): render EVERY decision brief as the **prose form** below and STOP. Proactive, not a failure reaction — Conductor disables native AUQ and its MCP variant is flaky (`[Tool result missing due to internal error]`). **Auto-decide preferences still apply first** (failure-fallback item 1 below): proceed with a surfaced auto-decide option, no prose — enforced HERE since no tool call ever happens. Capture each Conductor prose brief with `bin/gstack-question-log` (the PostToolUse hook never fires on a prose path; `/plan-tune` learning depends on it).
 2. **Any `mcp__*__AskUserQuestion` variant in your tool list** → prefer it (hosts may disable native via `--disallowedTools`; calling native there silently fails). Same shape, same decision-brief format.
 3. **Unavailable (no variant) OR a call fails** → do NOT silently auto-decide or write the decision to the plan file as a substitute; follow the **failure fallback** below.
 
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ Branch on the skill-start STATUS lines, in this order:
 Tell three outcomes apart:
 
 1. **Auto-decide denial (NOT a failure).** The result contains `[plan-tune auto-decide] <id> → <option>` — the preference hook working as designed. Proceed with that option. Do NOT retry, do NOT fall back to prose.
-2. **Genuine failure** — no variant in your tool list, OR the variant is present but the call returns an error / missing result (MCP transport error, empty result, host bug — e.g. Conductor's MCP AskUserQuestion is flaky and returns `[Tool result missing due to internal error]`).
+2. **Genuine failure** — no variant in your tool list, OR the variant is present but the call returns an error / missing result (MCP transport error, empty result, host bug — e.g. Conductor's flaky MCP variant, see Tool resolution above).
    - If it was present and **errored** (not absent), retry the SAME call **once** — but only if no answer could have surfaced (a missing-result error can arrive after the user already saw the question; retrying would double-prompt, so if it may have reached them, treat as pending, don't retry).
    - Then branch on `SESSION_KIND` (echoed by the preamble; empty/absent ⇒ `interactive`):
      - `spawned` → defer to the **Spawned session** block: auto-choose the recommended option. Never prose, never BLOCKED.
@@ -95,8 +95,8 @@ Tell three outcomes apart:
 **Prose fallback — render the decision brief as a markdown message, not a tool call.** Same information as the tool format below, different structure (paragraphs, not ✅/❌ bullets). It MUST surface this triad:
 
 1. **A clear ELI10 of the issue itself** — plain English on what's being decided and why it matters (the question, not per-choice), naming the stakes. Lead with it.
-2. **Completeness scores per choice** — explicit `Completeness: X/10` on EACH choice (10 complete, 7 happy-path, 3 shortcut); use the kind-note when options differ in kind not coverage, but never silently drop the score.
-3. **The recommendation and why** — a `Recommendation: <choice> because <reason>` line plus the `(recommended)` marker on that choice.
+2. **Completeness scores per choice** — per the Completeness rule in the Format section below; never silently drop the score.
+3. **The recommendation and why** — the `Recommendation: <choice> because <reason>` line plus the `(recommended)` marker on that choice.
 
 Layout: a `D<N>` title + a one-line note to reply with a letter (in Conductor this is the normal path; elsewhere it means AskUserQuestion was unavailable or errored); the issue ELI10; the Recommendation line; then ONE paragraph per choice carrying its `(recommended)` marker, its `Completeness: X/10`, and 2-4 sentences of reasoning — never a bare bullet list; a closing `Net:` line. Split chains / 5+ options: one prose block per per-option call, in sequence. Then STOP and wait — the user's typed answer is the decision. In plan mode this satisfies end-of-turn like a tool call.
 
@@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ Before calling AskUserQuestion, verify:
 - [ ] (recommended) label on one option (even for neutral-posture)
 - [ ] Dual-scale effort labels on effort-bearing options (human / CC)
 - [ ] Net line closes the decision
-- [ ] You are calling the tool, not writing prose — unless `CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` (then prose is the DEFAULT, not the tool) OR the documented failure fallback applies (then: prose with the mandatory triad — issue ELI10, per-choice Completeness, Recommendation + `(recommended)` — and a "reply with a letter" instruction, then STOP)
+- [ ] You are calling the tool, not writing prose — unless `CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` (then prose is the DEFAULT, not the tool) OR the documented failure fallback applies (then: the prose fallback's mandatory triad + a "reply with a letter" instruction, then STOP)
 - [ ] Non-ASCII characters (CJK / accents) written directly, NOT \u-escaped
 - [ ] If you had 5+ options, you split (or batched into ≤4-groups) — did NOT drop any
 - [ ] If you split, you checked dependencies between options before firing the chain

ios-design-review/SKILL.md

@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ If `SKILL_PREFIX` is `"true"`, suggest/invoke `/gstack-*` names. Disk paths stay
 
 Branch on the skill-start STATUS lines, in this order:
 
-1. **`CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` echoed** → do NOT call AskUserQuestion at all (neither native nor any `mcp__*__AskUserQuestion` variant): render EVERY decision brief as the **prose form** below and STOP. Proactive, not a failure reaction — Conductor disables native AUQ and its MCP variant is flaky (`[Tool result missing due to internal error]`). **Auto-decide preferences still apply first:** a surfaced `[plan-tune auto-decide] <id> → <option>` result means proceed with that option, no prose — enforced HERE since no tool call ever happens. Capture each Conductor prose brief with `bin/gstack-question-log` (the PostToolUse hook never fires on a prose path; `/plan-tune` learning depends on it).
+1. **`CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` echoed** → do NOT call AskUserQuestion at all (neither native nor any `mcp__*__AskUserQuestion` variant): render EVERY decision brief as the **prose form** below and STOP. Proactive, not a failure reaction — Conductor disables native AUQ and its MCP variant is flaky (`[Tool result missing due to internal error]`). **Auto-decide preferences still apply first** (failure-fallback item 1 below): proceed with a surfaced auto-decide option, no prose — enforced HERE since no tool call ever happens. Capture each Conductor prose brief with `bin/gstack-question-log` (the PostToolUse hook never fires on a prose path; `/plan-tune` learning depends on it).
 2. **Any `mcp__*__AskUserQuestion` variant in your tool list** → prefer it (hosts may disable native via `--disallowedTools`; calling native there silently fails). Same shape, same decision-brief format.
 3. **Unavailable (no variant) OR a call fails** → do NOT silently auto-decide or write the decision to the plan file as a substitute; follow the **failure fallback** below.
 
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ Branch on the skill-start STATUS lines, in this order:
 Tell three outcomes apart:
 
 1. **Auto-decide denial (NOT a failure).** The result contains `[plan-tune auto-decide] <id> → <option>` — the preference hook working as designed. Proceed with that option. Do NOT retry, do NOT fall back to prose.
-2. **Genuine failure** — no variant in your tool list, OR the variant is present but the call returns an error / missing result (MCP transport error, empty result, host bug — e.g. Conductor's MCP AskUserQuestion is flaky and returns `[Tool result missing due to internal error]`).
+2. **Genuine failure** — no variant in your tool list, OR the variant is present but the call returns an error / missing result (MCP transport error, empty result, host bug — e.g. Conductor's flaky MCP variant, see Tool resolution above).
    - If it was present and **errored** (not absent), retry the SAME call **once** — but only if no answer could have surfaced (a missing-result error can arrive after the user already saw the question; retrying would double-prompt, so if it may have reached them, treat as pending, don't retry).
    - Then branch on `SESSION_KIND` (echoed by the preamble; empty/absent ⇒ `interactive`):
      - `spawned` → defer to the **Spawned session** block: auto-choose the recommended option. Never prose, never BLOCKED.
@@ -97,8 +97,8 @@ Tell three outcomes apart:
 **Prose fallback — render the decision brief as a markdown message, not a tool call.** Same information as the tool format below, different structure (paragraphs, not ✅/❌ bullets). It MUST surface this triad:
 
 1. **A clear ELI10 of the issue itself** — plain English on what's being decided and why it matters (the question, not per-choice), naming the stakes. Lead with it.
-2. **Completeness scores per choice** — explicit `Completeness: X/10` on EACH choice (10 complete, 7 happy-path, 3 shortcut); use the kind-note when options differ in kind not coverage, but never silently drop the score.
-3. **The recommendation and why** — a `Recommendation: <choice> because <reason>` line plus the `(recommended)` marker on that choice.
+2. **Completeness scores per choice** — per the Completeness rule in the Format section below; never silently drop the score.
+3. **The recommendation and why** — the `Recommendation: <choice> because <reason>` line plus the `(recommended)` marker on that choice.
 
 Layout: a `D<N>` title + a one-line note to reply with a letter (in Conductor this is the normal path; elsewhere it means AskUserQuestion was unavailable or errored); the issue ELI10; the Recommendation line; then ONE paragraph per choice carrying its `(recommended)` marker, its `Completeness: X/10`, and 2-4 sentences of reasoning — never a bare bullet list; a closing `Net:` line. Split chains / 5+ options: one prose block per per-option call, in sequence. Then STOP and wait — the user's typed answer is the decision. In plan mode this satisfies end-of-turn like a tool call.
 
@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ Before calling AskUserQuestion, verify:
 - [ ] (recommended) label on one option (even for neutral-posture)
 - [ ] Dual-scale effort labels on effort-bearing options (human / CC)
 - [ ] Net line closes the decision
-- [ ] You are calling the tool, not writing prose — unless `CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` (then prose is the DEFAULT, not the tool) OR the documented failure fallback applies (then: prose with the mandatory triad — issue ELI10, per-choice Completeness, Recommendation + `(recommended)` — and a "reply with a letter" instruction, then STOP)
+- [ ] You are calling the tool, not writing prose — unless `CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` (then prose is the DEFAULT, not the tool) OR the documented failure fallback applies (then: the prose fallback's mandatory triad + a "reply with a letter" instruction, then STOP)
 - [ ] Non-ASCII characters (CJK / accents) written directly, NOT \u-escaped
 - [ ] If you had 5+ options, you split (or batched into ≤4-groups) — did NOT drop any
 - [ ] If you split, you checked dependencies between options before firing the chain

ios-fix/SKILL.md

@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ If `SKILL_PREFIX` is `"true"`, suggest/invoke `/gstack-*` names. Disk paths stay
 
 Branch on the skill-start STATUS lines, in this order:
 
-1. **`CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` echoed** → do NOT call AskUserQuestion at all (neither native nor any `mcp__*__AskUserQuestion` variant): render EVERY decision brief as the **prose form** below and STOP. Proactive, not a failure reaction — Conductor disables native AUQ and its MCP variant is flaky (`[Tool result missing due to internal error]`). **Auto-decide preferences still apply first:** a surfaced `[plan-tune auto-decide] <id> → <option>` result means proceed with that option, no prose — enforced HERE since no tool call ever happens. Capture each Conductor prose brief with `bin/gstack-question-log` (the PostToolUse hook never fires on a prose path; `/plan-tune` learning depends on it).
+1. **`CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` echoed** → do NOT call AskUserQuestion at all (neither native nor any `mcp__*__AskUserQuestion` variant): render EVERY decision brief as the **prose form** below and STOP. Proactive, not a failure reaction — Conductor disables native AUQ and its MCP variant is flaky (`[Tool result missing due to internal error]`). **Auto-decide preferences still apply first** (failure-fallback item 1 below): proceed with a surfaced auto-decide option, no prose — enforced HERE since no tool call ever happens. Capture each Conductor prose brief with `bin/gstack-question-log` (the PostToolUse hook never fires on a prose path; `/plan-tune` learning depends on it).
 2. **Any `mcp__*__AskUserQuestion` variant in your tool list** → prefer it (hosts may disable native via `--disallowedTools`; calling native there silently fails). Same shape, same decision-brief format.
 3. **Unavailable (no variant) OR a call fails** → do NOT silently auto-decide or write the decision to the plan file as a substitute; follow the **failure fallback** below.
 
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ Branch on the skill-start STATUS lines, in this order:
 Tell three outcomes apart:
 
 1. **Auto-decide denial (NOT a failure).** The result contains `[plan-tune auto-decide] <id> → <option>` — the preference hook working as designed. Proceed with that option. Do NOT retry, do NOT fall back to prose.
-2. **Genuine failure** — no variant in your tool list, OR the variant is present but the call returns an error / missing result (MCP transport error, empty result, host bug — e.g. Conductor's MCP AskUserQuestion is flaky and returns `[Tool result missing due to internal error]`).
+2. **Genuine failure** — no variant in your tool list, OR the variant is present but the call returns an error / missing result (MCP transport error, empty result, host bug — e.g. Conductor's flaky MCP variant, see Tool resolution above).
    - If it was present and **errored** (not absent), retry the SAME call **once** — but only if no answer could have surfaced (a missing-result error can arrive after the user already saw the question; retrying would double-prompt, so if it may have reached them, treat as pending, don't retry).
    - Then branch on `SESSION_KIND` (echoed by the preamble; empty/absent ⇒ `interactive`):
      - `spawned` → defer to the **Spawned session** block: auto-choose the recommended option. Never prose, never BLOCKED.
@@ -98,8 +98,8 @@ Tell three outcomes apart:
 **Prose fallback — render the decision brief as a markdown message, not a tool call.** Same information as the tool format below, different structure (paragraphs, not ✅/❌ bullets). It MUST surface this triad:
 
 1. **A clear ELI10 of the issue itself** — plain English on what's being decided and why it matters (the question, not per-choice), naming the stakes. Lead with it.
-2. **Completeness scores per choice** — explicit `Completeness: X/10` on EACH choice (10 complete, 7 happy-path, 3 shortcut); use the kind-note when options differ in kind not coverage, but never silently drop the score.
-3. **The recommendation and why** — a `Recommendation: <choice> because <reason>` line plus the `(recommended)` marker on that choice.
+2. **Completeness scores per choice** — per the Completeness rule in the Format section below; never silently drop the score.
+3. **The recommendation and why** — the `Recommendation: <choice> because <reason>` line plus the `(recommended)` marker on that choice.
 
 Layout: a `D<N>` title + a one-line note to reply with a letter (in Conductor this is the normal path; elsewhere it means AskUserQuestion was unavailable or errored); the issue ELI10; the Recommendation line; then ONE paragraph per choice carrying its `(recommended)` marker, its `Completeness: X/10`, and 2-4 sentences of reasoning — never a bare bullet list; a closing `Net:` line. Split chains / 5+ options: one prose block per per-option call, in sequence. Then STOP and wait — the user's typed answer is the decision. In plan mode this satisfies end-of-turn like a tool call.
 
@@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ Before calling AskUserQuestion, verify:
 - [ ] (recommended) label on one option (even for neutral-posture)
 - [ ] Dual-scale effort labels on effort-bearing options (human / CC)
 - [ ] Net line closes the decision
-- [ ] You are calling the tool, not writing prose — unless `CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` (then prose is the DEFAULT, not the tool) OR the documented failure fallback applies (then: prose with the mandatory triad — issue ELI10, per-choice Completeness, Recommendation + `(recommended)` — and a "reply with a letter" instruction, then STOP)
+- [ ] You are calling the tool, not writing prose — unless `CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` (then prose is the DEFAULT, not the tool) OR the documented failure fallback applies (then: the prose fallback's mandatory triad + a "reply with a letter" instruction, then STOP)
 - [ ] Non-ASCII characters (CJK / accents) written directly, NOT \u-escaped
 - [ ] If you had 5+ options, you split (or batched into ≤4-groups) — did NOT drop any
 - [ ] If you split, you checked dependencies between options before firing the chain

ios-qa/SKILL.md

@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ If `SKILL_PREFIX` is `"true"`, suggest/invoke `/gstack-*` names. Disk paths stay
 
 Branch on the skill-start STATUS lines, in this order:
 
-1. **`CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` echoed** → do NOT call AskUserQuestion at all (neither native nor any `mcp__*__AskUserQuestion` variant): render EVERY decision brief as the **prose form** below and STOP. Proactive, not a failure reaction — Conductor disables native AUQ and its MCP variant is flaky (`[Tool result missing due to internal error]`). **Auto-decide preferences still apply first:** a surfaced `[plan-tune auto-decide] <id> → <option>` result means proceed with that option, no prose — enforced HERE since no tool call ever happens. Capture each Conductor prose brief with `bin/gstack-question-log` (the PostToolUse hook never fires on a prose path; `/plan-tune` learning depends on it).
+1. **`CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` echoed** → do NOT call AskUserQuestion at all (neither native nor any `mcp__*__AskUserQuestion` variant): render EVERY decision brief as the **prose form** below and STOP. Proactive, not a failure reaction — Conductor disables native AUQ and its MCP variant is flaky (`[Tool result missing due to internal error]`). **Auto-decide preferences still apply first** (failure-fallback item 1 below): proceed with a surfaced auto-decide option, no prose — enforced HERE since no tool call ever happens. Capture each Conductor prose brief with `bin/gstack-question-log` (the PostToolUse hook never fires on a prose path; `/plan-tune` learning depends on it).
 2. **Any `mcp__*__AskUserQuestion` variant in your tool list** → prefer it (hosts may disable native via `--disallowedTools`; calling native there silently fails). Same shape, same decision-brief format.
 3. **Unavailable (no variant) OR a call fails** → do NOT silently auto-decide or write the decision to the plan file as a substitute; follow the **failure fallback** below.
 
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ Branch on the skill-start STATUS lines, in this order:
 Tell three outcomes apart:
 
 1. **Auto-decide denial (NOT a failure).** The result contains `[plan-tune auto-decide] <id> → <option>` — the preference hook working as designed. Proceed with that option. Do NOT retry, do NOT fall back to prose.
-2. **Genuine failure** — no variant in your tool list, OR the variant is present but the call returns an error / missing result (MCP transport error, empty result, host bug — e.g. Conductor's MCP AskUserQuestion is flaky and returns `[Tool result missing due to internal error]`).
+2. **Genuine failure** — no variant in your tool list, OR the variant is present but the call returns an error / missing result (MCP transport error, empty result, host bug — e.g. Conductor's flaky MCP variant, see Tool resolution above).
    - If it was present and **errored** (not absent), retry the SAME call **once** — but only if no answer could have surfaced (a missing-result error can arrive after the user already saw the question; retrying would double-prompt, so if it may have reached them, treat as pending, don't retry).
    - Then branch on `SESSION_KIND` (echoed by the preamble; empty/absent ⇒ `interactive`):
      - `spawned` → defer to the **Spawned session** block: auto-choose the recommended option. Never prose, never BLOCKED.
@@ -101,8 +101,8 @@ Tell three outcomes apart:
 **Prose fallback — render the decision brief as a markdown message, not a tool call.** Same information as the tool format below, different structure (paragraphs, not ✅/❌ bullets). It MUST surface this triad:
 
 1. **A clear ELI10 of the issue itself** — plain English on what's being decided and why it matters (the question, not per-choice), naming the stakes. Lead with it.
-2. **Completeness scores per choice** — explicit `Completeness: X/10` on EACH choice (10 complete, 7 happy-path, 3 shortcut); use the kind-note when options differ in kind not coverage, but never silently drop the score.
-3. **The recommendation and why** — a `Recommendation: <choice> because <reason>` line plus the `(recommended)` marker on that choice.
+2. **Completeness scores per choice** — per the Completeness rule in the Format section below; never silently drop the score.
+3. **The recommendation and why** — the `Recommendation: <choice> because <reason>` line plus the `(recommended)` marker on that choice.
 
 Layout: a `D<N>` title + a one-line note to reply with a letter (in Conductor this is the normal path; elsewhere it means AskUserQuestion was unavailable or errored); the issue ELI10; the Recommendation line; then ONE paragraph per choice carrying its `(recommended)` marker, its `Completeness: X/10`, and 2-4 sentences of reasoning — never a bare bullet list; a closing `Net:` line. Split chains / 5+ options: one prose block per per-option call, in sequence. Then STOP and wait — the user's typed answer is the decision. In plan mode this satisfies end-of-turn like a tool call.
 
@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ Before calling AskUserQuestion, verify:
 - [ ] (recommended) label on one option (even for neutral-posture)
 - [ ] Dual-scale effort labels on effort-bearing options (human / CC)
 - [ ] Net line closes the decision
-- [ ] You are calling the tool, not writing prose — unless `CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` (then prose is the DEFAULT, not the tool) OR the documented failure fallback applies (then: prose with the mandatory triad — issue ELI10, per-choice Completeness, Recommendation + `(recommended)` — and a "reply with a letter" instruction, then STOP)
+- [ ] You are calling the tool, not writing prose — unless `CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` (then prose is the DEFAULT, not the tool) OR the documented failure fallback applies (then: the prose fallback's mandatory triad + a "reply with a letter" instruction, then STOP)
 - [ ] Non-ASCII characters (CJK / accents) written directly, NOT \u-escaped
 - [ ] If you had 5+ options, you split (or batched into ≤4-groups) — did NOT drop any
 - [ ] If you split, you checked dependencies between options before firing the chain

ios-sync/SKILL.md

@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ If `SKILL_PREFIX` is `"true"`, suggest/invoke `/gstack-*` names. Disk paths stay
 
 Branch on the skill-start STATUS lines, in this order:
 
-1. **`CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` echoed** → do NOT call AskUserQuestion at all (neither native nor any `mcp__*__AskUserQuestion` variant): render EVERY decision brief as the **prose form** below and STOP. Proactive, not a failure reaction — Conductor disables native AUQ and its MCP variant is flaky (`[Tool result missing due to internal error]`). **Auto-decide preferences still apply first:** a surfaced `[plan-tune auto-decide] <id> → <option>` result means proceed with that option, no prose — enforced HERE since no tool call ever happens. Capture each Conductor prose brief with `bin/gstack-question-log` (the PostToolUse hook never fires on a prose path; `/plan-tune` learning depends on it).
+1. **`CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` echoed** → do NOT call AskUserQuestion at all (neither native nor any `mcp__*__AskUserQuestion` variant): render EVERY decision brief as the **prose form** below and STOP. Proactive, not a failure reaction — Conductor disables native AUQ and its MCP variant is flaky (`[Tool result missing due to internal error]`). **Auto-decide preferences still apply first** (failure-fallback item 1 below): proceed with a surfaced auto-decide option, no prose — enforced HERE since no tool call ever happens. Capture each Conductor prose brief with `bin/gstack-question-log` (the PostToolUse hook never fires on a prose path; `/plan-tune` learning depends on it).
 2. **Any `mcp__*__AskUserQuestion` variant in your tool list** → prefer it (hosts may disable native via `--disallowedTools`; calling native there silently fails). Same shape, same decision-brief format.
 3. **Unavailable (no variant) OR a call fails** → do NOT silently auto-decide or write the decision to the plan file as a substitute; follow the **failure fallback** below.
 
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ Branch on the skill-start STATUS lines, in this order:
 Tell three outcomes apart:
 
 1. **Auto-decide denial (NOT a failure).** The result contains `[plan-tune auto-decide] <id> → <option>` — the preference hook working as designed. Proceed with that option. Do NOT retry, do NOT fall back to prose.
-2. **Genuine failure** — no variant in your tool list, OR the variant is present but the call returns an error / missing result (MCP transport error, empty result, host bug — e.g. Conductor's MCP AskUserQuestion is flaky and returns `[Tool result missing due to internal error]`).
+2. **Genuine failure** — no variant in your tool list, OR the variant is present but the call returns an error / missing result (MCP transport error, empty result, host bug — e.g. Conductor's flaky MCP variant, see Tool resolution above).
    - If it was present and **errored** (not absent), retry the SAME call **once** — but only if no answer could have surfaced (a missing-result error can arrive after the user already saw the question; retrying would double-prompt, so if it may have reached them, treat as pending, don't retry).
    - Then branch on `SESSION_KIND` (echoed by the preamble; empty/absent ⇒ `interactive`):
      - `spawned` → defer to the **Spawned session** block: auto-choose the recommended option. Never prose, never BLOCKED.
@@ -95,8 +95,8 @@ Tell three outcomes apart:
 **Prose fallback — render the decision brief as a markdown message, not a tool call.** Same information as the tool format below, different structure (paragraphs, not ✅/❌ bullets). It MUST surface this triad:
 
 1. **A clear ELI10 of the issue itself** — plain English on what's being decided and why it matters (the question, not per-choice), naming the stakes. Lead with it.
-2. **Completeness scores per choice** — explicit `Completeness: X/10` on EACH choice (10 complete, 7 happy-path, 3 shortcut); use the kind-note when options differ in kind not coverage, but never silently drop the score.
-3. **The recommendation and why** — a `Recommendation: <choice> because <reason>` line plus the `(recommended)` marker on that choice.
+2. **Completeness scores per choice** — per the Completeness rule in the Format section below; never silently drop the score.
+3. **The recommendation and why** — the `Recommendation: <choice> because <reason>` line plus the `(recommended)` marker on that choice.
 
 Layout: a `D<N>` title + a one-line note to reply with a letter (in Conductor this is the normal path; elsewhere it means AskUserQuestion was unavailable or errored); the issue ELI10; the Recommendation line; then ONE paragraph per choice carrying its `(recommended)` marker, its `Completeness: X/10`, and 2-4 sentences of reasoning — never a bare bullet list; a closing `Net:` line. Split chains / 5+ options: one prose block per per-option call, in sequence. Then STOP and wait — the user's typed answer is the decision. In plan mode this satisfies end-of-turn like a tool call.
 
@@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ Before calling AskUserQuestion, verify:
 - [ ] (recommended) label on one option (even for neutral-posture)
 - [ ] Dual-scale effort labels on effort-bearing options (human / CC)
 - [ ] Net line closes the decision
-- [ ] You are calling the tool, not writing prose — unless `CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` (then prose is the DEFAULT, not the tool) OR the documented failure fallback applies (then: prose with the mandatory triad — issue ELI10, per-choice Completeness, Recommendation + `(recommended)` — and a "reply with a letter" instruction, then STOP)
+- [ ] You are calling the tool, not writing prose — unless `CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` (then prose is the DEFAULT, not the tool) OR the documented failure fallback applies (then: the prose fallback's mandatory triad + a "reply with a letter" instruction, then STOP)
 - [ ] Non-ASCII characters (CJK / accents) written directly, NOT \u-escaped
 - [ ] If you had 5+ options, you split (or batched into ≤4-groups) — did NOT drop any
 - [ ] If you split, you checked dependencies between options before firing the chain

land-and-deploy/SKILL.md

@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ If `SKILL_PREFIX` is `"true"`, suggest/invoke `/gstack-*` names. Disk paths stay
 
 Branch on the skill-start STATUS lines, in this order:
 
-1. **`CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` echoed** → do NOT call AskUserQuestion at all (neither native nor any `mcp__*__AskUserQuestion` variant): render EVERY decision brief as the **prose form** below and STOP. Proactive, not a failure reaction — Conductor disables native AUQ and its MCP variant is flaky (`[Tool result missing due to internal error]`). **Auto-decide preferences still apply first:** a surfaced `[plan-tune auto-decide] <id> → <option>` result means proceed with that option, no prose — enforced HERE since no tool call ever happens. Capture each Conductor prose brief with `bin/gstack-question-log` (the PostToolUse hook never fires on a prose path; `/plan-tune` learning depends on it).
+1. **`CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` echoed** → do NOT call AskUserQuestion at all (neither native nor any `mcp__*__AskUserQuestion` variant): render EVERY decision brief as the **prose form** below and STOP. Proactive, not a failure reaction — Conductor disables native AUQ and its MCP variant is flaky (`[Tool result missing due to internal error]`). **Auto-decide preferences still apply first** (failure-fallback item 1 below): proceed with a surfaced auto-decide option, no prose — enforced HERE since no tool call ever happens. Capture each Conductor prose brief with `bin/gstack-question-log` (the PostToolUse hook never fires on a prose path; `/plan-tune` learning depends on it).
 2. **Any `mcp__*__AskUserQuestion` variant in your tool list** → prefer it (hosts may disable native via `--disallowedTools`; calling native there silently fails). Same shape, same decision-brief format.
 3. **Unavailable (no variant) OR a call fails** → do NOT silently auto-decide or write the decision to the plan file as a substitute; follow the **failure fallback** below.
 
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ Branch on the skill-start STATUS lines, in this order:
 Tell three outcomes apart:
 
 1. **Auto-decide denial (NOT a failure).** The result contains `[plan-tune auto-decide] <id> → <option>` — the preference hook working as designed. Proceed with that option. Do NOT retry, do NOT fall back to prose.
-2. **Genuine failure** — no variant in your tool list, OR the variant is present but the call returns an error / missing result (MCP transport error, empty result, host bug — e.g. Conductor's MCP AskUserQuestion is flaky and returns `[Tool result missing due to internal error]`).
+2. **Genuine failure** — no variant in your tool list, OR the variant is present but the call returns an error / missing result (MCP transport error, empty result, host bug — e.g. Conductor's flaky MCP variant, see Tool resolution above).
    - If it was present and **errored** (not absent), retry the SAME call **once** — but only if no answer could have surfaced (a missing-result error can arrive after the user already saw the question; retrying would double-prompt, so if it may have reached them, treat as pending, don't retry).
    - Then branch on `SESSION_KIND` (echoed by the preamble; empty/absent ⇒ `interactive`):
      - `spawned` → defer to the **Spawned session** block: auto-choose the recommended option. Never prose, never BLOCKED.
@@ -90,8 +90,8 @@ Tell three outcomes apart:
 **Prose fallback — render the decision brief as a markdown message, not a tool call.** Same information as the tool format below, different structure (paragraphs, not ✅/❌ bullets). It MUST surface this triad:
 
 1. **A clear ELI10 of the issue itself** — plain English on what's being decided and why it matters (the question, not per-choice), naming the stakes. Lead with it.
-2. **Completeness scores per choice** — explicit `Completeness: X/10` on EACH choice (10 complete, 7 happy-path, 3 shortcut); use the kind-note when options differ in kind not coverage, but never silently drop the score.
-3. **The recommendation and why** — a `Recommendation: <choice> because <reason>` line plus the `(recommended)` marker on that choice.
+2. **Completeness scores per choice** — per the Completeness rule in the Format section below; never silently drop the score.
+3. **The recommendation and why** — the `Recommendation: <choice> because <reason>` line plus the `(recommended)` marker on that choice.
 
 Layout: a `D<N>` title + a one-line note to reply with a letter (in Conductor this is the normal path; elsewhere it means AskUserQuestion was unavailable or errored); the issue ELI10; the Recommendation line; then ONE paragraph per choice carrying its `(recommended)` marker, its `Completeness: X/10`, and 2-4 sentences of reasoning — never a bare bullet list; a closing `Net:` line. Split chains / 5+ options: one prose block per per-option call, in sequence. Then STOP and wait — the user's typed answer is the decision. In plan mode this satisfies end-of-turn like a tool call.
 
@@ -170,7 +170,7 @@ Before calling AskUserQuestion, verify:
 - [ ] (recommended) label on one option (even for neutral-posture)
 - [ ] Dual-scale effort labels on effort-bearing options (human / CC)
 - [ ] Net line closes the decision
-- [ ] You are calling the tool, not writing prose — unless `CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` (then prose is the DEFAULT, not the tool) OR the documented failure fallback applies (then: prose with the mandatory triad — issue ELI10, per-choice Completeness, Recommendation + `(recommended)` — and a "reply with a letter" instruction, then STOP)
+- [ ] You are calling the tool, not writing prose — unless `CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` (then prose is the DEFAULT, not the tool) OR the documented failure fallback applies (then: the prose fallback's mandatory triad + a "reply with a letter" instruction, then STOP)
 - [ ] Non-ASCII characters (CJK / accents) written directly, NOT \u-escaped
 - [ ] If you had 5+ options, you split (or batched into ≤4-groups) — did NOT drop any
 - [ ] If you split, you checked dependencies between options before firing the chain

landing-report/SKILL.md

@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ If `SKILL_PREFIX` is `"true"`, suggest/invoke `/gstack-*` names. Disk paths stay
 
 Branch on the skill-start STATUS lines, in this order:
 
-1. **`CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` echoed** → do NOT call AskUserQuestion at all (neither native nor any `mcp__*__AskUserQuestion` variant): render EVERY decision brief as the **prose form** below and STOP. Proactive, not a failure reaction — Conductor disables native AUQ and its MCP variant is flaky (`[Tool result missing due to internal error]`). **Auto-decide preferences still apply first:** a surfaced `[plan-tune auto-decide] <id> → <option>` result means proceed with that option, no prose — enforced HERE since no tool call ever happens. Capture each Conductor prose brief with `bin/gstack-question-log` (the PostToolUse hook never fires on a prose path; `/plan-tune` learning depends on it).
+1. **`CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` echoed** → do NOT call AskUserQuestion at all (neither native nor any `mcp__*__AskUserQuestion` variant): render EVERY decision brief as the **prose form** below and STOP. Proactive, not a failure reaction — Conductor disables native AUQ and its MCP variant is flaky (`[Tool result missing due to internal error]`). **Auto-decide preferences still apply first** (failure-fallback item 1 below): proceed with a surfaced auto-decide option, no prose — enforced HERE since no tool call ever happens. Capture each Conductor prose brief with `bin/gstack-question-log` (the PostToolUse hook never fires on a prose path; `/plan-tune` learning depends on it).
 2. **Any `mcp__*__AskUserQuestion` variant in your tool list** → prefer it (hosts may disable native via `--disallowedTools`; calling native there silently fails). Same shape, same decision-brief format.
 3. **Unavailable (no variant) OR a call fails** → do NOT silently auto-decide or write the decision to the plan file as a substitute; follow the **failure fallback** below.
 
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ Branch on the skill-start STATUS lines, in this order:
 Tell three outcomes apart:
 
 1. **Auto-decide denial (NOT a failure).** The result contains `[plan-tune auto-decide] <id> → <option>` — the preference hook working as designed. Proceed with that option. Do NOT retry, do NOT fall back to prose.
-2. **Genuine failure** — no variant in your tool list, OR the variant is present but the call returns an error / missing result (MCP transport error, empty result, host bug — e.g. Conductor's MCP AskUserQuestion is flaky and returns `[Tool result missing due to internal error]`).
+2. **Genuine failure** — no variant in your tool list, OR the variant is present but the call returns an error / missing result (MCP transport error, empty result, host bug — e.g. Conductor's flaky MCP variant, see Tool resolution above).
    - If it was present and **errored** (not absent), retry the SAME call **once** — but only if no answer could have surfaced (a missing-result error can arrive after the user already saw the question; retrying would double-prompt, so if it may have reached them, treat as pending, don't retry).
    - Then branch on `SESSION_KIND` (echoed by the preamble; empty/absent ⇒ `interactive`):
      - `spawned` → defer to the **Spawned session** block: auto-choose the recommended option. Never prose, never BLOCKED.
@@ -92,8 +92,8 @@ Tell three outcomes apart:
 **Prose fallback — render the decision brief as a markdown message, not a tool call.** Same information as the tool format below, different structure (paragraphs, not ✅/❌ bullets). It MUST surface this triad:
 
 1. **A clear ELI10 of the issue itself** — plain English on what's being decided and why it matters (the question, not per-choice), naming the stakes. Lead with it.
-2. **Completeness scores per choice** — explicit `Completeness: X/10` on EACH choice (10 complete, 7 happy-path, 3 shortcut); use the kind-note when options differ in kind not coverage, but never silently drop the score.
-3. **The recommendation and why** — a `Recommendation: <choice> because <reason>` line plus the `(recommended)` marker on that choice.
+2. **Completeness scores per choice** — per the Completeness rule in the Format section below; never silently drop the score.
+3. **The recommendation and why** — the `Recommendation: <choice> because <reason>` line plus the `(recommended)` marker on that choice.
 
 Layout: a `D<N>` title + a one-line note to reply with a letter (in Conductor this is the normal path; elsewhere it means AskUserQuestion was unavailable or errored); the issue ELI10; the Recommendation line; then ONE paragraph per choice carrying its `(recommended)` marker, its `Completeness: X/10`, and 2-4 sentences of reasoning — never a bare bullet list; a closing `Net:` line. Split chains / 5+ options: one prose block per per-option call, in sequence. Then STOP and wait — the user's typed answer is the decision. In plan mode this satisfies end-of-turn like a tool call.
 
@@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ Before calling AskUserQuestion, verify:
 - [ ] (recommended) label on one option (even for neutral-posture)
 - [ ] Dual-scale effort labels on effort-bearing options (human / CC)
 - [ ] Net line closes the decision
-- [ ] You are calling the tool, not writing prose — unless `CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` (then prose is the DEFAULT, not the tool) OR the documented failure fallback applies (then: prose with the mandatory triad — issue ELI10, per-choice Completeness, Recommendation + `(recommended)` — and a "reply with a letter" instruction, then STOP)
+- [ ] You are calling the tool, not writing prose — unless `CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` (then prose is the DEFAULT, not the tool) OR the documented failure fallback applies (then: the prose fallback's mandatory triad + a "reply with a letter" instruction, then STOP)
 - [ ] Non-ASCII characters (CJK / accents) written directly, NOT \u-escaped
 - [ ] If you had 5+ options, you split (or batched into ≤4-groups) — did NOT drop any
 - [ ] If you split, you checked dependencies between options before firing the chain

learn/SKILL.md

@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ If `SKILL_PREFIX` is `"true"`, suggest/invoke `/gstack-*` names. Disk paths stay
 
 Branch on the skill-start STATUS lines, in this order:
 
-1. **`CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` echoed** → do NOT call AskUserQuestion at all (neither native nor any `mcp__*__AskUserQuestion` variant): render EVERY decision brief as the **prose form** below and STOP. Proactive, not a failure reaction — Conductor disables native AUQ and its MCP variant is flaky (`[Tool result missing due to internal error]`). **Auto-decide preferences still apply first:** a surfaced `[plan-tune auto-decide] <id> → <option>` result means proceed with that option, no prose — enforced HERE since no tool call ever happens. Capture each Conductor prose brief with `bin/gstack-question-log` (the PostToolUse hook never fires on a prose path; `/plan-tune` learning depends on it).
+1. **`CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` echoed** → do NOT call AskUserQuestion at all (neither native nor any `mcp__*__AskUserQuestion` variant): render EVERY decision brief as the **prose form** below and STOP. Proactive, not a failure reaction — Conductor disables native AUQ and its MCP variant is flaky (`[Tool result missing due to internal error]`). **Auto-decide preferences still apply first** (failure-fallback item 1 below): proceed with a surfaced auto-decide option, no prose — enforced HERE since no tool call ever happens. Capture each Conductor prose brief with `bin/gstack-question-log` (the PostToolUse hook never fires on a prose path; `/plan-tune` learning depends on it).
 2. **Any `mcp__*__AskUserQuestion` variant in your tool list** → prefer it (hosts may disable native via `--disallowedTools`; calling native there silently fails). Same shape, same decision-brief format.
 3. **Unavailable (no variant) OR a call fails** → do NOT silently auto-decide or write the decision to the plan file as a substitute; follow the **failure fallback** below.
 
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ Branch on the skill-start STATUS lines, in this order:
 Tell three outcomes apart:
 
 1. **Auto-decide denial (NOT a failure).** The result contains `[plan-tune auto-decide] <id> → <option>` — the preference hook working as designed. Proceed with that option. Do NOT retry, do NOT fall back to prose.
-2. **Genuine failure** — no variant in your tool list, OR the variant is present but the call returns an error / missing result (MCP transport error, empty result, host bug — e.g. Conductor's MCP AskUserQuestion is flaky and returns `[Tool result missing due to internal error]`).
+2. **Genuine failure** — no variant in your tool list, OR the variant is present but the call returns an error / missing result (MCP transport error, empty result, host bug — e.g. Conductor's flaky MCP variant, see Tool resolution above).
    - If it was present and **errored** (not absent), retry the SAME call **once** — but only if no answer could have surfaced (a missing-result error can arrive after the user already saw the question; retrying would double-prompt, so if it may have reached them, treat as pending, don't retry).
    - Then branch on `SESSION_KIND` (echoed by the preamble; empty/absent ⇒ `interactive`):
      - `spawned` → defer to the **Spawned session** block: auto-choose the recommended option. Never prose, never BLOCKED.
@@ -93,8 +93,8 @@ Tell three outcomes apart:
 **Prose fallback — render the decision brief as a markdown message, not a tool call.** Same information as the tool format below, different structure (paragraphs, not ✅/❌ bullets). It MUST surface this triad:
 
 1. **A clear ELI10 of the issue itself** — plain English on what's being decided and why it matters (the question, not per-choice), naming the stakes. Lead with it.
-2. **Completeness scores per choice** — explicit `Completeness: X/10` on EACH choice (10 complete, 7 happy-path, 3 shortcut); use the kind-note when options differ in kind not coverage, but never silently drop the score.
-3. **The recommendation and why** — a `Recommendation: <choice> because <reason>` line plus the `(recommended)` marker on that choice.
+2. **Completeness scores per choice** — per the Completeness rule in the Format section below; never silently drop the score.
+3. **The recommendation and why** — the `Recommendation: <choice> because <reason>` line plus the `(recommended)` marker on that choice.
 
 Layout: a `D<N>` title + a one-line note to reply with a letter (in Conductor this is the normal path; elsewhere it means AskUserQuestion was unavailable or errored); the issue ELI10; the Recommendation line; then ONE paragraph per choice carrying its `(recommended)` marker, its `Completeness: X/10`, and 2-4 sentences of reasoning — never a bare bullet list; a closing `Net:` line. Split chains / 5+ options: one prose block per per-option call, in sequence. Then STOP and wait — the user's typed answer is the decision. In plan mode this satisfies end-of-turn like a tool call.
 
@@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ Before calling AskUserQuestion, verify:
 - [ ] (recommended) label on one option (even for neutral-posture)
 - [ ] Dual-scale effort labels on effort-bearing options (human / CC)
 - [ ] Net line closes the decision
-- [ ] You are calling the tool, not writing prose — unless `CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` (then prose is the DEFAULT, not the tool) OR the documented failure fallback applies (then: prose with the mandatory triad — issue ELI10, per-choice Completeness, Recommendation + `(recommended)` — and a "reply with a letter" instruction, then STOP)
+- [ ] You are calling the tool, not writing prose — unless `CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` (then prose is the DEFAULT, not the tool) OR the documented failure fallback applies (then: the prose fallback's mandatory triad + a "reply with a letter" instruction, then STOP)
 - [ ] Non-ASCII characters (CJK / accents) written directly, NOT \u-escaped
 - [ ] If you had 5+ options, you split (or batched into ≤4-groups) — did NOT drop any
 - [ ] If you split, you checked dependencies between options before firing the chain

office-hours/SKILL.md

@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ If `SKILL_PREFIX` is `"true"`, suggest/invoke `/gstack-*` names. Disk paths stay
 
 Branch on the skill-start STATUS lines, in this order:
 
-1. **`CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` echoed** → do NOT call AskUserQuestion at all (neither native nor any `mcp__*__AskUserQuestion` variant): render EVERY decision brief as the **prose form** below and STOP. Proactive, not a failure reaction — Conductor disables native AUQ and its MCP variant is flaky (`[Tool result missing due to internal error]`). **Auto-decide preferences still apply first:** a surfaced `[plan-tune auto-decide] <id> → <option>` result means proceed with that option, no prose — enforced HERE since no tool call ever happens. Capture each Conductor prose brief with `bin/gstack-question-log` (the PostToolUse hook never fires on a prose path; `/plan-tune` learning depends on it).
+1. **`CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` echoed** → do NOT call AskUserQuestion at all (neither native nor any `mcp__*__AskUserQuestion` variant): render EVERY decision brief as the **prose form** below and STOP. Proactive, not a failure reaction — Conductor disables native AUQ and its MCP variant is flaky (`[Tool result missing due to internal error]`). **Auto-decide preferences still apply first** (failure-fallback item 1 below): proceed with a surfaced auto-decide option, no prose — enforced HERE since no tool call ever happens. Capture each Conductor prose brief with `bin/gstack-question-log` (the PostToolUse hook never fires on a prose path; `/plan-tune` learning depends on it).
 2. **Any `mcp__*__AskUserQuestion` variant in your tool list** → prefer it (hosts may disable native via `--disallowedTools`; calling native there silently fails). Same shape, same decision-brief format.
 3. **Unavailable (no variant) OR a call fails** → do NOT silently auto-decide or write the decision to the plan file as a substitute; follow the **failure fallback** below.
 
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ Branch on the skill-start STATUS lines, in this order:
 Tell three outcomes apart:
 
 1. **Auto-decide denial (NOT a failure).** The result contains `[plan-tune auto-decide] <id> → <option>` — the preference hook working as designed. Proceed with that option. Do NOT retry, do NOT fall back to prose.
-2. **Genuine failure** — no variant in your tool list, OR the variant is present but the call returns an error / missing result (MCP transport error, empty result, host bug — e.g. Conductor's MCP AskUserQuestion is flaky and returns `[Tool result missing due to internal error]`).
+2. **Genuine failure** — no variant in your tool list, OR the variant is present but the call returns an error / missing result (MCP transport error, empty result, host bug — e.g. Conductor's flaky MCP variant, see Tool resolution above).
    - If it was present and **errored** (not absent), retry the SAME call **once** — but only if no answer could have surfaced (a missing-result error can arrive after the user already saw the question; retrying would double-prompt, so if it may have reached them, treat as pending, don't retry).
    - Then branch on `SESSION_KIND` (echoed by the preamble; empty/absent ⇒ `interactive`):
      - `spawned` → defer to the **Spawned session** block: auto-choose the recommended option. Never prose, never BLOCKED.
@@ -128,8 +128,8 @@ Tell three outcomes apart:
 **Prose fallback — render the decision brief as a markdown message, not a tool call.** Same information as the tool format below, different structure (paragraphs, not ✅/❌ bullets). It MUST surface this triad:
 
 1. **A clear ELI10 of the issue itself** — plain English on what's being decided and why it matters (the question, not per-choice), naming the stakes. Lead with it.
-2. **Completeness scores per choice** — explicit `Completeness: X/10` on EACH choice (10 complete, 7 happy-path, 3 shortcut); use the kind-note when options differ in kind not coverage, but never silently drop the score.
-3. **The recommendation and why** — a `Recommendation: <choice> because <reason>` line plus the `(recommended)` marker on that choice.
+2. **Completeness scores per choice** — per the Completeness rule in the Format section below; never silently drop the score.
+3. **The recommendation and why** — the `Recommendation: <choice> because <reason>` line plus the `(recommended)` marker on that choice.
 
 Layout: a `D<N>` title + a one-line note to reply with a letter (in Conductor this is the normal path; elsewhere it means AskUserQuestion was unavailable or errored); the issue ELI10; the Recommendation line; then ONE paragraph per choice carrying its `(recommended)` marker, its `Completeness: X/10`, and 2-4 sentences of reasoning — never a bare bullet list; a closing `Net:` line. Split chains / 5+ options: one prose block per per-option call, in sequence. Then STOP and wait — the user's typed answer is the decision. In plan mode this satisfies end-of-turn like a tool call.
 
@@ -208,7 +208,7 @@ Before calling AskUserQuestion, verify:
 - [ ] (recommended) label on one option (even for neutral-posture)
 - [ ] Dual-scale effort labels on effort-bearing options (human / CC)
 - [ ] Net line closes the decision
-- [ ] You are calling the tool, not writing prose — unless `CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` (then prose is the DEFAULT, not the tool) OR the documented failure fallback applies (then: prose with the mandatory triad — issue ELI10, per-choice Completeness, Recommendation + `(recommended)` — and a "reply with a letter" instruction, then STOP)
+- [ ] You are calling the tool, not writing prose — unless `CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` (then prose is the DEFAULT, not the tool) OR the documented failure fallback applies (then: the prose fallback's mandatory triad + a "reply with a letter" instruction, then STOP)
 - [ ] Non-ASCII characters (CJK / accents) written directly, NOT \u-escaped
 - [ ] If you had 5+ options, you split (or batched into ≤4-groups) — did NOT drop any
 - [ ] If you split, you checked dependencies between options before firing the chain

pair-agent/SKILL.md

@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ If `SKILL_PREFIX` is `"true"`, suggest/invoke `/gstack-*` names. Disk paths stay
 
 Branch on the skill-start STATUS lines, in this order:
 
-1. **`CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` echoed** → do NOT call AskUserQuestion at all (neither native nor any `mcp__*__AskUserQuestion` variant): render EVERY decision brief as the **prose form** below and STOP. Proactive, not a failure reaction — Conductor disables native AUQ and its MCP variant is flaky (`[Tool result missing due to internal error]`). **Auto-decide preferences still apply first:** a surfaced `[plan-tune auto-decide] <id> → <option>` result means proceed with that option, no prose — enforced HERE since no tool call ever happens. Capture each Conductor prose brief with `bin/gstack-question-log` (the PostToolUse hook never fires on a prose path; `/plan-tune` learning depends on it).
+1. **`CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` echoed** → do NOT call AskUserQuestion at all (neither native nor any `mcp__*__AskUserQuestion` variant): render EVERY decision brief as the **prose form** below and STOP. Proactive, not a failure reaction — Conductor disables native AUQ and its MCP variant is flaky (`[Tool result missing due to internal error]`). **Auto-decide preferences still apply first** (failure-fallback item 1 below): proceed with a surfaced auto-decide option, no prose — enforced HERE since no tool call ever happens. Capture each Conductor prose brief with `bin/gstack-question-log` (the PostToolUse hook never fires on a prose path; `/plan-tune` learning depends on it).
 2. **Any `mcp__*__AskUserQuestion` variant in your tool list** → prefer it (hosts may disable native via `--disallowedTools`; calling native there silently fails). Same shape, same decision-brief format.
 3. **Unavailable (no variant) OR a call fails** → do NOT silently auto-decide or write the decision to the plan file as a substitute; follow the **failure fallback** below.
 
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ Branch on the skill-start STATUS lines, in this order:
 Tell three outcomes apart:
 
 1. **Auto-decide denial (NOT a failure).** The result contains `[plan-tune auto-decide] <id> → <option>` — the preference hook working as designed. Proceed with that option. Do NOT retry, do NOT fall back to prose.
-2. **Genuine failure** — no variant in your tool list, OR the variant is present but the call returns an error / missing result (MCP transport error, empty result, host bug — e.g. Conductor's MCP AskUserQuestion is flaky and returns `[Tool result missing due to internal error]`).
+2. **Genuine failure** — no variant in your tool list, OR the variant is present but the call returns an error / missing result (MCP transport error, empty result, host bug — e.g. Conductor's flaky MCP variant, see Tool resolution above).
    - If it was present and **errored** (not absent), retry the SAME call **once** — but only if no answer could have surfaced (a missing-result error can arrive after the user already saw the question; retrying would double-prompt, so if it may have reached them, treat as pending, don't retry).
    - Then branch on `SESSION_KIND` (echoed by the preamble; empty/absent ⇒ `interactive`):
      - `spawned` → defer to the **Spawned session** block: auto-choose the recommended option. Never prose, never BLOCKED.
@@ -94,8 +94,8 @@ Tell three outcomes apart:
 **Prose fallback — render the decision brief as a markdown message, not a tool call.** Same information as the tool format below, different structure (paragraphs, not ✅/❌ bullets). It MUST surface this triad:
 
 1. **A clear ELI10 of the issue itself** — plain English on what's being decided and why it matters (the question, not per-choice), naming the stakes. Lead with it.
-2. **Completeness scores per choice** — explicit `Completeness: X/10` on EACH choice (10 complete, 7 happy-path, 3 shortcut); use the kind-note when options differ in kind not coverage, but never silently drop the score.
-3. **The recommendation and why** — a `Recommendation: <choice> because <reason>` line plus the `(recommended)` marker on that choice.
+2. **Completeness scores per choice** — per the Completeness rule in the Format section below; never silently drop the score.
+3. **The recommendation and why** — the `Recommendation: <choice> because <reason>` line plus the `(recommended)` marker on that choice.
 
 Layout: a `D<N>` title + a one-line note to reply with a letter (in Conductor this is the normal path; elsewhere it means AskUserQuestion was unavailable or errored); the issue ELI10; the Recommendation line; then ONE paragraph per choice carrying its `(recommended)` marker, its `Completeness: X/10`, and 2-4 sentences of reasoning — never a bare bullet list; a closing `Net:` line. Split chains / 5+ options: one prose block per per-option call, in sequence. Then STOP and wait — the user's typed answer is the decision. In plan mode this satisfies end-of-turn like a tool call.
 
@@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ Before calling AskUserQuestion, verify:
 - [ ] (recommended) label on one option (even for neutral-posture)
 - [ ] Dual-scale effort labels on effort-bearing options (human / CC)
 - [ ] Net line closes the decision
-- [ ] You are calling the tool, not writing prose — unless `CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` (then prose is the DEFAULT, not the tool) OR the documented failure fallback applies (then: prose with the mandatory triad — issue ELI10, per-choice Completeness, Recommendation + `(recommended)` — and a "reply with a letter" instruction, then STOP)
+- [ ] You are calling the tool, not writing prose — unless `CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` (then prose is the DEFAULT, not the tool) OR the documented failure fallback applies (then: the prose fallback's mandatory triad + a "reply with a letter" instruction, then STOP)
 - [ ] Non-ASCII characters (CJK / accents) written directly, NOT \u-escaped
 - [ ] If you had 5+ options, you split (or batched into ≤4-groups) — did NOT drop any
 - [ ] If you split, you checked dependencies between options before firing the chain

plan-ceo-review/SKILL.md

@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ If `SKILL_PREFIX` is `"true"`, suggest/invoke `/gstack-*` names. Disk paths stay
 
 Branch on the skill-start STATUS lines, in this order:
 
-1. **`CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` echoed** → do NOT call AskUserQuestion at all (neither native nor any `mcp__*__AskUserQuestion` variant): render EVERY decision brief as the **prose form** below and STOP. Proactive, not a failure reaction — Conductor disables native AUQ and its MCP variant is flaky (`[Tool result missing due to internal error]`). **Auto-decide preferences still apply first:** a surfaced `[plan-tune auto-decide] <id> → <option>` result means proceed with that option, no prose — enforced HERE since no tool call ever happens. Capture each Conductor prose brief with `bin/gstack-question-log` (the PostToolUse hook never fires on a prose path; `/plan-tune` learning depends on it).
+1. **`CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` echoed** → do NOT call AskUserQuestion at all (neither native nor any `mcp__*__AskUserQuestion` variant): render EVERY decision brief as the **prose form** below and STOP. Proactive, not a failure reaction — Conductor disables native AUQ and its MCP variant is flaky (`[Tool result missing due to internal error]`). **Auto-decide preferences still apply first** (failure-fallback item 1 below): proceed with a surfaced auto-decide option, no prose — enforced HERE since no tool call ever happens. Capture each Conductor prose brief with `bin/gstack-question-log` (the PostToolUse hook never fires on a prose path; `/plan-tune` learning depends on it).
 2. **Any `mcp__*__AskUserQuestion` variant in your tool list** → prefer it (hosts may disable native via `--disallowedTools`; calling native there silently fails). Same shape, same decision-brief format.
 3. **Unavailable (no variant) OR a call fails** → do NOT silently auto-decide or write the decision to the plan file as a substitute; follow the **failure fallback** below.
 
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ Branch on the skill-start STATUS lines, in this order:
 Tell three outcomes apart:
 
 1. **Auto-decide denial (NOT a failure).** The result contains `[plan-tune auto-decide] <id> → <option>` — the preference hook working as designed. Proceed with that option. Do NOT retry, do NOT fall back to prose.
-2. **Genuine failure** — no variant in your tool list, OR the variant is present but the call returns an error / missing result (MCP transport error, empty result, host bug — e.g. Conductor's MCP AskUserQuestion is flaky and returns `[Tool result missing due to internal error]`).
+2. **Genuine failure** — no variant in your tool list, OR the variant is present but the call returns an error / missing result (MCP transport error, empty result, host bug — e.g. Conductor's flaky MCP variant, see Tool resolution above).
    - If it was present and **errored** (not absent), retry the SAME call **once** — but only if no answer could have surfaced (a missing-result error can arrive after the user already saw the question; retrying would double-prompt, so if it may have reached them, treat as pending, don't retry).
    - Then branch on `SESSION_KIND` (echoed by the preamble; empty/absent ⇒ `interactive`):
      - `spawned` → defer to the **Spawned session** block: auto-choose the recommended option. Never prose, never BLOCKED.
@@ -120,8 +120,8 @@ Tell three outcomes apart:
 **Prose fallback — render the decision brief as a markdown message, not a tool call.** Same information as the tool format below, different structure (paragraphs, not ✅/❌ bullets). It MUST surface this triad:
 
 1. **A clear ELI10 of the issue itself** — plain English on what's being decided and why it matters (the question, not per-choice), naming the stakes. Lead with it.
-2. **Completeness scores per choice** — explicit `Completeness: X/10` on EACH choice (10 complete, 7 happy-path, 3 shortcut); use the kind-note when options differ in kind not coverage, but never silently drop the score.
-3. **The recommendation and why** — a `Recommendation: <choice> because <reason>` line plus the `(recommended)` marker on that choice.
+2. **Completeness scores per choice** — per the Completeness rule in the Format section below; never silently drop the score.
+3. **The recommendation and why** — the `Recommendation: <choice> because <reason>` line plus the `(recommended)` marker on that choice.
 
 Layout: a `D<N>` title + a one-line note to reply with a letter (in Conductor this is the normal path; elsewhere it means AskUserQuestion was unavailable or errored); the issue ELI10; the Recommendation line; then ONE paragraph per choice carrying its `(recommended)` marker, its `Completeness: X/10`, and 2-4 sentences of reasoning — never a bare bullet list; a closing `Net:` line. Split chains / 5+ options: one prose block per per-option call, in sequence. Then STOP and wait — the user's typed answer is the decision. In plan mode this satisfies end-of-turn like a tool call.
 
@@ -200,7 +200,7 @@ Before calling AskUserQuestion, verify:
 - [ ] (recommended) label on one option (even for neutral-posture)
 - [ ] Dual-scale effort labels on effort-bearing options (human / CC)
 - [ ] Net line closes the decision
-- [ ] You are calling the tool, not writing prose — unless `CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` (then prose is the DEFAULT, not the tool) OR the documented failure fallback applies (then: prose with the mandatory triad — issue ELI10, per-choice Completeness, Recommendation + `(recommended)` — and a "reply with a letter" instruction, then STOP)
+- [ ] You are calling the tool, not writing prose — unless `CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` (then prose is the DEFAULT, not the tool) OR the documented failure fallback applies (then: the prose fallback's mandatory triad + a "reply with a letter" instruction, then STOP)
 - [ ] Non-ASCII characters (CJK / accents) written directly, NOT \u-escaped
 - [ ] If you had 5+ options, you split (or batched into ≤4-groups) — did NOT drop any
 - [ ] If you split, you checked dependencies between options before firing the chain

plan-design-review/SKILL.md

@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ If `SKILL_PREFIX` is `"true"`, suggest/invoke `/gstack-*` names. Disk paths stay
 
 Branch on the skill-start STATUS lines, in this order:
 
-1. **`CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` echoed** → do NOT call AskUserQuestion at all (neither native nor any `mcp__*__AskUserQuestion` variant): render EVERY decision brief as the **prose form** below and STOP. Proactive, not a failure reaction — Conductor disables native AUQ and its MCP variant is flaky (`[Tool result missing due to internal error]`). **Auto-decide preferences still apply first:** a surfaced `[plan-tune auto-decide] <id> → <option>` result means proceed with that option, no prose — enforced HERE since no tool call ever happens. Capture each Conductor prose brief with `bin/gstack-question-log` (the PostToolUse hook never fires on a prose path; `/plan-tune` learning depends on it).
+1. **`CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` echoed** → do NOT call AskUserQuestion at all (neither native nor any `mcp__*__AskUserQuestion` variant): render EVERY decision brief as the **prose form** below and STOP. Proactive, not a failure reaction — Conductor disables native AUQ and its MCP variant is flaky (`[Tool result missing due to internal error]`). **Auto-decide preferences still apply first** (failure-fallback item 1 below): proceed with a surfaced auto-decide option, no prose — enforced HERE since no tool call ever happens. Capture each Conductor prose brief with `bin/gstack-question-log` (the PostToolUse hook never fires on a prose path; `/plan-tune` learning depends on it).
 2. **Any `mcp__*__AskUserQuestion` variant in your tool list** → prefer it (hosts may disable native via `--disallowedTools`; calling native there silently fails). Same shape, same decision-brief format.
 3. **Unavailable (no variant) OR a call fails** → do NOT silently auto-decide or write the decision to the plan file as a substitute; follow the **failure fallback** below.
 
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ Branch on the skill-start STATUS lines, in this order:
 Tell three outcomes apart:
 
 1. **Auto-decide denial (NOT a failure).** The result contains `[plan-tune auto-decide] <id> → <option>` — the preference hook working as designed. Proceed with that option. Do NOT retry, do NOT fall back to prose.
-2. **Genuine failure** — no variant in your tool list, OR the variant is present but the call returns an error / missing result (MCP transport error, empty result, host bug — e.g. Conductor's MCP AskUserQuestion is flaky and returns `[Tool result missing due to internal error]`).
+2. **Genuine failure** — no variant in your tool list, OR the variant is present but the call returns an error / missing result (MCP transport error, empty result, host bug — e.g. Conductor's flaky MCP variant, see Tool resolution above).
    - If it was present and **errored** (not absent), retry the SAME call **once** — but only if no answer could have surfaced (a missing-result error can arrive after the user already saw the question; retrying would double-prompt, so if it may have reached them, treat as pending, don't retry).
    - Then branch on `SESSION_KIND` (echoed by the preamble; empty/absent ⇒ `interactive`):
      - `spawned` → defer to the **Spawned session** block: auto-choose the recommended option. Never prose, never BLOCKED.
@@ -93,8 +93,8 @@ Tell three outcomes apart:
 **Prose fallback — render the decision brief as a markdown message, not a tool call.** Same information as the tool format below, different structure (paragraphs, not ✅/❌ bullets). It MUST surface this triad:
 
 1. **A clear ELI10 of the issue itself** — plain English on what's being decided and why it matters (the question, not per-choice), naming the stakes. Lead with it.
-2. **Completeness scores per choice** — explicit `Completeness: X/10` on EACH choice (10 complete, 7 happy-path, 3 shortcut); use the kind-note when options differ in kind not coverage, but never silently drop the score.
-3. **The recommendation and why** — a `Recommendation: <choice> because <reason>` line plus the `(recommended)` marker on that choice.
+2. **Completeness scores per choice** — per the Completeness rule in the Format section below; never silently drop the score.
+3. **The recommendation and why** — the `Recommendation: <choice> because <reason>` line plus the `(recommended)` marker on that choice.
 
 Layout: a `D<N>` title + a one-line note to reply with a letter (in Conductor this is the normal path; elsewhere it means AskUserQuestion was unavailable or errored); the issue ELI10; the Recommendation line; then ONE paragraph per choice carrying its `(recommended)` marker, its `Completeness: X/10`, and 2-4 sentences of reasoning — never a bare bullet list; a closing `Net:` line. Split chains / 5+ options: one prose block per per-option call, in sequence. Then STOP and wait — the user's typed answer is the decision. In plan mode this satisfies end-of-turn like a tool call.
 
@@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ Before calling AskUserQuestion, verify:
 - [ ] (recommended) label on one option (even for neutral-posture)
 - [ ] Dual-scale effort labels on effort-bearing options (human / CC)
 - [ ] Net line closes the decision
-- [ ] You are calling the tool, not writing prose — unless `CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` (then prose is the DEFAULT, not the tool) OR the documented failure fallback applies (then: prose with the mandatory triad — issue ELI10, per-choice Completeness, Recommendation + `(recommended)` — and a "reply with a letter" instruction, then STOP)
+- [ ] You are calling the tool, not writing prose — unless `CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` (then prose is the DEFAULT, not the tool) OR the documented failure fallback applies (then: the prose fallback's mandatory triad + a "reply with a letter" instruction, then STOP)
 - [ ] Non-ASCII characters (CJK / accents) written directly, NOT \u-escaped
 - [ ] If you had 5+ options, you split (or batched into ≤4-groups) — did NOT drop any
 - [ ] If you split, you checked dependencies between options before firing the chain

plan-devex-review/SKILL.md

@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ If `SKILL_PREFIX` is `"true"`, suggest/invoke `/gstack-*` names. Disk paths stay
 
 Branch on the skill-start STATUS lines, in this order:
 
-1. **`CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` echoed** → do NOT call AskUserQuestion at all (neither native nor any `mcp__*__AskUserQuestion` variant): render EVERY decision brief as the **prose form** below and STOP. Proactive, not a failure reaction — Conductor disables native AUQ and its MCP variant is flaky (`[Tool result missing due to internal error]`). **Auto-decide preferences still apply first:** a surfaced `[plan-tune auto-decide] <id> → <option>` result means proceed with that option, no prose — enforced HERE since no tool call ever happens. Capture each Conductor prose brief with `bin/gstack-question-log` (the PostToolUse hook never fires on a prose path; `/plan-tune` learning depends on it).
+1. **`CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` echoed** → do NOT call AskUserQuestion at all (neither native nor any `mcp__*__AskUserQuestion` variant): render EVERY decision brief as the **prose form** below and STOP. Proactive, not a failure reaction — Conductor disables native AUQ and its MCP variant is flaky (`[Tool result missing due to internal error]`). **Auto-decide preferences still apply first** (failure-fallback item 1 below): proceed with a surfaced auto-decide option, no prose — enforced HERE since no tool call ever happens. Capture each Conductor prose brief with `bin/gstack-question-log` (the PostToolUse hook never fires on a prose path; `/plan-tune` learning depends on it).
 2. **Any `mcp__*__AskUserQuestion` variant in your tool list** → prefer it (hosts may disable native via `--disallowedTools`; calling native there silently fails). Same shape, same decision-brief format.
 3. **Unavailable (no variant) OR a call fails** → do NOT silently auto-decide or write the decision to the plan file as a substitute; follow the **failure fallback** below.
 
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ Branch on the skill-start STATUS lines, in this order:
 Tell three outcomes apart:
 
 1. **Auto-decide denial (NOT a failure).** The result contains `[plan-tune auto-decide] <id> → <option>` — the preference hook working as designed. Proceed with that option. Do NOT retry, do NOT fall back to prose.
-2. **Genuine failure** — no variant in your tool list, OR the variant is present but the call returns an error / missing result (MCP transport error, empty result, host bug — e.g. Conductor's MCP AskUserQuestion is flaky and returns `[Tool result missing due to internal error]`).
+2. **Genuine failure** — no variant in your tool list, OR the variant is present but the call returns an error / missing result (MCP transport error, empty result, host bug — e.g. Conductor's flaky MCP variant, see Tool resolution above).
    - If it was present and **errored** (not absent), retry the SAME call **once** — but only if no answer could have surfaced (a missing-result error can arrive after the user already saw the question; retrying would double-prompt, so if it may have reached them, treat as pending, don't retry).
    - Then branch on `SESSION_KIND` (echoed by the preamble; empty/absent ⇒ `interactive`):
      - `spawned` → defer to the **Spawned session** block: auto-choose the recommended option. Never prose, never BLOCKED.
@@ -98,8 +98,8 @@ Tell three outcomes apart:
 **Prose fallback — render the decision brief as a markdown message, not a tool call.** Same information as the tool format below, different structure (paragraphs, not ✅/❌ bullets). It MUST surface this triad:
 
 1. **A clear ELI10 of the issue itself** — plain English on what's being decided and why it matters (the question, not per-choice), naming the stakes. Lead with it.
-2. **Completeness scores per choice** — explicit `Completeness: X/10` on EACH choice (10 complete, 7 happy-path, 3 shortcut); use the kind-note when options differ in kind not coverage, but never silently drop the score.
-3. **The recommendation and why** — a `Recommendation: <choice> because <reason>` line plus the `(recommended)` marker on that choice.
+2. **Completeness scores per choice** — per the Completeness rule in the Format section below; never silently drop the score.
+3. **The recommendation and why** — the `Recommendation: <choice> because <reason>` line plus the `(recommended)` marker on that choice.
 
 Layout: a `D<N>` title + a one-line note to reply with a letter (in Conductor this is the normal path; elsewhere it means AskUserQuestion was unavailable or errored); the issue ELI10; the Recommendation line; then ONE paragraph per choice carrying its `(recommended)` marker, its `Completeness: X/10`, and 2-4 sentences of reasoning — never a bare bullet list; a closing `Net:` line. Split chains / 5+ options: one prose block per per-option call, in sequence. Then STOP and wait — the user's typed answer is the decision. In plan mode this satisfies end-of-turn like a tool call.
 
@@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ Before calling AskUserQuestion, verify:
 - [ ] (recommended) label on one option (even for neutral-posture)
 - [ ] Dual-scale effort labels on effort-bearing options (human / CC)
 - [ ] Net line closes the decision
-- [ ] You are calling the tool, not writing prose — unless `CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` (then prose is the DEFAULT, not the tool) OR the documented failure fallback applies (then: prose with the mandatory triad — issue ELI10, per-choice Completeness, Recommendation + `(recommended)` — and a "reply with a letter" instruction, then STOP)
+- [ ] You are calling the tool, not writing prose — unless `CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` (then prose is the DEFAULT, not the tool) OR the documented failure fallback applies (then: the prose fallback's mandatory triad + a "reply with a letter" instruction, then STOP)
 - [ ] Non-ASCII characters (CJK / accents) written directly, NOT \u-escaped
 - [ ] If you had 5+ options, you split (or batched into ≤4-groups) — did NOT drop any
 - [ ] If you split, you checked dependencies between options before firing the chain

plan-eng-review/SKILL.md

@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ If `SKILL_PREFIX` is `"true"`, suggest/invoke `/gstack-*` names. Disk paths stay
 
 Branch on the skill-start STATUS lines, in this order:
 
-1. **`CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` echoed** → do NOT call AskUserQuestion at all (neither native nor any `mcp__*__AskUserQuestion` variant): render EVERY decision brief as the **prose form** below and STOP. Proactive, not a failure reaction — Conductor disables native AUQ and its MCP variant is flaky (`[Tool result missing due to internal error]`). **Auto-decide preferences still apply first:** a surfaced `[plan-tune auto-decide] <id> → <option>` result means proceed with that option, no prose — enforced HERE since no tool call ever happens. Capture each Conductor prose brief with `bin/gstack-question-log` (the PostToolUse hook never fires on a prose path; `/plan-tune` learning depends on it).
+1. **`CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` echoed** → do NOT call AskUserQuestion at all (neither native nor any `mcp__*__AskUserQuestion` variant): render EVERY decision brief as the **prose form** below and STOP. Proactive, not a failure reaction — Conductor disables native AUQ and its MCP variant is flaky (`[Tool result missing due to internal error]`). **Auto-decide preferences still apply first** (failure-fallback item 1 below): proceed with a surfaced auto-decide option, no prose — enforced HERE since no tool call ever happens. Capture each Conductor prose brief with `bin/gstack-question-log` (the PostToolUse hook never fires on a prose path; `/plan-tune` learning depends on it).
 2. **Any `mcp__*__AskUserQuestion` variant in your tool list** → prefer it (hosts may disable native via `--disallowedTools`; calling native there silently fails). Same shape, same decision-brief format.
 3. **Unavailable (no variant) OR a call fails** → do NOT silently auto-decide or write the decision to the plan file as a substitute; follow the **failure fallback** below.
 
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ Branch on the skill-start STATUS lines, in this order:
 Tell three outcomes apart:
 
 1. **Auto-decide denial (NOT a failure).** The result contains `[plan-tune auto-decide] <id> → <option>` — the preference hook working as designed. Proceed with that option. Do NOT retry, do NOT fall back to prose.
-2. **Genuine failure** — no variant in your tool list, OR the variant is present but the call returns an error / missing result (MCP transport error, empty result, host bug — e.g. Conductor's MCP AskUserQuestion is flaky and returns `[Tool result missing due to internal error]`).
+2. **Genuine failure** — no variant in your tool list, OR the variant is present but the call returns an error / missing result (MCP transport error, empty result, host bug — e.g. Conductor's flaky MCP variant, see Tool resolution above).
    - If it was present and **errored** (not absent), retry the SAME call **once** — but only if no answer could have surfaced (a missing-result error can arrive after the user already saw the question; retrying would double-prompt, so if it may have reached them, treat as pending, don't retry).
    - Then branch on `SESSION_KIND` (echoed by the preamble; empty/absent ⇒ `interactive`):
      - `spawned` → defer to the **Spawned session** block: auto-choose the recommended option. Never prose, never BLOCKED.
@@ -96,8 +96,8 @@ Tell three outcomes apart:
 **Prose fallback — render the decision brief as a markdown message, not a tool call.** Same information as the tool format below, different structure (paragraphs, not ✅/❌ bullets). It MUST surface this triad:
 
 1. **A clear ELI10 of the issue itself** — plain English on what's being decided and why it matters (the question, not per-choice), naming the stakes. Lead with it.
-2. **Completeness scores per choice** — explicit `Completeness: X/10` on EACH choice (10 complete, 7 happy-path, 3 shortcut); use the kind-note when options differ in kind not coverage, but never silently drop the score.
-3. **The recommendation and why** — a `Recommendation: <choice> because <reason>` line plus the `(recommended)` marker on that choice.
+2. **Completeness scores per choice** — per the Completeness rule in the Format section below; never silently drop the score.
+3. **The recommendation and why** — the `Recommendation: <choice> because <reason>` line plus the `(recommended)` marker on that choice.
 
 Layout: a `D<N>` title + a one-line note to reply with a letter (in Conductor this is the normal path; elsewhere it means AskUserQuestion was unavailable or errored); the issue ELI10; the Recommendation line; then ONE paragraph per choice carrying its `(recommended)` marker, its `Completeness: X/10`, and 2-4 sentences of reasoning — never a bare bullet list; a closing `Net:` line. Split chains / 5+ options: one prose block per per-option call, in sequence. Then STOP and wait — the user's typed answer is the decision. In plan mode this satisfies end-of-turn like a tool call.
 
@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ Before calling AskUserQuestion, verify:
 - [ ] (recommended) label on one option (even for neutral-posture)
 - [ ] Dual-scale effort labels on effort-bearing options (human / CC)
 - [ ] Net line closes the decision
-- [ ] You are calling the tool, not writing prose — unless `CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` (then prose is the DEFAULT, not the tool) OR the documented failure fallback applies (then: prose with the mandatory triad — issue ELI10, per-choice Completeness, Recommendation + `(recommended)` — and a "reply with a letter" instruction, then STOP)
+- [ ] You are calling the tool, not writing prose — unless `CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` (then prose is the DEFAULT, not the tool) OR the documented failure fallback applies (then: the prose fallback's mandatory triad + a "reply with a letter" instruction, then STOP)
 - [ ] Non-ASCII characters (CJK / accents) written directly, NOT \u-escaped
 - [ ] If you had 5+ options, you split (or batched into ≤4-groups) — did NOT drop any
 - [ ] If you split, you checked dependencies between options before firing the chain

plan-tune/SKILL.md

@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ If `SKILL_PREFIX` is `"true"`, suggest/invoke `/gstack-*` names. Disk paths stay
 
 Branch on the skill-start STATUS lines, in this order:
 
-1. **`CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` echoed** → do NOT call AskUserQuestion at all (neither native nor any `mcp__*__AskUserQuestion` variant): render EVERY decision brief as the **prose form** below and STOP. Proactive, not a failure reaction — Conductor disables native AUQ and its MCP variant is flaky (`[Tool result missing due to internal error]`). **Auto-decide preferences still apply first:** a surfaced `[plan-tune auto-decide] <id> → <option>` result means proceed with that option, no prose — enforced HERE since no tool call ever happens. Capture each Conductor prose brief with `bin/gstack-question-log` (the PostToolUse hook never fires on a prose path; `/plan-tune` learning depends on it).
+1. **`CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` echoed** → do NOT call AskUserQuestion at all (neither native nor any `mcp__*__AskUserQuestion` variant): render EVERY decision brief as the **prose form** below and STOP. Proactive, not a failure reaction — Conductor disables native AUQ and its MCP variant is flaky (`[Tool result missing due to internal error]`). **Auto-decide preferences still apply first** (failure-fallback item 1 below): proceed with a surfaced auto-decide option, no prose — enforced HERE since no tool call ever happens. Capture each Conductor prose brief with `bin/gstack-question-log` (the PostToolUse hook never fires on a prose path; `/plan-tune` learning depends on it).
 2. **Any `mcp__*__AskUserQuestion` variant in your tool list** → prefer it (hosts may disable native via `--disallowedTools`; calling native there silently fails). Same shape, same decision-brief format.
 3. **Unavailable (no variant) OR a call fails** → do NOT silently auto-decide or write the decision to the plan file as a substitute; follow the **failure fallback** below.
 
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ Branch on the skill-start STATUS lines, in this order:
 Tell three outcomes apart:
 
 1. **Auto-decide denial (NOT a failure).** The result contains `[plan-tune auto-decide] <id> → <option>` — the preference hook working as designed. Proceed with that option. Do NOT retry, do NOT fall back to prose.
-2. **Genuine failure** — no variant in your tool list, OR the variant is present but the call returns an error / missing result (MCP transport error, empty result, host bug — e.g. Conductor's MCP AskUserQuestion is flaky and returns `[Tool result missing due to internal error]`).
+2. **Genuine failure** — no variant in your tool list, OR the variant is present but the call returns an error / missing result (MCP transport error, empty result, host bug — e.g. Conductor's flaky MCP variant, see Tool resolution above).
    - If it was present and **errored** (not absent), retry the SAME call **once** — but only if no answer could have surfaced (a missing-result error can arrive after the user already saw the question; retrying would double-prompt, so if it may have reached them, treat as pending, don't retry).
    - Then branch on `SESSION_KIND` (echoed by the preamble; empty/absent ⇒ `interactive`):
      - `spawned` → defer to the **Spawned session** block: auto-choose the recommended option. Never prose, never BLOCKED.
@@ -103,8 +103,8 @@ Tell three outcomes apart:
 **Prose fallback — render the decision brief as a markdown message, not a tool call.** Same information as the tool format below, different structure (paragraphs, not ✅/❌ bullets). It MUST surface this triad:
 
 1. **A clear ELI10 of the issue itself** — plain English on what's being decided and why it matters (the question, not per-choice), naming the stakes. Lead with it.
-2. **Completeness scores per choice** — explicit `Completeness: X/10` on EACH choice (10 complete, 7 happy-path, 3 shortcut); use the kind-note when options differ in kind not coverage, but never silently drop the score.
-3. **The recommendation and why** — a `Recommendation: <choice> because <reason>` line plus the `(recommended)` marker on that choice.
+2. **Completeness scores per choice** — per the Completeness rule in the Format section below; never silently drop the score.
+3. **The recommendation and why** — the `Recommendation: <choice> because <reason>` line plus the `(recommended)` marker on that choice.
 
 Layout: a `D<N>` title + a one-line note to reply with a letter (in Conductor this is the normal path; elsewhere it means AskUserQuestion was unavailable or errored); the issue ELI10; the Recommendation line; then ONE paragraph per choice carrying its `(recommended)` marker, its `Completeness: X/10`, and 2-4 sentences of reasoning — never a bare bullet list; a closing `Net:` line. Split chains / 5+ options: one prose block per per-option call, in sequence. Then STOP and wait — the user's typed answer is the decision. In plan mode this satisfies end-of-turn like a tool call.
 
@@ -183,7 +183,7 @@ Before calling AskUserQuestion, verify:
 - [ ] (recommended) label on one option (even for neutral-posture)
 - [ ] Dual-scale effort labels on effort-bearing options (human / CC)
 - [ ] Net line closes the decision
-- [ ] You are calling the tool, not writing prose — unless `CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` (then prose is the DEFAULT, not the tool) OR the documented failure fallback applies (then: prose with the mandatory triad — issue ELI10, per-choice Completeness, Recommendation + `(recommended)` — and a "reply with a letter" instruction, then STOP)
+- [ ] You are calling the tool, not writing prose — unless `CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` (then prose is the DEFAULT, not the tool) OR the documented failure fallback applies (then: the prose fallback's mandatory triad + a "reply with a letter" instruction, then STOP)
 - [ ] Non-ASCII characters (CJK / accents) written directly, NOT \u-escaped
 - [ ] If you had 5+ options, you split (or batched into ≤4-groups) — did NOT drop any
 - [ ] If you split, you checked dependencies between options before firing the chain

qa-only/SKILL.md

@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ If `SKILL_PREFIX` is `"true"`, suggest/invoke `/gstack-*` names. Disk paths stay
 
 Branch on the skill-start STATUS lines, in this order:
 
-1. **`CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` echoed** → do NOT call AskUserQuestion at all (neither native nor any `mcp__*__AskUserQuestion` variant): render EVERY decision brief as the **prose form** below and STOP. Proactive, not a failure reaction — Conductor disables native AUQ and its MCP variant is flaky (`[Tool result missing due to internal error]`). **Auto-decide preferences still apply first:** a surfaced `[plan-tune auto-decide] <id> → <option>` result means proceed with that option, no prose — enforced HERE since no tool call ever happens. Capture each Conductor prose brief with `bin/gstack-question-log` (the PostToolUse hook never fires on a prose path; `/plan-tune` learning depends on it).
+1. **`CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` echoed** → do NOT call AskUserQuestion at all (neither native nor any `mcp__*__AskUserQuestion` variant): render EVERY decision brief as the **prose form** below and STOP. Proactive, not a failure reaction — Conductor disables native AUQ and its MCP variant is flaky (`[Tool result missing due to internal error]`). **Auto-decide preferences still apply first** (failure-fallback item 1 below): proceed with a surfaced auto-decide option, no prose — enforced HERE since no tool call ever happens. Capture each Conductor prose brief with `bin/gstack-question-log` (the PostToolUse hook never fires on a prose path; `/plan-tune` learning depends on it).
 2. **Any `mcp__*__AskUserQuestion` variant in your tool list** → prefer it (hosts may disable native via `--disallowedTools`; calling native there silently fails). Same shape, same decision-brief format.
 3. **Unavailable (no variant) OR a call fails** → do NOT silently auto-decide or write the decision to the plan file as a substitute; follow the **failure fallback** below.
 
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ Branch on the skill-start STATUS lines, in this order:
 Tell three outcomes apart:
 
 1. **Auto-decide denial (NOT a failure).** The result contains `[plan-tune auto-decide] <id> → <option>` — the preference hook working as designed. Proceed with that option. Do NOT retry, do NOT fall back to prose.
-2. **Genuine failure** — no variant in your tool list, OR the variant is present but the call returns an error / missing result (MCP transport error, empty result, host bug — e.g. Conductor's MCP AskUserQuestion is flaky and returns `[Tool result missing due to internal error]`).
+2. **Genuine failure** — no variant in your tool list, OR the variant is present but the call returns an error / missing result (MCP transport error, empty result, host bug — e.g. Conductor's flaky MCP variant, see Tool resolution above).
    - If it was present and **errored** (not absent), retry the SAME call **once** — but only if no answer could have surfaced (a missing-result error can arrive after the user already saw the question; retrying would double-prompt, so if it may have reached them, treat as pending, don't retry).
    - Then branch on `SESSION_KIND` (echoed by the preamble; empty/absent ⇒ `interactive`):
      - `spawned` → defer to the **Spawned session** block: auto-choose the recommended option. Never prose, never BLOCKED.
@@ -93,8 +93,8 @@ Tell three outcomes apart:
 **Prose fallback — render the decision brief as a markdown message, not a tool call.** Same information as the tool format below, different structure (paragraphs, not ✅/❌ bullets). It MUST surface this triad:
 
 1. **A clear ELI10 of the issue itself** — plain English on what's being decided and why it matters (the question, not per-choice), naming the stakes. Lead with it.
-2. **Completeness scores per choice** — explicit `Completeness: X/10` on EACH choice (10 complete, 7 happy-path, 3 shortcut); use the kind-note when options differ in kind not coverage, but never silently drop the score.
-3. **The recommendation and why** — a `Recommendation: <choice> because <reason>` line plus the `(recommended)` marker on that choice.
+2. **Completeness scores per choice** — per the Completeness rule in the Format section below; never silently drop the score.
+3. **The recommendation and why** — the `Recommendation: <choice> because <reason>` line plus the `(recommended)` marker on that choice.
 
 Layout: a `D<N>` title + a one-line note to reply with a letter (in Conductor this is the normal path; elsewhere it means AskUserQuestion was unavailable or errored); the issue ELI10; the Recommendation line; then ONE paragraph per choice carrying its `(recommended)` marker, its `Completeness: X/10`, and 2-4 sentences of reasoning — never a bare bullet list; a closing `Net:` line. Split chains / 5+ options: one prose block per per-option call, in sequence. Then STOP and wait — the user's typed answer is the decision. In plan mode this satisfies end-of-turn like a tool call.
 
@@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ Before calling AskUserQuestion, verify:
 - [ ] (recommended) label on one option (even for neutral-posture)
 - [ ] Dual-scale effort labels on effort-bearing options (human / CC)
 - [ ] Net line closes the decision
-- [ ] You are calling the tool, not writing prose — unless `CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` (then prose is the DEFAULT, not the tool) OR the documented failure fallback applies (then: prose with the mandatory triad — issue ELI10, per-choice Completeness, Recommendation + `(recommended)` — and a "reply with a letter" instruction, then STOP)
+- [ ] You are calling the tool, not writing prose — unless `CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` (then prose is the DEFAULT, not the tool) OR the documented failure fallback applies (then: the prose fallback's mandatory triad + a "reply with a letter" instruction, then STOP)
 - [ ] Non-ASCII characters (CJK / accents) written directly, NOT \u-escaped
 - [ ] If you had 5+ options, you split (or batched into ≤4-groups) — did NOT drop any
 - [ ] If you split, you checked dependencies between options before firing the chain

qa/SKILL.md

@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ If `SKILL_PREFIX` is `"true"`, suggest/invoke `/gstack-*` names. Disk paths stay
 
 Branch on the skill-start STATUS lines, in this order:
 
-1. **`CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` echoed** → do NOT call AskUserQuestion at all (neither native nor any `mcp__*__AskUserQuestion` variant): render EVERY decision brief as the **prose form** below and STOP. Proactive, not a failure reaction — Conductor disables native AUQ and its MCP variant is flaky (`[Tool result missing due to internal error]`). **Auto-decide preferences still apply first:** a surfaced `[plan-tune auto-decide] <id> → <option>` result means proceed with that option, no prose — enforced HERE since no tool call ever happens. Capture each Conductor prose brief with `bin/gstack-question-log` (the PostToolUse hook never fires on a prose path; `/plan-tune` learning depends on it).
+1. **`CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` echoed** → do NOT call AskUserQuestion at all (neither native nor any `mcp__*__AskUserQuestion` variant): render EVERY decision brief as the **prose form** below and STOP. Proactive, not a failure reaction — Conductor disables native AUQ and its MCP variant is flaky (`[Tool result missing due to internal error]`). **Auto-decide preferences still apply first** (failure-fallback item 1 below): proceed with a surfaced auto-decide option, no prose — enforced HERE since no tool call ever happens. Capture each Conductor prose brief with `bin/gstack-question-log` (the PostToolUse hook never fires on a prose path; `/plan-tune` learning depends on it).
 2. **Any `mcp__*__AskUserQuestion` variant in your tool list** → prefer it (hosts may disable native via `--disallowedTools`; calling native there silently fails). Same shape, same decision-brief format.
 3. **Unavailable (no variant) OR a call fails** → do NOT silently auto-decide or write the decision to the plan file as a substitute; follow the **failure fallback** below.
 
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ Branch on the skill-start STATUS lines, in this order:
 Tell three outcomes apart:
 
 1. **Auto-decide denial (NOT a failure).** The result contains `[plan-tune auto-decide] <id> → <option>` — the preference hook working as designed. Proceed with that option. Do NOT retry, do NOT fall back to prose.
-2. **Genuine failure** — no variant in your tool list, OR the variant is present but the call returns an error / missing result (MCP transport error, empty result, host bug — e.g. Conductor's MCP AskUserQuestion is flaky and returns `[Tool result missing due to internal error]`).
+2. **Genuine failure** — no variant in your tool list, OR the variant is present but the call returns an error / missing result (MCP transport error, empty result, host bug — e.g. Conductor's flaky MCP variant, see Tool resolution above).
    - If it was present and **errored** (not absent), retry the SAME call **once** — but only if no answer could have surfaced (a missing-result error can arrive after the user already saw the question; retrying would double-prompt, so if it may have reached them, treat as pending, don't retry).
    - Then branch on `SESSION_KIND` (echoed by the preamble; empty/absent ⇒ `interactive`):
      - `spawned` → defer to the **Spawned session** block: auto-choose the recommended option. Never prose, never BLOCKED.
@@ -99,8 +99,8 @@ Tell three outcomes apart:
 **Prose fallback — render the decision brief as a markdown message, not a tool call.** Same information as the tool format below, different structure (paragraphs, not ✅/❌ bullets). It MUST surface this triad:
 
 1. **A clear ELI10 of the issue itself** — plain English on what's being decided and why it matters (the question, not per-choice), naming the stakes. Lead with it.
-2. **Completeness scores per choice** — explicit `Completeness: X/10` on EACH choice (10 complete, 7 happy-path, 3 shortcut); use the kind-note when options differ in kind not coverage, but never silently drop the score.
-3. **The recommendation and why** — a `Recommendation: <choice> because <reason>` line plus the `(recommended)` marker on that choice.
+2. **Completeness scores per choice** — per the Completeness rule in the Format section below; never silently drop the score.
+3. **The recommendation and why** — the `Recommendation: <choice> because <reason>` line plus the `(recommended)` marker on that choice.
 
 Layout: a `D<N>` title + a one-line note to reply with a letter (in Conductor this is the normal path; elsewhere it means AskUserQuestion was unavailable or errored); the issue ELI10; the Recommendation line; then ONE paragraph per choice carrying its `(recommended)` marker, its `Completeness: X/10`, and 2-4 sentences of reasoning — never a bare bullet list; a closing `Net:` line. Split chains / 5+ options: one prose block per per-option call, in sequence. Then STOP and wait — the user's typed answer is the decision. In plan mode this satisfies end-of-turn like a tool call.
 
@@ -179,7 +179,7 @@ Before calling AskUserQuestion, verify:
 - [ ] (recommended) label on one option (even for neutral-posture)
 - [ ] Dual-scale effort labels on effort-bearing options (human / CC)
 - [ ] Net line closes the decision
-- [ ] You are calling the tool, not writing prose — unless `CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` (then prose is the DEFAULT, not the tool) OR the documented failure fallback applies (then: prose with the mandatory triad — issue ELI10, per-choice Completeness, Recommendation + `(recommended)` — and a "reply with a letter" instruction, then STOP)
+- [ ] You are calling the tool, not writing prose — unless `CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` (then prose is the DEFAULT, not the tool) OR the documented failure fallback applies (then: the prose fallback's mandatory triad + a "reply with a letter" instruction, then STOP)
 - [ ] Non-ASCII characters (CJK / accents) written directly, NOT \u-escaped
 - [ ] If you had 5+ options, you split (or batched into ≤4-groups) — did NOT drop any
 - [ ] If you split, you checked dependencies between options before firing the chain

retro/SKILL.md

@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ If `SKILL_PREFIX` is `"true"`, suggest/invoke `/gstack-*` names. Disk paths stay
 
 Branch on the skill-start STATUS lines, in this order:
 
-1. **`CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` echoed** → do NOT call AskUserQuestion at all (neither native nor any `mcp__*__AskUserQuestion` variant): render EVERY decision brief as the **prose form** below and STOP. Proactive, not a failure reaction — Conductor disables native AUQ and its MCP variant is flaky (`[Tool result missing due to internal error]`). **Auto-decide preferences still apply first:** a surfaced `[plan-tune auto-decide] <id> → <option>` result means proceed with that option, no prose — enforced HERE since no tool call ever happens. Capture each Conductor prose brief with `bin/gstack-question-log` (the PostToolUse hook never fires on a prose path; `/plan-tune` learning depends on it).
+1. **`CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` echoed** → do NOT call AskUserQuestion at all (neither native nor any `mcp__*__AskUserQuestion` variant): render EVERY decision brief as the **prose form** below and STOP. Proactive, not a failure reaction — Conductor disables native AUQ and its MCP variant is flaky (`[Tool result missing due to internal error]`). **Auto-decide preferences still apply first** (failure-fallback item 1 below): proceed with a surfaced auto-decide option, no prose — enforced HERE since no tool call ever happens. Capture each Conductor prose brief with `bin/gstack-question-log` (the PostToolUse hook never fires on a prose path; `/plan-tune` learning depends on it).
 2. **Any `mcp__*__AskUserQuestion` variant in your tool list** → prefer it (hosts may disable native via `--disallowedTools`; calling native there silently fails). Same shape, same decision-brief format.
 3. **Unavailable (no variant) OR a call fails** → do NOT silently auto-decide or write the decision to the plan file as a substitute; follow the **failure fallback** below.
 
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ Branch on the skill-start STATUS lines, in this order:
 Tell three outcomes apart:
 
 1. **Auto-decide denial (NOT a failure).** The result contains `[plan-tune auto-decide] <id> → <option>` — the preference hook working as designed. Proceed with that option. Do NOT retry, do NOT fall back to prose.
-2. **Genuine failure** — no variant in your tool list, OR the variant is present but the call returns an error / missing result (MCP transport error, empty result, host bug — e.g. Conductor's MCP AskUserQuestion is flaky and returns `[Tool result missing due to internal error]`).
+2. **Genuine failure** — no variant in your tool list, OR the variant is present but the call returns an error / missing result (MCP transport error, empty result, host bug — e.g. Conductor's flaky MCP variant, see Tool resolution above).
    - If it was present and **errored** (not absent), retry the SAME call **once** — but only if no answer could have surfaced (a missing-result error can arrive after the user already saw the question; retrying would double-prompt, so if it may have reached them, treat as pending, don't retry).
    - Then branch on `SESSION_KIND` (echoed by the preamble; empty/absent ⇒ `interactive`):
      - `spawned` → defer to the **Spawned session** block: auto-choose the recommended option. Never prose, never BLOCKED.
@@ -113,8 +113,8 @@ Tell three outcomes apart:
 **Prose fallback — render the decision brief as a markdown message, not a tool call.** Same information as the tool format below, different structure (paragraphs, not ✅/❌ bullets). It MUST surface this triad:
 
 1. **A clear ELI10 of the issue itself** — plain English on what's being decided and why it matters (the question, not per-choice), naming the stakes. Lead with it.
-2. **Completeness scores per choice** — explicit `Completeness: X/10` on EACH choice (10 complete, 7 happy-path, 3 shortcut); use the kind-note when options differ in kind not coverage, but never silently drop the score.
-3. **The recommendation and why** — a `Recommendation: <choice> because <reason>` line plus the `(recommended)` marker on that choice.
+2. **Completeness scores per choice** — per the Completeness rule in the Format section below; never silently drop the score.
+3. **The recommendation and why** — the `Recommendation: <choice> because <reason>` line plus the `(recommended)` marker on that choice.
 
 Layout: a `D<N>` title + a one-line note to reply with a letter (in Conductor this is the normal path; elsewhere it means AskUserQuestion was unavailable or errored); the issue ELI10; the Recommendation line; then ONE paragraph per choice carrying its `(recommended)` marker, its `Completeness: X/10`, and 2-4 sentences of reasoning — never a bare bullet list; a closing `Net:` line. Split chains / 5+ options: one prose block per per-option call, in sequence. Then STOP and wait — the user's typed answer is the decision. In plan mode this satisfies end-of-turn like a tool call.
 
@@ -193,7 +193,7 @@ Before calling AskUserQuestion, verify:
 - [ ] (recommended) label on one option (even for neutral-posture)
 - [ ] Dual-scale effort labels on effort-bearing options (human / CC)
 - [ ] Net line closes the decision
-- [ ] You are calling the tool, not writing prose — unless `CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` (then prose is the DEFAULT, not the tool) OR the documented failure fallback applies (then: prose with the mandatory triad — issue ELI10, per-choice Completeness, Recommendation + `(recommended)` — and a "reply with a letter" instruction, then STOP)
+- [ ] You are calling the tool, not writing prose — unless `CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` (then prose is the DEFAULT, not the tool) OR the documented failure fallback applies (then: the prose fallback's mandatory triad + a "reply with a letter" instruction, then STOP)
 - [ ] Non-ASCII characters (CJK / accents) written directly, NOT \u-escaped
 - [ ] If you had 5+ options, you split (or batched into ≤4-groups) — did NOT drop any
 - [ ] If you split, you checked dependencies between options before firing the chain

review/SKILL.md

@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ If `SKILL_PREFIX` is `"true"`, suggest/invoke `/gstack-*` names. Disk paths stay
 
 Branch on the skill-start STATUS lines, in this order:
 
-1. **`CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` echoed** → do NOT call AskUserQuestion at all (neither native nor any `mcp__*__AskUserQuestion` variant): render EVERY decision brief as the **prose form** below and STOP. Proactive, not a failure reaction — Conductor disables native AUQ and its MCP variant is flaky (`[Tool result missing due to internal error]`). **Auto-decide preferences still apply first:** a surfaced `[plan-tune auto-decide] <id> → <option>` result means proceed with that option, no prose — enforced HERE since no tool call ever happens. Capture each Conductor prose brief with `bin/gstack-question-log` (the PostToolUse hook never fires on a prose path; `/plan-tune` learning depends on it).
+1. **`CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` echoed** → do NOT call AskUserQuestion at all (neither native nor any `mcp__*__AskUserQuestion` variant): render EVERY decision brief as the **prose form** below and STOP. Proactive, not a failure reaction — Conductor disables native AUQ and its MCP variant is flaky (`[Tool result missing due to internal error]`). **Auto-decide preferences still apply first** (failure-fallback item 1 below): proceed with a surfaced auto-decide option, no prose — enforced HERE since no tool call ever happens. Capture each Conductor prose brief with `bin/gstack-question-log` (the PostToolUse hook never fires on a prose path; `/plan-tune` learning depends on it).
 2. **Any `mcp__*__AskUserQuestion` variant in your tool list** → prefer it (hosts may disable native via `--disallowedTools`; calling native there silently fails). Same shape, same decision-brief format.
 3. **Unavailable (no variant) OR a call fails** → do NOT silently auto-decide or write the decision to the plan file as a substitute; follow the **failure fallback** below.
 
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ Branch on the skill-start STATUS lines, in this order:
 Tell three outcomes apart:
 
 1. **Auto-decide denial (NOT a failure).** The result contains `[plan-tune auto-decide] <id> → <option>` — the preference hook working as designed. Proceed with that option. Do NOT retry, do NOT fall back to prose.
-2. **Genuine failure** — no variant in your tool list, OR the variant is present but the call returns an error / missing result (MCP transport error, empty result, host bug — e.g. Conductor's MCP AskUserQuestion is flaky and returns `[Tool result missing due to internal error]`).
+2. **Genuine failure** — no variant in your tool list, OR the variant is present but the call returns an error / missing result (MCP transport error, empty result, host bug — e.g. Conductor's flaky MCP variant, see Tool resolution above).
    - If it was present and **errored** (not absent), retry the SAME call **once** — but only if no answer could have surfaced (a missing-result error can arrive after the user already saw the question; retrying would double-prompt, so if it may have reached them, treat as pending, don't retry).
    - Then branch on `SESSION_KIND` (echoed by the preamble; empty/absent ⇒ `interactive`):
      - `spawned` → defer to the **Spawned session** block: auto-choose the recommended option. Never prose, never BLOCKED.
@@ -95,8 +95,8 @@ Tell three outcomes apart:
 **Prose fallback — render the decision brief as a markdown message, not a tool call.** Same information as the tool format below, different structure (paragraphs, not ✅/❌ bullets). It MUST surface this triad:
 
 1. **A clear ELI10 of the issue itself** — plain English on what's being decided and why it matters (the question, not per-choice), naming the stakes. Lead with it.
-2. **Completeness scores per choice** — explicit `Completeness: X/10` on EACH choice (10 complete, 7 happy-path, 3 shortcut); use the kind-note when options differ in kind not coverage, but never silently drop the score.
-3. **The recommendation and why** — a `Recommendation: <choice> because <reason>` line plus the `(recommended)` marker on that choice.
+2. **Completeness scores per choice** — per the Completeness rule in the Format section below; never silently drop the score.
+3. **The recommendation and why** — the `Recommendation: <choice> because <reason>` line plus the `(recommended)` marker on that choice.
 
 Layout: a `D<N>` title + a one-line note to reply with a letter (in Conductor this is the normal path; elsewhere it means AskUserQuestion was unavailable or errored); the issue ELI10; the Recommendation line; then ONE paragraph per choice carrying its `(recommended)` marker, its `Completeness: X/10`, and 2-4 sentences of reasoning — never a bare bullet list; a closing `Net:` line. Split chains / 5+ options: one prose block per per-option call, in sequence. Then STOP and wait — the user's typed answer is the decision. In plan mode this satisfies end-of-turn like a tool call.
 
@@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ Before calling AskUserQuestion, verify:
 - [ ] (recommended) label on one option (even for neutral-posture)
 - [ ] Dual-scale effort labels on effort-bearing options (human / CC)
 - [ ] Net line closes the decision
-- [ ] You are calling the tool, not writing prose — unless `CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` (then prose is the DEFAULT, not the tool) OR the documented failure fallback applies (then: prose with the mandatory triad — issue ELI10, per-choice Completeness, Recommendation + `(recommended)` — and a "reply with a letter" instruction, then STOP)
+- [ ] You are calling the tool, not writing prose — unless `CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` (then prose is the DEFAULT, not the tool) OR the documented failure fallback applies (then: the prose fallback's mandatory triad + a "reply with a letter" instruction, then STOP)
 - [ ] Non-ASCII characters (CJK / accents) written directly, NOT \u-escaped
 - [ ] If you had 5+ options, you split (or batched into ≤4-groups) — did NOT drop any
 - [ ] If you split, you checked dependencies between options before firing the chain

scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-ask-user-format.ts

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ export function generateAskUserFormat(ctx: TemplateContext): string {
 
 Branch on the skill-start STATUS lines, in this order:
 
-1. **\`CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true\` echoed** → do NOT call AskUserQuestion at all (neither native nor any \`mcp__*__AskUserQuestion\` variant): render EVERY decision brief as the **prose form** below and STOP. Proactive, not a failure reaction — Conductor disables native AUQ and its MCP variant is flaky (\`[Tool result missing due to internal error]\`). **Auto-decide preferences still apply first:** a surfaced \`[plan-tune auto-decide] <id> → <option>\` result means proceed with that option, no prose — enforced HERE since no tool call ever happens. Capture each Conductor prose brief with \`bin/gstack-question-log\` (the PostToolUse hook never fires on a prose path; \`/plan-tune\` learning depends on it).
+1. **\`CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true\` echoed** → do NOT call AskUserQuestion at all (neither native nor any \`mcp__*__AskUserQuestion\` variant): render EVERY decision brief as the **prose form** below and STOP. Proactive, not a failure reaction — Conductor disables native AUQ and its MCP variant is flaky (\`[Tool result missing due to internal error]\`). **Auto-decide preferences still apply first** (failure-fallback item 1 below): proceed with a surfaced auto-decide option, no prose — enforced HERE since no tool call ever happens. Capture each Conductor prose brief with \`bin/gstack-question-log\` (the PostToolUse hook never fires on a prose path; \`/plan-tune\` learning depends on it).
 2. **Any \`mcp__*__AskUserQuestion\` variant in your tool list** → prefer it (hosts may disable native via \`--disallowedTools\`; calling native there silently fails). Same shape, same decision-brief format.
 3. **Unavailable (no variant) OR a call fails** → do NOT silently auto-decide or write the decision to the plan file as a substitute; follow the **failure fallback** below.
 
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ Branch on the skill-start STATUS lines, in this order:
 Tell three outcomes apart:
 
 1. **Auto-decide denial (NOT a failure).** The result contains \`[plan-tune auto-decide] <id> → <option>\` — the preference hook working as designed. Proceed with that option. Do NOT retry, do NOT fall back to prose.
-2. **Genuine failure** — no variant in your tool list, OR the variant is present but the call returns an error / missing result (MCP transport error, empty result, host bug — e.g. Conductor's MCP AskUserQuestion is flaky and returns \`[Tool result missing due to internal error]\`).
+2. **Genuine failure** — no variant in your tool list, OR the variant is present but the call returns an error / missing result (MCP transport error, empty result, host bug — e.g. Conductor's flaky MCP variant, see Tool resolution above).
    - If it was present and **errored** (not absent), retry the SAME call **once** — but only if no answer could have surfaced (a missing-result error can arrive after the user already saw the question; retrying would double-prompt, so if it may have reached them, treat as pending, don't retry).
    - Then branch on \`SESSION_KIND\` (echoed by the preamble; empty/absent ⇒ \`interactive\`):
      - \`spawned\` → defer to the **Spawned session** block: auto-choose the recommended option. Never prose, never BLOCKED.
@@ -26,8 +26,8 @@ Tell three outcomes apart:
 **Prose fallback — render the decision brief as a markdown message, not a tool call.** Same information as the tool format below, different structure (paragraphs, not ✅/❌ bullets). It MUST surface this triad:
 
 1. **A clear ELI10 of the issue itself** — plain English on what's being decided and why it matters (the question, not per-choice), naming the stakes. Lead with it.
-2. **Completeness scores per choice** — explicit \`Completeness: X/10\` on EACH choice (10 complete, 7 happy-path, 3 shortcut); use the kind-note when options differ in kind not coverage, but never silently drop the score.
-3. **The recommendation and why** — a \`Recommendation: <choice> because <reason>\` line plus the \`(recommended)\` marker on that choice.
+2. **Completeness scores per choice** — per the Completeness rule in the Format section below; never silently drop the score.
+3. **The recommendation and why** — the \`Recommendation: <choice> because <reason>\` line plus the \`(recommended)\` marker on that choice.
 
 Layout: a \`D<N>\` title + a one-line note to reply with a letter (in Conductor this is the normal path; elsewhere it means AskUserQuestion was unavailable or errored); the issue ELI10; the Recommendation line; then ONE paragraph per choice carrying its \`(recommended)\` marker, its \`Completeness: X/10\`, and 2-4 sentences of reasoning — never a bare bullet list; a closing \`Net:\` line. Split chains / 5+ options: one prose block per per-option call, in sequence. Then STOP and wait — the user's typed answer is the decision. In plan mode this satisfies end-of-turn like a tool call.
 
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ Before calling AskUserQuestion, verify:
 - [ ] (recommended) label on one option (even for neutral-posture)
 - [ ] Dual-scale effort labels on effort-bearing options (human / CC)
 - [ ] Net line closes the decision
-- [ ] You are calling the tool, not writing prose — unless \`CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true\` (then prose is the DEFAULT, not the tool) OR the documented failure fallback applies (then: prose with the mandatory triad — issue ELI10, per-choice Completeness, Recommendation + \`(recommended)\` — and a "reply with a letter" instruction, then STOP)
+- [ ] You are calling the tool, not writing prose — unless \`CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true\` (then prose is the DEFAULT, not the tool) OR the documented failure fallback applies (then: the prose fallback's mandatory triad + a "reply with a letter" instruction, then STOP)
 - [ ] Non-ASCII characters (CJK / accents) written directly, NOT \\u-escaped
 - [ ] If you had 5+ options, you split (or batched into ≤4-groups) — did NOT drop any
 - [ ] If you split, you checked dependencies between options before firing the chain

setup-deploy/SKILL.md

@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ If `SKILL_PREFIX` is `"true"`, suggest/invoke `/gstack-*` names. Disk paths stay
 
 Branch on the skill-start STATUS lines, in this order:
 
-1. **`CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` echoed** → do NOT call AskUserQuestion at all (neither native nor any `mcp__*__AskUserQuestion` variant): render EVERY decision brief as the **prose form** below and STOP. Proactive, not a failure reaction — Conductor disables native AUQ and its MCP variant is flaky (`[Tool result missing due to internal error]`). **Auto-decide preferences still apply first:** a surfaced `[plan-tune auto-decide] <id> → <option>` result means proceed with that option, no prose — enforced HERE since no tool call ever happens. Capture each Conductor prose brief with `bin/gstack-question-log` (the PostToolUse hook never fires on a prose path; `/plan-tune` learning depends on it).
+1. **`CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` echoed** → do NOT call AskUserQuestion at all (neither native nor any `mcp__*__AskUserQuestion` variant): render EVERY decision brief as the **prose form** below and STOP. Proactive, not a failure reaction — Conductor disables native AUQ and its MCP variant is flaky (`[Tool result missing due to internal error]`). **Auto-decide preferences still apply first** (failure-fallback item 1 below): proceed with a surfaced auto-decide option, no prose — enforced HERE since no tool call ever happens. Capture each Conductor prose brief with `bin/gstack-question-log` (the PostToolUse hook never fires on a prose path; `/plan-tune` learning depends on it).
 2. **Any `mcp__*__AskUserQuestion` variant in your tool list** → prefer it (hosts may disable native via `--disallowedTools`; calling native there silently fails). Same shape, same decision-brief format.
 3. **Unavailable (no variant) OR a call fails** → do NOT silently auto-decide or write the decision to the plan file as a substitute; follow the **failure fallback** below.
 
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ Branch on the skill-start STATUS lines, in this order:
 Tell three outcomes apart:
 
 1. **Auto-decide denial (NOT a failure).** The result contains `[plan-tune auto-decide] <id> → <option>` — the preference hook working as designed. Proceed with that option. Do NOT retry, do NOT fall back to prose.
-2. **Genuine failure** — no variant in your tool list, OR the variant is present but the call returns an error / missing result (MCP transport error, empty result, host bug — e.g. Conductor's MCP AskUserQuestion is flaky and returns `[Tool result missing due to internal error]`).
+2. **Genuine failure** — no variant in your tool list, OR the variant is present but the call returns an error / missing result (MCP transport error, empty result, host bug — e.g. Conductor's flaky MCP variant, see Tool resolution above).
    - If it was present and **errored** (not absent), retry the SAME call **once** — but only if no answer could have surfaced (a missing-result error can arrive after the user already saw the question; retrying would double-prompt, so if it may have reached them, treat as pending, don't retry).
    - Then branch on `SESSION_KIND` (echoed by the preamble; empty/absent ⇒ `interactive`):
      - `spawned` → defer to the **Spawned session** block: auto-choose the recommended option. Never prose, never BLOCKED.
@@ -94,8 +94,8 @@ Tell three outcomes apart:
 **Prose fallback — render the decision brief as a markdown message, not a tool call.** Same information as the tool format below, different structure (paragraphs, not ✅/❌ bullets). It MUST surface this triad:
 
 1. **A clear ELI10 of the issue itself** — plain English on what's being decided and why it matters (the question, not per-choice), naming the stakes. Lead with it.
-2. **Completeness scores per choice** — explicit `Completeness: X/10` on EACH choice (10 complete, 7 happy-path, 3 shortcut); use the kind-note when options differ in kind not coverage, but never silently drop the score.
-3. **The recommendation and why** — a `Recommendation: <choice> because <reason>` line plus the `(recommended)` marker on that choice.
+2. **Completeness scores per choice** — per the Completeness rule in the Format section below; never silently drop the score.
+3. **The recommendation and why** — the `Recommendation: <choice> because <reason>` line plus the `(recommended)` marker on that choice.
 
 Layout: a `D<N>` title + a one-line note to reply with a letter (in Conductor this is the normal path; elsewhere it means AskUserQuestion was unavailable or errored); the issue ELI10; the Recommendation line; then ONE paragraph per choice carrying its `(recommended)` marker, its `Completeness: X/10`, and 2-4 sentences of reasoning — never a bare bullet list; a closing `Net:` line. Split chains / 5+ options: one prose block per per-option call, in sequence. Then STOP and wait — the user's typed answer is the decision. In plan mode this satisfies end-of-turn like a tool call.
 
@@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ Before calling AskUserQuestion, verify:
 - [ ] (recommended) label on one option (even for neutral-posture)
 - [ ] Dual-scale effort labels on effort-bearing options (human / CC)
 - [ ] Net line closes the decision
-- [ ] You are calling the tool, not writing prose — unless `CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` (then prose is the DEFAULT, not the tool) OR the documented failure fallback applies (then: prose with the mandatory triad — issue ELI10, per-choice Completeness, Recommendation + `(recommended)` — and a "reply with a letter" instruction, then STOP)
+- [ ] You are calling the tool, not writing prose — unless `CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` (then prose is the DEFAULT, not the tool) OR the documented failure fallback applies (then: the prose fallback's mandatory triad + a "reply with a letter" instruction, then STOP)
 - [ ] Non-ASCII characters (CJK / accents) written directly, NOT \u-escaped
 - [ ] If you had 5+ options, you split (or batched into ≤4-groups) — did NOT drop any
 - [ ] If you split, you checked dependencies between options before firing the chain

setup-gbrain/SKILL.md

@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ If `SKILL_PREFIX` is `"true"`, suggest/invoke `/gstack-*` names. Disk paths stay
 
 Branch on the skill-start STATUS lines, in this order:
 
-1. **`CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` echoed** → do NOT call AskUserQuestion at all (neither native nor any `mcp__*__AskUserQuestion` variant): render EVERY decision brief as the **prose form** below and STOP. Proactive, not a failure reaction — Conductor disables native AUQ and its MCP variant is flaky (`[Tool result missing due to internal error]`). **Auto-decide preferences still apply first:** a surfaced `[plan-tune auto-decide] <id> → <option>` result means proceed with that option, no prose — enforced HERE since no tool call ever happens. Capture each Conductor prose brief with `bin/gstack-question-log` (the PostToolUse hook never fires on a prose path; `/plan-tune` learning depends on it).
+1. **`CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` echoed** → do NOT call AskUserQuestion at all (neither native nor any `mcp__*__AskUserQuestion` variant): render EVERY decision brief as the **prose form** below and STOP. Proactive, not a failure reaction — Conductor disables native AUQ and its MCP variant is flaky (`[Tool result missing due to internal error]`). **Auto-decide preferences still apply first** (failure-fallback item 1 below): proceed with a surfaced auto-decide option, no prose — enforced HERE since no tool call ever happens. Capture each Conductor prose brief with `bin/gstack-question-log` (the PostToolUse hook never fires on a prose path; `/plan-tune` learning depends on it).
 2. **Any `mcp__*__AskUserQuestion` variant in your tool list** → prefer it (hosts may disable native via `--disallowedTools`; calling native there silently fails). Same shape, same decision-brief format.
 3. **Unavailable (no variant) OR a call fails** → do NOT silently auto-decide or write the decision to the plan file as a substitute; follow the **failure fallback** below.
 
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ Branch on the skill-start STATUS lines, in this order:
 Tell three outcomes apart:
 
 1. **Auto-decide denial (NOT a failure).** The result contains `[plan-tune auto-decide] <id> → <option>` — the preference hook working as designed. Proceed with that option. Do NOT retry, do NOT fall back to prose.
-2. **Genuine failure** — no variant in your tool list, OR the variant is present but the call returns an error / missing result (MCP transport error, empty result, host bug — e.g. Conductor's MCP AskUserQuestion is flaky and returns `[Tool result missing due to internal error]`).
+2. **Genuine failure** — no variant in your tool list, OR the variant is present but the call returns an error / missing result (MCP transport error, empty result, host bug — e.g. Conductor's flaky MCP variant, see Tool resolution above).
    - If it was present and **errored** (not absent), retry the SAME call **once** — but only if no answer could have surfaced (a missing-result error can arrive after the user already saw the question; retrying would double-prompt, so if it may have reached them, treat as pending, don't retry).
    - Then branch on `SESSION_KIND` (echoed by the preamble; empty/absent ⇒ `interactive`):
      - `spawned` → defer to the **Spawned session** block: auto-choose the recommended option. Never prose, never BLOCKED.
@@ -93,8 +93,8 @@ Tell three outcomes apart:
 **Prose fallback — render the decision brief as a markdown message, not a tool call.** Same information as the tool format below, different structure (paragraphs, not ✅/❌ bullets). It MUST surface this triad:
 
 1. **A clear ELI10 of the issue itself** — plain English on what's being decided and why it matters (the question, not per-choice), naming the stakes. Lead with it.
-2. **Completeness scores per choice** — explicit `Completeness: X/10` on EACH choice (10 complete, 7 happy-path, 3 shortcut); use the kind-note when options differ in kind not coverage, but never silently drop the score.
-3. **The recommendation and why** — a `Recommendation: <choice> because <reason>` line plus the `(recommended)` marker on that choice.
+2. **Completeness scores per choice** — per the Completeness rule in the Format section below; never silently drop the score.
+3. **The recommendation and why** — the `Recommendation: <choice> because <reason>` line plus the `(recommended)` marker on that choice.
 
 Layout: a `D<N>` title + a one-line note to reply with a letter (in Conductor this is the normal path; elsewhere it means AskUserQuestion was unavailable or errored); the issue ELI10; the Recommendation line; then ONE paragraph per choice carrying its `(recommended)` marker, its `Completeness: X/10`, and 2-4 sentences of reasoning — never a bare bullet list; a closing `Net:` line. Split chains / 5+ options: one prose block per per-option call, in sequence. Then STOP and wait — the user's typed answer is the decision. In plan mode this satisfies end-of-turn like a tool call.
 
@@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ Before calling AskUserQuestion, verify:
 - [ ] (recommended) label on one option (even for neutral-posture)
 - [ ] Dual-scale effort labels on effort-bearing options (human / CC)
 - [ ] Net line closes the decision
-- [ ] You are calling the tool, not writing prose — unless `CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` (then prose is the DEFAULT, not the tool) OR the documented failure fallback applies (then: prose with the mandatory triad — issue ELI10, per-choice Completeness, Recommendation + `(recommended)` — and a "reply with a letter" instruction, then STOP)
+- [ ] You are calling the tool, not writing prose — unless `CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` (then prose is the DEFAULT, not the tool) OR the documented failure fallback applies (then: the prose fallback's mandatory triad + a "reply with a letter" instruction, then STOP)
 - [ ] Non-ASCII characters (CJK / accents) written directly, NOT \u-escaped
 - [ ] If you had 5+ options, you split (or batched into ≤4-groups) — did NOT drop any
 - [ ] If you split, you checked dependencies between options before firing the chain

ship/SKILL.md

@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ If `SKILL_PREFIX` is `"true"`, suggest/invoke `/gstack-*` names. Disk paths stay
 
 Branch on the skill-start STATUS lines, in this order:
 
-1. **`CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` echoed** → do NOT call AskUserQuestion at all (neither native nor any `mcp__*__AskUserQuestion` variant): render EVERY decision brief as the **prose form** below and STOP. Proactive, not a failure reaction — Conductor disables native AUQ and its MCP variant is flaky (`[Tool result missing due to internal error]`). **Auto-decide preferences still apply first:** a surfaced `[plan-tune auto-decide] <id> → <option>` result means proceed with that option, no prose — enforced HERE since no tool call ever happens. Capture each Conductor prose brief with `bin/gstack-question-log` (the PostToolUse hook never fires on a prose path; `/plan-tune` learning depends on it).
+1. **`CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` echoed** → do NOT call AskUserQuestion at all (neither native nor any `mcp__*__AskUserQuestion` variant): render EVERY decision brief as the **prose form** below and STOP. Proactive, not a failure reaction — Conductor disables native AUQ and its MCP variant is flaky (`[Tool result missing due to internal error]`). **Auto-decide preferences still apply first** (failure-fallback item 1 below): proceed with a surfaced auto-decide option, no prose — enforced HERE since no tool call ever happens. Capture each Conductor prose brief with `bin/gstack-question-log` (the PostToolUse hook never fires on a prose path; `/plan-tune` learning depends on it).
 2. **Any `mcp__*__AskUserQuestion` variant in your tool list** → prefer it (hosts may disable native via `--disallowedTools`; calling native there silently fails). Same shape, same decision-brief format.
 3. **Unavailable (no variant) OR a call fails** → do NOT silently auto-decide or write the decision to the plan file as a substitute; follow the **failure fallback** below.
 
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ Branch on the skill-start STATUS lines, in this order:
 Tell three outcomes apart:
 
 1. **Auto-decide denial (NOT a failure).** The result contains `[plan-tune auto-decide] <id> → <option>` — the preference hook working as designed. Proceed with that option. Do NOT retry, do NOT fall back to prose.
-2. **Genuine failure** — no variant in your tool list, OR the variant is present but the call returns an error / missing result (MCP transport error, empty result, host bug — e.g. Conductor's MCP AskUserQuestion is flaky and returns `[Tool result missing due to internal error]`).
+2. **Genuine failure** — no variant in your tool list, OR the variant is present but the call returns an error / missing result (MCP transport error, empty result, host bug — e.g. Conductor's flaky MCP variant, see Tool resolution above).
    - If it was present and **errored** (not absent), retry the SAME call **once** — but only if no answer could have surfaced (a missing-result error can arrive after the user already saw the question; retrying would double-prompt, so if it may have reached them, treat as pending, don't retry).
    - Then branch on `SESSION_KIND` (echoed by the preamble; empty/absent ⇒ `interactive`):
      - `spawned` → defer to the **Spawned session** block: auto-choose the recommended option. Never prose, never BLOCKED.
@@ -95,8 +95,8 @@ Tell three outcomes apart:
 **Prose fallback — render the decision brief as a markdown message, not a tool call.** Same information as the tool format below, different structure (paragraphs, not ✅/❌ bullets). It MUST surface this triad:
 
 1. **A clear ELI10 of the issue itself** — plain English on what's being decided and why it matters (the question, not per-choice), naming the stakes. Lead with it.
-2. **Completeness scores per choice** — explicit `Completeness: X/10` on EACH choice (10 complete, 7 happy-path, 3 shortcut); use the kind-note when options differ in kind not coverage, but never silently drop the score.
-3. **The recommendation and why** — a `Recommendation: <choice> because <reason>` line plus the `(recommended)` marker on that choice.
+2. **Completeness scores per choice** — per the Completeness rule in the Format section below; never silently drop the score.
+3. **The recommendation and why** — the `Recommendation: <choice> because <reason>` line plus the `(recommended)` marker on that choice.
 
 Layout: a `D<N>` title + a one-line note to reply with a letter (in Conductor this is the normal path; elsewhere it means AskUserQuestion was unavailable or errored); the issue ELI10; the Recommendation line; then ONE paragraph per choice carrying its `(recommended)` marker, its `Completeness: X/10`, and 2-4 sentences of reasoning — never a bare bullet list; a closing `Net:` line. Split chains / 5+ options: one prose block per per-option call, in sequence. Then STOP and wait — the user's typed answer is the decision. In plan mode this satisfies end-of-turn like a tool call.
 
@@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ Before calling AskUserQuestion, verify:
 - [ ] (recommended) label on one option (even for neutral-posture)
 - [ ] Dual-scale effort labels on effort-bearing options (human / CC)
 - [ ] Net line closes the decision
-- [ ] You are calling the tool, not writing prose — unless `CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` (then prose is the DEFAULT, not the tool) OR the documented failure fallback applies (then: prose with the mandatory triad — issue ELI10, per-choice Completeness, Recommendation + `(recommended)` — and a "reply with a letter" instruction, then STOP)
+- [ ] You are calling the tool, not writing prose — unless `CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` (then prose is the DEFAULT, not the tool) OR the documented failure fallback applies (then: the prose fallback's mandatory triad + a "reply with a letter" instruction, then STOP)
 - [ ] Non-ASCII characters (CJK / accents) written directly, NOT \u-escaped
 - [ ] If you had 5+ options, you split (or batched into ≤4-groups) — did NOT drop any
 - [ ] If you split, you checked dependencies between options before firing the chain

skillify/SKILL.md

@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ If `SKILL_PREFIX` is `"true"`, suggest/invoke `/gstack-*` names. Disk paths stay
 
 Branch on the skill-start STATUS lines, in this order:
 
-1. **`CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` echoed** → do NOT call AskUserQuestion at all (neither native nor any `mcp__*__AskUserQuestion` variant): render EVERY decision brief as the **prose form** below and STOP. Proactive, not a failure reaction — Conductor disables native AUQ and its MCP variant is flaky (`[Tool result missing due to internal error]`). **Auto-decide preferences still apply first:** a surfaced `[plan-tune auto-decide] <id> → <option>` result means proceed with that option, no prose — enforced HERE since no tool call ever happens. Capture each Conductor prose brief with `bin/gstack-question-log` (the PostToolUse hook never fires on a prose path; `/plan-tune` learning depends on it).
+1. **`CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` echoed** → do NOT call AskUserQuestion at all (neither native nor any `mcp__*__AskUserQuestion` variant): render EVERY decision brief as the **prose form** below and STOP. Proactive, not a failure reaction — Conductor disables native AUQ and its MCP variant is flaky (`[Tool result missing due to internal error]`). **Auto-decide preferences still apply first** (failure-fallback item 1 below): proceed with a surfaced auto-decide option, no prose — enforced HERE since no tool call ever happens. Capture each Conductor prose brief with `bin/gstack-question-log` (the PostToolUse hook never fires on a prose path; `/plan-tune` learning depends on it).
 2. **Any `mcp__*__AskUserQuestion` variant in your tool list** → prefer it (hosts may disable native via `--disallowedTools`; calling native there silently fails). Same shape, same decision-brief format.
 3. **Unavailable (no variant) OR a call fails** → do NOT silently auto-decide or write the decision to the plan file as a substitute; follow the **failure fallback** below.
 
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ Branch on the skill-start STATUS lines, in this order:
 Tell three outcomes apart:
 
 1. **Auto-decide denial (NOT a failure).** The result contains `[plan-tune auto-decide] <id> → <option>` — the preference hook working as designed. Proceed with that option. Do NOT retry, do NOT fall back to prose.
-2. **Genuine failure** — no variant in your tool list, OR the variant is present but the call returns an error / missing result (MCP transport error, empty result, host bug — e.g. Conductor's MCP AskUserQuestion is flaky and returns `[Tool result missing due to internal error]`).
+2. **Genuine failure** — no variant in your tool list, OR the variant is present but the call returns an error / missing result (MCP transport error, empty result, host bug — e.g. Conductor's flaky MCP variant, see Tool resolution above).
    - If it was present and **errored** (not absent), retry the SAME call **once** — but only if no answer could have surfaced (a missing-result error can arrive after the user already saw the question; retrying would double-prompt, so if it may have reached them, treat as pending, don't retry).
    - Then branch on `SESSION_KIND` (echoed by the preamble; empty/absent ⇒ `interactive`):
      - `spawned` → defer to the **Spawned session** block: auto-choose the recommended option. Never prose, never BLOCKED.
@@ -92,8 +92,8 @@ Tell three outcomes apart:
 **Prose fallback — render the decision brief as a markdown message, not a tool call.** Same information as the tool format below, different structure (paragraphs, not ✅/❌ bullets). It MUST surface this triad:
 
 1. **A clear ELI10 of the issue itself** — plain English on what's being decided and why it matters (the question, not per-choice), naming the stakes. Lead with it.
-2. **Completeness scores per choice** — explicit `Completeness: X/10` on EACH choice (10 complete, 7 happy-path, 3 shortcut); use the kind-note when options differ in kind not coverage, but never silently drop the score.
-3. **The recommendation and why** — a `Recommendation: <choice> because <reason>` line plus the `(recommended)` marker on that choice.
+2. **Completeness scores per choice** — per the Completeness rule in the Format section below; never silently drop the score.
+3. **The recommendation and why** — the `Recommendation: <choice> because <reason>` line plus the `(recommended)` marker on that choice.
 
 Layout: a `D<N>` title + a one-line note to reply with a letter (in Conductor this is the normal path; elsewhere it means AskUserQuestion was unavailable or errored); the issue ELI10; the Recommendation line; then ONE paragraph per choice carrying its `(recommended)` marker, its `Completeness: X/10`, and 2-4 sentences of reasoning — never a bare bullet list; a closing `Net:` line. Split chains / 5+ options: one prose block per per-option call, in sequence. Then STOP and wait — the user's typed answer is the decision. In plan mode this satisfies end-of-turn like a tool call.
 
@@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ Before calling AskUserQuestion, verify:
 - [ ] (recommended) label on one option (even for neutral-posture)
 - [ ] Dual-scale effort labels on effort-bearing options (human / CC)
 - [ ] Net line closes the decision
-- [ ] You are calling the tool, not writing prose — unless `CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` (then prose is the DEFAULT, not the tool) OR the documented failure fallback applies (then: prose with the mandatory triad — issue ELI10, per-choice Completeness, Recommendation + `(recommended)` — and a "reply with a letter" instruction, then STOP)
+- [ ] You are calling the tool, not writing prose — unless `CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` (then prose is the DEFAULT, not the tool) OR the documented failure fallback applies (then: the prose fallback's mandatory triad + a "reply with a letter" instruction, then STOP)
 - [ ] Non-ASCII characters (CJK / accents) written directly, NOT \u-escaped
 - [ ] If you had 5+ options, you split (or batched into ≤4-groups) — did NOT drop any
 - [ ] If you split, you checked dependencies between options before firing the chain

spec/SKILL.md

@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ If `SKILL_PREFIX` is `"true"`, suggest/invoke `/gstack-*` names. Disk paths stay
 
 Branch on the skill-start STATUS lines, in this order:
 
-1. **`CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` echoed** → do NOT call AskUserQuestion at all (neither native nor any `mcp__*__AskUserQuestion` variant): render EVERY decision brief as the **prose form** below and STOP. Proactive, not a failure reaction — Conductor disables native AUQ and its MCP variant is flaky (`[Tool result missing due to internal error]`). **Auto-decide preferences still apply first:** a surfaced `[plan-tune auto-decide] <id> → <option>` result means proceed with that option, no prose — enforced HERE since no tool call ever happens. Capture each Conductor prose brief with `bin/gstack-question-log` (the PostToolUse hook never fires on a prose path; `/plan-tune` learning depends on it).
+1. **`CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` echoed** → do NOT call AskUserQuestion at all (neither native nor any `mcp__*__AskUserQuestion` variant): render EVERY decision brief as the **prose form** below and STOP. Proactive, not a failure reaction — Conductor disables native AUQ and its MCP variant is flaky (`[Tool result missing due to internal error]`). **Auto-decide preferences still apply first** (failure-fallback item 1 below): proceed with a surfaced auto-decide option, no prose — enforced HERE since no tool call ever happens. Capture each Conductor prose brief with `bin/gstack-question-log` (the PostToolUse hook never fires on a prose path; `/plan-tune` learning depends on it).
 2. **Any `mcp__*__AskUserQuestion` variant in your tool list** → prefer it (hosts may disable native via `--disallowedTools`; calling native there silently fails). Same shape, same decision-brief format.
 3. **Unavailable (no variant) OR a call fails** → do NOT silently auto-decide or write the decision to the plan file as a substitute; follow the **failure fallback** below.
 
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ Branch on the skill-start STATUS lines, in this order:
 Tell three outcomes apart:
 
 1. **Auto-decide denial (NOT a failure).** The result contains `[plan-tune auto-decide] <id> → <option>` — the preference hook working as designed. Proceed with that option. Do NOT retry, do NOT fall back to prose.
-2. **Genuine failure** — no variant in your tool list, OR the variant is present but the call returns an error / missing result (MCP transport error, empty result, host bug — e.g. Conductor's MCP AskUserQuestion is flaky and returns `[Tool result missing due to internal error]`).
+2. **Genuine failure** — no variant in your tool list, OR the variant is present but the call returns an error / missing result (MCP transport error, empty result, host bug — e.g. Conductor's flaky MCP variant, see Tool resolution above).
    - If it was present and **errored** (not absent), retry the SAME call **once** — but only if no answer could have surfaced (a missing-result error can arrive after the user already saw the question; retrying would double-prompt, so if it may have reached them, treat as pending, don't retry).
    - Then branch on `SESSION_KIND` (echoed by the preamble; empty/absent ⇒ `interactive`):
      - `spawned` → defer to the **Spawned session** block: auto-choose the recommended option. Never prose, never BLOCKED.
@@ -93,8 +93,8 @@ Tell three outcomes apart:
 **Prose fallback — render the decision brief as a markdown message, not a tool call.** Same information as the tool format below, different structure (paragraphs, not ✅/❌ bullets). It MUST surface this triad:
 
 1. **A clear ELI10 of the issue itself** — plain English on what's being decided and why it matters (the question, not per-choice), naming the stakes. Lead with it.
-2. **Completeness scores per choice** — explicit `Completeness: X/10` on EACH choice (10 complete, 7 happy-path, 3 shortcut); use the kind-note when options differ in kind not coverage, but never silently drop the score.
-3. **The recommendation and why** — a `Recommendation: <choice> because <reason>` line plus the `(recommended)` marker on that choice.
+2. **Completeness scores per choice** — per the Completeness rule in the Format section below; never silently drop the score.
+3. **The recommendation and why** — the `Recommendation: <choice> because <reason>` line plus the `(recommended)` marker on that choice.
 
 Layout: a `D<N>` title + a one-line note to reply with a letter (in Conductor this is the normal path; elsewhere it means AskUserQuestion was unavailable or errored); the issue ELI10; the Recommendation line; then ONE paragraph per choice carrying its `(recommended)` marker, its `Completeness: X/10`, and 2-4 sentences of reasoning — never a bare bullet list; a closing `Net:` line. Split chains / 5+ options: one prose block per per-option call, in sequence. Then STOP and wait — the user's typed answer is the decision. In plan mode this satisfies end-of-turn like a tool call.
 
@@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ Before calling AskUserQuestion, verify:
 - [ ] (recommended) label on one option (even for neutral-posture)
 - [ ] Dual-scale effort labels on effort-bearing options (human / CC)
 - [ ] Net line closes the decision
-- [ ] You are calling the tool, not writing prose — unless `CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` (then prose is the DEFAULT, not the tool) OR the documented failure fallback applies (then: prose with the mandatory triad — issue ELI10, per-choice Completeness, Recommendation + `(recommended)` — and a "reply with a letter" instruction, then STOP)
+- [ ] You are calling the tool, not writing prose — unless `CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` (then prose is the DEFAULT, not the tool) OR the documented failure fallback applies (then: the prose fallback's mandatory triad + a "reply with a letter" instruction, then STOP)
 - [ ] Non-ASCII characters (CJK / accents) written directly, NOT \u-escaped
 - [ ] If you had 5+ options, you split (or batched into ≤4-groups) — did NOT drop any
 - [ ] If you split, you checked dependencies between options before firing the chain

sync-gbrain/SKILL.md

@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ If `SKILL_PREFIX` is `"true"`, suggest/invoke `/gstack-*` names. Disk paths stay
 
 Branch on the skill-start STATUS lines, in this order:
 
-1. **`CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` echoed** → do NOT call AskUserQuestion at all (neither native nor any `mcp__*__AskUserQuestion` variant): render EVERY decision brief as the **prose form** below and STOP. Proactive, not a failure reaction — Conductor disables native AUQ and its MCP variant is flaky (`[Tool result missing due to internal error]`). **Auto-decide preferences still apply first:** a surfaced `[plan-tune auto-decide] <id> → <option>` result means proceed with that option, no prose — enforced HERE since no tool call ever happens. Capture each Conductor prose brief with `bin/gstack-question-log` (the PostToolUse hook never fires on a prose path; `/plan-tune` learning depends on it).
+1. **`CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` echoed** → do NOT call AskUserQuestion at all (neither native nor any `mcp__*__AskUserQuestion` variant): render EVERY decision brief as the **prose form** below and STOP. Proactive, not a failure reaction — Conductor disables native AUQ and its MCP variant is flaky (`[Tool result missing due to internal error]`). **Auto-decide preferences still apply first** (failure-fallback item 1 below): proceed with a surfaced auto-decide option, no prose — enforced HERE since no tool call ever happens. Capture each Conductor prose brief with `bin/gstack-question-log` (the PostToolUse hook never fires on a prose path; `/plan-tune` learning depends on it).
 2. **Any `mcp__*__AskUserQuestion` variant in your tool list** → prefer it (hosts may disable native via `--disallowedTools`; calling native there silently fails). Same shape, same decision-brief format.
 3. **Unavailable (no variant) OR a call fails** → do NOT silently auto-decide or write the decision to the plan file as a substitute; follow the **failure fallback** below.
 
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ Branch on the skill-start STATUS lines, in this order:
 Tell three outcomes apart:
 
 1. **Auto-decide denial (NOT a failure).** The result contains `[plan-tune auto-decide] <id> → <option>` — the preference hook working as designed. Proceed with that option. Do NOT retry, do NOT fall back to prose.
-2. **Genuine failure** — no variant in your tool list, OR the variant is present but the call returns an error / missing result (MCP transport error, empty result, host bug — e.g. Conductor's MCP AskUserQuestion is flaky and returns `[Tool result missing due to internal error]`).
+2. **Genuine failure** — no variant in your tool list, OR the variant is present but the call returns an error / missing result (MCP transport error, empty result, host bug — e.g. Conductor's flaky MCP variant, see Tool resolution above).
    - If it was present and **errored** (not absent), retry the SAME call **once** — but only if no answer could have surfaced (a missing-result error can arrive after the user already saw the question; retrying would double-prompt, so if it may have reached them, treat as pending, don't retry).
    - Then branch on `SESSION_KIND` (echoed by the preamble; empty/absent ⇒ `interactive`):
      - `spawned` → defer to the **Spawned session** block: auto-choose the recommended option. Never prose, never BLOCKED.
@@ -94,8 +94,8 @@ Tell three outcomes apart:
 **Prose fallback — render the decision brief as a markdown message, not a tool call.** Same information as the tool format below, different structure (paragraphs, not ✅/❌ bullets). It MUST surface this triad:
 
 1. **A clear ELI10 of the issue itself** — plain English on what's being decided and why it matters (the question, not per-choice), naming the stakes. Lead with it.
-2. **Completeness scores per choice** — explicit `Completeness: X/10` on EACH choice (10 complete, 7 happy-path, 3 shortcut); use the kind-note when options differ in kind not coverage, but never silently drop the score.
-3. **The recommendation and why** — a `Recommendation: <choice> because <reason>` line plus the `(recommended)` marker on that choice.
+2. **Completeness scores per choice** — per the Completeness rule in the Format section below; never silently drop the score.
+3. **The recommendation and why** — the `Recommendation: <choice> because <reason>` line plus the `(recommended)` marker on that choice.
 
 Layout: a `D<N>` title + a one-line note to reply with a letter (in Conductor this is the normal path; elsewhere it means AskUserQuestion was unavailable or errored); the issue ELI10; the Recommendation line; then ONE paragraph per choice carrying its `(recommended)` marker, its `Completeness: X/10`, and 2-4 sentences of reasoning — never a bare bullet list; a closing `Net:` line. Split chains / 5+ options: one prose block per per-option call, in sequence. Then STOP and wait — the user's typed answer is the decision. In plan mode this satisfies end-of-turn like a tool call.
 
@@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ Before calling AskUserQuestion, verify:
 - [ ] (recommended) label on one option (even for neutral-posture)
 - [ ] Dual-scale effort labels on effort-bearing options (human / CC)
 - [ ] Net line closes the decision
-- [ ] You are calling the tool, not writing prose — unless `CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` (then prose is the DEFAULT, not the tool) OR the documented failure fallback applies (then: prose with the mandatory triad — issue ELI10, per-choice Completeness, Recommendation + `(recommended)` — and a "reply with a letter" instruction, then STOP)
+- [ ] You are calling the tool, not writing prose — unless `CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` (then prose is the DEFAULT, not the tool) OR the documented failure fallback applies (then: the prose fallback's mandatory triad + a "reply with a letter" instruction, then STOP)
 - [ ] Non-ASCII characters (CJK / accents) written directly, NOT \u-escaped
 - [ ] If you had 5+ options, you split (or batched into ≤4-groups) — did NOT drop any
 - [ ] If you split, you checked dependencies between options before firing the chain

test/fixtures/golden/claude-ship-SKILL.md

@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ If `SKILL_PREFIX` is `"true"`, suggest/invoke `/gstack-*` names. Disk paths stay
 
 Branch on the skill-start STATUS lines, in this order:
 
-1. **`CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` echoed** → do NOT call AskUserQuestion at all (neither native nor any `mcp__*__AskUserQuestion` variant): render EVERY decision brief as the **prose form** below and STOP. Proactive, not a failure reaction — Conductor disables native AUQ and its MCP variant is flaky (`[Tool result missing due to internal error]`). **Auto-decide preferences still apply first:** a surfaced `[plan-tune auto-decide] <id> → <option>` result means proceed with that option, no prose — enforced HERE since no tool call ever happens. Capture each Conductor prose brief with `bin/gstack-question-log` (the PostToolUse hook never fires on a prose path; `/plan-tune` learning depends on it).
+1. **`CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` echoed** → do NOT call AskUserQuestion at all (neither native nor any `mcp__*__AskUserQuestion` variant): render EVERY decision brief as the **prose form** below and STOP. Proactive, not a failure reaction — Conductor disables native AUQ and its MCP variant is flaky (`[Tool result missing due to internal error]`). **Auto-decide preferences still apply first** (failure-fallback item 1 below): proceed with a surfaced auto-decide option, no prose — enforced HERE since no tool call ever happens. Capture each Conductor prose brief with `bin/gstack-question-log` (the PostToolUse hook never fires on a prose path; `/plan-tune` learning depends on it).
 2. **Any `mcp__*__AskUserQuestion` variant in your tool list** → prefer it (hosts may disable native via `--disallowedTools`; calling native there silently fails). Same shape, same decision-brief format.
 3. **Unavailable (no variant) OR a call fails** → do NOT silently auto-decide or write the decision to the plan file as a substitute; follow the **failure fallback** below.
 
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ Branch on the skill-start STATUS lines, in this order:
 Tell three outcomes apart:
 
 1. **Auto-decide denial (NOT a failure).** The result contains `[plan-tune auto-decide] <id> → <option>` — the preference hook working as designed. Proceed with that option. Do NOT retry, do NOT fall back to prose.
-2. **Genuine failure** — no variant in your tool list, OR the variant is present but the call returns an error / missing result (MCP transport error, empty result, host bug — e.g. Conductor's MCP AskUserQuestion is flaky and returns `[Tool result missing due to internal error]`).
+2. **Genuine failure** — no variant in your tool list, OR the variant is present but the call returns an error / missing result (MCP transport error, empty result, host bug — e.g. Conductor's flaky MCP variant, see Tool resolution above).
    - If it was present and **errored** (not absent), retry the SAME call **once** — but only if no answer could have surfaced (a missing-result error can arrive after the user already saw the question; retrying would double-prompt, so if it may have reached them, treat as pending, don't retry).
    - Then branch on `SESSION_KIND` (echoed by the preamble; empty/absent ⇒ `interactive`):
      - `spawned` → defer to the **Spawned session** block: auto-choose the recommended option. Never prose, never BLOCKED.
@@ -95,8 +95,8 @@ Tell three outcomes apart:
 **Prose fallback — render the decision brief as a markdown message, not a tool call.** Same information as the tool format below, different structure (paragraphs, not ✅/❌ bullets). It MUST surface this triad:
 
 1. **A clear ELI10 of the issue itself** — plain English on what's being decided and why it matters (the question, not per-choice), naming the stakes. Lead with it.
-2. **Completeness scores per choice** — explicit `Completeness: X/10` on EACH choice (10 complete, 7 happy-path, 3 shortcut); use the kind-note when options differ in kind not coverage, but never silently drop the score.
-3. **The recommendation and why** — a `Recommendation: <choice> because <reason>` line plus the `(recommended)` marker on that choice.
+2. **Completeness scores per choice** — per the Completeness rule in the Format section below; never silently drop the score.
+3. **The recommendation and why** — the `Recommendation: <choice> because <reason>` line plus the `(recommended)` marker on that choice.
 
 Layout: a `D<N>` title + a one-line note to reply with a letter (in Conductor this is the normal path; elsewhere it means AskUserQuestion was unavailable or errored); the issue ELI10; the Recommendation line; then ONE paragraph per choice carrying its `(recommended)` marker, its `Completeness: X/10`, and 2-4 sentences of reasoning — never a bare bullet list; a closing `Net:` line. Split chains / 5+ options: one prose block per per-option call, in sequence. Then STOP and wait — the user's typed answer is the decision. In plan mode this satisfies end-of-turn like a tool call.
 
@@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ Before calling AskUserQuestion, verify:
 - [ ] (recommended) label on one option (even for neutral-posture)
 - [ ] Dual-scale effort labels on effort-bearing options (human / CC)
 - [ ] Net line closes the decision
-- [ ] You are calling the tool, not writing prose — unless `CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` (then prose is the DEFAULT, not the tool) OR the documented failure fallback applies (then: prose with the mandatory triad — issue ELI10, per-choice Completeness, Recommendation + `(recommended)` — and a "reply with a letter" instruction, then STOP)
+- [ ] You are calling the tool, not writing prose — unless `CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` (then prose is the DEFAULT, not the tool) OR the documented failure fallback applies (then: the prose fallback's mandatory triad + a "reply with a letter" instruction, then STOP)
 - [ ] Non-ASCII characters (CJK / accents) written directly, NOT \u-escaped
 - [ ] If you had 5+ options, you split (or batched into ≤4-groups) — did NOT drop any
 - [ ] If you split, you checked dependencies between options before firing the chain

test/fixtures/golden/codex-ship-SKILL.md

@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ If `SKILL_PREFIX` is `"true"`, suggest/invoke `/gstack-*` names. Disk paths stay
 
 Branch on the skill-start STATUS lines, in this order:
 
-1. **`CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` echoed** → do NOT call AskUserQuestion at all (neither native nor any `mcp__*__AskUserQuestion` variant): render EVERY decision brief as the **prose form** below and STOP. Proactive, not a failure reaction — Conductor disables native AUQ and its MCP variant is flaky (`[Tool result missing due to internal error]`). **Auto-decide preferences still apply first:** a surfaced `[plan-tune auto-decide] <id> → <option>` result means proceed with that option, no prose — enforced HERE since no tool call ever happens. Capture each Conductor prose brief with `bin/gstack-question-log` (the PostToolUse hook never fires on a prose path; `/plan-tune` learning depends on it).
+1. **`CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` echoed** → do NOT call AskUserQuestion at all (neither native nor any `mcp__*__AskUserQuestion` variant): render EVERY decision brief as the **prose form** below and STOP. Proactive, not a failure reaction — Conductor disables native AUQ and its MCP variant is flaky (`[Tool result missing due to internal error]`). **Auto-decide preferences still apply first** (failure-fallback item 1 below): proceed with a surfaced auto-decide option, no prose — enforced HERE since no tool call ever happens. Capture each Conductor prose brief with `bin/gstack-question-log` (the PostToolUse hook never fires on a prose path; `/plan-tune` learning depends on it).
 2. **Any `mcp__*__AskUserQuestion` variant in your tool list** → prefer it (hosts may disable native via `--disallowedTools`; calling native there silently fails). Same shape, same decision-brief format.
 3. **Unavailable (no variant) OR a call fails** → do NOT silently auto-decide or write the decision to the plan file as a substitute; follow the **failure fallback** below.
 
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ Branch on the skill-start STATUS lines, in this order:
 Tell three outcomes apart:
 
 1. **Auto-decide denial (NOT a failure).** The result contains `[plan-tune auto-decide] <id> → <option>` — the preference hook working as designed. Proceed with that option. Do NOT retry, do NOT fall back to prose.
-2. **Genuine failure** — no variant in your tool list, OR the variant is present but the call returns an error / missing result (MCP transport error, empty result, host bug — e.g. Conductor's MCP AskUserQuestion is flaky and returns `[Tool result missing due to internal error]`).
+2. **Genuine failure** — no variant in your tool list, OR the variant is present but the call returns an error / missing result (MCP transport error, empty result, host bug — e.g. Conductor's flaky MCP variant, see Tool resolution above).
    - If it was present and **errored** (not absent), retry the SAME call **once** — but only if no answer could have surfaced (a missing-result error can arrive after the user already saw the question; retrying would double-prompt, so if it may have reached them, treat as pending, don't retry).
    - Then branch on `SESSION_KIND` (echoed by the preamble; empty/absent ⇒ `interactive`):
      - `spawned` → defer to the **Spawned session** block: auto-choose the recommended option. Never prose, never BLOCKED.
@@ -81,8 +81,8 @@ Tell three outcomes apart:
 **Prose fallback — render the decision brief as a markdown message, not a tool call.** Same information as the tool format below, different structure (paragraphs, not ✅/❌ bullets). It MUST surface this triad:
 
 1. **A clear ELI10 of the issue itself** — plain English on what's being decided and why it matters (the question, not per-choice), naming the stakes. Lead with it.
-2. **Completeness scores per choice** — explicit `Completeness: X/10` on EACH choice (10 complete, 7 happy-path, 3 shortcut); use the kind-note when options differ in kind not coverage, but never silently drop the score.
-3. **The recommendation and why** — a `Recommendation: <choice> because <reason>` line plus the `(recommended)` marker on that choice.
+2. **Completeness scores per choice** — per the Completeness rule in the Format section below; never silently drop the score.
+3. **The recommendation and why** — the `Recommendation: <choice> because <reason>` line plus the `(recommended)` marker on that choice.
 
 Layout: a `D<N>` title + a one-line note to reply with a letter (in Conductor this is the normal path; elsewhere it means AskUserQuestion was unavailable or errored); the issue ELI10; the Recommendation line; then ONE paragraph per choice carrying its `(recommended)` marker, its `Completeness: X/10`, and 2-4 sentences of reasoning — never a bare bullet list; a closing `Net:` line. Split chains / 5+ options: one prose block per per-option call, in sequence. Then STOP and wait — the user's typed answer is the decision. In plan mode this satisfies end-of-turn like a tool call.
 
@@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ Before calling AskUserQuestion, verify:
 - [ ] (recommended) label on one option (even for neutral-posture)
 - [ ] Dual-scale effort labels on effort-bearing options (human / CC)
 - [ ] Net line closes the decision
-- [ ] You are calling the tool, not writing prose — unless `CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` (then prose is the DEFAULT, not the tool) OR the documented failure fallback applies (then: prose with the mandatory triad — issue ELI10, per-choice Completeness, Recommendation + `(recommended)` — and a "reply with a letter" instruction, then STOP)
+- [ ] You are calling the tool, not writing prose — unless `CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` (then prose is the DEFAULT, not the tool) OR the documented failure fallback applies (then: the prose fallback's mandatory triad + a "reply with a letter" instruction, then STOP)
 - [ ] Non-ASCII characters (CJK / accents) written directly, NOT \u-escaped
 - [ ] If you had 5+ options, you split (or batched into ≤4-groups) — did NOT drop any
 - [ ] If you split, you checked dependencies between options before firing the chain

test/fixtures/golden/factory-ship-SKILL.md

@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ If `SKILL_PREFIX` is `"true"`, suggest/invoke `/gstack-*` names. Disk paths stay
 
 Branch on the skill-start STATUS lines, in this order:
 
-1. **`CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` echoed** → do NOT call AskUserQuestion at all (neither native nor any `mcp__*__AskUserQuestion` variant): render EVERY decision brief as the **prose form** below and STOP. Proactive, not a failure reaction — Conductor disables native AUQ and its MCP variant is flaky (`[Tool result missing due to internal error]`). **Auto-decide preferences still apply first:** a surfaced `[plan-tune auto-decide] <id> → <option>` result means proceed with that option, no prose — enforced HERE since no tool call ever happens. Capture each Conductor prose brief with `bin/gstack-question-log` (the PostToolUse hook never fires on a prose path; `/plan-tune` learning depends on it).
+1. **`CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` echoed** → do NOT call AskUserQuestion at all (neither native nor any `mcp__*__AskUserQuestion` variant): render EVERY decision brief as the **prose form** below and STOP. Proactive, not a failure reaction — Conductor disables native AUQ and its MCP variant is flaky (`[Tool result missing due to internal error]`). **Auto-decide preferences still apply first** (failure-fallback item 1 below): proceed with a surfaced auto-decide option, no prose — enforced HERE since no tool call ever happens. Capture each Conductor prose brief with `bin/gstack-question-log` (the PostToolUse hook never fires on a prose path; `/plan-tune` learning depends on it).
 2. **Any `mcp__*__AskUserQuestion` variant in your tool list** → prefer it (hosts may disable native via `--disallowedTools`; calling native there silently fails). Same shape, same decision-brief format.
 3. **Unavailable (no variant) OR a call fails** → do NOT silently auto-decide or write the decision to the plan file as a substitute; follow the **failure fallback** below.
 
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ Branch on the skill-start STATUS lines, in this order:
 Tell three outcomes apart:
 
 1. **Auto-decide denial (NOT a failure).** The result contains `[plan-tune auto-decide] <id> → <option>` — the preference hook working as designed. Proceed with that option. Do NOT retry, do NOT fall back to prose.
-2. **Genuine failure** — no variant in your tool list, OR the variant is present but the call returns an error / missing result (MCP transport error, empty result, host bug — e.g. Conductor's MCP AskUserQuestion is flaky and returns `[Tool result missing due to internal error]`).
+2. **Genuine failure** — no variant in your tool list, OR the variant is present but the call returns an error / missing result (MCP transport error, empty result, host bug — e.g. Conductor's flaky MCP variant, see Tool resolution above).
    - If it was present and **errored** (not absent), retry the SAME call **once** — but only if no answer could have surfaced (a missing-result error can arrive after the user already saw the question; retrying would double-prompt, so if it may have reached them, treat as pending, don't retry).
    - Then branch on `SESSION_KIND` (echoed by the preamble; empty/absent ⇒ `interactive`):
      - `spawned` → defer to the **Spawned session** block: auto-choose the recommended option. Never prose, never BLOCKED.
@@ -83,8 +83,8 @@ Tell three outcomes apart:
 **Prose fallback — render the decision brief as a markdown message, not a tool call.** Same information as the tool format below, different structure (paragraphs, not ✅/❌ bullets). It MUST surface this triad:
 
 1. **A clear ELI10 of the issue itself** — plain English on what's being decided and why it matters (the question, not per-choice), naming the stakes. Lead with it.
-2. **Completeness scores per choice** — explicit `Completeness: X/10` on EACH choice (10 complete, 7 happy-path, 3 shortcut); use the kind-note when options differ in kind not coverage, but never silently drop the score.
-3. **The recommendation and why** — a `Recommendation: <choice> because <reason>` line plus the `(recommended)` marker on that choice.
+2. **Completeness scores per choice** — per the Completeness rule in the Format section below; never silently drop the score.
+3. **The recommendation and why** — the `Recommendation: <choice> because <reason>` line plus the `(recommended)` marker on that choice.
 
 Layout: a `D<N>` title + a one-line note to reply with a letter (in Conductor this is the normal path; elsewhere it means AskUserQuestion was unavailable or errored); the issue ELI10; the Recommendation line; then ONE paragraph per choice carrying its `(recommended)` marker, its `Completeness: X/10`, and 2-4 sentences of reasoning — never a bare bullet list; a closing `Net:` line. Split chains / 5+ options: one prose block per per-option call, in sequence. Then STOP and wait — the user's typed answer is the decision. In plan mode this satisfies end-of-turn like a tool call.
 
@@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ Before calling AskUserQuestion, verify:
 - [ ] (recommended) label on one option (even for neutral-posture)
 - [ ] Dual-scale effort labels on effort-bearing options (human / CC)
 - [ ] Net line closes the decision
-- [ ] You are calling the tool, not writing prose — unless `CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` (then prose is the DEFAULT, not the tool) OR the documented failure fallback applies (then: prose with the mandatory triad — issue ELI10, per-choice Completeness, Recommendation + `(recommended)` — and a "reply with a letter" instruction, then STOP)
+- [ ] You are calling the tool, not writing prose — unless `CONDUCTOR_SESSION: true` (then prose is the DEFAULT, not the tool) OR the documented failure fallback applies (then: the prose fallback's mandatory triad + a "reply with a letter" instruction, then STOP)
 - [ ] Non-ASCII characters (CJK / accents) written directly, NOT \u-escaped
 - [ ] If you had 5+ options, you split (or batched into ≤4-groups) — did NOT drop any
 - [ ] If you split, you checked dependencies between options before firing the chain

test/skill-e2e-auq-repetition-cut-ab.test.ts

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+/**
+ * AUQ no-degradation A/B: pre-cut vs post-cut AskUserQuestion Format — periodic,
+ * paid, SDK capture.
+ *
+ * The AskUserQuestion Format preamble section stated several of its rules more
+ * than once (the completeness rule three times, the auto-decide marker twice,
+ * the tool-not-prose rule three times). The repetition cut removes the
+ * duplicate statements while keeping every floor and all 14 format pins
+ * (Layer 0, auq-format-always-loaded.test.ts, proves presence deterministically).
+ *
+ * The risk under test: repetition may be load-bearing for RUNTIME compliance —
+ * a model may follow rules better because they repeat. This A/B is the gate
+ * that decision rested on (approved 2026-08-25, option A: "the gate outranks
+ * the approval"): identical prompt, two renders, and the post-cut AUQ must be
+ * NOT WORSE than the pre-cut AUQ on format elements and recommendation
+ * substance. Same harness and bar as skill-e2e-auq-verbose-vs-carved-ab.
+ *
+ *   - PRE  : plan-ceo-review/SKILL.md read from git at 3263fffe (the last
+ *            commit before the cut), with the current sections/ (the cut
+ *            touched only the preamble skeleton, not the sections).
+ *   - POST : this worktree's render.
+ */
+import { test } from 'bun:test';
+import { describeE2ETier } from './helpers/e2e-gate';
+import * as fs from 'node:fs';
+import {
+  setupPlanCeoDir,
+  captureModeSelectionAuq,
+  scoreAuqFormat,
+  carvedSkill,
+  verboseSkill,
+} from './helpers/auq-sdk-capture';
+import { judgeRecommendation } from './helpers/llm-judge';
+
+const describeE2E = describeE2ETier('periodic');
+const runId = `auq-cut-ab-${process.env.EVALS_RUN_ID ?? 'local'}`;
+const PRE_CUT_REF = '3263fffe';
+
+async function grade(label: string, dir: string) {
+  const text = await captureModeSelectionAuq({ planDir: dir, testName: `auq-cut-ab-${label}`, runId });
+  const fmt = scoreAuqFormat(text);
+  let substance = 0;
+  if (text.trim()) {
+    try {
+      const r = await judgeRecommendation(text);
+      substance = r.reason_substance;
+    } catch { /* judge unavailable */ }
+  }
+  // eslint-disable-next-line no-console
+  console.log(
+    `[AUQ-CUT-AB ${label}] captured=${text.length}B format=${fmt.present}/${fmt.total} ` +
+      `missing=[${fmt.missing.join(',')}] substance=${substance}`,
+  );
+  return { text, fmt, substance };
+}
+
+describeE2E('AUQ no-degradation: repetition cut (periodic)', () => {
+  test(
+    'post-cut AskUserQuestion Format render is not worse than pre-cut on the same prompt',
+    async () => {
+      const post = carvedSkill();
+      const postDir = setupPlanCeoDir({
+        skillMd: post.skillMd,
+        sectionsFrom: post.sectionsFrom,
+        tmpPrefix: 'auq-cut-ab-post-',
+      });
+      const preDir = setupPlanCeoDir({
+        skillMd: verboseSkill(PRE_CUT_REF),
+        sectionsFrom: post.sectionsFrom,
+        tmpPrefix: 'auq-cut-ab-pre-',
+      });
+
+      let p, q;
+      try {
+        q = await grade('POST', postDir);
+        p = await grade('PRE', preDir);
+      } finally {
+        fs.rmSync(postDir, { recursive: true, force: true });
+        fs.rmSync(preDir, { recursive: true, force: true });
+      }
+
+      const summary = [
+        `POST: format ${q.fmt.present}/${q.fmt.total}, substance ${q.substance}`,
+        `PRE : format ${p.fmt.present}/${p.fmt.total}, substance ${p.substance}`,
+      ].join('\n');
+
+      if (!q.text.trim() || !p.text.trim()) {
+        throw new Error(
+          `A/B inconclusive — a side produced no AUQ capture:\n${summary}\n` +
+            `--- post ---\n${q.text.slice(0, 2000)}\n--- pre ---\n${p.text.slice(0, 2000)}`,
+        );
+      }
+
+      const formatRegressed = q.fmt.present < p.fmt.present;
+      const substanceRegressed = q.substance < p.substance - 1; // 1-pt judge tolerance
+      if (formatRegressed || substanceRegressed) {
+        throw new Error(
+          `AUQ DEGRADATION from the repetition cut — the gate outranks the approval; revert the cut:\n${summary}` +
+            (formatRegressed ? `\n  -> post-cut dropped: [${q.fmt.missing.join(',')}]` : '') +
+            (substanceRegressed ? `\n  -> post-cut substance regressed >1 pt` : '') +
+            `\n--- post AUQ ---\n${q.text}\n--- pre AUQ ---\n${p.text}`,
+        );
+      }
+
+      // eslint-disable-next-line no-console
+      console.log('[AUQ-CUT-AB] NO DEGRADATION:\n' + summary);
+    },
+    600_000,
+  );
+});