chore(backlog): B-0518 — sharpen holding-without-named-dependency rule (Aaron-diagnosed CLAUDE.md bug)#3205
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…e (P1; Aaron-diagnosed CLAUDE.md bug) Aaron 2026-05-14: 'when that failure mode happens multiple times it's usually a claude.md bug.' Operational evidence: Otto violated the standing-by-failure rule TWICE in one session despite the rule being auto-loaded. The rule is encoded- but-not-sharp-enough. Files corrective work: 5 candidate sharpenings (pattern enumeration, force-action ladder, consecutive-tick counter, hook enforcement, Aaron's heuristic as meta-rule). Cooling period applies; implementation picks one + iterates. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Adds a new P1 backlog row tracking corrective work to sharpen the "holding-without-named-dependency" rule in .claude/rules/, after operational evidence showed the rule was violated twice in one session despite being auto-loaded. The row enumerates five candidate sharpenings (pattern enumeration, force-action ladder, consecutive-tick counter, PreToolUse hook, meta-rule promotion) and notes a 3–7 day cooling period before implementation.
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- New backlog row
B-0518underdocs/backlog/P1/with standard frontmatter (priority P1, status open, tier factory-discipline, effort S). - Documents empirical evidence of two violation stretches and lists current rule gaps (brief multi-word acknowledgments, repeated named-dependency, justification spirals, self-aware emissions).
- Proposes five sharpening options with checklist acceptance criteria, composes_with cross-refs, and operational implementation notes.
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* shard(tick): 1856Z — PR #3181 thread fix + multi-Otto branch-state untangle 3 Copilot threads on #3181 (1846Z shard), all real findings: 1. Line 27: "allowed-edge" terminology contradicted line 38's "outside allowed scope" 2. Line 50: glob verify command missing pattern argument 3. Line 63: rule count denominator 47 (stale) vs actual 50 (count grew during audit) Fixes at 94905ef on the proper shard/tick-1846Z branch; all 3 threads resolved. PR #3181 transitioned BLOCKED → wait-ci with autoMerge armed. Side discovery: local repo had ended up on a parallel-Otto's branch (lior-preserve-3166) due to a git reset --hard not switching branches but just resetting the current branch to a remote. Untangle: 'git checkout -B <local> origin/<remote>' + cherry-pick + 'git push origin HEAD:<remote-name>'. All 3 of my open PRs now healthy: #3184 CLEAN verify-merge, #3179 + #3181 wait-ci autoMerge armed. Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs(shadow): Lior antigravity check drift report 2026-05-14 * fix(lint): add MD032 blank lines around lists in shadow-lesson-log + fix file reference - Add blank lines between section headers and list items (MD032) - Fix lior-drift-report.md reference to canonical repo path - Note PR #3215 as the parallel preservation PR for #3205 Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com> --------- Co-authored-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Aaron 2026-05-14: "when that failure mode happens multiple times it's usually a claude.md bug."
Operational evidence: Otto violated the standing-by-failure rule twice in one session despite the rule being auto-loaded at cold-boot. The rule is encoded-but-not-sharp-enough.
Files corrective work tracking 5 candidate sharpenings:
Cooling period applies (3-7 days minimum). Implementation picks one sharpening first + iterates.
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