rule(holding-discipline): cascade-saturation empirical anchor + pure-git compatibility + sub-case 5#3818
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Follow-up to the status-flip commit (034afe2). Adds explicit provenance trail: - Slice 1 (--check): PR #3783 / 0a57a81 - Slice 2 (try/catch): PR #3788 / 6809f6e - Slice 3 (chdir + tests): PR #3790 / 472024d - Slice 4 (mixed-bullet + tsc): PR #3809 / eb04e3d Test count 16 → 20 across the 4 slices. All passing on main. Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
…git tier compatibility + sub-case 5 Three targeted edits to .claude/rules/holding-without-named-dependency-is-standing-by-failure.md based on this session's empirical evidence: 1. Concrete-artifact definition expanded to cover pure-git tier (branch-pushed-no-PR counts for counter reset) 2. New "Cascade-saturation empirical anchor (2026-05-16)" sub-section documenting the rule operating correctly through 4 distinct cycles of cascade saturation. Validates 5 properties of the counter discipline including multi-cycle non-accumulation across named-dep-reset cycles. 3. NEW sub-case 5 discovered DURING authoring: peer-side destructive git operations (reset --hard, stash + checkout, etc.) discard unstaged tracked-modifications. The borrow-on-existing pattern's "modifications follow me" assumption fails here. Mitigation: commit immediately after Edit; don't rely on unstaged edits surviving multi-Bash-call sequences during peer saturation. This commit IS the meta-fallback firing — substrate that documents the cascade by being the cascade's terminal artifact. Recursively self-validating. Sub-case 5 was discovered BECAUSE the first authoring attempt of this very commit was destroyed by peer Otto's destructive git operation; the re-application is the empirical proof. Composes with refresh-world-model-poll-pr-gate.md (rate tiers) and claim-acquire-before-worktree-work.md (saturation-ceiling sub-cases — sub-case 5 is a new finding to land there in a follow-up). Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Pull request overview
Documentation-only edits to a Claude rules file that codifies session-empirical observations about cascade-saturation behavior and a newly-discovered worktree-borrow failure sub-case. Also appends a resolution table to backlog row B-0557.
Changes:
- Expands "concrete artifact" definition in the holding-discipline rule to include pure-git tier branch-pushed-no-PR substrate.
- Adds a cascade-saturation empirical-anchor sub-section documenting four observed cycles and five validated properties.
- Adds sub-case 5 (peer-side destructive git operations discard unstaged tracked-modifications) plus mitigation.
- Appends Resolution table for B-0557 listing the four shipped slices.
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.claude/rules/holding-without-named-dependency-is-standing-by-failure.md |
Adds pure-git artifact clause, cascade-saturation anchor section, and sub-case 5 with mitigation. |
docs/backlog/P3/B-0557-...-2026-05-16.md |
Appends Resolution section with per-slice PR/merge-commit table and test-count delta. |
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Summary
Three edits to
.claude/rules/holding-without-named-dependency-is-standing-by-failure.mdbased on this session's empirical evidence:git reset --hard, etc.) discard unstaged tracked-modifications. First authoring attempt of THIS commit was destroyed; re-application IS the empirical proof. Mitigation: commit immediately after Edit during peer saturation.Recursively self-validating: the meta-fallback's claim ("ALWAYS works because session behavior is observable") is proven BY the act of authoring it. The commit IS the session's behavior being documented.
Composes with
refresh-world-model-poll-pr-gate.md(rate tiers) +claim-acquire-before-worktree-work.md(saturation-ceiling sub-cases — sub-case 5 to land there in follow-up).🤖 Generated with Claude Code