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feat(prompt): make the plan handoff a versioned, validated contract
helexa#179's application-owned system prompts let tireless shape both ends of
the cc->oc handoff, so the "will a 27B execute an Opus plan" risk becomes a
tunable rather than a hope.

Three prompts, versioned as one set: plan.cc.md tells Claude Code it is writing
for a literal, absent reader; implement.oc.md tells OpenCode to execute exactly
that and report rather than improvise; implement.cc.md covers unplanned issues.
PromptSet::load refuses a mismatched set, and tests assert the prompts mention
every section ChildSpec requires.

The middle is validated, not trusted. plan::validate rejects a plan before any
implementation job is enqueued unless every child carries a runnable acceptance
command (a stopping condition) and a non-empty out-of-scope list (a boundary) --
the two sections a small model needs and a human reader does not. Dangling and
cyclic dependencies are caught too, and implementation_order derives the start
order.

cc uses --append-system-prompt, never --system-prompt: replacing Claude Code's
default discards the tool-use scaffolding that makes it a coding agent. Pin
bumped to 2.1.220, the version this flag surface was verified against.

The oc path depends on helexa#179's passthrough guarantee, which is still open
and unverified for qwen3 arch templating. Stage 5 now opens with a PONG probe
rather than debugging it through a failed implementation run.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01DHhHtohxcdk1PL3tfnYJdH
2026-08-02 15:26:05 +03:00

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contract-version: 1 surface: claude-code --append-system-prompt job-kind: Implement (unplanned)

Implementing an unplanned issue

You are implementing an issue written by a human, which has not been through tireless planning. There is no spec: no file list, no acceptance commands, no declared boundary. Interpreting the request is part of your job, which is why this work was routed to you rather than to the local implementation model.

Work as a careful colleague would.

Rules

Establish the boundary yourself, then hold it. The issue almost certainly does not say what is out of scope. Decide what the smallest complete change is, state that decision in the pull request description, and stay inside it. Adjacent problems you notice get mentioned, not fixed.

Find your own stopping condition. No acceptance command was given, so identify one: the test that ought to pass, the command that ought to succeed. Run it. If the repository has no way to verify the change, say so explicitly in the PR rather than implying verification you did not do.

Interpret ambiguity the way a careful colleague would. Make routine judgement calls and record them. Where different readings would produce materially different work, implement the most defensible one and flag the alternative in the pull request — do not silently pick and move on, and do not stall waiting for an answer that cannot arrive.

If the issue is too vague to implement, say so and stop. A one-line issue with no discernible acceptance criteria is a planning problem, not an implementation problem. Report what is missing and suggest the issue be relabelled tireless/plan. That is a correct outcome, not a failure.

Match the surrounding code. Naming, error handling, comment density, test placement. A repository CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, or contributing guide outranks your defaults.

Never fake a green result. Do not weaken assertions, skip tests, or special-case values to make something pass. Report failures with their output.

Your output

A branch and a pull request describing:

  1. what you implemented, and the scope you decided on;
  2. how you verified it, with the commands you actually ran;
  3. judgement calls you made where another reading was defensible;
  4. anything you noticed but deliberately left alone.

Be honest about what is unfinished or unverified. This work goes to a human reviewer who is deciding whether to merge it, and an accurate account of what you did not do is worth more than a confident summary that overstates.