Post-push CI-green lane: snapshots an open PR's checks via gh, classifies each failure real vs flaky, fixes real ones via the fix-agent shape (verified locally before push), retries flaky checks within a bounded budget, and reports exactly one terminal state. Opt-in, report-only -- it never hard-gates ship or merge.
Universal intake interview: one type-shaped question at a time, each with a recommended answer, until the task is actually understood. Answers are written where they live (glossary, sparse ADRs, the goal draft's Context) the moment they resolve. Runs between type classification and the phase-0 Done= definition.
Turn a multi-objective destination into a sequenced roadmap of dependent sub-goals: decompose, front-load every clarification once, set the per-run merge config, then hand off to the bounded /goal loop. Ship-layer auto-merge rides the ship-gate; it never bypasses it.
Guided first-run: detect the install mode, offer /kit:adopt for this repo, pick modules, capture the consumer knobs that make them work, disclose the plugin-path gaps honestly, and end with a five-sentence tour of the loop. Previews and confirms every write; a decline is a no-op.
Assemble an outward buy-in doc from what a gated run already produced: the spec, the proof-of-done, the implementation-notes, and the gate ledger's grill/DEBT records. Outcome-first, 5 sections, ending in an ask. Never generates new analysis; a missing source is reported honestly, never invented.
Opt-in throwaway-spike beat beside /kit:design. Builds throwaway code that answers ONE design question: a logic/state model driven by hand in a TUI, or 3-5 structurally different UI variants on one route. The decision folds into the brief/spec; the prototype survives on a prototype/ branch, never in master.
The ★-tap NUDGE before merging a significant+worthy gate PR: a 5-question quiz built from the ACTUAL diff+tests, routed through deep-understand's mastery gate. Three logged responses (engage/defer/wave); advisory, never must-pass. Gates the human's attention, not the merge.
Parallel code review with 3 specialist lenses plus the kit-default advisor extra lens. Dispatches the security, architecture, and test-coverage lenses simultaneously, adds the cross-cutting advisor (critique mode), then merges findings.