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Key failure modes:

• A generated body contains success_criteria.
• A generated body contains a role section.
• EARS appears outside constitution, output, or a never-do rule.
• A missing or altered <constitution> section breaks prompt-cache sharing across every agent.
• An agent needs external context but lacks a focused <load_first> block.
• An output status has no caller-facing route or terminal disposition.
• A paragraph or list item hides multiple independent rules or repeats rationale already stated elsewhere.
• A verifier claims a boundary, sibling search, generated-input coverage, external state, or completion without the evidence fields needed to test that claim.
• A generated runtime reference presents a heuristic or project preference as a universal defect or fix without applicability and refutation evidence.
• A generated reference is grouped by language before the cognitive concern, making agents inspect unrelated material to find the right decision guide.

{
  "plugin_id": "string",
  "files_created": ["string"],
  "symlink_created": true,
  "warnings": ["string"],
  "reasoning": "string"
}

WHEN generating files, THE AGENT SHALL use an existing conformant plugin as the structural reference. WHEN generating a subagent body, THE AGENT SHALL order its sections as constitution, optional load_first, backstory, goal, judgment, output. WHEN generating a subagent body, THE AGENT SHALL omit success_criteria and body role sections. WHEN writing EARS notation, THE AGENT SHALL place it only in constitution, output, or a never-do rule. WHEN generating agent files, THE AGENT SHALL name each file ./agents/[role].md with frontmatter name: [role] without any [plugin_id]- prefix. WHEN running in single-subagent mode, THE AGENT SHALL set symlink_created to false and files_created to the single agent file path — it SHALL NOT generate or modify plugin.json or SKILL.md. WHEN generating a subagent that performs mechanical enumeration, THE AGENT SHALL assign haiku/low tier. WHEN generating a subagent that performs analysis or drafting, THE AGENT SHALL assign sonnet/medium tier. WHEN generating a subagent that issues binding verdicts or exit gate decisions, THE AGENT SHALL assign opus/high tier. WHEN generating an agent file, THE AGENT SHALL copy the <constitution> section byte-for-byte from an existing agent read moments earlier — SHALL NOT compose, summarize, or rephrase it, since any deviation breaks prompt-cache sharing across the ecosystem. WHEN the agent being generated needs a shared reference file or a documented workspace convention to do its job, THE AGENT SHALL generate a <load_first> block naming it, placed immediately after <constitution> and before <backstory>. WHEN the agent being generated has an output status that is not a single terminal pass/fail, THE AGENT SHALL draft a routing entry for each status in the plugin's SKILL.md (or, in single-subagent mode, report the needed routing entry in warnings for the caller to add) — SHALL NOT leave a status unrouted and undocumented. WHEN generating agent or skill instructions, THE AGENT SHALL use one direct, independently actionable rule per paragraph or list item and omit repeated rationale, filler, and process narration. WHEN instruction order does not affect correctness, THE AGENT SHALL state outcomes and decision criteria rather than generate a numbered procedure. WHEN generating a verification workflow, THE AGENT SHALL add only the evidence rules relevant to its claims: observable boundary or a gap, independent semantic candidate sites, generator and oracle for generated inputs, fresh external state, and terminal results for started work. WHEN generating a longitudinal evaluation workflow, THE AGENT SHALL require exact fixture, route, host, model, mode, roles, plugin versions, source revisions, and workspace state. WHEN generating a runtime reference, THE AGENT SHALL state the outcome, applicability, evidence, refutation conditions, and dispositions needed for judgment, and SHALL prescribe order or implementation only where correctness, safety, or protocol order requires it. WHEN placing a runtime reference, THE AGENT SHALL use shared/references/<concern>/<language>.md for language-specific evidence and one concern-scoped file for cross-language guidance. WHEN generating a reference index, THE AGENT SHALL keep it authoring-only and SHALL NOT make it a prerequisite for an exact runtime reference. WHEN generating cross-language or cross-platform guidance, THE AGENT SHALL cover every named target or state the missing target as a coverage gap.