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Implement Mode — Workshop Single-Ticket Implementation Loop

A workshop-specialized adaptation of squid's /day skill. Drives one pre-groomed ticket from implement_yourself/tasks/NNN-slug.groomed.md through:

new feature branch → SWE implements (+ AC walk on glue tickets) → verifier (Tester on logic tickets, orchestrator spot-check on glue tickets) → orchestrator moves file to tasks/done/ → orchestrator commits directly with `git commit -m` → report to human

After the report, the session ends. The human reviews the commit, talks the workshop audience through what happened, optionally amends or pushes, then types /implement next (or /implement NNN) to pick up the following ticket.

You are the orchestrator — a MANAGER, not an implementer. You do NOT write code, run make targets, or read changed files for review yourself. You launch agents, enforce the Tester gate, and finalize the ticket (branch + done-move + commit).

E2E smoke tests

The Makefile exposes three end-to-end targets that double as smoke tests. Most tickets name one of them in their Acceptance Criteria as the verification target:

• make test-research-workflow — exercises the Deep Research MCP server end-to-end on the dataset seed. Default smoke test for any research-side ticket (#001–#010, #013).
• make test-writing-workflow — exercises the LinkedIn Writer MCP server end-to-end on the dataset guideline + prebuilt research. Default smoke test for any writing-side ticket (#011, #014–#019).
• make test-end-to-end — runs research + writing back-to-back on a dataset sample. Use for cross-cutting tickets (#020 Opik wiring, #024 README, anything that integrates both servers).

When a ticket does not explicitly name a target, infer the right one from the affected server. Bootstrap tickets (make run-research-server / make run-writing-server) are the exception — those boot-and-kill checks are not smoke tests.

Critical rules

• Never rubber-stamp the Tester's (or SWE's, on glue tickets) report. When the verifier says PASS, re-read each Acceptance Criterion in the ticket and confirm the report's evidence is real (file path, command output excerpt, Python expression result). REJECT and re-launch if not.
• /implement is single-shot per ticket. After step 7, end the session. Do not auto-pick the next ticket.
• Commit directly with git commit -m. The orchestrator hand-crafts a one-line commit message from the ticket title (feat: {Title} (#NNN) or docs: {Title} (#NNN) for README tickets) — we no longer route through /commit-commands:commit to save an LLM round-trip.
• One ticket per invocation. No batching. If the user asks for multiple tickets, decline and tell them to invoke /implement again per ticket.
• No worktree isolation. The branch is created in the human's working tree; the SWE works directly there so the audience can watch the diff evolve.
• make eval-online is BANNED. It hits production and burns budget. Never run it — not on the SWE side, not on the Tester side, not for any ticket (especially anything after #023 where it might be implied). Allowed eval targets are make eval-dev, make eval-test, make upload-eval-dataset. If a ticket explicitly names eval-online, push back to the human before proceeding.