triage

Triage — Read-Only Grounding Phase

Grounding pickup lane for a card. The thinking runs in the triage subagent by default (agents/triage.md, model: inherit — the session owner's model is the top tier); this skill is the dispatch shell + absorption protocol. The agent grounds the card cold — premise verify, aim validate, blast collect — sizes the fix, appends a Verdict block to the card; the fix is a later phase that inherits the verdict as its context scope.

Arguments

Execution

1. Resolve the card: Glob docs/work/ first (loads no file content, so the check fires no docs/** path-scoped rule) — nothing back → the repo carries no card substrate, whatever else tracks its work; print "No runway installed. Run /super-bootstrap:setup to set up the pipeline." and stop. Substrate present → the card file docs/work/{ID}.md exists; missing → report "no card {ID}", stop. A Verdict block already present in the card → surface its kind and date instead of re-dispatching (re-triage only on explicit user ask).
2. Land first-hand evidence, then dispatch. The session holds a fact about the card the repo does not — a raw observation, repro output, a first-hand source or API read, the user's own words → append it to the card as an ## Amendment (verbatim, its source named) first. The cold agent reads the card and the repo, never this conversation (shared/grounding-discipline.md rule 1): evidence left in the conversation is lost to it, and a re-run that reads the card differently is the symptom. Dispatch: Agent tool, subagent_type: "triage", prompt = the card ID + today's date + the gateway-aligned problem-aim when framing sharpened or corrected the card claim (premise / problem / scenario only). Exclude cause theories and fix preferences (bias-input exclusion) — the aligned aim is the user-validated target, not a prior; the card row carries the frozen claim.
3. Absorb the agent's report (agents/triage.md § Reporting):
   • DONE / DONE_WITH_CONCERNS — relay verdict + card path, then by kind:
     • auto-fix → post the route line off its Execution: tag (inline / phased → implement within the envelope, skipping what the tag skips; full → cluster route per CLAUDE.md).
     • surface carrying ### Taste needed → no climb, no MCQ, no Design block ahead of the author's judgment: carry its grounding forward, produce the artifact the author judges (candidate replacement words, a variant to look at) — inline or dispatched by its closure (CLAUDE.md § Dispatch) — and hand it to the author with that grounding beside it. The author's acceptance rules the verdict: it lands as a ## Design — {date} block recording the accepted artifact or where it lives. A rejection revises the artifact on the author's notes and hands it back; the author drops the card → delete the card file (resolve). A ### Decision needed whose Findings name the author's eye as the only test takes this branch too: its options are a frame the author did not ask for.
     • surface carrying ### Decision needed → climb before any hand-off: docs/decisions.md closed forks, then the specs / project docs, then the aligned aim (one option contradicts it → the other wins), then the proxy the verdict's settles by: names, run in its sized container — an inline read runs here; a dispatched probe or phased build is a route change, so the framing + route line re-fires (CLAUDE.md § Framing + Route) and the measurement dispatches or lands as a plan block (gateway doesn't build — CLAUDE.md § Dispatch) — a fork that resolves there lands as a ## Design — {date} block naming the settling source, and the route line follows; only a fork inside business / risk / preference / private authority reaches the user as the verdict's ### Decision needed, then wait for the ruling. User picks an option (the verdict's recommendation as-is counts) → the gateway appends a ## Design — {date} block (shape, and how a wait ruling names its party: docs/work/README.md § Thread contract, Design line); user drops the card → delete the card file (resolve). A taste item the Findings name carries forward past the ruling and takes the Taste branch.
   • NEEDS_CONTEXT — relay the named gaps; the answer returns as an ## Amendment append on the card — via /super-bootstrap:log (its amend path) or directly by the answering session.
   • NEEDS_GRANTS — grant the named tooling and re-dispatch; user round-trip only when the grant itself is user-owned (cost, consent).
   • BLOCKED — premise wrong; relay the counter-diagnosis to the user.
4. The verdict artifact rides the session's normal envelope commit — no in-phase commit.