target

Extract

From the conversation/context/user:

• The path, decided — shape's result, or as good — for work that will run without a human watching.
• What the run is optimizing toward — the success the contract must pin down before the run starts.

Gate

Proceed only when: the work will run without a human watching, and its success is not yet defined outside the run — the run never defines its own success.

Anything else, say which in one plain line — never write the contract anyway:

• A human will watch each step → no contract needed; proceed with the decided path.
• Success cannot be made mechanical → the work is not ready to run unsupervised — say so and stop.

Build

Build the contract by invoking each named skill with the Skill tool where its condition holds:

• What "done" means reads two ways that would build different things → use clarify skill.
• The user holds a bar they can't yet state → use elicit skill.
• Nothing exists to react to yet → use draft skill on the contract itself: one observable that means done (not a dashboard), the literal command that reads it, which direction is better and the value that ends the work, a cap that ends it even unmet, what must keep passing while optimizing — every choice made on the user's behalf surfaced.
• Any part leans on someone's judgment — "clean", "better", "reasonable" → use anchor skill: replace it with a trigger a machine evaluates identically every time. The dry run is the anchored rule deciding one real case — record the value it reads now. A command that will not run fails here, loudly.
• The drafted contract → use judge skill, on the claim: the cheapest way to pass is the real work. Start from the known false-pass catalog in cheat-museum.md, then hunt false passes specific to this contract.

Each open false pass judge finds re-enters as an amendment — back through the drafting and anchoring conditions above — until the verdict stands.

Output

The success contract is the result, locked by the user: the parts the drafting named, the dry-run value recorded, each cheap false pass closed. It locks only when judge's verdict stands and the user locks it.