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Eval harness — clarify skill

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These evals check two things: that the skill triggers on the right prompts\n(and stays quiet on near-misses that belong to a neighbouring SDD phase), and\nthat it measurably improves the de-risking pass over a spec. Cases live in\ncases.yaml. There is no pure shell runner — grading is a judgment call done by\nan agent harness (a Claude Code agent with the skill catalog loaded) plus a\nhuman spot-check.

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What's in cases.yaml

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Triggering eval

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Goal: the skill fires when a spec needs de-risking, and never on an adjacent\nSDD phase.

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  1. Configure an agent with the full catalog of skill descriptions available\nfor routing — the SDD chain siblings (specify, plan, analyze, debug,\nconstitution, and the rest) plus the stack/process skills (harness,\ninit, fastapi, nextjs, go, postgresdb, flutter, design,\nmarketing, …) so routing competes realistically.
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  2. For each should_trigger prompt: feed it cold and record whether clarify\nis the skill loaded. Run 3–5 trials per prompt with fresh context.
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  3. For each should_not_trigger prompt: confirm clarify does NOT load and\nthat the chosen skill matches route_to. Same 3–5 trials.
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  4. Score: triggered_correctly / total_trials across both lists.
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Pass bar: ≥ 90% trigger accuracy over all prompts and trials, with zero\nsystematic false-positives on the specify and plan near-misses — those are\nthe known traps. The boundary clarify must hold: no-spec-yet is specify,\nhow-to-build-it is plan. If it grabs either, the description is leaking.

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Capability eval

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Goal: prove the skill changes the de-risking pass, not just the routing.

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  1. For the capability scenario, run it twice:\n\n
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  2. Grade each output against the must_include checklist — one point per\ncheckable item covered. A human or grading agent marks each present / absent.
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  3. Compute coverage = items_covered / total_items per run.
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Pass bar: WITH the skill covers ≥ 80% of must_include; WITHOUT clearly\nlower (target a ≥ 30-point gap). The discriminating behaviors are the ones a\nbase agent reliably misses: reading the constitution and citing what's already\nresolved, ranking gaps by leverage instead of dumping every question, framing\nquestions as decisions-with-a-recommendation, and — the highest-signal item —\nactually baking answers back into the spec with a dated Clarifications log\nrather than just listing questions in chat.

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Notes on honesty

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