Implementation Notes

Summary

• Implemented the accepted Finder/backlog operating model in canonical shared skills and synchronized it into Harness.
• Canonical source is committed and pushed from main at 2f46794de41b7510eb3bde279203628c310f93ce; a fresh detached checkout passed its contract suite 212/212.
• PR #172 merged as 6abf31ed68e773f1898399d96e014fe1aa390f65 from feature head d612f5846b3e42b4fdbbb4ae896e8bcfb5d03196.
• Harness exposes three human-only Finder wrappers, migrates Linear destination validation through hi ensure, uses CLI 4.0.0, declares baseline compatibility >=4.0.0 <4.1.0, and includes durable flow documentation.
• @punks/cli@4.0.0, GitHub release v4.0.0, and baseline baseline/stable/2026.08.27-6abf31ed are live at merge commit 6abf31ed68e773f1898399d96e014fe1aa390f65.
• Protected release run 33050738154 succeeded after its initial npm readback convergence lag. Affected Verification and Stable Aggregate passed; Vercel apps passed or were skipped as unaffected.
• Implementation is complete. Live structural initialization remains an operator action because .devpunks/settings.json still selects a legacy Linear Project URL and structural writes require explicit approval. No unapproved provider topology was created.

Deviations From the Plan

• T4, T5, T8, and T9 are complete as provider-safe contracts. Their live mutation branches remain conditional on an approved destination and topology.
• T16 is complete for implementation closeout: canonical source, exact projection, release classification, merged PR evidence, published npm/baseline artifacts, and existing Linear issue readback are retained. Live product-backlog initialization, destination migration, and Normalization remain separate operator actions.
• Individual RED command transcripts from canonical test-first work were not retained in this Harness checkout. The committed test contracts and final 212/212 detached aggregate are retained; the plan states this limitation instead of inventing RED output.
• IP-389 through IP-404, created during the incorrect task-projection pass, were canceled as superseded history. IP-380 through IP-388 remain the sole delivery work set and receive the final implementation evidence.

Surprises and Decisions

• The configured Linear destination still uses /project/. The new CLI correctly diagnoses it, but changing the real repository setting requires the operator to select the Root Initiative through hi ensure.
• $simplify found one exact duplicate focused CLI test. Removing it changed the final focused count from 18 to 17 without reducing behavioral coverage.
• GitHub and Linear runtime mutations were deliberately skipped. Structural initialization and Normalization need an approved topology, not test fixtures created against an unapproved destination.
• Protected hosted validation is green for the merged implementation: Affected Verification and Stable Aggregate passed, while Vercel apps passed or were skipped as unaffected.
• The protected release rerun completed after npm registry readback converged; the initial readback lag did not require another product change.
• The final review repair validates Business hierarchy and Functional Story placement/provenance, requires same-milestone Tasks and a complete acyclic blocker graph, keeps the Effect prepare command root-owned, and moves the backlog model into the existing Harness foundations route. Canonical and focused contracts cover these rules; no full scaffold-suite result is claimed for this repair.

Sanity Checks

Skill Application Evidence

Exactly one row follows for every implementation_skill_guidance entry in PLAN.md.

Architecture Conformance Evidence

Observed ownership:

wearedevpunks-skills @ 2f46794…
├── finder-phase                  # one lifecycle engine
├── business/functional/technical-finder
├── write-backlog                # sole provider writer
└── planning + delivery consumers

harness-intelligence
├── hi ensure                     # destination migration only
├── exact-SHA skill projection
├── CLI 4 / baseline metadata
└── durable docs

Observed dependency direction:

human wrapper -> Finder gate -> accepted stage evidence -> write-backlog branch
technical Story -> requirements-grill -> SPEC.md -> provider Task intent
provider Task IDs/blockers -> create-plan -> delivery observed facts -> write-backlog

UI Evidence Links

No UI surface changed. Finder diagrams and operator docs are text/MDX artifacts validated through wiki route tests.

Runtime Validation Evidence

Behavior Verification Evidence

Visual Evidence Acceptance Map

No screenshot or visual asset acceptance applies. The $show-me evidence is retained as Mermaid/text diagrams in durable wiki/docs and in the architecture section above.

Acceptance Criteria Status

Manual Review Checklist

Pre-existing Issues

• The repository's configured Linear destination predates this model and still points to an Epic Project.

Out of Scope Observations

• CI/CD trigger and adapter design remains parked.
• Sprint, Cycle, and provider Iteration-field modeling remains excluded.
• Release publication completed through protected run 33050738154; local build evidence alone was not used as publication proof.

Remaining Operator Actions

1. Run hi ensure when this repository is ready to select its approved Product/Backlog Root Initiative.
2. Preview and approve an exact provider topology before initializing or normalizing a live product backlog.
3. Keep merge, deployment, and production claims behind their independent evidence gates.

Steering