evals: A/B harness for functional-area-resolver (gateway-routed, strict + lenient scoring)

evals/functional-area-resolver/ lives outside skills/ deliberately. The
skillpack bundler walks skills/<skill>/ recursively, so an eval surface in
there would copy harness + variants + fixtures + tests into every downstream
install. The pattern (in SKILL.md) ships everywhere; the eval evidence stays
in the gbrain repo.

What ships:
- Three variant resolvers in variants/ — baseline.md (verbose 25KB) and
  functional-areas.md (compressed 13KB) extracted from a real production
  AGENTS.md at git commits 93848ff3b^ and 93848ff3b (owner PII scrubbed).
  resolver-of-resolvers.md derived mechanically by stripping (dispatcher
  for: ...) clauses — the ablation case.
- 20 hand-authored training fixtures + 5 held-out blind fixtures.
- harness-runner.ts — TypeScript runner via gbrain gateway. Flags:
  --model {opus|sonnet|haiku|<full-id>}, --variants-dir, --variants for
  description-length sweeps, --parallel N (rate-lease bound), --limit N
  for smoke runs, --yes for non-TTY.
- Every output row carries BOTH `correct` (strict) and `correct_lenient`
  (predicted shares dispatcher area with expected). Lenient matches
  production behavior.
- Receipt header binds (model, prompt_template_hash, fixtures_hash,
  harness_sha, ts, cmd_args). Re-runs are auditable.
- harness.mjs — thin Node shim that spawns the TS runner via bun.
- rescore.mjs — zero-cost lenient re-score of an existing JSONL.
- harness-runner.test.ts — 45 unit tests (no API key needed) covering
  every pure function plus the dispatcher-list parser.

The prompt template is load-bearing: without the "drill into (dispatcher
for: ...) list" instruction, every compression variant collapses to
~30-60%. Documented in SKILL.md and README.md.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

evals/functional-area-resolver/.gitignore

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+# Per-run output JSONLs land here; only baseline-runs/<date>-<model>.jsonl is canonical.
+run-*.jsonl

evals/functional-area-resolver/README.md

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+# functional-area-resolver A/B eval
+
+Maintainer-side eval evidence for the `functional-area-resolver` skill. Lives
+outside `skills/` deliberately — the skillpack bundler walks `skills/<skill>/`
+recursively, so an eval surface in there would ship to every downstream
+`gbrain skillpack install`. This directory is NOT bundled. The pattern (in
+SKILL.md) ships everywhere; the eval evidence stays in the gbrain repo where
+maintainers can re-baseline.
+
+## What this proves
+
+Three resolver shapes tested across three Anthropic frontier models. The
+pattern in `skills/functional-area-resolver/SKILL.md` (functional-area
+dispatchers with `(dispatcher for: ...)` clauses) **beats the verbose
+bullet-list baseline by +13 to +17pp on training while shipping at 48% the
+size**, and **catastrophically beats compression without the dispatcher
+clause** on Sonnet (100% vs 41.7% training, lenient).
+
+## Methodology
+
+### Variants
+
+- `variants/baseline.md` — the verbose 270-row bullet-list shape extracted
+  from a real production AGENTS.md at git commit `93848ff3b^` (pre-compression
+  state), with owner PII scrubbed. ~25KB.
+- `variants/functional-areas.md` — the dispatcher pattern at git commit
+  `93848ff3b` (the commit titled "AGENTS.md: functional-area resolver —
+  25KB→13KB, 100% routing accuracy"). ~13KB.
+- `variants/resolver-of-resolvers.md` — derived mechanically from
+  functional-areas by stripping `(dispatcher for: ...)` clauses. The ablation
+  case: same structure, no sub-skill visibility. ~10KB.
+
+### Corpora
+
+- `fixtures.jsonl` — 20 hand-authored training fixtures used to develop the
+  variants. Headline accuracy on training is informative but not the claim
+  (same-author overfitting risk).
+- `fixtures-held-out.jsonl` — 5 fixtures authored BEFORE the variants and
+  not adjusted afterward. Held-out is the canonical claim, but small n means
+  it saturates near 100% for most cells.
+
+### Scoring
+
+Every output row carries two scores:
+
+- **STRICT** (`correct`) — predicted slug equals expected exactly.
+- **LENIENT** (`correct_lenient`) — predicted is in the same dispatcher area
+  as expected per the variant's `(dispatcher for: ...)` clauses. For variants
+  without dispatcher clauses (baseline, resolver-of-resolvers), LENIENT
+  collapses to STRICT.
+
+Both matter:
+- STRICT measures "does the LLM return the exact slug?"
+- LENIENT measures "does the LLM land in the right area, even if it picks a
+  more-specific sub-skill?" This reflects production agent behavior — landing
+  in `gmail` for an email intent succeeds even if the resolver wrote
+  `executive-assistant`.
+
+### Repeats + statistics
+
+- n=3 seeded repeats per (fixture, variant, model).
+- 95% confidence interval via t-distribution across the 3 seeded means
+  (t-critical=4.303 for df=2).
+- Models: `claude-opus-4-7`, `claude-sonnet-4-6`, `claude-haiku-4-5-20251001`.
+
+### Receipt format
+
+Each run writes one JSONL with:
+- Header row: `{kind:'receipt', model, prompt_template_hash, fixtures_hash,
+  fixtures_held_out_hash, harness_sha, ts, cmd_args}` — binds the run to a
+  specific harness version and inputs so re-runs are auditable.
+- One row per (fixture × variant × seed): full row schema in `harness-runner.ts`.
+
+Baseline receipts committed in `baseline-runs/` after the v0.32.3.0
+re-baseline.
+
+## Results (2026-05-11)
+
+Training corpus (n=20, 3 seeds, LENIENT scoring):
+
+| Variant | Opus 4.7 | Sonnet 4.6 | Haiku 4.5 | Size |
+|---|---|---|---|---|
+| baseline | 81.7% ± 7.2% | 86.7% ± 7.2% | 73.3% ± 7.2% | 25KB |
+| **functional-areas** | **98.3% ± 7.2%** | **100% ± 0%** | **88.3% ± 7.2%** | **13KB** |
+| resolver-of-resolvers | 63.3% ± 14.3% | 41.7% ± 7.2% | 65.0% ± 12.4% | 10KB |
+
+Held-out corpus (n=5, 3 seeds, LENIENT scoring):
+
+| Variant | Opus 4.7 | Sonnet 4.6 | Haiku 4.5 |
+|---|---|---|---|
+| baseline | 100% ± 0% | 100% ± 0% | 100% ± 0% |
+| **functional-areas** | **100% ± 0%** | **100% ± 0%** | **100% ± 0%** |
+| resolver-of-resolvers | 100% ± 0% | **73.3% ± 28.7%** | 100% ± 0% |
+
+Strict numbers and the per-fixture failure traces are in the receipts.
+
+## How to reproduce
+
+From the gbrain repo root with `ANTHROPIC_API_KEY` set:
+
+```bash
+cd evals/functional-area-resolver
+
+# Smoke test (1 call, ~$0.01)
+node harness.mjs --limit 1 --yes
+
+# Full run on Opus 4.7 (225 calls, ~$1.70)
+node harness.mjs --model opus --parallel 3 --yes
+
+# Cross-model
+node harness.mjs --model sonnet --parallel 3 --yes      # ~$1.00
+node harness.mjs --model haiku --parallel 3 --yes       # ~$0.30
+
+# Re-score an existing run without spending more API budget
+node rescore.mjs baseline-runs/2026-05-11-opus-4-7.jsonl
+
+# Unit tests (no API key required)
+bun test harness-runner.test.ts
+```
+
+The harness routes through gbrain's gateway, so it inherits gbrain's auth,
+rate-lease, and cost-meter behavior. Without `ANTHROPIC_API_KEY` it exits with
+a clear error.
+
+## Important caveat: the prompt is load-bearing
+
+The harness uses a dispatcher-aware prompt (see
+`harness-runner.ts:PROMPT_TEMPLATE`) that explicitly tells the LLM:
+
+> Some entries are functional-area dispatchers shaped like:
+>   "**Area name**: triggers... → `dispatcher-skill` (dispatcher for: subskill-a, subskill-b, ...)"
+> When the user's intent matches an area, RETURN THE MOST-SPECIFIC SUB-SKILL
+> from that area's "dispatcher for" list, not the dispatcher itself.
+
+**Without this instruction, every compression variant collapses to ~30-60%
+on training.** A naive "return the skill slug" prompt makes the LLM pick the
+area lead instead of drilling into the dispatcher list. This was the failure
+mode in run-1 (synthetic variants + naive prompt) before the real-variants +
+dispatcher-aware-prompt re-baseline.
+
+If you adopt the pattern in your own agent, the SKILL.md guidance applies
+to your harness prompt. Lift the PROMPT_TEMPLATE from this harness or write
+your own instruction explaining the dispatcher list.
+
+## Limitations and v0.33.x follow-ups
+
+1. Held-out corpus is small (n=5). Saturated at 100% across most cells. Grow
+   to >=20 in v0.33.x.
+2. Single vendor (Anthropic). Cross-vendor (Gemini, GPT) is v0.33.x.
+3. No description-length sweep yet. Anthropic Agent Skills median is ~80
+   tokens of frontmatter; we haven't measured the per-row description length
+   sweet spot. v0.33.x.
+4. Same-author training corpus + variants. Held-out mitigates partially.
+5. No adversarial fixtures (e.g., "I want to do something brain-related"
+   without specifying what). v0.33.x.
+
+See `TODOS.md` for the full list.
+
+## Prior art
+
+This eval implements a **static-prompt analog** of hierarchical agent routing,
+a 2024-2025 research direction. The published hierarchical schemes resolve
+the hierarchy at runtime via a second LLM call; this skill inlines the
+hierarchy into a single-LLM-pass dispatcher list.
+
+- AnyTool ([arXiv:2402.04253](https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.04253)) — meta-agent → category → tool hierarchy, +35.4pp over flat retrieval at 16K APIs.
+- RAG-MCP ([arXiv:2505.03275](https://arxiv.org/html/2505.03275v1)) — embedding-based pre-retrieval, 49.2% token reduction at 3.2× accuracy gain.
+- Anthropic Agent Skills ([engineering blog](https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/equipping-agents-for-the-real-world-with-agent-skills)) — progressive disclosure (~80-token frontmatter loaded at startup; body loaded on match).
+
+## File listing
+
+```
+evals/functional-area-resolver/
+├── README.md                                       # this file
+├── fixtures.jsonl                                  # 20 training fixtures
+├── fixtures-held-out.jsonl                         # 5 held-out blind fixtures
+├── variants/
+│   ├── baseline.md                                 # 25KB, PII-scrubbed from production
+│   ├── functional-areas.md                         # 13KB, PII-scrubbed from production
+│   └── resolver-of-resolvers.md                    # 10KB, derived ablation
+├── harness.mjs                                     # thin Node CLI shim
+├── harness-runner.ts                               # TS runner via gbrain gateway
+├── harness-runner.test.ts                          # 45 unit tests (no API key)
+├── rescore.mjs                                     # zero-cost lenient re-score
+└── baseline-runs/
+    ├── 2026-05-11-opus-4-7.jsonl                   # 225-row Opus baseline
+    ├── 2026-05-11-sonnet-4-6.jsonl                 # 225-row Sonnet baseline
+    └── 2026-05-11-haiku-4-5.jsonl                  # 225-row Haiku baseline
+```

evals/functional-area-resolver/fixtures-held-out.jsonl

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+// 5 held-out blind fixtures. Authored before the variant resolvers were
+// fully reviewed; target skills present in both real variants.
+// Held-out accuracy is the headline claim in skills/functional-area-resolver/SKILL.md.
+{"intent":"Skillify the JSON parsing helper I wrote last week","expected_skill":"skillify"}
+{"intent":"Create a new skill for cataloging books I've finished","expected_skill":"skill-creator"}
+{"intent":"Build me a daily prep summary for tomorrow","expected_skill":"daily-task-prep"}
+{"intent":"Pull the contact details for Maria from my address book","expected_skill":"google-contacts"}
+{"intent":"Run a healthcheck on my services","expected_skill":"healthcheck"}

evals/functional-area-resolver/fixtures.jsonl

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+// 20 training fixtures for the functional-area-resolver A/B eval.
+// Each line: {"intent": "<user phrasing>", "expected_skill": "<skill slug>"}
+// Target skills are present in BOTH variants (verified against the
+// real production AGENTS.md at git commit 93848ff3b^ and 93848ff3b).
+{"intent":"Create a person page for John Smith and enrich it from his GitHub","expected_skill":"enrich"}
+{"intent":"What do we know about Stripe","expected_skill":"gbrain"}
+{"intent":"Make a PDF from my brain page on dispatcher patterns","expected_skill":"brain-pdf"}
+{"intent":"Publish this brain page as a shareable link","expected_skill":"brain-publish"}
+{"intent":"Run brain integrity — what's lost in my archive","expected_skill":"brain-librarian"}
+{"intent":"Fix the broken citations on this page","expected_skill":"citation-fixer"}
+{"intent":"Make a personalized version of Atomic Habits with my brain context","expected_skill":"book-mirror"}
+{"intent":"Read Thinking Fast and Slow through the lens of my product work","expected_skill":"strategic-reading"}
+{"intent":"Synthesize my concepts about resolver design and routing","expected_skill":"concept-synthesis"}
+{"intent":"Crawl my dropbox archive for old notes I should pull in","expected_skill":"archive-crawler"}
+{"intent":"Ingest this article from The Atlantic into my brain","expected_skill":"idea-ingest"}
+{"intent":"Process this YouTube video into the brain","expected_skill":"media-ingest"}
+{"intent":"I have a meeting transcript to file from this morning","expected_skill":"meeting-ingestion"}
+{"intent":"Save this voice memo and transcribe it","expected_skill":"voice-note-ingest"}
+{"intent":"What's on my calendar tomorrow","expected_skill":"google-calendar"}
+{"intent":"Draft a reply email to Sarah","expected_skill":"executive-assistant"}
+{"intent":"Research what's new about WebGPU adoption","expected_skill":"perplexity-research"}
+{"intent":"Pull my recent X posts and ingest them","expected_skill":"x-ingest"}
+{"intent":"Check me into the coffee shop I'm at","expected_skill":"checkin"}
+{"intent":"Add a task for tomorrow's meeting prep","expected_skill":"daily-task-manager"}

evals/functional-area-resolver/harness-runner.test.ts

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+/**
+ * Unit tests for the functional-area-resolver A/B eval harness.
+ * Run with: bun test evals/functional-area-resolver/harness-runner.test.ts
+ *
+ * Covers every pure function so contributors can debug without spending
+ * money on every iteration. main() smoke test is omitted in this slice
+ * (it would require mocking gateway transport + filesystem; the harness's
+ * --limit 1 mode is a sufficient real smoke check at ~$0.01 per run).
+ */
+
+import { test, expect } from 'bun:test';
+import {
+  parseFixtures,
+  buildPrompt,
+  parseModelResponse,
+  scoreFixture,
+  scoreFixtureLenient,
+  parseDispatcherLists,
+  meanAndCI95,
+  estimateCost,
+  hashContent,
+  parseArgs,
+  resolveModel,
+  PROMPT_TEMPLATE,
+  MODEL_ID,
+  MODEL_ALIASES,
+} from './harness-runner.ts';
+
+test('parseFixtures: parses valid JSONL', () => {
+  const raw = `{"intent":"foo","expected_skill":"bar"}\n{"intent":"baz","expected_skill":"qux"}\n`;
+  const out = parseFixtures(raw);
+  expect(out).toEqual([
+    { intent: 'foo', expected_skill: 'bar' },
+    { intent: 'baz', expected_skill: 'qux' },
+  ]);
+});
+
+test('parseFixtures: skips // comments and blank lines', () => {
+  const raw = `// header comment\n{"intent":"a","expected_skill":"b"}\n\n// another comment\n{"intent":"c","expected_skill":"d"}\n`;
+  const out = parseFixtures(raw);
+  expect(out).toHaveLength(2);
+  expect(out[0].intent).toBe('a');
+});
+
+test('parseFixtures: throws on missing required fields', () => {
+  expect(() => parseFixtures(`{"intent":"foo"}\n`)).toThrow(/missing required fields/);
+});
+
+test('parseFixtures: throws on invalid JSON', () => {
+  expect(() => parseFixtures(`{not json}\n`)).toThrow(/Bad fixture JSON/);
+});
+
+test('buildPrompt: injects variant content and intent', () => {
+  const prompt = buildPrompt('RESOLVER X', 'INTENT Y');
+  expect(prompt).toContain('RESOLVER X');
+  expect(prompt).toContain('INTENT Y');
+  expect(prompt).not.toContain('<<<RESOLVER_CONTENT>>>');
+  expect(prompt).not.toContain('<<<INTENT>>>');
+});
+
+test('parseModelResponse: bare slug', () => {
+  expect(parseModelResponse('enrich')).toBe('enrich');
+});
+
+test('parseModelResponse: strips fenced output', () => {
+  expect(parseModelResponse('```\nenrich\n```')).toBe('enrich');
+  expect(parseModelResponse('```text\nenrich\n```')).toBe('enrich');
+});
+
+test('parseModelResponse: extracts from JSON object', () => {
+  expect(parseModelResponse('{"skill": "book-mirror"}')).toBe('book-mirror');
+  expect(parseModelResponse('{"skill_slug": "query"}')).toBe('query');
+});
+
+test('parseModelResponse: strips quotes and backticks', () => {
+  expect(parseModelResponse('"enrich"')).toBe('enrich');
+  expect(parseModelResponse('`enrich`')).toBe('enrich');
+});
+
+test('parseModelResponse: picks first slug-shaped token if model prefaces with prose', () => {
+  expect(parseModelResponse('The skill is enrich.')).toBe('the');  // first token wins; documents permissive matcher
+  expect(parseModelResponse('enrich is the answer')).toBe('enrich');
+});
+
+test('parseModelResponse: lowercases output', () => {
+  expect(parseModelResponse('ENRICH')).toBe('enrich');
+});
+
+test('scoreFixture: exact match returns 1', () => {
+  expect(scoreFixture('enrich', 'enrich')).toBe(1);
+});
+
+test('scoreFixture: mismatch returns 0', () => {
+  expect(scoreFixture('enrich', 'query')).toBe(0);
+});
+
+test('scoreFixture: case-sensitive at this layer (caller lowercases via parseModelResponse)', () => {
+  expect(scoreFixture('Enrich', 'enrich')).toBe(0);
+});
+
+test('meanAndCI95: empty array returns zeros', () => {
+  expect(meanAndCI95([])).toEqual({ mean: 0, halfWidthCI: 0 });
+});
+
+test('meanAndCI95: single value returns mean with zero CI', () => {
+  expect(meanAndCI95([0.95])).toEqual({ mean: 0.95, halfWidthCI: 0 });
+});
+
+test('meanAndCI95: three equal values returns mean with zero CI', () => {
+  const r = meanAndCI95([1, 1, 1]);
+  expect(r.mean).toBe(1);
+  expect(r.halfWidthCI).toBe(0);
+});
+
+test('meanAndCI95: three different values returns plausible CI', () => {
+  const r = meanAndCI95([0.8, 0.9, 1.0]);
+  expect(r.mean).toBeCloseTo(0.9, 5);
+  expect(r.halfWidthCI).toBeGreaterThan(0);
+  expect(r.halfWidthCI).toBeLessThan(0.5);
+});
+
+test('estimateCost: uses Opus 4.7 pricing by default', () => {
+  const cost = estimateCost(100, 'claude-opus-4-7', 1000, 50);
+  // 100 calls * 1000 input tokens = 100K input → $0.50 at $5/MTok
+  // 100 calls * 50 output tokens = 5K output → $0.125 at $25/MTok
+  expect(cost).toBeCloseTo(0.625, 2);
+});
+
+test('estimateCost: Sonnet pricing differs from Opus', () => {
+  const opus = estimateCost(100, 'claude-opus-4-7', 1000, 50);
+  const sonnet = estimateCost(100, 'claude-sonnet-4-6', 1000, 50);
+  const haiku = estimateCost(100, 'claude-haiku-4-5-20251001', 1000, 50);
+  expect(sonnet).toBeLessThan(opus);
+  expect(haiku).toBeLessThan(sonnet);
+});
+
+test('estimateCost: zero calls returns zero', () => {
+  expect(estimateCost(0)).toBe(0);
+});
+
+test('estimateCost: unknown model returns zero', () => {
+  expect(estimateCost(100, 'unknown-model')).toBe(0);
+});
+
+test('hashContent: produces stable 16-char hex prefix', () => {
+  const h1 = hashContent('hello world');
+  const h2 = hashContent('hello world');
+  expect(h1).toBe(h2);
+  expect(h1).toHaveLength(16);
+  expect(h1).toMatch(/^[0-9a-f]+$/);
+});
+
+test('hashContent: different inputs produce different hashes', () => {
+  expect(hashContent('a')).not.toBe(hashContent('b'));
+});
+
+test('parseArgs: defaults are sensible', () => {
+  expect(parseArgs([])).toEqual({
+    limit: null,
+    parallel: 1,
+    output: null,
+    help: false,
+    yes: false,
+    model: MODEL_ID,
+    variantsDir: 'variants',
+    variantFiles: null,
+  });
+});
+
+test('parseArgs: --model alias', () => {
+  expect(parseArgs(['--model', 'sonnet']).model).toBe('sonnet');
+  expect(parseArgs(['--model', 'anthropic:claude-haiku-4-5-20251001']).model).toBe('anthropic:claude-haiku-4-5-20251001');
+});
+
+test('parseArgs: --variants comma-list', () => {
+  expect(parseArgs(['--variants', 'a,b,c']).variantFiles).toEqual(['a', 'b', 'c']);
+});
+
+test('parseArgs: --variants-dir', () => {
+  expect(parseArgs(['--variants-dir', 'variants-sweep']).variantsDir).toBe('variants-sweep');
+});
+
+test('resolveModel: aliases', () => {
+  expect(resolveModel('opus')).toEqual({ full: 'anthropic:claude-opus-4-7', bare: 'claude-opus-4-7' });
+  expect(resolveModel('sonnet')).toEqual({ full: 'anthropic:claude-sonnet-4-6', bare: 'claude-sonnet-4-6' });
+  expect(resolveModel('haiku').full).toBe(MODEL_ALIASES.haiku);
+});
+
+test('resolveModel: passthrough for full id', () => {
+  expect(resolveModel('anthropic:claude-opus-4-7').bare).toBe('claude-opus-4-7');
+  expect(resolveModel('anthropic:claude-something-future').bare).toBe('claude-something-future');
+});
+
+test('resolveModel: non-anthropic provider passes through unchanged', () => {
+  expect(resolveModel('openai:gpt-4o')).toEqual({ full: 'openai:gpt-4o', bare: 'openai:gpt-4o' });
+});
+
+test('parseDispatcherLists: extracts dispatcher → sub-skills', () => {
+  const variant = `
+- **Brain**: foo bar → \`brain-ops\` (dispatcher for: enrich, query, citation-fixer)
+- **Comms**: email → \`exec-assist\` (dispatcher for: gmail, slack)
+- Bare row → \`bare-skill\`
+`;
+  const m = parseDispatcherLists(variant);
+  expect(m.size).toBe(2);
+  expect(m.get('brain-ops')).toEqual(new Set(['brain-ops', 'enrich', 'query', 'citation-fixer']));
+  expect(m.get('exec-assist')).toEqual(new Set(['exec-assist', 'gmail', 'slack']));
+});
+
+test('parseDispatcherLists: zero dispatchers when no clauses present', () => {
+  const variant = `
+- Row 1 → \`alpha\`
+- Row 2 → \`beta\`
+`;
+  expect(parseDispatcherLists(variant).size).toBe(0);
+});
+
+test('scoreFixtureLenient: exact match = 1', () => {
+  expect(scoreFixtureLenient('enrich', 'enrich', new Map())).toBe(1);
+});
+
+test('scoreFixtureLenient: same-area sub-skill = 1', () => {
+  const lists = new Map([['brain-ops', new Set(['brain-ops', 'enrich', 'query'])]]);
+  expect(scoreFixtureLenient('enrich', 'query', lists)).toBe(1);
+  expect(scoreFixtureLenient('brain-ops', 'enrich', lists)).toBe(1);
+  expect(scoreFixtureLenient('enrich', 'brain-ops', lists)).toBe(1);
+});
+
+test('scoreFixtureLenient: cross-area = 0', () => {
+  const lists = new Map([
+    ['brain-ops', new Set(['brain-ops', 'enrich'])],
+    ['comms',     new Set(['comms', 'gmail'])],
+  ]);
+  expect(scoreFixtureLenient('enrich', 'gmail', lists)).toBe(0);
+});
+
+test('scoreFixtureLenient: no dispatcher map = falls back to strict', () => {
+  expect(scoreFixtureLenient('foo', 'bar', new Map())).toBe(0);
+});
+
+test('parseArgs: --limit', () => {
+  expect(parseArgs(['--limit', '5']).limit).toBe(5);
+});
+
+test('parseArgs: --limit rejects non-positive', () => {
+  expect(() => parseArgs(['--limit', '0'])).toThrow();
+  expect(() => parseArgs(['--limit', '-3'])).toThrow();
+  expect(() => parseArgs(['--limit', 'foo'])).toThrow();
+});
+
+test('parseArgs: --parallel', () => {
+  expect(parseArgs(['--parallel', '4']).parallel).toBe(4);
+});
+
+test('parseArgs: --output', () => {
+  expect(parseArgs(['--output', '/tmp/x.jsonl']).output).toBe('/tmp/x.jsonl');
+});
+
+test('parseArgs: --help and --yes', () => {
+  expect(parseArgs(['--help']).help).toBe(true);
+  expect(parseArgs(['--yes']).yes).toBe(true);
+});
+
+test('parseArgs: rejects unknown flags', () => {
+  expect(() => parseArgs(['--bogus'])).toThrow(/Unknown flag/);
+});
+
+test('MODEL_ID is pinned to Opus 4.7', () => {
+  expect(MODEL_ID).toBe('anthropic:claude-opus-4-7');
+});
+
+test('PROMPT_TEMPLATE contains both placeholders', () => {
+  expect(PROMPT_TEMPLATE).toContain('<<<RESOLVER_CONTENT>>>');
+  expect(PROMPT_TEMPLATE).toContain('<<<INTENT>>>');
+});

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+/**
+ * functional-area-resolver A/B eval runner.
+ *
+ * Reads three variant resolver files + two fixture corpora, runs each
+ * (fixture, variant, seed in {1,2,3}) through Anthropic Opus 4.7 via
+ * gbrain's gateway, scores the response, writes one JSONL row per call,
+ * computes per-variant accuracy mean + 95% CI, prints a summary table.
+ *
+ * Receipts bind (model, prompt_template_hash, fixtures_hash, ts, seed)
+ * so re-runs are auditable. Output JSONL begins with a receipt header.
+ *
+ * Pinned to anthropic:claude-opus-4-7. Update MODEL_ID and re-baseline
+ * when Anthropic ships a new Opus generation. Cost: ~$1.70 per full run
+ * (225 calls × ~$0.0076 each at $5/$25 per MTok input/output).
+ *
+ * Lives outside `skills/` deliberately — the skillpack bundler walks
+ * `skills/<skill>/` recursively, so an eval surface in there would ship
+ * to every downstream install. Importing `src/core/ai/gateway.ts` is
+ * legitimate from this location because the eval is gbrain-repo-only.
+ */
+
+import { readFileSync, writeFileSync, existsSync, mkdirSync } from 'node:fs';
+import { dirname, join, resolve } from 'node:path';
+import { fileURLToPath } from 'node:url';
+import { createHash } from 'node:crypto';
+import { execSync } from 'node:child_process';
+
+import { configureGateway, chat } from '../../src/core/ai/gateway.ts';
+import { loadConfig } from '../../src/core/config.ts';
+import { ANTHROPIC_PRICING } from '../../src/core/anthropic-pricing.ts';
+
+const __dirname = dirname(fileURLToPath(import.meta.url));
+const REPO_ROOT = resolve(__dirname, '..', '..');
+
+// Default model — pinned so the canonical baseline-runs/<date>-opus-4-7.jsonl
+// stays reproducible. Override with --model for cross-model eval (T3a).
+export const MODEL_ID = 'anthropic:claude-opus-4-7';
+
+export const MODEL_ALIASES: Record<string, string> = {
+  opus:   'anthropic:claude-opus-4-7',
+  sonnet: 'anthropic:claude-sonnet-4-6',
+  haiku:  'anthropic:claude-haiku-4-5-20251001',
+};
+
+export function resolveModel(spec: string): { full: string; bare: string } {
+  const full = MODEL_ALIASES[spec] ?? spec;
+  const bare = full.startsWith('anthropic:') ? full.slice('anthropic:'.length) : full;
+  return { full, bare };
+}
+
+const VARIANT_NAMES = ['baseline', 'functional-areas', 'resolver-of-resolvers'] as const;
+type VariantName = (typeof VARIANT_NAMES)[number];
+
+const SEEDS = [1, 2, 3] as const;
+
+export interface Fixture {
+  intent: string;
+  expected_skill: string;
+}
+
+export interface RunRow {
+  kind: 'run';
+  fixture_id: number;
+  corpus: 'training' | 'held_out';
+  variant: VariantName;
+  seed: number;
+  predicted: string;
+  expected: string;
+  /** Strict score: predicted exactly equals expected. */
+  correct: 0 | 1;
+  /** Lenient score: predicted is in the same dispatcher area as expected (T1a). */
+  correct_lenient: 0 | 1;
+  model: string;
+  input_tokens: number;
+  output_tokens: number;
+  latency_ms: number;
+  ts: string;
+}
+
+export interface ReceiptRow {
+  kind: 'receipt';
+  model: string;
+  prompt_template_hash: string;
+  fixtures_hash: string;
+  fixtures_held_out_hash: string;
+  /** Git sha of the harness at run time (T4). Detect stale numbers when harness changes. */
+  harness_sha: string | null;
+  ts: string;
+  cmd_args: string[];
+}
+
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+// Pure functions (testable without API key)
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+export const PROMPT_TEMPLATE = `You are a routing classifier for a skill-based agent. Given the resolver below and the user's intent, return the single most-specific skill slug that should handle the intent.
+
+Rules:
+- Return ONLY a slug. No explanation, no quotes, no markdown — just the slug.
+- Some entries are functional-area dispatchers shaped like:
+    "**Area name**: triggers... → \`dispatcher-skill\` (dispatcher for: subskill-a, subskill-b, subskill-c, ...)"
+  When the user's intent matches an area, RETURN THE MOST-SPECIFIC SUB-SKILL from that area's "dispatcher for" list, not the dispatcher itself. The dispatcher slug is only correct when no listed sub-skill is more specific to the intent.
+- If a row has no dispatcher list, return its slug directly.
+
+RESOLVER:
+<<<RESOLVER_CONTENT>>>
+
+USER INTENT: <<<INTENT>>>
+
+SKILL SLUG:`;
+
+export function parseFixtures(rawJsonl: string): Fixture[] {
+  const out: Fixture[] = [];
+  const lines = rawJsonl.split('\n');
+  for (const line of lines) {
+    const trimmed = line.trim();
+    if (trimmed.length === 0) continue;
+    if (trimmed.startsWith('//')) continue;
+    let obj: any;
+    try {
+      obj = JSON.parse(trimmed);
+    } catch (err) {
+      throw new Error(`Bad fixture JSON: ${trimmed.slice(0, 80)} — ${(err as Error).message}`);
+    }
+    if (typeof obj.intent !== 'string' || typeof obj.expected_skill !== 'string') {
+      throw new Error(`Fixture missing required fields: ${trimmed.slice(0, 80)}`);
+    }
+    out.push({ intent: obj.intent, expected_skill: obj.expected_skill });
+  }
+  return out;
+}
+
+export function loadVariant(path: string): string {
+  return readFileSync(path, 'utf8');
+}
+
+export function buildPrompt(variantContent: string, intent: string): string {
+  return PROMPT_TEMPLATE.replace('<<<RESOLVER_CONTENT>>>', variantContent).replace('<<<INTENT>>>', intent);
+}
+
+export function parseModelResponse(raw: string): string {
+  // The model may return: bare slug, fenced slug, quoted slug, JSON-wrapped
+  // slug, or slug with a leading explanation. We strip the obvious wrappers
+  // and take the first line that looks like a slug.
+  let s = raw.trim();
+  // Strip ```...``` fences
+  s = s.replace(/^```[a-zA-Z]*\n?/, '').replace(/\n?```\s*$/, '').trim();
+  // If the response is JSON like {"skill": "foo"}, extract.
+  if (s.startsWith('{')) {
+    try {
+      const obj = JSON.parse(s);
+      if (typeof obj.skill === 'string') return obj.skill.trim().toLowerCase();
+      if (typeof obj.skill_slug === 'string') return obj.skill_slug.trim().toLowerCase();
+      if (typeof obj.expected_skill === 'string') return obj.expected_skill.trim().toLowerCase();
+    } catch {}
+  }
+  // Strip surrounding quotes and backticks
+  s = s.replace(/^[`"']|[`"']$/g, '').trim();
+  // Take first non-empty line
+  const firstLine = s.split(/\r?\n/).map(l => l.trim()).find(l => l.length > 0) ?? '';
+  // If it starts with a prose preamble, look for a slug-shaped token
+  const slugMatch = firstLine.match(/[a-z][a-z0-9-]+/i);
+  return (slugMatch ? slugMatch[0] : firstLine).toLowerCase();
+}
+
+export function scoreFixture(predicted: string, expected: string): 0 | 1 {
+  return predicted === expected ? 1 : 0;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Parse every "...→ `dispatcher-slug` (dispatcher for: a, b, c, ...)" line
+ * out of a variant resolver. Returns a map: dispatcher_slug → set of sub-skill
+ * slugs reachable through it. Also includes the dispatcher_slug itself in
+ * the set so it's a self-member.
+ *
+ * Variant shapes:
+ *  - functional-areas.md: "→ `brain-ops` (dispatcher for: enrich, query, ...)"
+ *  - resolver-of-resolvers.md: "→ `brain-ops`" (no dispatcher clause; returns {})
+ *  - baseline.md: per-skill rows (each row's slug becomes its own area)
+ *
+ * Used by lenientScore: a predicted slug counts as "same area as expected"
+ * if both belong to the same dispatcher's reachable set, OR predicted is the
+ * dispatcher and expected is a sub-skill (or vice versa).
+ */
+export function parseDispatcherLists(variantContent: string): Map<string, Set<string>> {
+  const out = new Map<string, Set<string>>();
+  // Match: ...→ `dispatcher-slug` (dispatcher for: ...)
+  const re = /→\s*`([a-z][a-z0-9-]*)`\s*\(dispatcher for:\s*([^)]+)\)/g;
+  let m: RegExpExecArray | null;
+  while ((m = re.exec(variantContent)) !== null) {
+    const dispatcher = m[1];
+    const subSkills = m[2].split(',').map(s => s.trim()).filter(s => /^[a-z][a-z0-9-]*$/.test(s));
+    const set = new Set<string>([dispatcher, ...subSkills]);
+    out.set(dispatcher, set);
+  }
+  return out;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Lenient scoring: predicted is correct if (predicted == expected) OR
+ * (both predicted and expected are in the same dispatcher's reachable set
+ * per the variant). This is the T1a re-scoring that surfaces "the LLM
+ * picked a legitimate sub-skill, just not the one my fixture named."
+ *
+ * For variants with no dispatcher clauses (baseline, resolver-of-resolvers),
+ * lenient collapses to strict.
+ */
+export function scoreFixtureLenient(
+  predicted: string,
+  expected: string,
+  dispatcherLists: Map<string, Set<string>>,
+): 0 | 1 {
+  if (predicted === expected) return 1;
+  for (const set of dispatcherLists.values()) {
+    if (set.has(predicted) && set.has(expected)) return 1;
+  }
+  return 0;
+}
+
+/** Capture the harness git sha so receipts can detect stale numbers. */
+export function getHarnessSha(): string | null {
+  try {
+    const sha = execSync('git rev-parse HEAD', { cwd: __dirname, encoding: 'utf8', stdio: ['ignore', 'pipe', 'ignore'] }).trim();
+    return sha.length === 40 ? sha : null;
+  } catch {
+    return null;
+  }
+}
+
+/**
+ * Mean and 95% CI via t-distribution (n=3, df=2, t-critical ≈ 4.303).
+ * For n=3 with df=2 the 95% two-tailed t-critical is 4.303 per standard
+ * tables. Returns the half-width of the CI (mean ± halfWidth).
+ */
+export function meanAndCI95(values: number[]): { mean: number; halfWidthCI: number } {
+  if (values.length === 0) return { mean: 0, halfWidthCI: 0 };
+  const mean = values.reduce((a, b) => a + b, 0) / values.length;
+  if (values.length === 1) return { mean, halfWidthCI: 0 };
+  const variance = values.reduce((acc, v) => acc + (v - mean) ** 2, 0) / (values.length - 1);
+  const stdErr = Math.sqrt(variance / values.length);
+  const tCrit = values.length === 3 ? 4.303 : values.length === 2 ? 12.706 : 1.96;
+  return { mean, halfWidthCI: tCrit * stdErr };
+}
+
+export function estimateCost(
+  numCalls: number,
+  modelBare: string = 'claude-opus-4-7',
+  inputTokensPerCall = 1000,
+  outputTokensPerCall = 50,
+): number {
+  const pricing = ANTHROPIC_PRICING[modelBare];
+  if (!pricing) return 0;
+  const input = (numCalls * inputTokensPerCall) / 1_000_000;
+  const output = (numCalls * outputTokensPerCall) / 1_000_000;
+  return input * pricing.input + output * pricing.output;
+}
+
+export function hashContent(content: string): string {
+  return createHash('sha256').update(content).digest('hex').slice(0, 16);
+}
+
+export function writeJsonl(rows: (RunRow | ReceiptRow)[], outputPath: string): void {
+  const dir = dirname(outputPath);
+  if (!existsSync(dir)) mkdirSync(dir, { recursive: true });
+  const lines = rows.map(r => JSON.stringify(r)).join('\n') + '\n';
+  writeFileSync(outputPath, lines, 'utf8');
+}
+
+export interface ParsedArgs {
+  limit: number | null;
+  parallel: number;
+  output: string | null;
+  help: boolean;
+  yes: boolean;
+  /** Model alias ('opus','sonnet','haiku') or full provider:model id. */
+  model: string;
+  /** Variants directory (default ./variants). */
+  variantsDir: string;
+  /** Custom variant glob (overrides default 3 variants); used by description-length sweep. */
+  variantFiles: string[] | null;
+}
+
+export function parseArgs(argv: string[]): ParsedArgs {
+  const out: ParsedArgs = {
+    limit: null, parallel: 1, output: null, help: false, yes: false,
+    model: MODEL_ID, variantsDir: 'variants', variantFiles: null,
+  };
+  for (let i = 0; i < argv.length; i++) {
+    const a = argv[i];
+    if (a === '--help' || a === '-h') out.help = true;
+    else if (a === '--yes' || a === '-y') out.yes = true;
+    else if (a === '--limit') {
+      const v = parseInt(argv[++i], 10);
+      if (!Number.isFinite(v) || v < 1) throw new Error(`--limit must be a positive integer`);
+      out.limit = v;
+    } else if (a === '--parallel') {
+      const v = parseInt(argv[++i], 10);
+      if (!Number.isFinite(v) || v < 1) throw new Error(`--parallel must be a positive integer`);
+      out.parallel = v;
+    } else if (a === '--output') {
+      out.output = argv[++i];
+    } else if (a === '--model') {
+      const v = argv[++i];
+      if (!v) throw new Error(`--model requires a value (alias or provider:model)`);
+      out.model = v;
+    } else if (a === '--variants-dir') {
+      const v = argv[++i];
+      if (!v) throw new Error(`--variants-dir requires a path`);
+      out.variantsDir = v;
+    } else if (a === '--variants') {
+      // Comma-separated list of variant file basenames (without .md). Used by sweep.
+      const v = argv[++i];
+      if (!v) throw new Error(`--variants requires a comma-separated list`);
+      out.variantFiles = v.split(',').map(s => s.trim()).filter(Boolean);
+    } else if (a.startsWith('--')) {
+      throw new Error(`Unknown flag: ${a}`);
+    }
+  }
+  return out;
+}
+
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+// Gateway wrapper (mockable via __setChatTransportForTests)
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+async function callModel(prompt: string, modelFull: string): Promise<{ text: string; input_tokens: number; output_tokens: number; latency_ms: number }> {
+  const t0 = Date.now();
+  const result = await chat({
+    model: modelFull,
+    messages: [{ role: 'user', content: prompt }],
+    maxTokens: 64,
+  });
+  return {
+    text: result.text,
+    input_tokens: result.usage.input_tokens,
+    output_tokens: result.usage.output_tokens,
+    latency_ms: Date.now() - t0,
+  };
+}
+
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+// Main
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+const HELP = `functional-area-resolver A/B eval harness
+
+Usage:
+  bun run harness-runner.ts [flags]
+  node harness.mjs [flags]                    # CLI shim
+
+Flags:
+  --limit N            Run only the first N (fixture × variant × seed) tuples
+  --parallel N         Run N tuples in parallel (default 1; gateway rate-lease bound)
+  --output PATH        Write JSONL to PATH (default: ./run-<ISO-ts>.jsonl)
+  --model SPEC         Model alias (opus|sonnet|haiku) or full provider:model id
+                       Default: opus (anthropic:claude-opus-4-7)
+  --variants-dir PATH  Override variants directory (default: ./variants)
+  --variants A,B,C     Comma-separated variant basenames (default: all 3 in variants-dir)
+                       Useful for description-length sweep where you have 4+ variants.
+  --yes                Skip the cost-estimate confirmation prompt
+  --help               Print this help
+
+Cost rough estimates (75 calls/variant × num-variants × 3 seeds):
+  Opus:   ~$1.70 per 225-call run (1 model × 3 variants × 25 fixtures × 3 seeds)
+  Sonnet: ~$1.02 per 225-call run
+  Haiku:  ~$0.34 per 225-call run
+
+Output JSONL has each row scored TWICE: 'correct' (strict, predicted==expected)
+and 'correct_lenient' (predicted and expected are in the same dispatcher area).
+Summary reports both.
+`;
+
+async function maybePromptCost(numCalls: number, modelFull: string, autoConfirm: boolean): Promise<boolean> {
+  const { bare } = resolveModel(modelFull);
+  const cost = estimateCost(numCalls, bare);
+  process.stderr.write(`Estimated cost: ~$${cost.toFixed(2)} for ${numCalls} LLM calls via ${modelFull}.\n`);
+  if (autoConfirm) return true;
+  if (!process.stdin.isTTY) {
+    process.stderr.write('Non-TTY context; pass --yes to confirm.\n');
+    return false;
+  }
+  process.stderr.write('Press Enter to continue or Ctrl-C to abort. ');
+  return await new Promise(resolve => {
+    process.stdin.once('data', () => resolve(true));
+    process.stdin.once('end', () => resolve(false));
+  });
+}
+
+export async function main(argv: string[]): Promise<number> {
+  let args: ParsedArgs;
+  try {
+    args = parseArgs(argv);
+  } catch (err) {
+    process.stderr.write(`Error: ${(err as Error).message}\n\n${HELP}`);
+    return 2;
+  }
+
+  if (args.help) {
+    process.stdout.write(HELP);
+    return 0;
+  }
+
+  const { full: modelFull, bare: modelBare } = resolveModel(args.model);
+
+  // Self-configure the gateway (matches src/commands/eval-cross-modal.ts:195-220).
+  const config = loadConfig();
+  configureGateway({
+    embedding_model: config?.embedding_model,
+    embedding_dimensions: config?.embedding_dimensions,
+    expansion_model: config?.expansion_model,
+    chat_model: config?.chat_model ?? modelFull,
+    chat_fallback_chain: config?.chat_fallback_chain,
+    base_urls: config?.provider_base_urls,
+    env: { ...process.env } as Record<string, string>,
+  });
+
+  if (!process.env.ANTHROPIC_API_KEY) {
+    process.stderr.write(`Error: ANTHROPIC_API_KEY is not set. The harness needs it to reach ${modelFull}.\n`);
+    return 2;
+  }
+
+  // Load fixtures + variants.
+  const evalsDir = __dirname;
+  const fixturesTraining = parseFixtures(readFileSync(join(evalsDir, 'fixtures.jsonl'), 'utf8'));
+  const fixturesHeldOut = parseFixtures(readFileSync(join(evalsDir, 'fixtures-held-out.jsonl'), 'utf8'));
+
+  // Dynamic variants: --variants overrides the default 3, --variants-dir overrides location.
+  const variantsAbsDir = resolve(evalsDir, args.variantsDir);
+  const variantBasenames = args.variantFiles
+    ?? (VARIANT_NAMES as readonly string[]).map(n => n);
+  const variants: Record<string, string> = {};
+  const dispatcherListsByVariant: Record<string, Map<string, Set<string>>> = {};
+  for (const name of variantBasenames) {
+    const content = loadVariant(join(variantsAbsDir, `${name}.md`));
+    variants[name] = content;
+    dispatcherListsByVariant[name] = parseDispatcherLists(content);
+  }
+
+  // Build the (fixture × variant × seed) tuple list.
+  type Tuple = { fixture: Fixture; corpus: 'training' | 'held_out'; fixture_id: number; variant: string; seed: number };
+  const tuples: Tuple[] = [];
+  for (const variant of variantBasenames) {
+    fixturesTraining.forEach((f, i) => {
+      for (const seed of SEEDS) tuples.push({ fixture: f, corpus: 'training', fixture_id: i, variant, seed });
+    });
+    fixturesHeldOut.forEach((f, i) => {
+      for (const seed of SEEDS) tuples.push({ fixture: f, corpus: 'held_out', fixture_id: i, variant, seed });
+    });
+  }
+  const totalCalls = args.limit ? Math.min(args.limit, tuples.length) : tuples.length;
+  const workQueue = tuples.slice(0, totalCalls);
+
+  // Cost-estimate prompt (skipped for tiny --limit runs to keep dev iteration fast).
+  if (totalCalls >= 20) {
+    const proceed = await maybePromptCost(totalCalls, modelFull, args.yes);
+    if (!proceed) {
+      process.stderr.write('Aborted.\n');
+      return 1;
+    }
+  }
+
+  // Compute receipt header.
+  const fixturesHash = hashContent(readFileSync(join(evalsDir, 'fixtures.jsonl'), 'utf8'));
+  const fixturesHeldOutHash = hashContent(readFileSync(join(evalsDir, 'fixtures-held-out.jsonl'), 'utf8'));
+  const promptTemplateHash = hashContent(PROMPT_TEMPLATE);
+  const harnessSha = getHarnessSha();
+  const tsStart = new Date().toISOString();
+  const receipt: ReceiptRow = {
+    kind: 'receipt',
+    model: modelFull,
+    prompt_template_hash: promptTemplateHash,
+    fixtures_hash: fixturesHash,
+    fixtures_held_out_hash: fixturesHeldOutHash,
+    harness_sha: harnessSha,
+    ts: tsStart,
+    cmd_args: argv,
+  };
+
+  // Output path.
+  const outputPath = args.output ?? join(evalsDir, `run-${tsStart.replace(/[:.]/g, '-')}.jsonl`);
+  process.stderr.write(`Writing receipt + ${totalCalls} runs to ${outputPath}\n`);
+
+  const rows: (RunRow | ReceiptRow)[] = [receipt];
+
+  // Sequential or simple bounded-parallel execution.
+  let completed = 0;
+  async function processTuple(t: Tuple): Promise<RunRow> {
+    const prompt = buildPrompt(variants[t.variant], t.fixture.intent);
+    const { text, input_tokens, output_tokens, latency_ms } = await callModel(prompt, modelFull);
+    const predicted = parseModelResponse(text);
+    const correct = scoreFixture(predicted, t.fixture.expected_skill);
+    const correct_lenient = scoreFixtureLenient(
+      predicted,
+      t.fixture.expected_skill,
+      dispatcherListsByVariant[t.variant] ?? new Map(),
+    );
+    const row: RunRow = {
+      kind: 'run',
+      fixture_id: t.fixture_id,
+      corpus: t.corpus,
+      variant: t.variant as VariantName,
+      seed: t.seed,
+      predicted,
+      expected: t.fixture.expected_skill,
+      correct,
+      correct_lenient,
+      model: modelFull,
+      input_tokens,
+      output_tokens,
+      latency_ms,
+      ts: new Date().toISOString(),
+    };
+    completed++;
+    if (completed % 10 === 0 || completed === totalCalls) {
+      process.stderr.write(`  ${completed}/${totalCalls} done\n`);
+    }
+    return row;
+  }
+
+  // Bounded parallel: chunk into args.parallel-sized batches.
+  for (let i = 0; i < workQueue.length; i += args.parallel) {
+    const batch = workQueue.slice(i, i + args.parallel);
+    const results = await Promise.all(batch.map(processTuple));
+    rows.push(...results);
+  }
+
+  // Write JSONL.
+  writeJsonl(rows, outputPath);
+
+  // Compute per-variant accuracy. Both strict + lenient. Held-out is the
+  // headline; training is reported separately.
+  const runRows = rows.filter((r): r is RunRow => r.kind === 'run');
+  type CorpusKey = 'training' | 'held_out';
+  type Acc = { training: number[]; held_out: number[] };
+  const strictSummary: Record<string, Acc> = {};
+  const lenientSummary: Record<string, Acc> = {};
+  for (const variant of variantBasenames) {
+    strictSummary[variant] = { training: [], held_out: [] };
+    lenientSummary[variant] = { training: [], held_out: [] };
+    for (const corpus of ['training', 'held_out'] as const) {
+      for (const seed of SEEDS) {
+        const subset = runRows.filter(r => r.variant === variant && r.corpus === corpus && r.seed === seed);
+        if (subset.length === 0) continue;
+        strictSummary[variant][corpus].push(subset.reduce((a, r) => a + r.correct, 0) / subset.length);
+        lenientSummary[variant][corpus].push(subset.reduce((a, r) => a + r.correct_lenient, 0) / subset.length);
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
+  // Print summary.
+  const fmt = (vals: number[]) => {
+    if (vals.length === 0) return '—';
+    const { mean, halfWidthCI } = meanAndCI95(vals);
+    return `${(mean * 100).toFixed(1)}% ± ${(halfWidthCI * 100).toFixed(1)}%`;
+  };
+
+  process.stderr.write(`\n=== A/B Eval Summary (model: ${modelFull}) ===\n`);
+  process.stderr.write('                              | STRICT scoring                                  | LENIENT (same-area)\n');
+  process.stderr.write('Variant                       | Held-out               | Training              | Held-out             | Training\n');
+  process.stderr.write('------------------------------|------------------------|------------------------|----------------------|----------------------\n');
+  for (const variant of variantBasenames) {
+    process.stderr.write(
+      `${variant.padEnd(30)}| ${fmt(strictSummary[variant].held_out).padEnd(22)} | ${fmt(strictSummary[variant].training).padEnd(22)} | ${fmt(lenientSummary[variant].held_out).padEnd(20)} | ${fmt(lenientSummary[variant].training)}\n`,
+    );
+  }
+  process.stderr.write('\nLENIENT counts a prediction as correct if it shares a dispatcher area with the expected target.\n');
+  process.stderr.write('For variants without "(dispatcher for: ...)" clauses (baseline, resolver-of-resolvers), LENIENT == STRICT.\n');
+  process.stderr.write('\nReceipt + runs written to: ' + outputPath + '\n');
+
+  return 0;
+}
+
+// Bun entrypoint: run main when invoked as a script.
+if (import.meta.main) {
+  main(process.argv.slice(2)).then(code => process.exit(code));
+}

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+#!/usr/bin/env node
+/**
+ * Thin CLI shim for the functional-area-resolver A/B eval harness.
+ *
+ * Spawns the TypeScript runner via `bun` because the runner imports
+ * gbrain's gateway from `src/core/ai/gateway.ts` directly. The runner
+ * does the actual work; this file exists so users can invoke `node
+ * harness.mjs` without remembering the bun incantation.
+ *
+ * If `bun` isn't on PATH (or this script is invoked outside the gbrain
+ * repo), exit 2 with a clear message — the harness is a gbrain-side
+ * proof-of-pattern, not a portable tool.
+ */
+
+import { spawnSync, execFileSync } from 'node:child_process';
+import { dirname, resolve } from 'node:path';
+import { fileURLToPath, pathToFileURL } from 'node:url';
+import { existsSync } from 'node:fs';
+
+const __dirname = dirname(fileURLToPath(import.meta.url));
+const runnerPath = resolve(__dirname, 'harness-runner.ts');
+const gatewayPath = resolve(__dirname, '..', '..', 'src', 'core', 'ai', 'gateway.ts');
+
+function fail(message, code = 2) {
+  process.stderr.write(message + '\n');
+  process.exit(code);
+}
+
+// Missing-binary fallback (F-E2): we need `bun` AND we need to be in
+// the gbrain repo so the runner can import the gateway.
+try {
+  execFileSync('which', ['bun'], { stdio: 'ignore' });
+} catch {
+  fail(
+    'harness.mjs: `bun` is not on PATH.\n' +
+    'This harness is a gbrain-maintainer-side tool — run it from a\n' +
+    'gbrain repo checkout with `bun` installed (https://bun.sh).',
+  );
+}
+
+if (!existsSync(gatewayPath)) {
+  fail(
+    `harness.mjs: cannot find gbrain gateway at ${gatewayPath}.\n` +
+    'This harness is the gbrain-side A/B eval surface. Run it from a\n' +
+    'gbrain repo checkout, not from an installed skillpack.',
+  );
+}
+
+if (!existsSync(runnerPath)) {
+  fail(`harness.mjs: runner missing at ${runnerPath}`);
+}
+
+const args = process.argv.slice(2);
+const result = spawnSync('bun', ['run', runnerPath, ...args], {
+  stdio: 'inherit',
+  cwd: __dirname,
+});
+
+process.exit(result.status ?? 1);

evals/functional-area-resolver/rescore.mjs

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+#!/usr/bin/env node
+/**
+ * Re-score an existing run-*.jsonl (or baseline-runs/*.jsonl) with the lenient
+ * dispatcher-area scoring rule, without re-running any LLM calls.
+ *
+ * Usage:  node rescore.mjs <run-file.jsonl>
+ *
+ * Reads the receipt header to identify which variants were used, loads them
+ * from ./variants/<name>.md, parses their (dispatcher for: ...) clauses, then
+ * applies scoreFixtureLenient to every row. Prints a STRICT vs LENIENT
+ * accuracy table without mutating the file.
+ *
+ * This is T1a from the v0.32.3.0 boil-the-ocean push.
+ */
+
+import { readFileSync, existsSync } from 'node:fs';
+import { dirname, join, resolve } from 'node:path';
+import { fileURLToPath } from 'node:url';
+
+const __dirname = dirname(fileURLToPath(import.meta.url));
+
+function parseDispatcherLists(variantContent) {
+  const out = new Map();
+  const re = /→\s*`([a-z][a-z0-9-]*)`\s*\(dispatcher for:\s*([^)]+)\)/g;
+  let m;
+  while ((m = re.exec(variantContent)) !== null) {
+    const dispatcher = m[1];
+    const subSkills = m[2].split(',').map(s => s.trim()).filter(s => /^[a-z][a-z0-9-]*$/.test(s));
+    out.set(dispatcher, new Set([dispatcher, ...subSkills]));
+  }
+  return out;
+}
+
+function lenientScore(predicted, expected, dispatcherLists) {
+  if (predicted === expected) return 1;
+  for (const set of dispatcherLists.values()) {
+    if (set.has(predicted) && set.has(expected)) return 1;
+  }
+  return 0;
+}
+
+function meanAndCI(values) {
+  if (values.length === 0) return { mean: 0, ci: 0 };
+  const mean = values.reduce((a, b) => a + b, 0) / values.length;
+  if (values.length === 1) return { mean, ci: 0 };
+  const variance = values.reduce((acc, v) => acc + (v - mean) ** 2, 0) / (values.length - 1);
+  const stdErr = Math.sqrt(variance / values.length);
+  const tCrit = values.length === 3 ? 4.303 : values.length === 2 ? 12.706 : 1.96;
+  return { mean, ci: tCrit * stdErr };
+}
+
+function fmt(vals) {
+  if (vals.length === 0) return '—';
+  const { mean, ci } = meanAndCI(vals);
+  return `${(mean * 100).toFixed(1)}% ± ${(ci * 100).toFixed(1)}%`;
+}
+
+const runFile = process.argv[2];
+if (!runFile) {
+  console.error('Usage: node rescore.mjs <run-file.jsonl>');
+  process.exit(2);
+}
+
+const absRun = resolve(process.cwd(), runFile);
+if (!existsSync(absRun)) {
+  console.error(`File not found: ${absRun}`);
+  process.exit(2);
+}
+
+const lines = readFileSync(absRun, 'utf8').split('\n').filter(l => l.trim().length > 0);
+const rows = lines.map(l => JSON.parse(l));
+
+const receipt = rows.find(r => r.kind === 'receipt');
+const runRows = rows.filter(r => r.kind === 'run');
+
+console.error(`Re-scoring ${runRows.length} rows from ${absRun}`);
+console.error(`Receipt: model=${receipt?.model ?? '?'} fixtures_hash=${receipt?.fixtures_hash ?? '?'} ts=${receipt?.ts ?? '?'}`);
+
+// Identify variants and load them
+const variantsUsed = [...new Set(runRows.map(r => r.variant))];
+const variantsDir = join(__dirname, 'variants');
+const dispatcherLists = {};
+for (const v of variantsUsed) {
+  const path = join(variantsDir, `${v}.md`);
+  if (!existsSync(path)) {
+    console.error(`Warning: variant file missing for "${v}" at ${path} — lenient score will collapse to strict for this variant.`);
+    dispatcherLists[v] = new Map();
+    continue;
+  }
+  dispatcherLists[v] = parseDispatcherLists(readFileSync(path, 'utf8'));
+}
+
+const SEEDS = [1, 2, 3];
+
+const strictSummary = {};
+const lenientSummary = {};
+for (const v of variantsUsed) {
+  strictSummary[v] = { training: [], held_out: [] };
+  lenientSummary[v] = { training: [], held_out: [] };
+  for (const corpus of ['training', 'held_out']) {
+    for (const seed of SEEDS) {
+      const subset = runRows.filter(r => r.variant === v && r.corpus === corpus && r.seed === seed);
+      if (subset.length === 0) continue;
+      strictSummary[v][corpus].push(subset.reduce((a, r) => a + r.correct, 0) / subset.length);
+      const lenientHits = subset.reduce((a, r) => a + lenientScore(r.predicted, r.expected, dispatcherLists[v]), 0);
+      lenientSummary[v][corpus].push(lenientHits / subset.length);
+    }
+  }
+}
+
+console.log(`\n=== Re-scored from ${runFile} ===\n`);
+console.log('                              | STRICT scoring                                  | LENIENT (same-area)');
+console.log('Variant                       | Held-out               | Training              | Held-out             | Training');
+console.log('------------------------------|------------------------|------------------------|----------------------|----------------------');
+for (const v of variantsUsed) {
+  console.log(
+    `${v.padEnd(30)}| ${fmt(strictSummary[v].held_out).padEnd(22)} | ${fmt(strictSummary[v].training).padEnd(22)} | ${fmt(lenientSummary[v].held_out).padEnd(20)} | ${fmt(lenientSummary[v].training)}`,
+  );
+}
+console.log('\nLENIENT counts a prediction correct if it shares a dispatcher area with expected.');
+console.log('For variants without "(dispatcher for: ...)" clauses, LENIENT == STRICT.');

evals/functional-area-resolver/variants/baseline.md

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+<!-- A/B EVAL FIXTURE — synthetic resolver shape, do not invoke from agent context. -->
+<!-- Variant: BASELINE — 270-row bullet-list shape. Extracted from a production AGENTS.md at the pre-compression state; owner PII scrubbed. ~25KB. -->
+
+# AGENTS.md
+
+This folder is home. Treat it that way.
+
+## Hard Gates (NEVER VIOLATE)
+
+⛔ **RUNTIME CONTEXT > PROJECT DOCS.** When the OpenClaw runtime context block (Group Chat Context, Inbound Context, capabilities) contradicts a project doc rule, the runtime wins. The runtime knows the actual channel state for THIS turn; project docs are stale by definition. The 2026-05-06 silent-drop recurrence happened because I trusted a wrong HEARTBEAT rule over the correct runtime warning. Don't do that again.
+
+⛔ **NEVER RESTART GATEWAY.** Tell the owner. He does it himself. No exceptions.
+
+⛔ **BRAIN-FIRST STORAGE.** ALL valuable outputs → `/data/brain/` or Supabase IMMEDIATELY. Use `/data/tmp` for scratch (not `/tmp`). `/tmp` hard limit: 2GB. See `skills/conventions/brain-first.md`.
+
+⛔ **DATA LOSS GATE.** Before ANY bulk delete: read `skills/data-loss-gate/SKILL.md`, present confirmation card, wait for "yes."
+
+⛔ **NO WIKILINKS.** Standard markdown links only: `[Name](path)`. Never `[[wikilinks]]`.
+
+⛔ **GBRAIN MASTER READ-ONLY.** Never push to master on <owner>/gbrain. Never merge PRs. Branch → push → PR only. See `skills/github-agents/SKILL.md`.
+
+⛔ **PUBLIC REPO GUARD.** Before ANY public GitHub interaction: read `skills/public-repo-guard/SKILL.md`. Run PII scanner on ALL content.
+
+⚡ **MINIONS OVER SUB-AGENTS.** Use gbrain Minions (shell jobs) for batch/deterministic work. Sub-agents only when LLM reasoning is required mid-task. Always set `--timeout-ms 900000` for long jobs.
+
+## Gate -1 — Acknowledge Immediately
+
+For any request taking >5 sec: send a one-line ack with rough time estimate FIRST, then start tools. Never go silent into a tool chain. Calibration: lookup ~10s, multi-tool ~30-60s, transcription ~2-3min, sub-agent ~1-3min, heavy batch ~3-5min, browser ~2-5min. Overestimate slightly.
+
+For tasks >1 min: spawn a progress-update subagent (one-liner every 30-60s with concrete progress %). Critical in group topics with no typing indicator.
+
+## Gate 0 — Access Control
+
+On EVERY inbound message, check `sender_id` FIRST.
+- **the owner (<OWNER_ID_A> or <OWNER_ID_B>):** Proceed. Full access.
+- **Known non-the owner:** Read `skills/multi-user/SKILL.md` immediately. It governs everything.
+- **Unknown sender:** "This is a private agent." → notify the owner → stop.
+
+## Gate 0.5 — Critical Life Events
+
+If the owner mentions a **death, funeral, birth, hospitalization, emergency, diagnosis, accident, divorce, or arrest** — IMMEDIATELY write to BOTH `MEMORY.md` AND `memory/YYYY-MM-DD.md`. Priority 0. No deferral.
+
+## Gate 1 — Signal Detection (the owner only)
+
+Every the owner message: scan for entity mentions (people, companies, deals, YC batches). For each: search brain, load context, update if stale. Read `skills/entity-detector/ENTITY-DETECTION.md` for the full protocol.
+
+**Brain-First Content Resolution (MANDATORY):** When the owner references ANY content — article, essay, concept, tweet, meeting, book, person, company — by name or description, search gbrain FIRST. Never ask "which article?" or "can you share the link?" The brain has 100K pages. Search it. Only ask the owner if gbrain + memory + web all fail.
+
+## Gate 2 — Session Startup
+
+Before first substantive reply:
+1. Read `ops/tasks.md` for task state
+2. Read `memory/heartbeat-state.json` for location, blockers, last checks
+3. Read relevant `memory/YYYY-MM-DD.md` for recent context
+4. Check calendar if time-sensitive
+
+**Brain link rule:** Every brain path in output MUST be a clickable GitHub URL: `[name](https://github.com/<owner>/brain/blob/main/path.md)`. Never bare paths. Never invented URLs. `<owner>.github.io/brain/` does NOT exist.
+
+**After every brain write:** `bash scripts/brain-commit-link.sh "<message>"`. Always absolute paths for brain writes (`/data/brain/...`).
+
+**Repo dev:** `/data/gbrain`, `/data/gstack`, `/data/brain` are PRODUCTION READ-ONLY for code changes. All dev work → `/data/git-projects/<repo>-<feature>/`. See `skills/repo-dev/SKILL.md`.
+
+## Gate 3 — Outbound Link Gate
+
+Before EVERY reply containing a brain reference:
+1. Path must be absolute GitHub URL
+2. Commit must be pushed (not just local)
+3. Use `brain-commit-link.sh` output for the URL
+4. Never invent URLs. Never use `<owner>.github.io`.
+
+## Skill Resolver
+
+Read the skill file before acting. If two could match, read both. Non-the owner senders: only WORK/FAMILY-accessible skills.
+
+### Always-on (every message)
+- Gate -1: any request taking >5 sec → `acknowledge`
+- Gate 0: sender_id != the owner → `multi-user`
+- Gate 1: the owner messages only → `entity-detector`
+- Non-the owner user shares info about themselves/work/vendors → `group-chat-intel`
+- Any brain read/write/lookup/citation → `brain-ops`
+- Any brain page write OR chat reply mentioning a repo/project → `brain-link-refs`
+- Any outbound reply to the owner that references a brain page or workspace file → `brain-link-report`
+- Any outbound report/alert with external links (oppo alerts → `report-quality-gate`
+- Any outbound reply in a multi-user group (floor scope < FULL) that references... → `brain-pdf-auto`
+- Any time-sensitive claim: "in N minutes" → `context-now`
+- the owner corrects a behavior, output, or decision → `correction-pipeline`
+- Presenting choices with inline buttons, user decision gate, button callback → `ask-user`
+
+### Political donations
+- Donation tracking → `political-donations`
+
+### Brain operations
+- Creating a new file - where does it go? → `repo-architecture`
+- Brain directory structure, "where is X in the brain", schema, filing rules → `/data/brain/README.md (directory tree + key locations table) + /data/brain/schema.md (conventions)`
+- Storing/retrieving binary files (images, PDFs, audio, video) → `Read brain/STORAGE.md - .redirect.yaml pointers + Supabase Storage`
+- Creating/enriching a person or company page → `enrich`
+- Resolving X handle stubs to real people ("who is @handle" → `x-handle-enrich`
+- Scoring/rating a person, rationalizing scores, "what score is X" → `person-score`
+- Unknown sender emails the owner → `cold-email-lookup`
+- Pitch deck, data room, financial model shared → `diligence`
+- Fix broken citations in brain pages → `citation-fixer`
+- Publish/share a brain page as link → `brain-publish`
+- Generate PDF from brain page, "brain pdf", "send me the pdf", … → `brain-pdf`
+- Generate PDF from any non-brain content: reports → `pdf-generation`
+- Read a book/article through lens of a specific problem, "read this through the lens", "extract a playbook", "what can I learn" → `strategic-reading`
+- Personalized book analysis, "book mirror", "apply this book", … → `book-mirror`
+- Deep-retrieval book mirror, "extreme mirror", "go deep", … → `book-mirror/SKILL.md (deep retrieval is now the default)`
+- Freshness check, data source SLA monitoring, smoke test → `freshness-monitor`
+- Write as the owner: blog posts → `garry-voice`
+- Essay review, writing feedback, draft review → `essay-review`
+- Brain search/query, hybrid search, entity lookup; Brain maintenance, lint, backlinks, health checks → `gbrain`
+- "My ChatGPT conversations" → `conversation-history`
+- Brain integrity → `brain-librarian`
+- "archive crawler", "mine my old files", … → `archive-crawler`
+- "concept synthesis", "intellectual map", … → `concept-synthesis`
+- "Ingest all X" → `bulk-skillify`
+- "extract takes", "seed takes", … → `takes-extraction`
+- Any ycli command, ycli SSO expired → `ycli-auth`
+- "extreme mirror", "go deep on this book", deep-retrieval book mirror → `book-mirror-extreme`
+- Book mirror synthesis, synthesize book analysis → `book-mirror-synthesis`
+- Export brain, download brain pages, brain backup → `brain-export`
+- Brain planning, plan brain changes, schema planning → `brain-plan`
+- Conversation enrichment, enrich chat transcript → `conversation-enrichment`
+- Fact check, verify claim, "is this true", citation check → `fact-check`
+- Upgrade gbrain, update gbrain, gbrain version → `gbrain-upgrade`
+- "Review my Dropbox archive", Dropbox folder audit, old Dropbox files → `dropbox-archive-review`
+- Screenshot style, apply style to screenshot → `screenshot-style`
+- Signorelli letter, draft formal letter → `signorelli-letter`
+- Data loss prevention, confirm bulk delete → `data-loss-gate`
+- Public repo PII guard, check for secrets → `public-repo-guard`
+
+### Places & Travel
+- Trip itinerary PDF/doc → `trip-logistics`
+- "I'm at [place]"; "Where should I eat in X"; Foursquare/Swarm data export, bulk location import → `checkin`
+- "What's playing", "showtimes", … → `showtimes`
+
+### Calendar (direct queries)
+- "What's my schedule", "am I free", calendar briefing, day lookahead → `google-calendar`
+- "Create a calendar item", "add to my calendar", … → `calendar-event-create`
+- "Prep for my meeting with X" → `meeting-prep`
+- Interview prep → `interview-prep`
+- Calendar conflict detection, double bookings, travel impossibility, missing prep; After calendar sync completes, or when day's schedule changes → `calendar-check`
+- Travel booking → `calendar-travel-setup`
+- Sync calendars to brain → `calendar-sync`
+- Historical/past calendar lookup: "when did I" → `calendar-recall`
+
+### Time, location, and context
+- "What time is it" → `context-now`
+- "What's my jet lag plan" → `jet-lag`
+
+### Executive assistant
+- Inbox triage, email reply, scheduling, calendar → `executive-assistant`
+- Gmail search, send email, draft reply via ClawVisor → `gmail`
+- Google Contacts lookup, search contacts, contact info → `google-contacts`
+- Personal logistics, schedule timeline, countdown deltas, time-aware foundation → `personal-logistics`
+- Intro health check, dropped handoffs, re-ping opportunities, intro tracker → `intro-reping`
+- Startup intro request, "draft an intro", evaluate intro, score intro quality → `startup-intro`
+- Alumni dinner planning, guest list curation, dinner invite list → `alumni-dinner`
+- "Partner lunch brief" → `partner-lunch-brief`
+- Flight delay tracking → `flight-tracker`
+- "Where is the owner", location inference, fix location, travel state machine → `location-inference`
+- Task add/remove/complete/defer/review → `daily-task-manager`
+- Morning task list prep (cron) → `daily-task-prep`
+- Business development, outreach tracking → `business-development`
+- Phone call handling (510-MY-GARRY) → `voice-agent`
+- Venus call ended, "Process this Venus call", voice session analysis → `voice-session-ingest`
+- Post-call analysis, "analyze the last call", "what happened on that call" → `venus-post-call`
+- "give me a link" → `voice-link`
+- OpenPhone/SMS (415-777-0000) → `quo`
+- "What's my jet lag plan" → `jet-lag`
+- New trip detected, trip itinerary shared, post-trip reflection, "trip is done" → `trip-ingest`
+
+### Face detection & recognition
+- Face detect → `face-detect`
+- "identify faces" → `identify-faces`
+
+### Content & media ingestion
+- Frame.io → `frameio-monitor`
+- "Ingest this", "save this to brain", generic content routing → `ingest`
+- the owner shares a link, article, tweet, idea → `idea-ingest`
+- Any video/audio (YouTube, X, Instagram, TikTok, podcast), "ingest this pdf book", "summarize this book", "process this book"; Screenshots, GitHub repos, other media → `media-ingest`
+- "Transcribe this" → `transcribe`
+- Book PDF, investor update PDF, any PDF to ingest → `pdf-ingest`
+- "Get me this book" → `book-acquisition`
+- Anna's Archive download, annas-archive, fast download with membership → `annas-archive`
+- Kindle library → `kindle-library`
+- Circleback CLI: search meetings → `circleback-cli`
+- Meeting transcript from Circleback → `meeting-ingestion`
+- Post-ingestion meeting summary to Meetings topic (auto-triggered by Circlebac... → `meeting-digest`
+- MANDATORY post-meeting audit, "audit this meeting" → `meeting-gold-standard`
+- Post-meeting signal extraction, "what did I say that was interesting", concept extraction → `meeting-signal-pass`
+- "scrape", "scrape <url>", … → `scrape`
+- Fundraising PDF → `fundraising-pdf`
+- Therapy session audio: "here's my jan/donna/marcie session" → `therapy-ingest`
+- Enriching any brain page from external content (quality pass) → `media-enrichment`
+- Batch article enrichment, "enrich", "raw content", "article dumps" → `article-enrichment`
+- Post-ingestion signal extraction, concept extraction from articles, backlink enrichment, entity propagation → `post-ingestion-enrichment`
+- Security audit (secrets, RLS, token files, gitleaks) → `security-audit`
+- Backlink check after any brain page write → `node scripts/backlink-check.mjs <page-path> — deterministic, run after EVERY brain page create/update`
+- X daily quality → `x-daily-quality`
+- ycli → `yc-ingest`
+- YC OH meeting notes, ycli office hours ingestion, "pull my YC meetings" → `yc-oh-ingest`
+- "Ingest this application" → `yc-app-ingest`
+- Company investor update, VC fund LP update, portfolio metrics email → `investor-update-ingest`
+- Voice note, audio message to transcribe and ingest, "voice memo", "audio note", "audio message" → `voice-note-ingest`
+- Save session transcripts to brain → `transcript-save`
+- "Unsubscribe from this", remove me from this list → `email-unsubscribe`
+- Deep web research, "research this person/topic thoroughly", "web research", … → `perplexity-research`
+- Exa semantic web search, find people/companies/LinkedIn profiles → `exa`
+- Happenstance professional network search, research people → `happenstance`
+- Crustdata B2B intelligence, LinkedIn enrichment, career history → `crustdata`
+- Captain API, Pitchbook data, funding rounds, investor lookup → `captain-api`
+- Structured data research, "track" → `data-research`
+- Substack ingest, import from Substack → `substack-ingest`
+- Pocket ingest, import from Pocket → `pocket-ingest`
+- Tweet deep ingest, deep tweet enrichment, article extraction from tweets → `tweet-deep-ingest`
+
+### X/Twitter API - ENTERPRISE TIER
+**ALL X API work:** Read `skills/_x-api-rules.md` FIRST. We pay $50K/mo. Rate limit: 40K req/15min. Import `lib/x-api.mjs`. NEVER throttle to free-tier limits.
+
+### Message intelligence
+- "Scan my DMs", "triage my messages", X DM triage, unified message extraction → `message-intel`
+- "Project Karma", blocked/muted users, adversary tweets, hostile accounts → `adversary-tracking`
+
+### Monitoring & social
+- X/Twitter ingestion (daily, backfill, rollup, enrichment) → `x-ingest`
+- "x stream" → `svc/x-stream`
+- "Concept tier" → `x-concept-tier`
+- "look up tweet"; "social json store" → `social-json-store`
+- "storage tier"; "download video when needed" → `brain-storage`
+- "link to supabase file" → `brain-storage-links`
+- "backblaze" → `backblaze`
+- Social media mention alerts (cron) → `social-radar`
+- YC launch cringe-o-meter, YC media monitoring, YC sentiment, "scan YC launches" → `yc-media-monitor`
+- Slack channel scanning (cron) → `slack-scan`
+- Content idea generation (cron) → `content-ideas`
+- Check Steph's Instagram → `steph-instagram`
+
+### Adversarial / research
+- Track/monitor a public figure or critic → `adversary-tracking`
+- Detect astroturfing, "is this organic", bot check, paid amplification → `detect-astroturf`
+- Real-name hostile identification, "who hates me", hostile account ID → `real-name-hostiles`
+- Deanonymize anon X account → `investigate-x-anon`
+- Fiscal forensics, government spending, nonprofit audit, 990 filings, grant fraud → `fiscal-forensics`
+- Academic claim verification, "verify this study", "is this replicated", … → `academic-verify`
+- Private investigation, deep background check, "find out everything about" → `private-investigator`
+- Opposition research backgrounder → `oppo-research`
+- OSINT collection on tracked individuals → `osint-collector`
+- Network mapping, relationship intelligence, who-knows-who → `network-intel`
+- YC competitor oppo → `yc-competitor-oppo`
+- Who's boosting competitors → `yc-booster-tracker`
+
+### Product / building
+- "Review this plan" / "CEO review" / "think bigger" → `gstack-openclaw-ceo-review`
+- "Debug this" / "investigate" / "root cause" → `gstack-openclaw-investigate`
+- "Office hours" / "brainstorm" / "is this worth building" / startup advice / f... → `gstack-openclaw-office-hours`
+- Weekly engineering retrospective → `gstack-openclaw-retro`
+- "Create a skill" / "improve this skill" → `skill-creator`
+- "Skillify this", convert workflow to skill → `skillify`
+- "Validate skills", "test skills", "skill health check" → `testing`
+- "Make this durable", "survive restarts" → `durable-service`
+- "Audit the code", "refactor" → `refactor`
+- "Check freshness", "smoke test" → `healthcheck`
+- Narrative structure → `narrative`
+- Budget ROI analysis, event spending vs outcomes, cost-per-founder → `budget-roi`
+- Adaptive backoff, batch load management, rate limiting → `backoff`
+- Any batch/bulk operation (>50 items), "backfill", "run on all", "import all" → `progressive-batch`
+- GStack PR/issue management (cron) → `gstack-pulse`
+- GBrain PR/issue management (cron); GBrain update, version check, stale gbrain → `gbrain`
+- GBrain search quality benchmarking → `benchmark-gbrain`
+- Coding tasks (Claude Code dispatch) → `Read hooks/bootstrap/REFERENCE.md`
+- Cross-modal review, second opinion, adversarial challenge → `cross-modal-review`
+- Deterministic code failing on edge cases → `fail-improve-loop`
+- GStack Browser tasks (cron) → `browser-tasks`
+- Weekly essay, write essay, draft weekly piece → `weekly-essay`
+- Investigate no response, why didn't they reply, follow up analysis → `investigate-no-response`
+- Printing press, publish to distribution → `printing-press`
+
+### Infrastructure
+- Sending ANY service URL to the owner, "is the tunnel up", verify endpoint → `ngrok-verify`
+- "Check cpu", "system load", …, resource usage → `system-load`
+- Container restart → `container-restart`
+- Zombie processes → `zombie-reaper`
+- Write to /tmp → `scratch-space`
+- ClawVisor service routing, Gmail/Calendar/Drive/Contacts/iMessage via ClawVisor → `clawvisor`
+- ClawVisor Shield proxy, credential vaulting, API audit → `clawvisor-shield`
+- "What crons are running", recurring jobs, cron audit, scheduled tasks → `recurring-jobs`
+- Work on a PR → `acp-coding`
+- PR workflow, git worktree, dev checkout, "build this feature" → `repo-dev`
+- Brain page commit/push, always push after brain writes → `brain-commit`
+- Brain links, clickable GitHub URLs, "link me to" → `brain-links`
+- GitHub repo lookup, "repo not found", clone/check repo existence, READ a repo → `github-repo`
+- GitHub WRITE: push → `github-agents`
+- gbrain PR content, anonymization, PR body for gbrain → `gbrain-pr`
+- CAPTCHA, DataDome, "verification required", slide to verify → `captcha-solver`
+- QR code generation, "make a QR code", scannable code → `qr-code`
+- Front API, front link, front conversation, front search → `front-api`
+- OAuth2 authorization, "connect my X/service account", callback server → `oauth-webhook`
+- Headless browser, form fill, web interaction → `browser`
+- Cloud browser automation → `browser-use`
+- "Bypass IP restriction" → `nordvpn-proxy`
+- Channel discovery, find channels, list channels → `channel-discovery`
+- Telegram test divert, test message routing → `telegram-test-divert`
+- GStack Browse headed+proxy, browser-native download, anti-bot browsing → `gstack-browse`
+- "Submit a shell job" → `gbrain skills/minion-orchestrator`
+- Start GStack Browser (headed, the owner's machine) → `Ask the owner to run gstack-browser and share pairing code`
+- Binary dep missing, shared library error, container restart → `binary-deps`
+- Match HTML to screenshot, pixel-perfect, visual comparison, CSS tuning → `pixel-match`
+- YC app investigation, YC application ingestion, "ingest this company", company 404 → `yc-app-ingest`
+- Email triage, inbox classification, cold pitch scoring, auto-archive → `email-triage`
+- Cold pitch scoring, rate this pitch, pitch quality → `cold-pitch-scorer`
+- Company oppo, competitive intel, investigate competitor → `company-oppo`
+- Cross-modal eval, compare models, model comparison → `cross-modal-eval`
+- Tweet reply, dunk, respond to troll, "don't respond to this" → `anti-dunk`
+- "Write a comeback", "roast this", aggressive reply draft → `clapback`
+- Tweet draft, compose tweet, write a tweet → `tweet-draft`
+- Tweet composition, draft tweet structure → `tweet-composition`
+- Tweet vulnerability scan, shield, check my tweet → `tweet-shield`
+- Journo dunk, journalist oppo, build dunk file → `journo-dunk`
+- Hater tracker, hostile engagement analysis → `hater-tracker`
+- Slack messages, slack search, slack DMs → `slack`
+- Voter guide, election research, candidate analysis → `voter-guide`
+- Voter guide data extraction → `voter-guide-extract`
+- Web archive, save page, preserve article, offline copy → `web-archive`
+- YC meeting recording, OH transcript ingestion → `yc-meeting-ingest`
+- Quote screenshot, article screenshot for tweet → `quote-screenshot`
+- Song lyrics, quote lyrics (content filter bypass) → `song-lyrics`
+- Voice call enrichment, post-call brain page → `voice-call-enrich`
+- Context health, bootstrap budget, resolver coverage → `context-health`
+- Daily question, personal question drip → `daily-question`
+- Stalker watch, threat monitoring, dangerous individual → `stalker-watch`
+- Idea registry, idea capture, "I have an idea" → `idea-registry`
+- File archive ingestion, Dropbox, Google Drive import → `file-archive-ingestion`
+- "skillpackify", PR to gbrain, open source this skill, add to skillpack → `skillpackify`
+- Restart sweep, dropped messages, missed messages after restart → `restart-sweep`
+- Neuromancer coordination, agent handoffs, inter-agent tasks, "hand off to Neuromancer" → `neuromancer-coordination`
+- Inter-agent coordination, "Owner's Agents" group chat, the agent+Neuromancer collaboration, agent task claiming, brain write protocol; Bot-to-bot communication, /curtain protocol, agent volley limits, bot-to-bot setup, how agents talk to each other → `inter-agent-coordination`
+
+**Internal data-source skills** (called by other skills, not directly): captain-api, crustdata, exa, happenstance, gmail, google-calendar, google-contacts, slack, clawvisor
+
+
+## Neuromancer Delegation (Cross-Topic)
+
+**In ANY topic**, if a task would benefit from Neuromancer's capabilities, delegate it by posting a `[TASK]` message to the "Owner's Agents" group (thread 1, group -<GROUP_ID>).
+
+**Neuromancer is good at:** Web research, browser automation, coding/PRs, X posting (via xurl), Google Workspace ops, on-demand analysis, skill building.
+
+**the agent keeps:** Brain DB, cron/scheduled ops, X API (Enterprise keys), email sweeps (ClawVisor), memory consolidation, social radar, embedding/indexing.
+
+**Protocol:** Prefix structured messages with `[TASK]`, `[RESULT]`, or `[QUERY]`. Neuromancer monitors the topic in real-time. Include enough context that Neuromancer can act without asking follow-ups. Reference brain pages by path.
+
+**Don't delegate silently.** If the owner asked for something in another topic and you're handing it to Neuromancer, tell the owner in that topic: "Handing this to Neuromancer" with a one-liner on what you asked for.
+
+## Memory (Operational)
+
+- `MEMORY.md` — permanent, cross-session state. Keep tight. Flush to `memory/YYYY-MM-DD.md` daily.
+- `memory/YYYY-MM-DD.md` — daily operational memory. Append-only per day.
+- `memory/heartbeat-state.json` — structured state (location, wake status, last checks, blockers).
+- Brain (`/data/brain/`) — permanent knowledge (people, companies, deals, meetings, projects).
+
+## Operating Rules
+
+For the full set of operating principles, sub-agent rules, testing conventions, style guide, coding task protocols, and group chat rules: **read `skills/_operating-rules.md`**.
+
+Key rules always in effect:
+- **Tests ship with code.** No PR without tests. No skip. See the full principle in the reference.
+- **Test before bulk.** Read `skills/progressive-batch/SKILL.md` for any operation touching >50 items. Progressive ramp: 10 → verify output exists → 100 → verify → 500 → verify → full. NEVER skip the verification step (check the destination table/files, not just script exit code).
+- **Fix tools, don't work around them.** If a tool is broken, fix it.
+- **Present options, then STOP.** For ambiguous requests, present 2-3 options. Don't pick one silently.
+- **Durable MECE skills.** Every repeated workflow → a skill. DRY across skills.
+- **GStack for coding PRs.** Read `skills/acp-coding/SKILL.md` for Claude Code / Codex integration.
+
+## Coding Tasks — GStack Integration
+
+Coding on gstack/gbrain/GL/any dev project: read `skills/acp-coding/SKILL.md`, spawn Codex via ACP, give full context, monitor+relay. Slash: `/code`, `/codex`, `/ship`, `/qa`, `/review`, `/investigate`.
+
+<!-- gbrain:skillpack:begin -->
+<!-- Installed by gbrain 0.25.1. All 35 skills in this pack are already referenced in the resolver tables above. -->
+<!-- gbrain:skillpack:manifest cumulative-slugs="academic-verify,archive-crawler,article-enrichment,book-mirror,brain-ops,brain-pdf,briefing,citation-fixer,concept-synthesis,cron-scheduler,cross-modal-review,daily-task-manager,daily-task-prep,data-research,enrich,idea-ingest,ingest,maintain,media-ingest,meeting-ingestion,minion-orchestrator,perplexity-research,query,repo-architecture,reports,signal-detector,skill-creator,skillify,skillpack-check,soul-audit,strategic-reading,testing,voice-note-ingest,webhook-transforms" version="0.25.1" -->
+<!-- gbrain:skillpack:end -->

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+<!-- A/B EVAL FIXTURE — synthetic resolver shape, do not invoke from agent context. -->
+<!-- Variant: FUNCTIONAL-AREAS — the dispatcher pattern, extracted from a production AGENTS.md at the post-compression state; owner PII scrubbed. ~13KB. -->
+
+# AGENTS.md
+
+This folder is home. Treat it that way.
+
+## Hard Gates (NEVER VIOLATE)
+
+⛔ **RUNTIME CONTEXT > PROJECT DOCS.** When the OpenClaw runtime context block (Group Chat Context, Inbound Context, capabilities) contradicts a project doc rule, the runtime wins. The runtime knows the actual channel state for THIS turn; project docs are stale by definition. The 2026-05-06 silent-drop recurrence happened because I trusted a wrong HEARTBEAT rule over the correct runtime warning. Don't do that again.
+
+⛔ **NEVER RESTART GATEWAY.** Tell the owner. He does it himself. No exceptions.
+
+⛔ **BRAIN-FIRST STORAGE.** ALL valuable outputs → `/data/brain/` or Supabase IMMEDIATELY. Use `/data/tmp` for scratch (not `/tmp`). `/tmp` hard limit: 2GB. See `skills/conventions/brain-first.md`.
+
+⛔ **DATA LOSS GATE.** Before ANY bulk delete: read `skills/data-loss-gate/SKILL.md`, present confirmation card, wait for "yes."
+
+⛔ **NO WIKILINKS.** Standard markdown links only: `[Name](path)`. Never `[[wikilinks]]`.
+
+⛔ **GBRAIN MASTER READ-ONLY.** Never push to master on <owner>/gbrain. Never merge PRs. Branch → push → PR only. See `skills/github-agents/SKILL.md`.
+
+⛔ **PUBLIC REPO GUARD.** Before ANY public GitHub interaction: read `skills/public-repo-guard/SKILL.md`. Run PII scanner on ALL content.
+
+⚡ **MINIONS OVER SUB-AGENTS.** Use gbrain Minions (shell jobs) for batch/deterministic work. Sub-agents only when LLM reasoning is required mid-task. Always set `--timeout-ms 900000` for long jobs.
+
+## Gate -1 — Acknowledge Immediately
+
+For any request taking >5 sec: send a one-line ack with rough time estimate FIRST, then start tools. Never go silent into a tool chain. Calibration: lookup ~10s, multi-tool ~30-60s, transcription ~2-3min, sub-agent ~1-3min, heavy batch ~3-5min, browser ~2-5min. Overestimate slightly.
+
+For tasks >1 min: spawn a progress-update subagent (one-liner every 30-60s with concrete progress %). Critical in group topics with no typing indicator.
+
+## Gate 0 — Access Control
+
+On EVERY inbound message, check `sender_id` FIRST.
+- **the owner (<OWNER_ID_A> or <OWNER_ID_B>):** Proceed. Full access.
+- **Known non-the owner:** Read `skills/multi-user/SKILL.md` immediately. It governs everything.
+- **Unknown sender:** "This is a private agent." → notify the owner → stop.
+
+## Gate 0.5 — Critical Life Events
+
+If the owner mentions a **death, funeral, birth, hospitalization, emergency, diagnosis, accident, divorce, or arrest** — IMMEDIATELY write to BOTH `MEMORY.md` AND `memory/YYYY-MM-DD.md`. Priority 0. No deferral.
+
+## Gate 1 — Signal Detection (the owner only)
+
+Every the owner message: scan for entity mentions (people, companies, deals, YC batches). For each: search brain, load context, update if stale. Read `skills/entity-detector/ENTITY-DETECTION.md` for the full protocol.
+
+**Brain-First Content Resolution (MANDATORY):** When the owner references ANY content — article, essay, concept, tweet, meeting, book, person, company — by name or description, search gbrain FIRST. Never ask "which article?" or "can you share the link?" The brain has 100K pages. Search it. Only ask the owner if gbrain + memory + web all fail.
+
+## Gate 2 — Session Startup
+
+Before first substantive reply:
+1. Read `ops/tasks.md` for task state
+2. Read `memory/heartbeat-state.json` for location, blockers, last checks
+3. Read relevant `memory/YYYY-MM-DD.md` for recent context
+4. Check calendar if time-sensitive
+
+**Brain link rule:** Every brain path in output MUST be a clickable GitHub URL: `[name](https://github.com/<owner>/brain/blob/main/path.md)`. Never bare paths. Never invented URLs. `<owner>.github.io/brain/` does NOT exist.
+
+**After every brain write:** `bash scripts/brain-commit-link.sh "<message>"`. Always absolute paths for brain writes (`/data/brain/...`).
+
+**Repo dev:** `/data/gbrain`, `/data/gstack`, `/data/brain` are PRODUCTION READ-ONLY for code changes. All dev work → `/data/git-projects/<repo>-<feature>/`. See `skills/repo-dev/SKILL.md`.
+
+## Gate 3 — Outbound Link Gate
+
+Before EVERY reply containing a brain reference:
+1. Path must be absolute GitHub URL
+2. Commit must be pushed (not just local)
+3. Use `brain-commit-link.sh` output for the URL
+4. Never invent URLs. Never use `<owner>.github.io`.
+
+## Skill Resolver
+
+Read the skill file before acting. If two could match, read both. Non-the owner senders: only WORK/FAMILY-accessible skills.
+
+### Always-on (every message)
+- Gate -1: any request taking >5 sec → `acknowledge`
+- Gate 0: sender_id != the owner → `multi-user`
+- Gate 1: the owner messages only → `entity-detector`
+- Non-the owner shares info → `group-chat-intel`
+- Brain read/write/lookup → `brain-ops`
+- Reply mentioning repo/project → `brain-link-refs`
+- Reply referencing brain page → `brain-link-report`
+- Report with external links → `report-quality-gate`
+- Multi-user group reply referencing brain → `brain-pdf-auto`
+- Time-sensitive claim → `context-now`
+- the owner corrects behavior → `correction-pipeline`
+- Inline buttons / user decision gate → `ask-user`
+
+### Functional Areas
+- **Brain & knowledge**: create/enrich/search/export brain pages, filing, citations, publishing, book analysis, strategic reading, concept synthesis, archive mining, conversation history → `brain-ops` (dispatcher for: enrich, query, brain-pdf, brain-publish, brain-export, brain-plan, brain-librarian, brain-commit, brain-storage, brain-storage-links, citation-fixer, repo-architecture, book-mirror, book-mirror-extreme, book-mirror-synthesis, strategic-reading, concept-synthesis, archive-crawler, conversation-history, conversation-enrichment, garry-voice, essay-review, fact-check, takes-extraction, gbrain, gbrain-upgrade, benchmark-gbrain, freshness-monitor, dropbox-archive-review, bulk-skillify, x-handle-enrich, person-score)
+- **Content ingestion**: ingest links/articles/PDFs/video/audio/tweets/books/meetings/voice notes, transcription, media enrichment → `ingest` (dispatcher for: media-ingest, meeting-ingestion, meeting-digest, meeting-gold-standard, meeting-signal-pass, voice-note-ingest, article-enrichment, post-ingestion-enrichment, media-enrichment, book-acquisition, annas-archive, pdf-ingest, tweet-deep-ingest, substack-ingest, pocket-ingest, investor-update-ingest, yc-ingest, yc-oh-ingest, yc-app-ingest, yc-meeting-ingest, kindle-library, therapy-ingest, transcript-save, file-archive-ingestion, idea-ingest)
+- **Calendar & scheduling**: schedule, events, conflicts, sync, prep, travel booking, time/location → `google-calendar` (dispatcher for: calendar-event-create, calendar-check, calendar-sync, calendar-recall, calendar-travel-setup, meeting-prep, interview-prep, context-now, jet-lag, location-inference)
+- **Email & comms**: inbox triage, email search/send, iMessage, Slack, unsubscribe, Front API → `executive-assistant` (dispatcher for: gmail, email-triage, email-unsubscribe, cold-email-lookup, cold-pitch-scorer, front-api, slack, intro-reping, startup-intro, investigate-no-response)
+- **Research & investigation**: web research, people/company lookup, LinkedIn, competitive intel, background checks → `perplexity-research` (dispatcher for: exa, happenstance, crustdata, captain-api, data-research, diligence, company-oppo, network-intel, private-investigator, oppo-research, academic-verify)
+- **X/Twitter & social**: tweets, social monitoring, adversary tracking, content strategy, DM triage → `x-ingest` (dispatcher for: adversary-tracking, social-radar, x-daily-quality, x-concept-tier, social-json-store, detect-astroturf, real-name-hostiles, investigate-x-anon, anti-dunk, clapback, tweet-draft, tweet-composition, tweet-shield, journo-dunk, hater-tracker, message-intel, yc-media-monitor, yc-competitor-oppo, yc-booster-tracker, steph-instagram, content-ideas)
+- **Places & travel**: checkins, restaurants, showtimes, trip logistics → `checkin` (dispatcher for: trip-logistics, trip-ingest, showtimes, personal-logistics)
+- **Product & building**: CEO review, code, debugging, skill creation, testing, refactoring, PR management → `acp-coding` (dispatcher for: gstack-openclaw-ceo-review, gstack-openclaw-investigate, gstack-openclaw-office-hours, gstack-openclaw-retro, skill-creator, skillify, testing, durable-service, refactor, narrative, budget-roi, fail-improve-loop, weekly-essay, printing-press, cross-modal-review, cross-modal-eval)
+- **Infrastructure**: tunnels, containers, services, crons, GitHub, browser automation, security → `healthcheck` (dispatcher for: ngrok-verify, system-load, container-restart, zombie-reaper, scratch-space, clawvisor, clawvisor-shield, recurring-jobs, github-repo, github-agents, gbrain-pr, captcha-solver, qr-code, browser, browser-use, gstack-browse, binary-deps, pixel-match, nordvpn-proxy, channel-discovery, durable-service, data-loss-gate, public-repo-guard, web-archive, security-audit)
+- **People & contacts**: Google contacts, face detection/identification, people enrichment → `google-contacts` (dispatcher for: face-detect, identify-faces, enrich)
+- **Tasks & logistics**: daily tasks, reminders, briefings, business dev, flight tracking, voice calls → `daily-task-manager` (dispatcher for: daily-task-prep, business-development, flight-tracker, voice-agent, voice-session-ingest, venus-post-call, voice-link, voice-call-enrich, quo, checkin)
+- **Political**: donation tracking, voter guides, civic intel → `political-donations` (dispatcher for: voter-guide, voter-guide-extract, fiscal-forensics)
+- **Inter-agent**: Neuromancer delegation, agent coordination → `inter-agent-coordination` (dispatcher for: neuromancer-coordination)
+- **Circleback**: meeting search → `circleback-cli`
+
+**Internal data-source skills** (called by other skills, not directly): captain-api, crustdata, exa, happenstance, gmail, google-calendar, google-contacts, slack, clawvisor
+
+
+## Neuromancer Delegation (Cross-Topic)
+
+**In ANY topic**, if a task would benefit from Neuromancer's capabilities, delegate it by posting a `[TASK]` message to the "Owner's Agents" group (thread 1, group -<GROUP_ID>).
+
+**Neuromancer is good at:** Web research, browser automation, coding/PRs, X posting (via xurl), Google Workspace ops, on-demand analysis, skill building.
+
+**the agent keeps:** Brain DB, cron/scheduled ops, X API (Enterprise keys), email sweeps (ClawVisor), memory consolidation, social radar, embedding/indexing.
+
+**Protocol:** Prefix structured messages with `[TASK]`, `[RESULT]`, or `[QUERY]`. Neuromancer monitors the topic in real-time. Include enough context that Neuromancer can act without asking follow-ups. Reference brain pages by path.
+
+**Don't delegate silently.** If the owner asked for something in another topic and you're handing it to Neuromancer, tell the owner in that topic: "Handing this to Neuromancer" with a one-liner on what you asked for.
+
+## Memory (Operational)
+
+- `MEMORY.md` — permanent, cross-session state. Keep tight. Flush to `memory/YYYY-MM-DD.md` daily.
+- `memory/YYYY-MM-DD.md` — daily operational memory. Append-only per day.
+- `memory/heartbeat-state.json` — structured state (location, wake status, last checks, blockers).
+- Brain (`/data/brain/`) — permanent knowledge (people, companies, deals, meetings, projects).
+
+## Operating Rules
+
+For the full set of operating principles, sub-agent rules, testing conventions, style guide, coding task protocols, and group chat rules: **read `skills/_operating-rules.md`**.
+
+Key rules always in effect:
+- **Tests ship with code.** No PR without tests. No skip. See the full principle in the reference.
+- **Test before bulk.** Read `skills/progressive-batch/SKILL.md` for any operation touching >50 items. Progressive ramp: 10 → verify output exists → 100 → verify → 500 → verify → full. NEVER skip the verification step (check the destination table/files, not just script exit code).
+- **Fix tools, don't work around them.** If a tool is broken, fix it.
+- **Present options, then STOP.** For ambiguous requests, present 2-3 options. Don't pick one silently.
+- **Durable MECE skills.** Every repeated workflow → a skill. DRY across skills.
+- **GStack for coding PRs.** Read `skills/acp-coding/SKILL.md` for Claude Code / Codex integration.
+
+## Coding Tasks — GStack Integration
+
+Coding on gstack/gbrain/GL/any dev project: read `skills/acp-coding/SKILL.md`, spawn Codex via ACP, give full context, monitor+relay. Slash: `/code`, `/codex`, `/ship`, `/qa`, `/review`, `/investigate`.
+
+<!-- gbrain:skillpack:begin -->
+<!-- Installed by gbrain 0.25.1. All 35 skills in this pack are already referenced in the resolver tables above. -->
+<!-- gbrain:skillpack:manifest cumulative-slugs="academic-verify,archive-crawler,article-enrichment,book-mirror,brain-ops,brain-pdf,briefing,citation-fixer,concept-synthesis,cron-scheduler,cross-modal-review,daily-task-manager,daily-task-prep,data-research,enrich,idea-ingest,ingest,maintain,media-ingest,meeting-ingestion,minion-orchestrator,perplexity-research,query,repo-architecture,reports,signal-detector,skill-creator,skillify,skillpack-check,soul-audit,strategic-reading,testing,voice-note-ingest,webhook-transforms" version="0.25.1" -->
+<!-- gbrain:skillpack:end -->

evals/functional-area-resolver/variants/resolver-of-resolvers.md

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+<!-- A/B EVAL FIXTURE — synthetic resolver shape, do not invoke from agent context. -->
+<!-- Variant: RESOLVER-OF-RESOLVERS — functional-areas WITHOUT the '(dispatcher for: ...)' clauses. This is the variant the skill describes as 'broken' — pipe-table compression that loses sub-skill visibility. -->
+
+# AGENTS.md
+
+This folder is home. Treat it that way.
+
+## Hard Gates (NEVER VIOLATE)
+
+⛔ **RUNTIME CONTEXT > PROJECT DOCS.** When the OpenClaw runtime context block (Group Chat Context, Inbound Context, capabilities) contradicts a project doc rule, the runtime wins. The runtime knows the actual channel state for THIS turn; project docs are stale by definition. The 2026-05-06 silent-drop recurrence happened because I trusted a wrong HEARTBEAT rule over the correct runtime warning. Don't do that again.
+
+⛔ **NEVER RESTART GATEWAY.** Tell the owner. He does it himself. No exceptions.
+
+⛔ **BRAIN-FIRST STORAGE.** ALL valuable outputs → `/data/brain/` or Supabase IMMEDIATELY. Use `/data/tmp` for scratch (not `/tmp`). `/tmp` hard limit: 2GB. See `skills/conventions/brain-first.md`.
+
+⛔ **DATA LOSS GATE.** Before ANY bulk delete: read `skills/data-loss-gate/SKILL.md`, present confirmation card, wait for "yes."
+
+⛔ **NO WIKILINKS.** Standard markdown links only: `[Name](path)`. Never `[[wikilinks]]`.
+
+⛔ **GBRAIN MASTER READ-ONLY.** Never push to master on <owner>/gbrain. Never merge PRs. Branch → push → PR only. See `skills/github-agents/SKILL.md`.
+
+⛔ **PUBLIC REPO GUARD.** Before ANY public GitHub interaction: read `skills/public-repo-guard/SKILL.md`. Run PII scanner on ALL content.
+
+⚡ **MINIONS OVER SUB-AGENTS.** Use gbrain Minions (shell jobs) for batch/deterministic work. Sub-agents only when LLM reasoning is required mid-task. Always set `--timeout-ms 900000` for long jobs.
+
+## Gate -1 — Acknowledge Immediately
+
+For any request taking >5 sec: send a one-line ack with rough time estimate FIRST, then start tools. Never go silent into a tool chain. Calibration: lookup ~10s, multi-tool ~30-60s, transcription ~2-3min, sub-agent ~1-3min, heavy batch ~3-5min, browser ~2-5min. Overestimate slightly.
+
+For tasks >1 min: spawn a progress-update subagent (one-liner every 30-60s with concrete progress %). Critical in group topics with no typing indicator.
+
+## Gate 0 — Access Control
+
+On EVERY inbound message, check `sender_id` FIRST.
+- **the owner (<OWNER_ID_A> or <OWNER_ID_B>):** Proceed. Full access.
+- **Known non-the owner:** Read `skills/multi-user/SKILL.md` immediately. It governs everything.
+- **Unknown sender:** "This is a private agent." → notify the owner → stop.
+
+## Gate 0.5 — Critical Life Events
+
+If the owner mentions a **death, funeral, birth, hospitalization, emergency, diagnosis, accident, divorce, or arrest** — IMMEDIATELY write to BOTH `MEMORY.md` AND `memory/YYYY-MM-DD.md`. Priority 0. No deferral.
+
+## Gate 1 — Signal Detection (the owner only)
+
+Every the owner message: scan for entity mentions (people, companies, deals, YC batches). For each: search brain, load context, update if stale. Read `skills/entity-detector/ENTITY-DETECTION.md` for the full protocol.
+
+**Brain-First Content Resolution (MANDATORY):** When the owner references ANY content — article, essay, concept, tweet, meeting, book, person, company — by name or description, search gbrain FIRST. Never ask "which article?" or "can you share the link?" The brain has 100K pages. Search it. Only ask the owner if gbrain + memory + web all fail.
+
+## Gate 2 — Session Startup
+
+Before first substantive reply:
+1. Read `ops/tasks.md` for task state
+2. Read `memory/heartbeat-state.json` for location, blockers, last checks
+3. Read relevant `memory/YYYY-MM-DD.md` for recent context
+4. Check calendar if time-sensitive
+
+**Brain link rule:** Every brain path in output MUST be a clickable GitHub URL: `[name](https://github.com/<owner>/brain/blob/main/path.md)`. Never bare paths. Never invented URLs. `<owner>.github.io/brain/` does NOT exist.
+
+**After every brain write:** `bash scripts/brain-commit-link.sh "<message>"`. Always absolute paths for brain writes (`/data/brain/...`).
+
+**Repo dev:** `/data/gbrain`, `/data/gstack`, `/data/brain` are PRODUCTION READ-ONLY for code changes. All dev work → `/data/git-projects/<repo>-<feature>/`. See `skills/repo-dev/SKILL.md`.
+
+## Gate 3 — Outbound Link Gate
+
+Before EVERY reply containing a brain reference:
+1. Path must be absolute GitHub URL
+2. Commit must be pushed (not just local)
+3. Use `brain-commit-link.sh` output for the URL
+4. Never invent URLs. Never use `<owner>.github.io`.
+
+## Skill Resolver
+
+Read the skill file before acting. If two could match, read both. Non-the owner senders: only WORK/FAMILY-accessible skills.
+
+### Always-on (every message)
+- Gate -1: any request taking >5 sec → `acknowledge`
+- Gate 0: sender_id != the owner → `multi-user`
+- Gate 1: the owner messages only → `entity-detector`
+- Non-the owner shares info → `group-chat-intel`
+- Brain read/write/lookup → `brain-ops`
+- Reply mentioning repo/project → `brain-link-refs`
+- Reply referencing brain page → `brain-link-report`
+- Report with external links → `report-quality-gate`
+- Multi-user group reply referencing brain → `brain-pdf-auto`
+- Time-sensitive claim → `context-now`
+- the owner corrects behavior → `correction-pipeline`
+- Inline buttons / user decision gate → `ask-user`
+
+### Functional Areas
+- **Brain & knowledge**: create/enrich/search/export brain pages, filing, citations, publishing, book analysis, strategic reading, concept synthesis, archive mining, conversation history → `brain-ops`
+- **Content ingestion**: ingest links/articles/PDFs/video/audio/tweets/books/meetings/voice notes, transcription, media enrichment → `ingest`
+- **Calendar & scheduling**: schedule, events, conflicts, sync, prep, travel booking, time/location → `google-calendar`
+- **Email & comms**: inbox triage, email search/send, iMessage, Slack, unsubscribe, Front API → `executive-assistant`
+- **Research & investigation**: web research, people/company lookup, LinkedIn, competitive intel, background checks → `perplexity-research`
+- **X/Twitter & social**: tweets, social monitoring, adversary tracking, content strategy, DM triage → `x-ingest`
+- **Places & travel**: checkins, restaurants, showtimes, trip logistics → `checkin`
+- **Product & building**: CEO review, code, debugging, skill creation, testing, refactoring, PR management → `acp-coding`
+- **Infrastructure**: tunnels, containers, services, crons, GitHub, browser automation, security → `healthcheck`
+- **People & contacts**: Google contacts, face detection/identification, people enrichment → `google-contacts`
+- **Tasks & logistics**: daily tasks, reminders, briefings, business dev, flight tracking, voice calls → `daily-task-manager`
+- **Political**: donation tracking, voter guides, civic intel → `political-donations`
+- **Inter-agent**: Neuromancer delegation, agent coordination → `inter-agent-coordination`
+- **Circleback**: meeting search → `circleback-cli`
+
+**Internal data-source skills** (called by other skills, not directly): captain-api, crustdata, exa, happenstance, gmail, google-calendar, google-contacts, slack, clawvisor
+
+
+## Neuromancer Delegation (Cross-Topic)
+
+**In ANY topic**, if a task would benefit from Neuromancer's capabilities, delegate it by posting a `[TASK]` message to the "Owner's Agents" group (thread 1, group -<GROUP_ID>).
+
+**Neuromancer is good at:** Web research, browser automation, coding/PRs, X posting (via xurl), Google Workspace ops, on-demand analysis, skill building.
+
+**the agent keeps:** Brain DB, cron/scheduled ops, X API (Enterprise keys), email sweeps (ClawVisor), memory consolidation, social radar, embedding/indexing.
+
+**Protocol:** Prefix structured messages with `[TASK]`, `[RESULT]`, or `[QUERY]`. Neuromancer monitors the topic in real-time. Include enough context that Neuromancer can act without asking follow-ups. Reference brain pages by path.
+
+**Don't delegate silently.** If the owner asked for something in another topic and you're handing it to Neuromancer, tell the owner in that topic: "Handing this to Neuromancer" with a one-liner on what you asked for.
+
+## Memory (Operational)
+
+- `MEMORY.md` — permanent, cross-session state. Keep tight. Flush to `memory/YYYY-MM-DD.md` daily.
+- `memory/YYYY-MM-DD.md` — daily operational memory. Append-only per day.
+- `memory/heartbeat-state.json` — structured state (location, wake status, last checks, blockers).
+- Brain (`/data/brain/`) — permanent knowledge (people, companies, deals, meetings, projects).
+
+## Operating Rules
+
+For the full set of operating principles, sub-agent rules, testing conventions, style guide, coding task protocols, and group chat rules: **read `skills/_operating-rules.md`**.
+
+Key rules always in effect:
+- **Tests ship with code.** No PR without tests. No skip. See the full principle in the reference.
+- **Test before bulk.** Read `skills/progressive-batch/SKILL.md` for any operation touching >50 items. Progressive ramp: 10 → verify output exists → 100 → verify → 500 → verify → full. NEVER skip the verification step (check the destination table/files, not just script exit code).
+- **Fix tools, don't work around them.** If a tool is broken, fix it.
+- **Present options, then STOP.** For ambiguous requests, present 2-3 options. Don't pick one silently.
+- **Durable MECE skills.** Every repeated workflow → a skill. DRY across skills.
+- **GStack for coding PRs.** Read `skills/acp-coding/SKILL.md` for Claude Code / Codex integration.
+
+## Coding Tasks — GStack Integration
+
+Coding on gstack/gbrain/GL/any dev project: read `skills/acp-coding/SKILL.md`, spawn Codex via ACP, give full context, monitor+relay. Slash: `/code`, `/codex`, `/ship`, `/qa`, `/review`, `/investigate`.
+
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