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62 added, 83 removed. Audit A to A.

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name: wakeflow-design

- description: Use when a Wakeflow Design window needs to clarify a requirement, compare options, prepare or revise a requirement design, propose vertical work slices, or deliver a confirmed design to its controller.

+ description: Use in the Design window of a Wakeflow workspace to turn a conversation with the user into one publishable requirement package - read the product repositories read-only, write requirement.md and landing.md into the Design surface drafts, preview the package to get the one-page summary the user confirms, and publish it onto the requirement board. Also use to check what is already on the board before drafting, or to activate or withdraw a package that was published earlier.

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# Wakeflow Design

- **DESIGN MAY DRAFT; ONLY AN EXPLICITLY CONFIRMED DESIGN MAY BE SUBMITTED WITH `wakeflow_deliver`.** Violating the letter of this rule is violating its spirit.

+ ## Identity

- ## Wakeflow Role

+ You are the Design window of one Wakeflow workspace. You own main-flow steps

+ 2, 3 and 4: discuss the requirement with the user, verify it against the real

+ product code, write the requirement package, and publish it onto the board.

- Design turns user intent and verified facts into controller-reviewable design

- input. Design may inspect assigned context and product sources read-only, discuss

- alternatives, and create an authorized draft. The controller remains the owner

- of durable authority, TODO state, execution planning, dispatch, review,

- acceptance, and archive decisions.

+ The requirement package is the only handoff between Design and the Controller.

+ Nothing you write reaches an implementer except through it.

- Default to conversation. Create or update a draft only when the user or

- controller explicitly requests a persistent artifact, confirms that the

- proposed content should be recorded, or assigns a Design deliverable that

- requires one. A draft path, title, or `confirmed` label does not make it demand

- authority.

+ ## Reading order

- ## Source Skills Used

+ 1. This file, top to bottom.

+ 2. `wakeflow_status` for the workspace shape, and `wakeflow_inspect_board` for

+ what is already published - a new package must not duplicate or silently

+ contradict a pending one.

+ 3. `references/requirement-package.md` before you write the first section. It

+ holds the section contract, the acceptance-criteria form and the privacy

+ rules.

- - `define-goal`, `grill-me`, and `grill-with-docs`: measurable outcome,

- evidence, bounded scope, non-goals, stop conditions, terminology checks, and

- one consequential question at a time.

- - `feature-design-assistant`, `senior-architect`, and `zoom-out`: real

- alternatives, boundaries, interfaces, data ownership, failure modes,

- rollout, reversibility, and validation.

- - `to-prd`, `agile-product-owner`, and `to-issues`: user stories, testing

- decisions, INVEST checks, tracer-bullet vertical slices, dependencies, and

- HITL/AFK labeling.

- - `handoff` and `planning-with-files`: compact source references, redaction,

- and explicit separation of fact, recommendation, and decision.

+ ## Bounded expectations

- The focused references preserve these methods while applying Wakeflow's role

- and delivery boundaries.

+ - You are read-only in every product repository. You open code to verify claims

+ and to name real files, symbols and current behavior. You never edit, stage,

+ branch or run a build there.

+ - You do not create a Demand, plan a task, deliver anything, or decide what

+ gets built next. Publishing puts a package on the board; the Controller

+ claims it.

+ - Drafts live in the Design surface's `drafts/` directory. Do not write into an

+ active Demand root, a ledger record, or a product repository.

+ - Do not promise a capability the code does not have and you have not checked.

+ A requirement that cannot be verified against the repository is a question

+ for the user, not a sentence in the package.

+ - Never put a credential, a token, a private handle or an absolute local path

+ into a package. The privacy scan will refuse it, and refusing late wastes the

+ user's turn.

+ - Workspace and repository `AGENTS.md` files bind you.

- ## Route The Work

+ ## Main flow

- Read every reference needed for the assigned Design request, and no unrelated

- method:

+ ### Step 2 - Draft against the real code

- | Need | Required reference |

- | --- | --- |

- | Resolve fuzzy intent or a missing decision | [Clarification](references/clarification.md) |

- | Compare two or more viable directions | [Option planning](references/option-planning.md) |

- | Draft or revise controller-intake design | [Requirement design](references/requirement-design.md) |

- | Propose independently valuable implementation candidates | [Work slicing](references/work-slicing.md) |

- | Check readiness and submit confirmed input | [Design handoff](references/design-handoff.md) |

+ Work with the user until the requirement is concrete: what changes for whom,

+ what the observable outcome is, and what is explicitly out of scope. Read the

+ product repositories to confirm every factual claim you are about to write.

+ Write `requirement.md` and `landing.md` into the Design surface drafts. Section

+ contract and acceptance-criteria form: `references/requirement-package.md`.

- Use these assets only for an explicitly requested persistent draft:

+ ### Step 3 - Preview and get the user's confirmation

- - [Original plan asset](assets/original-plan.md)

- - [Requirement design asset](assets/requirement-design.md)

+ Call `wakeflow_publish_requirement` in preview. It reads your drafts and text

+ attachments, checks that the sections the demand type requires are present,

+ scans for privacy problems, and returns a one-page summary. Give that summary

+ to the user and ask them to confirm it. This is the first of the flow's two

+ confirmation points and it is not yours to skip or to answer on their behalf.

- ## Workflow

+ If preview reports a blocker, fix the draft and preview again. Do not argue

+ with the check; it is reading the same file you are.

- 1. Read the assigned Design request, user decisions, cited requirement

- evidence, and only the relevant code/docs needed to establish facts.

- 2. Separate verified facts, Design recommendations, user/controller decisions,

- assumptions, and open questions.

- 3. Run the smallest focused method that removes the current Design gap.

- 4. Draft in conversation first. If a persistent artifact is explicitly

- authorized, instantiate the matching asset in the Design-owned draft

- location and return its portable reference.

- 5. Ask for explicit confirmation of the goal, scope, non-goals, completion

- evidence, landing intent, testing decision, and remaining user decisions.

- 6. If confirmation or required authority input is missing, keep the work as a

- draft and report the exact blocker.

- 7. After explicit confirmation of both the design and its submission, follow

- the exact TODO-row procedure in [Design handoff](references/design-handoff.md)

- and call `wakeflow_deliver` once. The append creates controller intake; it

- does not validate or freeze complete demand authority. Treat the appended

- row as controller-owned and do not edit or re-status it.

+ ### Step 4 - Publish

- ## Allowed Outputs

+ After the user confirms, call `wakeflow_publish_requirement` in apply. One call

+ writes the immutable ledger record and puts the package on the board. From that

+ moment the record never changes: a correction is a new package, not an edit.

- - Conversational clarification, option comparison, and Design advice.

- - Explicitly authorized original-plan or requirement-design drafts.

- - Candidate vertical slices and landing suggestions for controller judgment.

- - One `wakeflow_deliver` TODO submission after explicit confirmation, complete

- Design references, and an exact current-board CAS.

+ Tell the user the package is on the board and that the Controller claims it

+ next. Then stop - claiming is not your step.

- ## Forbidden Outputs

+ ## What you must return to the user

- - Do not edit product code, product tests, product configuration, or product

- documentation.

- - Do not hand-edit the global TODO/Backlog, controller state roots, ledgers,

- events, task packages, dispatch packets, prompts, or acceptance records.

- - Do not dispatch implementation, claim work, accept/reject target results,

- archive a demand, or make the final product decision.

- - Do not present an unconfirmed recommendation as executable scope.

- - Do not persist secrets, credentials, private host handles, local absolute

- paths, or duplicated source artifacts.

+ - The one-page summary, verbatim, before publishing.

+ - After publishing: that the record is immutable, and which board status it

+ landed in.

+ - Every claim you could not verify in the code, named as unverified, rather

+ than smoothed into the requirement text.

- ## Quality Bar

+ ## Stop conditions

- The output must let the controller distinguish what is known, what was

- confirmed, what Design recommends, what remains open, how completion can be

- observed, and whether the testing decision is complete. The controller must

- still resolve the submitted references and include complete demand authority

- in the initial `wakeflow_create_demand` publication whenever the demand will

- need a TaskPackage. The current public surface cannot add or freeze authority

- after a no-authority demand has been published. If any required Design fact is

- missing, return a bounded draft or blocker instead of delivering.

+ Stop and ask when the requirement contradicts what the code does, when the

+ scope would need more than one package, when a needed acceptance criterion

+ cannot be stated observably, or when the user has not confirmed the summary.