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DESIGN.md@docker/context-profiles/complex-eval from affaan-m/ecc is a DESIGN.md file: the design rules coding agents follow in that repo.

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DESIGN.md file
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MIT

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What the file says

# ECC Complex-Task Evaluation (complex-tasks@1)

A reproducible, public benchmark of what ECC's context scoping does for **realistic
agent work** — as opposed to the 30-task repair corpus (`ai-corpus.json`), which
measures small, single-file fixes. This document is the preregistered methodology:
it was written before the first provider call against this corpus, and it is the
reference for anyone who wants to audit or rerun the evaluation.

## Research question

Does ECC's context engineering — the full skill library, manually picked skills
(manual-lean), automatic skill matching (auto-lean), and the ECC-029 changes
themselves — change what a frontier coding agent delivers on multi-step
engineering tasks, and at what cost in tokens, time, and dollars?

## Arms

Five conditions, all launched through the same evaluator with real installs in
isolated config homes, paired per task and repeat:

| Arm | What the agent gets | What it represents |
|---|---|---|
| `full` | Branch skill library installed + ECC context block (catalog/resources) | ECC with scoping machinery present but everything loaded |
…

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affaan-m/ecc · 284,510 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-20 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_npeykgvmankqz2jn
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