failure-harness-trace-contract-drift SKILL.md skillA
failure-harness-trace-contract-drift from anonymousnomad/aide-sovereign-workbench is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add anonymousnomad/aide-sovereign-workbench/failure-harness-trace-contract-drift@git:20260908.e9ac98dPins git:20260908.e9ac98d in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
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- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- anonymousnomad/aide-sovereign-workbench
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skills/packs/failure-harness-trace-contract-drift/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260908.e9ac98d, committed Sep 8, 2026
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- 1,913 bytes
- Repository stars
- 53
- License
- Apache-2.0
Diagnose and prevent stale exact trace-count assertions after intentional orchestrator or agent-loop stage additions. Use whenever a harness test reports an unexpected trace length or a chained battery stops in harness/test-orchestrator.mjs.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Harness Trace Contract Drift ## Trigger Use this skill when a harness test fails because an observed trace length differs from its exact expected length after a legitimate orchestration stage was added. ## Procedure 1. Stop the chained battery at the first failure. Do not remove a trace stage to preserve an obsolete count. 2. Read the failing test and the trace-producing implementation together. Name the added stage, ordering, status, and whether it is present on every path. 3. Run the focused harness test and inspect the trace entries directly if the ordering is unclear. 4. Update only stale test expectations. Keep assertions for required stage names and ordering where the contract matters; avoid weakening the test to a range or a minimum without a reason. 5. Rerun the focused test, then restart the full battery from the beginning with failure-propagating `&&` semantics. 6. Verify process cleanup after the failed and successful runs before reporting the gate result. ## AIDE Instance `harness/orchestrator.mjs` records `skill-detect` before `plan`. Therefore the original five-stage first-flow expectation in `harness/test-orchestrator.mjs` …
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How to install
mdr add anonymousnomad/aide-sovereign-workbench/failure-harness-trace-contract-drift@sha256:8bcca98fe80db4a7The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260908.e9ac98d, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Source
anonymousnomad/aide-sovereign-workbench · 53 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-10-26 · branch covert-production
API
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