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Summary

  • route explicit e2e phase commands through a lightweight dispatcher
  • move attended next-step guidance from the controller into a completion guide
  • keep the controller for workflow discovery and ambiguous requests
  • preserve project overrides, failure stops, e2e scope boundaries, and attended-mode stopping
  • update shared routing conventions and bump affected package versions

Independent mergeability

This PR is based directly on main, not on PR #113 or #114. It contains the same shared convention and override-resolution changes so the three PRs can merge in any order. It does not include their workflow-specific changes.

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Summary

  • E2E package: Added demand-loaded phase routing through skills/dispatch.md. Centralized attended-mode next-step guidance in skills/completion.md. Limited controller.md to workflow discovery and ambiguous-request routing. Updated phase commands and completion instructions.
  • Shared resources: Updated _shared/recipes/phase-override-resolution.md to validate override structure, terminal exits, destination compatibility, and legacy controller-return behavior.
  • Workflow conventions: Updated .coderabbit.yaml, AGENTS.md, and CONTRIBUTING.md with dispatcher, completion, override, reference, and validation rules.
  • Other packages: Bumped patch versions for bugfix, code-review, cve-fix, design, docs-writer, implement, kcs, prd, and sizing. Bumped the E2E workflow from 0.6.0 to 0.7.0.
  • Behavior: Preserved project overrides, failure stops, E2E scope boundaries, command context, and attended-mode stopping. Explicit phase commands can bypass earlier phases. Completed phases with failing verdicts reach completion guidance. Operational failures, invalid terminal returns, and ambiguous requests stop routing.

Generalize workflow conventions and phase override completion contracts for lightweight dispatchers and centralized completion guidance.

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Route explicit e2e phases through a lightweight dispatcher and centralize attended completion guidance without loading the full controller.

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The E2E workflow now uses a dispatcher for phase execution and a completion guide for next-step recommendations. Configuration, documentation, commands, phase skills, override rules, and skill metadata were updated.

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E2E workflow routing

Layer / File(s) Summary
Routing contracts and override resolution
.coderabbit.yaml, AGENTS.md, CONTRIBUTING.md, _shared/recipes/phase-override-resolution.md, e2e/README.md
Workflow rules now define dispatcher and completion roles, explicit phase routing, override validation, relative references, and reachable-resource checks.
Dispatcher and completion execution
e2e/skills/controller.md, e2e/skills/dispatch.md, e2e/skills/completion.md, e2e/skills/{code,ingest,plan,publish,respond,revise,validate}.md
The controller handles discovery and ambiguous requests. The dispatcher resolves and runs phases. The completion guide provides next-step guidance. Phase skills return to the invoking router.
Command routing
e2e/commands/*
Commands invoke dispatch.md with explicit phase parameters and preserve command context.
Skill metadata and failure handling
bugfix/SKILL.md, code-review/SKILL.md, cve-fix/SKILL.md, design/SKILL.md, docs-writer/SKILL.md, e2e/SKILL.md, implement/SKILL.md, kcs/SKILL.md, prd/SKILL.md, sizing/SKILL.md
Skill versions are incremented. The sizing failure instruction is reformatted without a behavior change.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Refactor

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 28bec

The routing refactor is otherwise ready, but the shared override recipe embeds bugfix-specific behavior that could mislead consumers in other workflows. Keep this bounded issue in mind before merging.

Suggested labels: workflow-structure, shared-resources, ci-validation, documentation

Suggested reviewers: amir-yogev-gh

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In `@_shared/recipes/phase-override-resolution.md`:
- Around line 27-31: Update the override validation guidance to require a
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@adalton Confirmed. Commit 703edba implements all four reported fixes.

The override contract now requires a detectable, architecture-compatible terminal exit. The controller now stops on ambiguous input. The dispatcher is the only component that reads completion.md. Completed phase reports with failing verdicts now reach completion guidance, while operational failures and invalid terminal returns stop routing.

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Keep terminal-exit validation architecture-neutral and normalize supported legacy override exits through the demand-loaded dispatcher.

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Overall assessment:

Overall this is a well-crafted refactoring. The decomposition is clean, responsibilities are clearly separated, and the demand-loading pattern is a smart approach for reducing context-window pressure. A few items worth discussing.

What works well:

  • Clean single-responsibility split. The controller handles discovery and ambiguous-input routing, the dispatcher owns phase execution lifecycle, and the completion guide centralizes next-step logic. Each can evolve independently.
  • Demand-loading is the right pattern. An agent invoking /validate no longer loads the full controller + all phase knowledge upfront - it reads dispatch.md → the single phase file → completion.md. This meaningfully reduces context pressure for multi-file AI sessions.
  • Sole-consumer rule for completion.md. Having dispatch be the only component that reads the completion guide eliminates the risk of duplicate or conflicting next-step reads. The explicit carve-out ("A completed phase report with a failing verdict… is a valid outcome: read completion.md") correctly prevents premature stopping on expected failures like validate.md reporting FAIL.
  • Generic terminal exits. Phase skills now say "return to the invoking router" instead of "re-read the controller," making them architecture-agnostic. This is a solid extensibility move — an alternate router could consume these phases without patching every skill file.
  • Correct version discipline. The shared recipe phase-override-resolution.md (0.1.0→0.1.1) has a behavioral change (requiring detectable terminal instructions), so all consuming workflows correctly receive PATCH bumps.

Issues to address:

1. Ambiguous failure language in dispatch.md (line 21)

CodeRabbit flagged this and it's still unresolved - I agree it's a real concern. The current wording:

"If override resolution fails…report the failure and stop without reading completion.md."

This conflicts with the shared recipe's own fallback behavior: phase-override-resolution.md says if an override is malformed or lacks a terminal exit, warn and fall back to the built-in default — it doesn't "fail." The dispatch wording makes it sound like any override problem is a hard stop, when actually the recipe already handles that gracefully.
Suggested rewrite for the first sentence of that paragraph:

"If neither the project override nor the built-in phase can be resolved, an operational error prevents the phase from completing, or the resolved phase lacks a supported terminal exit, report the failure and stop without reading completion.md."

This makes clear that "failure" means total resolution failure (both paths exhausted), not a recoverable override issue.

2. Implicit {PHASE}.md filename construction

The dispatcher builds PHASE_FILE={PHASE}.md from the bare PHASE parameter. This works for the e2e workflow where all phase filenames are {phase}.md, but the shared recipe's own docs note that "some workflows use different filenames (e.g., docs-writer maps /gather to gather-context.md)." If a future e2e phase breaks this convention, the dispatcher silently constructs the wrong filename.
Consider either:

  • Documenting this assumption explicitly in dispatch.md ("e2e phases use {PHASE}.md naming; workflows with non-standard filenames need a mapping"), or
  • Accepting a PHASE_FILE parameter instead, pushing the mapping to the command wrappers

This isn't blocking since all current e2e phases follow the convention, but it's a latent fragility.

3. Controller phase table as dead documentation risk

The controller's phase table (mapping phase names to filenames and descriptions) is now only consulted for ambiguous-input routing - the dispatcher doesn't read it. If someone adds a new phase and updates the command wrapper + phase file but forgets to update the controller's table, discovery breaks for free-text inputs while explicit /command invocations work fine. This is a subtle divergence risk. A brief comment in the controller noting "This table must be kept in sync with the command wrappers and phase files" would help.

Minor observations

  • The completion guide's per-phase guidance is well-structured - the conditional branching (e.g., "if validate reported FAIL → suggest fix-and-rerun; if PASS → suggest report") gives the agent clear decision points without over-prescribing.
  • Nice touch having dispatch.md normalize all supported exit variants ("returning to the invoking router, requesting completion guidance, or re-reading the controller") to a single behavior. This insulates the dispatcher from phase-level exit style differences.

Verdict: This is ready for merge after addressing issue 1 (the override-resolution wording). Issues 2 and 3 are improvement suggestions that could be follow-ups.

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Cost Estimate: Before vs After the Demand-Load Refactor

The primary cost driver in AI workflows is input tokens - how much text the agent reads into its context window per phase invocation. This refactor changes what gets loaded for routing, so I measured the actual file sizes and modeled the context-loading flow.

How the loading flow changed

The key difference is what gets loaded besides the phase skill file itself (which is unchanged):
Before - an explicit /command (e.g., /validate) triggers:

  1. Command wrapper → reads full controller.md (7,688 chars / ~1,922 tokens)
  2. Controller reads phase-override-resolution.md (1,182 chars / ~296 tokens)
  3. Phase skill executes, then exits with "re-read the controller"
  4. controller.md loaded again (~1,922 tokens) so the agent can process "Recommending Next Steps"

Total routing overhead: ~16,558 chars / ~4,140 tokens

After - the same /command triggers:

  1. Command wrapper → reads dispatch.md (1,255 chars / ~314 tokens)
  2. Dispatch reads phase-override-resolution.md (1,533 chars / ~383 tokens)
  3. Phase skill executes, exits generically to the dispatcher
  4. Dispatcher reads completion.md (1,833 chars / ~458 tokens)

Total routing overhead: ~4,621 chars / ~1,155 tokens

The controller is never loaded for explicit command invocations. The double-read of the monolithic controller (the biggest waste) is eliminated entirely.

Savings

Per phase invocation:   ~2,984 tokens saved   (72% reduction in routing overhead)
Full 7-phase workflow:  ~20,890 tokens saved

Dollar cost (input tokens only, routing overhead):

                     Per workflow    10 runs     50 runs     100 runs
Claude Sonnet 4      ~$0.06         ~$0.63      ~$3.13      ~$6.27
Claude Opus 4        ~$0.31         ~$3.13      ~$15.67     ~$31.33

Context window pressure (the bigger win)
The dollar savings are modest, but the context window impact is arguably more important - it directly affects output quality in long sessions:

                              Before      After
Per-phase routing overhead    2.07%       0.58%    of 200K context
Full 7-phase workflow         14.49%      4.04%    of 200K context

Recovering ~10.5% of the context window over a full workflow run means more room for actual phase content, tool results, and agent reasoning - which matters most in long /code and /validate phases where context pressure causes quality degradation.

Caveat:

These estimates cover routing overhead only (the files the architecture loads for dispatch/transitions). The phase skill files, tool call results, and agent output are additional and unchanged by this refactor. The token estimate uses ~4 chars/token which is approximate for English markdown - actual tokenizer counts may vary ±15%.

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23-24: Do not stop for a recoverable override rejection.

phase-override-resolution.md requires an unreadable or incompatible project override to warn and fall back to the built-in phase. The phrase If override resolution fails is broader than that contract and can make the dispatcher stop before the fallback runs. Restrict this stop branch to the case where neither the override nor the built-in phase resolves, or to a failure after fallback execution begins.

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Thanks @amir-yogev-gh. Addressed in 150fa57:

  • Clarified that rejected project overrides continue with the built-in fallback; resolution stops only if that fallback cannot be resolved.
  • Documented the E2E {PHASE}.md filename convention and where to define exceptions.
  • Added a note requiring the controller phase list to stay synchronized with command wrappers, phase files, dispatcher mappings, and completion guidance.

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Import the shared recipe delta from PR #114 commit feab14e. Keep resolution read-only and leave phase execution and handoffs to the invoking router.

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Import the shared recipe delta from PR #114 commit 3033cd7. Load override validation only when a project override exists, retaining existing main-relative version bumps.

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Sync the shared override recipes with PR #113 and make E2E completion handoffs execute exactly once. Retain the existing main-relative version bumps.

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LGTM

Resolve package versions against the new main head after PR #113. Keep the E2E minor bump and take Bugfix and shared resources from main.

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Re-evaluate PR #115 against main after PR #114. Inherit Implement and shared-resource changes from main while retaining the E2E release bump.

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