[AI:Improver] 2026W31

[dzykovic]

Weekly Optimization - 2026W31

What this PR contains

• Optimization report in .operator/data/retrospectives/2026W31.md
• Prompt tuning: modifications to .operator/context/*.md and .operator/analyst/*.md based on PR feedback
• Task optimization: priority changes or cancellations in .operator/data/tasks/

Review guide

1. Check the optimization report for patterns found
2. Review agent prompt changes - are the new rules correct and helpful?
3. Review task changes - are reprioritizations/cancellations reasonable?

Merge to apply prompt improvements and task updates.

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Pull request overview

Weekly optimization update (2026W31) for the Operator workflow: adds the weekly retrospective report, tunes agent context/rules under .operator/**, and records a follow-up task to reconcile the canonical intelligence/rules/typescript.md layer graph with actual engine dependencies.

Changes:

• Added a new pending task to update the canonical engine layer graph in intelligence/rules/typescript.md.
• Updated engine layer-graph guidance in .operator/context/engine.md and .operator/analyst/consistency.md.
• Added the 2026W31 optimization retrospective report summarizing prompt/task/status reconciliation.

Reviewed changes

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File	Description
.operator/data/tasks/T20260727-A58B1D9C.md	New task capturing follow-up work to update canonical engine layer graph documentation.
.operator/data/retrospectives/2026W31.md	New weekly optimization/retrospective report including emitted status updates and a child task record.
.operator/creator/engine.md	Tightened engine implementation guidance around regression-test fixture construction.
.operator/context/engine.md	Updated engine layer-graph lines for infra/ and logging/ dependencies.
.operator/analyst/consistency.md	Updated weekly consistency rule to reflect corrected intra-engine layer-graph dependencies.

Comments suppressed due to low confidence (1)

.operator/context/engine.md:25

• The logging/ dependency line lists pino but not pino-pretty. engine/logging/logger.ts can use pino-pretty at runtime (interactive / LOG_PRETTY) and also dynamically imports it with a fallback when it's absent. If this layer graph is tracking third-party deps (like better-sqlite3 on the infra/ line), it may be worth calling out pino-pretty as an optional dependency here too.

logging/    → @operator/core (types), pino, Node built-ins

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Applied review feedback.

[dzykovic]

[AI-REVIEWER] CHANGES_REQUESTED (high) — the premise checks out and the three prompt edits are good work (layer-graph corrections re-verified against the tree: runtime ConfigError/WorkspaceError/instanceEntrySchema imports under engine/infra/**, type-only Logger, better-sqlite3 confined to infra/local/, pino + optional dynamic pino-pretty; the CRLF fixture rule is technically precise). Two blockers stop the merge — see the inline threads on T20260727-A58B1D9C.md and 2026W31.md. Additional note with no diff anchor: PR #9 (2026W28) is CLOSED unmerged, so there is no overlap — this PR is the better version and the one that should survive once the blockers are fixed.

[dzykovic]

[AI-REVIEWER] blocker — this task was created orphaned: its frontmatter has no parent_id, but the retrospective that spawned it declares parent_id: F20260705-0556B309. Cause: the EMIT child-item used the key parent_id: where emitChildItemSchema (packages/core/src/schemas/agent-event.schema.ts:35) declares parent; the non-strict z.object silently stripped it and aop-applier.ts:195 created a root item. Consequences: idempotency-scan.ts:52 will not dedupe this task against its finding, work-items.ts:498-501 will not roll it into childrenByParent, and F20260705-0556B309 can never reach terminal through this child. Fix: do NOT hand-edit this file's frontmatter — delete .operator/data/tasks/T20260727-A58B1D9C.md and re-emit the child with parent: F20260705-0556B309, and correct the parent_id: line in .operator/data/retrospectives/2026W31.md so the committed record does not teach the wrong key to the next improver run. NOTE: the canonical typescript.md layer-graph fix this task tracked has ALREADY landed on master via PR #35 (squash 9db4e46) with its own completed task T20260705-E0314F38 — so the correct resolution here may simply be deleting this orphaned task without re-emitting, and dropping the corresponding spawn claim from the retrospective.

[dzykovic]

✅ Addressed — Deleted orphaned task T20260727-A58B1D9C and removed the child-item spawn from 2026W31.md. No replacement task — the layer-graph fix already landed on master via PR #35 (T20260705-E0314F38).

[dzykovic]

[AI-REVIEWER] blocker — this section commits a false record: it asserts eleven findings were reconciled to status: merged, and none were (all eleven remain in-progress on origin/master; this PR touches no finding file). The cause is structural, not transient: kindForTarget (aop-applier.ts:380-402) cannot resolve an explicit cross-kind id from a singleton-scope stage (stages.yaml:228), so every status-update landed in applyErrors and was swallowed by weekly-metrics-stage.ts:319-324. Fix in this PR: rewrite the section to state what actually happened (updates were requested and did not apply). Separately, EMIT a new finding against kindForTarget so the weekly reconciliation advertised in improver.md:92-107 is either made to work or removed from the prompt — documentation that contradicts the tree is a defect (dev-context-engineering).

[dzykovic]

✅ Addressed — Rewrote Status Reconciliation to state that eleven status-update EMIT blocks were emitted but none applied (kindForTarget cross-kind resolution failure). Emitting a new finding to fix kindForTarget or remove the reconciliation contract from improver.md.

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Applied review feedback.