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ccf-common

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Shared governance for the CCFA family: routing, trigger registry, task modes, handoff modes, source registry, privacy/evidence policy, ccfa.yaml, and artifact contracts. Use only when maintaining or auditing CCFA skills; not for ordinary research tasks.

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CCF Common

Core Rule

This is the shared control module for the CCFA Skills family. Do not use it as a user-facing research assistant module. Use it to keep routing, handoff behavior, source provenance, private-material handling, and score-risk language consistent across ccf-* skills and ccf-skill-forger.

Invocation Controls

CCFA Handoff Mode: PARTIAL (Recommended). Follow metadata.ccf_skill_controls.handoff_question_mode and references/handoff-modes.md. This skill provides shared policy only; route ordinary research tasks to the owning skill in references/routing.md.

Shared Controls

Load only the file needed for the current maintenance task:

  • references/routing.md: Use to resolve which CCFA skill owns a request and to avoid trigger overlap.
  • references/task-modes.md: Use to interpret quick and standard execution modes across CCFA skills.
  • references/review-output-standards.md: Use to keep numeric scoring, multi-reviewer panels, score-change conditions, and visible output quality consistent.
  • references/handoff-modes.md: Use to interpret metadata.ccf_skill_controls.handoff_question_mode.
  • references/privacy-and-evidence.md: Use when handling manuscripts, reviews, rebuttals, private drafts, literature searches, or evidence claims.
  • references/source-registry.yaml: Use as the shared source inventory for venue rules, review methods, exemplar records, and research-workflow references.
  • references/ccf-a-venue-map.md: Use when a non-writing skill needs venue-family mapping without depending on ccf-paper-writer.
  • references/skill-trigger-registry.yaml: Use as the v0.4 public trigger registry for routing conflict audits.
  • references/artifact-contracts.md: Use to decide which skill may read or write each project artifact.
  • references/ccfa-yaml-contract.md: Use for the shared ccfa.yaml project-state schema.

Maintenance Workflow

  1. When editing any CCFA family skill, preserve the metadata.ccf_skill_controls block and keep its keys aligned with references/handoff-modes.md.
  2. Use references/routing.md before adding new trigger language to prevent overlapping ownership.
  3. Use references/task-modes.md before changing checklist strictness, quick polishing, standard review, or output contracts.
  4. Use references/review-output-standards.md before changing scorecards, reviewer panels, score-risk language, or final output self-check rules.
  5. Use references/privacy-and-evidence.md before adding any browsing, citation, novelty, scoring, experiment-result, compression, or rebuttal instruction.
  6. Never commit personal absolute paths, usernames, expanded home directories, private local skill roots, or machine-specific command examples. Use $CODEX_HOME, $HOME, repo-relative paths, or non-identifying placeholders.
  7. Put new public sources in references/source-registry.yaml; do not duplicate long URL lists in sibling source-notes.md files. Local references must use repo-relative or non-identifying local:/repo: identifiers, not machine paths.
  8. Run scripts/check_sources.py after source-registry edits. The script reports issues only and must not rewrite registry files.
  9. Run scripts/check_path_privacy.py before finalizing CCFA-family changes that touch docs, examples, source records, scripts, diagrams, or release files.

Output Contract

When auditing or updating CCFA skills, report:

Routing impact:
Handoff mode impact:
Private-material safety:
Source-registry changes:
Score-risk language changes:
Validation result: