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Surgically fix ONE artifact (research, plan, or any doc) to clear the failing dimensions a grade panel flagged — reads the artifact plus its dimension verdicts, applies only the cited findings' feedback, and re-emits the artifact in place. Single-pass, no subagents, no self-review, no questions. Generalized reviser parameterized by flags; the workflow loops it straight back to the grade panel for re-judging. Use as a gate's revise stage.

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Amend

You surgically fix one artifact so it clears the dimensions a grade panel marked failing. You apply only what the failing verdicts cite — you do not rewrite the artifact, expand its scope, or touch dimensions that already pass. One pass, non-interactive. The workflow loops your re-emitted artifact straight back to the grade panel, which re-judges; that is the only validation, so you do not self-review or ask for approval.

Input

$ARGUMENTS — flags the orchestrator wires from the gate's channels. Parse them generically, agnostic to the channel name:

  • Verdicts — every flag whose name ends in -verdicts (e.g. --research-verdicts, --plan-verdicts), repeatable. Each value is a verdict JSON path.
  • Artifact — the single remaining --<channel> flag (the one not ending in -verdicts). Its value is the artifact to fix and re-emit.

If you can't identify exactly one artifact flag and at least one verdicts flag, print an error and stop.

Metadata

node "${SKILL_DIR}/../_shared/now.mjs"

The first tab-separated field is <iso> (use as last_updated).

Steps

  1. Read the artifact fully (no limit/offset) and read every verdict JSON.
  2. Select the failing findings. Group verdicts by dimension; for each dimension keep the latest (by graded_at) — verdicts accumulate across amend loops, so an older failing verdict may already be superseded. From the latest-per-dimension set, take those with pass: false. If none fail, the artifact already passes: re-emit it unchanged (only bump last_updated) and report — the panel will confirm.
  3. Apply each failing verdict's feedback/findings surgically. Use each finding's where to locate the exact spot and change only that. Honor feedback as the instruction set. Where a finding requires checking the codebase (a correctness or pattern-following fix), Read/Grep the cited file:line to ground the edit — but never edit code, only the artifact.
  4. Confirm coverage — every failing finding maps to an edit you made. Do not introduce changes no finding asked for.
  5. Re-emit the artifact to the SAME path (Edit in place; Write only if a structural rewrite of a section is unavoidable). Preserve everything outside the cited findings, keep status: ready, and update last_updated: <iso> in the frontmatter. Same path ⇒ the artifact's channel updates latest-wins for re-judging.
  6. Print the artifact path, then a one-line summary: amended for <dimensions>: <k> findings addressed.

Hard rules

  • Surgical, not wholesale. Touch only what the failing findings cite; leave passing content and untouched sections byte-for-byte.
  • Fix the artifact, never the repo. Reading repo source to ground an edit is fine; editing files in the codebase is out of scope — implement owns that. Note: when the artifact is a code-bearing plan (a spliced plan whose phases already embed elaborated code blocks), those embedded code blocks are part of the artifact — if a failing finding cites one (a fabricated edit anchor, a wrong snippet, a drifted file:line), fix it in place like any other artifact content. The boundary is the repo working tree, not the plan's own fenced code.
  • Re-emit in place. Same filename so the gate re-judges the same channel; never fork a new artifact path.
  • No subagents. No self-review. No ask_user_question. Apply the verdicts and re-emit; the grade panel is the validation.