alignment_status: confirmed

Final-Handoff Verification Audit

Alignment date: 2026-06-25 | Confirmed: 2026-06-25 | Category: QA & Meta-Skill Improvement | Visual tier: document

This page records final approval and completion of the report-only audit for confirmed-artifact final handoff routing.

Confirmed artifact: tasks/final-handoff-verification-audit.md is the canonical audit report. This page is current for the completed alignment cycle and may be amended later only by archiving this confirmed page first.

Table Of Contents

Approval Record

Gate 1: Audit Scope

Audit confirmed-artifact final handoff routing only.

Gate 2: Target Surfaces

Inspect shared conventions, benchmark/check surfaces, session-triage routing, and a small recent example set.

Gate 3: Report Artifact Path

Write the audit report to tasks/final-handoff-verification-audit.md.

Gate 4: Recommendation Authority

The audit may recommend shared convention or benchmark/check changes, but may not implement them.

Report Summary

Verdict: partially verified. One prior confirmed-artifact handoff omission is documented, and the current checks do not mechanically protect the final terminal handoff after approved artifacts are written.

The audit found that shared contracts already cover the broad route requirement and the pre-approval boundary. The gap is narrower: existing audits and benchmark helpers do not specifically replay the final confirmed-artifact completion path and assert that the terminal response renders a concrete next route.

Read the full report at tasks/final-handoff-verification-audit.md.

Evidence Summary

Surface Finding
prompts/session-triage/skill-prompt-20260625-101843-calcllm-expansion-map.md Documents a verified omission where a confirmed-artifact completion response lacked the next route until the user asked what was next.
CLAUDE.md shared shipping contract Requires a final route shape: either Recommended next skill or Next work plus Recommended next command.
docs/alignment-yaml-routing-contract.md Correctly blocks downstream routing while a page is in review and allows routing only after approved artifacts are written or updated.
scripts/skill-alignment-routing-audit.mjs Checks active skill text for pre-approval route problems and non-exec direct exec handoffs, but not final terminal completion responses.
tests/layer4/setup-helpers/routing.ts Already has route-label helpers that can be reused if the guard is implemented through benchmark fixtures.

Recommendation

Add one shared final-handoff self-check and one mechanical validation guard. Do not patch individual skill wording first unless the implementation pass finds a narrow skill-local owner.

Recommended next skill: $targeted-skill-builder confirmed-artifact final handoff routing check.

Availability guard: targeted-skill-builder is provided by the skill-dev pack and is not currently enabled in .agents/project.json. The immediate project-local route is scripts/pack.sh install skill-dev; start a fresh Codex session if the skill list remains stale.

Validation Notes

The audit report recommends validating any later remediation with focused routing-audit fixtures, layer1 tests, alignment-page audit, task-doc audit, and diff hygiene. No shared convention, benchmark, check, or skill-contract remediation was implemented by this audit.

Next work: add the shared final-handoff self-check and focused validation guard described in the report.

Recommended next command: scripts/pack.sh install skill-dev