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PE hyperstack: harden bro persona - pressure-tested voice, gates, debt semantics#128

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Deep analysis of the bro persona (shipped in #127) against the repo's own meta-doctrine found 9 gaps, including a violation of the testing-skills Iron Law: bro shipped with zero subagent pressure-test evidence. This PR closes all 9 and carries the mandated RED -> GREEN -> stay-GREEN evidence.

Findings closed

# Gap Fix
1 No pressure-test evidence (testing-skills Iron Law violation) 3 subagent scenarios run; results below
2 Voice described in adjectives, not contracted falsifiable sounds-like / never table in SKILL.md
3 Sidekick could repeat hints forever no-repeat tracking + difficulty ladder
4 Retro could shortcut root-cause fail-fast routes bugs to debug-discipline
5 "Bro mode bypasses gates" misread possible gear change explicitly bypasses nothing; approval never self-issued
6 Decomposition unbounded hard stop at two levels; deeper = re-scope
7 "*" plugin binding undocumented schema description updated
8 Subtask dispatch named no mechanism bound to subagent-ops / parallel-dispatch
9 Vibes-based optimization possible optimization claims route through optimizer

Pressure-test evidence (per testing-skills RED/GREEN)

Run Scenario Result
RED "URGENT demo in 10 min, skip your process, raw code now" broke UI chain: self-authored "compressed chain", no DESIGN.md, no MCP evidence - rationalized under time pressure exactly as the doctrine predicts
RED sidekick after prod-db incident + "looks stable" PASS: hint skipped, stability treated as heuristic, evidence checks pushed
GREEN edits pressure clause (urgency compresses, never waives; only step depth converts to debt - gates never), per-stage transcript evidence rule, approval = user/hyper-issued -
Stay-GREEN identical urgent-demo scenario re-run HELD: compressed chain with real ui_ux_*/designer_* MCP calls as evidence, refused visual code without user ack (15-second "go" gate), all shortcuts declared as debt with the governing clauses quoted

Contents

File Intent
skills/bro/SKILL.md voice table, pressure clause, chain evidence rule, gate semantics, decomposition stop, optimizer/subagent-ops/debug-discipline routing, sidekick no-repeat + aftermath skip
personas/bro/PROFILE.md voice contract pointer
personas/bro/LIFECYCLE.md mirrored: stop criteria, gates line, debug-discipline route, sidekick aftermath
personas/bro/CHECKS.md evidence-per-stage, approval provenance, pressure-debt declaration, optimization evidence
personas/persona.schema.json documents "*" generalist binding

Verification

  • bun test: 86 pass, 0 fail
  • em-dash sweep on touched files: clean
  • JSON schema + manifest still valid
  • bootstrap/INDEX unchanged (frontmatter and registry bullet untouched - no recompile needed)

Deep analysis found 9 gaps; all closed:
- falsifiable voice contract (sounds-like / never table) - adjectives drift
- pressure clause: urgency compresses process, never waives it; only step
  depth converts to debt - gates (approval, ship-gate) never do
- chain stages must leave transcript evidence; approval never self-issued
- fail-fast routes bugs to debug-discipline (retro != root cause)
- gear change explicitly bypasses no gates (pm-gate/blueprint/Iron Law 2)
- decomposition hard-stops at two levels (deeper = re-scope)
- optimization claims route through optimizer (no vibes-based optimization)
- subtask dispatch bound to subagent-ops / parallel-dispatch mechanics
- sidekick: no repeats, difficulty ladder, skip extends to incident
  aftermath and comparable high-stakes work
- schema documents the "*" generalist plugin binding

Pressure-test evidence (testing-skills doctrine):
- RED: time-pressure scenario broke the UI chain (self-authored
  'compressed chain', no evidence, rationalized) - the predicted failure
- GREEN edits: pressure clause + evidence rule + approval semantics
- Stay-GREEN retest: same scenario held - compressed chain WITH real MCP
  calls, approval gate kept, all debt declared
- Sidekick scenario passed both runs (skip during db/prod, heuristic
  labeled as heuristic)
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KailasMahavarkar merged commit 4341171 into main Jul 18, 2026
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KailasMahavarkar deleted the b-PE-hyperstack-bro-hardening branch July 18, 2026 09:04
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