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Three workplans queued and registered with the State Hub (via REST — MCP write layer is erroring this session): - AGENTIC-WP-0007 Phase 3 Distribute: per-flavor distributor adapters render approved catalog patterns into proposed (HITL) artifacts, scoped by repo/domain. - AGENTIC-WP-0008 Read-before-Edit reflex: act on the #1 friction finding. - AGENTIC-WP-0009 Phase 4 Measure: baseline + before/after effectiveness + trend. Proceeding in that order. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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---
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id: AGENTIC-WP-0008
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type: workplan
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title: "Act on #1 friction — Read-before-Edit reflex"
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domain: helix_forge
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repo: agentic-resources
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status: ready
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owner: codex
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topic_slug: helix-forge
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created: "2026-06-07"
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updated: "2026-06-07"
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state_hub_workstream_id: "6aac5cfc-4799-4d07-9537-42a203af2d1b"
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---
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# Act on #1 Friction — Read-before-Edit Reflex
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The error-body mining ([AGENTIC-WP-0006](AGENTIC-WP-0006-error-body-mining.md))
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found that the single most common error across real coding sessions is
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**`File has not been read yet. Read it first before writing to it.`** — Edit/Write
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before Read, in **12 of 27 sessions across 8 repos** — followed by the stale-read
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**`File has been modified since read`** (6 sessions). See
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[ASSESSMENT-infra-friction.md](../docs/ASSESSMENT-infra-friction.md).
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This is the cheapest high-value fix surfaced by the whole analysis: a short
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behavioural reflex in the agent instructions. We also capture it as a curated
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SolutionPattern so Phase 3 Distribute can propose it to other repos/flavors —
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closing the assess → curate → distribute loop by hand for one real pattern.
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## Add Read-before-Edit Reflex to Agent Instructions
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```task
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id: AGENTIC-WP-0008-T01
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status: todo
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priority: high
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state_hub_task_id: "549c84c1-5bd8-4ff6-b61d-1c72946b8b8e"
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```
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Add a concise, data-cited **Read-before-Edit / re-read-on-"modified since read"**
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reflex to `AGENTS.md` (and note for `CLAUDE.md`), targeting the #1 and #2 recurring
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errors. Keep it short to avoid context bloat (cf. PRD OQ6 — pattern bloat degrades
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context budgets).
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## Capture as Curated SolutionPattern for Distribute
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```task
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id: AGENTIC-WP-0008-T02
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status: todo
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priority: medium
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state_hub_task_id: "c007baf9-db14-40fa-b944-d1f1a71ea28b"
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```
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Promote the recurring "file not read" problem into a curated `SolutionPattern` in
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the Pattern Catalog with per-flavor `rendering_hints`, so Phase 3 Distribute can
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render and propose it across repos/flavors. Links assess → curate → distribute end
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to end on a real pattern. After updates, notify the operator to run
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`make fix-consistency REPO=agentic-resources`.
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