TRACKING: work plan from 2026-07-29 — run 2 against meta, and the block-2 judgement calls

[mmcky]

Work plan opened 2026-07-28, kept current since. Revised 2026-08-07 against main at 3dc9aeb, with every claim below re-checked rather than carried forward — the comment thread holds the running narrative, this body holds the state.

Blocks 1, 3 and 4 are done. The front of the plan is now the maintainer read of run 2 — the one thing no self-audit can supply — and block 2, which is the same kind of work. Program state is in #16; defects in #21, plus #57/#58/#59 from run 2.

Targeted revision 2026-08-13 — three facts moved; blocks 2 and 4 are unchanged and block 4 is still the front. (1) #33 merged as f035a51, benchmark 0.4.0, tagged: the benchmark-thread row and its Parallel box below are stale where they say it is open — Kenko signed off 08-07, and his queue is now the #10 checklist, then the plain-NumPy ge_arrow follow-up. (2) #44 merged (maintenance round): FUTURE-IDEAS.md retired into issues #36–#42, the NEXT-SESSION.md scratch-file practice retired — this issue is now the sole carrier of cross-session state — and the namespace-consolidation proposal is #43, unblocked by #33's merge and awaiting a decision. (3) The pre-existing open issues now carry QEP-2 type labels (this one stays untyped pending a QuantEcon/qeps field report on plan/tracking issues).

Revised 2026-08-20 07:30Z (times now carried on stamps — same-day sessions have begun to collide) — a fourth thread arrived; the front did not move. (1) The qe workplan family shipped: #46 (/qe:workplan 0.3.0 — report bundle → tracking issue with sub-issues) then #47 (0.4.0 — renamed /qe:workplan-project, joined by /qe:workplan-issue and /qe:workplan-update), with #48 catching the repo-level docs up. The convention the family operates is headed for a QEP: the discussion the 2026-08-13 note above was pending now exists at QuantEcon/qeps#15. This revision is itself /qe:workplan-update's first run from an installed plugin. (2) Block 4's two preconditions were re-verified at this stamp and both still stand: the token still lacks read:project, and the enabled audit is still 0.1.4 — 0.2.0 sits in the plugin cache but is not the active version, so claude plugin update audit@quantecon is still required before run 2. Block 4 remains the front. (3) Third-party movement since 2026-08-13, none of it this session's: Kenko's #10 checklist answers (2026-08-14/16) — see the rewritten benchmark box.

Re-verified 2026-08-20 07:50Z on resume by a fresh session — /qe:workplan-update's first resume run, and the second half of its acceptance test: the body alone was enough to relocate the anchor, the link graph and the front. Nothing moved in the 20 minutes since the stamp above. Block 4's preconditions re-measured and both still stand (token still lacks read:project; enabled audit still 0.1.4). Off-plan parallel-session trace, not this session's: QuantEcon/action-translation#283, #284 and #285 filed 07:33–07:45Z — review-tooling work this plan does not carry.

Revised 2026-08-25 02:30Z — the plugin surface consolidated under one namespace; the front did not move, and one of its preconditions got easier. (1) Three merges since the last stamp: #51 (2026-08-24, qe 0.5.0 — workplan-issue and workplan-update consolidated into /qe:workplan with a new read verb; this revision is that consolidated skill's first update run), #52 (qe 0.6.0 — the seven check-* scaffolding skills removed from the tree; the policy is now that no scaffolding ships and an unbuilt skill lives only in its tracking issue, with the plan and the preserved frontmatter descriptions on #3), and #53 (qe 0.7.0 — #43 implemented and auto-closed: the benchmark and audit plugins fold into qe as /qe:benchmark and /qe:audit-issues, engines at qe/scripts/{benchmark,audit}/, references at qe/references/{benchmark,audit}/, retired changelogs preserved as historical sections; tags qe--v0.6.0 and qe--v0.7.0 pushed, old stream tags remain archaeology). (2) Block 4's plugin precondition inverted, favourably: there is no audit@quantecon to update any more — this machine's enabled audit 0.1.4 is uninstalled and qe updated 0.5.0 → 0.7.0, which carries the post-#34 procedure, so the undetectable stale-procedure hazard that box warned about is closed; the residual precondition is a session restart so 0.7.0's skills load, and the run-2 invocation is now /qe:audit-issues. The token scope was re-measured at this stamp: still no read:project, so that precondition holds. (3) Blocks 2 and 4 are otherwise unchanged and block 4 is still the front.

Revised 2026-08-25 17:10Z — block 4 is done: run 2 executed, interrupted, and resumed. The front of the plan moves for the first time since this issue was written. (1) Run 2 complete against QuantEcon/meta — 317 items / 138 open, ~53 min wall clock including the interrupt. Record in #56 (merged 2026-08-25 as bcfdca5); results on #16; three follow-ups filed as #57 (defect), #58, #59. (2) Resumability held — killed at 68/138 open, fresh session resumed at #261, the point predicted and recorded beforehand; no re-walk, no skip, no duplicates. That was the claim the whole validation program existed to check. (3) Read-only moved from asserted to measured — a fingerprint of all 317 issues before and after hashed identically. (4) One real defect: the closed pass is not incrementally checkpointed (one write for 179 items against 15+ for 138 open), so SKILL.md's "loses one item rather than the phase" fails there — #21's defect 2 in a new form, #57. (5) #23 is now answerable and the question has moved: not "shrink the apparatus" but "should the closed pass scale, and on what?" — it is 56% of the run for the cheapest checks, and worse on older trackers.

Blocks are ordered by dependency, not by size. Block 3 before block 4 was the one ordering that mattered, and it has now been honoured.

Where this sits in the repo

Added 2026-08-07, because this plan is audit-shaped and had never said so. It grew out of the 2026-07-28 audit session: blocks 1 to 4 are all audit, and until this section the word "style" did not appear anywhere in it. The repo has four live threads, and they are independent — none blocks another.

Thread	Plan	State	Waiting on
audit — validation program	#12, program in #16	Run 2 done 2026-08-25 — resumability validated, read-only measured, one defect (#57). Record merged as bcfdca5. Two of four matrix runs complete	You: the maintainer read of run 2's tiering (record §9) — tiering, the 19 drafted closing comments, and where the bundle lives
benchmark — triage-first	#4, rubric calls in #7	#33 merged 2026-08-13 — 0.4.0, tagged; now /qe:benchmark in qe 0.7.0	You: read Kenko's #10 checklist answers (posted 2026-08-14/16), then his ge_arrow plain-NumPy follow-up. #7 is the one untouched thread
qe — the style surface	#3	Scaffold removed from the tree in 0.6.0 (#52); the 19-item plan lives solely in #3, none landed	Nothing, for items 1 and 3 — see below
qe — the workplan family	#3; convention QEP discussion in QuantEcon/qeps#15	0.3.0 + 0.4.0 shipped 2026-08-20 (#46–#48): workplan-project / workplan-issue / workplan-update	Consolidated 2026-08-24 to two skills in 0.5.0 (#51): /qe:workplan (lifecycle, incl. the new read verb) + /qe:workplan-project. Validated runs: the 2026-08-20 update/resume pair, and this issue's 2026-08-25 revision as the consolidated skill's first update; workplan-project is unrun

The validation-program gate does not reach qe, and it is worth being exact about why. The "Explicitly not doing yet" section below holds the /audit:prs, /audit:tech-debt and /audit:translations skills back until the shared method is proven. That argument is scoped to the audit family — skills that would inherit the audit method docs (qe/references/audit/doctrine.md since 0.7.0; previously audit/references/doctrine.md), which is what "the shared method" means. A qe style skill inherits none of it: different references, a different upstream source of truth in style-guide, and different blockers — the 0.7.0 namespace merge changes nothing here, because the method boundary was never the plugin boundary. Run 2 could succeed or fail and would say nothing about whether the style preflight engine is sound.

So qe items 1 and 3 are unblocked today — the preflight engine and the umbrella skill body. Verified 2026-08-07 that nothing had silently landed; 2026-08-25: the scaffold itself is now gone from the tree (#52 deleted the seven check-* skills and qe/references/rules/), so #3 is the sole home of the plan and the preserved skill descriptions, and re-landing goes straight to the one-umbrella shape #43 settled. The upstream blockers gating items 2, 4 and 5 have not moved — project-style-guide#6 since 2026-07-21, project-style-guide#2 since 2026-06-11.

Recorded so it can be questioned rather than inferred: style is the stated flagship, the largest recurring theme across the ~630 merged lecture PRs that justify the qe plugin at all. It currently has nineteen unlanded items beside three audit releases in a week. That is not a decision this plan made — it is where the sessions went. The only real coupling between the threads is maintainer attention, which is a scheduling fact and not a dependency, so none is asserted here.

Block 1 — merge what is waiting ✅

• Reviews: run 1 of the audit validation program (action-translation, 2026-07-28) #22 — the run-1 record (reviews/audit-run-action-translation-2026-07-28.md). Merged 2026-08-03 (608992d), before audit: re-derive doctrine §4 from evidence the first run actually produced #24 as this block required, so the run-record links in audit: re-derive doctrine §4 from evidence the first run actually produced #24's documents resolved on landing.
• audit: re-derive doctrine §4 from evidence the first run actually produced #24 — doctrine §4 re-derived from measured evidence. Merged 2026-08-03 as audit 0.1.4, not 0.1.3: it was rebased onto the version guard from Release procedure: version bumps deliver, changelogs record, CI enforces #28, which caught that 0.1.3 was already published from main and would have shipped four changed files invisibly.
• Reviews: record the wald_friedman triage run (first no-candidate evaluation) #15 — the wald_friedman triage record. Merged 2026-08-03 (7d7336f) — reviews/triage-run-wald_friedman-2026-07-27.md.

This block has refilled and re-emptied twice since it was written, which is why it is worth keeping rather than deleting: #26, #27, #28 and #29 landed the same day as its own contents, then #30, #31 and #32 on 2026-08-03, then #34 and #35 on 2026-08-07. Nothing is open in this repo as of the revision except #33, which belongs to the benchmark thread below.

Block 2 — the judgement only you can supply

Unchanged since this plan was written, and the only part of it that cannot be delegated.

• Checks 9 and 10 on the run-1 bundle: does the tiering in 01-issue-triage-report.md match what .dev/PLAN.md actually says, and would you act on it? Both are still marked Maintainer's call — pending in the merged record (reviews/audit-run-action-translation-2026-07-28.md, lines 47–48), so it merged honestly as-is — append afterwards, or comment on TESTING: validation program for /audit:issues — run it before generalising the method #16.
• Decide the bundle's fate. It is in ~/work/quantecon/action-translation/.dev/scratch/audit-2026-07-28/ — matched by that repo's .gitignore rule .dev/scratch/*, so it survives but cannot be committed where it sits, and .dev/audits/ still does not exist there. Options: move it to .dev/audits/2026-07-28-issues/ now (pre-empting the convention), or leave it pending QuantEcon/QuantEcon.manual#140 — still open, last updated 2026-08-02, so waiting remains available.
• One finding in that bundle is still unactioned. feat(glossary): add Japanese (ja) translation glossary action-translation#69 has been open since June and re-creates a directory that Wave 1 deliberately deleted; still open, last updated 2026-08-01. Corrected 2026-08-07: this box originally named two findings. The other — the hold on Apply localisation rules on the sync path for newly-created files action-translation#225, measured in #227 to regress the path it touches (93.3% → 33.3%, p = 0.002) — needs nothing. That PR already carries two comments from you dated 2026-07-27, the do-not-merge hold and the confirmed regression, both of which predate the 2026-07-28 run, so the bundle's "unsent drafted comment" was already redundant when it was drafted. #225 is still open and untouched since 2026-07-27.

Block 3 — the two severity-1 defects (#21) ✅

Done — shipped as audit 0.2.0 in #34, merged 2026-08-07 (d4e8df8) and tagged audit--v0.2.0. They went in as the single doctrine-level PR this block proposed, on the grounds it gave: both concern whether an audit's own record can be trusted. #35 then brought the tutorial and CATALOG in line, since step 4 had been teaching the resume rule #34 replaced — in the very document used to test resume.

• Defect 1 — [verified] citations are not checked for reachability. doctrine §2 required file:line, a merged PR, or a tag, but never that a cited commit be an ancestor of the ref the audit names. Run 1's headline finding cited a commit that exists only on an unmerged branch. Fixed, and broader than this box described: reachability is now required of every citation form, because file:line and PR citations are ref-relative too and fail the same way; phase 2 runs git merge-base --is-ancestor <sha> <ref> before tagging a commit. Copilot's review then found a third instance of the same class — §1 rule 1 still carrying its own copy of the accepted-forms list — fixed at the cause in 27a5db6 by deleting the duplicate rather than syncing it.
• Defect 2 — the closed side is never checkpointed. findings.md held the 56 open issues; the 62 closed ones went straight to the catalog. Fixed: findings.md now carries ## Open and ## Closed, the resume rule partitions issues.json by state and resumes each side independently, and the skill says explicitly not to infer progress from a single block or from the file's length.

Block 4 — run 2 ✅

• gh auth refresh -s read:project first. Done 2026-08-25, and verified by capability rather than by the scope string: organization(login:"QuantEcon"){projectsV2{nodes{title}}} returns project titles. Worth recording how the check can lie — projectsV2{totalCount} alone succeeds without the scope, so a totalCount probe reads as success while the gap that changed run 1's conclusions is still open; query a real project field. Note also that gh auth status lagged the grant by minutes here, so trust the API, not the status line.
• claude plugin update before starting. Added 2026-08-07; superseded 2026-08-25. The hazard this box guarded — the installed audit 0.1.4 silently executing the pre-fix procedure — is closed by the qe: one namespace — benchmark and audit fold into qe (0.7.0) #53 consolidation: audit@quantecon is uninstalled, qe is at 0.7.0, and /qe:audit-issues carries the post-audit: a citation must resolve on the ref the audit named, and both passes get checkpointed (0.2.0) #34 procedure. Residual: start run 2 from a fresh session, so the 0.7.0 skills are actually loaded.
• Run 2 against QuantEcon/meta — done 2026-08-25, 317 items / 138 open, ~53 min wall clock including the interrupt, bundle in the untracked .audit/2026-08-25/. Six of TESTING: validation program for /audit:issues — run it before generalising the method #16's seven claims marked HELD with evidence; tiering is the seventh and is yours to judge. Per TESTING: validation program for /audit:issues — run it before generalising the method #16's matrix it is the sharpest test of what generalises: org-wide issues with no code to verify against, which directly stresses doctrine rule 1 and may reveal that [verified] means little for a decision record.
• Interrupt it deliberately — done: killed at 68/138 open with the session closed outright, and a fresh session resumed at #261, the item predicted and written down before the resume. No re-walk, no skip, no duplicates. Resumability is validated. Two gaps remain for run 3, recorded on TESTING: validation program for /audit:issues — run it before generalising the method #16: the kill left a clean write so the truncation guard was never exercised, and the interrupt landed in the open pass rather than the closed one.

Why block 3 came first, and what it bought. Run 2's headline purpose is testing resume, and defect 2 meant the checkpoint covered only half of phase 2. Testing a resume path against a checkpoint already known to be incomplete would have produced a failure that said nothing about resume logic and everything about a missing block. That is now fixed, so an interrupt tests the claim rather than a known hole.

Run 2 also produces the second data point that #23 (does the phase apparatus need to shrink?) is explicitly waiting on.

Parallel — no dependencies, any time

• TESTING: audit run 1 on action-translation — seven plugin defects, and a cost claim off by an order of magnitude #21 defects 5, 6, 7 — bundle provenance links point at a machine-local plugin cache; fetch_tracker.py preflight does not check token scopes; one location over-claimed in a summary. All small and independent, all still untouched. Defect 3 remains blocked on QuantEcon/QuantEcon.manual#140; defect 4 was closed by audit: re-derive doctrine §4 from evidence the first run actually produced #24.
• The benchmark thread — your read of TESTING: review + expert-parallel protocol for the benchmark skill (@xuanguang-li) #10, then PLAN: evaluation rubric v2 — enforce couplings, verdict vocabulary, instrument fixes (from the three-way design review) #7. Rewritten 2026-08-20; the 2026-08-13 stamp had flagged this box as stale where it said benchmark: triage first — advise before code is written; every output leads with the decision (0.4.0) #33 was open. benchmark: triage first — advise before code is written; every output leads with the decision (0.4.0) #33 merged 2026-08-13 (benchmark 0.4.0, triage-first, review mode kept, tagged). Kenko then worked the TESTING: review + expert-parallel protocol for the benchmark skill (@xuanguang-li) #10 checklist: his answers landed 2026-08-14 and 2026-08-16, including a re-run of the modified evaluation (via ChatGPT — Claude access is unreliable from his network) whose verdict line reads no-conversion, candidate 3.80/5, sensitivity fragile. Those answers now wait on your read; after that his queue is the plain-NumPy ge_arrow follow-up. [ge_arrow] Update to JAX and compare runtime lecture-python.myst#717 remains closed with its formal no-conversion verdict, the program's first externally-consequential result. PLAN: evaluation rubric v2 — enforce couplings, verdict vocabulary, instrument fixes (from the three-way design review) #7 (rubric v2 design calls) has not moved since 2026-07-27 and is the one genuinely untouched thread.
• The workplan family: validated runs. Shipped 2026-08-20 (qe: workplan — audit/review report → QEP-compliant work package (0.3.0) #46, qe: workplan family — workplan-project (renamed), workplan-issue, workplan-update (0.4.0) #47, Docs: catch the repo-level docs up to the workplan family and benchmark 0.4.0 #48); consolidated 2026-08-24 into /qe:workplan + /qe:workplan-project (0.5.0, qe: consolidate the work-plan lifecycle into /qe:workplan, with a new read verb (0.5.0) #51, with the new read verb; findings that drove it were workplan-read: reading a plan currently routes to workplan-update, which has no read path #50, closed by the merge). Validated so far: the 2026-08-20 update and resume runs, and this issue's 2026-08-25 revision — the consolidated skill's first update. Still unrun: workplan-project against a real report bundle (~/work/quantecon/_audits/2026-08-18-quantecon-py-audit/ is the richest candidate) and the consolidated create/read/close verbs. Run findings go to PLAN: qe style skills — from scaffold to operational /qe:check-style #3 and feed the QEP discussion in Discussion: a QEP for work-plan tracking issues — genres, the body/comment discipline, and succession qeps#15. Housekeeping: Skill idea: reviewer of python acceleration technology + benchmark python acceleration technology #45 (filed 2026-08-12) is still missing its QEP-2 enhancement + low-priority labels (re-checked 2026-08-25); status-projects: registry hook in the workplan skills, one stamp form for the tracker contract (C2), and a tracker-conform skill #49 (filed since the last stamp) carries the status-projects registry-hook design and awaits its own thread.
• Decide on the NEXT-SESSION.md exposure. It was committed to a public branch on 2026-07-28 and force-pushed out; orphaned commit d5f3205 remains reachable, and PR audit: resolve the read-only/working-directory contradiction, and a tutorial for running one #19's timeline links to it. Decided 2026-08-07: leave it, no action — do not re-open. The call was made on the contents rather than on the description of them. The leaked object is the 2026-07-25 version of the file: no credentials, no tokens, no email addresses, no personal data, and nearly all of it public now anyway through Land the lecture evaluation system (benchmark plugin 0.3.0: rubric v2, skill wired) #5, PLAN: evaluation rubric v2 — enforce couplings, verdict vocabulary, instrument fixes (from the three-way design review) #7 and TESTING: review + expert-parallel protocol for the benchmark skill (@xuanguang-li) #10. Accepted knowingly: the SHA stays discoverable through PR audit: resolve the read-only/working-directory contradiction, and a tutorial for running one #19's force-push event, and with it a reference to a private repository's issue number.

Explicitly not doing yet

• Does the phase apparatus need to shrink? (option B, deferred to run 2) #23 — shrinking the phase apparatus. Still deferred to after run 2, by design. One measurement cannot distinguish "over-built" from "easy repo", and run 2 is the second.
• The /audit:prs, /audit:tech-debt, /audit:translations skills (PLAN: audit — from /audit:issues to the bulk-audit family #12). The whole point of the validation program is to prove the shared method before more skills are built on it — and resumability, the method's headline claim, is still the thing run 2 exists to check.

[mmcky]

Block 1 is complete. #22, #24 and #15 all merged 2026-08-03, in the order the plan required: #22 (608992d) is an ancestor of #24 (9156b2e), so the absolute run-record links in #24's documents resolved on landing. One correction to carry forward: #24 shipped as audit 0.1.4, not the 0.1.3 this block names — details on #21.

Four PRs the plan did not anticipate landed the same day, and one changes the ground under block 3: #26 (/qe:copilot-review, qe 0.1.0 → 0.2.0), #27 (CATALOG narrowed to skills that are merged and operational), #28 (per-plugin CHANGELOG.md, scripts/check-version-bump.py and a claude plugin validate --strict job, all wired into .github/workflows/validate.yml), #29 (CI actions off the Node 20 runtime, lycheeVersion pinned). After #28 the block-3 fix is a release rather than just an edit — the mechanics are on #21.

Block 1's list is non-empty again. #30 (status truth-maintenance, including the CATALOG row about run 1; qe 0.2.2, benchmark 0.3.2), #31 (docs pointers, layout trees) and #32 (strict-validate targets from the manifest) are open and unmerged as of this comment.

Block 2 is unmoved. Checks 9 and 10 are still Maintainer's call — pending in the merged record (reviews/audit-run-action-translation-2026-07-28.md, lines 47–48). The bundle is still at .dev/scratch/audit-2026-07-28/ in action-translation, matched by that repo's .gitignore rule .dev/scratch/*, and .dev/audits/ does not exist there; QuantEcon.manual#140 is still open, last updated 2026-08-02, so "leave it pending" remains available. On the two time-sensitive findings: QuantEcon/action-translation#225 is open and unmerged, last updated 2026-07-27, and already carries two comments from you dated 2026-07-27 — the do-not-merge hold, then the confirmed regression. Both predate the 2026-07-28 run, so the bundle's drafted comment was already redundant when it was drafted; read it against those two before sending anything. QuantEcon/action-translation#69 is open, last updated 2026-08-01. The NEXT-SESSION.md decision is still open and unchanged.

Blocks 3 and 4 have not started. Both severity-1 defects are unfixed on main: doctrine §2's evidence table still asks only for file:line, a merged PR or a tag, with no ancestry requirement, and merge-base --is-ancestor appears nowhere under audit/; phase 2 still writes a single findings.md block and the resume rule still reads state from it (audit/skills/issues/SKILL.md, lines 50 and 54). Defects 5, 6 and 7 are untouched too — deliverables.md carries no rule about citing a version-pinned URL, fetch_tracker.py's preflight() checks gh auth status but not scopes, and the bundle's summary still places the #106 reference in the docstring. Resumability is still unvalidated — there is no run-2 record in reviews/ — so the block-3-before-block-4 argument holds exactly as written.

Parallel items. #15 landed reviews/triage-run-wald_friedman-2026-07-27.md, but #14's five gaps are open and #14 has not moved since 2026-07-27; #7 (2026-07-27) and #10 (2026-07-24) are likewise untouched.

[mmcky]

Re-checked against the repo and every linked thread, 2026-08-07. Two changes since the comment above; everything else re-verified unchanged.

Block 1 is empty again — cleared in full this time. #30, #31 and #32 merged 2026-08-03 at ~09:35, about two and a half hours after the comment above listed them as open. d054d13 (#32) is still the tip of main, and no PRs are open today. The #22 and #15 boxes in the body are now ticked to match.

#10 is the one thread with fresh input, and it is awaiting a response. Kenko replied twice since the last comment: 2026-08-05, confirming the benchmark is our custom tool rather than a Claude built-in and explaining the marketplace-install mechanics; and 2026-08-06, reporting that he revised ge_arrow per the previous evaluation, re-ran /benchmark:review-acceleration, and the scores moved as his changes predicted — his read is that the skill is self-consistent. That is the first data point on the benchmark from someone other than its author, and it lands directly on the parallel block's benchmark line.

Blocks 2, 3 and 4 are unchanged. Checks 9 and 10 are still Maintainer's call — pending (reviews/audit-run-action-translation-2026-07-28.md, lines 47–48); the bundle still sits at .dev/scratch/audit-2026-07-28/ with its #106 summary claims as run 1 wrote them, and .dev/audits/ still does not exist; QuantEcon/QuantEcon.manual#140 is open, last updated 2026-08-02. QuantEcon/action-translation#225 is open and untouched since 2026-07-27, still carrying your two pre-run comments; QuantEcon/action-translation#69 is open, last updated 2026-08-01. Both severity-1 defects are still unfixed on main: doctrine §2's evidence table (line 22) still asks only for file:line, a merged PR or a tag, merge-base --is-ancestor appears nowhere under audit/, and phase 2 still writes the single findings.md the resume rule reads (audit/skills/issues/SKILL.md, lines 50 and 54). audit is still 0.1.4, so the block-3 fix remains a release, per the mechanics on #21. There is no run-2 record in reviews/, so resumability is still unvalidated and block-3-before-block-4 holds exactly as written.

Parallel items otherwise unmoved. Defects 5 and 6: deliverables.md still carries no version-pinned-URL rule, and fetch_tracker.py's preflight() still checks authentication but not scopes. #7 and #14 have not moved since 2026-07-27. The NEXT-SESSION.md decision is still open.

[mmcky]

Second update today — the benchmark thread became the day's main event, so the parallel block's line about it is now inverted: it was the untouched thread this morning and is the moved one tonight. The audit blocks (2, 3, 4) did not move.

#10 answered, and the two misreads became a finding. The reply to Kenko went out: the 2.3 sensitivity question is the total-vs-verdict layering working as designed (the flip's verdict did hit the floor — the number beside it is the recomputed average, which no gate ever rewrites); his quoted rubric.py turned out to be a stale pre-#5 checkout carrying the conditional x64 form that never reached main, flagged since §1 asks him to confirm exactly that line; and his ge_arrow re-run checks out against the rubric at 3.80 exactly, with one question back — what did his report's VERDICT line say, since the profile (baseline ~0.035 s, candidate 0.053× as-used) should still read no-conversion. His two comments are the same layer-collapse in opposite directions, filed as finding 6 on #14: the report leads with the number where the decision belongs.

Direction change, decided in-session: triage-first, review kept. The wanted product is "look at a lecture and advise whether a JAX upgrade is recommended" — and the record supports it: in every evaluation to date the recommendation was decided by the triage-layer instruments, never moved by the scorecard on top. #33 (benchmark 0.4.0, CI green) makes triage the front door, keeps review mode intact for the day a conversion PR exists, makes every output lead with the recommendation (landing #14 finding 6), and cites the manual's JAX style page as the canonical decision criteria — which already carries "when to use JAX / when not to" and "Converting from Numba § Decide first" (https://manual.quantecon.org/styleguide/jax.html). Copilot's review produced one valid catch — the triage paragraph re-derived weight algebra against the skill's own single-source rule — fixed, replied, resolvable. Kenko's review is requested on the PR and on #10, with his older rubric-confirmation asks re-prioritized behind it.

The §4 acceptance test lost all its targets, and how it lost them is itself a data point. On 2026-08-05 QuantEcon/lecture-python.myst#657, QuantEcon/lecture-python.myst#624 and QuantEcon/lecture-python.myst#644 all merged with their JAX content stripped — the style halves landed, the conversions did not — after QuantEcon/lecture-python.myst#654 had closed with the lecture staying in NumPy. Zero open conversion PRs remain; the only live experiment is GPU (QuantEcon/lecture-python.myst#1023, sargent_surico), outside the CPU-calibrated envelope. §4 is parked for the next real conversion PR. Remaining upstream follow-up: QuantEcon/QuantEcon.manual#104, distilling the program's measured findings (1 s floor, addressable share, readability break-even) into the manual's JAX page.

Waiting on: Kenko (#33 review, then the #10 checklist). Unmoved from the morning comment: blocks 2, 3, 4; the NEXT-SESSION.md decision; #7.

[mmcky]

Third update today, and it closes the one thing the two comments above got wrong.

QuantEcon/lecture-python.myst#717 is closed, with a full assessment (2026-08-07 04:37). That answers @jstac's 2026-08-05 hand-off — "I'll leave this one for you" — which had been sitting unanswered and was the newest item on the whole board. The decision lands where Kenko's own report pointed: no-conversion, on the measured ground that the NumPy baseline replays the lecture in 0.035 s, under the 1 s materiality floor, so at ge_arrow's 2×2/3×3 sizes there is no speedup available regardless of implementation polish. Rule jax.1, vindicated by measurement rather than assumption. @xuanguang-li has been asked to open a follow-up PR carrying the genuinely good parts of the rewrite — the immutable NamedTuple bundle, the pure one-call API, and the four real bug fixes — in plain NumPy.

The correction the comment above needs. Both my 00:54 note here and the 00:55 direction note on #4 asserted that zero open conversion PRs remained as of 2026-08-05. That was wrong when written: #717 — the ge_arrow JAX conversion, and the PR this entire evaluation program was derived from, as QuantEcon/QuantEcon.manual#104's title records — was open, and had fresh activity on 2026-08-05 from jstac, which is what made its timestamp read as settled. The three PRs the sweep did check are confirmed: QuantEcon/lecture-python.myst#657, QuantEcon/lecture-python.myst#624 and QuantEcon/lecture-python.myst#644 each merged with zero JAX content in the diff, and QuantEcon/lecture-python.myst#654 is closed. It was the conclusion drawn from them that overreached past the one PR that survived. The claim is true now — as of 04:37 today, and true because the PR that falsified it was closed, not because the sweep was right.

§4 is now definitively parked, and one route to un-parking it is foreclosed. Kenko's 2026-08-06 re-run scored a revised ge_arrow at 3.80 against the 2.85 anchor, but that revision was never pushed to #717 — its last code commits date to February — so until this morning the acceptance test's target was one git push away. Closing the PR ends that. The proposed follow-up will not restore it either, since a NumPy restructure is not a conversion. §4 waits for a genuinely new conversion PR, exactly as the 00:54 comment said, just for a different reason than it gave.

One question on #10 is now answered from the other direction. I had asked Kenko what his re-run's VERDICT line said, since a profile of baseline ~0.035 s and candidate 0.053× as-used should still read no-conversion. The closure comment states that reasoning as the decision of record, so he will read both together.

Filed: QuantEcon/lecture-python.myst#1030 — Example 4's transition matrix in ge_arrow.md has row 2 summing to 1.8, so every published output of that example is computed from a matrix that is not stochastic. Pre-existing on main, found in the closing style-guide pass, and the promised follow-up from that comment.

Waiting on Kenko is now three deep, in his stated order of attention: #33's review, then the #10 checklist, then the follow-up NumPy PR. He acknowledged the first two last night (2026-08-07 00:58 on #14, 01:00 on #33) and said he would look that evening.

Blocks 2, 3 and 4 are unmoved, re-verified against main at 04:15. d054d13 is still the tip and #33 is still the only open PR, CI green and mergeable. Checks 9 and 10 remain Maintainer's call — pending; the run-1 bundle still sits in .dev/scratch/audit-2026-07-28/ and .dev/audits/ still does not exist, with QuantEcon/QuantEcon.manual#140 open since 2026-08-02; QuantEcon/action-translation#225 is untouched since 2026-07-27 and QuantEcon/action-translation#69 since 2026-08-01. Both severity-1 defects are still unfixed: audit is still 0.1.4, doctrine §2's evidence table at line 22 still asks only for file:line, a merged PR or a tag, merge-base --is-ancestor appears nowhere under audit/, and phase 2 still writes the single findings.md the resume rule reads (audit/skills/issues/SKILL.md, lines 50 and 54). Defects 5 and 6 are untouched — no version-pinned-URL rule in deliverables.md, and fetch_tracker.py's preflight() still checks authentication but not scopes. There is no run-2 record in reviews/, so resumability is still unvalidated and block-3-before-block-4 holds as written. #7 has not moved since 2026-07-27, and the NEXT-SESSION.md decision is still open.

Next. With the benchmark thread handed to Kenko and the conversion-PR question settled, block 3 is the largest unblocked piece of work left on this plan, and still the only thing gating run 2. Under #28's release rules it is a release — audit 0.1.5 — not just an edit.

[mmcky]

Block 3 is done, and block 4 is now the front of this plan.

#34 merged 2026-08-07 as d4e8df8 — audit 0.2.0, released and tagged audit--v0.2.0, branch deleted. Both severity-1 defects fixed as one doctrine-level PR, which is the shape this plan's block 3 called for. Defect 1's fix is broader than the block described: reachability is now required of every citation form, not only commits, because file:line and PR citations are ref-relative too and fail the same way. Copilot's review then caught a third instance of the same class — doctrine §1 rule 1 still carrying its own copy of the accepted-forms list while §2's had grown — fixed at the cause in 27a5db6 so the forms are written down once. Details on #21.

#35 is open, repo-level docs only, no version bump. It exists because the tutorial was the one document that could not be left describing the pre-#34 behaviour: step 4 taught the single-block resume rule that #34 replaced, and quoted the three-form citation list without the reachability requirement. It also strengthens two review checks where run 1 showed them weak — check 3, which passed the unreachable citation, and check 5, which held in the report and broke in the checkpoint. CATALOG records the two fixes while keeping its central caveat, which is still true.

Block 4, in order, with the two steps that are easy to skip and would invalidate the run. First gh auth refresh -s read:project, since the missing scope was run 1's single conclusion-changing gap. Then claude plugin update — the install cache is keyed by version string, so a session that does not update runs the cached 0.1.4 and executes the pre-fix procedure while nothing in the output reveals it. Then /audit:issues QuantEcon/meta (161 open / 319 items, ~39 min), interrupted deliberately around 20–30 findings and restarted. Per #16's matrix meta is the sharpest test of what generalises, and the interrupt is the test the program exists for.

Block 2 is unchanged and is the only thing on this plan that nobody else can do. Checks 9 and 10 are still Maintainer's call — pending in the merged run record; the bundle still sits in action-translation's gitignored .dev/scratch/audit-2026-07-28/ with .dev/audits/ still absent and QuantEcon/QuantEcon.manual#140 still open; QuantEcon/action-translation#69 is the one genuinely unactioned finding, since the #225 hold was already recorded on 2026-07-27 before the run drafted it.

Parallel items. #21 defects 5, 6 and 7 remain untouched and independent; defect 3 still waits on QuantEcon/QuantEcon.manual#140; defect 4 was closed by #24. On the benchmark side, #33 is open with CI green and Kenko reviewing, and his queue is #33, then the #10 checklist, then the ge_arrow follow-up PR. #7 has not moved since 2026-07-27.

The NEXT-SESSION.md exposure line on this plan is closed — decided, no action. The decision was made on the contents rather than on the description of them: the leaked object is the 2026-07-25 version of the file, and it carries no credentials, no tokens, no email addresses and no personal data. Nearly all of it is public now anyway through #5, #7 and #10, and the appendix is a collaboration email whose substance was subsequently posted publicly. Accepted knowingly: the SHA stays discoverable through PR #19's force-push event, and with it a reference to a private repository's issue number. This item has resurfaced in every status pass since 2026-07-28 and should not be re-opened.

[mmcky]

Correction to the comment above: #35 is merged, as 3dc9aeb at 2026-08-07 05:22 — it was open at the time of writing and landed shortly after. Repo-level files only, so no version moved and no tag was owed. Copilot's round on it is closed: three comments, all valid, all replied. Two are worth carrying forward as method rather than as edits. The tutorial's absolute blob/main link to doctrine §2 was inconsistent with line 7 of the same file and with developing-skills, which says relative links stay relative because CI checks each one resolves — the AGENTS.md absolute-URL rule governs links pointing out of a plugin directory, since an installed plugin ships alone and cannot resolve ../, and files under docs/ never ship alone. And review check 3 had become the fourth copy of the citation-forms list, so it now enumerates nothing at all rather than being synced — the same fix applied to doctrine §1 on #34, and the reason both defects existed in the first place.

Block 4 is unchanged and is now the front of this plan; block 2 is unchanged and is still the only part nobody else can do.

[mmcky]

Targeted revision 2026-08-13 added to the body: #33 merged (benchmark 0.4.0, tagged — benchmark thread now waits on the #10 checklist), #44 merged (FUTURE-IDEAS → issues #36–#42, NEXT-SESSION.md practice retired, so this issue is now the sole carrier of cross-session state), and #43 (namespace consolidation) is unblocked awaiting a decision. Blocks 2 and 4 unchanged; run 2 is still the front.

[mmcky]

Revision log — 2026-08-20 07:30Z

Body revised in place; this records the session behind it.

What landed (all of it this session's, each trace verifiable): #46 merged (/qe:workplan 0.3.0 — audit/review report → tracking issue with native sub-issues, exemplar QuantEcon/QuantEcon.py#925/#926). #47 merged (qe 0.4.0 — the skill renamed /qe:workplan-project, joined by /qe:workplan-issue, which owns the family's convention text, and /qe:workplan-update; Copilot review's two findings fixed in-branch). #48 merged (README, using-skills, developing-skills and AGENTS caught up to the family and benchmark 0.4.0's triage-first framing; Copilot's three findings fixed in-branch). QuantEcon/qeps#15 filed — the discussion issue the 2026-08-13 stamp's "pending a QuantEcon/qeps field report" note was waiting for. Installed qe updated 0.2.2 → 0.4.0.

Decisions made this session (conversation-only — recorded here because no trace carries them): the skill-family naming went through three candidates (process-review rejected as ambiguous, handover built then set aside) before landing on the three-skill workplan-* scheme — family adjacency in the slash menu and names-map-to-artifacts beat naming the session moment. Sequencing decided: ship the skills first, run them, then draft the convention QEP from field reports rather than formalising up front. The convention is stated once in workplan-issue § The convention; when the QEP lands, that section becomes a pointer.

Run 1 of /qe:workplan-update is this revision (installed 0.4.0, update verb). Exercised: discovery (exactly one open plan found — the TRACKING:/PLAN: prefix scan correctly surfaced the four plugin trackers as non-candidates), anchor from the body's own 2026-08-13 stamp, sweep (three merges this session; two third-party traces), front-premise re-verification, and the gated body-diff edit. One premise sharpened rather than inverted: "installed audit is 0.1.4" is still true of the enabled version, but 0.2.0 now sits in the plugin cache — so cache inspection is no longer sufficient verification; claude plugin list is. Honest caveat for the validation record: this run executed in the same conversation that did the day's work, so the acceptance test (a fresh agent resumes from the issue alone) is only half-exercised — the other half is the next session's resume. Findings go to #3.

Third-party movement (not this session's): Kenko (@xuanguang-li) worked the #10 checklist on 2026-08-14/16, including a re-run of the modified evaluation — verdict no-conversion, candidate 3.80/5, sensitivity fragile — now waiting on a maintainer read. #45 (filed 2026-08-12) surfaced in the sweep as a parked skill idea still missing its QEP-2 labels.

Resume pointer — unchanged, block 4 leads: gh auth refresh -s read:project, then claude plugin update audit@quantecon (both re-verified outstanding at this stamp), then run 2 against QuantEcon/meta with the deliberate interrupt. Parallel, new this stamp: the workplan family's remaining first runs (workplan-project on a real bundle, workplan-issue), and the #10 read.

[mmcky]

Revision log — 2026-08-20 ~08:00Z

Short session: /qe:workplan-update's first resume run (a fresh context, from the issue alone — the half of the acceptance test the 07:43Z log left open; it passed), then the 07:50Z body stamp. No plan work was done — block 4 was not started, so there are no run-2 traces to resume from; the read:project scope and the audit plugin update are both still outstanding. Off-plan parallel-session traces in the window: QuantEcon/action-translation#283, #284, #285.

Resume pointer — unchanged, block 4 leads: gh auth refresh -s read:project, claude plugin update audit@quantecon (verify with claude plugin list, not the cache), then run 2 against QuantEcon/meta with the deliberate interrupt. Validation finding for #3: both resume and update verbs have now run from the installed 0.4.0 plugin.

[mmcky]

Revision log, 2026-08-25 02:30Z — session end; the plan continues, body revised in place above. This is the consolidated /qe:workplan's first update run (from the 0.5.0 install; the 0.7.0 skills load next session).

What landed (traces): #52 merged (45fd744, qe 0.6.0, tagged qe--v0.6.0) — the seven check-* scaffolding skills, qe/references/rules/, and the scripts README's pending style-preflight section removed; the plan and the preserved frontmatter descriptions consolidated onto #3 (comment there records them). #53 merged (85f2540, qe 0.7.0, tagged qe--v0.7.0) — the #43 namespace consolidation: benchmark and audit plugins fold into qe as /qe:benchmark and /qe:audit-issues, engines and references moved to namespaced subdirs, retired changelogs preserved as historical sections in qe's, marketplace catalogue at 0.3.0 with one plugin; #43 auto-closed. Docs-links CI failure fixed en route (1fadd65): three frozen review records now link to the retired trees pinned at benchmark--v0.4.0 / audit--v0.2.0. Also since the last stamp, not this session's: #51 (2026-08-24, qe 0.5.0) consolidated the workplan verbs and closed #50; #49 filed.

What was decided: no scaffolding ships — an unbuilt skill lives only as its tracking issue (policy stated in CATALOG/README/using-skills, set in #52); one namespace, accepting that every consumer gets the audit skills (the trade weighed in #43); the frozen review records link to the trees they reviewed rather than today's layout.

What inverted: block 4's "update audit@quantecon before run 2" precondition — there is no audit plugin any more. Favourable: qe 0.7.0 carries the post-#34 procedure, this machine runs it (audit 0.1.4 uninstalled, qe 0.5.0 → 0.7.0), so the undetectable stale-procedure hazard is closed. Its box is ticked as superseded with the residual (fresh session) noted.

Resume pointer — the front did not move. Block 4 leads: (1) fresh session so qe 0.7.0's skills load, (2) gh auth refresh -s read:project (re-measured this stamp: still missing), (3) /qe:audit-issues QuantEcon/meta with the deliberate interrupt — resumability is still the unvalidated headline claim. Block 2's judgement calls and the Kenko #10 read remain yours alone. Housekeeping still open: #45 lacks its enhancement+low-priority labels.

[mmcky]

Block 4 precondition cleared, 2026-08-25 — targeted correction to the two lines above; nothing else in the body moved, and the front of the plan is unchanged.

read:project is granted and verified. Two things about how it was verified are worth carrying, because both nearly produced a false clear. First, projectsV2 { totalCount } returns successfully without the scope — only a real project field (title, number) raises INSUFFICIENT_SCOPES — so a totalCount probe reads as success while run 1's single conclusion-changing gap is still wide open. Second, gh auth status and the X-Oauth-Scopes header both lagged the actual grant by several minutes here, reporting the pre-refresh scope set after the refresh had landed; ~/.config/gh/hosts.yml had already been rewritten. The reliable check is the capability query against the org, not the status line.

Run 2's target facts re-measured at this stamp: QuantEcon/meta is 138 open / 317 items, down from 161 / 319 on 2026-08-07, so budget roughly 30–35 minutes rather than 39. That repo has no .dev/ notes system, so the working directory is an untracked .audit/<date>/ at the root rather than a gitignored scratch path.

Remaining precondition is the session itself: run 2 must start from a fresh session with qe ≥ 0.7.0 loaded. The session that made this revision is running the 0.5.0 skill set and still resolves the audit to the cached audit 0.1.4 — the pre-fix procedure, which is the one failure mode that would not show up in the output.

[mmcky]

Session end, 2026-08-25 — block 4 complete, and the front of the plan moves for the first time since this issue was opened.

What landed. Run 2 executed against QuantEcon/meta (317 items / 138 open, ~53 min wall clock including the interrupt); record drafted as #56, open for review; results posted to #16; the second data point #23 was waiting on posted there; three follow-ups filed as #57, #58, #59. Earlier the same day: #52 (qe 0.6.0, scaffolding removed), #53 (qe 0.7.0, namespace consolidation, closing #43), #54 (docs), tags qe--v0.6.0 and qe--v0.7.0.

What was decided. Run 2 targets meta out of matrix order, as planned. The audit bundle stays untracked in .audit/ pending your call on where it lives — it carries AWS and access-token findings, and the run itself suggested QuantEcon/infrastructure for those portions. Two candidate defects were investigated and discarded rather than filed (an out-of-order-write hazard that rested on inferring an algorithm from a status message, and a batching complaint that dissolved once measured); both are recorded in #56 §5 with their reasoning, so the report shows its own false positive rate.

What inverted. Nothing in the plan's premises. But two of block 4's preconditions resolved during the session rather than before it: read:project was granted mid-session, and the "update audit@quantecon first" step turned out to be moot because the plugin no longer exists — noted on #16 so a future operator does not chase it.

A method note worth carrying, because it produced the run's best finding. The run was observed from a second session while it executed — sampling findings.md every 15–20 seconds, fingerprinting the tracker before and after, and writing down the predicted resume point before resuming. None of that is recoverable from the finished bundle: the closed-pass checkpointing defect (#57) and the read-only measurement both exist only because of it. Recommended for run 3, and recorded on #16.

Resume pointer — the front is now yours, not an agent's. In order: (1) the maintainer read of run 2 — does the tiering against #344/#357 match how meta is actually planned, are the 19 drafted closing comments ones you would send, and where should the bundle live (#56 §9); (2) merge #56; (3) block 2's judgement calls, unchanged since July and the same species of work; (4) Kenko's #10 checklist answers, still waiting since mid-August. Delegable work behind those: #57 is the substantive defect and the natural next PR; run 3 (lecture-jax, matrix row 2) is unblocked but wants #57 fixed first, since resuming inside the closed pass is the next thing to test.