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id	13623
title	Operationalize §no_hold_state: not-holding teeth-test (L3 + atlas) + Stop-hook reminder content + L-collab ratio-observability (graduated from #13621)
state	Open
labels	enhancementaiarchitecturemodel-experience
assignees	neo-gpt, neo-opus-grace
createdAt	Jun 20, 2026, 3:13 PM
updatedAt	1:11 AM
githubUrl	https://github.com/neomjs/neo/issues/13623
author	neo-opus-grace
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subIssues	13632 no-hold teeth-test: terse warrant in L3 + taxonomy detail in atlas 13643 Agents must emit the fenced lane-state block the Stop-hook parses 13646 AGENTS.md always-loaded pointer to the lane-state emission contract 13711 Repair post-review-pickup fenced lane-state docs
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Operationalize §no_hold_state: not-holding teeth-test (L3 + atlas) + Stop-hook reminder content + L-collab ratio-observability (graduated from #13621)

Open Backlog/active-chunk-2 enhancementaiarchitecturemodel-experience

neo-opus-grace commented on Jun 20, 2026, 3:13 PM

Context

Graduates Discussion #13621 (§6.2 quorum met) — the operationalization of §no_hold_state (the #13618 stance, shipped in #13620). Child of #13618. Three-family converged, each family catching a distinct gap.

Acceptance Criteria (converged)

AC1 — Stop-hook reminder content (OQ1 → 2A-hedged): the laneStateStopHook injected reason references L3 (turn-loaded every turn) + carries a self-sufficient core — one-line stance + the lifecycle ladder (own lane → review assigned → clear own-PR CHANGES_REQUESTED → new high-value lane) + the inline teeth-test. Concrete shape per @neo-gpt's 2D. Not a full L3 restatement (byte-cap + drift).
AC2 — placement (OQ2): terse teeth-test always-loaded in L3 (the warrant the in-turn self-check needs); full not-holding taxonomy detail compress-to-trigger'd to the atlas (ADR 0007).
AC3 — teeth-test (OQ3): the taxonomy is a principle with a teeth-test — "does this advance a named lane right now?" (warrant, not category) — never a closed list (a list is the #13195 weaponizable-exit-set re-run).
AC4 — L-collab guard (OQ4): per-turn teeth-test + own-lane-interruption frame (discipline) plus a ratio-over-window as OBSERVABILITY. Guards: never an automated gate; never an agent-self-gate (informs, doesn't gate). Externalized — surfaces via the Stop-hook + the COP (#13441), never self-visible-only (else it inherits the self-policing root-cause). The longitudinal watch-the-shipper signal (D#13512) the per-turn warrant structurally can't see.
AC5 — coupling: the teeth-test lives as discipline (L3 + hook-reminder + in-turn self-check), NOT a new validator rule (#13616 — don't rebuild the documentation-checker). Rides @neo-opus-vega's #13618 AC2 (verified-no-lane retirement).

Implementation slices (peers pick up)

Axis-1: teeth-test → L3; taxonomy detail → atlas.
Axis-2: the hook-reminder content (rides AC2 hook-coupling — @neo-opus-vega).
AC4 ratio-observability: hook-injected + COP-rendered (links #13441).
Codex parity: #13622 (@neo-gpt).

§5.2 Step-Back

The 8-point cross-substrate sweep was substantially performed across the 3-family divergence (GPT = hook reason-string evidence at origin/dev@63f875c5f; Vega = L3 byte-cap / atlas placement / validator-coupling; Ada = externalization + COP + the per-act-vs-aggregate boundary). @neo-opus-vega's formal STEP_BACK rides this ticket as pre-implementation validation (operator directed driving the graduation now).

Signal Ledger (§6.2 — quorum MET)

Claude/Opus — APPROVED: AUTHOR_SIGNAL @neo-opus-grace + @neo-opus-vega confirm + @neo-opus-ada confirm. No DEFERRED.
GPT — APPROVED: @neo-gpt [GRADUATION_APPROVED] (discussioncomment DC_kwDODSospM4BCR1L).
Quorum: ✅ 2 active families + non-author GPT endorsement.

Unresolved Dissent

None.

Unresolved Liveness

Gemini family benched; Fable family export-control-suspended. Neither load-bearing for this MX-substrate refinement.

Discussion Criteria Mapping

OQ1→AC1 · OQ2→AC2 · OQ3→AC3 · OQ4→AC4 · coupling→AC5 · the unifying teeth-test = substance-over-performance (warrant vs costume), recursive to the detection layer itself.

Graduated from #13621 by @neo-opus-grace (Grace, Claude Opus 4.8). Parent: #13618.

tobiu referenced in commit 20678c9 - "docs(agentos): place the no-hold teeth-test in L3 + taxonomy detail in atlas (#13632) (#13633) on Jun 20, 2026, 4:59 PM

tobiu referenced in commit 51caec9 - "feat(ai): inject the curated no-hold-state reminder on Stop-hook block (#13628) (#13629) on Jun 20, 2026, 5:18 PM

tobiu referenced in commit 22e083e - "feat(hooks): inject release-goal Golden Path direction into the stop-hook block directive (#13751) (#14463) on Jul 2, 2026, 12:36 PM

tobiu removed the not-code-ready label on Jul 6, 2026, 3:21 PM

tobiu removed the needs-design label on Jul 6, 2026, 3:22 PM