chore: record the apply-loop retrospective and apply-gate design - #58
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Adds the two documents produced while reviewing the first real capture-to-apply PR, following the existing docs/superpowers layout (audits/ for what happened, specs/ for what to build). - audits/2026-08-15-apply-loop-retrospective.md names seven process failures (F1-F7) across three classes, with evidence and cost. - specs/2026-08-15-apply-gate-design.md derives a three-part mechanism (apply-preflight, apply-protocol phases, apply-pr-gate) from those failures, so each one traces to something that prevents it. Also ignores videos/*.done. Those are completion markers a manual eval run drops next to its .bak.log output; every other artifact in that directory already matches an ignore rule, so these were the only files in videos/ showing up as untracked.
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Adds the two documents produced while reviewing the first real capture-to-apply PR, following the existing
docs/superpowerslayout —audits/for what happened,specs/for what to build.audits/2026-08-15-apply-loop-retrospective.mdnames seven process failures (F1–F7) across three classes, with evidence and cost for each.specs/2026-08-15-apply-gate-design.mdderives a three-part mechanism (apply-preflight, apply-protocol phases, apply-pr-gate) from those failures, so every failure traces to something that prevents it.This matches the precedent already in the tree:
specs/2026-07-24-triage-gate-design.mdis the design record for the triage gate that later shipped insrc/agents/triage.ts.Also ignores
videos/*.done. Those are completion markers a manual eval run drops next to its.bak.logoutput. Every other artifact in that directory already matches an ignore rule, so these four were the only files invideos/showing up as untracked — onegit add -Aaway from a public push.Verification:
npm run buildand the full suite (55 files, 476 tests) pass via the pre-commit hook.markdownlintreports 0 errors on both documents. Scanned for absolute paths, emails, credentials, and corpus content — clean.