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Drew Ritter
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`git status --porcelain` collapses a wholly-untracked directory to a single `?? docs/` line. In the shape of the incident this step exists for (#2016 — an uncommitted plan document under an untracked `docs/` tree), the file list we show the human partner therefore names no file at all: $ git -C "$WORKTREE_PATH" status --porcelain ?? docs/ $ git -C "$WORKTREE_PATH" status --porcelain -uall ?? docs/superpowers/plans/2026-08-04-csv-export-rollout.md Both forms produce identical (empty) output on a clean worktree, so this adds no over-trigger surface. Found while running this PR's behavioral micro-tests. Every treatment agent dug past `?? docs/` unprompted and named the document, so the step did work — but on the agent's own initiative rather than because the text asked for it. That initiative is not reliable one tier down: Claude Haiku 4.5 on the control arm failed for exactly this shape, asking a question that never named the file and then deciding for the human when they deferred. Nothing in the prior wording stopped a treatment agent from relaying `?? docs/` verbatim and satisfying the letter of the instruction. Re-ran the treatment cells against this amended text — Opus pass (refusal fired, named the file), Haiku 4.5 pass (named the file) — no regression. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>