Godmode Triage

Outcome

Every open ask ends in exactly one disposition on the record - closed with its answer, promoted to an invariant, mapped to a plan task, or parked with a reason - so the stop hook stops nagging about asks nobody is working and no rule lives only as an open request.

Use

• Open operator asks have piled up and the stop hook names them at every turn.
• Some open asks are really standing rules ("never do X") filed as requests.
• Obligations or falsifiers have aged unread for days.
• Asks repeat across sessions and should be recognised as one.

Do Not Use

• Pruning duplicate lessons or previewing archive expiry at session close - that is godmode-memory-gardener.
• Writing a spec and getting a plan approved for a new task - that is godmode-spec-lifecycle.
• Re-explaining an answer the operator did not follow - that is godmode-repair.

Deterministic Execution Flow

1. Count before touching anything. godmode checkpoint --review - its requests block lists every open ask as ask:<hex> - <keywords> with a request-open finding each, beside the carried obligations a later handoff made moot; it reports and closes nothing. godmode status remaining --digest - open obligations with their age split; it exits 1 with verdict: work-outstanding while any is open.
2. Read every open ask in full. godmode history --kind request --limit 400 - each ask's subject (ask:<hex>, the first twelve characters of its digest) and its record.
3. Find the repeats and the duplicates. godmode recurring --threshold 3 - asks repeated across three or more sessions (proposals only, nothing written); godmode hygiene --cap 80 - near-duplicate and contradicting decisions and lessons.
4. Surface what aged. godmode verify --falsifiers --dry-run - falsifiers past due and never run.
5. Dispose each ask, one of four ways.
   • Rule-shaped: godmode remember --kind invariant --subject "<the rule>" --value "<the rule, stated once>" --evidence seq:<the ask's seq>, then close the ask citing it: godmode remember --kind request --subject "ask:<hex>" --status superseded --evidence seq:<the invariant's seq>.
   • Work-shaped: godmode remember --kind obligation --subject "<plan task id>" --value "maps ask:<hex>"; the ask stays open until that task's acceptance claim exists, then godmode remember --kind request --subject "ask:<hex>" --status done --evidence seq:<the acceptance claim>.
   • Answered or control noise: godmode remember --kind request --subject "ask:<hex>" --status answered. For many at once, list the ids one per line in a file: godmode remember --kind request --subjects-file <file> --status answered checks every id, then closes them in one process.
   • Parked: the ask stays open and the reason is recorded beside it - godmode remember --kind decision --subject "parked:ask:<hex>" --value "<why, and when to revisit>".
   • Fallback: a closure naming no open ask is refused with the open list, paste-ready; copy the id from that list, never retype the ask's words as the subject.
6. Run the aged falsifiers. godmode verify --falsifiers - each due falsifier runs and attests on its own.
7. Prove the queue moved. godmode checkpoint --review again - every ask its requests block still lists is either mapped (an obligation names it) or parked (a decision names it).

Read PURPOSE.md for the archive records this skill exists to close.

Must Not

• Never close an ask by retyping its words as the subject; close it by the exact ask:<hex> subject history lists.
• Never close a rule-shaped ask before its invariant is recorded; the invariant's seq is the closure's evidence.
• Never close a mapped ask before its task's acceptance claim exists; instead leave it mapped and close it when that claim is recorded.
• Never close an ask as answered when the operator's request was not actually met; park it with a reason instead.
• Never close an ask with --as-operator on the operator's behalf; instead park it with a reason and let the operator close it.

Acceptance

• godmode checkpoint --review lists no open ask that is neither mapped nor parked.
• Every rule-shaped ask closed as superseded cites an invariant's seq.

If an assertion cannot be proved, report the unmet assertion and the next safe action rather than the outcome it was meant to prove.