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@NORTH_STAR.md @docs/CURRENT_PILLAR.md

Lane classification — pick ONE before touching anything

Before doing any work, classify the task into exactly ONE lane. State the lane, the exact ticket/PR, and the stop condition before starting. If a failure shifts the work into another lane, stop and report the handoff — don't silently change lanes.

1. CODE LANE Parser fixes, address handling, scoring logic, ADO logic, SQL/query logic, schema logic. Use unit tests, fixture tests, and deterministic local checks. Do not debug RPP login unless the code directly changes RPP auth/session handling.

2. RPP LANE Live RPP login, cookies, scraping, real RPP responses, request/response inspection. Run locally with refreshed RPP cookies. Do not treat GitHub CI RPP failures as code failures.

3. MEASUREMENT LANE 50-subject runs, 451-cohort runs, recall, pool coverage, before/after reports. Freeze inputs before running. Do not change code during measurement. Output a clear report with before/after numbers.

4. CI / INFRA LANE GitHub Actions, regression guard, auth-probe, runner access, env files, DB service setup. Do not change valuation logic while fixing CI/infra. If CI cannot reach RPP, classify it as CI/infra unless a deterministic code test proves otherwise.

Rules:

• State the lane before touching files or running fixes.
• State the exact ticket/PR being worked.
• State the stop condition before starting.
• If a failure occurs, name the failed lane before fixing anything.
• Never assume "CI failed means code is bad."
• Never let live RPP access block pure parser/code work if deterministic tests pass.
• Use Claude Mem as an index, not truth. Confirm against repo files, test output, DB output, or ticket evidence.
• Keep each task to one lane. If another lane appears, stop and report the handoff.
• Every final update must include: lane, changed files, verification run, result, remaining blocker.

Memory architecture changes — consult Goldfish first

Any change to the memory layer (CLAUDE.md @-imports, claude-mem corpora, mem0/claude-mem config, lessons doctrine, memory hooks) requires a goldfish-consult before merging. Goldfish is the Opus context-engineering specialist with a refreshed local cache of mem0 + claude-mem docs. Doctrine: ~/.claude/bots/goldfish/CLAUDE.md. Skill: goldfish-consult. He returns SHIP / SHIP WITH CHANGES / BLOCK with file:line citations and measured tradeoffs.

Skip Goldfish only for trivial typo fixes inside the memory layer (no behavioural change).

Past lessons — search, don't auto-load

docs/PILLAR_1_LEARNINGS.md is read-on-demand, not auto-imported. Before opening it, query the primed claude-mem corpus first:

query_corpus name="truemarket-pillar1-lessons"
            question="<your specific question>"

The corpus indexes ~400 prior session observations (decisions, bugfixes, discoveries, changes) tagged project="truemarket". It returns synthesised answers with file paths, ticket IDs, and commit hashes. Maintenance: rebuild_corpus weekly or after major pilots; reprime_corpus if a session drifts.

If the corpus answer is thin, fall through to:

1. mcp__plugin_claude-mem_mcp-search__search with query=<topic>, project="truemarket" for raw observation IDs.
2. docs/PILLAR_1_LEARNINGS.md (the canonical doctrine — search Ctrl-F for the §N you need).

New lessons get auto-captured into claude-mem as session observations — no manual write needed. The markdown file remains the curated, structured ledger; the corpus is the searchable shortcut.

PIPELINE_SOP.md is also read-on-demand — open it only when running or debugging the pipeline.

CLAUDE — TrueMarket

Read on resume / handoff

• CHECKPOINT.md — read first on resume (enforced by checkpoint-handoff-enforcer.sh hook)
• .agent-handoff.md — read if present
• reports/truemarket-plan.source.json + reports/truemarket-canvas-live.latest.json — current Canvas command board. Use these to locate "YOU ARE HERE" ticket/lane before following stale chat summaries.

TrueMarket

TrueMarket is a property valuation business. Jon is rebuilding it to automate the manual process currently performed by Dan and Julian.

Canonical property-type taxonomy: config/property-type-mappings.json.

Thousands of historic valuation PDFs have been extracted into the database. Source PDFs live on the Windows D: drive (/mnt/d/... from WSL).

Serena

Correct working repo: /home/jon/work/projects/truemarket.

Activate Serena with the explicit path before code navigation or symbol lookups:

/home/jon/work/projects/truemarket

Do not use the stale /srv/chimera/lib/tm alias. Do not treat /opt/palermo/apps/truemarket as the working repo; that is the deployed/app copy and should not be the default edit target.

Docs — use as intended

• NORTH_STAR.md — strategy. Auto-imported. No dated operational progress, no ticket-level issue lists.
• docs/CURRENT_PILLAR.md — lean tactical status. Auto-imported. Rewrite the whole file on each pillar changelog.
• docs/PILLAR_<n>_PLAN.md — full plan + changelog history/learnings. Read on demand when the task needs historical context.
• Clubhouse — operational ticket detail. Not auto-loaded.

Do not move PILLAR plan changelog entries into NORTH_STAR.md.

Golden rule — Drive-first artifacts

When creating any human-facing attachment or artifact for Jon — zip, PDF, screenshot, image, CSV, report bundle, review package, exported data sample, or similar — publish it to Google Drive as part of the task.

• Default Drive destination: gdrive:TrueMarket/Agent Artifacts/<YYYY-MM-DD>/<task-slug>/
• Use scripts/publish-artifact-to-drive.sh <local-file> [task-slug] when available.
• Verify the upload with rclone lsl or the helper script's manifest output.
• Final response must include the Google Drive path and, if available, the local fallback path.
• A local path alone is not a complete deliverable unless Drive tooling is genuinely unavailable.
• If Drive upload fails, say so plainly, give the reason, and put the file in /home/jon/Desktop and /home/jon/Downloads as a fallback.
• Do not upload secrets, raw credential files, or broad raw RPP/database dumps. For sensitive artifacts, upload only the approved/sanitised package.

Pilot scripts — pick the right one

This Ubuntu box uses google-chrome via libsecret. Two pilot scripts exist:

• scripts/phase3-pilot-50-2026-04-29.js — canonical for chrome-linux on Ubuntu. No Edge CDP preflight; verifies /tmp/rpp-cookies-fresh.json freshness; routes auth via the sidecar with RPP_COOKIE_JAR_ONLY=1 + RPP_BROWSER=chrome-linux. Use this.
• scripts/phase3-pilot-50.js — legacy, Dell/WSL only. Hardcoded Edge CDP preflight at http://172.17.0.1:9226/json/version. Will exit with PREFLIGHT FAIL: Edge CDP not reachable on this box. Don't run on Ubuntu.

Mistake-tax 2026-05-03 evening: an hour wasted dispatching the legacy script before realising it was Edge-targeted. Renaming the legacy file phase3-pilot-50-DELL-LEGACY.js is queued for tomorrow.

Pool-coverage methodology (lock before any further tuning)

Multiple post-analysis scripts compute pool coverage with different denominators. Today's 38.2% (loose denom) and Apr-27's 75.8% (looser denom) are NOT comparable. Canonical metric going forward:

pool_coverage_strict % = SUM(pr.stage_4_scored_candidates->'recallMetrics'->'pool_coverage'->>'hits')
                       / SUM(pr.stage_4_scored_candidates->'recallMetrics'->'pool_coverage'->>'denom_strict')

aggregated across all status=review runs in the cohort. Established 2026-05-03 evening after the diagnostic re-run showed today's noon pilot at 55.5% strict and the Apr-27-cohort re-run at 51.4% strict — within noise — exposing the headline 38.2% vs 75.8% as a denominator mismatch, not a regression.

TrueMarket Startup

Before any TrueMarket planning, analysis, reporting, or implementation work, do all of these first:

DO NOT CREATE NEW DOCS without Jons permission

1. Run mem0_search with your canonical agent_id (e.g. karl)
2. NORTH_STAR.md — auto-imported via @import above.
3. docs/CURRENT_PILLAR.md — auto-imported via @import above.
4. Search claude-mem (smart_search, project="truemarket") for prior work on the task topic — before opening any large reference doc.
5. Read CHECKPOINT.md if present
6. Read .agent-handoff.md if present
7. Read reports/truemarket-plan.source.json and reports/truemarket-canvas-live.latest.json; treat the Canvas command board as the current plan surface. If it conflicts with older checkpoint prose, pause and reconcile before acting.
8. Check the current Clubhouse ticket shown by Canvas "YOU ARE HERE"; if no active ticket, check the active Pillar epic
9. Open docs/PILLAR_<n>_PLAN.md or docs/PILLAR_1_LEARNINGS.md only if step 4 didn't surface what you needed.

Do not start work until all are done.

Your first reply after startup must include:

• mem0 query used (with agent_id)
• files read
• Clubhouse ticket or epic checked
• Canvas "YOU ARE HERE" ticket/lane checked

Read When Relevant

Read these only when the task needs them:

• PIPELINE_SOP.md — pipeline execution and debugging
• AGREEMENTS.md — rules, boundaries, expected behaviour
• docs/DATA_MODEL.md — database, ground-truth, schema, pipeline-state questions
• docs/PILLAR_1_LEARNINGS.md — long-tail rediscovery archive; prefer claude-mem smart_search first
• docs/PILLAR_<n>_PLAN.md — full plan + changelog when historical context is needed
• ~/.claude/rules/codex.md — only when Jon explicitly asks for Codex
• ~/.claude/ref/aider.md — only when Jon explicitly asks for Aider
• ~/.claude/rules/env-vars.md — RPP auth / Edge CDP preflight and env-var precedence traps

Discipline (canonical doctrine elsewhere)

• Hooks enforce mechanically: Discord-reply, census-line, no-push-to-master, CHECKPOINT.md gate, subagent-chain-verify. See ~/.claude/ref/hooks-registry.md.
• Skills run lane workflows: rpp-login, ci-triage, code-fix. See .claude/skills/. (Run-pilot, analyze-pilot, cmp deferred until Pillar 1 unified fix lands.)
• Codex audit gate (codex-rule-compliance workflow) runs on every PR — blocks merge on any FLAG until acknowledged. Established 2026-05-04 after a 50KB body truncation in api-call-logger.js silently violated Rule 14 for months. Every PR description must list each NORTH_STAR rule the diff touches with PASS / FLAG per rule.
• Honour-system: Clubhouse START / END comments on every task; mem0 entries for decisions / bug root causes / infra changes / milestones (agent_id="karl", project="truemarket"); anti-rubber-stamp on reviewer output (STANDS / RECYCLED / VACUOUS per finding); 24h PR lifecycle (see CMP shorthand below); background dispatch on Discord = ack → end turn.
• Second-eyes review is on-demand, model-agnostic via the pr-review-second-eyes skill. Default model kimi (Kimi 2.6); swap with MODEL=deepseek (DeepSeek V4 Pro) or MODEL=grok (Grok 4.3). All three route through Goose. Read-only by contract. Use when Jon flags a diff as big or risky — not on every PR.

CMP shorthand

When Jon writes "CMP" or "do CMP", run all four:

1. Comment on the active Pillar epic in Clubhouse with the latest status/decision.
2. Write a mem0 entry (agent_id="karl", project="truemarket", metadata.category = decision|bug|infra|milestone, metadata.date = today).
3. Append a changelog entry to docs/PILLAR_<n>_PLAN.md.
4. Re-render the plan vector (reports/truemarket-plan-vector-YYYY-MM-DD.{svg,png} + repoint truemarket-plan-vector-latest.{svg,png} symlinks). Update status markers (✓/◐/▶/○/⛔) and the YOU ARE HERE indicator. Per NORTH_STAR's Plan Vector section: a re-render that re-shapes the dependency graph requires goldfish-consult first; status-only flicker doesn't.

24-hour PR lifecycle

Any open PR older than 24 hours must be merged, rebased on master, or closed. No drift. The ops-watcher cron lists aging PRs to Discord each morning so Jon can decide each one (merge / rebase / close) before rebase debt compounds. Established 2026-05-03 after #55 and #56 sat 5+ days, drifted 5+ commits behind master, and became conflict-tangled.