Learn Cron Builder

Learn Cron Builder

Convert a frozen source scope into validated learning or transformation artifacts through a repository-local pipeline. The working frame is understand it until make it.

Modes And Flow

Every mode follows:

source scope -> subset policy -> source manifest -> target contract
-> worker output [_] -> master validation [x] -> cleanup

Output Discipline And Anti-Slop Contract

• Start with the requested artifact, manifest fact, mapping, route decision, validation result, or source fact.
• Give each sentence one concrete requirement, mapping, decision, action, result, evidence item, or consequence. Omit process narration, opening meta-commentary, generic disclaimers, filler, restatements, and closing recaps.
• Report verification only through its result, evidence, and consequence.
• Omit relationship or causal claims unsupported by manifest, source, or validator evidence. Handle material uncertainty under the next rule; leave no speculative transition, inferred mapping, or placeholder.
• When unresolved uncertainty changes correctness, safety, legality, mapping, or the available action, state the exact unknown, condition, and consequence.
• Include a boundary only when it changes correctness, safety, legality, or the available action; name the exact constraint and permitted path.
• Use direct, positive statements when truth conditions permit. Preserve technical negation for scope exclusions, permissions, safety gates, failure behavior, traceability, and acceptance rules.
• Keep the body within 10% above or below an explicit target length. Without a target, use the shortest complete form that preserves the artifacts, mappings, evidence, decisions, and consequences.
• Before delivery, silently inspect the text character by character for filler, duplicated safeguards, unsupported claims, vague predicates, stale placeholders, fabricated mappings, coverage gaps, missing sections, and length. Preserve the exact spelling of state marks, schema keys, commands, paths, enums, thresholds, mode names, and validator-dependent strings.

Shared b3ehive Contract

Follow ../looper-cron-builder/references/b3ehive-bridge-contract.md for route selection, estimator decisions, nested calls, evidence handoff, looper_log capture, ROI, and self-evolution.

Local obligations:

• source_manifest.tsv and one-to-one file plus folder coverage are hard caps, not estimator choices.
• Every nontrivial automatic subset, route, batch, split, transform, or translate choice should leave EstimatorPolicy and RouteDecision evidence.
• Workers produce only [_] artifacts. Master validation alone writes [x].
• Coverage gaps, fuzzy-subset ambiguity, manifest friction, route over- or under-spend, translation-route mismatch, transform-traceability friction, scaffold weakness, or tool-integration friction produces a looper_log.
• Each looper_log must identify the understood, transformed, or translated TargetObject and the signal-producing InstrumentObject: subset policy, manifest, route, traceability scaffold, validator, tool, or skill composition.
• A looper-log-derived change to coverage, route, transform, or translation policy requires EvidenceLint, ROI, ParetoGate, rollback, and master [x].

Acceptance State

• Generate and lock source_manifest.tsv before worker claims.
• Use [ ], [_], and [x] as the only checkbox states.
• Workers may only advance [ ] -> [_].
• The master lane is the only actor that may advance [_] -> [x].
• Cleanup treats [ ] and [_] as unfinished.
• Completion requires zero [ ], zero [_], and passing coverage indices.

For learn_mode=understand, final artifacts map one-to-one to source files and preserve the source-tree shape:

src/app/main.ts
  -> Docs/learn/files/src/app/main.ts_learn.md

.github/workflows/ci.yml
  -> Docs/learn/files/.github/workflows/ci.yml_learn.md

src/app/
  -> Docs/learn/src/app/current_folder_learn.md

repo root
  -> Docs/learn/current_folder_learn.md

Opaque slug-only final paths are invalid. Group and chunk reports remain intermediate artifacts.

Subset Contract

Explicit and fuzzy subsets are first-class inputs.

Explicit subsets include:

src/auth/**
packages/compiler/**
files touched by this branch
language=rust

Fuzzy subsets include:

algorithm subset
scheduler core
inference path
payment risk surface

Each fuzzy subset produces:

Docs/learn/subsets/<subset_id>/subset_candidates.tsv
Docs/learn/subsets/<subset_id>/subset_decision.md
Docs/learn/subsets/<subset_id>/source_manifest.tsv

Workers may read context-only files. Those files produce no final artifact and do not count toward completion until promotion into the locked source manifest.

Required Surfaces

Base files:

Docs/learn/source_manifest.tsv
Docs/learn/learn_checklist.md
Docs/learn/todos_YYYYMMDD.md
Docs/learn/file_learn_index.tsv
Docs/learn/folder_learn_index.tsv
Docs/learn/route_decision.md

Transform mode also requires:

Docs/learn/target_contract.md
Docs/learn/mapping_policy.tsv
Docs/learn/validation_policy.md
Docs/learn/traceability_index.tsv

Route Policy

Route choice is contractual:

route_policy=auto|high_reasoning|standard|cheap_translation|uncommon_translation|custom

Defaults:

• understand: high reasoning for complex code; standard for small or simple files.
• transform: high reasoning for code/API/schema/runtime; standard for mechanical tool-asset conversion.
• translate: cheap or uncommon translation route by default; escalation is limited to high-stakes meaning, code-heavy semantics, glossary conflicts, repeated validator failure, or an explicit human request.

Write every route decision to Docs/learn/route_decision.md.

Validation

Before declaring a learn cron ready, verify:

• source_manifest.tsv covers exactly the locked source scope.
• Final per-file artifacts map exactly one-to-one to source files.
• Folder artifacts cover every represented folder.
• [_] remains unfinished, and workers cannot write [x].
• Subset output excludes out-of-scope files.
• Transform output carries source-target traceability.
• Translate output preserves headings, anchors, links, code blocks, tables, glossary decisions, and section parity.
• Runs with instrument feedback contain looper_log entries at micro, skill, composition, scaffold, tool, or task grain.
• The cron space guard passes.
• Generated shell helpers pass bash -n.

Looper Handoff

When embedded in looper-cron-builder, learn may run only inside an active ResourceLease with a ParentLeaseRef. Learn output remains provisional until the looper or owning master lane accepts it.

Nested learn runs cannot write [x], escape the parent lease budget, or classify final reward. They produce reward candidates only. Token, wall-clock, human-review, disk, and output costs roll into the parent looper attempt before reward and ROI accounting. Paused loops cannot start nested learn runs.

Nested learn should emit looper_log refs when subset choice, manifest shape, one-to-one coverage, route, transform traceability, translation parity, or generated tooling yields reusable instrument feedback. The log should separate target feedback from instrument feedback so review can distinguish source-subset difficulty from learn-pipeline configuration.

References

Read only the relevant reference:

• references/coverage-contract.md: strict 1:1 file tree, grouping, chunking, folder synthesis, and subset coverage.
• references/route-policy.md: mode-specific route selection and escalation.
• references/learn-pattern.md: full workflow, components, and behavior coverage.