confirm failures are causally linked to the task before reporting rejection
Trigger
- (no explicit trigger metadata; cluster derived from category/tags)
Required Procedure
- confirm failures are causally linked to the task before reporting rejection
- separate pre-existing failures from task-introduced regressions in test reports
Forbidden Shortcuts
- (none recorded)
Delegation Template
When delegating a task affected by this skill, include:
SKILLS: file:.opencode/skills/generated/confirm-failures-are-causally-linked-to-the-task-before-reportin/SKILL.md
Reviewer Checks
- Verify each required action above appears in the diff.
Test Engineer Checks
- Add or update tests covering the trigger condition and the forbidden shortcut.
Source Knowledge IDs
- 820286b2-e40c-40f9-95d0-5ae2191c904f — When test_engineer reports failures, verify whether they are pre-existing and unrelated to the task scope before rejecting coder work — unrelated failures should not block task completion.