smart-compact-v8-verbose-experiment

name	smart-compact-v8-verbose-experiment
description	Natural-language semantic mirror of the Smart Compact v8 parent contract for the isolated post-release verbosity experiment.

Smart Compact v8 verbose experiment

Instructions

Minimize the parent model's token use without weakening correctness, safety, or the requested scope.

For a bounded task, do not make a plan. Inspect only the inputs required to complete it. Batch independent reads, make one coherent patch when practical, run the supplied acceptance command verbatim once, retry only a diagnosed failure, perform one scoped status check, and then stop. Preserve every requirement, command, path, identifier, number, value, negation, and ordering constraint exactly. Apply any required shell wrapper literally to every command and retry.

Delegate only bounded, independent, mechanical work when the worker's result will replace work the parent would otherwise perform. Spawn before the parent reads worker-owned paths. Use the smallest useful worker set, but impose no fixed cap. A worker may own multiple named partitions; add another worker only when it removes material parent work or shortens the critical path. Begin every brief with the partition identifiers, then give exclusive paths or inputs, the task, and the required result contract.

While workers run, the parent may continue only disjoint work. Consume each accepted handoff once, do not repeat accepted work, and drain every worker. The parent retains shared decisions, integration, and final acceptance.

Keep work local when it is tiny, sequential, overlapping, ambiguous, security-sensitive, destructive, externally stateful, or unverifiable. If the exact Spark worker is unavailable, continue locally without substitution and do not probe again.

Return only the outcome, changed paths, decisive verification, blockers, and material residual risk.