VERDICT: REVISE
FINDINGS:
- F1 [MAJOR] bolero-harness/bolero/prompts/system.md:33 — “The main call alone owns the final artifact” contradicts R2 and may prevent delegation of the terminal. — Exempt an explicitly designated terminal-writer such as execution-reporter.
- F2 [MAJOR] bolero-harness/bolero/prompts/d3_executor.md:77-80,409-412 — The main Executor may still edit the reporter’s terminal after gate failure, violating R2’s exclusive ownership. — Require the reporter to validate and repair its terminal, allowing a reporter re-issue when necessary.
- F3 [MAJOR] bolero-harness/bolero/stages/d3_executor/.bolero/skills/execute-research-plan/SKILL.md:27-32 — “Every other action runs” incorrectly includes actions dependent on a defective action and contradicts both R1 and the main prompt. — Say every other defect-free action not dependent on a defective action runs.
- F4 [MINOR] bolero-harness/bolero/prompts/d3_executor.md:468-471 — “Failure needs no package” conflicts with the reporter’s requirement for every failed action’s persisted result.md, potentially losing the defect, shortfall, and plan_version. — Clarify that failure needs no evidence/log pointers or run artifacts but always needs its action result.md.
- F5 [MAJOR] bolero-harness/bolero/stages/d3_executor/.bolero/agents/execution-reporter.md:41-46; execution_runner.py:182-205,253-270 — The runner marks every evidence file undeclared because the required planner grain.tsv is neither created nor permitted, so the reporter cannot read aggregate evidence or calculate a truthful posterior. — Add a frozen, planner-produced grain declaration to the permitted layout or provide an equivalent authoritative declaration consumed by the runner.
- F6 [MAJOR] bolero-harness/bolero/stages/d3_planner/.bolero/agents/feasibility-prober.md:31-38 — Python -I -S suppresses site-packages, while R omits the executor’s --vanilla flag, so the probes do not reproduce the package environment used by scientific actions. — Probe Python with site enabled, such as -I -B, and use Rscript --vanilla.
- F7 [MAJOR] bolero-harness/bolero/prompts/d3_executor.md:preflight hunk — The patch loses explicit comparison-direction validation and gate condition-versus-rationale grain inventory, neither of which R1 requires removing. — Restore them solely as defect-detection and reporting checks, without selecting a reading or proposing a repair.
- F8 [MINOR] bolero-harness/bolero/prompts/system.md:134-136 — The global transaction description still says the Planner writes two advice files despite R3 adding environment.md as a third. — Update the count or name all three advice files.

DUTY-LOSS:
- Propose a repair naming every contradiction it corrects and endorsing no silent fix — required-by-R1 — R1 forbids executor-designed repairs.
- Label and synthetically verify consequences under a proposed repaired construction — required-by-R1 — repaired constructions now belong to the next Planner revision.
- State the literal plan consequence in failure prose — carried-by:d3_executor action Plan defect section — the new text preserves this duty.
- Validate every inversion, p-value, and acceptance-rule comparison direction against its governing law — LOST — the generic statistic-defect language does not preserve the explicit check.
- Name each independent sufficient cause rather than attributing one cause twice — carried-by:d3_executor whole-plan preflight — “every defect is named” retains the substantive duty, though less explicitly.
- Choose an operative reading from a gate’s rationale and audit the alternate reading in the same run — required-by-R1 — selecting either construction would adjust the plan.
- Treat a literal reading as unsafe when the rationale favors another grain — required-by-R1 — R1 permits neither reading to be selected.
- Inventory every gate’s condition grain and rationale grain during preflight — LOST — detection can remain even though resolution cannot.
- Distinguish an incoherent statistic from an ambiguous gate and refuse its execution — carried-by:d3_executor defect taxonomy — both now become reportable action defects.
- Propose a coherent replacement statistic in prose — required-by-R1 — this would be an executor-authored adjustment.
- Refuse the entire plan and stamp every action failure after any contradiction — required-by-R1 — R1 instead requires partial execution of independent defect-free actions.
- Have the main Executor author the version-root terminal — required-by-R2 — execution-reporter now owns it.
- Enforce empirical-number provenance in the terminal — carried-by:execution-reporter — action results retain their own provenance rule.
- Compute and state the posterior/KL arithmetic in the main context — carried-by:execution-reporter — the reporter receives the narrowly bounded arithmetic exception.
- Put correction settings and deviations directly into the terminal — carried-by:action result deviations plus execution-reporter — packages persist the facts and the reporter summarizes them.
- Write a runtime-shortfall terminal directly from the main context — carried-by:action result files plus execution-reporter — the split is required by R2.

ANSWERS:
Q2-two-readings: I agree that R1 requires removal of the operative-reading rule. When a gate condition names covariate cells but its rationale names fixed-effect levels, the action has two constructions: the executor quotes the conflicting lines, reports the grain mismatch and literal consequence, does not dispatch that action or its dependents, and executes unrelated defect-free actions; it selects neither grain and performs no alternate-reading audit.
Q4: The reporter has enough persisted information for action keys, scorecard fields, prior fields, and pointer construction, and compliant action result.md files supply plan_version, status, deviations, and defects. Success pointers shaped as workspace/tasks/action-Axx/evidence/<file> and workspace/tasks/action-Axx/run.log can pass Format and check_executed_actions. It is not generally feasible as written, however: the absent grain declaration makes every manifest entry undeclared, barring the reporter from the estimate and uncertainty needed for the posterior, while the “failure needs no package” sentence can remove the only persisted defect account and plan_version. Its refusal to open row-level or undeclared evidence is consistent with the manifest’s semantics but unusable with the manifest currently produced. Reviewer lines 166-173 correctly route a mixed success/failure terminal to revise or no_result.
Q5: The planner uses the same image and inherits both governed-interpreter variables, and its writable mount permits environment.md and planning probes. The specified Python probe nevertheless cannot import third-party packages because -S removes site-packages; the R probe should also match the executor’s --vanilla mode. Once corrected, installed language/package versions, exact callables, signatures, and synthetic call forms can be checked meaningfully, although version-dependent behavior needs an explicit version comparison or targeted synthetic behavior check rather than merely recording a version. The prober stays off data and is distinct from planner-feasibility-checker, which audits documented tables and bounded data-side metadata.
Q6: DIFF.patch snapshot, wc -w: prompt 5,166→4,826; choose-implementation 6,541→6,541; execute-research-plan 1,544→1,603; executor-coder 661→674; governed-runner 280→280; execution-reporter 0→722; total 14,192→14,646 (+454). The main-loaded prompt plus two skills decreases 13,251→12,970 (-281), so the change does not add net full-text instruction to the main executor context; the increase is in the separate reporter context.
Q7: R1 intentionally makes over-refusal more frequent for minor wording ambiguities because “more than one construction” is expressly a defect and approximation is forbidden.
Partial execution may spend substantial compute on a revision that any failure already makes ineligible for acceptance.
R2 makes terminal completeness depend on exhaustive persistence in action results and aggregate evidence.
R3 adds false-negative risk when introspection or smoke probes do not faithfully reproduce the actual runtime.