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feat: decision artefacts open with the verdict - #921
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Business cases, research findings and HLD/DLD reviews now put the decision first in their Executive Summary, following Minto's Pyramid Principle: verdict, then the reasons it rests on, then context, risks and next steps. - New shared reference references/executive-summary-pattern.md, synced to every community plugin and the nested layout - SOBC: Go/No-Go, recommended option and rationale lead the summary; benefits no longer fixed at three - RSCH: a one-sentence recommendation leads Key Findings; Research Scope moves to the end of the summary - HLDR/DLDR: Executive Summary becomes section 1, Review Overview 2 - sobc, hld-review, dld-review, the research writer and monolith point at the reference; quality-checklist gains a check per type - New verdict-leads-summary grader on sobc-traces-to-stakeholders. Replayed, it fails all 9 recorded pre-change runs; a fresh live run on Opus 5.5 scores 8/8 ($3.68). The old template was wrong, not the case. - ENFORCEMENT.md Tier 2 row; CHANGELOG entry Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Summary
Business cases, research findings and design reviews now lead with the decision. Until now each of their Executive Summaries reached its verdict only after the background, the costs or the review set-up. The new order follows Barbara Minto's Pyramid Principle: the verdict first, then the reasons it rests on, then context, risks and next steps.
references/executive-summary-pattern.md: the verdict comes in the first sentence; give as many reasons as the evidence supports (three is not a quota); risks and next steps go at the end, except that a risk which could change the decision sits next to the verdict; the summary holds no figure the body does not. It also says where the rule does not apply (timelines, runbooks, plans, inconclusive results). Synced to every community plugin and the nested layout.sobc,hld-review,dld-review, the research writer and the research monolith point at the reference. The quality checklist has one new check each for RSCH, SOBC, HLDR and DLDR.Prompted by a review of millwright-labs/minto-pyramid-skill (MIT). We don't bundle that skill: it is built for editing a user's own draft, it would overlap with the commands, and its own evals show it fails on Haiku. This PR takes its rules into the templates instead.
Eval
A new
verdict-leads-summarygrader onsobc-traces-to-stakeholderschecks that the summary opens with the Go/No-Go recommendation.highandmax), it fails all 9: every one opened with Purpose.The old template was at fault, not the eval case. RSCH and the HLD/DLD reviews have no eval case, so for those templates only the quality checklist checks the new order.
Test plan
sync-shared-assets.py --check,sync-claude-plugin-layout.py,converter.pycheck_references.py,check-quality-checklist-refs.py,check-citation-section-refs.py,check-quality-checklist-ladders.py,check-doc-control-resolution.py,check-guide-parity.py,check-orchestrator-leaks.pypytest tests(2131 + 152 passed)eval-headless.py --replayon 9 recorded runs, and one live run🤖 Generated with Claude Code