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Two SKILL.md sentences reworded: close once the work is done and published; install only when the command fails for a missing node_modules - #1776

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Two sentences in the skills' SKILL.md files sent agents the wrong way in the Q2 experiment (#1774).

"Once the work is merged" → "once the work is done and published." A plain agent run has no merge step. Opus read "merged" literally and stalled before committing, with its claims held. Two places in the tickets SKILL.md.

"With no node_modules, install first" → "run as npx …; when that fails for a missing node_modules, install and run it again." Sonnet read the old sentence as an order and ran npm install before reading anything, in three runs. Now the install is a fallback on a failed run. Same sentence in the tickets, queue and logs SKILL.md; all three changed the same way.

No code change. The framework's generated prompts pick the new text up at build.

Checked on the experiment's rig with the same prompt. Sonnet went straight to the commands, no npm install attempt. Opus stopped before the close step in its run, so that run says nothing about the first change; under the rules prompt it closed correctly with the old wording too. The first change is a correction of the words, not a measured fix.

🤖 automated · Fable 5.1

…ished, not merged; install only when running the command fails for a missing node_modules

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UMVVNvrAaovKrXTG2wKcqy
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