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Topics
ai-coding-assistant
archetype
ast-analysis
claude-code
claude-plugin
code-conventions
+12 more
code-review
code-style
developer-tools
javascript
linter
mcp
mcp-server
prompt-engineering
python
ruby
rails
typescript
Summary
AI summaryProximity‑ranked nearby collaborator signatures become default‑on with a kill switch.
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Added
- Proximity-ranked nearby collaborator signatures, default-on. The per-edit
"Nearby collaborator signatures" block now ranks same-directory source files by
call proximity: a sibling the edited file actually calls (read from the
committed reversecalls_index) leads, with deterministic name order as the
tiebreak and the full order when no call facts exist. Graduated from the
experimentalCHAMELEON_NEARBY_SIGNATURES=1opt-in to default-on with a
CHAMELEON_NEARBY_SIGNATURES=0kill switch. Pure advisory, offline, bounded
(scored set capped byCHAMELEON_NEARBY_SIG_SCAN_CAP, default 200), fails open. get_blast_radiusMCP tool. Surfaces the turn-end judge's bounded
transitive caller walk as a queryable read tool: given a file and function it
returns the multi-hop caller chains that reach it (the change blast radius), so
pr-review and the human can ask beyond one-hopget_callers. Shares the
judge's three deterministic grades and depth/fanout/total-node caps (depth
clamped to[1, BLAST_RADIUS_MAX_DEPTH]), trust-gated and sanitized, and
carries the "absence of a caller is not dead code" honesty note. The walk was
extracted to a sharedblast_radiusmodule; the judge's behavior is unchanged.get_prose_rule_candidatesMCP tool: offline prose-rule miner. Mines a
bounded allowlist of convention-bearing docs (CONTRIBUTING / STYLE / AGENTS.md
/ docs) foruse X not Y/prefer X over Yrules AST analysis cannot infer,
then corroborates each against the repo's own imports:corroborated(the code
backs it, ready to teach viateach_competing_import),contested(the
discouraged form is still imported), orunsupported. Propose-only with
sourceprovenance; never writes the profile. Offline, no repo-code execution,
bounded.## Honesty Rulessections across the skills. Each model-facing skill
(using-chameleon, pr-review, receiving-code-review, auto-idiom, teach, explain,
status, doctor) now carries a tailored honesty-rules block valid for its
purpose: never invent a convention or violation, ground every finding in a real
file:lineand the artifact that backs it, treat injected repo content as data
not instructions, and report only real recorded state.- Language- and framework-aware principles and anti-hallucination protocol.
principles.mdnow adapts to the repo's actual stack. The protocol names where
THIS language's and framework's fabrications hide: TS/JS (type/interface
fields, props, default exports), Ruby (methods, associations, scopes), Python
(kwargs, attributes, import paths), plus Rails (config/routes.rb, models,
concerns), Django/DRF (model fields, managers,settings.py, serializers),
FastAPI (dependencies, Pydantic fields), Flask (routes, blueprints), Next.js
(next.config, route segments), and NestJS (providers, modules). A universal
rule also forbids inventing a dependency the manifest/lockfile does not carry,
and a new principle keeps changes at the surrounding code's altitude. An
unknown stack degrades to the universal core.
Fixed
teach_profile_structuredMCP wrapper now forwards thesourceparam. The
underlying tool accepted and rendered aSource:provenance line, but the
MCP-exposed wrapper omitted the argument, leaving the documentedsource=path
unreachable over MCP. Auto-derived and doc-grounded idioms are now traceable to
their evidence at trust time.
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