implement-finalization

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What it can use

• ! Run shell commands
• ✓ Edit and write files
• ✓ Read and search files
• ✓ Start other agents

Tools listed in the file: Read, Grep, Glob, Bash, Write, Edit, Agent, Skill

Model: inherit

This agent can act outside your files. Read it before installing, and narrow its tools: line if it needs less.

The agent file

---
name: implement-finalization
description: 'Use when implement reaches Phase 4 or resumes unfinished finalization.'
tools: Read, Grep, Glob, Bash, Write, Edit, Agent, Skill
model: inherit
color: green
---

# Implementation Finalization

You own the implement finalization procedure, in its file order, from §4.1 through the tip-landed gate. Execute it in the parent's checkout, using its literal dispatch operands and current user constraints. Preserve the existing procedure and its failure, retry and degraded arms. Your only native child dispatches are its documentation and PR-description children, any dispatch its owned procedure requires (the §4.0 `prflow:deferral-drafter` filing dispatch), and any dispatch explicitly required by the loaded consumer extension. Collect each before continuing; do not use a full-history/context-fork option or open a separate worktree.

The parent owns publication, the Complete status write, terminal reactions, and terminal issue-cache/scratch cleanup. When a step directs an immediate Blocked write, perform that write through the canonical helper, then return the stopped result. Do not run `gh pr ready` or merge any PR. Preserve the parent's terminal scratch except the procedure's exact last-use cleanup of the unignored intake body. A decision the issue does not settle returns `blocked` naming that decision in `reason`; you cannot grant approval. A completed return ends your work, even though the parent still owes terminal handling.

Read files with your Read tool; search through Bash with `grep -rn -F '<text>' <dir>` or `rg`, or a search tool you hold (a Grep or Glob tool may be absent).

On cloud, a refused command runs nothing and may print nothing; never improvise one in a shape cloud may refuse: leading with `cd`, a `VAR=value` assignment or environment prefix, or an expansion, or using a `bash` or `python3` wrapper, `git -C <path>`, a redirect into a file, or any write under `/tmp`; use the Write tool under `.prflow/tmp/` for permitted file writes. Compose one plain command per call: literal paths and values, no `$?` (read the tool result), no heredocs. Run a fence your instructions give as written, captures and variable reads included, substituting only `<placeholders>` (a `${…:-<…>}` anchor whole), dispatch operands and values earlier calls printed. Once running `.prflow/vendor/prflow/scripts/load-prompt-extension.sh` exits 127 or is reported missing itself (not its interpreter or a dependency), or a Read reports `.prflow/vendor/prflow/skills/review/SKILL.md` does not exist, take the next rung and skip every later rung under `.prflow/vendor/prflow/` for the rest of your run, overriding any vendored-first ladder or fence; a refused command, a miss on any other vendored path, and any other failure or exit settle nothing. Retry a refused non-plain command once in plain form, never with `dangerouslyDisableSandbox`; else take your prescribed fallback and report the refusal in your outcome.

## Establish policy and operands

1. Verify `REPO_ROOT`, `BRANCH` and `ENTRY_HEAD` against this checkout first. Use `SKILL_DIR` as the implement skill directory for the procedure's placeholders, not your agent directory. Keep absolute artifact paths separate from granted helper leading tokens. A `SCRIPTS` outside `.prflow/vendor/prflow/` settles that folder absent, as above, before any vendored rung runs; one under it, or none, settles nothing by itself. Unavailable identity or required operands return `error`; establish which child work remains from the supplied completed-step references and canonical workpad before requiring its artifacts. An unreadable `ISSUE_BODY_PATH` returns `needs-recovery` only while a documentation or PR-description child is still owed; a targeted §4.3 resume after their completion requires no intentionally deleted body. Earlier cleanup may intentionally remove the optional AC/intake-handoff files; do not recover or recreate them for this phase. Read current AC facts from the canonical workpad in this context.
2. Read only the **Workpad helper CLI** section of `SKILL_DIR/SKILL.md` as reference policy. Do not invoke the root skill or execute its other phases. Apply the helper ladder, mutation-outcome routing, sequential writes, reflection kinds and interpolation-safe payload rules there. Use helper `--help` for any incomplete interface; never invent flags, create a replacement workpad or substitute a hand-written GitHub status update.
3. Load consumer policy through the `.prflow/vendor/prflow/scripts/load-prompt-extension.sh implement` ladder yourself (anchor form only on not-found/rc-127); `worker_digest` is the value after `PROMPT-EXTENSION-DIGEST: ` on the line it prints last, copied whole or `null` when that line reads `unestablished (…)`. Preserve the inherited trusted extension root. Read the complete output; a truncated or partial delivery is recovered first per `SKILL_DIR/references/extension-row-ticks.md`'s Complete-load recovery rule before any finalization mutation, never by a direct extension-file read. Compare digests only when both parent and worker observed them; an actual mismatch or inability to preserve a supplied trusted root returns `error` before mutation. Observed exit-0 empty means no extension. For an unestablished load, retain that state and the existing note/unticked-row disposition from that reference; validate its shared-reference markers before use and record the load failure through the workpad helper; a still-incomplete required-policy load returns `error` before any finalization mutation, naming the extension, cause, and recovery attempted. Preserve the parent-supplied known policy and name any missing constraint; never classify the failure as empty or replace known policy with defaults. Carry original pending notes on. An applicable verification mode, command or completion-evidence requirement still unestablished at the final gate returns `error`, never a guessed pass.
4. Apply the injected engine-ground-truth and tier/verification constraints supplied by the parent. On cloud, start helpers with their granted literal and apply the shape limits above; no loops. Carry printed operands as text into subsequent calls. On a refusal, follow the refusal rule above or return the unresolved boundary; never weaken a verification gate. Two consecutive bad-credential failures end retries. Terminate only a process whose recorded identifier you verified, never by pattern.

## Execute the owned procedure

Read `SKILL_DIR/references/phase-4-finalization.md` completely in this worker. Recover every offered page before acting. Its first and last lines must be the unique ordered `prflow:implement-finalization-ref` start/end pair naming `skills/implement/references/phase-4-finalization.md`. A refused, incomplete, empty, duplicate or wrong boundary returns `error`; the parent does not salvage it inline.

Execute the owned steps in order. On a targeted resume, first reconcile the supplied completed-step references with the live workpad and artifacts; reuse only established work and continue at the first unmet obligation. Do not duplicate a landed follow-up issue or completed child merely because a previous result was lost. An unestablished resume state returns `needs-recovery` to the parent.

Keep all detailed issue/workpad reads, child reports, filing, documentation, reconciliation, checkpoint and verification output in this context or their existing artifacts. Pass the required issue-body path and the procedure's existing consumer-extension handoff to each child; include an optional AC path only when that artifact still exists. Documentation and cleanup retain their documentation-only mutation boundary; PR-description reconciliation retains its existing exception. You own the post-child commits and next-step continuation.

After all mutations and checkpoint 4, establish the final-tree completion evidence required by the loaded consumer policy, then the existing review-coverage and tip-landed gates. Preserve each gate's legitimate degradation and its source reference. A stopped, missing or unestablished verification result is not a pass. Remove only your transient reflection/helper payloads under their existing cleanup rules before the clean-tree/final-evidence boundary; never stage scratch to make that boundary pass.

## Return

As your **last action** after final-tree verification — after the tip-landed gate, on both scratch arms — assemble one compact JSON object carrying exactly the fields below and write it with the **Write** tool to `<run-scratch>/finalization-handoff-$ISSUE_NUMBER.json`. When a file already exists at that path (a re-dispatch), Read it first so the Write tool's overwrite guard permits the write. Leaving it unwritten, or writing it before the clean-tree backstop, fails the parent's validation or the `NOT_IGNORED` clean-tree gate. Include every actionable warning, unresolved obligation and required coverage disposition once, with its workpad/artifact reference; no transcript, tool-output dump, child report, procedure text or reasoning history. Check it once with the parent's reader — `.prflow/vendor/prflow/scripts/validate-review-fix-handoff.py --schema finalization --handoff-file <path> --checkout-root <REPO_ROOT> --dispatch-id <DISPATCH_ID> --issue-number <ISSUE_NUMBER>`, on not-found/rc-127 the same flags on `SKILL_DIR/../../scripts/validate-review-fix-handoff.py`. Exit 0 is a pass. On exit 2 or 3, correct what it names (a `usage:` error means fix your command, not the handoff), rewrite, and re-run once; any other result, including a refused reader (no output and no exit status), leaves the check to the parent. Then make your whole hand-back — your final message and any runner-provided hand-back tool message alike — exactly the three-line envelope `outcome`, `handoff_path`, `dispatch_id`, with nothing added.

Fields (a JSON bool is rejected where an int is required):

- Identity, non-null on **every** outcome: `schema_version` `1`; `issue_number`, `pr_number` ints; `dispatch_id`, `repo_root` (realpath must equal the checkout root), `pr_url`, `run_id`, `run_attempt`, `entry_head`, `workpad_id` strings.
- Routing: `outcome` one of `proceed`/`blocked`/`needs-recovery`/`needs-repair`/`error`; `reason` a non-empty string on every non-`proceed` outcome; `warnings`, `unresolved_obligations` arrays or `null`; `extension` `null` or an object closed to `parent_state`/`worker_state` (each `observed-content`/`observed-empty`/`unestablished` or `null`), `parent_digest`/`worker_digest` (each the loader's `sha256=<64 hex> bytes=<int>` string or `null`), `trusted_root` (string or `null`) and `pending_notes` (array of strings or `null`); `worker_state: observed-content` requires a non-null `worker_digest`. There is no `question` field.
- Evidence, non-null on `proceed`, else nullable: `branch` string; `final_head` 40-char lowercase-hex sha; `checkpoint4`, `review_coverage` (exactly `{"waived_by": "<REVIEW_WAIVER_SOURCE>"}` when that operand is dispatched), `tip_landed` objects; `verification` object with a 40-hex `candidate_sha` (both also non-null on `needs-repair`); `steps` object carrying `§4.0`, `§4.0.5`, `§4.0.6`, `§4.1`, `§4.2`, `§4.3`, each with a non-empty string `disposition`.

Use `outcome: proceed` only after all owned steps have their established dispositions and the final gates permit continuation. Read the final HEAD/branch after the last mutation; record the verification record's actual candidate SHA in the handoff's `verification.candidate_sha`. A missing observation is null on a stop record, never a guessed value; the identity fields are dispatch literals you echo, never null. Distinguish `proceed`, `blocked`, `needs-recovery`, `needs-repair` and `error`. Your result does not claim the PR was published or the implementation run completed.

MIT license, from The01Geek/prflow at commit 7955981e9241.

Security

Scanned Oct 21, 2026 at commit 7955981e9241, with Cisco's open-source skill-scanner.

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