Add a hunter skill: a sweep and a diff review are different jobs with different output contracts
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name: hunter
description: Defect-hunt procedure for a fleetd worker — sweep an assigned package for real bugs and report several ranked findings without fixing anything. Load this when the lead asks you to hunt or audit a scope rather than review one diff. Do NOT load `reviewer` for this; the two want different output.
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# Hunter worker — procedure
The turn contract (one `fleet_reply`, `fleet_ask` for the lead's decisions, honest reporting,
never merge) is in **`CLAUDE.md` → Bridge communication → Worker** and already applies.
**This skill is not `reviewer`.** `reviewer` judges one diff and reports the *single* most
important issue in about 90 words. A hunt sweeps a whole package and reports *several* findings
in a long structured form. Loading both gives you two contradictory output contracts, and the
usual result is a worker that writes a good report into its terminal and ends the turn without
sending it. Load exactly one.
## 0. Read this before you read code: how the report gets home
Your terminal reaches nobody. The lead sees **only** the text inside your `fleet_reply` call.
A long report is exactly the case where this goes wrong, so plan for it:
- **Write the report into the `fleet_reply` argument itself.** Do not compose it in your terminal
and then summarise it into the call.
- If the report is long, **send it anyway** — one `fleet_reply` with everything.
- If you end the turn without replying, the bridge scrapes your pane instead. That scrape carries
at most the last 4000 characters, and on a hunt it usually captures the tail of the lead's own
brief rather than your findings. The lead then has nothing and has to ask you again.
## 1. Change nothing
A hunt is read-only. Do not edit a production file, do not "quickly fix" what you find, and do
not run a formatter. You may run the build and tests to *check* a claim, and you should say so
when you did.
## 2. Read the whole scope first
Read every file in the assigned package before you judge any of it. A defect that a caller
elsewhere in the same package makes unreachable is not a defect, and you cannot know that from
one file.
Stay inside the scope. If a defect there depends on a class outside it, read that class to
confirm — but the defect itself must live in the scope you were given.
## 3. The bar — this matters more than the count
**Name the path into the bad state.** Say which caller, in which state, reaches it. A defect on
paper is not a reachable defect. If you cannot name that path, keep the finding but mark it
`unproven` and say exactly what you could not check. Do not drop it, and do not dress it up.
**Say which direction the harm goes.** Data loss, privilege escalation and silent wrong answers
are worth reporting even when the window is narrow. A finding whose worst outcome is a worse log
line is not worth a block.
Two workers once ran the same scope: the one that applied the direction-of-harm filter found ten
real defects, the one that did not found none. Fewer findings the lead can act on beat many the
lead has to triage.
## 4. Shapes that have produced real merged fixes here
Read for these first:
1. **A one-way gate.** A guard added after an incident closes only the direction that incident
came from. Do not only ask what closes the gate — ask **which states still open it**.
2. **A value read once, then used later to authorise something destructive**, after something
else has had a chance to change it.
3. **A failure downgraded to a value that looks like a legitimate result** — `-1`, `null`, an
empty list, `false` — which a caller then trusts.
4. **A lock held for one half of a read-modify-write and not the other**, or two collections
updated under different locks.
5. **A comment or javadoc stating an invariant the code no longer keeps.** Comments are
load-bearing in this repo; a stale one has already caused a bug.
## 5. What you cannot check, and must not claim you did
- `fleetd/fleetd.yaml` is gitignored and **absent from your worktree**. You cannot read it. If a
finding depends on live configuration, name the key and say you could not check it.
- `.mcp.json`, `opencode.json` and `.autoenv` in your worktree are neutralised stubs, not the
repo's real files.
- The `wiki/` submodule pointer is months old. Do not cite it.
Reporting a fact you took from the lead's brief as something you measured yourself is a false
report, even when the fact is correct. Say where each fact came from.
## 6. The report — what goes in `fleet_reply`
One block per finding, most severe first:
```
FINDING N — <one line>
file:line
Path in: <which caller, in which state, reaches this>
Direction: <data loss | escalation | silent wrong answer | outage | ...>
Window/trigger: <when it actually happens>
Confidence: <confirmed by reading | unproven — say what you could not check>
Why nothing else catches it: <the guard or test you checked, and why it misses>
```
End with one line naming every file you read, so the lead knows the denominator.
**Nothing clears the bar?** Reply `NO FINDINGS`, name the files you read, and say what you ruled
out. A clean sweep is a valid result; an invented defect is worse than none.
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skill is only the *review procedure*: how to work the scope, and the exact shape of what you
send back.
**Wrong skill for a sweep.** This one reviews *one* diff or scope and reports the *single* most
important issue. If the lead asked you to hunt or audit a whole package for several defects, load
`hunter` instead and ignore this file — the two want different output, and following both is how a
worker ends its turn with a good report that never gets sent.
## 1. Read the whole scope before you judge
The delegation names your scope — a file, a diff, a PR, a function. **Read all of it first.**
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adapter, with a message naming the credential and the remaining seconds ("cooling off after
repeated backend errors") — distinct wording from a quarantine refusal, so don't conflate the
two when reading a spawn failure.
- **Skills available to delegate:** `implementer` (worktree → commit → push → own PR) and
`reviewer` (scoped review → one structured finding). Name one in every delegation.
- **Skills available to delegate:** `implementer` (worktree → commit → push → own PR),
`reviewer` (one diff → one structured finding) and `hunter` (sweep a package → several ranked
findings, change nothing). Name exactly one in every delegation. **`reviewer` and `hunter` are
not interchangeable** — `reviewer` caps the answer at one finding in about 90 words, so naming
it for a multi-finding sweep hands the worker two contradictory output contracts. That has
already cost three workers' turns: each wrote a good report to its terminal and ended the turn
with no `fleet_reply`, and the scrape returned the tail of the brief instead.
- **Primary-side skills** (not delegation playbooks — a worker cannot use them):
`port-to-opencode` (make an OpenCode session a participant in this workspace) and
`fleets-status` (report every fleet that shares one LavinMQ instance).