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Overview / Motivation

Auto-filed by the /daily Step-C parked-candidate sweep (2026-07-08) from a candidate parked on task #994 (recursion-guarded workflow-fix session).

Goal

Strengthen the headless section with a mechanical lever — write + commit a minimal dated stub FIRST (before mining), then enrich in place — and/or make cron_daily_healthcheck.sh check file CONTENT length (not just existence/mtime) so a stub-only night still alerts.

Workflow gap

Bug observed: The headless write-then-wait ordering rule is doc-only prose in an LLM-loaded skill and was violated within hours of shipping (the 07-03 backfill attempt ended its final turn 'waiting on the filing driver' and exited with no daily file); the #711 heartbeat alerts only on file absence/staleness, not on a stub-only/empty file.
Why it is a workflow gap: Behavioral compliance with prose ordering rules is stochastic in -p mode; without a mechanical lever a killed run still leaves zero durable output and the heartbeat cannot tell a full file from a husk.
Confidence (emitter): medium

Proposed change (candidate diff sketch — refine in planning)

SKILL.md Headless mode, new step 0: on run start, write the five-H2 stub + git commit -m 'logs: daily stub for <date>' + push BEFORE any mining/routing; later steps Edit-in-place. cron_daily_healthcheck.sh: alert when the day's file exists but is < ~1500 bytes or lacks a non-empty '## Applied workflow improvements' section.

Scope / surfaces

Primary target: .claude/skills/daily/SKILL.md, scripts/cron_daily_healthcheck.sh
Grep the workflow surface for the pattern before editing (grep -rln '<pattern>' .claude/ CLAUDE.md scripts/) and update every hit; list them in the plan.

Constraints / invariants

Workflow-surface only — never experiment code, configs/, or tasks/.
scripts/workflow_lint.py --check-asks passes; ruff on touched files passes; if workflow.yaml or CLAUDE.md change, they stay consistent with the rule file.
This session runs under EPM_WORKFLOW_FIX_SESSION=1 and carries a workflow_fix_target: Provenance line — it MUST NOT auto-route any of its own subagents' workflow-fix candidates (recursion guard).

Provenance

workflow_fix_target: .claude/skills/daily/SKILL.md, scripts/cron_daily_healthcheck.sh
origin: parked candidate on task #994 at 2026-07-04T23:08:27Z

Verbatim parked note:

parked — running under workflow_fix_target recursion guard (see .claude/rules/workflow-fix-on-bug.md § Recursion guard); NOT auto-routed. For the next /daily or PM pass: target_file: .claude/skills/daily/SKILL.md bug_observed: same-day live violation of the just-shipped '### Headless (cron) mode' write-then-wait rule — the 07-03 backfill attempt 1 ended its final turn with 'Filing driver is running in the background... I'll write the daily file once it completes' and exited cleanly with no file (in -p mode the harness never re-wakes the model after the final turn). why_workflow_gap: the ordering rule is doc-only prose in an LLM-loaded skill; behavioral compliance is stochastic (violated within hours of shipping). proposed_change: strengthen the headless section with a mechanical lever — e.g. instruct the run to write a minimal dated stub + commit FIRST (before mining), then enrich in place; and/or have the heartbeat check file CONTENT length, not just mtime, so a stub-only night still alerts. confidence: medium related_task: #994