workflow-fix: selection-inherited bootstrap CI clause for selection-symmetric-nulls
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Overview / Motivation
Auto-filed by the workflow-fix-on-bug protocol from a prose follow-up raised on task #1434 (emitting agent: interpretation-critic, round 1).
Goal
Add a clause to selection-symmetric-nulls.md: a bootstrap CI reported at a max-selected axis position must be the selection-inherited CI (or both frozen and inherited, labeled)
Workflow gap
- Bug observed: Interpretation reported the frozen-layer bootstrap CI at a max-over-28-layers-selected layer while the selection-inherited CI in the same JSON spans zero; the rule covers null bands but not bootstrap CIs
- Why it is a workflow gap:
.claude/rules/selection-symmetric-nulls.mdmandates per-draw same-selection for NULL BANDS at a free-axis max, but is silent on BOOTSTRAP CIs at the same selected position — so a frozen-layer CI can legitimately-looking overstate certainty at a winner's-curse-selected layer (caught live on #1434: frozen [-0.949, -0.467] vs selection-inherited [-0.957, +0.866]). - Confidence (emitter): medium
- verified-at-filing:
grep -n "selection-inherited\|bootstrap" .claude/rules/selection-symmetric-nulls.md→ 1 hit (line 218, a per-draw-bootstrap mention in the null-band leg; no clause governs bootstrap CIs at a max-selected position — absence-of-guard evidence) (2026-07-17)
Proposed change (candidate diff sketch — refine in planning)
(none — synthesized from prose follow-up)
- In the "band vs ceiling / reporting" section: "A bootstrap CI reported at a
- max-selected axis position MUST be the selection-inherited CI (the per-draw
- re-selection rides inside each bootstrap resample), or BOTH CIs shown with
- explicit frozen-at- vs selection-inherited labels; a frozen-only CI at
- a selected position is a REVISE (worked example: #1434 install-grid rho)."
Scope / surfaces
- Primary target:
.claude/rules/selection-symmetric-nulls.md - Grep the workflow surface for the pattern before editing (
grep -rln 'selection-inherited' .claude/ CLAUDE.md scripts/) and update every hit; list them in the plan.
Constraints / invariants
- Workflow-surface only — never experiment code,
configs/, ortasks/. scripts/workflow_lint.py --check-askspasses; ruff on touched files passes; ifworkflow.yamlorCLAUDE.mdchange, they stay consistent with the rule file.- This session runs under
EPM_WORKFLOW_FIX_SESSION=1and carries aworkflow_fix_target:Provenance line — it MUST NOT auto-route any of its own subagents' workflow-fix candidates (recursion guard).
Provenance
- workflow_fix_target: .claude/rules/selection-symmetric-nulls.md
- fingerprint: 18d3d40cd916
Verbatim surfaced prose (interpretation-critic round 1, task #1434): "Follow-ups (orchestrator should consider): .claude/rules/selection-symmetric-nulls.md covers null BANDS at a max-selected axis but not bootstrap CIs — add a clause that a bootstrap CI reported at a max-selected axis position must be the selection-inherited CI (or both, labeled), the exact frozen-vs-inherited gap found here."