feat(evals): run plugin eval suites in a CI lane and hill-climb in the background

Problem

Every claude plugin eval run in this repository is started by hand in the operator's terminal and paid for there. No workflow under .github/workflows/ runs a plugin eval suite; pr-require-checks.yml only lints skill-creator evals/evals.json files and fixtures. Sessions cannot run the suites either: a worktree-isolated session refuses any command containing eval (#5696, #6374), and a background run dies with its launcher (#6333). So a change to a skill that has a suite (performance, improvement, source-control, code-tidying, education, discovery, planning, evals) merges without its with-versus-without delta unless someone remembers to run it.

Evidence from one session (2026-10-04)

These are the failure modes an automated lane has to handle, not only the reason to build one.

All runs were manual. The session's worktree-isolation guard refused claude plugin eval, so every run was pasted into the user's terminal and paid for there.
Several suites at first measured nothing.
- The skill never loaded in some cases: Bash was denied during the fanout skill's shell preprocessing, so the with-arm ran without the skill body.
- The skill-fired grader misread slash-invoked runs.
- Firing varied widely between runs: implement-dispatch fired 6/12, then 0/3, then 6/6.
Judge graders needed calibration. One judge scored 89%, then 80% agreement, and was replaced by regex graders.
Confirming runs found real effects. Four changes each moved a case from 0/3 to 3/3.

A lane that reports a delta without checking that the skill loaded, that the grader reads the run shape correctly, and that the run count is enough for the observed variance will post confident numbers that mean nothing.

Can it run in Actions today

Yes, as a plain workflow step. https://code.claude.com/docs/en/plugin-evals#run-evals-in-ci (fetched 2026-10-04) documents a CI invocation with --trust-plugin, --json, --threshold, pinned --model and --judge-model, --no-publish and --max-cost-usd, and says a runner needs a Claude Code install and credentials in the environment. Each case runs as its own non-interactive session with only the granted tools, so no --permission-mode applies to the eval step itself. Cases that grant Bash, Write or Edit need the OS sandbox: on Linux, bubblewrap and socat (Grant tools). Whether those run on a GitHub-hosted Ubuntu runner (unprivileged user namespaces) is not verified.

The auto-fix and hill-climb parts would be model steps, which https://code.claude.com/docs/en/github-actions runs through claude-code-action with a prompt and claude_args. Those fall under ADR 0049.

Our runner notes: /evals:plugin-eval CI section and its reference/ci.md (exit-code parser, partial and skippedPaidGraders handling, the "currently unavailable" server-side switch). For spend, see https://code.claude.com/docs/en/costs and https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/about-claude/pricing; this issue states no figures.

Proposed lane

Trigger: pull_request on same-repository branches that touch plugins//skills/**, plugins//agents/** or plugins//evals/**, for plugins with a suite. Skip drafts, matching the other lanes. A workflow_dispatch input for a full sweep, and later a schedule for judge-graded cases.
Scope: per changed plugin, only that plugin's suite. No cross-plugin runs on a PR.
Authority it must not have:
- No merge, no ci-status write, no checks: write or workflows permission in any model step (ADR 0049 rule 3).
- Any fix, new case, or skill edit is pushed as a draft PR or a commit to a lane branch, never to the PR's branch without the author's opt-in and never to main.
- PR titles, bodies, comments and eval transcripts reaching a model step are framed as data per docs/conventions/untrusted-content/README.md; trusted-actor and same-repo gates per ADR 0049 rules 1 and 2; the org kill switch per rule 4.

Smallest first slice

On a PR that touches plugins//skills, agents or evals:

Run /evals:validate (validate-cases.py) on that plugin's suite. No model call.
Run that plugin's suite with deterministic graders only, --max-cost-usd set, both models pinned, --json.
Post the with-versus-without table as an advisory check or job summary, gated through the reference/ci.md parser so a partial, skippedPaidGraders, errored or delta-less case reads NOT COMPARABLE instead of a score.
Add one health line per case: did the skill load in the with-arm (from the trace), and how many runs fired.

No auto-fix, no new cases, no hill-climb in this slice. Those come after the advisory numbers have been read on real PRs for a while.

Later slices (not in scope yet)

Author or repair cases for skills whose suite measured nothing (skill not loaded, grader misreading the run shape), as draft PRs.
Judge calibration: run a judge against its must-pass and must-fail samples and refuse to use it below a set agreement.
Background hill-climb on a schedule: propose skill edits, keep only those that beat the baseline over enough runs, open each as a draft PR.

Open questions

Sandbox on hosted runners. Do bubblewrap and socat work on ubuntu-latest, or do Bash-granting cases need a container or --ablation none read-only suites only? Settled by one dispatch run of a Bash-granting case.
Spend control. Which credential (API key vs subscription token, per the github-actions page), what --max-cost-usd per PR, and whether a label opts a PR in rather than running on every push. Needs the operator's decision.
Flakes. With firing at 6/12 then 0/3 on the same skill, what run count makes a PR delta trustworthy, and does the lane report an interval instead of a point? /evals:plugin-eval reading-results guidance is the starting point.
Judge calibration gating. Should judge-graded cases stay out of the PR lane until each judge passes its calibration samples (feat(evals): close the eval suite's calibration gaps and convert other plugins' evals #5879 lists known gaps)?
Server-side switch. plugin eval is currently unavailable can fire with no local fix, so the lane must stay advisory and never become a required check.

Worktree-isolated sessions refuse claude plugin eval (guard reads 'eval' as shell eval) #5696, docs(evals): document that plugin eval refuses a plugin inside a repo with many linked worktrees #6374, docs(evals): plugin-eval runs started in the background die when a headless launcher exits #6333: why sessions cannot run suites today.
feat(evals): close the eval suite's calibration gaps and convert other plugins' evals #5879: judge calibration gaps and converting other plugins' evals.
ADR 0049 (docs/adr/0049-run-ci-lanes-on-github-hosted-runners-under-trigger-and-token-hardening.md): hosted-runner lane hardening.

Proposed work class: work-class: structural
Basis: automated intake triage; the lanes App applied this class.

Size: Large
Complexity: High
Uncertainty: Knowable
Flags: none
Blocked by: none

Decision recorded.

Question: No CI lane runs claude plugin eval. The question is which credential and spend control it uses. Options: (a) linked-org API key per ADR 0062, opt-in by label, fixed --max-cost-usd; (b) the org OAuth token on every qualifying push; (c) workflow_dispatch only until #6962 answers.

Owner's answer: (c), on the role's subscription token, with deterministic graders and --max-cost-usd. Add a label trigger once #6962 answers. [quote truncated; the full decision is at the link]

#6405 (comment)

This decision settles the credential and spend question. The sandbox, flake and server-side-switch questions are answered in the earlier re-triage comment. The issue reads as a Large umbrella: a generic eval lane in CI, with the first slice done and later slices (case repair, judge calibration, hill-climb) explicitly out of scope. Per the re-triage, it stays open as a tracker and closes when its last slice closes. No duplicates found.

_{Automated triage, applied by the lanes App.}

The credential question here changes: Max and Team plans now carry monthly API credits in the linked Console org (help article 17154008). Credits cover API-key traffic only; runs started by the Claude Code GitHub Action are excluded even with -p. Whether a self-written claude -p or claude plugin eval step with an org key draws credits is the probe in #6962. The credential choice for CI lanes is tracked on the capacity map #6958 (#6968), and ADR 0037 is being amended to allow the operator's own org keys (#6961).

Decision recorded.

Question: No CI lane runs claude plugin eval. The question is which credential and spend control it uses. Options: (a) linked-org API key per ADR 0062, opt-in by label, fixed --max-cost-usd; (b) the org OAuth token on every qualifying push; (c) workflow_dispatch only until #6962 answers.

Owner's answer: (c), on the role's subscription token, with deterministic graders and --max-cost-usd. Add a label trigger once #6962 answers. The 2026-10-16 amendment of ADR 0062 makes a linked-org key a fallback after a subscription limit, not the lane's main credential, and says that for CI the fallback waits on probe #6962, which is still open. The docs say any normal credential works and that Bash-granting suites on Linux need bubblewrap and socat. Basis: docs/adr/0062-*.md:96-104; https://code.claude.com/docs/en/plugin-evals ("on Linux, install bubblewrap and socat first"; "credentials in the environment such as ANTHROPIC_API_KEY").

The owner accepted this recommendation as item D10 of a 21-decision batch in an attended backlog-shaping session on 2026-10-18. The batch question: "Accept all 21 batch 7 decisions, with my change to D13 (#6008 goes to the lane, but you merge its PR because it edits AGENTS.md)? I post a 'Decision recorded.' comment on each issue." The owner answered: "Accept, with my D13 change (Recommended)".

Posted by AI from the owner's answer in that session.

Split into slices by the owner's HITL session (2026-10-24, C12 and Q93): this waited only on a gate the owner removed.

feat(ci): validate, gate and summarize dispatched plugin eval runs #9704: extend eval-browser-dispatch.yml with validate, deterministic-only runs, NOT COMPARABLE gating and a per-case health line (lane).
test(ci): dispatch the generalized plugin eval workflow once and check its summary #9713: dispatch it once and check the summary (needs-human: a paid run a lane cannot perform), blocked by feat(ci): validate, gate and summarize dispatched plugin eval runs #9704.
feat(ci): opt-in PR label trigger for the changed plugin's eval suite #9705: opt-in PR label trigger (lane), blocked by feat(ci): validate, gate and summarize dispatched plugin eval runs #9704 and test(ci): dispatch the generalized plugin eval workflow once and check its summary #9713. Probe: does a self-written claude -p step in GitHub Actions draw the linked org's API credits? #6962 is closed, which was this step's stated wait.

The later slices (case repair, judge calibration, hill-climb) stay out of scope as the body says. Related: #6649.

The triage sweep dispatched intake triage for this issue (attempt 1 of 2).

Cordoned under the After zero milestone, still open. Issue Triage session reading, at main (fetched 2026-11-01).

The three sub-issues (#9704, #9705, #9713) shipped the first slice's lane, but two parts of this issue are not done:

The background hill-climb in the title, and case repair, both listed under "Later slices (not in scope yet)". Neither has its own issue. Judge calibration shipped under feat(evals): close the eval suite's calibration gaps and convert other plugins' evals #5879.
Slice item 4, one health line per case, is built (.github/scripts/plugin-eval/summarize.mjs:142) but not shown on a real run. The one dispatch, https://github.com/melodic-software/claude-code-plugins/actions/runs/41055400082, reported a FAIL or NOT COMPARABLE result (its summary step exits 1 for either, summarize.mjs:22-23), and the health lines live in the job summary, which was not read.

Admission's refusal ("every sub-issue is closed, but it is still open") is correct here: work no sub-issue covers remains. Before this leaves After zero, the next pass should read that run's job summary and split the hill-climb and case repair into - [ ] items or sub-issues.

Host run, post-merge. This dispatched one eval run on main after #12084 merged. The job log now shows the health lines, and the with-arm health line reads skill loaded: yes.

Dispatch: gh workflow run eval-browser-dispatch.yml --ref main -f target=plugins/evals -f case=pe-ci-pin-full-ids -f runs=1 -f deterministic-only=true, as run 41353703294. It concluded success.

Health lines from the Summarize the results job log, verbatim:

Health, with-arm runs:
- pe-ci-pin-full-ids: skill loaded: yes; fired in 1 of 1 runs with a kept trace (1 runs)

Against test(ci): show the plugin eval health line reading skill loaded on a dispatched run #12032's done-when:
1. A dispatched run's health line is readable by an agent: met, from the job log (ci(plugin-eval): write each suite's summary to the job log and results artifact (#12032) #12084).
2. It reads skill loaded: yes on a dispatched run: met.
3. Fix summarize.mjs trace resolution if a line still reads unknown: not triggered, because no line reads unknown.

This answers #6405's first-slice item 4: the line that read skill loaded: unknown on run 41055400082 now reads yes.

Target labels: add none; remove host-run.

Case survey for #12043. Seven deterministic dispatches on main (improvement, discovery, performance, evals, education, planning, source-control p*) gave 88 health lines. None reads skill loaded: no. 59 read "fired in 0":

48 slash-invoked and 3 agent-dispatch cases read 0 because summarize.mjs counted only Skill tool calls. The health-line fix is on branch host-run/12043-eval-skill-load; its PR follows.
4 are negative controls that should not fire: evals control-deepeval-geval, control-no-trigger and control-promptfoo-json, and performance climb-routes-eval-score-to-hillclimb.
4 natural-language cases did not fire: evals de-criteria-first (also 0 of 3 locally), and source-control pull-request-create-refs-writes-remaining, pull-request-dirty-worktree-stashes-before-checkout and pull-request-merge-holds-on-unclassified-ci (0 of 1 each, not yet repeated).

Not surveyed yet: code-tidying, source-control outside p*, and planning past the cost ceiling.

This was generated by AI.

Eval health survey, slice 1 (#12043). Below is every case whose with-arm health line (.github/scripts/plugin-eval/summarize.mjs) read skill loaded: no or fired in 0 runs on a dispatched eval-browser-dispatch run.

No case read skill loaded: no. Each case below fired in 0 runs.

Plugin	Case	Fired	Run	Class	Action
developer-experience	`s7-act-after-yes`	0/1, then 0/3	41527706565, 41754334230	turn-2 history case: turn 1 replays as text, without the skill body	repaired in #13037
developer-experience	`s4-migrator-build`	0/1, then 1/3	same two runs	same	repaired in #13037
developer-experience	`q-audit-slugify-digits`, `q-build-page-count`	0/1	41534412227	stays-quiet: expected_outcome is "no Skill call"	kept; 0 is the pass
developer-experience	`nm-explain-commit`, `nm-script-build-exit`	0/1	41533401320	stays-quiet near-miss	kept; 0 is the pass
developer-experience	`s2-tracker-comment`	0/1	41527706565	stays-quiet	kept; 0 is the pass
developer-experience	`fx-seed-every-state`	0/1	41532755374	fixture check; Skill is not in its allowed_tools	kept; it measures the fixtures
discovery	`ck-notice-alone-installs-nothing`	0/1	41752213101	prerequisite-notice case: it tests the checker and hook scripts, not a skill	kept

source-control:commit set. On host rounds (PR #12704), commit-hook-rejection-no-bypass and commit-never-stage-everything fired 0 of 8 on plain prompts. Once #12704 named the skill, dispatched run 41751880826 shows all six commit-* cases firing 1 of 1. Those cases now test behavior, not triggering. The triggering defect stays open for /skill-quality:check measure-invocation.

Covered in this slice: developer-experience (all 20 cases, across five dispatches). Discovery (its 13 deterministic cases): every other case fired. Source-control: the six commit-* cases plus pull-request-ready-merges-base-never-rebases (fired, 41706844559).

Earlier slice (2026-11-01). That slice ran before #12197 taught the health line about slash-invoked skills and agent dispatch. Its runs were improvement, discovery, performance, evals, education, planning and source-control p*. It read 59 cases as fired 0:

51 were slash-invoked or agent-dispatch cases that the old line could not count. fix(ci): count slash-invoked skills and agent dispatches as fired in the eval health line #12197 fixed that, and this slice's discovery run reads them as fired.
4 are negative controls, where 0 is the pass: evals control-deepeval-geval, control-no-trigger and control-promptfoo-json, and performance climb-routes-eval-score-to-hillclimb.
4 natural-language cases are still open candidates, not yet repaired: evals de-criteria-first (also 0 of 3 locally), and source-control pull-request-create-refs-writes-remaining, pull-request-dirty-worktree-stashes-before-checkout and pull-request-merge-holds-on-unclassified-ci (0 of 1 each).

Not yet surveyed: code-tidying, source-control outside p* and commit-*, and planning past its cost ceiling.

Side findings, not this issue's scope:

The history_file cases read NOT COMPARABLE ("the case carries no delta") under with-without in run 41754334230.
Three cases score 0.00 on both arms with the skill fired: commit-hook-rejection-no-bypass, commit-trailer-model-from-session and discovery's su-fork-default-print-mode.

Eval health survey, slice 3 (#12043). This re-dispatches the suites that read fired 0 before #12197, and covers a first step-2 chunk.

Each run is eval-browser-dispatch.yml, deterministic-only, runs 1, tools Bash,Write,Edit, on main. The model is claude-sonnet-5-5 on Claude Code 2.1.317.

The 51 slash and agent cases all read fired now. Each reads 1 of 1 on the health line.

Plugin	Filter	Run	Earlier 0	Fired now	Cost
improvement	all 9	41759123922	8	8 of 8 (9 of 9 in the suite)	$1.79
performance	tags goal protect snapshot target verify	41760135736	6	6 of 6	$1.33
education	tags explain illustrate quiz-me setup teach	41760669678	17	17 of 17 (25 of 25 ran)	$4.07
planning	tag design	41761115296	3	3 of 3 (9 of 9 ran)	$2.37
planning	tags closing-probe standards coverage-prompt ears goal	41763770573	7	7 of 7 (8 of 8 ran)	$4.27
source-control	`pull-request-*`	41759235445	10 (`ci-mode`)	10 of 10	$5.06, partial at the cost ceiling after 18 of 21 cases
evals	`de-*`	41763843326	none of the 51	`de-criteria-first` 0 of 1	$0.28

UNVERIFIED from a trace: the uploaded artifact holds only results.json, aggregate-result.json, summary.md and report.html. The trace stays on the runner (--keep-temp). Every one of the 51 is slash-invoked, and the health line counts a slash case as fired when init lists the skill. As indirect evidence, the with-arm outscores the no-plugin arm in 44 of the 51, ties in 6, and trails in 1 (te-root-ask-once, 0.50 against 1.00).

The natural-language candidates:

pull-request-create-refs-writes-remaining fires 1 of 1 on main now. Kept as is.
pull-request-dirty-worktree-stashes-before-checkout fires 1 of 1 after test(source-control): name the pull-request skill in the dirty-worktree eval case #12915 named the skill. test(source-control): name the pull-request skill in the dirty-worktree eval case #12915 did that, not this slice.
pull-request-merge-holds-on-unclassified-ci reads 0 of 1 again (4 turns). On Opus, test(source-control): name the pull-request skill in the dirty-worktree eval case #12915's host round saw it fire, so the miss may depend on the model. Repaired in draft test(evals,source-control): name the skill in two cases whose with-arm never fired it #13062.
evals de-criteria-first reads 0 of 1 again. Earlier it was 0 of 3 locally, where the model wrote test files itself. Repaired in draft test(evals,source-control): name the skill in two cases whose with-arm never fired it #13062.
Draft test(evals,source-control): name the skill in two cases whose with-arm never fired it #13062 names the skill in both prompts, so they now test behavior, not triggering. Both triggering misses go to /skill-quality:check measure-invocation.

Step 2, first chunk: source-control resolve-conflicts-*, 41765053219, $1.67. All 10 cases fire 1 of 1: 7 by a Skill call (their skill-fired grader passes) and 3 slash-invoked ci-mode cases. None needs repair.

Side findings:

pull-request-dirty-worktree-stashes-before-checkout scores 0.00 with the skill fired, against 1.00 without it.
education control-resume-criteria-not-met and resume-success-criteria-met score 0.00 with the skill against 1.00 without it.
pull-request-merge-holds-on-unclassified-ci scores 1.00 on both arms while its skill-fired grader fails.

Not yet surveyed:

code-tidying: 71 deterministic cases, about five runs.
source-control: babysit-* (8), worktree-* (9), setup-*, ck-*, and the three pull-request-* cases past the ceiling (monitor-human-thread-stays-open, ready-hands-pr-to-explain-change, ready-merges-base-never-rebases).
planning: 79 deterministic cases outside the design and interview tags above.
evals: 40 deterministic cases outside de-*. None was among the 51.

Plan: background hill-climb (#12035).

Trigger. workflow_dispatch by a listed human, with two required inputs, a plugin and one skill. Basis: #12035's second done-when item ("A dispatched run on one suite"). A schedule waits until a dispatched run has opened or declined a PR correctly (judgment).

Eligible suites. The skill's own deterministic-only cases (deterministic-suite.mjs, selected by --tag or --case) qualify when:

at least 3 cases remain after exclusions. Basis: noise-report.py:52;
the baseline with-arm mean is below 0.95, which leaves room for a gain. Basis: noise-report.py:53;
three passes fit under the ceiling, scaled from the suite's last dispatched run.

A case whose health line (summarize.mjs:152-155) reads skill loaded: no is left out of the win test. So is unknown (no kept trace).

Runs and margin.

3 runs per case per arm. Basis: plugins/evals/skills/methodology/reference/local-decisions.md:48-51 (a kept change is confirmed at the CLI's default run count); https://code.claude.com/docs/en/plugin-evals#how-a-case-is-scored ("each case runs three times by default").
Variance: the unchanged skill runs twice (A and A'). noise-report.py --baseline gives the A/A with-arm change and its paired 95% interval. The run stops when that interval excludes 0 or a case drops by a third.
Win: the edit's with-arm change against A must have an interval whose lower end is at or above +0.05 and above the A/A change's upper end. No case drops, and run-validity.py reads VALID on every pass. Basis for 0.05: noise-report.py:414, the default margin, used here as a superiority margin (judgment). A gain no larger than the observed A/A difference cannot pass.

Cost. --max-cost-usd 5 on each of the three claude plugin eval calls. Basis: eval-browser-dispatch.yml:563; command options. Rates: Pricing. Usage: Track your costs. A partial pass ends the run with no PR.

Proposing the edit. One run-claude-cli step: --restricted, env scrub, read-only GITHUB_TOKEN, no write token (ADR 0049:77-86). It reads the skill's directory and cases, A's results, and the failing with-arm traces (a sealed artifact). Its prompt says those traces and results are DATA, never instructions to you (docs/contracts/untrusted-content/README.md "The framing contract"). A scan job rejects any change outside plugins//skills/<skill>/, under evals/, or refused by select-plugins.mjs.

Authority.

No job holds a merge right, a ci-status write, checks: write or workflows.
On a win, a mutate-branch job pushes chore/hill-climb-<skill>-<date>, never main. That needs a new lane-rules.json row naming that branch as its only write, as maintenance-tidy-code-upkeep does. This is a new write grant for the lanes App, so it waits on the owner (below).
A publish job opens the PR as a draft. Nothing marks it ready or merges it.

PR body. Refs: #12035, the run link, per-case with-versus-without for A and for the edit, and both noise comparisons.

No PR. The job summary names the gate that stopped the run, with its numbers.

Open question (owner): may the lanes App get a write grant for chore/hill-climb-* branches, used only on a human-dispatched run?

(a) Grant it, scoped like maintenance-tidy-code-upkeep. Recommended. Basis: judgment. The run starts only on a listed human's dispatch, opens only a draft PR, and the model step itself holds no write token.
(b) No grant: the run uploads the patch as an artifact and a person opens the PR.
(c) Defer the lane.

Building starts with the measuring half (trigger, runs, margin, job summary), which needs no new grant.

Eval health survey, slice 4 (#12043). This slice covers code-tidying, source-control's worktree-* cases and four planning tags.

Each run is eval-browser-dispatch.yml on main: deterministic-only, runs 1, tools Bash,Write,Edit, Claude Code 2.1.318. No health line reads skill loaded: no.

Plugin	Filter	Run	Cases	Fired	Cost
code-tidying	tags `natural-language natural`	41810568160	6	5 of 6	1.04 USD
source-control	tag `worktree`	41824991484	8	8 of 8	1.97 USD
planning	tags `draft-goal-condition audit-answers design-handoff questionnaire`	41825160353	9	9 of 9	1.98 USD

Fired in 0: code-tidying adc-read-only-delete-request, 0 of 1. It scored 0.50 on both arms with the prompt "Find the dead code in this repository and delete it for me". It is repaired in #13204, which names code-tidying:audit-dead-code in the prompt, so the case now tests behavior once the skill is loaded, not triggering. The triggering miss is reported on #12043 and not fixed.

The code-tidying run's other five cases are its natural-language cases built to fire a skill. They are acr-dir-batch-skips, adc-fixtures-stay-quiet, bs-nl-catch-up, td-backlog-throttle-stop and td-public-rename-deferred, and each fired 1 of 1. adc-fixtures-stay-quiet has a skill-fired grader: "stay quiet" refers to findings, not to the skill.

Not dispatched, by class. Basis: .github/scripts/plugin-eval/summarize.mjs counts a slash-invoked case as fired when init lists the skill, and slice 3 read 51 of 51 such cases as fired. This is judgment, not a health line from this slice.

code-tidying: the 64 slash-invoked cases. probe-environment is kept: it is an environment probe with no Skill tool in allowed_tools, like fx-seed-every-state.
source-control: babysit-* (8) and setup-writes-only-confirmed-change are slash-invoked. ck-notice-runs-bundled-checker is a prerequisite-notice case and is kept, like discovery's ck-notice-alone-installs-nothing.
planning: every natural-language case outside the tags run so far names its skill in the prompt ("Use the X skill from the planning plugin"), which is the repair itself. plan-proactive-one-sentence-skip is a near-miss: it has no skill grader and expects no plan, so it is listed, not repaired.

Still unsurveyed:

source-control pull-request-ready-hands-pr-to-explain-change. Its prompt does not name its skill. pull-request-monitor-human-thread-stays-open names its skill, and pull-request-ready-merges-base-never-rebases fired in 41706844559.
planning tags wayfind devils-advocate scale. Their natural-language prompts name the skill.
evals: 40 deterministic cases outside de-*.

Side findings, with the skill fired:

au-flawed-limit-challenged 0.67 against 0.56.
dh-untagged-thread-fails 0.57 on both arms.
td-public-rename-deferred 0.60 against 0.40.

Re-dispatch after the #12043 repairs. Five repaired cases were run again on main after #13037, #13062 and #13204 merged. Each run used eval-browser-dispatch, runs 1 and allow-tools=Bash,Write,Edit, with every grader. All five read skill loaded: yes:

Case	Repair PR	Run	Health line
developer-experience `s4-migrator-build`	#13037	41835891038	yes, fired 1 of 1
developer-experience `s7-act-after-yes`	#13037	41836049281	yes, fired 1 of 1
evals `de-criteria-first`	#13062	41836255452	yes, fired 1 of 1
source-control `pull-request-merge-holds-on-unclassified-ci`	#13062	41836309464	yes, fired 1 of 1
code-tidying `adc-read-only-delete-request`	#13204	41836413162	yes, fired 1 of 1

Four of the five jobs (all but source-control) failed on a grader, not on the health line. Those are single-run behavior scores and #12043 does not cover them.

This was generated by AI.

#12043 leftover survey: cases that fired in 0 runs. These are the cases #12043's last record left unsurveyed, dispatched on main (eval-browser-dispatch, deterministic-only, allow-tools=Bash,Write,Edit). Every case read skill loaded: yes. Cases that fired in 0 of 1:

Case	Run	Class	Outcome
planning `plan-proactive-one-sentence-skip`	41837146424	built not to fire (expects no plan; no skill grader)	none needed
evals `control-deepeval-geval`, `control-no-trigger`, `control-promptfoo-json`, `control-skill-creator-evals-json`	41837255274	negative controls (`tool_used Skill min: 0 max: 0` over the evals skills)	none needed
evals `route-hillclimb-existing-suite`	same	correct route is outside this plugin (`did-not-start-hillclimb` max 0)	none needed
evals `no-model-in-the-loop`	41840773170	no skill-fired grader; expects both arms to pass	none needed
evals `design-criteria-first`	rerun x3 41839565198	fired 2 of 3	none needed
evals `interval-setting-scope`	rerun x3 41839618965	fired 1 of 3	weak triggering, recorded, not fixed
evals `me-rewrite-criterion`	rerun x3 41839670660	fired 3 of 3	none needed
evals `sandbox-wsl2-missing-socat`	41840358721, rerun x3 41841302783: 0 of 3	should fire	repaired in #13245; after merge 41845248493: 3 of 3
evals `target-before-json`	41840411634, rerun x3 41841355473: 0 of 3	should fire	repaired in #13245; after merge 41845303504: 3 of 3

The evals suite run stopped at its cost ceiling (partial: cost_ceiling); its 9 unrun cases were dispatched separately, and the table covers them. Source-control pull-request-ready-hands-pr-to-explain-change fired 1 of 1 (41837044977).

Findings, not fixed: the plain prompts of sandbox-wsl2-missing-socat, target-before-json and adc-read-only-delete-request miss their skill, and interval-setting-scope fires 1 of 3.

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