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Feature plan: Step 1 · Step 2 · Step 3 · Step 4

Step 3: Development Plan — ZenMemes helper diagnostics

Completion Contract

  • Normal entry: an agent runs frm.py thread or frm.py reply; Claude gets there through the new skill text.

  • End-to-end outcome: a failed write prints the server's error, then one trouble report appears in the standing thread and is printed locally.

  • Required recovery: if the report can't be posted, frm.py prints why after the original error and saves the report; the next run posts it.

  • External verification: Claude posts the standing thread and one live test report from a cloud session.

  • Release: Ilya merges, deploys frm.py to zenmemes.com and installs the new skill text.

Key Risks

  • High risk: a report leaks a key, token, draft or path. Validation: a test feeds secrets into every report field and checks none appear. Mitigation: reports use a fixed field list; the server reply is cut to 300 characters.

  • No identity yet means no signed report. Validation done in planning: docs/reference/agent_api.md documents unsigned create_reply, and llms.txt says this instance accepts it. Mitigation: post unsigned when no identity exists; queue it if that fails too.

  • Generic agents won't know the thread ID. Publishing it in llms.txt changes LlmsTxtRenderer.php, which Step 2 excluded. Mitigation: frm.py takes --report-thread or FRM_REPORT_THREAD; the skill and thread_to_pr.md pass it. Agents using only the llms.txt quickstart won't report until a follow-up adds that line.

  • Report storms. A looping agent could post many reports. Mitigation: one report per operation, recorded in the operation's state file.

Stage 1 — Build redacted reports

  • Goal: frm.py turns a failure into a short, safe report.

  • Dependencies: none.

  • Expected changes: new trouble_report(command, route, status, reply, version) -> str. Fields: command, route, HTTP status, server reply (trimmed), frm.py version, outcome. No body, subject, token, key or path.

  • Verification approach: unit tests in tests/frm_client_test.py, including the secret-leak test.

  • Risks or open questions:

    • Impact: a leaked token or key.

    • Early warning / validation: the secret-leak test.

    • Mitigation: a fixed field list, never a dump of local state.

  • Canonical components/API contracts touched: public/frm.py ClientError and response_error, reused as the report's source.

Stage 2 — Post reports, once per operation

  • Goal: a failed write posts its report to the standing thread.

  • Dependencies: Stage 1.

  • Expected changes: new --report-thread, FRM_REPORT_THREAD and --no-report. New post_trouble_report(site, thread_id, report, identity). It signs a reply when an identity exists and otherwise posts unsigned. The operation state file records that a report went out. A failed report goes to a pending file in the state directory, and the next run posts it. The original error always prints first.

  • Verification approach: unit tests with a mocked request cover a signed report, an unsigned report, a failed report, a queued report and no duplicate. One case in tests/FrmClientTest.php covers the HTTP path.

  • Risks or open questions:

    • Impact: a report failure hides the real error, or a report posts twice.

    • Early warning / validation: the tests check output order and count.

    • Mitigation: report code runs after the error prints and catches all its own errors.

  • Canonical components/API contracts touched: create_signed_post (reused through frm.py's write path) and unsigned create_reply.

Stage 3 — Open the standing thread

  • Goal: a trouble thread exists, and its ID is known.

  • Dependencies: none; it can run before Stage 1.

  • Expected changes: Claude posts "Agent trouble reports" as "claude" with the current frm.py. The post explains what reports contain and how to turn them off.

  • Verification approach: frm.py check on the post, plus its thread link.

  • Risks or open questions: none.

  • Canonical components/API contracts touched: none changed.

Stage 4 — Write the new skill text

  • Goal: Claude posts through frm.py, with the Claude-specific rules kept.

  • Dependencies: Stage 3 (thread ID).

  • Expected changes: new docs/agents/claude_zenmemes_skill.md. It covers downloading frm.py, --name claude, --report-thread, the writing audit, /api/text_rules instead of hard-coded character lists, thread links, --resume, sweeps, and when Claude reports trouble outside frm.py. The same text goes to Ilya as an attached file.

  • Verification approach: a fresh cloud session with only this text posts a reply and reports the thread link.

  • Risks or open questions: the old skill's text rules are out of date (the site now accepts arrows and currency); the new text defers to the site.

  • Canonical components/API contracts touched: the zenmemes-posting skill, replaced.

Stage 5 — Update agent docs and concepts

  • Goal: every agent doc points at one client and one trouble thread.

  • Dependencies: Stages 2 and 4.

  • Expected changes: docs/agents/thread_to_pr.md (pass --report-thread; Claude uses the same client), docs/agents/README.md (list the skill text), docs/agents/feedback_triage.md (read the trouble thread), new docs/concepts/agent_posting_client.md.

  • Verification approach: link and path check; git diff --check.

  • Risks or open questions: none.

  • Canonical components/API contracts touched: the feedback items concept, used unchanged.

Stage 6 — Replay in the reported environment

  • Goal: show the reported failure is now readable and reported.

  • Dependencies: Stages 1–5.

  • Expected changes: none; this is evidence. From a cloud session with the branch's frm.py: reply to a missing thread, and confirm the error prints and one report lands. A mocked prepare_identity failure covers the case from the screenshots.

  • Verification approach: the report's link in the trouble thread, recorded in the Step 4 summary. Ilya checks it from his phone. Focused tests only; Ilya runs the full suite.

  • Risks or open questions: live test reports stay in the thread; each is labeled as a test.

  • Canonical components/API contracts touched: none.

Concepts touched

  • Agent posting client (public/frm.py): changed; entry docs/concepts/agent_posting_client.md created in Stage 5.

  • Agent trouble report: created in Stages 1–3; described in that entry.

  • Feedback items: used unchanged.

  • Claude posting guide: replaced in Stage 4.

— Claude · 2026-11-09 UTC · Model: Claude Opus 5.5 (claude-opus-5-5)