Harden code-max production workflow

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• Documentation
  • Clarified production verification guidance, including evidence tracking, review limits, completion gates, and final-diff checks.
  • Refined coding skill instructions with clearer authority boundaries, execution workflows, evidence standards, and reporting expectations.
  • Added research documentation on verification practices, workflow design, safety considerations, behavioral validation, and long-horizon evaluation findings.

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README.md and SKILL.md now define a production-grade, evidence-based coding workflow. A new research document records the findings, validation results, recommendations, and sources supporting the updated contract.

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Production-grade coding skill

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Research and validation record docs/research/production-grade-coding-agent-skill-design.md	Adds research findings, project context, behavioral validation results, uncertainties, recommendations, and cited sources.
Production contract and authority boundary SKILL.md	Defines production-grade outcomes, acceptance evidence, scope resolution, expanded rules, and host-controlled repository instructions.
Execution, verification, and reporting SKILL.md, README.md	Adds execution shapes, proportional review passes, evidence requirements, completion gates, report exceptions, rationalizations, red flags, and the updated review-pass rule.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to bbe8b

The PR strengthens the production workflow, but README.md can still be read as allowing work to stop while a known in-scope defect or acceptance gap remains. The risk is bounded to inconsistent guidance and is mergeable with explicit owner follow-up to align the stopping rule.

Suggested reviewers: mek095

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Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: strengthening the code-max production workflow and its verification requirements.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 0…
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
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In `@docs/research/production-grade-coding-agent-skill-design.md`:
- Line 122: Update the SlopCodeBench v2 entry to match the linked paper’s
reported scope of 36 problems and 196 checkpoints, or change the citation to the
exact version documenting 20 problems and 93 checkpoints.

In `@SKILL.md`:
- Line 61: Update the “Polish” guidance to bound repeated review passes: stop
once the acceptance ledger, applicable checks, and final diff are clean, and
repeat a pass only when the preceding pass changes implementation or proof.
- Line 108: Update the new report-template fenced code block in SKILL.md by
adding an appropriate language tag, such as text, to its opening fence so it
satisfies markdownlint MD040.

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- Line 22: Update the stopping rule in the README’s review-pass guidance to
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Resolved all four validated findings in bbe8b27 and e584ff6. Verified the repository docs check and targeted markdownlint MD040 check; current-head CI is green and all review threads are resolved.