Five Opus 4.7 self-debugs on v3.0.8 (3 passing, 2 failing runs) converged
on four fixes:
1. Engine refuses Class 1 demographic-shopping queries at main() front-door.
Birthday-gift failure mode becomes structurally impossible - the pipeline
never runs on a doomed query. Exit code 2 with a REFUSE message on stderr
pointing the model to ask for hobbies/relationship/budget. Escape hatch:
LAST30DAYS_SKIP_PREFLIGHT=1 for "just run it" overrides.
2. Delete stale `.agents/skills/last30days/SKILL.md` (1382 lines, April 13
snapshot) and `.hermes-plugin/SKILL.md` (269 lines, April 13 snapshot).
Peter Steinberger's self-debug named the first file as the one it read
instead of the real SKILL.md. One SKILL.md per plugin, at the plugin root.
Sync script simplified: Hermes now always uses main SKILL.md.
3. render_compact() appends an explicit END-OF-CANONICAL-OUTPUT boundary
with pass-through instruction. The model had the canonical body in its
buffer on the Peter run and discarded it; the boundary makes pass-through
the path of least resistance.
4. LAW 1 gains a verbatim-pattern override clause naming the exact WebSearch
tool-result reminder ("CRITICAL REQUIREMENT: MUST include Sources:
section") that caused Peter's trailing Sources leak. No more ambiguity
at synthesis time.
Tests: tests/test_preflight.py, 29 scenarios covering Class 1 matches
(birthday gift, best-for-demographic, what-to-buy-relationship), qualifier
skips (budget, hobbies, activity after year-old), and the REFUSE message
shape.
Validation gate before merging to main: re-run the 5 debug topics
(Peter Steinberger, birthday gift for 40 year old, Kanye West, Garry Tan,
OpenClaw vs Paperclip vs Hermes) on v3.0.9 and confirm 5/5 canonical
compliance. Rollback to v3.0.8 if any previously-passing topic regresses.
Plan: docs/plans/2026-04-18-015-fix-engine-refuse-keyword-traps-delete-stale-skillmd-files-plan.md
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Makes the `variants/open/` sync steps in `scripts/sync.sh` conditional on
the directory actually existing in the source tree. The script is shared
between the public and private repos of last30days-skill, but the OpenClaw
variant only lives in the private repo (it's sanitized via
`strip_for_openclaw.py` and published separately to ClawhHub). When the
script runs from a checkout of the public repo, the variants/open paths
don't exist and the unconditional `rsync` and `sync_target` calls error
out immediately.
Changes:
- `sync_target()` now only creates `variants/open/references` and rsyncs
`variants/open/` when `$SRC/variants/open` exists.
- The trailing `sync_target "$OPENCLAW_TARGET" ...` call is now gated by
the same check, with an explanatory skip message when the directory is
absent.
No behavior change when running from the private repo (which has
`variants/open/`). When running from the public repo, the script now
completes its COMMON_TARGETS loop without erroring.
This also closes out the confusion from PR #211, where a contributor saw
the broken `variants/open/` reference and tried to add the variant back
to the public repo. The real fix was making the script tolerate the
absence, not recreating the directory.
Co-authored-by: Matt Van Horn <455140+mvanhorn@users.noreply.github.com>
- Xiaohongshu search via local MCP service (opt-in, zero impact if service not running)
- Reddit public JSON fallback (works with zero API keys)
- Reddit priority: ScrapeCreators -> OpenAI -> public fallback
- Updated env.py: Reddit always available via public fallback
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Add CROSS to sync targets with sed-patched name/version/description
- Switch cp to rsync to handle identical file edge case on APFS
- CROSS SKILL.md gets last30daysCROSS skill root injected into search path
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The `from . import bird_x` in __init__.py caused ImportError for all
other module imports (youtube_yt, render, etc.) when bird_x had issues,
crashing the entire script in Codex. Making it a bare package marker
lets Python resolve `from lib import X` normally.
Added scripts/sync.sh to deploy to all three skill locations
(~/.claude, ~/.agents, ~/.codex) with import verification.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Matt Van Horn