dev_agent_team/memory/failures/2026-09-12-path-resolution-t01-anchor-gap.md

Failure: orchestrator compression anchor matrix omitted test-path-resolution T01 canonical runtime sentence

• Date: 2026-09-12
• Project: dev_agent_team
• What happened: The semantic-compression refactor of agents/orchestrator.md extracted the canonical runtime sentence's second/third clauses (Runtime-owned artifacts live under ..., Project-scoped artifacts (...) stay relative to this project.) to docs/OPERATIONS_REFERENCE.md:31, leaving only the first clause in orchestrator.md:93. scripts/test-path-resolution.sh T01 greps agents/*.md for the FULL byte-exact sentence, so it failed (missing: orchestrator.md), making bash scripts/test-all.sh 7/8.
• Root cause: The Architect decision C anchor matrix enumerated 62 test anchors (T01–T17 fixed, sibling suites) but did NOT include test-path-resolution T01's canonical runtime sentence as a load-bearing byte string, even though it is asserted against agents/*.md by a different suite (the compression scope listed test-agent-architecture T01–T09/T13–T15/T17, test-integration I06–I08/I11/I12, memory T08/T09, repo T05 — path-resolution T01 was not among the enumerated exercising suites).
• Prevention: When compressing any agents/*.md prompt, first enumerate ALL grep -qF byte strings asserted against that file across ALL test suites (including test-path-resolution, test-install, test-runtime), not only the suites the brief names. Verify test-path-resolution T01 stays green pre-commit.
• Status: closed 2026-09-12 — full byte-exact canonical sentence restored at orchestrator.md:93; test-path-resolution T01 PASS; test-all.sh 8/8 (105 checks). Lesson for future compression tasks: enumerate ALL grep-asserted byte strings across ALL suites before extraction.