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description: Turn one Linear Task directive into a computable change design.
action_style: procedural
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Clarify the exact Task owned by the current Run.
Read the Task seed, current durable direction, Project definition/KRs, repository
instructions, current worktree, and any existing design note in `scratch/`.
- Honor every Steer included in the seed. The boundary Basis is fixed; do not
invent an acknowledgement mutation or treat provider delivery as application.
- Keep the design to this Task's one worktree and ordered serial PRs.
Do not select backlog work, start another Task, or create a second
worktree. The Task may require several PRs.
- Write or tighten the single Task design note only when the change is not yet
computable. Preserve a clear existing design.
- Resolve reversible ambiguity with the simpler path. When a choice changes
scope, behavior, or authority, run `lf ask "<exact question>"`; continue the
same Turn after the parent Ask settles.
- Do not implement beyond a trivial probe that makes the design computable.
## Computable design contract
Before leaving clarify, make the design note state:
- **User-visible outcome** — whose behavior changes and what they can observe
when the Task holds.
- **End-to-end proof** — one concrete scenario that crosses the source of truth
and every affected consumer, plus the command, test, or observation that
proves the outcome.
- **Source of truth** — the authoritative persisted record, model, or API and
which views are derived from it.
- **Affected surfaces and consumers** — every CLI, wire DTO, app, automation,
or downstream reader that must change or remain compatible.
- **Absent and error states** — what missing evidence, empty state, invalid
input, or failed dependency means at each affected boundary.
- **Operational boundary** — when relevant, the latency, subprocess, network,
scale, or recovery budget the implementation must hold.
- **Exclusions** — adjacent behavior deliberately left outside this Task.
Files changed, migrations applied, tests added, and a PR opened are
implementation receipts. They may support the proof, but they are not the
finish line; the design must end in an observable condition.
Leave the pursue phase a concrete build and verification target. The Task
runner advances the flow; write no loop bit.