Sync Boatstack from Intelligence Flow Labs @ bf68921a54fd

Author: operator-stack-publisher[bot]

CONTRIBUTING.md

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 # Contributing
 
-Boatstack is a generated content distribution. Propose changes to workflow semantics, templates, evidence rules, or generated presentation in [Intelligence Flow](https://github.com/operatorstack/intelligence-flow/tree/e37b56904acfc2a70bcc91139521ced8dd3e6051/labs/12-product-engineering-loop).
+Boatstack is a generated content distribution. Propose changes to workflow semantics, templates, evidence rules, or generated presentation in [Intelligence Flow](https://github.com/operatorstack/intelligence-flow/tree/bf68921a54fdb3139401ce4a91241c799887e5b6/labs/12-product-engineering-loop).
 
 The Boatstack repository receives product/runtime changes through a generated pull request. Review the PR's `UPSTREAM.json`, tests, adapter diff, and context-size change; do not hand-edit generated output on `main`. `.github/workflows` is the exception: it is Boatstack's executable control plane, excluded from scheduled projection and changed only through a separate manually reviewed Boatstack PR.
 

README.md

@@ -57,6 +57,8 @@ When coding agents or developers encounter a bug, they instinctively patch the l
 
 When you ask for a fix during `/auto-plan`, Boatstack actively scans your codebase to determine if the bug is a symptom of a missing systemic boundary. Instead of silently patching the symptom, it pauses and asks if you want to establish a programmatic lock (like a database trigger or strict validator).
 
+For a bug you want diagnosed first, run `/root-cause <symptom-or-log>` (paste a stack trace, error, or failing signal). It is strictly read-only: it locates the failure below its surface symptom, names the failure *class*, traces a cited root-cause chain, maps the blast radius, and proposes the structural change that eliminates the whole class. It ends by producing a source plan you save and hand to `/auto-plan --plan <path>` — the diagnostic front door to the plan gate.
+
 By turning one-off bug fixes into systemic constraints, your codebase gets safer with every agent run. Boatstack requires a negative test to prove the new lock is impenetrable. Upon publication, it extracts that verified boundary into the repository's global memory, ensuring all future agent runs are strictly bound by the new law of physics.
 
 ## Install with your coding agent

UPSTREAM.json

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boatstack/SKILL.md

@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ Map the request to one operation:
 - `init`: inspect a repository and create or update `.product-loop/project.json`.
 - `next`: report the verified current stage and exactly one next action without changing workflow or repository state.
 - `run`: drive the verified feature through every delivery slice and PR publication, pausing at approval, product-decision, and publication boundaries.
+- `root-cause`: read-only failure-mode-elimination diagnosis of a bug — classify the failure class below its symptom, produce a cited root-cause chain, and hand a class-eliminating source plan to `auto-plan`; never edits code or advances a gate.
 - `auto-plan`: refine a saved host Plan-mode file into a reviewable draft feature package; refuse when that file is absent.
 - `plan-gate`: validate the Markdown draft, present it for explicit human acceptance, and record that acceptance in Markdown.
 - `build`: activate the approved Markdown plan, then implement only the active delivery slice's tasks.