workflow-seed-test-data

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Workflow Calls and Todo Bootstrap

Read the registry → workflows.workflow-seed-test-data together with this skill. Call /start-workflow workflow-seed-test-data to resolve the selected mode, pre-actions and fingerprint.

Todo FIRST: before triage, analysis or step execution, create one todo per phase of the selected mode, in order, listing every occurrence of that phase as a line, including conditional/optional ones (a mode that declares no phases gets one todo per occurrence); preserve occurrence IDs, roles and barrier groups. Use native todo tools or an equivalent persistent ledger. Then mark the first todo in_progress; close each step line with its run or skip evidence, and complete a phase todo only when every line is closed and its applicable exit gates hold. Mode selection and registry loading prepare tracking; any 'first action' below means the first substantive action after this bootstrap.

Call each step skill: read its linked SKILL.md and execute its protocol through the active host with the registry args. Reading or naming a skill alone is not execution. Required gates and core/optional flex follow the linked start-workflow Step Execution Protocol; keep this skill's quality gates, loops and evidence requirements.

Conditions: load each occurrence's registry applicability.when and skipReason verbatim, and record its run/skip evidence through the linked start-workflow protocol. Do not silently omit a todo or turn a conditional skill into an unconditional call; close, in one batch at triage, the todos whose condition is already false there. Declared parallel groups retain their all-return barrier.

Explicit step-skill calls by mode (registry order; roles and conditions remain owned by the registry):

• Mode default: /investigate (optional; conditional) → /seed-test-data (core) → /experience-review (optional; conditional) → /changes-review --fix-loop (gate) → /test (gate) → /docs-manager --mode=update (optional; conditional) → /workflow-end (gate) → /watzup (optional; conditional) Phase todos: Discover (1) → Build (1) → Review (2; exit review-converged) → Verify (2; exit tests-pass) → Close (2; exit run-closed)

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Regenerate this block with node .claude/scripts/lib/workflow-skill-contract.cjs --write after registry edits; /sync-codex refreshes it before mirroring.

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Quick Summary

Goal: Add or extend idempotent, command-based seeders that create realistic QC happy-path data for a feature area — environment-gated, count-configurable, restart-safe — proven by tests that ran green in this run, a converged review and, when the data is observable, an inspection of the seeded state itself.

Use this for seeders, dev/QC dummy data and realistic first-init data. Use /seed-test-data --mode=review alone for a read-only seeder audit, and workflow-integration-test / workflow-e2e when the deliverable is a test rather than seeded data.

IMPORTANT MANDATORY Steps: /investigate -> /seed-test-data -> /experience-review -> /changes-review --fix-loop -> /test -> /docs-manager --mode=update -> /workflow-end -> /watzup

Step contract: steps follow /start-workflow → Step Execution Protocol — gate steps always run, a step that runs invokes its Skill tool, and every other deviation is logged. NEVER batch-complete validation gates.

[CRITICAL] Read Project Config Gate: before writing any seeder code, read the seeder context group in docs/project-config.json (for example Data Seeders) and seed-test-data-reference.md in the project-reference docs root (default docs/project-reference/; docsRoots.projectReference.path overrides). A seeder written without the project's base class, env-gate key, count key and DI scope pattern is wrong by construction.

Contents

• Workflow Calls and Todo Bootstrap
• Quick Summary
• Size & Kind Triage (FIRST action)
• Required Quality Gates (non-negotiable)
• Recommended Skills
• Orchestration Freedom
• Memory & Reporting
• Fix Path & Loop Bounds
• Closing Reminders

Size & Kind Triage (FIRST action)

Classify before choosing steps and record the result in the run report:

• Size — XS: enhance one existing seeder (count, one scenario; 1–3 files) · S: new seeder for one feature area · M: several feature areas or seeders · L/XL: seeding across modules/services with a dependency chain of pre-existing data.
• Kind — new / enhance / fix seeder · observable data (a QC/operator sees it through an app, API, CLI or artifact) · cross-module or cross-service commands · seeder that encodes a domain rule (a required precondition, status or relationship).
• Risk — escalate on anything that could run outside development, shared or persistent environments, cross-service data ownership, or ambiguous target counts.

The triage selects which recommended skills run and how deep; it never removes a gate.

Required Quality Gates (non-negotiable)

Gate	Evidence that proves it
Seeder invariants	file:line proof for each: (1) environment gate is the FIRST check — development or config-enabled only, never production; (2) count read from the configured key, never hardcoded (small default; zero → no-op); (3) idempotent — count existing BEFORE seeding and loop from existing_count to target_count, never from 0 (restart-safe); (4) domain entities written only through application-layer commands, never direct repository/DB writes, never duplicated command logic; (5) the project's scoped DI mechanism per iteration, never one scope across iterations
tests-pass	/test ran green in THIS run against the final seeder code, after the review fixes
review-converged	/changes-review --fix-loop over the final diff: validated blocking findings fixed, the fixed state re-reviewed and the review receipt issued
Seeded data observed (when observable)	/experience-review record over the seeded state: OBSERVED / JUDGED / HUMAN-ACCEPTED / UNVERIFIED / ENVIRONMENT-BLOCKED / NOT-APPLICABLE; a seeder exit code is not evidence
Spec/docs synced (when a seeder encodes a domain rule or changes documented dev-data coverage)	The rule lands in the spec (and in tests where testable), never as a seeder-only fix; /docs-manager --mode=update result, or its registry skip reason
run-closed	/workflow-end (top-level only) verifies every gate above

Recommended Skills

Skill	Earns its cost when	Proves / feeds
/investigate (conditional)	Size M or larger, cross-module or cross-service, or conventions and command chain not yet evidenced	Target seeder path (or "none — create new"), 3+ sibling seeders, command signatures, required inputs, validation, side effects, pre-existing data chain
/seed-test-data	Always — it makes the change	Seeder invariants — its self-audit runs the convention checklist; nested here, its own fresh-review loop hands the final review to the gate below
/experience-review (conditional)	The seeded data reaches a configured or likely observable surface	Seeded data observed
/changes-review --fix-loop (gate)	Always — converges the final diff and issues the review receipt	review-converged, seeder-invariant and convention compliance
/test (gate)	Always	tests-pass
/docs-manager --mode=update (conditional)	Seeder configuration keys, a domain rule or documented seed coverage changed	Spec/docs synced
/workflow-end (gate)	Always (top-level run); prints the recap when /watzup does not run	run-closed
/watzup (conditional)	A session report was requested, or several workflows or prompts need one handoff	Consolidated session report

Skipping a recommended skill is fine when triage shows it does no real work; log it as a deviation (intent-skip / when-false) with evidence.

Conditional step note — /investigate runs when (registry, verbatim): The seeder area is size M or larger, cross-module or cross-service, or its conventions and command chain are not already evidenced; the seed-test-data skill still reads three comparable seeders itself. Skip reason (registry, verbatim): A size XS or S seeder in an area whose conventions the seed-test-data skill discovers itself.

Conditional step note — /docs-manager --mode=update runs when (registry, verbatim): Seeder configuration keys, a domain rule or documented seed coverage changed. Skip reason (registry, verbatim): No configuration key, domain rule or documented seed coverage changed.

Conditional step note — /watzup runs when (registry, verbatim): The user asked for a session report or an HTML wrap-up, or the session spanned several workflows or prompts that need one consolidated handoff. Skip reason (registry, verbatim): workflow-end printed the recap, or the short handoff when nothing was built, and every applicable outcome gate passed.

Conditional step note — /experience-review runs when: the seeded data reaches a configured experienceVerification surface whose reviewOn trigger intersects the change, or the seeder creates or changes data a QC/operator actually observes through a running application, API, CLI, or generated artifact; when the latter holds without usable configuration, run the skill and record ENVIRONMENT-BLOCKED — never invent a runner. A relevant surface that cannot be run or inspected is ENVIRONMENT-BLOCKED, never PASS. Skip reason (registry, verbatim): After inspecting docs/project-config.json and the seeder diff, no configured or likely observable surface consumes the seeded data; record NOT-APPLICABLE with evidence citing the inspected paths.

It sits before /changes-review --fix-loop because a seeder's deliverable is observed data: the review proves the seeder obeys the rules, the inspection proves the scenarios are the ones QC needs. No clean-up rewrite follows it, so it observes the final seeder code; a review fix lands under the re-verification rule below. It runs its own bounded remediation loop (--rounds=N, default 3), never rewrites an expectation or acceptance criterion to close a gap, and reports unresolved defects at the cap as NOT-CONVERGED, routed back to /seed-test-data.

Orchestration Freedom

You choose inline vs sub-agent, batching and ordering, optimizing wall-clock and token cost at equal quality. Fixed constraints only: the seeder exists before it is observed, tested or reviewed; convention checks stay in the seeder's self-audit and the /changes-review --fix-loop gate, so no clean-up rewrite runs after the checks that prove the final code; fixes are re-verified after they land; /workflow-end runs last; gates awaiting user approval never run in parallel. Recommended: XS/S inline; M+ one seeder or feature area per batch with one report per batch, ordered by the data dependency chain (prerequisite data first).

Memory & Reporting

• One phase task per phase, one row per selected step (and per seeder batch for M+) so nothing is lost after compaction.
• Write the run report under tmp/reports/ FIRST and append per step and batch; re-read it and TaskList after compaction.
• Sub-agent briefs carry the resolved config/reference paths, make report writing their first deliverable, and return only the summary envelope.

Fix Path & Loop Bounds

Validate each finding (evidence-backed, reproducible) before fixing. A failing test follows the test-investigation protocol before either side changes. Fix at the owning layer: a seeder that violates an invariant is fixed in the seeder; a command that rejects valid inputs or breaks a domain rule is a product defect — trace its root cause and route it, never work around it in the seeder. Re-run the test or reviewer that raised the finding, plus a holistic pass when fixes were non-trivial. Use /plan only when the fix set is large, cross-module or ambiguous.

Review loop: round 1 zero open findings (LOW deferral) converges; round 2 converges on zero CRITICAL/HIGH/MEDIUM with LOWs deferred; cap 3 review rounds; failed checks block and at the three-round cap require explicit user-approved bounded extension; no progress → escalate via ask user question tool.

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Protocol guides — Apply each protocol only when its read-when condition holds. If a protocol's text is not in your context, read its file below before you act on it.

• incremental-persistence — Persist results per file or section while the work proceeds; a sub-agent or heavy step processes more than three files → .claude/skills/shared/protocols/incremental-persistence.md
• session-goal-ledger — Keep the original goal and every user prompt of the session; running a long or multi-prompt session → .claude/skills/shared/protocols/session-goal-ledger.md
• subagent-return-contract — Sub-agents return a structured envelope and a report path, never an inline report; spawning a sub-agent → .claude/skills/shared/protocols/subagent-return-contract.md
• workflow-registry-binding — Read the workflow registry entry and the workflow skill together, since they must agree; executing or editing a workflow → .claude/skills/shared/protocols/workflow-registry-binding.md

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• MANDATORY Session goal ledger per the Task Planning Rules: pin Original goal:, keep User prompts this session: P1…Pn, and map the result to every prompt before claiming done; full text: .claude/skills/shared/protocols/session-goal-ledger.md.

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Closing Reminders

IMPORTANT MUST ATTENTION Goal: idempotent, command-based QC happy-path seeders for a feature area, proven by green tests, a converged review and — when observable — an inspection of the seeded data.

• MUST ATTENTION read the project-config seeder context group and seed-test-data-reference.md BEFORE writing any seeder code; match the project's existing seeder convention exactly.
• MUST ATTENTION environment gate FIRST; count from config; loop from existing_count to target_count, never from 0; scoped DI per iteration.
• MUST ATTENTION NEVER write domain entities through a repository/DB directly — application-layer commands only; a domain rule a seeder encodes belongs in the spec.
• MUST ATTENTION a seeder exit code is not evidence — run /experience-review when the data is observable, record ENVIRONMENT-BLOCKED (never PASS) when it cannot be inspected, and skip only with an evidence-backed NOT-APPLICABLE.
• MUST ATTENTION triage first, write the report under tmp/reports/ first, keep one phase task per phase, one row per selected step; /test and /changes-review always run on the final code and /workflow-end runs last.