[dmccoystephenson]

Summary

• The Step 4 COMPILE_CMD and LINT_CMD rows are reworded to drop the count words ("both places", "in both") and instead say "everywhere {{COMPILE_CMD}} appears" / "everywhere {{LINT_CMD}} appears", matching the form the TEST_CMD row took in Enumerate all three TEST_CMD substitution sites in the Step 4 row #151. This is option 1 from the issue.
• Both rows were accurate today: the template body has exactly two occurrences of each token (lines 289/580 and 291/582 — the Phase 3 verify block and the Phase 8 rebase fence). The change removes the stated number so a future PR adding a third site does not leave the row contradicting the template, which is how the TEST_CMD row drifted after Require unique scratch filenames and define the structurally-red-anchor path #121.
• Option 2 (a mechanical <!-- sites: N --> check in scripts/check_docs.py) was not taken: it introduces a new table convention that is a maintainer decision, and scripts/check_docs.py is on this loop's do-not-auto-merge list. The parenthetical site lists can still go stale; only option 2 would catch that class.

Closes #152

Research grounding

No RESEARCH.md finding applies. This is a documentation-accuracy rewording with no empirical claim behind it, as the issue itself states.

Doc sync check

• Every {{placeholder}} added or changed has a corresponding Step 4 substitution-table row — no placeholders were added or removed; python3 scripts/check_docs.py passes.

README.md is unaffected (no Step added, removed, or renamed). No finding is shipped, so no RESEARCH.md entry is needed.

Test plan

• python3 scripts/check_docs.py — "Doc consistency check passed."
• python3 -m unittest discover -s tests — Ran 13 tests, OK
• Occurrence counts of {{COMPILE_CMD}} and {{LINT_CMD}} in the template body re-confirmed (two each)
• /create-dev-loop behavioral run — not performed. The change edits Step 4 instruction prose only; no template-body text, placeholder, or Step 3/5/6 path is touched, and the instruction's meaning for the current template is unchanged. The behavioral half is UNVERIFIED in the ordinary sense for this repo.

Skipped issues (recorded per Phase 1)

• CLAUDE.md still links gardener under the old dmccoystephenson owner #106, RESEARCH.md Implementations entries record a ship date that is unknowable when the entry is written #128 — require an edit to CLAUDE.md, which is harness-blocked in this loop and needs separate maintainer authorization.
• [self-audit] The repo's own validation anchor is structurally unrunnable in a headless dispatch, so template changes can never merge autonomously #109, Unverified: whether an in-checkout .worktrees/ survives gardener's refresh (git clean -fdx) #114, Phase 4 verifies backward 'Closes #N' references but not forward 'a follow-up issue has been filed' promises #133, Phase 5's read-only 'gh api .../pulls/<n>/comments --jq' is refused by the attribution hook as an unsigned post #135, Upstream COMMANDS.md is trusted as source, but it can disagree with the command class it documents #141, A blanket merge pre-authorization does not resolve a do-not-auto-merge path match, and Phase 8 does not say so #142, Stage A sweeps fix the instances named, not the class — and a prose grep is treated as a CI-strength anchor #143, grep is not on tend's allow-list, so generated validation checklists and verify-by-removal assertions cannot run headlessly #127 — observations about how the loop or gardener behaves headlessly; fixes belong in the skill repo or gardener, or need a human-run anchor.
• Phase 4's rubric scores the diff only, so PR-description obligations like CLAUDE.md's retrofit note go unchecked #120–Negated closing keywords in PR bodies still auto-close issues #125, An approval-gated CI run reads as 'no checks reported', which is neither the green nor the red Phases 1 and 4 branch on #129–Test the mechanism, not the stochastic outcome, when a mock cannot exercise an acceptance criterion #131, Tests-fix has no path for a scope-blind anchor, only for an anchor that cannot run #140, Phase 1 triage never checks whether the default branch's own CI is green #144–Phase 5: compress the review wait for a single autonomous run with no reviewer assigned or requested #150 (template-rule) — each proposes a new rule in the template body, which has no automated test and would need a real /create-dev-loop validation run this headless session cannot perform. A fully verifiable documentation fix ranked higher on the Phase 2 tiebreaker.

This PR description was drafted during a Gardener session (https://github.com/Stephenson-Software/gardener).

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drafted by Claude on behalf of Daniel Stephenson

[dmccoystephenson]

Self-review rubric (Phase 4, performed inline — no independent reviewer was available in this headless dispatch; Copilot reviewer request failed with "Could not resolve user with login 'copilot'"):

• Scope: PASS — one file, two table rows in Step 4 (create-dev-loop.md:624, :626); no other hunks.
• Tests-new: PASS (n/a) — no function added or changed.
• Tests-fix: PASS (n/a) — no behavior changed. Both rows were accurate before the change (two occurrences each of {{COMPILE_CMD}} and {{LINT_CMD}} in the template body, at lines 289/580 and 291/582); only the count words were removed, so no FAIL→PASS experiment exists to run.
• Sibling structure: PASS — no new files.
• Sibling renames: PASS — the two sibling rows are reworded together, in the same form the TEST_CMD row took in Enumerate all three TEST_CMD substitution sites in the Step 4 row #151.
• Docs: PASS — a repo-wide search for "both places" / "in both" finds no remaining restatement in README, CONTRIBUTING, or the GitHub templates.
• Issue resolution: PASS — Step 4's COMPILE_CMD and LINT_CMD rows state a site count in prose that nothing checks #152's option 1 is fully implemented; option 2 is explicitly declined in the PR body with its reason.
• CI: PASS — doc-consistency green on the PR head.
• Placeholder parity: PASS — check_docs.py reports "Doc consistency check passed."; no placeholder added or removed.
• README Step parity: PASS (n/a) — no Step changed.
• Fence escaping: PASS (n/a) — no fence added.
• Phase numbering: PASS — no phase renumbered.
• Version comments: PASS (n/a) — header untouched.
• Research grounding: PASS — PR body states that no finding applies.
• No back-ported specifics: PASS — no repo-specific command, name, or prefix added.
• gardener interface: PASS (n/a) — Steps 3/5/6 untouched.
• Retrofit note: PASS (n/a) — no rule promoted; generated skills receive identical text.
• Behavioral validation: UNVERIFIED — no /create-dev-loop run was performed. The edit is to Step 4 instruction prose whose meaning for the current template is unchanged, so the risk is judged low.

Out-of-diff observation: the parenthetical site lists in all three rows (COMPILE_CMD, TEST_CMD, LINT_CMD) can still go stale when a site is added; only the mechanical check in #152's option 2 would catch that class.

This review comment was drafted during a Gardener session (https://github.com/Stephenson-Software/gardener).

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drafted by Claude on behalf of Daniel Stephenson

[dmccoystephenson]

Merge-readiness status:

• doc-consistency is green on the PR head. Locally, python3 scripts/check_docs.py reports "Doc consistency check passed." and python3 -m unittest discover -s tests ran 13 tests, OK.
• Do-not-auto-merge paths: none matched. Only create-dev-loop.md changed (Step 4 prose), and Steps 3/5/6 were not touched.

The PR is left open, not merged, the same way #151 was. The change edits create-dev-loop.md's Steps. For that kind of change, the Behavioral-validation rubric item needs either a named /create-dev-loop run, or UNVERIFIED plus no auto-merge. A headless session cannot do that run, because Step 6 creates a GitHub repo and Steps 3/5 write outside the checkout. #109 tracks this structural gap. A maintainer merge should be low-risk: generated skills receive the same text as before for the current template.

This comment was drafted during a Gardener session (https://github.com/Stephenson-Software/gardener).

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drafted by Claude on behalf of Daniel Stephenson