Plan: COBOL RED experiment (S2) — handoff for the next team

Delivered as is from a prior seat session (BLUE). This is a handoff, not a finished plan. Five items are marked MISSING; resolve them before the experiment runs. Start here.

Where the inputs live

The three sources and the drafted template exist on branch claude/init-o21t3o (draft PR #10), not yet on main. Merge that PR, or work from the branch, before binding.

• Source A: v1.2 fossil — _historical/spectrum-plan-v1.2.md
• Source B: v1.6 canonical — spectrum-plan-v1.6.md
• Source C: HOUSE-STYLE v2.0 — HOUSE-STYLE.md
• RED template (drafted, PROPOSAL) — docs/red/red-template-cobol-viz.html
• S2 package — docs/yellow/subcontract-s2-cobol-yellow-package.html

Design — from the S2 package

• One YELLOW Claude Code seat, N=3, spawns three RED runs.
• One source-agnostic RED template. The source is a bound slot.
• Run A binds A. Run B binds B. Run C binds C.
• Two signals per run: compile log, run output. Six channels, plus the diffs.
• A→B diff: the restored Reason. B→C diff: plan against style.

Seatings required — each states clearance, capabilities, N, escalation route

• YELLOW seat — MISSING: who spawns it, and its escalation route.
• RED ×3 — MISSING: the three seating messages, each with a source path and an output name.
• Auditor seat — MISSING: clearance, count, channel. Open in S2, never resolved.

Preconditions — none met

• RED template freeze at GREEN — MISSING: the template is a PROPOSAL.
• A COBOL compiler — MISSING: cobc was absent from the authoring environment. Confirm cobc in the run target.
• Scribe write-protected record — MISSING: establish before the first exchange.

Signals and scoring — defined

• Compile and run are separate signals (R2). A clean compile that crashes is data.
• Spawn-cap test: refuse the fourth RED at N+1 and log the refusal.
• Verdict routing: to Teacherbot-GREEN until a parent Implementor is seated (R5).

The five gaps that block a freeze-to-execute

1. The auditor seat definition.
2. The YELLOW and RED escalation routes.
3. The RED template GREEN freeze.
4. A confirmed cobc in the run target.
5. Co-locate the three sources, or leave v1.2 in _historical/ and v1.6 at root?

Start with draft PR #10 or branch claude/init-o21t3o, then read _historical/spectrum-plan-v1.2.md, spectrum-plan-v1.6.md, HOUSE-STYLE.md, the RED template, and the S2 package. Resolve the five listed gaps, including the auditor and escalation definitions, template freeze, cobc confirmation, write-protected record, and source placement, so the package can freeze for execution.