Composed sources outside the twenty renamed ones still name retired seats in their prose #1223

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opened 2026-08-23 21:24:59 +00:00 by coilyco-ops · 0 comments

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Filed while landing the v3 roster reflow (#1222), which fixed this inside the twenty sources it renamed and stopped there.

What is stale

The reflow rewrote acting-seat prose inside the twenty moved sources: 223 replacements, so Use when ops diagnoses became Use when sysadmin diagnoses and CEO activates this workflow became TPM activates this workflow. It also fixed two cross-seat handoffs it happened to surface, in tooling-devrel-signal-routing (routes to ops and routes to engineering) and tooling-eval-visual-verification (designer judgment).

It did not sweep the other 52 composed sources or the ordinary skills. A scan for retired seat words across .agents/composed/ and .agents/skills/ returns roughly 169 candidate sites.

Why it was left

Most of those 169 are false positives, and a blanket rename would damage them. The distinction that matters:

Acting seat - QA identifies, CEO owns, routes to ops. Stale, and worth fixing, because the skill instructs a seat that no longer exists.
Generic industry prose - the kind of experienced PM, design lead, or strategy peer, If one idea excites the PM. Correct as written. Rewriting these to tpm makes them wrong.

tooling-tpm-product-brainstorming is the clean example of the second kind and was deliberately skipped. aosguard ops is a third case: an operator verb that merely looks like the retired slug.

So this needs a per-occurrence read rather than a regex, which is why it is an issue rather than another commit on the reflow.

What closing this looks like

Walk the candidate sites, apply the acting-seat rename where the subject is a seat, and leave generic prose alone. Worth doing in one editorial pass so the judgement stays consistent across sources.

Nothing is broken by this. A stale seat word is comprehensible framing rather than a resolution failure, since role selection never reads prose.

Filed while landing the v3 roster reflow (#1222), which fixed this inside the twenty sources it renamed and stopped there. ## What is stale The reflow rewrote acting-seat prose inside the twenty moved sources: 223 replacements, so `Use when ops diagnoses` became `Use when sysadmin diagnoses` and `CEO activates this workflow` became `TPM activates this workflow`. It also fixed two cross-seat handoffs it happened to surface, in `tooling-devrel-signal-routing` (`routes to ops` and `routes to engineering`) and `tooling-eval-visual-verification` (`designer judgment`). It did not sweep the other 52 composed sources or the ordinary skills. A scan for retired seat words across `.agents/composed/` and `.agents/skills/` returns roughly 169 candidate sites. ## Why it was left Most of those 169 are false positives, and a blanket rename would damage them. The distinction that matters: * **Acting seat** - `QA identifies`, `CEO owns`, `routes to ops`. Stale, and worth fixing, because the skill instructs a seat that no longer exists. * **Generic industry prose** - `the kind of experienced PM, design lead, or strategy peer`, `If one idea excites the PM`. Correct as written. Rewriting these to `tpm` makes them wrong. `tooling-tpm-product-brainstorming` is the clean example of the second kind and was deliberately skipped. `aosguard ops` is a third case: an operator verb that merely looks like the retired slug. So this needs a per-occurrence read rather than a regex, which is why it is an issue rather than another commit on the reflow. ## What closing this looks like Walk the candidate sites, apply the acting-seat rename where the subject is a seat, and leave generic prose alone. Worth doing in one editorial pass so the judgement stays consistent across sources. Nothing is broken by this. A stale seat word is comprehensible framing rather than a resolution failure, since role selection never reads prose.

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