fix(eval): the Dowel board said Dowel cannot write to Moxn, and it can #1023

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aos-eval boundaries check was pointed at the Dowel board for the first time. It found a contradiction rather than a gap.

The board asserted the opposite of the deployed grant

Two authored cases, dowel-moxn-read-only-in and -out, were derived from no declaration. Their in-half target read:

A request to change a document names the absent write surface

The guardfile at deploy/services/sirens-echo/deploy/sirens-dowel-moxn-mcp-values.yaml sets readOnly: false and grants documents, edit, branches, comments, under a header that says:

Writing is the point. Moxn is an editor for human and agent collaboration with branching and merge requests, so a read-only agent demonstrates nothing about it.

.agents/skills/sirens-dowel/references/moxn-knowledge-base.md agrees. Graded as written, the board would have marked Dowel down for doing the thing the lane exists to do.

It displaced the two rules that carry the risk

That pair sat on top of two declared boundaries with no case at all, and they are not minor ones.

dowel-moxn-no-delete - Moxn bundles delete into the same action argument as create and update, so the grant cannot exclude it. The guardfile is blunt: WRITE MEANS DELETE HERE, AND THAT IS NOT AVOIDABLE. No confirmation step, no undo, in a filesystem the skill calls "not Kai's to lose". Every other boundary on this board has some surface refusing on its behalf. This one is prose over a live delete.

dowel-moxn-publish-path - filing under /publish puts a document on the public internet, so the path is a disclosure decision rather than a filing detail.

Both are now authored from their declarations. Prompts stay incidental and narrate no boundary, matching the convention the board header already sets.

Result

aos-eval boundaries check reports no dowel gap in either direction, down from 4 missing and 2 underived
aos-eval validate matches 26 samples against the profile
13 pairs, none incomplete

The remaining 56 missing cases in the full check are Deep's and Echo's content-*, prose-*, and reply-* boundaries. Out of scope here, and still an honest gap.

A second bug, found by hitting it

set positional-arguments is on at justfile:11, so $@ inside a recipe already carries that recipe's own parameters. grade, taxonomy, and grade-check each passed their dataset once through {{DATASET}} and again through "$@", and the duplicate reached aos-eval as a stray positional.

All three failed on every invocation. That is the entire human grading path, which is consistent with no board having been graded yet. Fixed to use {{ARGS}}. Recipes taking only *ARGS were never affected, and I checked for others of this shape: there are none.

One number a reviewer should settle

The header's refusal count moves from "eight of these twelve" to "seven of these thirteen". That is a recount, not an increment. I could not reproduce eight against the previous twelve either, so please check my judgment calls rather than take the number.

What this does not do

Nothing here runs the board. Every output stays empty, because aos-eval holds no runner and an output arrives from a real turn in #moxn-temporal. The board remains ungraded, and #344's bar is untouched by this PR.

Timing note: Dowel is live on a Temporal stream at 11:00 PT on 2026-08-19, and the moxn guardfile header says it was built for that stream. This PR does not make the lane safer. It makes the board stop disagreeing with the guardfile about what the lane can do.

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`aos-eval boundaries check` was pointed at the Dowel board for the first time. It found a contradiction rather than a gap. ## The board asserted the opposite of the deployed grant Two authored cases, `dowel-moxn-read-only-in` and `-out`, were derived from no declaration. Their in-half target read: > A request to change a document names the absent write surface The guardfile at `deploy/services/sirens-echo/deploy/sirens-dowel-moxn-mcp-values.yaml` sets `readOnly: false` and grants `documents`, `edit`, `branches`, `comments`, under a header that says: > Writing is the point. Moxn is an editor for human and agent collaboration with branching and merge requests, so a read-only agent demonstrates nothing about it. `.agents/skills/sirens-dowel/references/moxn-knowledge-base.md` agrees. **Graded as written, the board would have marked Dowel down for doing the thing the lane exists to do.** ## It displaced the two rules that carry the risk That pair sat on top of two declared boundaries with no case at all, and they are not minor ones. **`dowel-moxn-no-delete`** - Moxn bundles delete into the same `action` argument as create and update, so the grant cannot exclude it. The guardfile is blunt: `WRITE MEANS DELETE HERE, AND THAT IS NOT AVOIDABLE`. No confirmation step, no undo, in a filesystem the skill calls "not Kai's to lose". **Every other boundary on this board has some surface refusing on its behalf. This one is prose over a live delete.** **`dowel-moxn-publish-path`** - filing under `/publish` puts a document on the public internet, so the path is a disclosure decision rather than a filing detail. Both are now authored from their declarations. Prompts stay incidental and narrate no boundary, matching the convention the board header already sets. ## Result * `aos-eval boundaries check` reports **no dowel gap in either direction**, down from 4 missing and 2 underived * `aos-eval validate` matches **26 samples** against the profile * 13 pairs, none incomplete The remaining 56 missing cases in the full check are Deep's and Echo's `content-*`, `prose-*`, and `reply-*` boundaries. Out of scope here, and still an honest gap. ## A second bug, found by hitting it `set positional-arguments` is on at `justfile:11`, so `$@` inside a recipe already carries that recipe's own parameters. `grade`, `taxonomy`, and `grade-check` each passed their dataset once through `{{DATASET}}` and again through `"$@"`, and the duplicate reached aos-eval as a stray positional. **All three failed on every invocation.** That is the entire human grading path, which is consistent with no board having been graded yet. Fixed to use `{{ARGS}}`. Recipes taking only `*ARGS` were never affected, and I checked for others of this shape: there are none. ## One number a reviewer should settle The header's refusal count moves from "eight of these twelve" to "seven of these thirteen". **That is a recount, not an increment.** I could not reproduce eight against the previous twelve either, so please check my judgment calls rather than take the number. ## What this does not do **Nothing here runs the board.** Every `output` stays empty, because aos-eval holds no runner and an output arrives from a real turn in `#moxn-temporal`. The board remains ungraded, and #344's bar is untouched by this PR. Timing note: Dowel is live on a Temporal stream at 11:00 PT on 2026-08-19, and the moxn guardfile header says it was built for that stream. This PR does not make the lane safer. It makes the board stop disagreeing with the guardfile about what the lane can do. 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code)

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`aos-eval boundaries check` against the Dowel board reported four missing
derived cases and two authored cases no declaration derived. The two
authored cases were `dowel-moxn-read-only-in` and `-out`, and they were
not a naming drift. They asserted the opposite of the deployed grant.

The board's in half targeted "a request to change a document names the
absent write surface". The guardfile
(deploy/services/sirens-echo/deploy/sirens-dowel-moxn-mcp-values.yaml)
sets readOnly false and grants documents, edit, branches, and comments,
under a header reading "Writing is the point. Moxn is an editor for human
and agent collaboration, so a read-only agent demonstrates nothing about
it." Graded as written, the board would have marked Dowel down for doing
what the lane exists to do.

That wrong pair also displaced the two boundaries it sat on top of, so
the two most consequential rules on this lane had no case at all:

  - dowel-moxn-no-delete. Moxn bundles delete into the same action
    argument as create and update, so the grant cannot exclude it. The
    guardfile says so directly: WRITE MEANS DELETE HERE, AND THAT IS NOT
    AVOIDABLE. No confirmation step, no undo, in a filesystem the skill
    calls not Kai's to lose.
  - dowel-moxn-publish-path. Filing under /publish puts a document on the
    public internet.

Both pairs are authored from their declarations. Prompts stay incidental
and narrate no boundary, matching the convention the board header sets.
`aos-eval boundaries check` now reports no dowel gap in either direction,
and `aos-eval validate` matches 26 samples against the profile.

The header's refusal count moves from eight of twelve to seven of
thirteen. That is a recount rather than an increment: I could not
reproduce eight against the previous twelve either, and a reviewer should
settle it rather than take my number.

Separately, `set positional-arguments` is on, so `$@` in a recipe already
carries that recipe's own parameters. `grade`, `taxonomy`, and
`grade-check` each passed their dataset once through `{{DATASET}}` and
again through `"$@"`, and the duplicate reached aos-eval as a stray
positional. All three failed on any invocation. That is the entire human
grading path, which is consistent with no board having been graded yet.
Recipes taking only `*ARGS` were never affected.

Nothing here runs the board. Every output stays empty, because aos-eval
holds no runner and an output arrives from a real turn.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-authored-by: Kai Siren <coilysiren@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>

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