rdr-implement

rdr-implement — Stage 8 (Implement)

Turn the locked RDR into working, spec-verified code — the flow's true terminus. Implementation is the last filter: tests built from the spec prove the design holds, or surface the contract defect that sends it back. Dispatches into the orchestrator prompt launch.md — it does not redefine it. The orchestrator never reads the RDR, source, or test files; phase sub-agents do. Do not loosen those orchestrator rules.

Usage

Codex: $rdr-implement <NNNN>
Claude: /rdr-implement <NNNN>
Codex: $rdr-implement --launch-prompt-path    # print the orchestrator prompt path, then stop
Claude: /rdr-implement --launch-prompt-path   # print the orchestrator prompt path, then stop

--launch-prompt-path — the prompt-location contract (query mode)

A consumer that orchestrates Stage 8 itself (e.g. /rdr-implement-triage) needs launch.md's location but must not hardcode the engine's internal layout. This flag is that contract: the engine owns where its prompt lives and reports it.

Short-circuit — run only rdr-common §seam-bind, then print and stop. Take no RDR argument; run none of the entry-contract gates below (no Final / predecessor / resume checks — nothing is implemented):

# §seam-bind has bound $RDR_HOME (fast path or resolver — see rdr-common)
echo "$RDR_HOME/prompts/implementation/launch.md"

That canonical path is stable even though this skill references launch.md as a sibling symlink. The prompt body still carries {RDR_PATH} / {RDR_RESOURCES} placeholders — the caller fills them per run. If $RDR_HOME is unbound (stale marker) → stopped:no-rdr-flow-home (/rdr-init to refresh).

Entry contract (what Stage 7 must have left true)

Refuse with the named code if any is false (the RDR is not ready — return to /rdr-finalize or /rdr-reconcile):

• Status: Final with the Finalization Gate's five responses in the RDR (stopped:not-final).
• MVV in scope — Phase 1 turns it into REQ-MVV (stopped:mvv-deferred).
• Predecessors COMPLETE — every **Predecessors**: entry's {ARTIFACT_DIR}/status.md reads COMPLETE (stopped:predecessor-incomplete:<id>).

1. Read rdr-common.md; run §seam-bind + §rdr-resolve to bind $RDR_RESOURCES, RDR_PATH, {ARTIFACT_DIR} (= <RDR_RECORDS>/<RDR_SLUG>/artifacts/).
2. Self-detected resume (no flag). launch.md's PRECHECKS read {ARTIFACT_DIR}/status.md; if it names a phase, resume at the next one. A reader returning days later runs the same skill against the same RDR — the on-disk artifacts, not the session, carry state. If status.md already reads COMPLETE, do not re-run — report it (the flow is done; point at Close / post-mortem) rather than re-implementing a finished RDR (stopped:already-complete).
3. Run the orchestrator launch.md with {RDR_PATH} / {RDR_RESOURCES} filled; it writes the artifacts under {ARTIFACT_DIR} (req-list.md, coverage.md, verification.md, deviations.md, status.md).

Gate — terminate or halt (this stage does not "advance")

• status.md == COMPLETE — every REQ-N has ≥1 green test, no coverage orphans, REQ-MVV output recorded, no open needs-author-decision deviations. → Close: set the RDR's terminal status and write the post-mortem (post-mortem/).
• status.md == INCOMPLETE — it names the blocker. A precondition failure is a halt: fix the named condition and re-run; resume picks up at the next phase.
• A contract-level deviation (SPEC-DEFECT, or an unresolvable SPEC-UNDER) — the locked RDR is wrong. Do not edit the RDR or patch the code. Abandon implementation and re-enter the flow at the stage the defect dictates (/rdr-propose / /rdr-refine / /rdr-resolve), re-lock via /rdr-finalize, then re-run this. The flow's only backward edge out of Final, and it is deliberate.

Next step (rdr-common §next-step)

• §commit here is artifact files only (<slug>/{req-list,coverage,verification,deviations,status}.md), if autocommit is on. Code commits stay with the orchestrator's feat(...) contract — §commit never touches source.
• COMPLETE → Close (post-mortem); the flow is done.
• INCOMPLETE → fix the named blocker, re-run /rdr-implement NNNN.
• Spec defect → re-enter the flow at the named stage, then re-lock and re-run.
• /rdr-status NNNN to re-orient.