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Merge the two independent 2026-09-05 drafts under history/ into a single normative specification at spec/PqrstEstimationPractice.md (v0.1). Where the sources diverged on the canonical result format, the block/ signature record is adopted as the source of truth and the per-dimension table is retained as an optional presentation form; recorded in the spec's version history. Two rules the sources implied but did not state are added: confidence stays outside the 5-tuple (R9), and no sixth dimension may be introduced (R10). Add PqrstPrompt.md in the root as the canonical end-of-session prompt, pairing the fuller rule list with the strict fixed output block. Add INTENT.md and SCOPE.md framing the repo as the means of closing agentic coding sessions: why the practice exists, its anti-goals, and the boundary that this is a specification-and-prompt repo only — no tooling, storage, harness integration, scoring, or empirical validation. Source drafts under history/ are retained unmodified and are append-only. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SQ6oF1DtVDKcD1FCpvRVLx Assistant: claude-code Assistant-Model: opus Assistant-Process: 272883@bnt-lap001 Assistant-Session: f40c8f53-fb65-4980-9d29-bcdb3dd946f7
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# Scope
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This repository provides the means of **closing agentic coding sessions** using the PQRST estimation practice. It is a specification-and-prompt repository. It defines the practice, supplies the artifacts needed to perform it, and stops there.
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See [`INTENT.md`](INTENT.md) for why.
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---
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## In scope
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### 1. The specification
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`spec/PqrstEstimationPractice.md` — the normative definition of PQRST: the five dimensions, the estimation rules, the collection point, the canonical result formats, validation constraints, derived views, the pattern catalog, and the practice rules. Versioned; currently **0.1**.
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### 2. The closing prompt
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`PqrstPrompt.md` — the canonical end-of-session prompt, kept in the repository root so it is trivially reachable at the moment a session ends. Includes the optional add-ons and the accept/reject checklist.
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### 3. Record formats
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The stored block record, the compact signature line, the optional human-readable table, and the optional YAML form — including the validation rules that make a record well-formed.
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### 4. Interpretation guidance
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Derived views (`P+Q`, `R+S+T`), example signatures, the pattern catalog, and correlation ideas — all as hypotheses for qualitative review, never as automatic conclusions.
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### 5. Provenance
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`history/` — the source drafts from which a specification version was consolidated, retained unmodified. New drafts are added; existing ones are not edited.
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## Out of scope
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### Tooling and automation
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No collectors, parsers, validators, CLIs, linters, hooks, dashboards, or storage backends live here. The record format is specified precisely enough that such tools can be built — **elsewhere**. A reference validator may be reconsidered for a later version; it is not a commitment.
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### Session storage
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This repository defines what a record looks like. It does not hold anyone's records, prescribe a database, or specify a schema for a session corpus.
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### Integration with any particular agent or harness
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PQRST is deliberately agent-agnostic and model-agnostic. Wiring it into a specific harness, plugin, skill, or CI pipeline belongs to that harness's own repository.
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### Scoring, benchmarking, and evaluation
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No thresholds, no healthy-profile templates, no grading, no leaderboards, no comparison of agents or models on PQRST values. This is excluded on principle, not for lack of time — see [`INTENT.md`](INTENT.md).
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### Prospective planning
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No effort budgets, no target allocations, no pre-session PQRST plans.
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### Extending the model
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The acronym is closed at five letters. Proposals for a sixth dimension are out of scope. Proposals to expand an existing letter into subdimensions, or to add companion fields *outside* the 5-tuple (task type, outcome, cost, module id), are in scope for a future version.
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### Empirical validation
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This repository does not claim, and does not attempt to establish, that PQRST estimates are accurate, reproducible across estimators, or predictive of outcomes. The practice is offered as a structured judgment. Studying whether it holds up is legitimate work — it is not this repository's work.
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## Boundaries and invariants
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These hold across all versions:
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1. **Exactly five dimensions**, named P, Q, R, S, T, with stable meanings.
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2. **Retrospective only.** Nothing here is ever to be used as a planning target.
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3. **Records are auditable.** A signature is never published without its evidence.
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4. **Local files are the source of truth.** The specification governs; anything generated from it follows.
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5. **`history/` is append-only.**
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## Repository layout
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INTENT.md why this practice exists and what it must not become
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SCOPE.md this file
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PqrstPrompt.md the canonical end-of-session prompt
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README.md one-line orientation
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spec/
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PqrstEstimationPractice.md the specification (v0.1)
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history/
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20260905-*_chatgpt.md source draft, retained unmodified
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20260905-*_grok.md source draft, retained unmodified
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```
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## Change process
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- The specification is versioned. Substantive changes increment the version and record a line in its Appendix B version history.
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- Changes that alter the meaning of a dimension, the validation rules, or the stored record format are **breaking**: they make older records less comparable, and must say so explicitly.
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- Editorial changes — clarification, examples, wording — do not require a version bump.
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- Source drafts in `history/` are never edited, only added to.
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