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Give a bounded task and check the result

Give RX one project outcome and define how you will judge it. This guide concerns task scope and review; the prompt is not an enforcement policy.

Before you submit​

Open the intended workspace, save unrelated work, and identify a relevant project check. Confirm the provider route and account access. Submitting a task may send context to the chosen provider, invoke tools, and incur that provider's charges.

Write the brief​

  1. Name one outcome, the files or subsystem involved, and changes to preserve.

  2. Name the acceptance check and actions requiring another decision. Use this document template as input to your task; do not execute it as a shell command.

    # Task brief

    ## Goal

    Describe one outcome.

    ## Scope

    List the files or subsystem to inspect.

    ## Existing work

    State which changes must be preserved.

    ## Acceptance

    Name the relevant test or observable result.

    ## Approval boundary

    List actions that need a separate decision.
  3. Fill every section with your project's facts. For example, limit a parser correction to the failing parser case, preserve unrelated UI edits, and request the project's existing parser test. Do not invent a test command if the project does not document one.

  4. Submit the completed request and watch file and shell activity. If the proposed action exceeds your intended scope, stop and reassess before continuing.

Review the result​

Ask which files changed and which exact check ran. Then inspect the working tree yourself. Replace the sample path with the relevant file.

git status --short
git diff --stat
git diff -- path/to/changed-file

The Git diff reference explains what comparisons show. Check untracked files separately; a clean tracked diff does not account for all files. Run or inspect the relevant check and retain its actual exit status and failure output. A proposed correction, changed file, passing test, and completed task are distinct results.

If work is incomplete​

Preserve the diff and non-secret failure. Narrow the next request to the unresolved case instead of replaying the original task blindly. Do not discard your own changes to obtain a clean tree. Read tool activity when the response and the observed project state disagree.