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Oracle work begins by deciding what a subsystem promises. This PR gives agents a short scientific orientation in AGENTS.md, then routes oracle authoring and review to dedicated skills.

The shared instrument library supports law discovery, adversarial review, mutant gap hunts, tension scans, and law restructuring. Agents select an instrument when it helps clarify a real uncertainty. The mutant gap hunt card turns plausible wrong implementations into public distinguishing histories and uses survivors to improve the owning oracle. Review can challenge whether an oracle enforces its stated law, whether that law is appropriate, and whether related laws should be split or combined. The existing oracle guide remains the source for conformance requirements.

This PR changes contributor instructions and design instruments. Open docs/contributing/instruments/index.md to choose an instrument.

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  • Documentation
    • Added guidance for authoring and reviewing oracles, investigating observable behavior, assessing evidence, and reporting uncertainty.
    • Added practical guides for discovering and restructuring behavioral laws, examining requirement conflicts, conducting adversarial reviews, and investigating potential test-oracle gaps.
    • Expanded contributor guidance on choosing review instruments, distinguishing evidence from hypotheses, validating contract changes, and updating repository coverage information.

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The changes add oracle authoring and review skills, repository guidance, and instruments for investigating and challenging oracle laws. The oracle-tests guide links to these resources and clarifies their role.

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Oracle authoring and review guidance

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Instrument selection and law analysis
docs/contributing/instruments/index.md, docs/contributing/instruments/law-discovery.md, docs/contributing/instruments/law-restructuring.md, docs/contributing/instruments/tension-scan.md
Adds guidance for selecting instruments, discovering and restructuring laws, and assessing tensions.
Oracle workflow guidance
.agents/skills/oracle-authoring/SKILL.md, .agents/skills/oracle-review/SKILL.md, AGENTS.md, docs/contributing/oracle-tests.md
Adds authoring and review procedures, updates repository instructions about laws and refinement evidence, and links the oracle-tests guide to the skills and instruments.
Adversarial review
docs/contributing/instruments/adversarial-review.md
Defines attack levels, evidence requirements, finding categories, and stopping conditions for reviewing candidate laws and oracles.
Mutant gap hunt
docs/contributing/instruments/mutant-gap-hunt.md
Defines mutant design and replay, survivor investigation, authorized oracle repairs, evidence reporting, controls, and stop conditions.

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Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~12 minutes

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The updated guidance preserves the oracle conformance requirements and clarifies mutant outcomes and review-record expectations. No material merge-readiness risk remains.

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🟡 Minor · Give execution crashes an explicit ORC-006 outcome. · mutant-gap-hunt.md:31-33

docs/contributing/instruments/mutant-gap-hunt.md:31-33
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Give execution crashes an explicit ORC-006 outcome.

When a mutant crashes before the promised comparison, outside setup, this card says the run is not a kill but requires its outcome to use ORC-006’s six categories. ORC-006 provides no category for that crash, so the required run record has no defined label. Add a runtime-crash outcome and update the card’s reference.

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diff --git a/docs/contributing/oracle-tests.md b/docs/contributing/oracle-tests.md
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-  its outcome as assertion failure, timeout, setup failure, an unreached path,
-  survival, or equivalence within the tested domain.
+  its outcome as assertion failure, runtime crash outside setup, timeout, setup
+  failure, an unreached path, survival, or equivalence within the tested domain.
diff --git a/docs/contributing/instruments/mutant-gap-hunt.md b/docs/contributing/instruments/mutant-gap-hunt.md
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-outcome using [ORC-006's six categories](../oracle-tests.md#orc-006-checker-calibration),
+outcome using [ORC-006's outcome categories](../oracle-tests.md#orc-006-checker-calibration),
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Review comment at @docs/contributing/instruments/mutant-gap-hunt.md around lines
31 - 33:
Update ORC-006’s outcome categories to include runtime crashes outside setup,
and revise the reference in the mutant-gap-hunt card from “six categories” to
“outcome categories” so it remains accurate.
🟡 Minor · Separate the run-revision instruction from ORC-012. · mutant-gap-hunt.md:60-71

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Separate the run-revision instruction from ORC-012.

ORC-012 does not require the record to list every campaign, witness, and review-fix run revision. It requires verdict-critical evidence outside the executable oracle in a versioned record tied to the exact reviewed head. The current wording makes the card’s broader tracking instruction look mandatory for ORC-012 conformance. Attribute that instruction to the card, or remove it.

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-   [ORC-012](../oracle-tests.md#orc-012-review-evidence): its versioned review
-   record ties the verdict to the exact reviewed head and names the executable
-   revision of every campaign, witness, and review-fix run behind its claims.
+   [ORC-012](../oracle-tests.md#orc-012-review-evidence): at closeout, its
+   versioned review record contains verdict-critical evidence outside the
+   executable oracle and is tied to the exact reviewed head. This card separately
+   asks the record to name executable revisions for runs behind its claims.
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60 - 71:
Clarify the ORC-012 sentence in the mutant gap-hunt instructions: describe its
requirement as a versioned review record containing verdict-critical evidence
outside the executable oracle and tied to the exact reviewed head. Attribute the
separate request to name executable revisions for campaign, witness, and
review-fix runs to this card, not to ORC-012.

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- Around line 31-33: Update ORC-006’s outcome categories to include runtime
crashes outside setup, and revise the reference in the mutant-gap-hunt card from
“six categories” to “outcome categories” so it remains accurate.
- Around line 60-71: Clarify the ORC-012 sentence in the mutant gap-hunt
instructions: describe its requirement as a versioned review record containing
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