skills/.changeset/wayfinder-deferred-section.md
Matt Pocock 7d34a8dc38 Split fog and out-of-scope into separate explanatory sections
QA follow-up: the Fog of war section was teaching both concepts, which
muddies the leading word — fog should point only *toward* the
destination. Now Fog of war teaches only the not-yet-specified bucket
(with the two-way fog-or-ticket sharpness test restored), and a new
Out of scope section owns the scope axis: beyond the destination,
closed not graduating, kept out of Decisions so far.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-05 17:44:13 +01:00

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Give wayfinder a first-class notion of out of scope, separate from fog.

Fog and out-of-scope were conflated under one ## Fog map section, gated by different things: fog by knowledge (can't specify it yet — in scope, unripe, graduates as the frontier advances), out-of-scope by scope (beyond the destination — never graduates). Cramming both under "Fog" made out-of-scope work read as takeable frontier (an unblocked, unclaimed item is indistinguishable from a live ticket).

Now the map body has two plainly-named sections — ## Not yet specified and ## Out of scope — and the skill's prose splits to match: the Fog of war section teaches only the not-yet-specified bucket and keeps the two-way fog-or-ticket sharpness test, while a new Out of scope section owns the scope axis (beyond the destination, closed not graduating, returns only as a fresh effort if the destination is redrawn). Charting and working-the-map now rule a beyond-destination ticket out of scope — close it, one line in Out of scope — rather than leaving it on the frontier or logging it in Decisions so far.

The fog of war leading word is retained: it names the concept and drives the graduate-the-fog behavior in the prose; only the human-facing map headings go to plain language.