skills/.changeset/wayfinder-grilling-not-self.md
Matt Pocock ce908a6220 Add changeset for the self-grilling fix
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-06 13:59:13 +01:00

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Stop wayfinder grilling itself instead of the human, and classify ticket types by HITL / AFK.

Students reported /wayfinder picking a grilling ticket and answering its own questions rather than turning to the human. Root cause: grilling carried a line written for the live-human case — "If a question can be answered by exploring the codebase, explore the codebase instead" — which, once wayfinder runs grilling inside a resolve-the-ticket frame, reads as license to answer questions autonomously and race the ticket to "resolved".

Two changes:

  • grilling now splits facts (look them up) from decisions (put each one to the human and wait for their answer).
  • wayfinder labels every ticket type HITL (human in the loop — Prototype, Grilling) or AFK (agent alone — Research; Task is either). A HITL ticket only resolves through the live exchange, so the "wait for the human" behaviour falls out of the label instead of being spelled out per type — a grilling agent that answers its own questions has, by definition, broken HITL.