CCF Common

Core Rule

This is the shared control module for the CCFA Skills family. Do not use it as a user-facing research assistant module. Use it to keep routing, handoff behavior, source provenance, private-material handling, and score-risk language consistent across ccf-* skills and ccf-skill-forger.

Invocation Controls

CCFA Handoff Mode: PARTIAL (Recommended). Follow metadata.ccf_skill_controls.handoff_question_mode and references/handoff-modes.md. This skill provides shared policy only; route ordinary research tasks to the owning skill in references/routing.md.

Shared Controls

Load only the file needed for the current maintenance task:

• references/routing.md: Use to resolve which CCFA skill owns a request and to avoid trigger overlap.
• references/task-modes.md: Use for exploratory/quick/standard depth, authorization-aware continuation, selective context, host-supported parallel work, and GPT-6 adaptation.
• references/review-output-standards.md: Use to keep numeric scoring, multi-reviewer panels, score-change conditions, and visible output quality consistent.
• references/handoff-modes.md: Use to interpret metadata.ccf_skill_controls.handoff_question_mode.
• references/privacy-and-evidence.md: Use when handling manuscripts, reviews, rebuttals, private drafts, literature searches, or evidence claims.
• references/source-registry.yaml: Use as the shared source inventory for venue rules, review methods, exemplar records, and research-workflow references.
• references/ccf-a-venue-map.md: Use when a non-writing skill needs venue-family mapping without depending on ccf-paper-writer.
• references/skill-trigger-registry.yaml: Use as the canonical trigger registry; compare descriptions and agent prompts with the same ownership boundaries.
• references/artifact-contracts.md: Use whenever a skill creates or revises files; it defines ownership, canonical paths, overwrite-in-place defaults, and the narrow cases that require retained history.
• references/ccfa-yaml-contract.md: Use for the shared ccfa.yaml project-state schema.

Maintenance Workflow

1. Follow the current user scope and existing authorization before defaults; for no-new-files maintenance, edit existing surfaces only. When editing any CCFA family skill, preserve the metadata.ccf_skill_controls block and keep its keys aligned with references/handoff-modes.md.
2. Use references/routing.md before adding new trigger language to prevent overlapping ownership.
3. Use references/task-modes.md before changing checklist strictness, quick polishing, standard review, or output contracts.
4. Use references/review-output-standards.md before changing scorecards, reviewer panels, score-risk language, or final output self-check rules.
5. Use references/privacy-and-evidence.md before adding any browsing, citation, novelty, scoring, experiment-result, compression, or rebuttal instruction.
6. Use references/artifact-contracts.md before changing generated filenames, revision behavior, report folders, caches, attempt archives, or ledgers. Default to one canonical artifact per deliverable and update it in place.
7. Never commit personal absolute paths, usernames, expanded home directories, private local skill roots, or machine-specific command examples. Use $CODEX_HOME, $HOME, repo-relative paths, or non-identifying placeholders.
8. Put new public sources in references/source-registry.yaml; do not duplicate long URL lists in sibling source-notes.md files. Local references must use repo-relative or non-identifying local:/repo: identifiers, not machine paths.
9. Run scripts/check_sources.py after source-registry edits. The script reports issues only and must not rewrite registry files.
10. Run scripts/check_v04.py for family metadata, registry, script syntax, referenced resources, and regression checks; then run scripts/check_path_privacy.py before finalizing CCFA-family changes that touch docs, examples, source records, scripts, diagrams, or release files.

Output Contract

When auditing or updating CCFA skills, report:

Routing impact:
Handoff mode impact:
Private-material safety:
Source-registry changes:
Score-risk language changes:
Validation result: