Tasks · NovelForge 7.2 Author Control + Quality Evolution

Status: implementation is landing directly on main after explicit user direction to drop the feature-branch/PR requirement. The final release gate remains CI + deterministic bundle on the exact final HEAD.

Phase 0 · Baseline

• T001 Freeze the post-7.1 / Story Loom development baseline.
• T002 Read the 7.1 spec/plan/tasks and Self-Improvement Protocol.
• T003 Create 7.2 spec/plan/tasks, then move implementation directly to main per user instruction.
• T004 Identify the stale 7.1 checklist; repair the historical ledger separately.

Phase 1 · Common Findings

• T101 Add quality/__init__.py.
• T102 Add quality/findings.py + fingerprint/tamper self-test.

Phase 2 · Reader Panel

• T201 Add quality/reader_panel.py single-candidate job builder.
• T202 Add A/B pairwise + per-persona order swap.
• T203 Add disagreement / templating / first-shown-bias diagnostics.
• T204 Make panel diagnostics explicitly distinct from mandatory independent semantic review.

Phase 3 · Quality Evolution

• T301 Add quality/quality_evolution.py SQLite lifecycle.
• T302 Candidate/comparison fingerprints + result consume-once.
• T303 Repair-owner + plateau stopping.
• T304 Resume/idempotency/illegal-winner self-test and fix comparison replay ordering.

Phase 4 · Context Inspector

• T401 Add harness/context_inspector.py.
• T402 Authority/stage/relevance/pin inspection.
• T403 Protected edit → proposal; direct Canon mutation forbidden.
• T404 Regression/hidden-gold stage-isolation self-test.

Phase 5 · Tiered + Editable Memory

• T501 Add harness/memory_tiers.py.
• T502 Hard budget + whole-item-or-skip.
• T503 Event/participant relevance + pin-first promotion.
• T504 Provenance + derived authority=false self-test.
• T505 Add durable harness/memory_bank.py.
• T506 Protected accepted/locked edits become proposals; editable entries use exact before-fingerprint guards.
• T507 Proposal memory defaults to never injection stage so future/contested state cannot silently prime drafting.
• T508 Export Memory Bank as a non-authoritative Context Manifest view with pin/priority controls.

Phase 6 · Character Integrity

• T601 Add quality/character_integrity.py.
• T602 Bounded artifact_audit packaging.
• T603 Forbidden-context scan.
• T604 Result → evidence-chained normalized findings.

Phase 7 · State Graph

• T701 Add quality/state_graph.py.
• T702 Node/edge normalization + stable-field diff.
• T703 Transition-evidence binding.
• T704 Before/after finding + derived-authority self-test.

Phase 8 · Multi-pass Revision + CLI / Release Contracts

• T801 Add quality/revision_orchestrator.py narrow-pass planning / failure isolation / finding aggregation.
• T802 Route surface clusters to whole-scene regeneration and reader flatness to Reader Pressure + Scene Simulation.
• T803 Update novelforge.py to 7.2.0 with Reader/Quality/Context/Memory/Revision routers/doctor/self-test.
• T804 Update HARNESS_MANIFEST.yaml with 7.2 author-control/quality contracts.
• T805 Extend reusable CI with all 7.2 deterministic self-tests, including Memory Bank and Revision Orchestrator.
• T806 Update SKILL.md, SKILL.en.md, and SKILL.zh-CN.md to the 7.2 runtime contract without redoing customer-facing docs.
• T807 Update project_sdk.py so new projects default to Framework 7.2.0 and declare the quality-control scaffold.

Phase 9 · Verification

• T901 First 7.2 tranche (Reader/Context/Evolution/Character/State) exact-commit CI green.
• T902 Existing 7.1 deterministic contracts remained green in the first 7.2 verification.
• T903 First-tranche bundle double-build reproducible and Normal CI model_execution=false.
• T904 Expanded Memory Bank + Revision Orchestrator exact final HEAD compile/hygiene green.
• T905 Expanded full 7.2 self-tests + 7.1 regressions green.
• T906 Exact final HEAD bundle double-build reproducible + fingerprint recorded.
• T907 Exact final HEAD Normal CI model_execution=false.

Release Follow-up

• F001 Record the final release commit + immutable bundle fingerprint after final green HEAD.
• F002 Migrate consuming projects only if needed later; do not touch the stopped legacy project repository in this run.