Strengthen usethis-cli-user-test skill to forbid deviating from the happy path#1732
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Add a "Critical rule: never deviate from the happy path" section that explicitly forbids constructing alternative scenarios to pass user testing. Update the procedure to require re-running the full happy path from scratch after fixing any issues discovered during testing. Resolves #1724 Agent-Logs-Url: https://github.com/usethis-python/usethis-python/sessions/a1c468e0-fafb-4974-9d5d-e598a4d91fc9 Co-authored-by: nathanjmcdougall <18602289+nathanjmcdougall@users.noreply.github.com>
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[WIP] Fix agent config for user experience testing of CLI
Strengthen usethis-cli-user-test skill to forbid deviating from the happy path
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In #1601, the agent found a failure during user testing but instead of fixing the code, it constructed an alternative scenario with convenient preconditions that bypassed the failure. The skill lacked explicit anti-pattern guidance to prevent this.
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