🎯 Highlights
This release optimizes the orchestration workflow for Claude Sonnet 4.5, addressing cognitive pattern changes in the new model to ensure reliable agent execution flow.
🔄 Model Adaptation
Claude Sonnet 4.5 Optimization
- Adapted to new cognitive patterns in Claude Sonnet 4.5 (claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929)
- Prevented workflow step skipping that emerged with the updated model
- Enhanced main AI orchestrator behavior for improved agent coordination
Problem Identified
With Claude Sonnet 4.5, the main AI orchestrator exhibited a new cognitive pattern:
- Used
[Stop]
markers as visual anchors for workflow navigation - When markers were distant (e.g., Step 4
[Stop]
→ Step 6[Stop]
), intermediate steps (Step 5) appeared optional - Result:
acceptance-test-generator
was skipped, proceeding directly towork-planner
Root Cause Analysis
The model's information processing changed:
- Previous behavior: Sequential step execution
- New behavior: Anchor-based navigation between stopping points
- Gap: Steps without explicit orchestrator actions became "invisible"
✨ Improvements
Explicit Main AI Verification Step
Added structured verification between acceptance-test-generator
and work-planner
:
Workflow Enhancement (Large/Medium Scale):
5. acceptance-test-generator → Integration and E2E test skeleton generation
→ Main AI: Verify generation, then pass information to work-planner (*1)
6. work-planner → Work plan creation (including integration and E2E test information)
Detailed Verification Checklist (Information Bridging section):
- Purpose: Prepare information for work-planner to incorporate into work plan
- Main AI verification items:
- Verify integration test file path retrieval and existence
- Verify E2E test file path retrieval and existence
- Pass to work-planner:
- Integration test file: [path] (create and execute simultaneously with each phase)
- E2E test file: [path] (execute only in final phase)
- On error: Escalate to user if files are not generated
🔧 Technical Details
Design Philosophy
"Information Bridge Confirmation" approach instead of user approval:
- Mechanically verifiable: File path retrieval and existence checks
- No human interruption: Automated verification by main AI orchestrator
- Maintains flow efficiency: One fewer approval step while ensuring reliability
Implementation Strategy
- Causal relationship enforcement: "Verify generation, then pass information"
- Reference structure:
(*1)
links flow description to detailed checklist - DRY principle: Information defined once, referenced from multiple locations
- Machine-parseable: Structured with clear headings and bullet points
Files Modified
docs/guides/ja/sub-agents.md
(Japanese environment)docs/guides/en/sub-agents.md
(English environment)
For more details, see the commits in feat/strict-test-process