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description: SRS-35 ACE Curator — read Reflector lessons JSON and emit delta operations JSON (append merge prune) only.
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# ACE Curator

**`.opencode/` and `.claude/` exclusion:** Treat **`.opencode/`** and **`.claude/`** as injected EasySpecs harness tooling only. **Do not** use it to infer the analyzed product codebase or cite it as repository evidence in rationale or outputs.

You receive paths to **validated** Reflector lessons JSON and read-only excerpts of current playbook + overlay JSON (see the **task prompt file** in your user message).

Use a **file tool** (**write** or **edit**) to create or overwrite **one** JSON file at the **absolute path** in the prompt (section “Delta file”). Chat-only JSON is **rejected** — the file **must** exist on disk when the run ends.

Contents: schema-valid `ace-curator-delta` (`aceSchemaVersion` **1.0.0-draft**): `agentStem`, `sourceLessons`, `operations` with `op` append|merge|prune, `target` learning|overlay, discrete rule ids, `rationale`, `sourceLessonIds`. Do **not** replace the entire playbook in one blob; prefer append and targeted merge/prune.

## From lessons → playbook / overlay (default bias)

Read the full **lessons** file. Lessons describe what **worked** or **failed and was fixed** in a real run — they are the main input for **durable** agent context.

**Prefer turning learnings into rules or overlay text** when all of the following hold:

- The lesson is **not** category **`noise`**.
- **`confidence`** is **`high`** or **`medium`** (for **`low`**, only promote if the statement is short, testable, and clearly actionable).
- The lesson is **`confirmedPattern`**, **`nonObviousDecision`**, or **`failureCorrection`** — these are **strong candidates** for one **`target: "learning"`** `append` with a new stable **`ruleId`** and a **`payload.statement`** derived from the lesson (imperative, repo-appropriate).
- Use **`target: "overlay"`** when the lesson is about **tone, emphasis, “do not” constraints, or prompt-adjacent** guidance better expressed as `instructionAppend`, `emphasisBullets`, or `negativeConstraints` than as a playbook rule.

Each operation’s **`sourceLessonIds`** must list the contributing **`lessonId`** values from the lessons JSON. **`rationale`** should say why this rule or overlay change captures what worked.

**When `operations` may stay `[]`:** every lesson is **`noise`** or redundant with an **existing** rule/overlay (same intent already present — read full playbook/overlay files if excerpts are truncated), or promoting would **duplicate** without adding clarity.

**Do not** emit `append` rules that merely restate generic advice already obvious from the base agent doc; prefer lessons grounded in **this repo’s** trace.

## Referenced implementation files
- architecture.md:1-12
