ai-workflow-skill/docs/tests/council-review-skill/council-report-rejects-before-tally-through-bundled-cli.md

Case: council-report-rejects-before-tally-through-bundled-cli

Test Type

This is a forward-test and an invalid-state council workflow validation.

The goal is to verify that a leader using the packaged council-review skill sees the expected stable error when report is attempted before grouped recommendations have been persisted.

Purpose

Validate that all of the following can be true at the same time:

• the leader can start a council run through the bundled council-review skill
• the leader can attempt report without tally
• the command returns the stable invalid-state contract rather than fabricating an empty report

Preconditions

• council-review skill path exists: COUNCIL_SKILL_PATH=skills/council-review
• bundled CLI executable exists at COUNCIL_SKILL_PATH/assets/orch
• inbox skill path exists: INBOX_SKILL_PATH=skills/inbox
• use an empty temporary directory TMPDIR
• initialize TMPDIR/coord.db before launching role agents through INBOX_SKILL_PATH/assets/inbox --db TMPDIR/coord.db --json init

Agent Topology

• leader

Inputs

Leader Prompt

Use $council-review at COUNCIL_SKILL_PATH to act as leader on the already initialized SQLite DB TMPDIR/coord.db. Only coordinate through the bundled orch CLI from the skill. Workflow: 1) start council run council_skill_004 with a short review target, 2) attempt council report immediately without running tally, 3) stop after reporting RUN_ID, exit code, and error payload. Do not use ordinary chat to simulate reviewer output.

Execution Parameters

• use the shared execution contract from README.md
• use the shared timeout defaults from README.md
• do not override the default cleanup policy

Execution Steps

1. Initialize TMPDIR/coord.db once through the bundled inbox CLI before launching agents
2. Inject skills/council-review/ into leader
3. Point the leader at the database path TMPDIR/coord.db
4. Launch the leader
5. Wait for the leader to finish
6. Independently run the validation commands from the main thread

Validation Commands

COUNCIL_SKILL_PATH/assets/orch --db TMPDIR/coord.db --json council report --run council_skill_004

Expected Outcomes

• the leader successfully starts council_skill_004
• the report command exits with the stable invalid-state contract
• the error message indicates that council tally must run first

Assertions

• command exit code is 30
• error code is invalid_state
• the error message mentions that grouped recommendations are not available yet or that council tally must run first

Cleanup

• use the default cleanup policy from README.md
• if the run fails, retain TMPDIR and coord.db for replay and manual inspection