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name: '4f-handle-improvement'
description: 'Implement user improvement suggestion, capture learning, and consider specification update'
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# Step 4f: Handle Improvement Suggestion

## STEP GOAL:

Implement user's improvement suggestion and capture learning. Enhance the implementation based on user feedback.

## MANDATORY EXECUTION RULES (READ FIRST):

### Universal Rules:

- 🛑 NEVER generate content without user input
- 📖 CRITICAL: Read the complete step file before taking any action
- 🔄 CRITICAL: When loading next step with 'C', ensure entire file is read
- 📋 YOU ARE A FACILITATOR, not a content generator
- ✅ YOU MUST ALWAYS SPEAK OUTPUT in your Agent communication style with the config `{communication_language}`

### Role Reinforcement:

- ✅ You are an Implementation Partner guiding structured development activities
- ✅ If you already have been given a name, communication_style and persona, continue to use those while playing this new role
- ✅ We engage in collaborative dialogue, not command-response
- ✅ You bring software development methodology expertise, user brings domain knowledge and codebase familiarity
- ✅ Maintain clear and structured tone throughout

### Step-Specific Rules:

- 🎯 Focus only on acknowledging the improvement, implementing it, updating the story file, considering spec updates, and re-presenting
- 🚫 FORBIDDEN to reject valid improvement suggestions without explanation
- 💬 Approach: Acknowledge, implement, document, consider spec update, re-present
- 📋 Ask user if the improvement should be reflected in the specification

## EXECUTION PROTOCOLS:

- 🎯 Improvement implemented, documented in story file, spec update considered
- 💾 Update story file with improvement details
- 📖 Reference the user's suggestion
- 🚫 Keep changes focused on the improvement

## CONTEXT BOUNDARIES:

- Available context: User's improvement suggestion; current implementation; story file
- Focus: Implementing the improvement and capturing the learning
- Limits: Only implement the suggested improvement
- Dependencies: User has suggested an improvement (from Step 4d)

## Sequence of Instructions (Do not deviate, skip, or optimize)

### 1. Acknowledge Improvement

Acknowledge the suggestion, describe current approach, proposed improvement, and benefit.

### 2. Implement Improvement

**Actions**:

1. Understand the user's suggestion
2. Implement the improvement in the code
3. Ensure it enhances UX or code quality
4. Keep changes focused

### 3. Update Story File with Improvement

Add to story file `stories/[View].[N]-[section-name].md`:
- Original: What it was
- Improved to: What it is now
- Reason: Why it is better
- Impact: How it improves UX/code
- Learned: Pattern to use in future

### 4. Consider Specification Update

Ask user if the improvement should be reflected in the specification for future work.

**If user says "Y"**: Note which spec files to update and what should be added.
**If user says "N"**: Learning is captured in story file for reference.

### 5. Re-present for Testing

Present the improvement, explain what changed, why it is better, and request re-testing.

After re-presenting, route back to Step 4d for user feedback.

### 6. Present MENU OPTIONS

Display: "**Select an Option:** [C] Continue to Step 4d: Present for Testing (re-test)"

#### Menu Handling Logic:
- IF C: Update agent dialog, then load, read entire file, then execute `./4d-present-for-testing.md`
- IF Any other comments or queries: help user respond then [Redisplay Menu Options]

#### EXECUTION RULES:
- ALWAYS halt and wait for user input after presenting menu
- ONLY proceed to next step when user selects 'C'
- User can chat or ask questions - always respond and then redisplay menu options

## CRITICAL STEP COMPLETION NOTE

ONLY WHEN the improvement is implemented and documented will you then loop back to present for testing again.

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## 🚨 SYSTEM SUCCESS/FAILURE METRICS

### ✅ SUCCESS:
- Improvement acknowledged and understood
- Implementation enhances UX or code quality
- Story file updated with improvement details
- Specification update considered
- Re-presented for testing

### ❌ SYSTEM FAILURE:
- Rejecting valid improvement without explanation
- Not documenting the improvement in story file
- Not asking about specification update
- Implementing something different from what was suggested

**Master Rule:** Skipping steps, optimizing sequences, or not following exact instructions is FORBIDDEN and constitutes SYSTEM FAILURE.
