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Three independently ugly bugs that all fed the same log flood:

* Electron's `WebFrameMain.send` writes every "Render frame was disposed"
  to stderr via `console.error`. When the worker fans a second
  agent-event past a reloading renderer, we produced thousands of
  identical lines and stalled the main loop on stderr I/O. Added a
  `mainFrame.detached` guard so the send is short-circuited before
  Electron's own catch block fires, and installed a targeted filter in
  `suppress-warnings.ts` (now actually imported from the entry point)
  so the specific `console.error("Error sending from webFrameMain:"…)`
  noise never reaches the terminal. Any other payload still surfaces.

* `dispatchAgentMessage` accepted the human-reader sentinel as a wake
  target when an agent replied to `__board__` — `wakeAgentIfPossible`
  then called `db.getAgent("__board__")`, threw, and the dispatcher
  kept repeating on every send. Strip `HUMAN_SENDER_ID` at
  `resolveMessageWakeTargets`, and keep a defense-in-depth guard in the
  heartbeat so a stray caller (future automation fan-out) cannot
  reintroduce the crash.

* Pi's skills loader rejects any SKILL.md whose frontmatter `name`
  diverges from its parent directory. The four bundled `my-writing-style`
  copies declared `name: writing-style-skill`, so every install emitted
  a warning and dropped the skill. They also lived as orphan gitlinks
  (mode 160000 without .gitmodules), and the global `*.md` gitignore
  hid every other SKILL.md from version control. Fixed the frontmatter
  to match the dir, converted the dangling submodules to plain trees,
  and allowlisted `builtin-skills/**/*.md` so a fresh clone carries the
  catalogue instead of silently losing it.
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Source Dependencies Point Inward Only CRITICAL prevents cascade failures across all layers dep, dependency-rule, layers, architecture

Source Dependencies Point Inward Only

The Dependency Rule states that source code dependencies can only point inward toward higher-level policies. Inner circles must never reference outer circles.

Incorrect (inner layer imports from outer layer):

// domain/entities/Order.ts - ENTITY LAYER
import { OrderRepository } from '../../infrastructure/OrderRepository'
import { EmailService } from '../../infrastructure/EmailService'

export class Order {
  constructor(
    private repo: OrderRepository,  // Changes to repo implementation break Order
    private email: EmailService
  ) {}

  async complete() {
    await this.repo.save(this)
    await this.email.notify(this.customerId)  // Cannot test without email server
  }
}

Correct (inner layer defines interface, outer layer implements):

// domain/entities/Order.ts - ENTITY LAYER
export interface OrderPersistence {
  save(order: Order): Promise<void>
}

export interface NotificationPort {
  notify(customerId: string): Promise<void>
}

export class Order {
  constructor(
    private repo: OrderPersistence,
    private email: NotificationPort
  ) {}

  async complete() {
    await this.repo.save(this)
    await this.email.notify(this.customerId)
  }
}

// infrastructure/OrderRepository.ts - INFRASTRUCTURE LAYER
import { Order, OrderPersistence } from '../domain/entities/Order'

export class OrderRepository implements OrderPersistence {
  async save(order: Order): Promise<void> { /* DB implementation */ }
}

Benefits:

  • Inner layers remain stable when outer layers change
  • Business rules can be tested without infrastructure
  • Infrastructure can be swapped without touching domain code

Reference: The Clean Architecture