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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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Define Input and Output Ports for Use Cases HIGH decouples use cases from delivery mechanism usecase, ports, input, output, boundaries

Define Input and Output Ports for Use Cases

Use cases should define their own input (request) and output (response) data structures. These ports isolate the use case from the delivery mechanism (HTTP, CLI, queue).

Incorrect (use case coupled to HTTP):

public class RegisterUserUseCase
{
    public IActionResult Execute(HttpRequest request)  // Coupled to ASP.NET
    {
        var email = request.Form["email"];
        var password = request.Form["password"];

        if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(email))
            return new BadRequestResult();  // HTTP-specific response

        var user = new User(email, password);
        _repository.Save(user);

        return new OkObjectResult(new { id = user.Id });  // JSON response
    }
}

Correct (use case with defined ports):

// application/ports/input/RegisterUserCommand.cs
public record RegisterUserCommand(
    string Email,
    string Password,
    string Name
);

// application/ports/output/RegisterUserResult.cs
public record RegisterUserResult(
    string UserId,
    string Email,
    DateTime CreatedAt
);

// application/usecases/RegisterUserUseCase.cs
public class RegisterUserUseCase
{
    private readonly IUserRepository _repository;
    private readonly IPasswordHasher _hasher;

    public RegisterUserResult Execute(RegisterUserCommand command)
    {
        if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(command.Email))
            throw new ValidationException("Email required");

        var hashedPassword = _hasher.Hash(command.Password);
        var user = new User(command.Email, hashedPassword, command.Name);
        _repository.Save(user);

        return new RegisterUserResult(
            user.Id.Value,
            user.Email.Value,
            user.CreatedAt
        );
    }
}

// interface_adapters/controllers/UserController.cs
[ApiController]
public class UserController : ControllerBase
{
    [HttpPost]
    public IActionResult Register([FromBody] RegisterRequest request)
    {
        var command = new RegisterUserCommand(
            request.Email,
            request.Password,
            request.Name
        );

        var result = _useCase.Execute(command);

        return Ok(new { userId = result.UserId });
    }
}

Benefits:

  • Same use case callable from HTTP, CLI, message queue, tests
  • Request/response format changes don't affect use case
  • Use case testable without HTTP infrastructure

Reference: Clean Architecture - Input/Output Ports