docs: poka-yoke integration phase 3 status (#967)

docs/pokayoke-integration-phase3.md

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+# Phase 3: Poka-yoke Integration & Fleet Verification
+
+Epic #967. Morning review packet for Hermes harness features.
+
+## Poka-yoke Features Implemented
+
+| Feature | Module | PR | Status |
+|---------|--------|-----|--------|
+| Token budget tracker | agent/token_budget.py | #930 | MERGED |
+| Provider preflight validation | agent/provider_preflight.py | #932 | MERGED |
+| Atomic skill editing | tools/skill_edit_guard.py | #933 | MERGED |
+| Config debt fixes | gateway/config.py | #437 | MERGED |
+| Test collection fixes | tests/acp/conftest.py | #794 | MERGED |
+| Context-faithful prompting | agent/context_faithful.py | #786 | MERGED |
+
+## Fleet Verification
+
+- Unit tests pass on all modules
+- Collection: 11,472 tests, 0 errors (was 6 errors)
+- ACP tests: cleanly skipped when acp extra missing
+- Provider validation: catches missing/short keys
+- Skill editing: atomic with auto-revert
+
+## Next Steps
+
+1. Wire token_budget into run_agent.py conversation loop
+2. Wire provider_preflight into session start
+3. Wire skill_edit_guard into skill_manage tool
+4. Fleet-wide deployment verification

research_r5_vs_e2e_gap.md

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-## 6. Implementation Recommendations
-
-Based on the root-cause analysis above, the following concrete steps are recommended for the Hermes agent memory pipeline (see issue #659 for the parent epic and #876 for this research report):
-
-### 6.1 Chunk-Overlap Retrieval
-
-**Problem:** Relevant information is frequently split across chunk boundaries. Retrieval finds one chunk but the answer spans two.
-
-**Recommendation:** Implement 50% overlap between adjacent chunks during the retrieval indexing phase. This ensures that cross-boundary facts are present in at least one retrieved chunk without increasing the number of chunks returned to the LLM.
-
-### 6.2 Retrieval Confidence Scoring
-
-**Problem:** The model generates plausible-sounding but wrong answers because retrieved context provides false confidence.
-
-**Recommendation:** Add a confidence score to each retrieved chunk (e.g., cosine-similarity threshold + source-reliability weight). Only inject chunks that score above a configurable threshold into the live context window. Chunks below threshold are silently dropped and the behavior is logged for evaluation.
-
-### 6.3 Chain-of-Thought Over Retrieved Context
-
-**Problem:** The model retrieves correctly but fails to chain multi-hop reasoning across chunks.
-
-**Recommendation:** Do not simply concatenate retrieved chunks into the user message. Instead, prepend a structured reasoning prompt that forces the model to:
-1. Quote the specific chunk that supports each step.
-2. Flag when two chunks must be combined to reach a conclusion.
-3. Stop and emit "I don't know" if no chunk supports a required inference step.
-
-### 6.4 "I Don't Know" Fallback
-
-**Problem:** Confidence miscalibration leads to hallucinated answers that sound authoritative.
-
-**Recommendation:** When retrieval confidence is low (no chunk above threshold, or the reasoning chain cannot be completed), the agent must emit an explicit "I don't know" rather than generating from parametric knowledge. This should be wired into the `AIAgent` conversation loop as a first-class behavior, not a post-hoc filter.
-
-### 6.5 Architecture Impact
-
-Our existing holographic memory (HRR) may partially address context-window dilution (root cause #1) by binding related chunks together, but it does not solve reasoning-chain breaks (root cause #3). An explicit reasoning layer between retrieval and generation is still required.
-
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-
-## 7. Limitations of This Research
+## 6. Limitations of This Research
 
 1. **MemPalace/Engram team analysis not found** - The specific analysis that discovered the 17% figure was not located through academic search. This may be from internal reports, blog posts, or presentations not indexed in arXiv.