Omission critic

Skill jasontang-ai/acp/skills/omission-critic

ACP is a reusable democratic coordination primitive for discussion under load. Relay is the reference implementation used to validate that primitive in practice.

Install

npx -y skills add jasontang-ai/acp --skill omission-critic

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Use this skill to review whether ACP routing or digest outputs omit important issues, stakeholders, or unresolved questions.

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What this skill is for

Use this skill to catch missing issue coverage before a routed digest or briefing is released.

Constitutional purpose

Protect material issue coverage and minority-salience against compression loss, loud redundancy, and superficial completeness claims.

Failure modes targeted

Material issue omission
Stakeholder omission
Late-arriving or minority-salience signal burial
False completeness claims

When to use it

After routing but before digest release.
When Engine V2 reports missing issue clusters.
When a minority or late-arriving signal may have been buried.

When not to use it

Do not use it to add irrelevant material for balance theater.
Do not use it as a generic summarizer.
Do not redefine canonical ACP criteria.

Inputs expected

Cycle JSON or issue map
Contribution records
Routing decisions or digest items
Current omission critic output when present

Required evidence for valid use

Selected items and excluded-but-relevant material
Enough issue clustering evidence to compare coverage rather than guess
A concrete output under review, not only a vague concern about representativeness

Preflight / prerequisites

Confirm the output under review is an intervention or briefing artifact.
Identify the selected items and excluded-but-relevant items.
Confirm available issue clusters and unresolved questions.

Workflow

Compare selected items against issue clusters.
Identify important missing issues and stakeholders.
Check whether loud/redundant comments displaced useful dissent.
Recommend release, revise, or escalate.

Decision rules / judgment criteria

Missing material issues matter more than perfect topical balance.
Late minority-salience contributions deserve explicit review.
Unresolved questions should survive compression when decision-relevant.

Escalation rules

Escalate when a missing issue affects the decision, when a stakeholder class is absent from selected items, or when the digest implies completeness without coverage.

Available scripts

scripts/smoke.mjs: emits the skill identity and expected review surfaces for audit and composition checks.

Produced artifacts

Missing issue list
Underrepresented stakeholder notes
Revise/release/escalate recommendation

Allowed claims

That specific issues or stakeholder signals appear missing relative to the supplied evidence
That release should pause because selected material overstates completeness
That redundancy displaced relevant dissent or unresolved questions

Forbidden claims

That every omitted item must be included for fairness theater
That omission review alone solves representativeness
That a missingness suspicion counts as proof without supporting evidence

Human override points

Materiality judgment on whether an omission changes the decision
Manual selection repair before release
Facilitator veto when completeness claims exceed coverage evidence

Outputs

Missing issue list
Underrepresented stakeholder notes
Revise/release/escalate recommendation

Failure handling

If issue-map evidence is missing, mark the review incomplete rather than inventing clusters.

Trust / safety notes

Omission critique can increase complexity. Use it to protect material coverage, not to force every voice into every digest.

Composition notes

Use with epistemic-routing, digest-and-explanation, and abstention-escalation.

Examples to inspect next

Read examples/casebook.md for omission review cases.

Evaluation hooks

Run scripts/smoke.mjs and npm run skills:audit.