v0.7.0 ships a verb and four agents the brief does not document anywhere. These

v0.7.0 ships a verb and four agents the brief does not document anywhere. These are the fifteen crosscheck findings that are this release's own doing, kept apart from the twenty-one pre-existing ones in [[iss-2609011424113262]] because they are a different decision: this is the release outrunning its own record, not debt it inherited.

Every one is recorded with its evidence in the v0.7.0 receipt at .abcd/work/reviews/4b4076a10f89d4d02da359274dad8994e30cae0e/iss35-brief-surface-crosscheck.json, dispositioned deferred-release-introduced.

The four cold-reading agents

agents/cold-reading-widening.md, -entailment.md, -comparative.md and -detection.md ship with full frontmatter (prompt_version, reads_untrusted_input, capability_scope, position, regime, color) and an injection-canary fixture each. The shipped binary names them in bare abcd reading output. grep -rn "cold-reading-widening" .abcd/development/brief/ returns nothing, and the same holds for all four.

They are absent from the 16-agent roster table (05-internals/01-agents.md:9-24), from "Shipped agents outside the design roster" (:30-38), and from the agents/ tree at 05-internals/03-configuration.md:363-366.

Four agent counts, none of them right, two contradicting each other

• 05-internals/01-agents.md:3 says eleven prompt files ship. Fifteen do.
• 05-internals/01-agents.md:28 says seven ship outside the design roster. Eleven do.
• 05-internals/05-prompt-quality.md:3 repeats the eleven.
• 05-internals/03-configuration.md:362-366 says ten and lists ten by name, omitting scribe.md (which 01-agents.md:38 documents) and all four cold-reading prompts. It contradicts 01-agents.md:3 directly.

Two frontmatter carrier claims are stale with them: color is described as carried by five prompts (nine carry it) and capability_scope by eleven (fifteen carry it). Two shipped frontmatter fields, position and regime, have no row in the frontmatter table and are not in its deliberately-omitted list.

The reading verb

• 05-internals/08-skills.md:19 says abcd ships seventeen binary-backed top-level commands and enumerates seventeen without reading. Eighteen ship: reading has a Go verb and a commands/reading.md.
• The same line says "the three newest parents carry small trees" and then lists four, omitting reading, which is the actually-newest and carries assemble and ingest.
• 04-surfaces/08-abcd.md:79-83,87 says the /abcd:<verb> surface is twenty verb files and omits reading. Twenty-one ship.
• Three separate bare-status-board enumerations omit reading and site, both of which render boards: 05-internals/08-skills.md:17, 04-surfaces/10-docs.md:40-43, 04-surfaces/12-version.md:26-28. The last two maintain the same list independently, which is why it drifted twice.
• 04-surfaces/23-reading.md:31 has a dangling [adr-58] reference-style link with no definition, so it renders as literal text.

04-surfaces/23-reading.md is otherwise accurate, and was given targeted scrutiny: three required operands, comparative refusing rather than assembling, --reading-json, the closed position set, all six refusals exiting 2, the run-id mint and the bundle carrying no repository path all verified against the built binary. The chapter that describes the new verb is right; the chapters that count things are wrong.

Grounds

• deferred: not fixed in the v0.7.0 cut, because the fix is prose across seven brief files and the release was already two rounds deep in gate corrections; deferring was the maintainer's recorded decision at PROMOTE, with the split from the pre-existing drift recorded so this half is not lost inside it

• declined: duplicate of iss-2609011424033149: the same fifteen release-introduced findings captured twice from one receipt; this record carries the fuller body, and the resolution with fixing-commit provenance is recorded on the earlier id

Scope for the follow-up

This is the half that should not wait. A release whose record cannot say what it ships is the condition the crosscheck gate exists to detect, and it detected it. The counts are the cheap part; the four undocumented agents are the substance, because an agent with no brief row has no recorded capability scope, no stated threat model and no roster entry to review it against.