PyAutoLabs · Jammy2211 · Aug 24, 2026 · Aug 24, 2026 · Aug 24, 2026
diff --git a/active.md b/active.md
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 # Active Tasks
 
+## intake-declared-difficulty
+- issue: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoBrain/issues/274 (issued 2026-08-24)
+- issued: 2026-08-24
+- prompt: active/intake_ignores_declared_difficulty.md
+- status: library-dev
+- worktree: none — remote web session (`web-github`), work done in the session clones
+- repos:
+  - PyAutoBrain: claude/intake-declared-difficulty-icstba
+  - PyAutoMind: claude/intake-declared-difficulty-icstba
+- summary: |
+    Third instance of one family: a conductor deriving from prose while ignoring a
+    declared header key (1 = feature ranker, fixed #217; 2 = the Bug Agent's Type:
+    leg, fixed in this pass; 3 = intake's Difficulty:). Per the prompt, the
+    precedence rule moves INTO the sizing faculty — one `effective_difficulty`
+    both conductors call — rather than being re-implemented per conductor:
+    declared wins, derived level + score reported alongside on disagreement.
+    Intake also reads a declaration out of unstructured raw text (the ideas.md
+    "Difficulty large, supervised." idiom), keeps it out of the derived
+    title/slug, and honours a declared `Type:` over prose classification.
+    The prompt file on main (c1927d5) is authoritative; the session's earlier
+    reconstruction of it was dropped in the merge.
+
 ## transformed-message-factor-gradient-unpack
 - issue: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoFit/issues/1501 (issued 2026-08-19)
 - issued: 2026-08-19

diff --git a/...ain/intake_ignores_declared_difficulty.md → active/intake_ignores_declared_difficulty.md b/...ain/intake_ignores_declared_difficulty.md → active/intake_ignores_declared_difficulty.md
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ Difficulty: medium
 Autonomy: safe
 Priority: normal
 Status: formalised
+Issued: 2026-08-24
 
 @PyAutoBrain's Intake Agent never reads the `Difficulty:` a raw input declares.
 `analyse()` hand-builds the prompt-shaped dict it hands the sizing faculty:

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-<ul class="stats"><li><b>1</b><span>In flight</span></li><li><b>3</b><span>Parked</span></li><li><b>5</b><span>Planned</span></li><li><b>141</b><span>Backlog</span></li></ul>
+<ul class="stats"><li><b>2</b><span>In flight</span></li><li><b>3</b><span>Parked</span></li><li><b>5</b><span>Planned</span></li><li><b>140</b><span>Backlog</span></li></ul>
 <div class="fresh"><p><b>Last updated 2026-08-24.</b> This page is generated from <code>active/</code>, <code>draft/</code> and the registry files, so it is only as current as they are. <code>dashboard_refresh.yml</code> re-renders it on every push to <code>main</code> — that heals a stale page, but not a stale prompt: a task that shipped without its prompt advancing to <code>complete/</code> keeps rendering here as pickable backlog. Reconciling those is the refresh below.</p>
 <div class="task"><button class="copy" data-cmd="Bring the PyAutoMind dashboard up to date. Work in the PyAutoMind checkout:
 
@@ -235,6 +235,7 @@ <h3>Quick wins <span class="facets">(small enough, and safe enough to run unatte
 <h2>In flight <a class="mdsrc" href="https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoMind/blob/main/active.md">markdown version</a></h2>
 <p class="muted">Issued — each has an open GitHub issue and usually a branch.</p>
 <div class="task"><button class="copy" data-cmd="/start_dev active/16_transformed_message_factor_gradient_unpack.md" aria-label="Copy the Claude command">📋</button><p><a href="https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoMind/blob/main/active/16_transformed_message_factor_gradient_unpack.md"><code>@PyAutoFit</code> <code>TransformedMessage.factor_gradient</code> crashes on first call</a> — <a href="https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoFit/issues/1501">issue #1501</a><span class="facets"> — issued 2026-08-19</span> — <span class="facets">HOLD — do not start dev. Fix-or-delete hangs off the PyAutoFit#1498 logpdf-contract</span></p></div>
+<div class="task"><button class="copy" data-cmd="/start_dev active/intake_ignores_declared_difficulty.md" aria-label="Copy the Claude command">📋</button><p><a href="https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoMind/blob/main/active/intake_ignores_declared_difficulty.md">Intake discards a declared Difficulty and persists its own derived one</a> — <a href="https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoBrain/issues/274">issue #274</a><span class="facets"> — issued 2026-08-24</span> — <span class="facets">library-dev</span></p></div>
 <h2>Parked <a class="mdsrc" href="https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoMind/blob/main/parked.md">markdown version</a></h2>
 <details>
 <summary>3 task(s)</summary>
@@ -252,7 +253,7 @@ <h2>Planned <a class="mdsrc" href="https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoMind/blob
 <div class="task"><button class="copy" data-cmd="/route start the planned PyAutoMind task latent-nan-guard-honest-run — its record is in planned.md" aria-label="Copy the Claude command">📋</button><p><b>latent-nan-guard-honest-run</b><span class="facets"> — planned 2026-07-22</span></p></div>
 </details>
 <h2>Backlog <a class="mdsrc" href="https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoMind/tree/main/draft">markdown version</a></h2>
-<p class="muted">141 filed prompts, not started — sorted most-pickable first (priority, then size). 25 of them belong to an epic and are listed only under Epics below.</p>
+<p class="muted">140 filed prompts, not started — sorted most-pickable first (priority, then size). 25 of them belong to an epic and are listed only under Epics below.</p>
 <details>
 <summary>feature — 27</summary>
 <div class="task"><button class="copy" data-cmd="/start_dev draft/feature/autoarray/numba_cpu_likelihood_mge_convolution_and_caching.md" aria-label="Copy the Claude command">📋</button><p><a href="https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoMind/blob/main/draft/feature/autoarray/numba_cpu_likelihood_mge_convolution_and_caching.md">Numba CPU likelihood phase 1: batched MGE convolution + operated-matrix caching</a><span class="tags"><span class="pill w">✨ feature</span><span class="pill">autoarray</span><span class="pill n">medium</span><span class="pill n">supervised</span><span class="pill r">high</span></span></p></div>
@@ -284,7 +285,7 @@ <h2>Backlog <a class="mdsrc" href="https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoMind/tree
 <div class="task"><button class="copy" data-cmd="/start_dev draft/feature/pyautomind/repos-sync-config-stamper.md" aria-label="Copy the Claude command">📋</button><p><a href="https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoMind/blob/main/draft/feature/pyautomind/repos-sync-config-stamper.md">Teach repos_sync --write to stamp organ config surfaces</a><span class="tags"><span class="pill w">✨ feature</span><span class="pill">pyautomind</span><span class="pill n">hard</span><span class="pill n">supervised</span><span class="pill n">low</span></span></p></div>
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 <details>
-<summary>bug — 25</summary>
+<summary>bug — 24</summary>
 <div class="task"><button class="copy" data-cmd="/start_dev draft/bug/health_fixes/jax_runtime_and_parity.md" aria-label="Copy the Claude command">📋</button><p><a href="https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoMind/blob/main/draft/bug/health_fixes/jax_runtime_and_parity.md">Fix release JAX runtime compatibility and likelihood parity</a><span class="tags"><span class="pill w">🐛 bug</span><span class="pill">health_fixes</span><span class="pill r">too-large</span><span class="pill n">supervised</span><span class="pill r">high</span></span></p></div>
 <div class="task"><button class="copy" data-cmd="/start_dev draft/bug/health_fixes/jit_visualization_outputs.md" aria-label="Copy the Claude command">📋</button><p><a href="https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoMind/blob/main/draft/bug/health_fixes/jit_visualization_outputs.md">Fix JIT quick-update visualization output regressions</a><span class="tags"><span class="pill w">🐛 bug</span><span class="pill">health_fixes</span><span class="pill r">too-large</span><span class="pill n">supervised</span><span class="pill r">high</span></span></p></div>
 <div class="task"><button class="copy" data-cmd="/start_dev draft/bug/health_fixes/samples_parameter_paths.md" aria-label="Copy the Claude command">📋</button><p><a href="https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoMind/blob/main/draft/bug/health_fixes/samples_parameter_paths.md">Fix release result/sample parameter-path regressions</a><span class="tags"><span class="pill w">🐛 bug</span><span class="pill">health_fixes</span><span class="pill r">too-large</span><span class="pill n">supervised</span><span class="pill r">high</span></span></p></div>
@@ -300,7 +301,6 @@ <h2>Backlog <a class="mdsrc" href="https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoMind/tree
 <div class="task"><button class="copy" data-cmd="/start_dev draft/bug/autolens/jit_cache_not_hit_modeling_visualization.md" aria-label="Copy the Claude command">📋</button><p><a href="https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoMind/blob/main/draft/bug/autolens/jit_cache_not_hit_modeling_visualization.md">JIT cache not hit in modeling_visualization delaunay/rectangular scripts</a><span class="tags"><span class="pill w">🐛 bug</span><span class="pill">autolens</span><span class="pill n">medium</span><span class="pill n">supervised</span><span class="pill n">normal</span></span></p></div>
 <div class="task"><button class="copy" data-cmd="/start_dev draft/bug/autolens_workspace_test/gradient_eager_jit_divergence_py313.md" aria-label="Copy the Claude command">📋</button><p><a href="https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoMind/blob/main/draft/bug/autolens_workspace_test/gradient_eager_jit_divergence_py313.md">interferometer/jax_grad/gradient.py: eager and jitted likelihoods diverge ~5e-7 on Python 3.13 only</a><span class="tags"><span class="pill w">🐛 bug</span><span class="pill">autolens_workspace_test</span><span class="pill n">medium</span><span class="pill n">supervised</span><span class="pill n">normal</span></span></p></div>
 <div class="task"><button class="copy" data-cmd="/start_dev draft/bug/priors/15_transformed_message_logpdf_jacobian.md" aria-label="Copy the Claude command">📋</button><p><a href="https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoMind/blob/main/draft/bug/priors/15_transformed_message_logpdf_jacobian.md"><code>@PyAutoFit</code> <code>TransformedMessage.logpdf</code>/<code>pdf</code> omit the transform Jacobian</a><span class="tags"><span class="pill w">🐛 bug</span><span class="pill">priors</span><span class="pill n">medium</span><span class="pill n">supervised</span><span class="pill n">normal</span></span></p></div>
-<div class="task"><button class="copy" data-cmd="/start_dev draft/bug/pyautobrain/intake_ignores_declared_difficulty.md" aria-label="Copy the Claude command">📋</button><p><a href="https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoMind/blob/main/draft/bug/pyautobrain/intake_ignores_declared_difficulty.md">Intake discards a declared Difficulty and persists its own derived one</a><span class="tags"><span class="pill w">🐛 bug</span><span class="pill">pyautobrain</span><span class="pill n">medium</span><span class="pill g">safe</span><span class="pill n">normal</span></span></p></div>
 <div class="task"><button class="copy" data-cmd="/start_dev draft/bug/pyautobrain/organ_repo_spellings_split_across_keys.md" aria-label="Copy the Claude command">📋</button><p><a href="https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoMind/blob/main/draft/bug/pyautobrain/organ_repo_spellings_split_across_keys.md">Organ repo spellings split across two normalised keys</a><span class="tags"><span class="pill w">🐛 bug</span><span class="pill">pyautobrain</span><span class="pill y">large</span><span class="pill n">supervised</span><span class="pill n">normal</span></span></p></div>
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 <div class="task"><button class="copy" data-cmd="/start_dev draft/bug/priors/14_replace_transform_stack_with_bijectors.md" aria-label="Copy the Claude command">📋</button><p><a href="https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoMind/blob/main/draft/bug/priors/14_replace_transform_stack_with_bijectors.md"><code>@PyAutoFit</code> Refactor: replace hand-rolled <code>AbstractDensityTransform</code> with <code>tfp.bijectors</code> / <code>numpyro.distributions.transforms</code></a><span class="tags"><span class="pill w">🐛 bug</span><span class="pill">priors</span><span class="pill r">too-large</span><span class="pill n">supervised</span><span class="pill n">normal</span></span></p></div>
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 <td class="when">2026-08-24</td>
+<td class="what">issued</td>
+<td><a href="https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoMind/blob/main/active/intake_ignores_declared_difficulty.md">Intake discards a declared Difficulty and persists its own derived one</a></td>
+<td class="pick"><button class="copy" data-cmd="/start_dev active/intake_ignores_declared_difficulty.md" aria-label="Copy the Claude command">📋</button></td>
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+<td class="when">2026-08-24</td>
 <td class="what">filed</td>
 <td><a href="https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoMind/blob/main/draft/maintenance/ci/heart_smoke_table_autocti.md">Heart's local smoke runner cannot run any CTI workspace — no autocti…</a></td>
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 <td><a href="https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoMind/blob/main/draft/maintenance/workspaces/pynufft_removal_downstream_residue_phase_3_ci_install_docs.md">Phase 3: stop installing pynufft in Hands/Heart CI and PyAutoCTI…</a></td>
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 <td class="when">2026-08-23</td>
 <td class="what">filed</td>
 <td><a href="https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoMind/blob/main/draft/feature/pyautobrain/brain_board_follow_ups.md">Brain board follow-ups: what real mornings surface</a></td>
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 <td><a href="https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoMind/blob/main/draft/bug/workspaces/aplt_output_drift_remaining_repos.md"><code>aplt.Output</code> stale-API drift in the remaining workspace repos</a></td>
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-<td class="when">2026-08-04</td>
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-<td><a href="https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoMind/blob/main/draft/triage/nightly_release_blocked_eight_nights.md">Nightly release has been blocked 8 nights running — triage the streak</a></td>
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