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The maintainer asked during /quest-complete on 2026-11-04 to move the design checkpoint earlier and have it prompt brainstorming: "Every time we hit the limit, it seems like another approach is better."

Changes

• assets/CONTEXT.md (Reviews): the design checkpoint fires every third quest review round instead of every fourth. At the checkpoint the agent brainstorms other designs that would avoid the whole class of findings, favoring simpler ones, and compares them with the current one before recommending. A background agent leaves the decision under ## Waiting instead of judging it itself.
• src/runner/job.ts: the kix runner's review note says "every third round".
• test/runner.test.ts: the merge-prompt test expects the new wording.

Today's evidence: moq-dev/quest#466 and moq-dev/quest#469 both hit the checkpoint with each round finding a new edge of the same mechanism, and a simpler design replaced it each time. Sub-agents on #469 and moq-dev/quest#471 judged the checkpoint themselves instead of handing it back.

Validation

• just check passes.
• test/runner.test.ts: 71 passed.

Review

Codex gpt-6.1-sol at xhigh effort, quest review --base origin/main, round 1 on 4cde1f31e7c1545a53d8330bde7d5df71f996f8d: no findings.

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✅ No new issues found.

Reviewed changes — reviewed the complete 1-commit, 3-file diff moving the design checkpoint from every fourth review round to every third, and making the checkpoint brainstorm alternatives.

• assets/CONTEXT.md — the Reviews section now fires the design checkpoint on every third quest review round instead of every fourth. At the checkpoint the agent should brainstorm other designs (favoring simpler ones) that would avoid the whole class of findings, compare them with the current one, and report the alternatives with a recommendation for the user; a background agent hands that decision back under ## Waiting rather than deciding it, matching the existing hand-back convention in assets/skills/review.md.
• src/runner/job.ts — the runner's failing-review note cites "every third round" so the cadence reaches kix jobs too.
• test/runner.test.ts — the merge-prompt assertion follows the new wording, verifying the checkpoint text propagates into the koix merge start prompt.

Verified the cadence has a single source: the /quest-* skills defer to quest context's generated Reviews section, and a repo-wide grep found no stale every fourth literals left behind. Validation rerun in this checkout: prenoct test/runner.test.ts via vitest — 71 passed; prettier --check and tsc (root and src/core) clean.

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