# Validate SM Flow Explicit Trigger Acceptance

## Result

Accepted and archived.

## Static Validation

- Trigger rule verification:
  - `SKILL.md` frontmatter says sm-flow is only used for explicit `/sm-flow` commands or explicit natural-language requests.
  - `SKILL.md` trigger section says task type alone must not auto-trigger sm-flow.
  - `operating-rules.md` startup checks now include explicit natural-language requests.

- Scale source verification:
  - Scale definition scan found `standard`, `micro`, and `complex` definition headings and definition phrases only in `references/scales.md`.
  - Other files refer to `references/scales.md` instead of redefining the scale rules.

- Obsolete wording verification:
  - No matches for minute/hour/second/timebox metrics.
  - No matches for old skip semantics or old fixed `proposal.md + design.md` expression.
  - No matches for old conflict wording targeted by this validation.

## Script Validation

- Passed: `python C:/Users/兜/.codex/skills/.system/skill-creator/scripts/quick_validate.py .agents/skills/sm-flow`
- Passed: reference integrity scan for `references/*.md`.

## Browser Or Manual Validation

- Not applicable. This change only modifies skill protocol text and validation records.

## Unverified

- Real external OpenSpec CLI integration was not executed because the current tool surface does not expose those child commands.
- Forward-testing with an independent subagent was not run in this pass.

## Fixed During Apply

- Replaced remaining hard-coded `design.md` wording in phase/audit fallback rules where the protocol must respect scale-specific design artifacts.
- Added explicit natural-language sm-flow requests to startup checks.

## OpenSpec Archive

- `.archive-ready` is present.
- User confirmed archive.
- Archived location: `openspec/archive/2026-07-05-validate-sm-flow-explicit-trigger/`.
- Status: `archived`.
- Archive method: local filesystem archive following existing repository convention because external `openspec-archive-change` is not directly callable in the current tool surface.