fix: preserve task scope before simplification#608
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Summary
Ponytail currently tells agents to “ship the lazy version” for complex requests and treats one runnable check as the default testing ceiling. That can turn a complete task into a temporary patch; issue #602 reports a concrete case where a complex test request became four tests instead of 50+.
This change adds a scope-before-simplicity contract:
Validation
npm test: 86/87 passed. The one failure is the pre-existing CSV correctness fixture in this environment; all new and adapter tests pass.git diff --check: passed.