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 - **Explicit output location** — "Write to `results/output.md`" not "Write your findings"
 
 Treat scope boundaries as a harness concern, not an agent concern — encode them in the prompt template or harness context, not in ad-hoc task prompts.
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+## Airouter Qwen3.6 — Scope Decomposition for Reliable Output
+
+Qwen3.6 via airouter harness (`runtime_cli: agentic`, model `Qwen3.6`) produces reliable output for single, concrete file-creation tasks but has shown silent failures on multi-part instructions requiring sustained context. In measured dispatches:
+- **Reliable**: Create one new file, one hard rule, clear output path
+- **Unreliable**: Create multiple files with distinct content, multi-step instructions, tasks requiring internal state management across turns
+
+**Pattern observed (2026-05-04):**
+- D7 (single harness.yaml + single CLAUDE.md with one hard rule) → fully successful, correctly committed
+- D4 (same template + same model, but two files with multiple layered rules each) → silent no-output, only unrelated `.gitignore` change appeared
+
+**Dispatch strategy for airouter agents:**
+1. **One file per task** — split multi-file tasks into separate dispatches. Each task creates exactly one file.
+2. **Reference the template, don't copy it** — give the agent the path to an existing similar file to read, rather than including all structure in the prompt.
+3. **State the file path explicitly** — "Create `harnesses/contexts/cp-harness/v1/harness.yaml`" at the start, not implied by context.
+4. **Verify output before treating as done** — check the agent-repo branch for the expected file immediately after task succeeds.
+
+If a multi-file task is unavoidable, use a **sequential chain**: dispatch task-1 to create file-A, wait for success, then dispatch task-2 to create file-B referencing task-1's output. This bounds the agent's scope to one artifact at a time.
+
+**BUG-21** (2026-05-04): D4 task (`017f63cb`) exited 0, showed correct understanding in logs, but produced no harness files. Likely causes: prompt complexity, early exit, or internal runner issue. Fix: decompose airouter tasks to single-file units.