Restrain invented acceptance criteria in task-creation guides - #806
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Agents often pad tasks with acceptance criteria that look thorough but do not reflect real user or product needs. Add a short rule to prefer fewer true criteria over invented scope, note that an observable bug usually needs only the reported failure mode, and warn against inventing criteria for show. Apply the same guidance in CLI and MCP task-creation guides with focused guide-content tests.
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Why
Agents often pad tasks with acceptance criteria that do not reflect real user or product needs. This is a minimal in-place edit (no new sections).
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bun test src/test/cli-guidance.test.ts src/test/mcp-server.test.tsbacklog instructions task-creationshows the new Good-criteria bullet after merge