work-closeout should always include the Love Gate

[cellmechanic]

Problem

The work-closeout skill appears to be invoked for closeout requests without reliably including the required Love Gate section in the final closeout response.

The skill contract currently says:

## The Love Gate

Before finalizing the closeout, perform a "Love Gate" check.
...
- **Report findings**: Include a brief "Love Gate" section in your closeout summary.

The output format also lists:

- Love Gate: what you love about the results, and anything you do not love.

Recent transcript evidence

Local session history shows a user correction after an attempted closeout flow:

2026-06-10 15:01:28Z user: use the closeout skill
2026-06-10 15:10:37Z user: what about the love gate and the rest of the skill

There are also nearby direct closeout requests in recent local history, e.g.:

2026-06-10 14:35:40Z user: ok great, use the closeout skill
2026-06-10 15:50:31Z user: can you use the work closeout skill
2026-06-16 17:20:44Z user: ok use the work closeout skill

Those suggest this is not just a one-off prompt phrasing issue; closeout requests are common and the required Love Gate is easy for the agent to skip unless the user explicitly asks for it.

Expected behavior

When work-closeout is used and the response is a closeout/safe-to-exit summary, the final response should include a visible Love Gate item/section, even if it is brief.

Examples:

Love Gate: I like that the docs and PR state are clean. I do not love that the validation was docs-only, but that is appropriate for this change.

or, in a compact final:

Love Gate: Clean and complete; no lingering smells beyond the intentionally deferred follow-up.

Suggested fix

• Add behavior validation that fails if a closeout/safe-to-exit response omits Love Gate when work-closeout is triggered.
• Consider moving the Love Gate requirement closer to the top of the skill or into a non-optional closeout checklist, since the current section exists but is still being skipped in practice.
• If the final response is very short, still require a one-line Love Gate entry rather than dropping it.

Acceptance criteria

• A closeout prompt such as use the work closeout skill produces a final answer with a Love Gate section/item.
• A safe-to-exit prompt that routes through work-closeout also includes Love Gate before the Safe to exit answer or near it.
• Behavior tests or harness fixtures cover this so regressions are caught.

[cbusillo]

Please pull the repo to get the latest skills, it may be fixed here #384

[cbusillo]

@cellmechanic did you test?

[cellmechanic]

@cellmechanic did you test?

Not fully, I wasnt getting consistency, wasnt sure if it was on my end yet.

[cbusillo]

Did you start fresh sessions? The skills are loaded at the beginning of the session. Some of it will be updated for existing sessions, but not triggers.