- New Pattern F in TOK: low-severity finding when SKILL.md description > 500 chars
- Scoped to discovery.files (project-local) — activeConfig.skills walk would
pull in user/plugin skills out of project scope
- New fixtures: skill-bloated (594-char desc) + skill-tight (46-char baseline)
574 → 576 tests, all green.
- New Pattern E in TOK: emits medium finding when activeConfig.claudeMd.estimatedTokens > 10_000
- Uses cascade tokens, file count, and calibration note as evidence
- New fixtures: large-cascade (37k bytes / 14475 cascade tokens) + small-cascade (5k baseline)
572 → 574 tests, all green.
Removes the v4 'void readActiveConfig' placeholder and wires the
active-config snapshot into the TOK scanner.
Per-turn behavior changes:
- Each enabled MCP server becomes its own hotspot entry (richer than
the parent .mcp.json file alone)
- total_estimated_tokens now includes MCP server cost
- result.activeConfig exposes a small summary
(claudeMdEstimatedTokens, mcpServerCount, pluginCount, skillCount)
Failures of readActiveConfig are non-fatal — the scanner falls back
to the discovery-only path used in v4.
Tests: +3 cases on the new tok-active-config fixture
(.mcp.json with 2 servers, CLAUDE.md, plugin skeleton).
Add /ultraresearch-local for structured research combining local codebase
analysis with external knowledge via parallel agent swarms. Produces research
briefs with triangulation, confidence ratings, and source quality assessment.
New command: /ultraresearch-local with modes --quick, --local, --external, --fg.
New agents: research-orchestrator (opus), docs-researcher, community-researcher,
security-researcher, contrarian-researcher, gemini-bridge (all sonnet).
New template: research-brief-template.md.
Integration: --research flag in /ultraplan-local accepts pre-built research
briefs (up to 3), enriches the interview and exploration phases. Planning
orchestrator cross-references brief findings during synthesis.
Design principle: Context Engineering — right information to right agent at
right time. Research briefs are structured artifacts in the pipeline:
ultraresearch → brief → ultraplan --research → plan → ultraexecute.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
