The >500-line check emitted HIGH severity with "Files over 500 lines
significantly reduce Claude's adherence to instructions." CC 2.1.169
scaled the "too long" warning by context window, and the plugin's own
configuration-best-practices.md:97 footnote already says raw line count
is a Sonnet-era heuristic superseded by cache-prefix stability — so the
absolute HIGH + universal adherence claim is now-wrong.
- >500 lines: HIGH -> MEDIUM, reworded to token-cost-every-turn +
smaller-context-model caveat + cache-prefix pointer; notes CC 2.1.169
scales the threshold by context window.
- >200 lines: stays MEDIUM, dropped the absolute "optimal adherence"
framing for the same token/context-window framing.
Aligns the scanner with anti-patterns.md:7 (CA-CML-001 = medium) and
configuration-best-practices.md:97. No snapshot impact (byte snapshots
use a 24-line fixture CLAUDE.md).
Full suite: 842/842 green (+5). self-audit PASS, A(100)/A(97).
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>
