Adds the profile recommendation step to /ultrabrief-local Phase 4. The
brief stays universal (same questions, same template); the new step is
purely a processing-decision layer that records which profile downstream
commands should apply.
What lands:
- agents/profile-recommender.md — new sonnet agent that scores available
profiles against the finalized brief (keyword + NFR-signal matching,
axis bumps, hallucination gate that forbids inventing profile names).
Emits a fenced JSON block with ranked entries.
- templates/ultrabrief-template.md — frontmatter gains
recommended_profile, profile_match, profile_rationale (default values
applied when only `default` is available — true at M1).
- commands/ultrabrief-local.md — Phase 4 gains Step 4h with explicit
branches: short-circuit when only `default` exists; AskUserQuestion
confirmation when top score ≥ 0.7; explicit fallback message when below
threshold; manual selection sub-question on user override. Persists the
three frontmatter fields to brief.md after user confirmation. JSON
parser failure falls back to `default` with `profile_match: fallback`
rather than blocking — silent fallback is the worst outcome, but a
*visible* fallback is acceptable.
- scripts/profile-loader.mjs — adds selectRecommendation(ranked, opts) +
RECOMMENDATION_THRESHOLD=0.7 export. Single source of truth for the
threshold logic so the command spec and the helper agree.
- scripts/profile-loader.test.mjs — 10 new tests for selectRecommendation
(default-only, empty/malformed input, above/below threshold, custom
threshold, max-by-score, missing fields). Total now 36/36.
- README.md / CLAUDE.md / marketplace landing — docs reflect M0 + M1
shipped, M2 + M3 still pending.
In practice nothing changes for users at M1 because only `default` is
available — Step 4h takes the short-circuit path and writes
`profile_match: default-only`. M2 ships the additional profiles that
make the recommender meaningful.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Remove background-transition phases from /ultraresearch-local,
/ultraplan-local, /ultra-cc-architect-local, /ultrabrief-local.
All four commands now run their full pipelines inline in main
context; --fg is retained as a no-op alias for backwards
compatibility.
The Claude Code harness does not expose the Agent tool to
sub-agents, so orchestrators launched with run_in_background:true
cannot spawn their documented swarms (docs-researcher,
community-researcher, architecture-mapper, plan-critic, etc.) and
silently degrade to single-context reasoning. Foreground execution
keeps the swarms intact.
Source: github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/19077
Confirmed empirically 2026-04-19.
BREAKING CHANGE: Default execution is foreground — the session
blocks until the brief/plan is ready. Use `claude -p` in a
separate terminal for long-running headless work.
Replace hardcoded Q1-Q8 in /ultrabrief-local with a section-driven
completeness loop (Phase 3) and a draft/review/revise loop with
brief-reviewer as stop-gate (Phase 4). Quality drives the interview,
not a question counter.
brief-reviewer now emits a machine-readable JSON block with per-dimension
scores (1-5) and detail arrays alongside the existing prose report;
planning-orchestrator continues to consume the prose verdict unchanged.
Phase 4 gate: all dimensions >= 4 AND research_plan = 5. On fail, a
targeted follow-up is generated from the weakest dimension's detail
field and the draft is re-reviewed. Max 3 review iterations bound cost;
exhaustion writes brief.md with brief_quality: partial and an explicit
Brief Quality section. Force-stop surfaces per-dimension findings before
the user chooses continue or partial.
Not breaking. /ultrabrief-local [--quick] <task> interface unchanged.
--quick now means compact start with escalation, not a max-N cap.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
