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>
