Single autonomy-control surface (--gates) added to ultrabrief, ultraresearch,
ultraplan, and ultraexecute. When present, sets gates_mode = true and
re-enables approval pauses at every phase boundary + every wave for
high-stakes runs. When absent (default in auto), the chain runs continuously
to the main-merge gate (which always pauses regardless of --gates — that
boundary is the one always-on safety stop).
ultrabrief: pause after auto-mode confirmation; emit brief-approved event
ultraresearch: pause after each topic completes
ultraplan: pause after Phases 5, 7, 9
ultraexecute: pause after each wave's worktrees finish, before merge-back,
AND before the main-merge gate (MAIN_MERGE_GATE)
All four commands invoke the autonomy-gate state machine via the CLI shim
node lib/util/autonomy-gate.mjs (built in S8). Test pin in
tests/lib/gates-flag-coverage.test.mjs locks the contract.
Also wires the brief-approved stats emission into ultrabrief Phase 5 auto
path (was the SC4 wiring requirement from plan-v2 Step 11).
Strengthen single-message reinforcement for plan-critic + scope-guardian
parallel dispatch in commands/ultraplan-local.md Phase 9 and mirror in
agents/planning-orchestrator.md Phase 6. Reviewers now write structured JSON
to /tmp/{plan-critic,scope-guardian}-out.json which is merged via the
lib/review/plan-review-dedup.mjs CLI shim from S8.
The merged set lets us revise the plan once for duplicate findings instead
of twice. Source: research/05 R1 + R2.
Pin in tests/lib/doc-consistency.test.mjs locks both files against
single-message + dedup-helper regressions.
Inline STEP_HEADING_REGEX, FORBIDDEN_HEADING_REGEX, the canonical step+manifest
example, and the post-write plan-validator self-check directly into Phase 8 of
commands/ultraplan-local.md. This eliminates the dependency on Opus 4.7
implicitly loading agents/planning-orchestrator.md — the format contract now
travels with the command file itself.
Source: research/04 D5 + plan-v2 Step 7. Pin in tests/lib/doc-consistency.test.mjs
locks the substrings so future edits cannot silently regress the seal.
Step 1 of v2.0 plan. Hard cut from commands/ to skills/ per Anthropic
recommendation for new plugins. Frontmatter sets disable-model-invocation:
true and pins model: claude-sonnet-4-6. Docs (README, CLAUDE.md, root
README) deferred to Step 9 per plan.
Extract `/ultra-cc-architect-local` and `/ultra-skill-author-local` plus all 7
supporting agents, the `cc-architect-catalog` skill (13 files), the
`ngram-overlap.mjs` IP-hygiene script, and the skill-factory test fixtures
from `ultraplan-local` v2.4.0 into a new `ultra-cc-architect` plugin v0.1.0.
Why: ultraplan-local had drifted into containing two distinct domains — a
universal planning pipeline (brief → research → plan → execute) and a
Claude-Code-specific architecture phase. Keeping them together forced users
to inherit an unfinished CC-feature catalog (~11 seeds) when they only
wanted the planning pipeline, and locked the catalog and the pipeline into
the same release cadence. The architect was already optional and decoupled
at the code level — only one filesystem touchpoint remained
(auto-discovery of `architecture/overview.md`), which already handles
absence gracefully.
Plugin manifests:
- ultraplan-local: 2.4.0 → 3.0.0 (description + keywords updated)
- ultra-cc-architect: new at 0.1.0 (pre-release; catalog is thin, Fase 2/3
of skill-factory unbuilt, decision-layer empty, fallback list still
needed)
What stays in ultraplan-local: brief/research/plan/execute commands, all
19 planning agents, security hooks, plan auto-discovery of
`architecture/overview.md` (filesystem-level contract, not code-level).
What moved (28 files via git mv, R100 — full history preserved):
- 2 commands, 8 agents, 1 skill catalog (13 files), 2 scripts, 8 fixtures
Documentation updates: plugin CLAUDE.md and README.md for both plugins,
root README.md (added ultra-cc-architect section, updated ultraplan-local
section), root CLAUDE.md (added ultra-cc-architect to repo-struktur),
marketplace.json (registered ultra-cc-architect), ultraplan-local
CHANGELOG.md (v3.0.0 entry with migration guidance).
Test verification: ngram-overlap.test.mjs passes 23/23 from new location.
Memory updated: feedback_no_architect_until_v3.md now points at the new
plugin and reframes the threshold around catalog maturity rather than an
ultraplan-local milestone.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Introduces a profile-loader infrastructure for runtime-instantiable
ultraplan variants (depth × domain × goal axes). M0 ships only the
`default` profile, which mirrors the current hardcoded Phase 5/9 agent
set — so existing flows are unaffected.
What lands:
- profiles/default.yaml — schema v1, lists current 8 exploration agents
+ 2 review agents, captures today's adversarial regime
- scripts/profile-loader.mjs — null-deps Node loader with limited-subset
YAML parser, listProfiles(), loadProfile(), validateProfile() that
cross-checks every referenced agent exists in agents/
- scripts/profile-loader.test.mjs — 26 node:test cases (parser, validation,
loader, integration with built-in default.yaml)
- commands/ultraplan-local.md — Phase 1 gains a "Resolve the profile"
step (--profile flag → brief.recommended_profile → default fallback)
and prints profile + source in the mode report. Phase 5/9 unchanged.
- README.md, CLAUDE.md, marketplace README — documentation of the M0
foundation, the universal-brief design principle, and the M1/M2/M3
milestones to come.
M1 (next) wires profile recommendation into ultrabrief Phase 4. M2
ships the additional built-in profiles (quick, bugfix, feature, refactor,
security-deep, research-heavy) and replaces the hardcoded Phase 5 agent
table with profile-driven selection. M3 adds user-extensible profiles.
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.
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>
