docs(readme): correct --plan description - five groups, not a weighted score

The --plan section still described the 0.19.0 weighted score (40x repos
released, 15x inbox messages) that 0.20.0 replaced with five ordered
groups (chain-root, debt, planned, in-progress, undeclared). Reported by
.claude against the 0.33.1 delivery (order ...238406410); this fix is
scoped to README only, no behavior change, no version bump.

grep -n "40 x\|40 ×\|deterministic score" README.md: 1 hit before, 0 after.
skills/ and docs/ carried no matching claim. CHANGELOG.md:974 keeps the
same phrase but is a historical 0.20.0 entry describing what it replaced -
left untouched.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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**`board.sh --voyage` reports the Voyage briefs in flight**, a sixth rendering of the same scan. `board` reads STATE lines, which say nothing about a brief, so a programme running Voyage across several repos had no shared surface: nobody could answer which briefs were running, in what phase, and who was waiting on whom. Detection is by **property, never by directory name** — a directory holding `brief.md` or `brief.md.draft` under any of the three planning locations the convention recognises (`.claude/projects/`, `docs/`, `features/<n>-<name>/`) — and it walks the **filesystem, never the git index**: a repo that gitignores `.claude/projects/` would otherwise report zero briefs while actually running one. The phase ladder measures *artifacts*, not sessions: a plan executed in a single session leaves no file behind, so `plan` is the last thing the filesystem can prove, and nothing here claims a session is alive. `brief_quality` is read out of the brief's frontmatter and an absent field reads `-`, never `complete`; a research directory that exists and holds nothing reads `0`, distinct from the `-` that means no research step was ever started. The table carries a matching `VOY` column beside `ORDRE` and `FLY` — the same class of durable filesystem fact, and never summed with them.
**`board.sh --plan` renders the day plan**, a *third* rendering of that same scan and the only one that takes a position: which repos to open a tab for today, in what order, and the command to start each. The order is the position, and there is no cutoff — nothing is hidden, and one deterministic score decides it: `40 ×` repos released transitively, `15 ×` unhandled inbox messages, plus small bonuses for live work and for a cheap `next-cost` row. Four hard buckets preceded it and could not express "this repo owes one message and releases two others" — which is how a blocked chain's root ended up ranked *below* the repos waiting on it. **Chain-root credit** follows `blocked-on` transitively to the first repo that is not itself blocked and credits only that root: opening a blocked repo releases nobody, since its own next step is by definition waiting. A cycle, or a `blocked-on` naming a repo the scan never produced, credits nobody rather than inventing a root — a plan that looks correct while sending you to the wrong repo is worse than one that says nothing. Repos owing mail still rank high *whatever their status*, and debt is deliberately **uncapped**: excluding `blocked` or `done` is a statement about a repo's own next step, which cannot be moved, while owing an answer is a different axis and answering is often what unblocks it. Repos with no board line come last and labelled — the table already prints a note about those, so a plan that dropped them silently would repeat exactly that defect. `why=` names the dominant term, so a block reads `unblocks:2` rather than the `inbox:N` every block used to repeat. Still zero model calls, still read-only, and still cross-checked against `coord-count.sh`.
**`board.sh --plan` renders the day plan**, a *third* rendering of that same scan and the only one that takes a position: which repos to open a tab for today, in what order, and the command to start each. The order is the position, and there is no cutoff — nothing is hidden, and **five ordered groups** decide it, each a lookup over a field the scan already read rather than a weighted score: (1) **chain-root credit**, most repos released first; (2) **debt**, most-owed-first, whatever the status; (3) `planned`; (4) `in-progress`; (5) `?`/`MALFORMED` — undeclared, last and labelled. Within a group, ties break on a cheap Sonnet `next-cost` row, then oldest plan first. A 0.19.0 weighted score (`40 ×` repos released, `15 ×` unhandled inbox messages) briefly stood in this spot and *could* express "this repo owes one message and releases two others" as a single number — but re-tuning those two coefficients would have silently reordered a parser living in another repo, with no test here able to hold a ranking stable for a consumer it can't see; the operator replaced it with the group order in 0.20.0 for that reason. Groups 3 and 4 are `planned` above `in-progress`, inverted from every earlier version by the same decision: turning a decision into motion is the slow step, live work is already moving. **Chain-root credit** follows `blocked-on` transitively to the first repo that is not itself blocked and credits only that root: opening a blocked repo releases nobody, since its own next step is by definition waiting. A cycle, or a `blocked-on` naming a repo the scan never produced, credits nobody rather than inventing a root — a plan that looks correct while sending you to the wrong repo is worse than one that says nothing. Repos owing mail still rank high *whatever their status*, and debt is deliberately **uncapped**: excluding `blocked` or `done` is a statement about a repo's own next step, which cannot be moved, while owing an answer is a different axis and answering is often what unblocks it. Repos with no board line come last and labelled — the table already prints a note about those, so a plan that dropped them silently would repeat exactly that defect. `why=` names the group that placed the repo, so a block reads `unblocks:2` rather than the `inbox:N` every block used to repeat. Still zero model calls, still read-only, and still cross-checked against `coord-count.sh`.
**`--focus "<prose>"` narrows that plan to one subject, and reports what it held back.** It is the only cutoff this format has, which is why the report is a condition of the feature rather than a refinement of it: `--plan` documents that it hides nothing and labels what it cannot rank, so a silent filter would break a property already written down. The same run prints the subjects the prose resolved to, how many blocks were removed, how many `STATE.md` were searched, and — named, not counted — the repos that *mention* a resolved subject without declaring a marker line. That last class is enumerated because it is where the misses live: a repo can be a heavy participant and never have written a marker, and no string measurement finds it until the held-back population is listed. Each surviving block carries the declaration it survived on. Prose matching nothing prints the *full* plan and says so, since the phrase arrives verbatim from a person and a typo must not empty the day. The subject vocabulary is read from the scanned `STATE.md` themselves, so the "reads `STATE.md` and no other file" invariant is untouched.