docs(claude-md): trim CLAUDE.md to invariants (always-loaded token trim, S53)

Relocate the verbose rationale/history from six always-loaded block-quote
notes (L5/L7/L9/L11/L56/L58) to the docs that already own it, leaving a terse
invariant + pointer in each. No invariant fact deleted — moved.

  L5  synthesis-PoC Δ≈0 caveat   → kept one clause; detail in T1-synthesis-poc-results.md
  L7  v3.0.0 architect note      → CHANGELOG.md [3.0.0]
  L9  Trinity Tier 2/3 detail    → HANDOVER-CONTRACTS.md §Handover 1 (added the producer-context para)
  L11 brief-framing 3-layer gate → HANDOVER-CONTRACTS.md §Handover 1 (already owned)
  L56 sonnet-downgrade rationale → voyage-vs-cc-balance-analysis.md §10 (D3)
  L58 per-agent effort table     → profiles.md §Model & effort axes

Measured (config-audit manifest scanner): voyage project CLAUDE.md
2261 → 1759 always-loaded tok (-502, -22%). Tables (Commands/Agents) left
byte-exact; doc-consistency pins (parallel wall-clock, 21 spawnable,
3 orchestrator reference docs, synthesis-agent dormant) preserved.

Docs-only: no version bump, no catalog ref. Suite 809 (807/0/2) green;
doc-consistency 87/0. Also tracks the task brief (provenance).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01RZHLfnJXGx55G4euxPuxim

CLAUDE.md

@@ -2,13 +2,13 @@
 
 Voyage — a contract-driven Claude Code pipeline: brief, research, plan, execute, review, continue. Deep implementation planning and research with specialized agent swarms, external research, adversarial review, session decomposition, disciplined execution, and headless support.
 
-**Design principle: Context Engineering** — build the right context by orchestrating specialized agents. Each step in the pipeline (brief → research → plan → execute) produces a structured artifact that the next step consumes. (The claim that fanning out to a swarm *relieves* the main context is asserted-by-design, not measured end-to-end: the one delegation actually measured — the Phase-7 synthesis PoC — found Δ main-context ≈ 0, see `docs/T1-synthesis-poc-results.md`. The parallel wall-clock + structured artifact handoffs are the load-bearing benefit; main-context relief is not yet demonstrated.)
+**Design principle: Context Engineering** — build the right context by orchestrating specialized agents. Each step in the pipeline (brief → research → plan → execute) produces a structured artifact that the next step consumes. The load-bearing benefit is the parallel wall-clock + structured artifact handoffs; main-context relief is asserted-by-design, not measured (Δ ≈ 0 in the one PoC — see `docs/T1-synthesis-poc-results.md`).
 
-> **v3.0.0 — architect step extracted from this plugin.** The plan command still auto-discovers `architecture/overview.md` if present, so any compatible producer (architect plugin no longer publicly distributed; the architecture/overview.md slot remains available for any compatible producer) plugs into the same slot. See [CHANGELOG.md](CHANGELOG.md) for migration history.
+> **Architecture slot.** The plan command auto-discovers `architecture/overview.md` if present — any compatible producer plugs in (the architect plugin is no longer publicly distributed). Migration history (v3.0.0 extraction) → [CHANGELOG.md](CHANGELOG.md).
 
-> **Trinity context (2026-05-13, informational).** Voyage is Tier 1 (per-task) of a three-tier architecture in active design under the author's private marketplace: Tier 2 `app-creator` (per-app — "what does the app need, what's the next brief?") produces briefs Voyage consumes; Tier 3 `app-factory` (per-portfolio — "which app needs me now?") aggregates state across multiple app-creator instances. Both are pre-implementation and will ship to Forgejo when ready. **Asymmetry is a hard invariant:** Voyage stays unaware of Tier 2/3. Handover 1 (brief format) is the only integration point — any compatible producer can feed Voyage, app-creator is not privileged. Brief-schema changes are therefore breaking changes for downstream consumers, formalized as a public contract in v5.5.0 — see `docs/HANDOVER-CONTRACTS.md` §Handover 1 (PUBLIC CONTRACT).
+> **Trinity context (informational).** Voyage is Tier 1 (per-task) of a three-tier architecture. **Asymmetry is a hard invariant:** Voyage stays unaware of Tier 2/3; Handover 1 (brief format) is the only integration point, no producer is privileged, and brief-schema changes are breaking for downstream consumers (formalized as a public contract in v5.5.0). Tier 2/3 producer detail + the public contract → `docs/HANDOVER-CONTRACTS.md` §Handover 1 (PUBLIC CONTRACT).
 
-> **Cross-cutting invariant: brief framing must match operator intent (2026-05-15).** Etablert etter residiv. Briefen er pipelinens source of truth; operatørens intent lever i hodet + i memory-filer (`feedback_*`, `project_*`); pipelinen tvinger ikke alignment. Høyere reasoning-kraft polerer feil premiss istedenfor å utfordre det. **Tre lag av forsvar (input-siden), implementert i S6 som `brief_version 2.2`-gate (v5.5), alle BLOCKER ved brudd for briefer som deklarerer ≥ 2.2:** (1) eksplisitt `framing: preserve|refine|replace|new-direction` i brief-frontmatter, `AskUserQuestion`-validert i `/trekbrief` Phase 2.5 før brief-prosa skrives (ikke-skippbar, også i `--quick`); enum-feil → `BRIEF_INVALID_FRAMING` (alle versjoner), fravær ved ≥ 2.2 → `BRIEF_MISSING_FRAMING`; (2) memory-alignment som dimensjon 6 i `brief-reviewer` — sammenlikner brief-prosa + `framing` mot relevante memory-filer, rapporterer kun eksplisitte motsigelser (degraderer til score 5 N/A uten memory-kontekst), wired til Phase 4e-gate (`memory_alignment.score ≥ 4`); (3) obligatorisk `## TL;DR`-seksjon (≤ 5 linjer, soft-cap → `BRIEF_TLDR_TOO_LONG`) øverst i `brief.md`. Eksisterende 2.0/2.1-briefer forblir gyldige (forward+backward-compat, speiler `phase_signals ≥ 2.1`-presedensen); `trekreview`-briefer er unntatt. **Schema-akse bumpet (2.1→2.2); plugin-versjon-badge + CHANGELOG bumpes ved den koordinerte releasen (S10).** Kontrakt-evolusjon dokumentert i `docs/HANDOVER-CONTRACTS.md` §Handover 1. Den gamle manuelle stopgap-sjekken er dermed retired for ≥ 2.2-briefer.
+> **Cross-cutting invariant: brief framing must match operator intent.** The brief is the pipeline's source of truth; operator intent lives in memory files — the pipeline must not polish a wrong premise. Enforced as the `brief_version 2.2` gate (v5.5), all BLOCKER for briefs declaring ≥ 2.2: (1) explicit `framing: preserve|refine|replace|new-direction` frontmatter, `AskUserQuestion`-validated in `/trekbrief` Phase 2.5; (2) memory-alignment as `brief-reviewer` dimension 6; (3) mandatory `## TL;DR`. Existing 2.0/2.1 briefs stay valid; `trekreview` briefs are exempt. Full implementation + contract evolution → `docs/HANDOVER-CONTRACTS.md` §Handover 1 (PUBLIC CONTRACT).
 
 ## Commands
 
@@ -53,9 +53,9 @@ Full flag reference for each command (modes, `--gates`, `--profile`, breaking ch
 | contrarian-researcher | opus | Counter-evidence, overlooked alternatives |
 | gemini-bridge | opus | Gemini Deep Research second opinion (conditional) |
 
-> **Inventory (S33 reconcile).** 24 agent files = **21 spawnable** (one of which, `synthesis-agent`, ships **dormant** — Δ≈0, wired to nothing, see `docs/T1-synthesis-poc-results.md`) **+ 3 orchestrator reference docs** (`planning-/research-/review-orchestrator` document the inline `/trek*` workflow; they are reference documentation, not spawnable capabilities). All 24 stay `model: opus` (operator pin `40d8742`); the glue/mechanical/retrieval/dormant roles (V09 gemini-bridge, V16 session-decomposer, V11 retrieval agents, V08 researchers, V35 synthesis) were reconsidered for a sonnet downgrade and **kept opus** — document-only, no frontmatter change (the decision record lives in `docs/voyage-vs-cc-balance-analysis.md` §10).
+> **Inventory (S33 reconcile).** 24 agent files = **21 spawnable** (one, `synthesis-agent`, ships **dormant** — Δ≈0, wired to nothing) **+ 3 orchestrator reference docs** (`planning-/research-/review-orchestrator` document the inline `/trek*` workflow, not spawnable capabilities). All 24 stay `model: opus` (operator pin `40d8742`); the glue/mechanical/retrieval/dormant roles were reconsidered for a sonnet downgrade and **kept opus** — decision record: `docs/voyage-vs-cc-balance-analysis.md` §10.
 
-> **Model & effort (CC 2.1.154+).** `opus` resolves to **Opus 4.8** (default reasoning effort `high`); `sonnet` to Sonnet 4.6. Select agents carry native `effort:` — retrieval agents (`task-finder`, `git-historian`, `dependency-tracer`, `architecture-mapper`) at `medium`, adversarial-reasoning agents (`plan-critic`, `risk-assessor`, `contrarian-researcher`, `review-coordinator`) at `high`. This native per-spawn **reasoning** effort is a different axis from brief `phase_signals.effort` (orchestration shape — which agents/passes run). See `docs/profiles.md` §Model & effort axes.
+> **Model & effort.** `opus` = Opus 4.8 (default reasoning effort `high`); `sonnet` = Sonnet 4.6. Select agents carry native per-spawn `effort:` (retrieval → `medium`, adversarial-reasoning → `high`) — a different axis from brief `phase_signals.effort` (orchestration shape: which agents/passes run). Per-agent table + axes → `docs/profiles.md` §Model & effort axes.
 
 ## Reference docs (read on demand)
 

docs/HANDOVER-CONTRACTS.md

@@ -45,6 +45,8 @@ Every validator exposes a CLI: `node lib/validators/<name>.mjs --json <path>` re
 
 **Stability tier: PUBLIC CONTRACT.** Handover 1 is the *only* public integration boundary of the pipeline: `brief.md` is what an upstream producer hands to Voyage, and Voyage consumes it without any knowledge of who produced it. This asymmetry is a hard invariant (see `CLAUDE.md` §Trinity context) — the interactive `/trekbrief` interview is just one producer; a `manual` brief, or an external per-app / per-portfolio producer, is equally valid as long as the artifact conforms to the schema below. No producer is privileged. The consequence: changing this schema — renaming or removing a field, narrowing an enum, or promoting an optional field to required — is a **breaking change for every downstream consumer** and MUST follow the [breaking-change protocol](#breaking-change-protocol) (version bump + N-1 compatibility window). Additive *optional* fields are non-breaking by design: the validator tolerates unknown frontmatter keys silently (forward-compat), so a newer brief still validates against an older consumer. The v5.5.0 contract formalization established `brief_version` **2.1** as the public-contract baseline and, in the same coordinated release, **evolved it to `2.2`** under the breaking-change protocol — adding the required `framing` field + `## TL;DR` section gated at ≥ 2.2 (existing 2.0/2.1 briefs stay valid). See the Versioning paragraph below for the 2.2 details.
 
+**Trinity producer context (informational).** In the author's private three-tier design, Voyage is **Tier 1** (per-task). Its upstream producers are **Tier 2 `app-creator`** (per-app — "what does the app need, what's the next brief?") and **Tier 3 `app-factory`** (per-portfolio — "which app needs me now?"), both pre-implementation and bound for Forgejo when ready. None is privileged: any schema-conforming producer is equally valid, and Voyage stays unaware of Tier 2/3 — this Handover is the only coupling.
+
 **Producer:** `/trekbrief` Phase 4g (after `brief-reviewer` stop-gate passes or iteration cap is hit).
 
 **Consumer:** `/trekresearch` Phase 1 (mode parse + brief validation).

docs/claudemd-token-trim-brief.md

@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+# Brief — trim voyage CLAUDE.md to invariants (always-loaded token reduction)
+
+**Author:** config-audit machine-tuning loop (KTG). **Date:** 2026-06-29.
+**Why config-audit didn't do this directly:** voyage is the operator's plugin — config-audit only writes briefs here, never code. Run this in a voyage session.
+
+## Goal
+
+`CLAUDE.md` is injected **every turn** while working in the voyage repo (the whole per-repo always-loaded delta). Measured with config-audit `manifest`: **2,261 always-loaded tokens**. The tables (commands, agents) are invariant; the cost sits in six design-history / context **block-quote notes** whose detail already lives in referenced docs. Moving them out (leaving a terse invariant + pointer) should cut **~900–1,200 tok (~40–50 %)** with zero capability loss.
+
+## Hard constraints (do NOT break these)
+
+- `tests/lib/doc-consistency.test.mjs` reads CLAUDE.md. Keep the **Commands table** and the **Agents table including the `Model` column** and any **count** the test cross-checks. After editing, `node --test 'tests/**/*.test.mjs'` and `bash verify.sh` must stay green.
+- Keep every **invariant fact** — just relocate the verbose *rationale/history* to the doc that already owns it, and leave a one-line pointer. Don't delete facts; move them.
+- Docs-only change → no version bump / no catalog ref unless the doc-consistency test demands a badge sync (it shouldn't for a CLAUDE.md prose trim).
+
+## Trim targets (line numbers as of commit at brief time; match by content)
+
+| Block | ~chars / ~tok | Action | Destination (already referenced) |
+|-------|---------------|--------|----------------------------------|
+| L5 design-principle parenthetical (synthesis-PoC Δ≈0 caveat) | 620 / ~155 | **Keep the honesty caveat in one short clause** ("main-context relief is asserted-by-design, not measured — see doc"), move the PoC explanation out | `docs/T1-synthesis-poc-results.md` |
+| L7 v3.0.0 architect-extraction note | 376 / ~94 | Replace with a one-liner: the plan command auto-discovers `architecture/overview.md` if present (migration history → CHANGELOG) | `CHANGELOG.md` |
+| L9 Trinity context (Tier 1/2/3) | 859 / ~215 | Keep the **asymmetry invariant** terse ("Voyage stays unaware of Tier 2/3; Handover 1 = the only integration point; brief-schema changes are breaking"), move the Tier 2/3 description out | `docs/HANDOVER-CONTRACTS.md` §Handover 1 |
+| **L11 brief-framing 3-layer gate** | **1,585 / ~396** | Biggest. Keep one invariant line ("brief framing must match operator intent — enforced as the `brief_version 2.2` gate: `framing` frontmatter + memory-alignment dim 6 + `## TL;DR`; all BLOCKER for ≥2.2"), move the implementation detail out | `docs/HANDOVER-CONTRACTS.md` §Handover 1 (PUBLIC CONTRACT) |
+| L56 S33 agent-inventory reconcile | 740 / ~185 | Keep the terse fact ("24 agent files = 21 spawnable + 3 orchestrator reference docs; `synthesis-agent` dormant; all `opus`"), move the sonnet-downgrade rationale out | `docs/voyage-vs-cc-balance-analysis.md` §10 |
+| L58 Model & effort axes | 588 / ~147 | Keep one line ("`opus`=Opus 4.8 / `high`; select agents carry native `effort:`; distinct from brief `phase_signals.effort`"), move the per-agent effort table + axes explanation out | `docs/profiles.md` §Model & effort axes |
+
+**Net:** ~2,261 → ~1,300 tok. (Verify the after-figure with `node /path/to/config-audit/scanners/manifest.mjs <voyage-path>` → the `project` `claude-md` source.)
+
+## Procedure
+
+1. For each block above, confirm the destination doc already contains the detail (it's referenced, so it should) — if not, move the prose there first.
+2. Replace each block-quote with its terse invariant + pointer.
+3. Leave Commands/Agents tables byte-exact (counts + model column).
+4. `node --test 'tests/**/*.test.mjs'` + `bash verify.sh` green; confirm `doc-consistency` passes.
+5. Re-measure; commit `docs(claude-md): trim CLAUDE.md to invariants` to voyage's Forgejo. Δ lands on the machine after operator `/exit` + reload.
+
+## Notes
+
+- This mirrors the same trim already done directly in config-audit (−662 tok), linkedin-studio (−2,266), ms-ai-architect (−346), okr (−15), portfolio-optimiser (−93) — same principle: CLAUDE.md carries invariants for working on the plugin; history/rationale lives in CHANGELOG + docs/.
+- The voyage honesty culture (no overclaiming) is *preserved*, not trimmed: the synthesis-PoC Δ≈0 caveat stays as a one-liner; only the long-form explanation moves to its doc.