Trim the always-loaded token cost of the agent listing Claude Code injects
into every session. The three *-orchestrator reference docs
(planning/research/review) and the dormant synthesis-agent carried
multi-paragraph description: frontmatter (full rationale + CC-2.1.172
history + a usage example) despite never being spawnable from the live
/trek* pipeline; their description is now a single line, with the full
rationale already living — and remaining — in each file's body. ~700
tokens trimmed, no behavior change.
The three orchestrators retain the self-declaration "reference document,
not a spawnable capability" (doc-consistency pin); synthesis-agent retains
its DORMANT / not-wired flag + docs/T1-synthesis-poc-results.md pointer.
Bump plugin.json, package.json, package-lock.json, and the README badge to
5.6.1; prepend CHANGELOG v5.6.1 entry + README What's-new note. Surfaced
via config-audit always-loaded token-audit dogfooding.
Additive — no breaking change, no runtime behavior change. Canonical
node --test: 739 pass, 0 fail (2 skipped); version-consistency + agent
inventory + frontmatter pins green.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01CrTb8ktf1XZWEVwgz5MTTo
Balance-backlog S33 (DOC, non-breaking). The D1–D3 forks resolved conservatively
(balance-backlog-plan.md), collapsing the model + observability work into a
documentation record. Three deliverables, all doc-only, no code/frontmatter change:
- V35 (doc half): the "24 agents" headline is reconciled to its honest split —
21 spawnable (one dormant: synthesis-agent, Δ≈0) + 3 orchestrator reference
docs (planning-/research-/review-orchestrator document the inline /trek*
workflow; not spawned). Each orchestrator header now declares itself a
"reference document, not a spawnable capability". README + CLAUDE.md state the
split; counts in the new pins are DERIVED from agents/ so they survive reword.
- D2 (V32 rationale): docs/observability.md gains a "Why direct export rather
than a native collector" section — direct export keeps the path / SSRF /
field-allowlist guards in audited in-process code (the S21 hardening) instead
of re-hosting a collector; textfile mode remains the collector escape hatch.
- D3 (kept-opus): docs/voyage-vs-cc-balance-analysis.md §10 decision record —
opus on V09 (glue), V35 (dormant), V11 (retrieval), V16 (mechanical), V08
(researchers) was reconsidered for sonnet and KEPT (pin 40d8742 firm).
No agent frontmatter changed — tests/lib/agent-frontmatter.test.mjs is the
structural model source-of-truth and is untouched (diff is description-only:
model: opus + tools lists unchanged, no Agent tool granted). No Handover-1
change; no exporter/gemini-bridge removal. Non-breaking, no version bump.
tests/lib/doc-consistency.test.mjs: +5 S33 pins (inventory split derived from
agents/; synthesis-agent dormant; orchestrator relabel; observability D2
rationale; analysis-doc D1–D3 record). Tests 739 (737 pass / 2 skip / 0 fail),
bar `node --test`; `claude plugin validate` green (1 accepted warning).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LqBYc8Ltrk7LipyJmGxXiB
Follow-up to e7a58b0 (S20). Operator directive: errors found during a
task must always be fixed, not flagged out-of-scope. The three
orchestrator reference docs (review/research/planning) carried a
pre-pinning "Cost: Use Sonnet for all sub-agents" rule that contradicts
the operator-pinned all-opus reality (40d8742 — all 24 named agents are
model: opus, guarded by agent-frontmatter.test.mjs). The authoritative
command (trekresearch.md) was already correct.
Corrected all three to mirror trekresearch.md: sub-agents use their
pinned model: frontmatter (currently opus); a phase_signals model signal
or the active --profile (e.g. economy) overrides per-phase. Legitimate
sonnet uses (economy profile, low-effort path) are per-phase overrides,
not a blanket default — left untouched. The two "(Sonnet, Explore)"
ad-hoc follow-up/deep-dive hints are outside the 24-agent pinning and
align with the global "Sonnet for retrieval" model strategy — left as-is.
TDD: anti-false-claim doc-consistency pin written failing-first (3 hits)
in doc-consistency.test.mjs, then the prose fixed. Suite 713->714
(712 pass / 2 skip / 0 fail); census doc-pins 69->70, total 670->671.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LqBYc8Ltrk7LipyJmGxXiB
Survivor #3 (bake-off data un-archived): per-run JSON a1..b3.json was never
committed (git diff-filter=A empty), so the medians/jaccard ladder cannot be
re-derived or audited. Commit-path would require fabricated data (forbidden) →
downgraded "POSITIVE" to "opt-in-defensible (single un-archived run)" in
docs/T2-bakeoff-results.md (verdict line + §5 header + new §Reproducibility
caveat) and the v5.5.0 CHANGELOG entry. New doc-consistency pin fails if the
doc re-asserts bare POSITIVE or drops the un-archived disclosure.
Survivor #5 (latent dispatch risk): planning/research/review orchestrators are
inline reference docs no command invokes, yet shipped tools:["Agent",...]. The
harness cannot spawn sub-agents with Agent, so the grant was pure latent risk.
Dropped "Agent" from all three frontmatters; flipped the agent-frontmatter
invariant (its canonical home) from "must include Agent" to "must NOT include
Agent". Removed the duplicate orchestrator pin from doc-consistency to avoid a
double guard (S19 anti-bloat).
Tests 690 → 691 (689 pass / 2 skip / 0 fail). claude plugin validate passes
(1 accepted CLAUDE.md-at-root warning).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LqBYc8Ltrk7LipyJmGxXiB
8 sites across 3 orchestrator agents + trekbrief/trekplan/trekresearch asserted 'the harness does not expose the Agent tool to sub-agents' as present fact -- the rationale for the v2.4.0 inline migration. CC 2.1.172 (verified) lets sub-agents spawn sub-agents up to 5 levels deep, so the claim is false. Replaced each with verified history (pre-2.1.172) + current fact + forward pointer to the decision matrix (W1/CC-26). Decision-neutral: states fact without pre-empting the orchestration redesign. CHANGELOG history left untouched. Tests 578/0/2; claude plugin validate passes.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LqBYc8Ltrk7LipyJmGxXiB
