voyage/CLAUDE.md

# trekplan

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 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`).

> **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 (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.** 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).

> **Binding rule (operator decision, 2026-09-27): Voyage never starts Claude Code.**
> Nothing Voyage ships may start a Claude Code session or model run: no `claude`
> CLI line, no Agent SDK, no spawned binary, no launch script. Work that needs
> another session becomes an order plus a starter line the user gives a session
> they open themselves (`/trekexecute` Phase 2.6, `lib/util/session-orders.mjs`);
> parallel work inside one session uses subagents. Enforced by
> `tests/lib/no-claude-code-launch.test.mjs`; its exemption list holds historical
> mentions plus one operator instrument (operator decision, 2026-10-02:
> `docs/proevesett.md` tells a person how to run Anthropic's plugin eval tool on
> the fixed test set; Voyage itself starts nothing), each with a reason and an
> exact count.

## Commands

| Command | Description | Orchestrator model |
|---------|-------------|--------------------|
| `/trekbrief` | Brief — interactive interview produces a task brief with explicit research plan; ends with the operator approving `## Intent` + `## Goal` (`--approve <dir>` does only that, then writes the trekbrief record); optionally orchestrates the pipeline | session |
| `/trekresearch` | Research — deep local + external research, produces structured research brief. Opt-in `--engine {swarm\|deep-research}` delegates the external phase to Claude Code's built-in `/deep-research` workflow (swarm default) | session |
| `/trekplan` | Plan — brief-reviewer, explore, plan, review. Requires `--brief` or `--project`; halts unless the brief's intent is approved (hash-bound, stale on edit). Auto-discovers `architecture/overview.md` if present | session |
| `/trekexecute` | Execute — disciplined plan/session-spec executor with failure recovery | session |
| `/trekreview` | Review — a gate: Claude Code's `/code-review` + `/security-review` as engine, then Voyage's brief control (which stops); writes `review.md` with a required verdict that `lib/review/verdict-gate.mjs` decides on (0 ALLOW/WARN · 1 BLOCK · 2 never green); proposes recurring finding classes as project memory, line by line (Handover 6) | session |
| `/trekcontinue` | Continue — resumes the next session of a multi-session voyage project. Reads `.session-state.local.json` (Handover 7) and immediately begins executing | session |
| `/trekendsession` | End-session — mark the current session complete and write session-state pointing at the next session. Helper for informal multi-session flows | session |

`session` = command frontmatter pins no `model:` (since v5.9.0), so the orchestrator follows the session model; sub-agent models come from the profile (see Model & effort below).

Full flag reference for each command (modes, `--gates`, `--profile`, breaking changes): see `docs/command-modes.md`.

> **STORM bounded loop — default-off, env-gated.** `/trekresearch` Phase 4.5
> (dimension discovery, under the existing `maxDimensions: 8` ceiling) and
> Phase 5 (bounded multi-turn follow-up) run only at `effort: high` **and** only
> when `VOYAGE_STORM_ENABLED=1`; unset, both are inert — Phase 5 because
> `lib/util/research-loop-cap.mjs` grants a budget of 0, Phase 4.5 because its
> skip-guard reads the flag directly (it never calls the cap). `TREKRESEARCH_MAX_CONV_TURNS` (default `3`,
> invalid values fall back to `3`) sets turns per dimension; the budget is that
> × `maxDimensions`. `VOYAGE_DISABLE_CAP_HOOK=1` switches off
> `hooks/scripts/pre-agent-cap.mjs`, the `PreToolUse` gate that enforces the
> budget in the harness rather than trusting prose. The cap counts turns from
> its own append-only ledger. Adoption as a default is gated on the
> pre-registered measurement in `docs/storm-measurement.md` — decline is a
> no-op, adopt is one constant.

> **Review is a gate (review_version 1.1).** `verdict:` is required in
> `review.md` (K7); exit 2 from the verdict gate is never green. No finding is
> struck for length — only MINOR/SUGGESTION text is trimmed, and counted.
> Project-memory lines are written only between Voyage's markers in the target
> repo's `.claude/rules/voyage-review-lessons.md`, each one operator-approved.
> Contract → `docs/HANDOVER-CONTRACTS.md` §Handover 6.

## Agents

| Agent | Model | Role |
|-------|-------|------|
| planning-orchestrator | opus | Inline reference documentation for the planning pipeline workflow (brief-driven) |
| research-orchestrator | opus | Inline reference documentation for the research pipeline workflow |
| review-orchestrator | opus | Inline reference documentation for the review pipeline workflow |
| architecture-mapper | opus | Codebase structure, tech stack, patterns |
| dependency-tracer | opus | Import chains, data flow, side effects |
| task-finder | opus | Task-relevant files, functions, reuse candidates |
| risk-assessor | opus | Risks, edge cases, failure modes |
| test-strategist | opus | Test patterns, coverage gaps, strategy |
| git-historian | opus | Recent changes, ownership, hot files |
| research-scout | opus | External docs for unfamiliar tech (conditional, planning only) |
| convention-scanner | opus | Coding conventions: naming, style, error handling, test patterns |
| brief-reviewer | opus | Task brief quality (6 dimensions: completeness, consistency, testability, scope clarity, research plan validity, memory alignment) |
| brief-conformance-reviewer | opus | Brief conformance review (SC + Non-Goal traceability) |
| code-correctness-reviewer | opus | Code correctness review (7 dimensions) |
| review-coordinator | opus | Judge Agent — dedup + reasonableness filter + verdict |
| plan-critic | opus | Adversarial plan review (10 dimensions) |
| scope-guardian | opus | Scope alignment (creep + gaps) |
| session-decomposer | opus | Splits plans into headless sessions with dependency graph |
| synthesis-agent | opus | Distills Phase-5/7 exploration outputs into a findings digest (NW3 PoC — **dormant**, not wired; delegating Phase 7 alone yields Δ main-context ≈ 0, see `docs/T1-synthesis-poc-results.md`) |
| docs-researcher | opus | Official documentation, RFCs, vendor docs (Tavily, MS Learn) |
| community-researcher | opus | Community experience: issues, blogs, discussions |
| security-researcher | opus | CVEs, audit history, supply chain risks |
| contrarian-researcher | opus | Counter-evidence, overlooked alternatives |

> **Inventory (S33 reconcile, updated v5.10.1).** 23 agent files = **20 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 23 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.** On the Anthropic API, `opus` = Opus 5.5 and `sonnet` = Sonnet 5.5 (both default reasoning effort `medium`); `fable` = Fable 5.1 (the most capable model in Claude Code; default `high`, so xhigh must be chosen explicitly). An agent without `effort:` inherits the session level. Eight agents pin native per-spawn `effort: high` and the rest follow the session; none pins below `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)

- **Architecture, workflows, project-directory contract, state, terminology:** `docs/architecture.md`
- **Quality infrastructure (`lib/` validators, parsers, autonomy primitives, hooks):** `docs/architecture.md` §Quality infrastructure
- **Autonomy gates (`--gates`), Path A/B/C decision:** `docs/operations.md`
- **Profile system (`--profile economy/balanced/premium/fable`), lookup order, custom profiles:** `docs/operations.md`
- **Observability (Stop hook, OTLP/textfile export, SSRF mitigation):** `docs/operations.md`
- **Handover contracts (the 7 pipeline handovers):** `docs/HANDOVER-CONTRACTS.md`