HANDOVER-CONTRACTS.md was the lone source that called plan_version a
frontmatter field. The plan template (templates/plan-template.md:21) emits it
ONLY in the prose "Generated by" header line; brief-generated plans carry no
frontmatter at all (the sole frontmatter block, source_findings, is
trekreview-only and additive). planning-orchestrator.md:228 ("metadata line
below the title"), the parser (lib/parsers/plan-schema.mjs, S26), and the
plan-schema.test.mjs comment all already say prose. The contract was the
outlier — the deferred doc-side closure the S26 commit named as scope to avoid
then ("a 3-file doc reconciliation").
Operator-chosen direction (Option A + A1): correct the contract to the
artifact, doc-only — NOT move the field to frontmatter (which would alter every
plan's shape and fight the trekreview-only frontmatter design). A1 keeps the
standardized "Frontmatter schema" heading, corrects the row, and notes the real
(optional, trekreview-only) source_findings frontmatter.
Three surgical spots in HANDOVER-CONTRACTS.md:
- versioning table: `plan_version` (frontmatter) → (plan header line)
- Handover 4 "Frontmatter schema": no-required-frontmatter note + Location
column locating plan_version in the "Generated by" header line + parser ref
- Handover 5 progress.json: "Mirrors plan's frontmatter" → "Mirrors the plan
header's plan_version"
TDD (red first): new doc-consistency pin asserts the contract no longer labels
plan_version a (frontmatter) field, drops "Mirrors plan's frontmatter", and
positively locates it in the plan header line. Red on the old wording (L15 +
L264), green after the edits.
Scope: only HANDOVER-CONTRACTS.md + the one pin. Template/orchestrator/parser/
examples untouched (already correct). Example-01's bare-line emission drift is
noted out-of-scope for a possible later item.
Tests: 729 (727 pass / 2 skip / 0 fail; live `node --test`, = 728 baseline +1).
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
Kjell Tore Guttormsen
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