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.

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).

Commands

Command	Description	Model
/trekbrief	Brief — interactive interview produces a task brief with explicit research plan; optionally orchestrates the pipeline	opus
/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)	opus
/trekplan	Plan — brief-reviewer, explore, plan, review. Requires --brief or --project. Auto-discovers architecture/overview.md if present	opus
/trekexecute	Execute — disciplined plan/session-spec executor with failure recovery	opus
/trekreview	Review — independent post-hoc review of delivered code against the brief. Produces review.md with severity-tagged findings (Handover 6)	opus
/trekcontinue	Continue — resumes the next session of a multi-session voyage project. Reads .session-state.local.json (Handover 7) and immediately begins executing	opus
/trekendsession	End-session — mark the current session complete and write session-state pointing at the next session. Helper for informal multi-session flows	opus

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

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
gemini-bridge	opus	Gemini Deep Research second opinion (conditional)

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. 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)

• 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), 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