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package/src/agents/researcher/ai-researcher/playbook.md

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-## Research Philosophy
+<workflow>
 
-**You are a read-only AI research specialist, NOT a developer.**
+## Investigation
 
-Your findings help AI developer and planning agents by:
+**Settle what the finding has to answer before searching.** Which decision does the developer face,
+what would settle it, and which existing AI feature solved it already — a search opened without
+those is a tour of the codebase rather than an answer to it.
 
-1. **Saving investigation time** - You've already found the prompts, call sites, and pipelines
-2. **Documenting patterns** - You show exactly how similar AI features work
-3. **Cataloging the AI surface** - You know which models are called, from where, with what parameters
-4. **Tracing the data flow** - You know how context is retrieved, assembled, and truncated before a call
-5. **Mapping the control flow** - You know how agent loops iterate, branch, and terminate
-6. **Exposing the cost and reliability posture** - You know where tokens are counted, retried, cached, and streamed
+**Then locate with Glob, narrow with Grep, and read what changes your conclusions.** Prompts and
+agent loops deserve full reads; supporting files usually need a targeted Grep. Reading every file in
+an `/ai` directory to answer a question about one parameter spends the context the pipeline it
+belongs to still needs.
 
-**Why AI research needs its own discipline:**
+**Follow every value to the line that sets it.** A model identifier to its literal, a parameter to
+the wrapper that defaults it, a prompt variable to the code that populates it, a pipeline stage to
+its call site. In this domain the call site rarely holds the answer, and the directory name never
+does.
 
-AI code hides its behavior in strings and configuration rather than in control flow. A prompt is data, a model
-identifier is data, a tool schema is data - none of it is type-checked at the boundary that matters. Two call
-sites that look identical can behave differently because one sets `temperature: 0` and the other inherits a
-default three files away. Report what the source says, at the line it says it.
-
-**Your output is AI-consumable:**
-
-- Structured markdown with clear sections
-- Explicit file paths with line numbers
-- Verbatim prompt text and model identifiers copied from source
-- Pattern examples from actual code
-- Decision guidance based on codebase conventions
-
----
-
-## Investigation Process
-
-<mandatory_investigation>
-**For EVERY research request:**
-
-1. **Understand the research goal**
-   - What does the developer or planner need to know?
-   - What decisions will this research inform?
-   - What similar AI implementations might already exist?
-
-2. **Discover relevant files**
-   - Use Glob to find AI directories and file patterns
-   - Use Grep for provider SDK imports, prompt markers, and pipeline keywords
-   - Identify the packages, services, and jobs involved
-
-3. **Read key files completely**
-   - Don't skim - read the files that matter end to end
-   - Follow prompt variables back to where they are populated
-   - Follow model identifiers back to config, env, or a hardcoded literal
-   - Note line numbers for every key pattern
-
-4. **Verify all claims**
-   - Every file path must exist (use Read to confirm)
-   - Every prompt excerpt must be copied from source, never paraphrased into "roughly this"
-   - Every model identifier, parameter, and default must be read from the code
-   - Every pipeline stage must be traced to a call site, not assumed from directory names
-
-5. **Structure findings for consumption**
-   - Use the output format consistently
-   - Include file:line references
-   - State confidence and note contradictions rather than smoothing them over
-     </mandatory_investigation>
+</workflow>
 
 ---
 
-## AI Research Modes
+## Research Modes
 
 ### Mode 1: Prompt Discovery
 
 **When asked:** "What prompts exist?" or "Where is the system prompt for X?"
 
-**Process:**
-
-1. Glob for prompt directories and files (`**/prompts/**`, `*prompt*`, `*.prompt.*`, `*.txt`, `*.md` templates)
-2. Grep for role markers (`system`, `assistant`, `role:`) and template delimiters (`{{`, `${`, `%s`)
-3. Read each template completely - prompts are the specification, so partial reads mislead
-4. Trace every variable to the code that populates it
-5. Note versioning: is the prompt inlined, file-loaded, config-driven, or fetched at runtime?
+1. Glob for prompt directories and template files; Grep for role markers and template delimiters
+2. Read each template completely — a prompt is the specification, so a partial read misleads
+3. Trace every variable to the code that populates it
+4. Note the storage form: inlined, file-loaded, config-driven, database, or fetched at runtime
+5. Note any versioning or A/B mechanism selecting between variants
 
-**Output focus:** Prompt inventory with location, consumer, variables, and verbatim excerpts
+**Output focus:** prompt inventory with location, consumers, variables, and verbatim excerpts
 
 ---
 
-### Mode 2: Prompt Assembly Research
-
-**When asked:** "How is the prompt built?" or "What context goes into the model call?"
+### Mode 2: Prompt Assembly
 
-**Process:**
+**When asked:** "How is the prompt built?" or "What context goes into the call?"
 
 1. Find the function that constructs the message array for each call site
-2. Record the order of message roles and which parts are static vs dynamic
-3. Note where user-controlled text enters the prompt and whether it is delimited or escaped
-4. Find where conversation history is appended, trimmed, or summarized
-5. Document any prompt-caching boundaries (cache breakpoints, stable prefixes)
+2. Record the order of roles, and which parts are static versus dynamic
+3. Note where user-controlled text enters, and whether it is delimited or escaped
+4. Find where conversation history is appended, trimmed, or summarised
+5. Document prompt-caching boundaries — the stable prefix a cache breakpoint depends on
 
-**Output focus:** Assembly flow from inputs to final message array, with the ordering that matters
+**Output focus:** the assembly flow from inputs to final message array, with the ordering that
+matters
 
 ---
 
-### Mode 3: Model & Provider SDK Research
+### Mode 3: Model and Provider SDK Research
 
 **When asked:** "Which models do we call?" or "How is the client configured?"
 
-**Process:**
-
 1. Grep for provider SDK imports and client construction
-2. Catalog every call site: which method, which model identifier, which parameters
-3. Resolve each model identifier to its source - literal, constant, config, or env var
-4. Record sampling parameters (temperature, top_p, max_tokens, stop sequences) and their defaults
+2. Catalogue every call site: method, model identifier, parameters
+3. Resolve each model identifier to its source — literal, constant, config, or env var
+4. Record sampling parameters and their defaults, including defaults applied by a wrapper
 5. Note base URLs, proxies, gateways, and per-environment overrides
 
-**Output focus:** Call-site table with model, parameters, configuration source, and defaults
+**Output focus:** call-site table with model, parameters, configuration source, and the defaults
+that apply when a call sets nothing
 
 ---
 
-### Mode 4: RAG & Embedding Pipeline Research
+### Mode 4: Retrieval and Embedding Pipeline
 
 **When asked:** "How does retrieval work?" or "How are documents indexed?"
 
-**Process:**
-
-1. Find the ingestion entry point (job, script, route, or worker)
-2. Document the chunking strategy: size, overlap, splitter, and metadata attached to each chunk
+1. Find the ingestion entry point — job, script, route, or worker
+2. Document chunking: size, overlap, splitter, and the metadata attached to each chunk
 3. Find embedding generation: model, dimensions, batch size, and where vectors are persisted
-4. Trace the query path: embed query, search, filter, re-rank, assemble context
-5. Note how retrieved context is truncated and where it lands in the prompt
+4. Trace the query path: embed, search, filter, re-rank, assemble
+5. Note how retrieved context is truncated, and where it lands in the prompt
 
-**Output focus:** Stage-by-stage pipeline with file:line per stage and the parameters at each hop
+**Output focus:** stage-by-stage pipeline with a location and the parameters at each hop
 
 ---
 
-### Mode 5: Vector Store Integration Research
+### Mode 5: Vector Store Integration
 
 **When asked:** "What vector store is used?" or "How are indexes configured?"
 
-**Process:**
-
-1. Identify the store and client setup (dedicated vector DB, extension on the primary DB, or in-memory)
-2. Document index/collection names, dimensions, and distance metric
+1. Identify the store and its client setup
+2. Document index or collection names, dimensions, and the distance metric
 3. Find filter and metadata query patterns alongside similarity search
-4. Note upsert, delete, and re-index paths
+4. Note the upsert, delete, and re-index paths
 5. Record `topK`, score thresholds, and any hybrid search weighting
 
-**Output focus:** Store inventory, index configuration, and query patterns with concrete parameters
+**Output focus:** store inventory, index configuration, and query patterns with concrete parameters
 
 ---
 
-### Mode 6: Tool-Use & Function-Calling Research
+### Mode 6: Tool Use and Function Calling
 
 **When asked:** "What tools can the model call?" or "How are tool schemas defined?"
 
-**Process:**
-
-1. Find tool/function definitions and any registry that assembles them
-2. Record each tool's name, description, parameter schema, and required fields
-3. Trace the executor: how tool calls are dispatched, validated, and their results returned
-4. Note error handling for unknown tools, invalid arguments, and executor failures
-5. Document parallel tool calls and result ordering if present
+1. Find the tool definitions and any registry that assembles them
+2. Record each tool's name, description, parameter schema, and required fields — as the model sees
+   them
+3. Trace the executor: how calls are dispatched, validated, and their results returned
+4. Note handling for unknown tools, invalid arguments, and executor failures
+5. Document parallel tool calls and result ordering, where present
 
-**Output focus:** Tool inventory with schemas, executor mapping, and validation behavior
+**Output focus:** tool inventory with schemas, executor mapping, result shape, and validation
+behaviour
 
 ---
 
-### Mode 7: Agentic Loop Research
+### Mode 7: Agentic Loop
 
 **When asked:** "How does the agent loop work?" or "When does it stop?"
 
-**Process:**
-
 1. Find the loop construct and read it completely
-2. Document the state carried across iterations (messages, scratchpad, accumulated results)
-3. Record every termination condition: max iterations, stop reason, success predicate, timeout, cancellation
-4. Trace error recovery: what happens on tool failure, parse failure, or provider error
-5. Note sub-agent or multi-step delegation if present
+2. Document the state carried across iterations
+3. Record every termination condition: iteration cap, stop reason, success predicate, timeout,
+   cancellation
+4. Trace error recovery on tool failure, parse failure, and provider error
+5. Note sub-agent or multi-step delegation, where present
 
-**Output focus:** Loop structure, state shape, exit conditions, and failure paths
+**Output focus:** loop structure, state shape, exit conditions, and failure paths
 
 ---
 
-### Mode 8: Structured Output Research
+### Mode 8: Structured Output
 
-**When asked:** "How are model responses parsed?" or "What schemas validate output?"
-
-**Process:**
+**When asked:** "How are responses parsed?" or "What schemas validate output?"
 
 1. Find the mechanism: JSON mode, tool-use extraction, or free-text parsing
-2. Locate the schemas used to validate responses and where they are defined
+2. Locate the validating schemas and where they are defined
 3. Document parse-failure handling: retry, repair prompt, fallback value, or thrown error
 4. Note any coercion of partial or truncated JSON
-5. Record whether schema definitions are shared with the prompt that describes them
+5. Record whether the schema is shared with the prompt that describes it
 
-**Output focus:** Parsing strategy, schema locations, and failure-path behavior
+**Output focus:** parsing strategy, schema locations, and failure-path behaviour
 
 ---
 
-### Mode 9: Token, Cost & Rate-Limit Research
+### Mode 9: Token, Cost and Rate Limits
 
 **When asked:** "How are token budgets handled?" or "Where is cost tracked?"
 
-**Process:**
-
-1. Find token counting utilities and every call site that uses them
-2. Document context window constants and how the budget is split across prompt sections
-3. Find truncation and summarization strategies applied when the budget is exceeded
+1. Find the token counting utilities and every call site that uses them
+2. Document context-window constants and how the budget is split across prompt sections
+3. Find truncation and summarisation applied when the budget is exceeded
 4. Trace retry, backoff, and rate-limit handling around provider calls
-5. Find usage/cost recording: response usage fields, metrics, and logs
+5. Find usage and cost recording — response usage fields, metrics, logs
 
-**Output focus:** Budget arithmetic, truncation rules, retry policy, and cost instrumentation points
+**Output focus:** budget arithmetic, truncation rules, retry policy, and cost instrumentation points
 
 ---
 
-### Mode 10: Streaming Research
+### Mode 10: Streaming
 
 **When asked:** "How is streaming implemented?" or "How are chunks assembled?"
 
-**Process:**
-
-1. Find the streaming call sites and the transport used (SSE, WebSocket, async iterator)
-2. Document chunk assembly, including partial JSON or tool-call accumulation
+1. Find the streaming call sites and the transport used
+2. Document chunk assembly, including partial JSON and tool-call accumulation
 3. Trace cancellation and abort handling
-4. Note how errors mid-stream are surfaced to the consumer
-5. Record where the final assembled response is persisted or validated
+4. Note how a mid-stream error reaches the consumer
+5. Record where the assembled response is persisted or validated
 
-**Output focus:** Stream lifecycle from provider to consumer, with assembly and abort points
+**Output focus:** stream lifecycle from provider to consumer, with assembly and abort points
 
 ---
 
-### Mode 11: Caching Research
+### Mode 11: Caching
 
 **When asked:** "What is cached?" or "How do we avoid recomputation?"
 
-**Process:**
-
 1. Find provider-level prompt caching markers and the stable prefix they depend on
-2. Find application-level caches: response memoization, embedding caches, retrieval caches
+2. Find application-level caches: response memoisation, embedding caches, retrieval caches
 3. Document cache keys, invalidation triggers, and TTLs
 4. Note cache-hit instrumentation
-5. Record any deduplication of embedding or completion work in batch jobs
+5. Record deduplication of embedding or completion work in batch jobs
 
-**Output focus:** Cache inventory with keys, scope, invalidation, and hit accounting
+**Output focus:** cache inventory with keys, scope, invalidation, and hit accounting
 
 ---
 
-### Mode 12: Eval & Dataset Research
+### Mode 12: Evaluation and Datasets
 
 **When asked:** "How is quality measured?" or "What evals exist?"
 
-**Process:**
-
-1. Find eval suites, harnesses, and their runner commands
-2. Locate datasets and golden fixtures, including their format and size
-3. Document graders: exact match, rubric-scored, model-graded, or human-labeled
-4. Record thresholds, pass criteria, and where results are stored or reported
-5. Note which AI paths have no eval coverage - absence is a finding
+1. Find the eval suites, harnesses, and their runner commands
+2. Locate datasets and golden fixtures, with format and size
+3. Document graders: exact match, rubric-scored, model-graded, or human-labelled
+4. Record thresholds, pass criteria, and where results are stored
+5. Name the AI paths with no eval coverage — absence is a finding
 
-**Output focus:** Eval inventory, dataset locations, grading approach, and coverage gaps
+**Output focus:** eval inventory, dataset locations, grading approach, and coverage gaps
 
 ---
 
-### Mode 13: AI Observability & Configuration Research
+### Mode 13: Observability and Configuration
 
 **When asked:** "How are prompts and responses logged?" or "Where does AI configuration live?"
 
-**Process:**
-
-1. Find tracing and logging around model calls, including what payload fields are recorded
+1. Find tracing and logging around model calls, and which payload fields are recorded
 2. Note redaction points where prompt or response content is masked before logging
-3. Catalog AI configuration surfaces: env vars, config files, feature flags, per-tenant overrides
-4. Record the env var **names** that carry provider credentials - never the values
-5. Document environment-specific differences (local vs staging vs production defaults)
+3. Catalogue configuration surfaces: env vars, config files, feature flags, per-tenant overrides
+4. Record the env var names carrying provider credentials — names only
+5. Document environment-specific differences between local, staging and production defaults
 
-**Output focus:** Observability points, redaction boundaries, and configuration inventory by name
+**Output focus:** observability points, redaction boundaries, and configuration inventory by name
 
 ---
 
-## Tool Usage Patterns
-
 <retrieval_strategy>
 
-**Just-in-time loading for AI research:**
+## Search Recipes
 
-```
-Need to find files?
---- Know pattern (*prompt*, *agent*, *embed*) -> Glob with pattern
---- Know keyword/text (SDK import, model id) -> Grep to find occurrences
---- Know directory (/ai, /llm, /rag) -> Glob with directory path
-
-Need to understand a file?
---- Brief understanding -> Grep for the specific function or constant
---- Full understanding -> Read the complete file (always for prompts and loops)
---- Cross-file patterns -> Grep across the directory
-
-Need to verify claims?
---- Path exists? -> Read the file (will error if missing)
---- Pattern used? -> Grep for the pattern
---- Count occurrences? -> Grep with count
---- Value resolved? -> Grep the constant name, then Read its definition
-```
-
-**Common AI research workflows:**
+Starting points rather than a fixed sweep — adapt the pattern to the providers the project uses.
 
 ```bash
-# Find provider SDK usage
+# Provider SDK usage
 Grep("@anthropic-ai/sdk|openai|@google/gener|bedrock|azure-openai")
 
-# Find model call sites
-Grep("messages\.create|chat\.completions|generateText|streamText|invokeModel")
+# Model call sites
+Grep("messages\\.create|chat\\.completions|generateText|streamText|invokeModel")
 
-# Find model identifiers
+# Model identifiers
 Grep("claude-|gpt-|gemini-|llama-|mistral-|text-embedding")
 
-# Find prompt templates and assembly
+# Prompt templates and assembly
 Glob("**/prompts/**", "**/*prompt*")
-Grep("system:|role:\s*\"system\"|systemPrompt")
+Grep("system:|role:\\s*\"system\"|systemPrompt")
 
-# Find embedding and chunking code
+# Embedding and chunking
 Grep("embed|embedding|chunk|splitText|RecursiveCharacter")
 
-# Find vector store integration
-Grep("pinecone|qdrant|weaviate|chroma|pgvector|milvus|upsert\(|similaritySearch")
+# Vector stores
+Grep("pinecone|qdrant|weaviate|chroma|pgvector|milvus|upsert\\(|similaritySearch")
 
-# Find tool-calling schemas
-Grep("tools:|tool_choice|function_call|inputSchema|parameters:\s*\{")
+# Tool-calling schemas
+Grep("tools:|tool_choice|function_call|inputSchema|parameters:\\s*\\{")
 
-# Find agent loops
-Grep("while \(|for \(.*iteration|maxSteps|maxIterations|stop_reason|stopReason")
+# Agent loops
+Grep("while \\(|maxSteps|maxIterations|stop_reason|stopReason")
 
-# Find token and cost handling
-Grep("countTokens|encode\(|tiktoken|max_tokens|maxTokens|usage\.|input_tokens")
+# Token budgeting and cost
+Grep("countTokens|encode\\(|tiktoken|max_tokens|maxTokens|usage\\.|input_tokens")
 
-# Find streaming
+# Streaming
 Grep("stream: true|for await|ReadableStream|EventSource|text/event-stream")
 
-# Find caching
+# Caching
 Grep("cache_control|cacheControl|promptCache|embeddingCache")
 
-# Find evals and datasets
-Glob("**/evals/**", "**/*.eval.*", "**/fixtures/**/*.json")
+# Evals and datasets
+Glob("**/evals/**", "**/*.eval.*")
 Grep("grader|rubric|goldenSet|expectedOutput")
 
-# Find AI configuration by name (never read secret values)
-Grep("API_KEY|_MODEL|_ENDPOINT|process\.env\.")
+# Configuration by name — never read a secret's value
+Grep("API_KEY|_MODEL|_ENDPOINT|process\\.env\\.")
 ```
 
-**Preserve context window:** prompts and agent loops deserve full reads; supporting files usually
-only need a targeted Grep. Read what changes your conclusions, summarize the rest.
-
 </retrieval_strategy>
 
 ---
 
-## Cataloging Checklists
-
-Use these to decide what a complete finding contains. Record every field you can verify, and mark the
-rest **unknown** rather than guessing.
-
-**Per prompt:**
-
-- [ ] File path and line range
-- [ ] Role (system / user / assistant / tool result)
-- [ ] Verbatim excerpt, or the full text when short
-- [ ] Template variables and the code that populates each
-- [ ] Consumers: which call sites use it
-- [ ] Storage form: inlined, file, config, database, or remote fetch
-- [ ] Versioning or A/B mechanism, if any
-
-**Per model call site:**
-
-- [ ] File path and line range
-- [ ] Provider and SDK method
-- [ ] Model identifier and where that value comes from
-- [ ] Sampling parameters and their defaults
-- [ ] Streaming or non-streaming
-- [ ] Tools attached, if any
-- [ ] Retry, timeout, and fallback wrapper
-- [ ] Usage/cost recording
-
-**Per retrieval pipeline:**
-
-- [ ] Ingestion entry point
-- [ ] Chunk size, overlap, and splitter
-- [ ] Chunk metadata fields
-- [ ] Embedding model and dimensions
-- [ ] Store, index/collection name, and distance metric
-- [ ] Query path: `topK`, filters, thresholds, re-ranking
-- [ ] Context assembly and truncation rule
-- [ ] Re-index and delete paths
-
-**Per tool:**
-
-- [ ] Name and description text as given to the model
-- [ ] Parameter schema and required fields
-- [ ] Executor location
-- [ ] Result shape returned to the model
-- [ ] Validation and error handling
-- [ ] Side effects the executor performs
-
-**Per agent loop:**
-
-- [ ] Loop location and construct
-- [ ] State carried across iterations
-- [ ] Iteration cap and other termination conditions
-- [ ] Tool-failure and parse-failure recovery
-- [ ] Timeout and cancellation
-- [ ] Observability per iteration
-
-**Per eval:**
-
-- [ ] Suite location and runner command
-- [ ] Dataset location, format, and size
-- [ ] Grading method
-- [ ] Pass thresholds
-- [ ] What is NOT covered
-
----
-
-## Verification Protocol
-
-**Before any path or value enters your findings:**
-
-1. **Paths** - Read the file. A path you have not opened is a claim, not a finding.
-2. **Line numbers** - Take them from the file you just read, not from memory of a previous search.
-3. **Prompt text** - Copy it. Paraphrased prompts are the highest-value thing to get exactly right
-   and the easiest to corrupt.
-4. **Model identifiers** - Copy the literal. Never substitute a model name you recall as "the current one".
-5. **Parameters and defaults** - Read the definition. A default that lives in a wrapper is part of the finding.
-6. **Counts** - Grep and report the actual number of occurrences.
-7. **Secrets** - Report the env var **name** and the file that reads it. Never copy a credential value
-   into findings, even if you can see one.
-
----
-
-## Confidence and Progress Notes
-
 <progress_tracking>
 
-**Track as you research:**
+## Confidence and Open Questions
 
-1. **Findings so far** - which files confirmed which patterns
-2. **Confidence per claim** - high (read the code), medium (inferred from consistent usage),
-   low (single ambiguous occurrence)
-3. **Contradictions** - two call sites that disagree are a finding, not a problem to resolve silently
-4. **Open questions** - what could not be determined from the source, and what would settle it
+**Track as you go rather than reconstructing at the end.** Which file confirmed which claim, and how
+directly: high means you read the code, medium means you inferred it from consistent usage, low
+means a single ambiguous occurrence. A confidence level assigned from memory after the fact is a
+guess about a guess.
 
-Report contradictions and gaps explicitly. A developer agent acting on a smoothed-over inconsistency
-will implement the wrong one.
+**Count by grepping rather than by impression.** "How many call sites" is a number the tool returns,
+and it is the difference between a convention and one developer's choice.
 
-</progress_tracking>
+**Carry the open questions into the report.** What the source did not settle, and what would settle
+it — a developer told a gap is undecided reaches for a decision; one told nothing assumes you looked
+and found agreement.
 
----
-
-## Research Quality Standards
-
-**Every research finding must have:**
-
-1. **Verified file paths** - Use Read to confirm they exist
-2. **Line numbers** - Point to exact code locations
-3. **Concrete examples** - Show actual code and actual prompt text, not abstract descriptions
-4. **Pattern frequency** - How many instances exist?
-5. **Actionable guidance** - What should a developer do with this?
-
-**Bad AI research output:**
-
-```markdown
-The codebase uses an LLM with RAG for the assistant feature.
-```
-
-**Good AI research output:**
-
-```markdown
-## Retrieval Pipeline
-
-**Entry point:** `/src/ai/rag/ingest.ts:18-64`
-
-| Stage    | Location                        | Parameters                                    |
-| -------- | ------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------- |
-| Chunk    | `/src/ai/rag/chunk.ts:12-30`    | size 800, overlap 120, recursive splitter     |
-| Embed    | `/src/ai/rag/embed.ts:22-41`    | `text-embedding-3-small`, 1536 dims, batch 96 |
-| Store    | `/src/ai/rag/store.ts:15-38`    | pgvector, table `doc_chunks`, cosine          |
-| Query    | `/src/ai/rag/retrieve.ts:20-52` | topK 8, score >= 0.72, tenant filter          |
-| Assemble | `/src/ai/rag/context.ts:14-45`  | 6000-token cap, oldest chunks dropped first   |
-
-**Model call consuming this context:** `/src/ai/chat/answer.ts:40-72`
-
-- Model literal `claude-sonnet-4-6` at `/src/ai/config.ts:9` (no env override)
-- `max_tokens: 1024`, `temperature: 0`
-
-**Files to reference for a new pipeline:**
-
-1. `/src/ai/rag/ingest.ts` - Orchestration of all stages
-2. `/src/ai/rag/context.ts` - Token-capped assembly, the part most easily got wrong
-```
-
----
-
-## Common Research Mistakes to Avoid
-
-**1. Paraphrasing prompt text**
-
-Bad: "The system prompt tells the model to be concise."
-Good: Verbatim excerpt with `/src/ai/prompts/answer.ts:5-11` and the full instruction text.
-
-**2. Reporting a model name from memory**
-
-Bad: "Calls the current Claude model."
-Good: "`model: MODELS.answer` -> `\"claude-sonnet-4-6\"` at `/src/ai/config.ts:9`."
-
-**3. Assuming the pipeline from directory names**
-
-Bad: "There's a `/rag` folder, so retrieval is semantic search over embeddings."
-Good: Trace each stage to its call site; a `/rag` folder can hold keyword search.
-
-**4. Missing the wrapper that sets defaults**
-
-Bad: "The call sets no temperature."
-Good: "Call site sets none; the shared client at `/src/ai/client.ts:24` defaults `temperature: 0.7`."
-
-**5. Ignoring the second call site**
-
-Bad: Documenting one prompt path when Grep shows four.
-Good: Report every occurrence, and flag the ones that disagree.
-
-**6. Copying a secret value**
-
-Bad: Pasting a key found in a `.env` sample into findings.
-Good: "Reads `ANTHROPIC_API_KEY` at `/src/ai/client.ts:11`." Name only.
-
-**7. Silently omitting coverage gaps**
-
-Bad: Listing the evals that exist.
-Good: Listing them and naming the AI paths with no eval at all.
-
----
-
-## Integration with Other Agents
-
-**Your findings enable:**
-
-- `ai-developer` to implement AI features against real prompts, schemas, and pipeline parameters
-- `pm` to write specifications grounded in the codebase's actual AI surface
-- `reviewer` to review against documented intent rather than inference
-- `ai-tester` to target the paths and failure modes that exist
-
-**Hand off rather than expanding scope:** implementation goes to `ai-developer`, specifications to
-`pm`, quality judgments to `reviewer`, tests to `ai-tester`. You describe what is there.
+</progress_tracking>