Ceremony now scales to the task. Requests are classified as spike, bounded, or architectural; small tasks skip the two-document ritual. Every path still stops for your approval before implementation. (#2063)
Controllers no longer stall on plan conflicts. Non-catastrophic conflicts and ambiguities get a recorded ruling and work continues; only destructive or irreversible actions still stop for a human. One donated session had sat blocked for almost nine hours on a question the controller could have decided. (#2077)
The pre-dispatch conflict scan records its checks in the ledger instead of just asserting the plan is clean. (#2080)
Small same-shape tasks batch into one dispatch, cutting subagent cost sharply on micro-task plans; batch reviews verify every file in the brief made it into the diff. (#2078)
Implementers and reviewers may not spawn their own subagents, which was producing duplicate reviews. (#2059)
Plans carry a Spec: pointer and SDD reads the spec at setup, so plan conflicts get resolved against the design instead of guessed at. (#2086)
Reviewers re-read evidence they find illegible instead of re-running the test suite (#2089), and circuit-breaker rulings now show up in the Finish report.
Subagent waits are event-driven instead of poll-heavy, spawns pin model and reasoning effort explicitly, and the multi-agent reference is corrected against Codex source. (#2060, #2061, #2062)
Worktree removal no longer destroys untracked files. When git worktree remove refuses because the tree holds uncommitted work, the skill stops, names the files, and asks — instead of reaching for --force. (#2016, #1223, #2024)