* Update waitlist, run ralph experiments
* improve review quality: add --effort flag, subagent guidance, remove dead prompts
- add --effort high/max to Claude Code CLI (max for Opus, high for Sonnet/Haiku).
default was silently dropped from high to medium in March 2026.
- add subagent guidance to Review/IncrementalReview modeGuidance for parallel
investigation of large cross-cutting PRs (read-only, no side effects).
- remove "THINK HARDER" from mode prompts (vestigial, no longer controls thinking).
- remove redundant mode.prompt bodies from modes.ts — the actual guidance lives in
modeGuidance (selectMode.ts) and mode.prompt was dead code for all built-in modes
since the delegation system was removed in March.
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* make Mode.prompt optional, remove ModeSchema dead code
prompt is only needed by custom user-defined modes (validated by Zod
modeSchema in utils/schemas/modes.ts). built-in modes get their guidance
from modeGuidance in selectMode.ts. the arktype ModeSchema was never
imported anywhere.
Made-with: Cursor
* make modes.ts the single source of truth for mode guidance
move all mode guidance from modeGuidance in selectMode.ts into
mode.prompt in modes.ts. selectMode.ts now only contains the runtime
tool logic (resolving modes, merging user instructions, handling
PlanEdit/SummaryUpdate overrides). this eliminates the confusing
fallback chain where someone editing mode instructions had to know
to look in selectMode.ts rather than modes.ts.
Made-with: Cursor
* add self-review subagent step to Build mode, update wiki
Build mode now delegates a read-only subagent to review the diff
before committing, catching bugs/logic errors/edge cases that the
builder might miss. Also updates wiki/modes.md to reflect the
single-source-of-truth architecture (modes.ts owns all guidance,
selectMode.ts is pure runtime logic).
Made-with: Cursor
* update model snapshot (openrouter qwen3.6-plus rename)
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Colin McDonnell
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