Developer Documentation Consolidation - 2026-03-24 (v4.2)

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Developer documentation consolidation run for 2026-03-24. Analyzed 62 markdown spec files in scratchpad/, applied tone and consistency standards, and updated scratchpad/dev.md to v4.2.

Summary

• Files analyzed: 62 spec files (excluding dev.md)
• Tone issues fixed: 0
• dev.md version: v4.2 (updated from v4.1)
• Changes: 1 content addition, 2 new Related Documentation links
• Workflow Run: §23486408786

Changes Made

1. Engine Capability Notes — Engine Interface Architecture

Added explicit engine-specific capability notes to the Engine Interface Architecture section:

- max-turns (SupportsMaxTurns): Supported by Claude and Custom engines only.
  NOT supported by Copilot.
- firewall (SupportsFirewall): Supported by Claude, Copilot, Codex, and Custom engines.

Rationale: The max-turns restriction is critical for developers using Copilot workflows who might mistakenly configure max-turns. For Copilot, use timeout-minutes and prompt optimization instead. This fact was documented in token-budget-guidelines.md but absent from dev.md.

2. Related Documentation: token-budget-guidelines.md

Added link to the token budget guidelines spec covering max-turns engine restrictions, timeout-minutes configuration, and prompt optimization patterns for Copilot workflows.

3. Related Documentation: actions.md

Added link to the Custom GitHub Actions Build System spec covering the Go-based build system in pkg/cli/actions_build_command.go, directory structure under actions/, and action modes (standard vs dev).

Tone Scan Results

No actionable tone issues found. Full scan across all 62 spec files checked for: amazing, super easy, powerful feature, seamlessly, intuitive, effortless, game-changer, brilliant, fantastic, incredible, simply configure, robust (contextual), easily (contextual). Zero matches.

Borderline Terms Assessed (Carried Forward)

File	Term	Assessment
go-type-patterns.md:40	"Easy refactoring"	Factual technical property of type aliases
labels.md:127	"Perfect overlap"	Statistical/analytical observation
serena-tools-quick-reference.md:12	"✓ Perfect"	Table status indicator
mdflow.md:229	"no magic"	Technical negation
mdflow-comparison.md:553	"No magic mapping"	Technical negation
serena-tools-quick-reference.md:81	"highly efficient"	Supported by benchmark data
Multiple files	"Leverage/Leverages"	Standard technical verb
engine-review-summary.md:282	"straightforward implementation"	Factual description
github-actions-security-best-practices.md:166	"more robust than ls"	Technical comparison
actions.md:35	"Cannot easily share"	Factual limitation

Context: Commit 2379b27

The current HEAD commit (feat: wrap qmd documentation index step summary in details/summary HTML section #22623) wraps the QMD documentation index step summary in <details open> HTML, enabling progressive disclosure in GitHub Actions step summaries. This pattern is consistent with the recommendation in token-budget-guidelines.md to use <details> tags for output verbosity reduction. No scratchpad-level documentation changes were needed for this pattern change.

Statistics

Metric	Value
Files analyzed	62
Lines before	2573
Lines after	2580
Lines added	7
Tone adjustments	0
Content updates	1
New spec links	2

Next Run Recommendation

• Target date: 2026-03-25
• Monitor for new spec files
• Verify guard-policies-specification.md is updated to use allowed-repos throughout (currently still uses repos as deprecated alias)

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• expires on Mar 31, 2026, 11:20 AM UTC

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