WP2: Swarm history purge (untrack .vreko-swarm archives + state/, delete .devagents, .qoder, swarm-assets genesis dump)

[qmarcelle]

Finding

.vreko-swarm/ is ~70% history (800 of 1,138 tracked files). Live core is ~120 files. Plus SnapBack-era precursors and orphaned editor copies are tracked and drifted.

Targets:

• Untrack under .vreko-swarm/: archive/ (279), archived specs (~200 of 357), ~90 dead campaign dirs, knowledge/repowiki (147, duplicate of .devagents/repowiki), session by-products (audits/, activations/, tasks/, dogfood/, dispatch/, merge-plans/, status/, outreach/, drift-checks/).
• Untrack .vreko-swarm/state/ (incl. current.json): live mutable coordination state churning every session, matches the canon-portability ledger direction.
• Delete .devagents/ (295 files, SnapBack-era precursor, nothing consumes it).
• Delete .qoder/ (3 files, orphaned .claude/skills copies for an abandoned editor).
• Dedupe .vreko-swarm/molds/contracts/ vs swarm-assets/molds/contracts/ (same 4 files, drifted); relocate swarm-assets/observability/ (live) under .vreko-swarm/ or scripts/, drop the rest of swarm-assets/ genesis dump.
• Residue: tracked package-lock.json + on-disk node_modules inside molds/contracts/.

Preserve live core: agents/, scripts/, meta-canon.md, docs/, audit-templates/, role-prompts/, guards/, protocols/, config/.

Action

Untrack (keep on disk where mutable, e.g. state/) via git rm --cached + gitignore; delete the dead precursors. Verify only exclusion-pattern references point at the removed dirs before acting.

Acceptance

• git ls-files .vreko-swarm | wc -l drops toward the ~120 live-core count
• .vreko-swarm/state/ gitignored; git check-ignore .vreko-swarm/state/current.json returns the path
• .devagents/ and .qoder/ absent from git ls-files
• No script or workflow references a removed path (grep evidence per dir in commit)

Note

Prerequisite for the generic-swarm extraction (Theme 6): extracting while 70% is dead history would port the debt. Audit source Theme 2.