onboarding: sync CLAUDE.global.md with the PI's global guidance - #60
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Ports four sections that the PI's ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md has gained since the kit was written, genericized for members: - Response format — dense senior-colleague register, no preamble/recap/meta. - Asking things — decisions go through AskUserQuestion with concrete options and a recommendation, not prose. - Git — worktree-per-feature (the statusline already flags a dirty primary checkout in red, but no rule said why) and PRs from the DanaResearchGroup remote, never a personal fork. History hygiene keeps the members' stricter "always ask before rewriting history", now with the downstream-check step. - stderr capture — persist stdout.log/stderr.log for RMG/ARC/T3 runs, since the tool's own log loses the traceback. Handoff cadence gains the cardinal rule (never park work in flight without filing a marker), with an explicit note that request-handoff.sh is a no-op until the ~/agents watcher is ported — deferred infra members don't install.
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The file is loaded into every session a member ever runs, so its size is a standing tax. It had drifted to 11.4 KB against the PI's own 7.7 KB. Now 9.2 KB, with no rule dropped: - Subagent roles: the four model/effort descriptions were a second copy of onboarding/agents/*.md. CLAUDE.global.md keeps the routing boundary and points there; MAINTAINING.md now names those files sole source of truth, so there is one less pair to hold in lockstep. - Probe-the-premise: dropped five PI-run war stories (the dead channel, the MW that didn't survive the boundary, the empty core) — persuasive to whoever lived them, opaque to a new member. - Skills: dropped the "this used to list ~35 skills and went stale" rationale; that is a maintenance decision, moved to MAINTAINING.md. - Response format, Asking, Git, Handoff: tightened prose, same rules. Silent-stall was a cut candidate but was rewritten instead: it told members to run `cc-deadman`, which AGY members never install (ONBOARDING step 12 gives them native /schedule). It had been pointing at commands they do not have, so it is now agent-agnostic and correct. Both timer placeholders now carry the +50% margin the bullet asks for, instead of reading as the bare expected duration. Also drops a stray `</content>` tag from the end of the file — a leaked tool-call closing tag that reached main in #60. MAINTAINING.md gains a "Keeping it small" section: the size target, the three kinds of content that belong in the maintainer file rather than the member's, and the caveat against trimming a rule to nothing to hit it.
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onboarding/CLAUDE.global.mdagainst the PI's~/.claude/CLAUDE.md, which has drifted ahead of the kit (MAINTAINING.md, "Updating the kit", step 2).Ported, genericized:
AskUserQuestionwith concrete options and a first-listed recommendation, never prose. Points at theask-one-by-oneskill, which ships in agent-skills.DanaResearchGroup/<repo>, never a personal fork, so collaborators and CI act on them directly.> >(tee -a stdout.log) 2> >(tee -a stderr.log >&2)for RMG/ARC/T3/benchmark runs —RMG.logalone loses the crash traceback.Deliberately not a verbatim mirror:
git branch --contains,git worktree list) feeds that ask instead of replacing it.request-handoff.sh, with an explicit NB that the script is a no-op without the~/agentsauto-handoff watcher, which MAINTAINING.md lists as deferred/PI-only. Context % is read off the group statusline, not~/agents/state/<uuid>.ctx.Leak scan from MAINTAINING.md step 1 is clean (only MAINTAINING's own self-references to the pattern).