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Handoff: Context Mode followup + /recall v2 + feature-plan dogfood

URL: https://mkdocs.justinsforge.com/memory/handoffs/contextmode-followup-2026-05-03/

Date: 2026-05-03 For: spawned Opus 4.7 worker (contextmode-followup_Opus47) Origin session: Console-Claude, ended ~10:45 CT

Read these in order

  1. memory/daily/2026-05-03.md, last 3 [Claude Code] Session Checkpoint entries from this morning
  2. memory/research/superpowers-context-mode-claudemem-vs-forge-stack-2026-05-03.md, the deep-research report driving everything
  3. memory/handoffs/recall-v2-three-layer-retrieval-2026-05-03.md, design doc for /recall v2
  4. .claude/skills/feature-plan/SKILL.md, new skill written this session (HARD-GATE pattern lifted from obra/superpowers)
  5. .claude/skills/DeepResearch/SKILL.md, renamed from /research, explicit-only invocation now

Already done in the origin session

  • Watched the Nate Herk "100+ Claude Code Skills" video (cached at data/watchyoutube/eRS3CmvrOvA/)
  • Deep-research report written. Verdicts: Superpowers steal-design-only, Context Mode install, ClaudeMem skip + steal-design
  • /research → /DeepResearch rename complete (skill dir, topic file, MEMORY.md index entry)
  • /feature-plan skill written, registered, plans dir created at memory/plans/
  • Context Mode installed end-to-end:
  • marketplace added (scottconverse/context-mode)
  • plugin v1.6.1 installed user-scope via claude plugin install
  • plugin.json patched at ~/.claude/plugins/cache/scottconverse-context-mode/context-mode/1.6.1/.claude-plugin/plugin.json (removed "hooks": "./hooks/hooks.json" line, fixed duplicate-hooks load error)
  • deps installed in ~/.claude/plugins/data/context-mode/ (130 pkgs, incl better-sqlite3)
  • FTS5 verified, MCP server probed (starts cleanly, migrates KB to v1)

Your job in priority order

  1. Verify Context Mode is live. Run /context-mode:ctx-doctor and /context-mode:ctx-stats. Report what you see in plain text.
  2. Smoke-test interception. Trigger a tool call that should be redirected: git log --oneline | head -50 via Bash, or a Read on a >5KB file (try forge/CLAUDE.md or forge/FORGE-DOCTRINE.md). Then re-run /context-mode:ctx-stats and confirm interception fired + tokens saved. If nothing intercepted, check ~/.claude/plugins/data/context-mode/ logs.
  3. Decide with Justin whether to file an upstream issue against scottconverse/context-mode for the duplicate-hooks plugin.json bug. If yes, draft and file via gh issue create -R scottconverse/context-mode. Title suggestion: "plugin.json hooks field causes duplicate-hooks load error in Claude Code 2.1.126+". Body should include the exact error, the patch (one-line removal of "hooks": "./hooks/hooks.json"), and that the standard hooks/hooks.json is auto-loaded.
  4. Optional, dogfood /feature-plan by running /feature-plan recall v2 three-layer retrieval. Don't start implementation; just get the spec approved and the plan file written to memory/plans/. This unblocks the recall-v2 handoff.

Important context

  • Justin doesn't edit code himself; commission tweaks via plain language, never hand him a code block to edit
  • No em-dashes anywhere in output
  • /DeepResearch is explicit-only now: do NOT auto-invoke from natural-language phrasings. Only fire if Justin types /DeepResearch literally.
  • Cost model: subscription quota only. No separate Anthropic API account.
  • If Context Mode hooks fail to load after this fresh session start, the most likely cause is plugin.json got reloaded from a refresh path; re-apply the same one-line patch (delete the "hooks": "./hooks/hooks.json" line).

Report style

Report findings concisely after each numbered job (~3-5 lines per item). Justin can paste the spawned session URL into @forge_remote_bridge_bot if he wants to deep-dive. Use the standard checkpoint format at the end of your work.