enhance(#4139): Phase 8 — the toggle becomes discoverable, and the ledger closes (#4587)

* enhance(#4139): Phase 8 — the toggle becomes discoverable, and the ledger closes

ADR-4139's final phase. workflow.compact_content already defaulted to false
(Phase 1's buildNewProjectConfig hardcoded default), but nothing surfaced it:
/gsd-new-project never asked, and /gsd-settings/config had no toggle path for
an already-initialized project — config-set/config-get were the only route.

new-project.md gains a fourth question in the existing Round 2 AskUserQuestion
array (grouped with the other general-workflow-behavior toggles, not the
per-agent capability questions above it) and threads compact_content into the
config-new-project CLI JSON literal. settings.md mirrors the exact pattern
every other non-capability workflow.* key already follows: read_current bullet,
question block, update_config write, the safe-merge non-capability-keys list,
save_as_defaults, and the confirm summary table — seven edits, zero new
src/*.cts code, since Phase 1's merge logic is a generic passthrough. Its
success_criteria question-count ("24 settings") is bumped to 25 to match the
now-25-entry main AskUserQuestion batch.

settings-advanced.md deliberately does NOT get a duplicate question: no other
boolean toggle in this repo is asked in both settings.md and
settings-advanced.md, and there's no reason to start with this one.

docs/CONFIGURATION.md, docs/USER-GUIDE.md, and a new docs/features/4139-compact-
content.md fragment (regenerated into docs/FEATURES.md) document the toggle.

ADR-4139 itself: Status flips Proposed -> Accepted, the acceptance-criteria
section becomes a guard ledger — a 13-row table covering all 12 of #4139's
original checkboxes plus the shipped-content guard criterion, each with real
evidence (the merged PR that satisfied it, fetched via `gh issue view
--json closedByPullRequestsReferences` rather than asserted from phase
numbers) — and both "Open questions for the implementation phases" are
resolved rather than left dangling: discuss-phase was never converted to
spine+detail shape (verified: no detail/ subdir exists) — a genuine gap, not a
reasoned decline; the disjointness check is confirmed line-based by reading
compact-content-split.cjs's normalizeNonTrivialLines directly.

Orthogonal review (isolated Standards/Spec code-review + security-review
sub-agents) found and this fixes two real defects: the changeset fragment's
body didn't match CONTRIBUTING.md's single em-dash-sentence format (was
multi-sentence prose naming implementation file paths); and settings.md's own
success_criteria still said "24 settings" after the new question pushed the
main batch to 25. Also fixed, found by the Spec pass while confirming
commands/gsd/settings.md correctly needed no sync edit: that file and its
skills/gsd-settings/SKILL.md twin both still described "Interactive 5-question
prompt (model, research, plan_check, verifier, branching)", stale since long
before this phase (the batch has had far more than 5 questions for a while) —
replaced with a description that names the current set without hardcoding a
count that will drift again.

gsd-test (real run, sha 1da78fe2) caught a third real regression the local
sweep missed: new-project.md is a registered spine+detail split for Phase 4's
token-reduction benchmark (scripts/benchmark-compact-content.cjs), and the new
question's +167 tokens drifted the committed baseline
(tests/fixtures/compact-content-benchmark-baseline.json). The benchmark itself
is designed never to fail CI on drift, but the test asserting the COMMITTED
baseline is currently non-drifted correctly caught it. Regenerated via
`node scripts/benchmark-compact-content.cjs --write`; re-verified --check now
reports "up to date" and the test file passes 27/27.

Closes #4408.
Closes #4139.

Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: new-project.md — new 4th Round-2 AskUserQuestion entry (Compact Content, #4139) plus the config-new-project CLI JSON field and explanatory sentence; a new opt-in toggle needs new prose.
Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: settings.md — new workflow.compact_content read_current bullet, question block, update_config write, safe-merge key, save_as_defaults field, and confirm summary row (the same seven-edit pattern every other non-capability workflow.* toggle already follows), plus the 24->25 success_criteria count fix found in review.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* chore(#4408): backfill changeset PR number

pr:0 -> pr:4587 now that gh pr create has returned the real number.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

---------

Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
Co-authored-by: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@@ -516,6 +516,10 @@ These spawn additional agents during planning/execution. They add tokens and tim
All recommended for important projects. Skip for quick experiments.
A fourth question in this same round covers Compact Content (#4139) — not a spawned agent,
but grouped here because it's the last general workflow-behavior toggle before the more
involved AI-models round below.
```
questions: [
{
@@ -544,6 +548,15 @@ questions: [
{ label: "Yes (Recommended)", description: "Confirm deliverables match phase goals" },
{ label: "No", description: "Trust execution, skip verification" }
]
},
{
header: "Compact Content",
question: "Use token-minimized instruction content where available? (smaller context footprint)",
multiSelect: false,
options: [
{ label: "No (Recommended)", description: "Full instruction detail loaded every time. Best while evaluating GSD or on a large context window." },
{ label: "Yes", description: "Terser instructions where a compact variant exists; canonical detail loads only when actually needed. Frees up context for long sessions or large codebases." }
]
}
]
@@ -605,7 +618,7 @@ Create `.planning/config.json` with all settings (CLI fills in remaining default
```bash
mkdir -p .planning
gsd_run query config-new-project '{"mode":"[yolo|interactive]","granularity":"[selected]","parallelization":true|false,"commit_docs":true|false,"model_profile":"quality|balanced|budget|adaptive|inherit","workflow":{"research":true|false,"plan_check":true|false,"verifier":true|false,"nyquist_validation":[false if granularity=coarse, true otherwise]},"plan_review":{"source_grounding":true|false},"ship":{"pr_body_sections":[{"heading":"User Stories & Acceptance Criteria","enabled":true|false,"source":"REQUIREMENTS.md ## User Stories || REQUIREMENTS.md ## Acceptance Criteria","fallback":"- Acceptance criteria are covered by the linked requirements and verification evidence."},{"heading":"Risks & Dependencies","enabled":true|false,"source":"PLAN.md ## Risks || PLAN.md ## Dependencies","fallback":"- No known high-risk rollout dependencies."},{"heading":"Success Metrics & Release Criteria","enabled":true|false,"source":"REQUIREMENTS.md ## Definition of Done || VERIFICATION.md ## Release Criteria","fallback":"- Release when automated verification and required manual checks pass."},{"heading":"Stakeholder Review & Approval","enabled":true|false,"template":"- Product owner approval pending for {phase_name}."}]}}'
gsd_run query config-new-project '{"mode":"[yolo|interactive]","granularity":"[selected]","parallelization":true|false,"commit_docs":true|false,"model_profile":"quality|balanced|budget|adaptive|inherit","workflow":{"research":true|false,"plan_check":true|false,"verifier":true|false,"compact_content":true|false,"nyquist_validation":[false if granularity=coarse, true otherwise]},"plan_review":{"source_grounding":true|false},"ship":{"pr_body_sections":[{"heading":"User Stories & Acceptance Criteria","enabled":true|false,"source":"REQUIREMENTS.md ## User Stories || REQUIREMENTS.md ## Acceptance Criteria","fallback":"- Acceptance criteria are covered by the linked requirements and verification evidence."},{"heading":"Risks & Dependencies","enabled":true|false,"source":"PLAN.md ## Risks || PLAN.md ## Dependencies","fallback":"- No known high-risk rollout dependencies."},{"heading":"Success Metrics & Release Criteria","enabled":true|false,"source":"REQUIREMENTS.md ## Definition of Done || VERIFICATION.md ## Release Criteria","fallback":"- Release when automated verification and required manual checks pass."},{"heading":"Stakeholder Review & Approval","enabled":true|false,"template":"- Product owner approval pending for {phase_name}."}]}}'
```
**Note:** Run `/gsd:settings` anytime to update model profile, workflow agents, branching strategy, and other preferences.