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Remove Brain project planning and brainstorming surface#13

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Remove Brain project planning and brainstorming surface#13
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Summary

Remove Brain's built-in project-management surface so the product stays focused on repo-local memory, compiled context, retrieval, session enforcement, and session-scoped distillation.

What Changed

  • deleted the brain brainstorm and brain plan command surface
  • removed the internal planning, brainstorming, and project packages
  • removed the default templates and workspace scaffolding for that surface
  • deleted the checked-in .brain/brainstorms/, .brain/planning/, and .brain/project.yaml content from this repo
  • simplified brain distill so it is session-only
  • removed retired note-type weighting from search
  • stopped project workspace detection from treating .brain/project.yaml as active workspace state
  • rewrote the README, usage docs, architecture docs, and Brain skill guidance to remove references to the retired workflow
  • added durable notes recording the product decision and the repo change

Migration Behavior

  • no new project migration is introduced in this PR
  • existing Brain repos do not need a migration to keep working
  • older repos may still have historical .brain/brainstorms/, .brain/planning/, or .brain/project.yaml files on disk; Brain now ignores that retired surface, and users can keep or delete those files at their discretion

Skill Impact

  • skills/brain/SKILL.md is updated to reflect the narrower Brain surface
  • the shipped agent descriptors for OpenAI and OpenClaw were updated as well
  • installed skill copies outside the repo will pick this up through the normal brain update / reinstall flow

Verification

  • go test ./...
  • go build ./...

@JimmyMcBride JimmyMcBride merged commit f1cd5da into main Apr 16, 2026
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@JimmyMcBride JimmyMcBride deleted the feature/trim-brain-surface branch April 16, 2026 06:55
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