[developer-docs] Developer Documentation Consolidation - 2026-09-12

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Summary

Weekly maintenance tone scan of scratchpad/ (63 spec files, 100% coverage). Result: clean — 0 new tone/marketing-language issues, 0 new files needing links. scratchpad/dev.md bumped from v9.25 → v9.26 with a new Document History entry; no other files required changes.

• Files analyzed: 63
• Tone adjustments: 0
• Diagrams added: 0
• Files changed: 1 (scratchpad/dev.md, changelog only)
• PR: opened from branch docs/consolidation-2026-09-12

Full Consolidation Report

Method

Re-ran the two-pass grep scan established over prior runs (see dev.md Document History v3.6 onward):

• Strong-marketing terms: powerful, seamless(ly), effortless(ly), blazing, cutting-edge, state-of-the-art, world-class, battle-tested, proven, amazing, intuitive, magical, etc.
• Subjective intensifiers: comprehensive, extensive, robust, flexible, smart, enhanced/enhance, deep/deeply, significantly, nice-to-have, best of both worlds, easy/easily, simply, sensible defaults, out-of-the-box, etc.

Scope: 63 scratchpad/ spec files (excludes dev.md, README.md, and the smoke-test-22422877284.md test artifact, per established precedent). specs/ was left out of scope this cycle, consistent with v9.25's scoping decision and this run's "Specs Directory: scratchpad/" framing.

Findings

All 51 raw term-list matches in the scanned tree are pre-existing, previously-accepted legitimate usage — none required a change:

Match	File(s)	Why it's not a tone issue
EnhanceError() / enhanceError()	errors.md	Go/JS function identifiers, not prose
"sensible defaults"	engine-architecture-review.md, engine-review-summary.md (×2), mdflow.md, oh-my-code.md	Concrete, accepted engineering term (surrounding phrasing already cleaned up v8.1–v8.4)
"deeply nested"	testing.md, mods/jsonschema-go.md, errors.md	Factual technical description of test cases, not an intensifier
"no magic"	mdflow.md, mdflow-comparison.md	Negation of marketing language, not marketing itself (unchanged since v9.18)
"sandbox contract is proven"	git-ai.md	Normal engineering conditional ("until X is proven"), not a track-record claim
"differs significantly"	pr-checkout-logic-explained.md	Neutral factual comparison, substantiated by the following explanation
"significantly outdated"	safe-outputs-specification.md	Self-critical staleness disclaimer, not marketing

Coverage Verification

Cross-checked all 63 tracked spec-file basenames against dev.md's Related Documentation and Document History text: every file remains referenced. No new scratchpad/ files have appeared since v9.24 added continual-experiments-mvp-plan.md, git-ai.md, and mods/go-sdk.md.

Environment Notes

This sandbox's git history is a single synthetic snapshot commit (b9caa39), a large repo-wide sync unrelated to scratchpad/ content — no incremental history to diff against and no verifiable new feature/PR to document this cycle, consistent with the v9.22/v9.24 notes. Cache-memory at /tmp/gh-aw/cache-memory/ was not accessible from this sandbox (path restricted outside the repo working directory), consistent with every prior run; historical context was reconstructed from dev.md's Document History instead.

Validation Results

• Markdown structure of the new dev.md entry is valid
• No new code blocks or Mermaid diagrams introduced (none needed this cycle)
• No broken links introduced
• Consistent technical tone maintained throughout

Next Steps

None required. Routine weekly maintenance continues; the next scan is expected around 2026-09-19.

References:

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