docs(session-flow): compress the handoff instruction walk (0.32.3)

[kyle-sexton]

Summary

Compress the session-flow handoff instruction walk (save-point.md, structure.md, skills/handoff/SKILL.md) under docs-hygiene flavor-only discipline. Re-review the Stop-hook escalation from #3018; no defect found, hook not shipped.

Fix

Author-time compression of the three named files: drop filler and verbose verbs that do not carry contract meaning. Preserve find-handoff detection contract (rails, copy instruction, Read @…-handoff-… directive, Re-arm <i> of <n> — <L> lines:), redaction rules, rooted-path / Handoff origin: rationale, and STOP / output-order contract. Bump session-flow 0.32.2 → 0.32.3. Stop-hook re-review: 0.26.1 already shipped the STOP/output-order contract; one observed occurrence; find-handoff rung 1 still recovers file-mode; the 0.22% cut does not change occupancy. No hook change.

Test plan

• markdownlint-cli2 on the three compressed files + CHANGELOG: 0 issues
• scripts/changelog-parity.sh --check --check-bump origin/main --check-order --check-preserved origin/main
• Contract tokens remain: rails, copy instruction, Read @…-handoff-…, Re-arm header, redaction markers, STOP / output-order
• Byte delta vs author-time snapshots: 188 B / 0.22% (save-point 152 B, structure 27 B, SKILL 9 B)

Verification

• markdownlint-cli2 on the three files + CHANGELOG: 0 issues.
• Changelog-parity --check, --check-bump origin/main, --check-order, --check-preserved origin/main: all pass.
• Contract-token grep: rails, copy instruction, Read @…-handoff-…, Re-arm <i> of <n> — <L> lines:, redaction markers, STOP / output-order all still present.
• Byte savings vs /tmp/wt-3018-snap: save-point 40831→40679 (152 B), structure 23296→23269 (27 B), SKILL 19641→19632 (9 B); total 188 B / 0.22%.

Related

• Closes session-flow: compress the handoff instruction walk (save-point.md, structure.md, SKILL.md), then re-review the Stop-hook escalation #3018
• Follows fix(ai-slop): emit a parseable ISO-8601 date, and close three precision gaps found in post-merge verification #3097 / ci: delete unwired pr-linkage-mcp-gate and assert hook wiring liveness #3098 / feat(knowledge): harden docpage-digest pipeline (0.13.5) #3099
• Stop-hook re-review; no defect — hook not shipped

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This PR is a flavor-only prose compression of three session-flow documentation files (reference/save-point.md, reference/structure.md, skills/handoff/SKILL.md), plus a version bump in plugin.json and a corresponding CHANGELOG.md entry. Every change is a wording trim (articles, filler, hedging, verbose verbs) — no logic, no code execution paths, no authorization/access-control code, no injection surfaces (command/SQL/path/template), no token/secret/credential handling, and no GitHub Actions workflow or permissions: changes. I diffed all five changed files against the base and confirmed each hunk is textual only, with the load-bearing contracts (detection signals, redaction rules, rooted-path rationale, claim-provenance/original-goal rules) preserved verbatim as the PR description claims.

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Summary

This is a pure wording-trim ("flavor only") pass over save-point.md, structure.md, and SKILL.md in session-flow, plus the version bump and CHANGELOG entry. I diffed HEAD~1..HEAD (the PR's single commit) and checked it against the claims in the PR description:

• Byte-count claims verified. LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 wc -c: save-point 40831 → 40679, structure 23296 → 23269, SKILL 19641 → 19632 — matches the PR body exactly.
• Line-count deltas verified: save-point +1, structure 0, SKILL -1 — consistent with the "essentially unchanged, one wrap-only extra line" claim.
• All named load-bearing contract tokens survive unchanged in the three files: the find-handoff detection signals (rails, `/clear`, then copy everything between the dashed lines, Read @…-handoff-…, Re-arm <i> of <n> — <L> lines:), Handoff origin:, UNRESOLVED, type: handoff.
• Spot-checked several trimmed sentences for meaning drift (e.g. "effortlessly" dropped from the save-point-serializes-machinery sentence, "at all" dropped from "no body sections at all," "precisely" dropped in a few spots) — all are pure hedging/filler removals, no semantic loss found.
• plugins/session-flow/.claude-plugin/plugin.json version bump (0.32.2 → 0.32.3) matches the new CHANGELOG.md entry.
• MD013 (line length) is disabled repo-wide in .markdownlint-cli2.jsonc, so the rewraps can't fail lint regardless of width.

One minor finding (posted inline): plugins/session-flow/reference/structure.md line 425 is a leftover wrap artifact — after trimming words earlier in that paragraph, the reflow wasn't carried through on this line, leaving it at 111 chars (vs. ~95-100 elsewhere) and orphaning absent field. as a short trailing line. Cosmetic only (no lint/contract impact) but worth a quick tidy for consistency with the rest of the compress pass.

No correctness bugs, no lost contracts, no CHANGELOG/version mismatches found.

Branch: cursor/3018-handoff-compress-cfcf

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