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Same topology/behaviour as builder-adversary (loop pair, phase machine, claim()/review() handoff, machine-docs coordination, cold verification) but the role + kickoff prompts are compressed to minimal tokens, keeping every load-bearing rule. Config and plans are unchanged. The separate agent-orchestrator-benchmark repo runs a head-to-head token comparison. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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# Builder/Adversary example — minimal-prompt variant
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Same as [`../builder-adversary`](../builder-adversary/) in every way that matters — Builder +
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Adversary loop pair, phase machine, `claim(`/`review(` git handoff, `machine-docs/` coordination,
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cold verification — but the **role + kickoff prompts are compressed to minimal tokens**, keeping
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every load-bearing rule (the commit-prefix handoff, the `machine-docs/` file rule, the
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`WHAT+HOW+EXPECTED+WHERE=STATUS / WHY=JOURNAL` anti-anchoring contract, and the `WAITING-UNTIL`
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liveness protocol).
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Why: the prompts are sent to the agents on every kickoff, so trimming them trims tokens. Config and
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plans are unchanged from the original (they aren't part of the prompt). See the original's README for
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the full explanation of the pattern, how to run it, and the work-repo isolation model — the commands
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are identical, just `--config` this directory's `agents.toml`.
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```bash
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python3 ../../agents.py status --config agents.toml
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python3 ../../agents.py up --config agents.toml # needs `claude` on PATH
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```
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## How small?
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`prompts/builder.md` and `prompts/adversary.md` here are roughly **half to a third** the size of the
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originals, with the same rules stated tersely. The separate **`agent-orchestrator-benchmark`** repo
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runs a head-to-head: the same task built independently by this variant and the original (both on
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Sonnet), with token counts for each — confirming the minimal prompts still get the job done and
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quantifying the savings.
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