context: the most expensive dispatch has no sizing gate #109

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opened 2026-08-12 16:37:01 +00:00 by john · 0 comments

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2026-08-12 16:37:01 +00:00

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Same sizing question, same seam, same shape as plan.md's: settle scope cheaply, then decide whether the analyzer pass is bought or skipped with a conversational fallback. The phase-2 evidence says a big phase earns the pass; the gate exists for the small ones.

plan.md sizes a phase BEFORE spending a planner dispatch on it. context.md has no such step: every phase buys a full analyzer pass - the single most expensive dispatch in the spine (75k on verbatim phase 1, 132k on phase 2) - even when the phase is small or its ground was settled by a prior phase's deviations. Same sizing question, same seam, same shape as plan.md's: settle scope cheaply, then decide whether the analyzer pass is bought or skipped with a conversational fallback. The phase-2 evidence says a big phase earns the pass; the gate exists for the small ones.