## [2026-05-29T22:37:52.435Z]
The init-time templates were separated so the agent-rules content stands alone from the configuration and platform-installer templates, keeping each unit small enough that a reviewer can inspect it in full without context-window truncation. No template content changed; only which node owns which file.
## [2026-05-30T02:29:45.010Z]
The per-node size guard changed from limiting the raw count of mapped source files to limiting the total number of characters in a node's reviewer context — its mapped source files plus the reference files of its effective aspects — and from a non-blocking warning to a blocking error. The motivation is that the reviewer concatenates all of a node's files into each aspect prompt, so an oversized node risks exceeding the model's context window, which deterministically rejects unchanged code near the truncation point; a file-count limit missed this because one very large file could stay under the count while still blowing the prompt. Binary files do not count toward the budget, and a node mapping a single unsplittable generated or binary artifact (a lockfile, an append-only changelog, an image) may carry a documented per-node exemption with a required justification.
## [2026-05-31T16:03:35.346Z]
Replaced the hand-inlined path-separator normalization with calls to a single shared helper. The same small idiom — convert backslash separators to forward slashes, and in most places also strip a trailing slash — had been copied across many modules, so the normalization rule lived in dozens of places at once and any change to it risked drifting them out of step. Consolidating it behind one well-named helper means the rule lives in exactly one spot and each call site reads by intent instead of by a repeated regex. Behavior is unchanged: the helper bodies are byte-for-byte equivalent to the expressions they replace, and the full test suite passes identically.
