Performance improvements: Token reduction and enhanced summaries (#101)

* refactor: Reduce continuation prompt token usage by 95 lines

Removed redundant instructions from continuation prompt that were originally
added to mitigate a session continuity issue. That issue has since been
resolved, making these detailed instructions unnecessary on every continuation.

Changes:
- Reduced continuation prompt from ~106 lines to ~11 lines (~95 line reduction)
- Changed "User's Goal:" to "Next Prompt in Session:" (more accurate framing)
- Removed redundant WHAT TO RECORD, WHEN TO SKIP, and OUTPUT FORMAT sections
- Kept concise reminder: "Continue generating observations and progress summaries..."
- Initial prompt still contains all detailed instructions

Impact:
- Significant token savings on every continuation prompt
- Faster context injection with no loss of functionality
- Instructions remain comprehensive in initial prompt

Files modified:
- src/sdk/prompts.ts (buildContinuationPrompt function)
- plugin/scripts/worker-service.cjs (compiled output)

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* refactor: Enhance observation and summary prompts for clarity and token efficiency

* Enhance prompt clarity and instructions in prompts.ts

- Added a reminder to think about instructions before starting work.
- Simplified the continuation prompt instruction by removing "for this ongoing session."

* feat: Enhance settings.json with permissions and deny access to sensitive files

refactor: Remove PLAN-full-observation-display.md and PR_SUMMARY.md as they are no longer needed

chore: Delete SECURITY_SUMMARY.md since it is redundant after recent changes

fix: Update worker-service.cjs to streamline observation generation instructions

cleanup: Remove src-analysis.md and src-tree.md for a cleaner codebase

refactor: Modify prompts.ts to clarify instructions for memory processing

* refactor: Remove legacy worker service implementation

* feat: Enhance summary hook to extract last assistant message and improve logging

- Added function to extract the last assistant message from the transcript.
- Updated summary hook to include last assistant message in the summary request.
- Modified SDKSession interface to store last assistant message.
- Adjusted buildSummaryPrompt to utilize last assistant message for generating summaries.
- Updated worker service and session manager to handle last assistant message in summarize requests.
- Introduced silentDebug utility for improved logging and diagnostics throughout the summary process.

* docs: Add comprehensive implementation plan for ROI metrics feature

Added detailed implementation plan covering:
- Token usage capture from Agent SDK
- Database schema changes (migration #8)
- Discovery cost tracking per observation
- Context hook display with ROI metrics
- Testing and rollout strategy

Timeline: ~20 hours over 4 days
Goal: Empirical data for YC application amendment

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* feat: Add transcript processing scripts for analysis and formatting

- Implemented `dump-transcript-readable.ts` to generate a readable markdown dump of transcripts, excluding certain entry types.
- Created `extract-rich-context-examples.ts` to extract and showcase rich context examples from transcripts, highlighting user requests and assistant reasoning.
- Developed `format-transcript-context.ts` to format transcript context into a structured markdown format for improved observation generation.
- Added `test-transcript-parser.ts` for validating data extraction from transcript JSONL files, including statistics and error reporting.
- Introduced `transcript-to-markdown.ts` for a complete representation of transcript data in markdown format, showing all context data.
- Enhanced type definitions in `transcript.ts` to support new features and ensure type safety.
- Built `transcript-parser.ts` to handle parsing of transcript JSONL files, including error handling and data extraction methods.

* Refactor hooks and SDKAgent for improved observation handling

- Updated `new-hook.ts` to clean user prompts by stripping leading slashes for better semantic clarity.
- Enhanced `save-hook.ts` to include additional tools in the SKIP_TOOLS set, preventing unnecessary observations from certain command invocations.
- Modified `prompts.ts` to change the structure of observation prompts, emphasizing the observational role and providing a detailed XML output format for observations.
- Adjusted `SDKAgent.ts` to enforce stricter tool usage restrictions, ensuring the memory agent operates solely as an observer without any tool access.

* feat: Enhance session initialization to accept user prompts and prompt numbers

- Updated `handleSessionInit` in `worker-service.ts` to extract `userPrompt` and `promptNumber` from the request body and pass them to `initializeSession`.
- Modified `initializeSession` in `SessionManager.ts` to handle optional `currentUserPrompt` and `promptNumber` parameters.
- Added logic to update the existing session's `userPrompt` and `lastPromptNumber` if a `currentUserPrompt` is provided.
- Implemented debug logging for session initialization and updates to track user prompts and prompt numbers.

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# Transcript Context Analysis
**File:** 57dcc12f-4751-46bb-82b4-2aa96a3e226d.jsonl
**Parsed:** 11/13/2025, 12:34:19 PM
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- Conversation turns: 43
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- Output tokens: 38,209
- Cache creation: 224,078
- Cache read: 3,320,726
- Total: 45,014
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