rjv-work-planlisted

# Work Plan — branch-scoped working memory One line: **the branch is the unit of work; one committed plan per branch is its memory.** Plans hold *volatile* state (what we're doing, where we stopped). Durable truth — specs, glossary, decisions — lives in `_docs/` and is owned by `rjv-spec-driven`. The plan **links** to durable docs, never duplicates them. - `.plans/<name>.md` = working memory for ONE branch (one plan per branch). Committed, so any agent on any machine that checks out the branch resumes from it. - **Each plan declares `Branch: <name>` in its header.** The file itself can be named anything readable (a topic name is fine); the current branch is the key, and resume finds the plan whose `Branch:` matches `git branch --show-current`. No index to maintain — **git branches ARE the active-work index**, and the branch you have checked out is which plan, without being told. - **A plan is never deleted.** It ships with the code: on merge it moves to `.plans/shipped/` with a final status and dates. `.plans/*.md` (top level) = work in flight; `.plans/shipped/` = the delivery record. The lifecycle runs past merge into **maintenance** — see "Merge" and "Maintenance" below. Tool-agnostic: same files serve Claude Code, Codex, any agent (reference this from AGENTS.md so every agent follows it). ## Authorship hygiene — no AI signatures **Never add AI authorship or generator credit unless the human explicitly asks.** This applies to commit messages and trailer