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Prompt tokens 6982 → 6872 (−110); workflow.md 3320 → 3210. Code lines unchanged (5620).

Removed duplicated or decorative phrases in templates/workflow.md (repeated 'details live in the journal', 'don't retell the journal', a merged 'don't invent' rule, a pointer to another section, 'No status here', and similar). No instruction that changes behaviour was dropped. Tests: 144 OK. VERSION 13, budgets lowered.

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VERDICT: rework

• templates/workflow.md (Self-improvement, "Collect" line): the line break before - **Review — main session… was lost, so the text now reads …→ <what to change>".- **Review — …`. The Review bullet is glued onto the Collect bullet and no longer renders as a list item. Restore the newline.
• templates/workflow.md (Sessions and context): the rule "Subagents — only when needed (protocol, waves)" was deleted. This is a behaviour rule, but the PR body says no behaviour-changing instruction was dropped. Restore it, or say so in the PR and CHANGELOG.
• templates/workflow.md (Message protocol rules): "Don't retell the journal (report, review, status) — give the ID" was deleted. The kept bullet only covers user decisions, so the general rule is gone. Restore it in short form (e.g. fold it into the "Agents exchange IDs" intro line), or justify the removal.
• lib/dpcli/init.py:9: VERSION = 13 # bump… lost the two-space comment separator that the previous line had. Cosmetic; restore it for consistency.
• tools/budgets.json: code_lines goes up (5618 → 5620) in a "prompt-only" PR where the body says code lines are unchanged. Explain why it rose, or leave it as it was.
• Process: the tests pass (144 OK), VERSION is bumped and the CHANGELOG line is in place. The direction (a ~110-token cut) is right; the items above are the only blockers.

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VERDICT: accept

• Earlier rework items are fixed: the Review bullet is on its own line, the "don't retell the journal" rule is folded into the intro line, the VERSION comment spacing is restored, and code_lines is unchanged (5618).
• Process is in order: VERSION 13, CHANGELOG line, budgets lowered (prompt_tokens 6898, prompt_max 3236). Savings are about 110 tokens, consistent with the PR body.
• Nit: "don't read someone else's context" was dropped from the "Missing information" rule (templates/workflow.md, Message protocol). It is mildly behavioural, so the CHANGELOG claim "no rule changed" is slightly generous.
• Nit: "Agents do only what needs thought: design, find the cause, write code/text" was also removed. It is partly redundant with the deterministic-work bullet above it, so this is fine.
• I did not run the test suite myself; the PR body reports 144 OK.