Release: v2.36.0 - P-Reinforce v3.0 Standard Integration

docs/records/ConnectAI/development/2026-05-02_second-brain-trace-quality-tuning.md

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+# Development Log: Second Brain Trace Quality Tuning
+
+## Purpose
+Improve Second Brain Trace quality after a real answer showed noisy raw conversation notes, misleading "used" wording, and overly dramatic answer style.
+
+## Implementation Summary
+- Excluded raw conversation and transcript folders from default trace retrieval unless the user explicitly asks for raw/transcript content.
+- Penalized index files so curated notes are preferred.
+- Boosted curated record, decision, planning, and development paths.
+- Changed visible wording from "used notes" to "selected notes" / "selected for answer context" to avoid overstating actual post-answer usage.
+- Added trace context guidance telling the model not to imitate dramatic wording from retrieved notes.
+- Added base prompt guidance against phrases such as final execution mandate, engineering standard, knowledge distiller, and Antigravity's yardstick unless the user explicitly asks for that style.
+- Expanded tests to verify curated notes beat raw conversations and index files.
+
+## Changed Files
+- `src/features/secondBrainTrace.ts`
+- `src/utils.ts`
+- `tests/secondBrainTrace.test.ts`
+
+## Verification
+- `./node_modules/.bin/tsc --noEmit`
+- `npm run compile`
+- `./node_modules/.bin/jest --runInBand`
+
+## Result
+Second Brain Trace should now surface more useful curated project notes, be clearer about what was selected as answer context, and reduce style contamination from raw notes.

docs/records/ConnectAI/timeline.md

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 - Improved Chronicle Guard after user testing: default guard context, stricter project/record checks, question reasons, MVP-first guidance, candidate record output, and tests.
 - Added Second Brain Trace Mode so users can verify whether active Brain notes were searched, referenced, and reflected in answers.
 - Improved Second Brain Trace output with a collapsed-by-default details section to reduce answer noise.
+- Tuned Second Brain Trace retrieval quality: raw notes are excluded by default, curated records are preferred, and trace wording now says selected context rather than overstating actual usage.