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Trevin Chow 8351c4daaf fix(ce-plan): add answer-seeking disposition to universal planning
ce-plan bailed out of the workflow on investigative or analytical
questions, treating them as non-planning tasks and answering ad hoc
(or, for software-topic questions, over-planning them into a plan
document the user never asked for). Both contradicted the skill's own
"when directly invoked, always plan" rule.

Add an answer-seeking disposition to the universal-planning path: when
the deliverable is an answer rather than a saved plan, ce-plan states a
brief, right-sized plan-of-attack as working scaffold, executes it
(research and synthesis only, never code), and delivers the answer in
chat with no plan file. Plan-seeking tasks (trips, study plans, events)
still produce their saved plan as before; a cross-contamination guard
keeps the two flows from bleeding into each other.

- Narrow the universal-planning exit gate to genuinely trivial
  single-fact lookups; multi-step, retrieval, or synthesis questions no
  longer bail.
- Route by task-type, not topic, in Phase 0.1b: a question that merely
  references code, repos, or APIs is answer-seeking, not software work,
  while build/modify/refactor requests stay on the implementation path.
- Add veil-of-value guidance so answers surface question-domain
  thinking and hide skill machinery, while never hiding caveats that
  affect trust in the answer.
- Sync the ce-plan skill doc with the two-dispositions mechanic.
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