Claude Conductor (superbasicstudio fork) — Delta Summary

superbasicstudio/claude-conductor IS the canonical upstream (claude-conductor seed). The batch assignment uses the slug claude-conductor-superbasic to distinguish it from the unrelated forks (lackeyjb, MZWASHERE, rbarcante) already cataloged under the seed. This delta report tracks what changed in the superbasicstudio repo since the seed analysis.

Version at seed analysis: approximately 1.x (seed analysis captured github_stars=367, active)
Version at this analysis: 2.2.1 (pushed 2026-05-17)

Key deltas since seed analysis:

1. New CLI subcommands (checkup, backup, upgrade, restore) — security and lifecycle management
2. TASKS.md template — new documentation module for active task tracking (added 1.2.0)
3. Node.js minimum bumped to 18 (was 16) — 2.0.0 breaking change
4. DevOps hardening — ESLint, Prettier, Husky, GitHub Actions CI, Dependabot, Jest coverage thresholds (2.1.0)
5. License change: MIT → BSD-2-Clause (1.1.0)
6. Stars: 367 → 367 (stable at time of this analysis)

Architecture, philosophy, and core template set are unchanged from the seed: 15 markdown templates, zero Claude Code primitives (no commands/skills/hooks), npm CLI, file-based memory.

Changes Since Seed Analysis (claude-conductor)

Version timeline

New CLI subcommands

The seed analysis recorded the CLI as having commands init and (implied) npx claude-conductor. Since then:

Total CLI subcommands: now 5 (init, checkup, backup, upgrade, restore)

New template: TASKS.md

Added in 1.2.0. A task management module with:

• Active phase tracking (phase name, dates, progress count)
• Current task record (ID, title, status, dependencies)
• Task context (previous work, key files with line ranges, environment)
• Blocked status tracking with blocker description and workaround
• Completion record

This is the most significant content addition since the seed. It strengthens the session handoff story — a new session can read TASKS.md to immediately know the current task state without reading all code.

Security fixes (1.3.0)

• Fixed HIGH severity command injection vulnerability in glob dependency (10.4.5 → 10.5.0)
• Fixed MODERATE severity prototype pollution in js-yaml transitive dependency
• Zero npm audit findings post-fix

Breaking changes

2.0.0: Node.js minimum bumped from >=16.0.0 to >=18.0.0. No API changes.

License change

1.1.0: MIT → BSD-2-Clause. The seed's METRICS.yaml records this as MIT — should be updated to BSD-2-Clause.

Architecture unchanged

Core architecture from the seed analysis is still accurate: 0 commands/skills/hooks/MCP, 15 markdown templates, file-based memory, single primary_tool: claude-code.

New Primitives Since Seed

New CLI commands (4 added since seed)

Net new subcommands: 4. Total CLI subcommands now: 5.

New template: TASKS.md

# Task Management

## Active Phase
**Phase**: [High-level project phase name]
**Started**: YYYY-MM-DD
**Target**: YYYY-MM-DD
**Progress**: X/Y tasks completed

## Current Task
**Task ID**: TASK-YYYY-MM-DD-NNN
**Title**: [Descriptive task name]
**Status**: PLANNING | IN_PROGRESS | BLOCKED | TESTING | COMPLETE
**Started**: YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM
**Dependencies**: [List task IDs this depends on]

### Task Context
<!-- Critical information needed to resume this task -->
- **Previous Work**: [Link to related tasks/PRs]
- **Key Files**: [Primary files being modified with line ranges]
- **Environment**: [Specific config/versions if relevant]

Template count: was 14, now 15. The TASKS.md template has a richer status model than the seed's basic [TODO] task list implied.

Version stamps on generated files

Added in 1.3.0-beta.1: all generated template files now include an HTML comment stamp:

<!-- Generated by Claude Conductor v2.2.1 -->

This enables checkup to know which version of templates are installed and suggest upgrades.

DevOps additions (2.1.0, tooling only, no framework primitives)

• ESLint 10 flat config (eslint.config.mjs)
• Prettier 3 (.prettierrc)
• Husky 9 pre-commit hooks (.husky/)
• GitHub Actions CI (Node 18/20/22 matrix)
• Dependabot (.github/dependabot.yml)
• Jest coverage thresholds (80% branches/functions/lines/statements)

These are tooling for the CLI codebase itself, not new framework features for users.

Nothing structural added to core templates

CONDUCTOR.md, CLAUDE.md, ARCHITECTURE.md, BUILD.md, JOURNAL.md, API.md, CONFIG.md, DATA_MODEL.md, DESIGN.md, UIUX.md, TEST.md, CONTRIBUTING.md, ERRORS.md, PLAYBOOKS/DEPLOY.md — all unchanged in structure/philosophy since seed.