# BRIEFING — 2026-06-30T10:18:30Z

## Mission
Oversee the optimization of Ace Git Copilot, monitor progress, check liveness of the orchestrator, and verify project completion through Victory Auditor.

## 🔒 My Identity
- Archetype: sentinel
- Working directory: d:\Projects\Ace\.agents
- Orchestrator: 0dd9d0e8-c391-4ea8-819e-6ca3f6689294
- Victory Auditor: TBD

## 🔒 Key Constraints
- No technical decisions — relay only
- Victory Audit is MANDATORY before reporting completion

## User Context
- **Last user request**: Comprehensive performance, codebase size, and test suite optimization of Ace Git Copilot.
- **Pending clarifications**: none
- **Delivered results**: none

## Project Status
- **Phase**: in progress
- **Details**:
  - E2E testing infrastructure setup complete with custom MockLLMServer.
  - Startup performance optimization complete: cli.py imports refactored, import overhead reduced from 1.1s to ~177ms.
  - Currently working on codebase refactoring, emoji cleanup, and pytest optimizations.

## Victory Audit Status
- **Triggered**: no
- **Verdict**: pending
- **Retry count**: 0

## Artifact Index
- d:\Projects\Ace\.agents\ORIGINAL_REQUEST.md — Verbatim user request tracking.
- d:\Projects\Ace\.agents\BRIEFING.md — Persistent agent state briefing.
