Verification audit caught a gap: spawn create copies templates/builder/ tree directly (DEFAULT_TEMPLATE), but builder/.trinity/local.json lacked the todos[] schema — so freshly spawned branches would not inherit it. Seeded todos[] + max_todos:10 + todo_text_max_chars:200 + operational note to match @memory's LOCAL.template.json. Now both spawn-create and template-push paths produce todos[]. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>