chore: remove ArcheHelix branding, use plain PDCA language

The archetypes and shadows are distinctive enough — no need for
a fancy name on top of the standard PDCA cycle terminology.
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name: workflow-design
description: Use when designing custom orchestration workflows — choosing which archetypes run in each PDCA phase, setting exit conditions, and configuring the ArcheHelix cycle.
description: Use when designing custom orchestration workflows — choosing which archetypes run in each PDCA phase, setting exit conditions, and configuring PDCA cycles.
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# Workflow Design — The ArcheHelix
# Workflow Design — PDCA Cycles
ArcheFlow's PDCA cycles spiral upward through iterations — each cycle incorporates feedback from the previous one, producing progressively better results. We call this the **ArcheHelix**: a rising spiral of Plan → Do → Check → Act, where each turn is informed by all previous turns.
ArcheFlow's PDCA cycles spiral upward through iterations — each cycle incorporates feedback from the previous one, producing progressively better results. Each cycle incorporates feedback from the previous one.
```
Act ──────────── Done ✓
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**Use for:** Bug fixes, small changes, low-risk tasks.
### `standard` — Double Helix
### `standard` — Two Cycles
```
Plan: Explorer researches → Creator designs
Do: Maker implements (worktree)
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**Use for:** Features, refactors, moderate-risk changes.
### `thorough` — Triple Helix
### `thorough` — Three Cycles
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Plan: Explorer researches → Creator designs
Do: Maker implements (worktree)
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## Anti-Patterns
- **Kitchen sink:** Putting all 7 archetypes in Check. Most can't add value simultaneously.
- **Infinite helix:** maxCycles > 4 burns tokens without convergence.
- **Runaway cycles:** maxCycles > 4 burns tokens without convergence.
- **Reviewerless Do:** Skipping Check phase "to save time." You'll pay in bugs.
- **Maker in Plan:** Maker should implement from a proposal, not design on the fly.
- **Solo orchestration:** One archetype in every phase. That's just a single agent with extra steps.