Audit docs and structure: drop unused patterns tree and stale docs

[WalksWithASwagger]

Summary

• Documentation and directory-structure cleanup. No product code, API, schema, runtime default, or user-facing behavior changed.
• Removed the vendored Fabric patterns/ tree (256 files). Nothing in the codebase, Makefile, CI, or docs referenced it (grep for patterns/ across *.py = 0 matches); the app's prompts and knowledge base live under prompts/<user>/ via whisperforge_core/prompts.py and are untouched.
• Retired four superseded historical docs that already redirected readers to the living STATUS.md / ROADMAP.md / NEXT-ROUND-PLAN set:
  • docs/DOCUMENTATION-AUDIT-2026-05-17.md ("kept as evidence... not the current handoff")
  • docs/AUDIO-REPO-CONSOLIDATION-AUDIT-2026-05-18.md (decision already executed)
  • docs/WHISPERFORGE-AUDIT-AND-ROADMAP-2026-05-18.md (self-labeled historical snapshot)
  • docs/WHISPERFORGE-MASTER-PLAN-2026-05-18.md ("the implementation wave... has shipped")
• Rewired every inbound link to the retired docs in ROADMAP.md, STATUS.md, docs/LINEAR-GITHUB-PIPELINE.md, .company-os/project.yaml, and ops/roadmap/features.json to the living docs.
• Logged the cleanup in changelog.md (new [Unreleased] - 2026-07-01) and STATUS.md (new dated audit section). Bumped freshness dates on the docs I touched.

The rest of the repo audited clean: no stray files, no __pycache__, no empty dirs, well-separated code layout. prompts/ profiles, changelog.md, WHISPERFORGE.md, services, and scripts are all in use and were left intact.

Verification

• python3 scripts/docs_truth_check.py --root . → OK (14 docs, 15 make targets)
• python3 -m json.tool ops/roadmap/features.json → valid
• python3 -m compileall app.py whisperforge.py whisperforge_core ui services scripts tests → clean
• make lint / make test / make smoke — not run here: they require the ignored local venv/ which does not exist in this fresh container (same known-weirdness noted in STATUS.md). No Python was changed.

Docs Impact

• Commands, paths, and env vars in docs still match the code
• Status, roadmap, and tracker claims were refreshed or left untouched
• make docs-check passes when docs or command surfaces changed

Agentic Delivery

• Linked with Closes #... only when every acceptance criterion is met — no tracked issue for this cleanup
• Acceptance self-check included when opened by an agent — see Verification
• Diff is within 20 files / 500 changed lines, or human approval is documented — diff is 260 files / ~15.3k deletions, dominated by the 256-file patterns/ removal. The owner explicitly approved both the patterns/ deletion and trimming the superseded docs before any files were touched.

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