chore: remove redundant planning prompt from final shell

[jerop]

This is a follow up to #17263, ensuring consistency between snippets.ts and snippets.legacy.ts by removing the redundant planning section from renderFinalShell.

Related to #16857

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Summary of Changes

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This pull request refactors the prompt generation mechanism by removing a redundant planning prompt section. The primary goal is to achieve greater consistency between different prompt snippet implementations and to streamline the renderFinalShell function by eliminating an unnecessary parameter and its associated logic. This cleanup simplifies the codebase and ensures a more unified approach to prompt construction.

Highlights

• Redundant Planning Prompt Removal: The pull request eliminates a redundant planning prompt section from the final shell rendering logic, simplifying the prompt generation process.
• Consistency Across Snippets: This change ensures consistency between snippets.ts and snippets.legacy.ts by removing the planning prompt from the renderFinalShell function.
• Code Cleanup: The ApprovalModePlanOptions interface and the renderApprovalModePlan function have been removed, streamlining the prompt generation codebase.

Changelog

• packages/core/src/prompts/promptProvider.ts
  • The planOptions variable and its initialization logic, which gathered context for planning mode, have been removed.
  • The renderFinalShell function call has been updated to no longer pass the planOptions argument.
• packages/core/src/prompts/snippets.ts
  • The ApprovalModePlanOptions interface, which defined the structure for planning mode options, has been deleted.
  • The renderFinalShell function's signature has been modified to remove the planOptions parameter.
  • The internal call to renderApprovalModePlan within renderFinalShell has been removed.
  • The renderApprovalModePlan function itself, responsible for rendering the planning mode prompt, has been entirely removed.

Activity

• This pull request is a follow-up to a previous PR (feat(core): overhaul system prompt for rigor, integrity, and intent alignment #17263), indicating an iterative improvement process.
• It addresses an existing issue (Evaluate and iterate on simple planning workflow #16857), suggesting it resolves a known problem or enhancement request.

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Code Review

This pull request is a nice cleanup that removes a redundant planning prompt from renderFinalShell. By doing so, it brings snippets.ts in line with snippets.legacy.ts, improving consistency across the codebase. The planning prompt logic is now correctly consolidated within the core system prompt generation. The changes are straightforward and represent a good refactoring that removes dead code and improves clarity. I have no further comments.

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