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feat(kyberforge): give skill-author a procedure for the #99 retrofit

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ADR-0020 shipped its gates hot with no baseline file, so 26 of 39 descriptions
and 9 of 39 bodies are over their FAIL tier and editing any of them for any
reason requires bringing the skill into contract first. `references/improve.md`
said exactly that and stopped there — it mandated a retrofit and supplied no
procedure for one.

Four dry-run retrofits confirmed what that costs. Asked the same questions —
what to cut first, when a body is two flows rather than one, what else has to
change alongside — they invented six to ten different answers, so the same skill
retrofitted twice produced two different skills and neither run could be reviewed
against anything.

`references/retrofit.md` fixes the answers: an ordered cut list ranked by tokens
removed against behaviour lost (inverting that order is how a retrofit deletes the
instruction the skill existed to carry), the test for whether a body holds two
mutually exclusive flows, the reference-file conventions, the collateral checklist
for `README.md` and `references/sources.md`, and a worked description retrofit.

It also states the trap the dry runs kept hitting: retrofit the skill in place,
inside its package. The boundary-target universe is built by walking up from the
file being checked, so a scratch copy has no authoring root above it, the check
prints `INFO ... DID NOT RUN`, and the run still exits 0 — a line that reads as a
pass and is not one. A retrofit signed off on a copy carries an unverified
boundary target into the corpus.

Loaded from the improve flow only when a budget is actually exceeded, so a routine
improvement pays nothing for it.

Refs: ADR-0020, #99
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@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ If the destination resolves inside an APM package, read `references/deployment-m
| `references/create.md` | The create flow end to end — prerequisites, package-intent gate, scaffold, frontmatter, scripts, references, sources (loaded on demand) |
| `references/improve.md` | The improve flow end to end — signal verification, root-cause grouping, announcement, edits (loaded on demand) |
| `references/contract.md` | The ADR-0020 description and body contract, the Gotchas constraint, the two size gates, body patterns, and org-policy embedding (loaded on demand) |
| `references/retrofit.md` | Bringing a pre-ADR-0020 skill into contract — ordered cut procedure, the mutually-exclusive-flows test, reference-file conventions, the collateral checklist, and a worked description retrofit (loaded from the improve flow when a budget is exceeded) |
| `references/deployment-modes.md` | APM package vs standalone differences and self-containment/cache-isolation rules (loaded on demand) |
| `references/scripts.md` | Package runners, inline dependency patterns, and full script contract (loaded on demand) |
| `references/sources.md` | Upstream research sources and which skill files each contributed to |