fix(kyberforge): reconcile the authoring rules the ADR-0020 trim left disagreeing

Six defects, each one a place where two files that an author reads in the same
sitting told them different things — or where the trim dropped a rule and nothing
noticed because no gate covers prose.

**"Use proactively" contradicted itself across the pair.** All three agent
templates said to add it where the runtime should delegate unprompted, while
`agent-audit`'s `KyberforgeCopilot.ProactivePhrase` rule grades it a hard FAIL in
any `*.agent.md` — which is the Copilot half of every project/user pair *and* the
vendor-neutral plugin-scope file, since that compiles to a real Copilot agent
downstream. Following the template produced a file the repo's own gate rejects.
The phrase is now permitted in exactly one place, the Claude Code `.md`, and
`references/contract.md` carries the per-file table plus the consequence authors
ask about next: a pair whose CC half has it and whose Copilot half does not is
correct, because `agent-audit` checks that both halves describe the same job, not
that they match word for word.

**The output-schema rule contradicted itself inside one file.** `contract.md`
said any content only one branch reaches moves to `references/`, and then offered
an "Output format template" body pattern with no qualification. Stated once now,
so it is not re-litigated: an output schema stays in the body only when every flow
produces it and it is roughly 50 words or less. No third option.

**Gotchas tiers disagreed with the script.** `validate.sh` emits the entry count
through `suggest()` and exits 0, while `skill-author` and `skill-audit` both
called more than five entries a FAIL. Whether a given gotcha earns its place is
judgment, so the prose moves to the script's tier rather than the reverse. The
paraphrase rule stays a FAIL and is explicitly marked as the auditor's call — no
script detects it.

**The dispatch exemplar was cited at the wrong number.** `apm-workflow`'s body is
421 words; 554 is its whole-file count. Both `contract.md` and `body-discipline.md`
cited 554 while describing a body budget, so an author calibrating against the
exemplar overshot by ~30% — the exact whole-file/body-only conflation those two
sections exist to warn against, reproduced inside the warning.

**"Error handling" came back as a required body element.** It was one of four and
is the one that gets dropped, and dropping it is not neutral: an agent handed
malformed input with no instruction invents a recovery, and a subagent's invented
recovery is invisible to its caller until the output is wrong. Restored in
`agent-audit`'s rubric as a SUGGESTION, in `agent-author`'s contract and both
scope checklists as a required element, and as an `## Errors` section in all three
templates.

**`skill-author` Step 4 gains the one check the audit misses.** An empty body
reports `PASS SKILL.md body word count 0` — a word gate cannot tell "concise"
from "absent". Step 4 now hand-checks for a non-empty section, and its commit
verification is conditioned on actually being inside a git worktree, which a skill
under `~/.claude/skills/` is not.

Also here: absolute repo paths removed from `skill-author`'s SKILL.md and
contract.md in favour of naming the skill (`zoom-out`'s description is quoted
inline instead of pointed at), the boundary-target universe documented to match
the resolver, a two-hops-from-SKILL.md limit on reference chains, and
`new-agent.sh`'s next-steps output naming the description budget and the
deliberate absence of an agent body gate.

Refs: ADR-0020
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@@ -14,10 +14,14 @@ description: FILL IN: Use when <trigger>. <One capability clause.> Not <thing> -
boundary clause naming a real sibling skill or agent.
250 characters is the target, 400 the hard ceiling (ADR-0020).
Do not open with an action verb ("Reviews...", "Analyzes...") — that rule was
deleted. Add "Use proactively" only if the runtime should delegate here without
the user naming this agent.
deleted.
"Use proactively" is valid HERE and only here: it steers the Claude Code runtime
to offer this agent unprompted. Add it only if that is what you want. If you add
it, leave it OUT of the Copilot half of the pair — the phrase does nothing there
and agent-audit's KyberforgeCopilot.ProactivePhrase grades it a hard FAIL. The
pair must describe the same job; it does not have to be byte-identical.
Example: "Use when a diff needs checking for injected credentials before it
merges. Not general code review -> code-reviewer." -->
merges. Not prose or style linting -> `lint-runner`." -->
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@@ -99,3 +103,10 @@ FILL IN: Steps the agent takes. Be specific about ordering if it matters.
## Output
FILL IN: What does the agent produce? Format, location, structure.
## Errors
FILL IN: What does the agent do on malformed, missing or contradictory input?
State whether it stops and reports, or degrades to a named fallback — and what it
tells the caller either way. An agent with no error handling invents a recovery,
and an invented recovery is invisible until the output is wrong.