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

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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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@@ -44,15 +44,31 @@ Banned from a description; move it to the body or to `README.md`:
and ADR-0020 deleted it: the opener is `Use when`, matching every skill in this corpus, so one
router reads one shape.
**"Use proactively" is conditional.** Add it only where the runtime should delegate without the
user naming the agent — an agent invoked by name does not need it, and it costs activations
elsewhere when added by reflex. The same conditional governs indirect triggers ("even if the user
doesn't say X"): add one only where the user's natural phrasing genuinely omits the domain word.
**"Use proactively" is Claude Code-only, and conditional even there.** The phrase steers the
Claude Code runtime to offer an agent unprompted and does nothing anywhere else, so where it may
appear depends on the file:
**Boundary targets must resolve.** The name after the arrow is checked against real skills under
`plugins/*/.apm/skills/<name>/` and real agents under `plugins/*/.apm/agents/<name>.agent.md`. A
target that does not exist sends the router nowhere. Verify it before writing it — do not invent a
plausible sibling.
| File | Rule |
|---|---|
| Claude Code `.md` (project/user scope) | Allowed. Add it only where the runtime should delegate without the user naming the agent — an agent invoked by name does not need it, and it costs activations elsewhere when added by reflex. |
| Copilot `.agent.md` (project/user scope) | **Never.** Inert there, and `KyberforgeCopilot.ProactivePhrase` grades it a hard FAIL. |
| Vendor-neutral `.apm/agents/<name>.agent.md` (plugin/APM scope) | **Never.** Same Vale rule, same hard FAIL — the file matches the `**/*.agent.md` glob, and it compiles to a real Copilot agent downstream. |
A pair whose Claude Code half carries the phrase and whose Copilot half omits it is correct, not
inconsistent: `agent-audit` checks that both halves describe the same job, not that they match
word for word.
Indirect triggers ("even if the user doesn't say X") take a similar conditional at every scope:
add one only where the user's natural phrasing genuinely omits the domain word.
**Boundary targets must resolve.** Both forms are checked — the arrow and the prose form ("do not
use for X, use `y` instead") — so a typo dangles either way. Targets resolve against a universe
built by walking up **from the agent file itself**: the nearest ancestor holding
`plugins/*/.apm/{skills,agents}` (or, failing that, the nearest ancestor holding `.git`) contributes
every skill and agent under `<root>/plugins/*/`, plus the agent's own apm package and the packages
that package declares in `apm.yml` under `dependencies.apm`. A sibling plugin in the same monorepo
therefore resolves; a skill in an unrelated repo does not. A target outside that universe sends the
router nowhere. Verify it before writing it — do not invent a plausible sibling.
**Length.** 250 characters SUGGESTION, 400 characters FAIL, counting the frontmatter value only
with YAML folding resolved. Treat 250 as the target: the SUGGESTION tier is what moves the corpus
@@ -73,8 +89,18 @@ You are a <role>. When invoked, <primary action>.
## Output
<what it produces: format, location, structure>
## Errors
<what to do on malformed, missing or contradictory input: report and stop, or
which fallback to take — and what to say to the caller either way>
````
Four required elements: **inputs expected, process steps, output format, error handling.** The
last is the one that gets dropped, and dropping it is not neutral: an agent given a malformed
input and no instruction invents a recovery, and a subagent's invented recovery is invisible to
the caller until the output is wrong. Say explicitly whether the agent stops and reports, or
degrades to a named fallback.
One job per agent. An agent covering two jobs gets delegated to for the wrong one.
**Delegation discipline replaces the word gate.** A plugin/APM agent is a single file with no