docs: rule host built-ins out of the routing target universe

Closes the second open design decision on PR #103. The `/compact` finding was
recorded as a false positive needing an allowlist or a suppression mechanism.
It is neither: the routing universe is the apm marketplace, so a target either
resolves to a skill or an agent or it does not resolve, and `/compact`,
`/clear` and `/init` are Claude Code slash commands with no counterpart in
Copilot CLI or Codex. `.apm/` source compiles for all three, so a
vendor-neutral description routing to one is a portability defect and the hard
FAIL is a true positive.

An allowlist was rejected for a concrete reason, not a stylistic one: it
answers a different question ("does this exist on some host?"), it cannot
answer that portably from a single source file, and it goes stale the next
time a host ships a command — reintroducing the same-commit-two-verdicts
failure ADR-0020 already closed for deployed trees.

Nothing is blocked today: zero of the 43 descriptions name a host built-in,
and an author who needs to mention one writes it un-slashed, which is not
route notation and carries no routing claim.

Recorded in ADR-0020 and in both author-facing contract references, so the
next agent reads the decision rather than "fixing" the gate.

ADR: 0020

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@@ -70,6 +70,12 @@ that package declares in `apm.yml` under `dependencies.apm`. A sibling plugin in
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.
That universe is the apm marketplace and stops there. A **host built-in is not a routing target**:
`/compact`, `/clear` and `/init` are Claude Code slash commands with no counterpart in Copilot CLI
or Codex, and `.apm/` source compiles for all three, so routing to one is a portability defect. The
gate is right to fail it and there is no allowlist. If a built-in genuinely needs mentioning, write
it un-slashed — ``the `compact` built-in`` — which makes no routing claim and is not checked.
**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
average, the FAIL tier only stops outliers.

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@@ -57,6 +57,12 @@ therefore resolves; a skill in an unrelated repo does not. A boundary clause nam
outside that universe sends the router nowhere and fails the audit. Check the target exists before
writing it — do not invent a plausible sibling name.
That universe is the apm marketplace and stops there. A **host built-in is not a routing target**:
`/compact`, `/clear` and `/init` are Claude Code slash commands with no counterpart in Copilot CLI
or Codex, and `.apm/` source compiles for all three, so routing to one is a portability defect. The
gate is right to fail it and there is no allowlist. If a built-in genuinely needs mentioning, write
it un-slashed — ``the `compact` built-in`` — which makes no routing claim and is not checked.
**Length.** 250 characters SUGGESTION, 400 characters FAIL, counting the frontmatter value only
with YAML folding resolved. The agentskills.io 1,024-character spec limit is unchanged and sits
above both. The SUGGESTION tier is the one that moves the average; treat 250 as the target and 400

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@@ -70,6 +70,12 @@ that package declares in `apm.yml` under `dependencies.apm`. A sibling plugin in
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.
That universe is the apm marketplace and stops there. A **host built-in is not a routing target**:
`/compact`, `/clear` and `/init` are Claude Code slash commands with no counterpart in Copilot CLI
or Codex, and `.apm/` source compiles for all three, so routing to one is a portability defect. The
gate is right to fail it and there is no allowlist. If a built-in genuinely needs mentioning, write
it un-slashed — ``the `compact` built-in`` — which makes no routing claim and is not checked.
**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
average, the FAIL tier only stops outliers.

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@@ -57,6 +57,12 @@ therefore resolves; a skill in an unrelated repo does not. A boundary clause nam
outside that universe sends the router nowhere and fails the audit. Check the target exists before
writing it — do not invent a plausible sibling name.
That universe is the apm marketplace and stops there. A **host built-in is not a routing target**:
`/compact`, `/clear` and `/init` are Claude Code slash commands with no counterpart in Copilot CLI
or Codex, and `.apm/` source compiles for all three, so routing to one is a portability defect. The
gate is right to fail it and there is no allowlist. If a built-in genuinely needs mentioning, write
it un-slashed — ``the `compact` built-in`` — which makes no routing claim and is not checked.
**Length.** 250 characters SUGGESTION, 400 characters FAIL, counting the frontmatter value only
with YAML folding resolved. The agentskills.io 1,024-character spec limit is unchanged and sits
above both. The SUGGESTION tier is the one that moves the average; treat 250 as the target and 400