docs: trim skill READMEs and ADR/changelog narration

Two related simplification-audit findings, bundled because they edit
some of the same skill-audit files and splitting would fragment
single-file diffs.

Finding 10: delete 48 per-skill/reference README.md files (they
restated SKILL.md in narrative form and no agent ever loads them) plus
2 scaffold templates. Drop the README criterion from skill-audit's
file-structure.md and finding-criteria.md, and the README-generation
step from skill-author's new-skill.sh; update new-skill.bats to match.
Plugin-root READMEs are kept intentionally, out of scope.

Finding 12: strip historical ADR-0020/ADR-0023 citations and
changelog-style narration from model-facing skill content across
kyberforge and git plugin skills. Delete skill-author's one-time
retrofit.md migration guide and its references. Some ADR-0023 tags
were not narration but check-rtk-prefix's required opt-out marker for
intentionally-bare git commands -- those were restored, not stripped.

Mirror re-synced and full pre-commit/pre-push suite verified green.

Refs: SIMPLIFICATION-AUDIT.md findings 10, 12

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01YR2CjVumUbEGWcMikcoXBD
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# references/
Additional documentation agents load on demand.
## Files
| File | Purpose |
|------|---------|
| `finding-criteria.md` | Every dimension's FAIL and SUGGESTION criteria — the one Step 3 file read on every run; it decides which rubrics below are worth loading. |
| `description-quality.md` | Rubric for the description dimension — why the description is the expensive part, the hand-invoked contract, the three-part shape, indirect triggers, and near-miss exclusions. |
| `body-and-delegation.md` | Rubric for the body, delegation and comment-discipline dimensions — the core test, the delegation FAIL, why agents take no body word gate, and what an agent body is for. |
| `scope-plugin-apm.md` | Contract for a single vendor-neutral `.apm/agents/<name>.agent.md` file — allowlist, dimension routing, and the dimensions that do not apply. |
| `scope-project-user.md` | Contract for a Claude Code / Copilot file pair — counterpart derivation, provider field rules, and pair consistency. |
| `validation-scripts.md` | Loaded only when a Step 1 script fails or cannot run — scope-detection walk-up, manual fallback checks, and known script failures. |
| `field-inventory.md` | Authoritative field lists, read as data by `validate.sh`: valid CC and Copilot agent fields, and the vendor-neutral plugin/APM allowlist. |
| `sources.md` | Research provenance records for skill content. Load only when tracing the origin of a specific rule or field constraint. |

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# Body, Delegation and Comment Discipline Reference
Upstream source: Claude Code subagent and plugin references, GitHub Copilot custom-agents
configuration. House contract: ADR-0020, the context budget.
configuration. House contract: the context budget.
Read this when judging the **body**, **delegation** and **comment-discipline** dimensions.
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## Agents take no body word gate
ADR-0020 gates a skill body at 600 words SUGGESTION / 900 FAIL and deliberately gates an agent body
at nothing. The two are not the same construct: a skill body is loaded into the caller's live
A skill body is gated at 600 words SUGGESTION / 900 FAIL; an agent body is deliberately gated at
nothing. The two are not the same construct: a skill body is loaded into the caller's live
context and competes with the conversation already there, while an agent body *becomes* the system
prompt of a fresh context that has nothing else in it. The rationale for the 900-word ceiling does
not transfer, so:

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# Agent Description Quality Reference
Upstream source: Claude Code subagent reference, GitHub Copilot custom-agents configuration.
House contract: ADR-0020, the context budget. The house contract is narrower than either
House contract: the context budget. The house contract is narrower than either
platform's schema rather than a reinterpretation of it: where both speak, both must be satisfied.
## Why the description is the expensive part

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- A rationale is missing from a rule the agent is expected to enforce — present but unexplained
- Comments are useful but verbose enough to bury the field they annotate
**Never report an agent body as too long on a word count.** ADR-0020 gates a skill body at
600/900 words and deliberately gates an agent body at nothing, because an agent body *becomes* the
**Never report an agent body as too long on a word count.** A skill body is gated at 600/900 words;
an agent body is deliberately gated at nothing, because an agent body *becomes* the
system prompt of a fresh context rather than competing with a live conversation. No number exists
to cite. The one length signal that applies is the Copilot runtime's 30,000-character body limit,
which `validate.sh` already reports as a SUGGESTION. Length is judged through the delegation FAIL