Why: the always-on governance.md told agents to read
docs/ai-constitution.md when a decision is not covered, a path that
exists only in this repo, so the fallback failed in every other project.
(Simplification audit finding 27, second defect.)
Implementation Notes:
- Move docs/ai-constitution.md to core/ai-constitution.md; the existing
core deploy step now ships it to ~/.claude/core/.
- governance.md line 4 and line 73 name ~/.claude/core/ai-constitution.md;
the HUMANS.md and CONTROLS.md pointers now say they live in the
holocron repo.
- Repoint path-qualified citations in AGENTS.md, architecture.md,
skill-implementation-workflow.md and CONTROLS.md. The vendored
write-skill example and the audit's historical notes are left as
records.
- The docs/wiki gitlink is not bumped here; the wiki commit awaits push.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Why: three governance documents cited `docs/HUMANS.md`, which has never existed -- the human
practitioner rules live at `docs/wiki/HUMANS.md`. One of the three is
`core/instructions/governance.md`, which is `@`-imported into every session in every project,
so an agent following its "read it when making decisions not covered here" pointer hit a dead
path. That file was self-inconsistent: line 73 already cited the correct path while line 82 did
not.
Implementation notes: five occurrences corrected across three files --
`core/instructions/governance.md:82`, `docs/research/governance_principles/CONTROLS.md:5,101,106`,
and `docs/ai-constitution.md:238`. Text is otherwise untouched; this is a path correction only,
not a change to any governance rule. Marked the defect fixed in SIMPLIFICATION-AUDIT.md, which
recorded it in two places as outstanding.
Impact: no rule, gate or behaviour changes. The deployed copy at
`~/.claude/core/instructions/governance.md` no longer matches the repo and stays stale until
`scripts/install.sh` re-runs; it was byte-identical before this commit.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01YR2CjVumUbEGWcMikcoXBD
## Why
overview.md described the chunk-based delivery model, which is superseded
by the marketplace/plugin pivot. architecture.md was equally stale: it
described .agents/skills/ as the canonical skills source (directory does not
exist), a provider-manifest.sh symlink mechanism (never built), and sync.sh /
init-project.sh as existing scripts (Chunk 6, not yet built).
## Implementation Notes
- overview.md deleted; all cross-references scrubbed from AGENTS.md, CONTEXT.md,
and three notes/research files
- architecture.md fully rewritten: content deployment model reflects actual
install.sh behaviour (DEPLOY_FILES / DEPLOY_EXECUTABLES / DEPLOY_DIRS);
plugin model section added listing all 5 plugins; directory structure section
removed (was describing a layout that no longer exists)
- "Chunk 6" phase label → "planned"; "chunk workflow" removed from AGENTS.md
description
- Fixed broken path docs/HUMANS.md → docs/wiki/HUMANS.md in governance layer
and core/instructions/governance.md
Refs: #15
13 manual scenarios run across instructions and governance layers (two
rounds for failures). Fixed four rules that lost to RLHF defaults:
- Exploratory question format: tightened with boundary framing; added
@import CONTEXT.md to repo CLAUDE.md and a standing rule to check
docs/adr/ and ROADMAP resolved entries before answering design questions
(3-round iteration to resolve)
- File-edit intent: added counter-example to stop clarification-seeking
- Push confirmation: reframed as "do not call the tool" not "ask first"
- Secrets rule: extended to cover credential reproduction in response
text and usage examples, with explicit placeholder requirement
Scenario 4 (push confirmation) inconclusive — no remote configured.
Governance scenario 3 (HITL on real infra) untestable — Nginx not installed.
Both share the same root cause: agent delegates to permission system.
Also corrects stale skill list in docs/spec/overview.md (12 actual
deployed skills vs 16 names previously listed).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
