CONTEXT.md

@@ -14,22 +14,6 @@ decisions.
 
 ### Context cost
 
-**Preload tax**:
-The always-on context cost of every installed skill's `name` and `description`, charged from the
-first token of every session whether the skill is invoked or not. Measurement method: ADR-0020. Its
-**23,427 characters is the pre-retrofit baseline, not a current reading** — measured at the decision
-commit, before #99. Across the same 39 skills it is **10,478 characters** (~2,620 tokens) as of
-2026-09-01. Both figures move with the corpus, so re-derive rather than quote either: sum
-`len(name) + len(description)` over the frontmatter of every `plugins/*/.apm/skills/*/SKILL.md`,
-folding block scalars as `scripts/skill-size-check.sh` does.
-_Avoid_: context cost, token overhead
-
-**Skill context contract**:
-The ADR-0020 authoring rules that hold the preload tax and body size down — a description carries a
-trigger clause, at most one capability clause, and a boundary clause, and nothing else. Thresholds
-and the target-resolution walk: `docs/spec/gates.md`.
-_Avoid_: skill budget, size limit
-
 **Routing target**:
 The skill or agent name a boundary clause sends work to. It **resolves** when a skill or agent of
 that name is reachable from the file being checked, and **dangles** when none is — a route the router
@@ -76,12 +60,6 @@ The unit apm builds and installs — `plugins/<name>/apm.yml` plus the hand-auth
 `plugins/<name>/.apm/` tree it compiles from (ADR-0015).
 _Avoid_: plugin directory, source tree
 
-**Content mirror**:
-The generated flat `skills/`, `agents/`, `commands/`, `instructions/`, `extensions/` directories and
-merged `hooks/hooks.json` at a plugin root — also called the flat mirror — compiled from that
-plugin's `.apm/` tree so hosts that convention-scan those paths discover the content (ADR-0017).
-_Avoid_: generated copy, duplicate tree
-
 **Output profile**:
 An `apm pack` target format for a generated *marketplace* manifest; apm has `claude`
 (`.claude-plugin/marketplace.json`) and `codex` (the differently-shaped
@@ -99,12 +77,6 @@ This repository, in its role as a plugin marketplace and as the remote the six p
 resolve against.
 _Avoid_: the marketplace, upstream
 
-**apm-consumed install**:
-How this repo installs its own plugins as of 2026-08-14 — six `dependencies.apm` entries in the root
-`apm.yml` deployed by `apm install`, rather than `claude plugin install <name>@holocron`. Its
-consequences: ADR-0018.
-_Avoid_: apm install, dependency install
-
 **Provenance chain**:
 The three-stage traceability record linking a skill back to its research inputs: `/research` produces
 topic docs and a `sources.md`; the author skill records which sources informed which files in
@@ -120,18 +92,6 @@ irreversible or high-stakes actions — architecture changes, production deploym
 configuration.
 _Avoid_: manual approval, gated action
 
-**HOTL** (human-on-the-loop):
-The agent acts and a human monitors, able to intervene after the fact. Acceptable only for
-low-stakes, bounded, reversible actions where the cost of pausing exceeds the blast radius of an
-error.
-_Avoid_: autonomous, unsupervised
-
-**Sycophancy**:
-The failure mode where an RLHF-trained model prioritises approval over accuracy — changing a correct
-answer to a wrong one under user pressure, then persisting in the wrong answer. Treated here as a
-first-class reliability risk, not a quality-of-life concern.
-_Avoid_: agreeableness, people-pleasing
-
 ### Documents
 
 **AGENTS.md**:
@@ -149,12 +109,6 @@ _Avoid_: wrapper, shim, provider file
 The long-loop feedback log for patterns observed across sessions, at the repo root.
 _Avoid_: changelog, retro, postmortem
 
-**Management Application**:
-A separate product in a separate repo for browsing, editing, and configuring AI development configs
-through a product UI, with Git as an invisible persistence layer. Repo-agnostic; this repo is its
-canonical default content. Roadmap: `docs/VISION.md`.
-_Avoid_: the UI, the dashboard, the app
-
 ### Quality
 
 **Skill composition**:
@@ -162,11 +116,6 @@ A skill calling another skill by name to delegate a sub-task — the caller owns
 decision ("when to do X"), the callee owns the mechanics ("how to do X").
 _Avoid_: chaining, nesting, sub-skill
 
-**Vale audit prefilter**:
-The deterministic Vale pass that runs ahead of `skill-audit`/`agent-audit`'s Description dimension,
-so LLM judgment is spent only on what a pattern cannot catch. Mechanics: `docs/spec/gates.md`.
-_Avoid_: linting, style check
-
 **Authoring root**:
 The directory a gate resolves against — the nearest ancestor of the file being checked holding
 `plugins/*/.apm/skills` or `plugins/*/.apm/agents`, falling back to the nearest ancestor holding
@@ -179,11 +128,6 @@ sibling that would wrongly answer it; boundary clauses exist to exclude genuine
 than to enumerate siblings. Detail: `skill-audit/references/description-quality.md`.
 _Avoid_: overlap, similar skill
 
-**Vacuous green**:
-A check that reports success because it measured nothing — zero files scanned, an unparsed value read
-as empty, a conditional branch that never armed.
-_Avoid_: false pass, clean run
-
 **Issue**:
 The cross-provider term for a tracked unit of work. Gitea is this repo's canonical tracker
 (ADR-0007), but skills say "linked issue" generically rather than naming a provider.
@@ -193,18 +137,12 @@ _Avoid_: ticket, card, task
 
 - A **Plugin** bundles one or more **Skills** and agents; a **Plugin marketplace** lists **Plugins**;
   **holocron** is this repo wearing that hat.
-- Every model-invocable **Skill** pays the **Preload tax**. A **Hand-invoked skill** does not — which
-  is the first question to settle when authoring one.
-- The **Skill context contract** bounds both the **Preload tax** (description) and the body.
-  A **Dispatch body** is how a skill stays inside it; **Delegation discipline** is how an agent does.
 - **AGENTS.md** is the source of always-on rules; a **Thin adapter** imports it and originates
   nothing.
 - **Skill composition** is the caller/callee split. `forge` routes a genuinely *undecided* artifact
   type to the matching author skill — an already-specified fix (file, line, and change known) calls
   that author skill directly, because each routing hop re-derives instructions from a shorter brief
   and has been observed to drop hard constraints handed down the chain.
-- **HITL** and **HOTL** are exclusive per action class, and the choice must be explicit and
-  documented. **Sycophancy** is why HOTL is not the safe default.
 - A **Skill** built on research carries a **Provenance chain**; `skill-audit` fails it when broken.
 - **LESSONS.md** feeds the standing files: three or more entries on one pattern graduate the pattern
   into the relevant standing document.