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Defame1297 311e7cd22c fix(kyberforge): reconcile the authoring rules the ADR-0020 trim left disagreeing

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

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README.md

feat(kyberforge): enforce the ADR-0020 context contract for skills and agents

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README.md

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templates/

Annotated agent definition templates copied by scripts/new-agent.sh when scaffolding a new agent. All three scaffold the description in the three-part ADR-0020 shape — a Use when trigger clause, at most one capability clause, and a boundary clause — rather than the deleted action-verb opener, and each carries a delegate-don't-restate note in the body.

claude-code.md — Claude Code agent definition template (project/user scope). Includes all supported frontmatter fields (required and optional) with inline guidance comments and FILL IN: placeholders.
copilot.agent.md.template — Copilot CLI agent definition template (CLI format, project/user scope). Excludes cloud/IDE-only fields (target, user-invocable, disable-model-invocation, mcp-servers) and Claude Code-only fields. Uses Copilot tool aliases (execute, read, edit, search, agent, web).
apm-agent.md — Vendor-neutral APM agent definition template (plugin/APM scope). Frontmatter is limited to the apm-agent-allowlist section of agent-audit's references/field-inventory.md — the authoritative list, read from there as data by agent-audit's validate.sh; this file deliberately does not restate it. No tools and no Claude-only knobs, since apm compile copies frontmatter verbatim to both the Claude Code and Copilot CLI targets with no per-target integrator; disallowedTools is scaffolded as an opt-in comment because a denylist, unlike the tools allowlist, survives that copy (ADR-0016 and its 2026-08-14 amendment).