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+# Reviewer Skill Creator — detail
+
+Overflow reference for `core/reviewer-skill-creator`, linked from its SKILL.md
+section "Bulk import of overlay reviewers". Nothing here overrides SKILL.md.
+
+## Importing reviewers from an overlay — a worked example
+
+The output below was produced by running the commands against this tree, kept
+inside the project at `vendor/acme-overlay`. Lines cut for length are marked `…`.
+
+```
+vendor/acme-overlay/
+  skills/
+    review-acme-api/SKILL.md       reviewer; triggers and flags only in its description
+    review-acme-styling/SKILL.md   reviewer; declares metadata.paths and metadata.flags
+    review-acme-naming/SKILL.md    reviewer; its description names one file and no glob
+    review-acme-legacy/SKILL.md    `deprecated: true` alias of review-acme-api
+    acme-review/SKILL.md           the overlay's own review entry point (an orchestrator)
+    review-logic/SKILL.md          the overlay's copy of a reviewer keryx ships
+  rules/core/
+    error-handling.mdc             same filename as a rule keryx ships
+    acme-api.mdc                   a name only the overlay has
+```
+
+The project already has one reviewer of its own, `review-house-api`, selected
+by `--api` and gated on `src/api/**`. It matters in section 2.
+
+`--from` takes that tree (a directory of packages, or a parent that contains
+`skills/`), or one package directory. `keryx review import` is the review-shaped
+spelling of `keryx skills import --module review`: one importer, the module
+implied. For a non-review skill, or a GitHub `SKILL.md` URL, use
+`keryx skills import` directly.
+
+### 1. A tree without `--only` is refused
+
+```
+$ keryx review import --from ./vendor/acme-overlay
+keryx review import: ./vendor/acme-overlay holds 6 packages and the import targets module review, where review-orchestrator dispatches every package it finds. Say which ones with --only <glob> (repeatable; matched against the package directory name).
+
+Candidates:
+  - acme-review
+  - review-acme-api
+  - review-acme-legacy (deprecated — skipped in a tree import)
+  - review-acme-naming
+  - review-acme-styling
+  - review-logic (bundled keryx skill name — skipped unless --force)
+
+Example:
+  keryx review import --from ./vendor/acme-overlay --only 'review-acme-api'
+```
+
+Exit code 1, nothing written. The reason is what module `review` means:
+`review-orchestrator` dispatches every package registered there, and a package
+with no path gate is dispatched on every round. A tree imported whole brings its
+entry point, its deprecated aliases and whatever else sits beside the reviewers,
+and each of those becomes a sub-agent that runs on every review. So the
+selection is yours to state, not something inferred from how one overlay names
+its packages. The candidate list is the input for that decision: read it and
+write the glob.
+
+`--only` is a glob over the package **directory name** as it is on disk (`*`
+any run of characters, `?` one), and it is repeatable: `--only 'review-acme-*'
+--only 'code-acme-*'`. A glob that matches nothing is refused with the same
+list. A single package directory, or a `SKILL.md` file, needs no `--only`.
+
+An `--only` with no glob in it is an error, not "no selection":
+
+```
+$ keryx review import --from ./vendor/acme-overlay --only ''
+keryx review import: --only needs a glob; an empty value selects nothing. Pass a package directory name or a glob over them (`*`, `?`), or drop --only.
+```
+
+The directory name is what you select by; the **slug** of that name is what
+gets written. A directory `review_acme_api` is matched by `--only
+'review_acme_*'` (and by `--name review_acme_api` in `keryx skills import`),
+and lands as `review/review-acme-api`: the destination, the "already exists"
+and bundled-name checks, and the row the import prints all use the slug. Two
+selected directories that slug to one destination are refused before anything
+is written — here a tree holding both `review-dup` and `review_dup`:
+
+```
+$ keryx review import --from ./dup --only 'review*' --dry-run
+keryx review import: review-dup and review_dup both import as review/review-dup. Narrow --only to one of them, or rename one directory.
+```
+
+A directory name with no letter or digit has no slug to be written under, and
+is refused the same way:
+
+```
+$ keryx review import --from ./vendor/odd/___ --dry-run
+keryx review import: package directory ___ has no letter or digit to name it by. Rename the directory, or import its SKILL.md under a name you choose: keryx skills import --from ./vendor/odd/___/SKILL.md --module review --name <name>
+```
+
+Before the first write, every destination the import would touch — the
+package, the registry in `.metaproject/metaproject.json`, the catalog, each
+rule — is checked for a symlink on the way that resolves outside the project.
+One is refused, nothing is written, and a dry run refuses it with the same
+message. `keryx skills update` checks the same way. Here the package directory
+had been replaced by a link to a directory outside the project:
+
+```
+$ keryx review import --from ./vendor/acme-overlay/skills/review-acme-naming --dry-run
+keryx review import: .metaproject/project-skills/review/review-acme-naming/SKILL.md: refuses to write through a symlink at .metaproject/project-skills/review/review-acme-naming that resolves outside the project root. Nothing was written.
+```
+
+### 2. Dry-run first
+
+```
+$ keryx review import --from ./vendor/acme-overlay --only 'review-acme-*' --dry-run
+# skills import
+
+from: ./vendor/acme-overlay
+dry-run: yes
+force: no
+imported: 0 overwritten: 0 updated: 0 skipped: 1 would-import: 3 would-overwrite: 0
+
+## would import (3) — dry run, nothing written
+
+- review/review-acme-api
+- review/review-acme-naming
+- review/review-acme-styling
+
+## packages
+
+- review/review-acme-api: would-import — review-orchestrator will dispatch this after `keryx review reviewers` lists it
+  - warning: flag --api is carried by one existing project reviewer, review-house-api: it becomes a family flag for both, so --api now selects review-house-api path-gated instead of dispatching it outright.
+- review/review-acme-legacy: skipped — deprecated
+- review/review-acme-naming: would-import — review-orchestrator will dispatch this after `keryx review reviewers` lists it
+  - warning: paths: none — dispatched on every round. Declare `metadata.paths: "<glob>, <glob>"` in its frontmatter to gate it on the diff.
+- review/review-acme-styling: would-import — review-orchestrator will dispatch this after `keryx review reviewers` lists it
+  - warning: metadata.flags: "--acme_css" dropped — a flag is `--` and a name of lower-case letters, digits and dashes that starts with a letter
+
+A package whose frontmatter says `deprecated: true` is skipped in a tree import. To import one anyway, pass its own directory as --from.
+
+## rules the skills cite
+
+- core/acme-api.mdc: would-import — from vendor/acme-overlay/rules/core/acme-api.mdc (cited by review-acme-api)
+- core/acme-styling.mdc: unresolved — no rules/ directory beside the source has it (cited by review-acme-styling)
+- core/error-handling.mdc: differs — .metaproject/rules/core/error-handling.mdc is not the overlay's version; the overlay's would be written to .metaproject/rules/project/core/error-handling.mdc, which is the file the reviewer would read — from vendor/acme-overlay/rules/core/error-handling.mdc (cited by review-acme-api)
+…
+```
+
+Read three things off it before running for real:
+
+- **The `would import` list is the whole answer to "what lands".** Here the glob
+  also matched `review-acme-legacy`, and it is skipped as `deprecated` — a tree
+  import skips a deprecated package even with `--force`. `acme-review` and
+  `review-logic` did not match the glob, so they are not rows at all.
+- **Every `warning:` row.** There are three kinds here, and each is a decision
+  to make before the real run:
+  - `paths: none` — that reviewer will run on every round whatever the diff
+    touches. The remedy is `metadata.paths` in the overlay's frontmatter
+    (section 4).
+  - `metadata.flags: … dropped` — an entry of the declared list is not a flag
+    and will not select the reviewer. Fix the spelling in the overlay. When no
+    entry survives, a second line, `metadata.flags: no entry is a flag`, says
+    the reviewer now has no selection flags at all (section 4, `flags`).
+  - `flag … is carried by one existing project reviewer` — the import changes
+    how a reviewer the project **already has** is dispatched. Until now `--api`
+    dispatched `review-house-api` outright; once a second reviewer carries it,
+    `--api` is a family flag for both and each stays path-gated. If the
+    existing reviewer must keep its own flag, rename the flag in the overlay.
+    The warning is about reviewers that were on disk before the import and are
+    not replaced by it; packages arriving together that share a flag (`--acme`)
+    are the overlay's own family and get no warning.
+
+  A fourth kind appears only on a `--force` overwrite: `flag … is dropped by
+  this version of …, which leaves … its only carrier` — the reverse change,
+  shown under "Refresh when the origin moves".
+- **Every rule row that is not `would-import` or `present`.** `unresolved` means
+  the reviewer will cite a rule the project will not have. `differs` means a
+  file already answers that reference with other content.
+
+A dry-run does not run the security gate that a real run applies to every file
+it writes, so a `would-…` status can be optimistic: the real run may still block
+a package, or report a rule as `unresolved` with `blocked by the security gate`.
+
+### 3. The real run, and what it writes
+
+```
+$ keryx review import --from ./vendor/acme-overlay --only 'review-acme-*'
+# skills import
+
+from: ./vendor/acme-overlay
+dry-run: no
+force: no
+imported: 3 overwritten: 0 updated: 0 skipped: 1 would-import: 0 would-overwrite: 0
+
+- review/review-acme-api: imported — review-orchestrator will dispatch this after `keryx review reviewers` lists it
+  - warning: flag --api is carried by one existing project reviewer, review-house-api: it becomes a family flag for both, so --api now selects review-house-api path-gated instead of dispatching it outright.
+- review/review-acme-legacy: skipped — deprecated
+- review/review-acme-naming: imported — review-orchestrator will dispatch this after `keryx review reviewers` lists it
+  - warning: paths: none — dispatched on every round. Declare `metadata.paths: "<glob>, <glob>"` in its frontmatter to gate it on the diff.
+- review/review-acme-styling: imported — review-orchestrator will dispatch this after `keryx review reviewers` lists it
+  - warning: metadata.flags: "--acme_css" dropped — a flag is `--` and a name of lower-case letters, digits and dashes that starts with a letter
+…
+## rules the skills cite
+
+- core/acme-api.mdc: imported — from vendor/acme-overlay/rules/core/acme-api.mdc (cited by review-acme-api)
+- core/acme-styling.mdc: unresolved — no rules/ directory beside the source has it (cited by review-acme-styling)
+- core/error-handling.mdc: differs — .metaproject/rules/core/error-handling.mdc is not the overlay's version; the overlay's was written to .metaproject/rules/project/core/error-handling.mdc, which is the file the reviewer reads — from vendor/acme-overlay/rules/core/error-handling.mdc (cited by review-acme-api)
+
+A reviewer that cites `<dir>/<name>.mdc` reads `.metaproject/rules/project/<dir>/<name>.mdc` when that file exists,
+and `.metaproject/rules/<dir>/<name>.mdc` otherwise. `keryx init`, `keryx update` and `keryx skills install` overwrite
+rules/core with keryx's own rules and leave rules/project alone. `keryx review reviewers` lists each such reference
+under `shadowedRules`.
+
+Reviewers: `keryx review reviewers` must list every imported review/* name. That is the same call review-orchestrator makes.
+```
+
+The note's "`keryx skills install` overwrite rules/core" is true of one of its
+two forms. **`keryx init`, `keryx update` and the legacy-profile form of
+`keryx skills install`** (`--profile minimal|recommended|full|custom` with no
+manifest flag) copy keryx's rules over `rules/core`. The manifest form with
+`--target keryx-shell` also writes `rules/core`, but skips an existing file its
+install-state did not record (or that drifted from it) unless `--force`;
+`--target claude` writes `.claude/rules/` and leaves `rules/core` alone. None
+of them writes or cleans `rules/project`. The other mentions below mean this.
+
+Per imported package, four things now exist:
+
+- **The package directory** `.metaproject/project-skills/review/<name>/`, holding
+  `SKILL.md` and `skill-changelog.md`. The import copies `SKILL.md` and the rules
+  it cites, nothing else: a checklist, template or script the reviewer points at
+  is not brought along (section 4, `unresolvedReferences`).
+- **A header stamped into `SKILL.md`**, directly after the frontmatter. The body
+  below it is the source's, unchanged:
+
+  ```
+  Version: 1.2.0
+  Target: review-acme-api
+  Module: review
+  Origin: vendor/acme-overlay/skills/review-acme-api/SKILL.md
+  Origin Hash: sha256:d6cfb23a47093ac46c5b1788bd1325cbba0c08b76e749c40f371f474589eef2f
+  Imported At: 2026-09-30T15:49:48.204Z
+  Status: active
+  Last Verified: never
+  ```
+
+  `Origin`, `Origin Hash` and `Imported At` are what drift is computed from.
+  `Origin` is recorded project-relative when the source is inside the project,
+  as `~/…` when it is under the home directory, and absolute only otherwise — an
+  absolute origin is true on one machine and reads as drift `missing` on every
+  other.
+- **A `projectSkillRegistry` entry** in `.metaproject/metaproject.json`
+  (`modules.gdskills.projectSkillRegistry`):
+
+  ```json
+  {
+    "module": "review",
+    "name": "review-acme-api",
+    "target": "review-acme-api",
+    "path": ".metaproject/project-skills/review/review-acme-api",
+    "version": "1.2.0",
+    "status": "active",
+    "updatedAt": "2026-09-30T15:49:48.246Z"
+  }
+  ```
+- **A catalog row** in the Project Skills section of `.metaproject/skills/catalog.md`:
+
+  ```
+  | review | review-acme-api | `review-acme-api` | .metaproject/project-skills/review/review-acme-api/SKILL.md |
+  ```
+
+**Rules.** For each backticked `.mdc` rule a selected package cites, the import
+looks for the file in a `rules/` directory beside the overlay's skills and
+reports one status:
+
+- `imported` — the project did not have it; copied to `.metaproject/rules/<ref>`
+  (here `acme-api.mdc`, into the project's `rules/core`).
+- `present` — the project already has it, identical to the overlay's, or the
+  overlay has no version to compare with.
+- `differs` — a file already answers that reference with other content. The
+  overlay's version is written to the reference's project slot,
+  `.metaproject/rules/project/<dir>/<name>.mdc`, and the existing file is left
+  untouched. This is the ordinary case for a filename keryx also ships
+  (`error-handling.mdc` above, written to `rules/project/core/`): the file in
+  `rules/core` is keryx's generic rule, not the overlay's.
+- `imported-project` — a `core/<name>.mdc` that keryx ships under the same name
+  and the project has no file for yet; the overlay's goes to
+  `.metaproject/rules/project/core/<name>.mdc` rather than to `rules/core`,
+  because `keryx init`, `keryx update` and the legacy-profile
+  `keryx skills install` overwrite `rules/core` with keryx's own rules.
+- `unresolved` — no `rules/` directory beside the source has it. Add the file by
+  hand, or the reviewer keeps citing a rule the project lacks.
+
+The project slot keeps the whole reference, directory included:
+`core/error-handling.mdc` resolves to
+`.metaproject/rules/project/core/error-handling.mdc` first and to
+`.metaproject/rules/core/error-handling.mdc` second, and a
+`house/error-handling.mdc` would resolve to
+`.metaproject/rules/project/house/error-handling.mdc` first — two rules with
+one filename never share a slot. A file lying directly in `rules/project/` is nobody's slot:
+it is read only by a reviewer whose text cites it literally, as
+`project/<name>.mdc`. Nothing loads rules for a reviewer, so the order takes
+effect in one place: `review-orchestrator` reads `shadowedRules` from the
+inventory and tells the reviewer, in its dispatch prompt, which file to read. A
+reviewer run outside the orchestrator reads what its text names. An existing
+project-slot copy that differs from the overlay's is left as it is — it may be
+a hand edit — unless `--force` is passed.
+
+Running the same command again is safe and is how rules are fetched for an
+import made earlier: packages come back `skipped — already exists; pass --force
+to overwrite`, and the rule rows are re-resolved — `present` for both files
+written above, the second with `the reviewer reads
+.metaproject/rules/project/core/error-handling.mdc`.
+
+### 4. Reading `keryx review reviewers`
+
+```
+$ keryx review reviewers
+…
+## project-local
+
+- review-acme-api (vendor/acme-overlay/skills/review-acme-api/SKILL.md — clean)
+  - paths: src/api/**, src/server/routes.ts [description]
+  - flags: --acme, --acme-api, --api
+  - family flags: --acme, --api — shared with another project reviewer: selects it, stays path-gated
+- review-acme-naming (vendor/acme-overlay/skills/review-acme-naming/SKILL.md — clean)
+  - paths: none — dispatched on every round [none]
+  - flags: --acme-naming
+- review-acme-styling (vendor/acme-overlay/skills/review-acme-styling/SKILL.md — clean)
+  - paths: src/**/*.css, src/theme/** [metadata]
+  - flags: --acme, --acme-styling
+  - family flags: --acme — shared with another project reviewer: selects it, stays path-gated
+  - warning: metadata.flags: "--acme_css" dropped — a flag is `--` and a name of lower-case letters, digits and dashes that starts with a letter
+- review-house-api (house/review-house-api/SKILL.md — clean)
+  - paths: src/api/** [description]
+  - flags: --api
+  - family flags: --api — shared with another project reviewer: selects it, stays path-gated
+
+## rules cited but not in .metaproject/rules
+
+- review-acme-styling: core/acme-styling.mdc
+…
+## rules read from .metaproject/rules/project
+
+- review-acme-api: `core/error-handling.mdc` → .metaproject/rules/project/core/error-handling.mdc
+…
+```
+
+This is the call `review-orchestrator` makes (with `--json`), so what it prints
+is what a round will do. `review-house-api`'s last row is what the import
+warned about: `--api` is now a family flag for it. The frontmatter the three
+imported rows were derived from:
+
+```yaml
+# review-acme-api — nothing declared; everything is read out of the description
+description: |
+  Use when reviewing Acme API handlers against the Acme error contract.
+  Dispatched for --acme, --acme-api, --api, --all, or changes under src/api/** and
+  src/server/routes.ts. NOT for styling.
+metadata:
+  stack_requires: "http-server"
+
+# review-acme-styling — declared; the description is not consulted for these
+metadata:
+  paths: "src/**/*.css, src/theme/**"
+  flags:
+    - acme
+    - --Acme-Styling
+    - --acme_css
+
+# review-acme-naming — a file path in prose, and no glob anywhere
+description: |
+  Use when reviewing names against the Acme naming guide. Dispatched for
+  --acme-naming or --all. The pattern to follow is in src/app/names.ts.
+```
+
+The frontmatter is read by one reader, shared by the import, this inventory,
+`keryx review jev-rules` and the stack gate. It reads a subset of YAML, and a
+shape outside the subset reads as not declared — the same as an absent key:
+
+- the block opens with `---` on the first line; a leading BOM is ignored and
+  CRLF line endings read as LF;
+- a `# comment` after whitespace, outside quotes, is dropped;
+- `metadata.paths` and `metadata.flags` may be a comma-separated string, a flow
+  list (`[a, b]`) or a block list of `- item` lines; empty items are skipped.
+  `metadata.stack_requires` is read as a string only;
+- only keys directly under `metadata:` are its fields — a `paths:` nested a
+  level deeper is not `metadata.paths`;
+- a flow mapping, an anchor, a nested list or a multi-line quoted scalar is
+  outside the subset;
+- `deprecated: true` and `category` count at the top level or under
+  `metadata:`.
+
+How each field of a `project` entry in `--json` is derived:
+
+- **`flags`** — `metadata.flags` when it has at least one non-empty entry;
+  otherwise every `--flag` the description names. So `flags: []` and
+  `flags: ''` leave the description's flags in force — they do not switch them
+  off. A declared flag entry is normalised before anything compares it: split
+  on commas and whitespace, trimmed, lower-cased, and given `--` when it has no
+  leading dash — so `acme` and `--Acme-Styling` above became `--acme` and
+  `--acme-styling`. `--all` is excluded either way: it selects every reviewer
+  already. A list with entries replaces the description even when none of them
+  survives: a list of only non-flags (`[--acme_css]`) and a list of only
+  `--all` both leave the reviewer with no flags, selected by its paths or by
+  `--all`.
+- **`flagWarnings`** — one line per `metadata.flags` entry that is still not
+  `--` plus a lower-case name after normalising (`--acme_css` above). The entry
+  is dropped from `flags`, and the line is printed as a `warning:` row here and
+  on the import row. When dropping left no flag, a second line says so. A list
+  of only `--all` gets no warning. Empty when there is nothing to say.
+- **`familyFlags`** — the subset of `flags` that at least one other project
+  reviewer also carries (`--acme` and `--api` above). A passed family flag
+  selects the reviewer and leaves it path-gated; a passed flag only this
+  reviewer carries (`--acme-styling`) selects it explicitly, with no path gate.
+- **`paths` and `pathsSource`** — `metadata.paths` when declared
+  (`pathsSource: metadata`); it wins. Otherwise the triggers found in the
+  description (`pathsSource: description`): any token with a `*` that looks like
+  a path, and — only in a description that has at least one such glob — any
+  literal repo-relative file path beside it, such as `src/server/routes.ts`;
+  `src/**/*.ts(x)` expands to both spellings. A cited document (`.md`, `.mdc`)
+  and a path under `.metaproject/` are never triggers, and neither is prose
+  without a glob or an extension (`date/temporal utils`). A description with no
+  glob yields no trigger at all, whatever file paths it names: prose is full of
+  things shaped like one (`React/Next.js`), and a trigger that matches no file
+  would gate the reviewer off every round. That is `review-acme-naming` above —
+  `src/app/names.ts` is not a trigger, the entry has `paths: []` and
+  `pathsSource: none`, and the reviewer is dispatched on every round, with the
+  import warning.
+
+  The description reader works on prose, so it can be wrong in both directions:
+  beside a glob, a file the description merely mentions ("see src/app/main.ts
+  for the pattern") becomes a trigger, and a directory named without a glob
+  yields nothing. When the printed `paths` are not what the reviewer should be
+  gated on, declare `metadata.paths` in the overlay's frontmatter and refresh
+  the import — do not reword the description until the guess comes out right.
+- **`stackRequires`** — `metadata.stack_requires`, a comma-separated string of the
+  tags `keryx review stack` knows (`nestjs`, `react`, `mobx`, `prisma`,
+  `playwright`, `sql`, `http-server`). An unknown tag is dropped, which leaves
+  the reviewer unscoped rather than excluded.
+- **`unresolvedRules`** — backticked `.mdc` rules the text cites that exist
+  neither at `.metaproject/rules/project/<ref>` nor at `.metaproject/rules/<ref>`.
+  Printed under "rules cited but not in .metaproject/rules". The reviewer is
+  still dispatched; add the rule, or accept that it reviews without it.
+- **`shadowedRules`** — `[{ ref, resolved }]`: rules the text cites as
+  `<dir>/<name>.mdc` that the project-slot copy answers first — above,
+  `{ "ref": "core/error-handling.mdc", "resolved":
+  ".metaproject/rules/project/core/error-handling.mdc" }`. Printed under
+  "rules read from .metaproject/rules/project". Expected after a `differs` or
+  `imported-project` row; it is a fact to check, not a defect.
+- **`unresolvedReferences`** — `[{ ref, reason }]`, printed under "references
+  that do not resolve". `missing`: a backticked path starting `skills/` or
+  `rules/` and ending `.md` or `.json` with no file at that path under
+  `.metaproject/` — the import did not bring it; copy it there or edit the
+  reference out. `non-portable`: a rule cited by an absolute or `~` path, which
+  exists on one machine at most; cite it as `core/<name>.mdc` instead.
+- **`drift`** — `clean`, `changed` or `missing`, from re-hashing the file
+  `Origin` names against `Origin Hash`. It is the word after the dash on the
+  reviewer's row. `none` means no origin was recorded — a reviewer made with
+  `keryx skills create` and no `--origin` — and its row reads
+  `- <name> (no recorded origin)`, with no dash. A remote (`https://`) origin
+  always lists as `clean`: listing opens no connection, and `keryx skills
+  update` is what re-reads it.
+
+## What is not a reviewer
+
+Module `review` is a dispatch list, not a folder for review-adjacent skills. A
+package belongs there only if it can be handed a bounded diff and return
+`REVIEW_RESULT` under the orchestrated review contract. Leave these out of
+`--only`:
+
+- **An orchestrator, facade or entry point** (`acme-review` above). Registered
+  as a reviewer it is dispatched as a sub-agent of the round it was written to
+  run.
+- **A deprecated alias.** The tree import skips a package whose frontmatter says
+  `deprecated: true`; one whose deprecation is only stated in prose is yours to
+  exclude.
+- **A report generator, comment interpreter or other post-processing skill.** It
+  consumes findings; it does not produce them.
+- **Anything with no review contract** — a rule digest, a style guide, a
+  checklist with no output schema.
+- **A copy of a reviewer keryx ships** (`review-logic` above). It is skipped
+  unless `--force`, and forcing it shadows the bundled one.
+
+Naming a package by its own directory is the operator asking for it, so none of
+the tree protections apply: a deprecated package is imported, with a warning.
+If one of these is worth having in the project, import it under another module
+(`keryx skills import --from <package-dir> --module orchestration`): it is
+registered for `keryx skills route` and is not dispatched by review rounds.
+
+## Undo
+
+```
+$ keryx skills remove review/review-acme-naming --dry-run
+Would remove project skill: review/review-acme-naming
+- absent: verification report — .metaproject/data/gdskills/reports/review-review-acme-naming-verification.json
+- would remove: catalog row — .metaproject/skills/catalog.md
+- would remove: package directory — .metaproject/project-skills/review/review-acme-naming
+- would remove: registry entry — .metaproject/metaproject.json
+Dry run: nothing was changed.
+
+$ keryx skills remove review/review-acme-naming
+Removed project skill: review/review-acme-naming
+- absent: verification report — .metaproject/data/gdskills/reports/review-review-acme-naming-verification.json
+- removed: catalog row — .metaproject/skills/catalog.md
+- removed: package directory — .metaproject/project-skills/review/review-acme-naming
+- removed: registry entry — .metaproject/metaproject.json
+```
+
+One skill per call, named exactly as registered. It removes the four things an
+import registered, plus the `review/` directory when that was the last skill in
+it, in the order printed: the verification report, the catalog row, the
+package directory, the module directory, and the registry entry last. `absent`
+means the part was already gone and is not an error.
+
+If a step fails — a read-only directory, say — the error names the part that
+failed, what is already gone and what is still in place; a package directory
+whose recursive delete failed part-way is listed as `(may be partly removed)`,
+since some of its files may already be gone. The registry entry is
+still there, so running the same command again once the cause is fixed
+finishes the removal. A skill whose entry and package are already gone is
+still found by a leftover catalog row or verification report, so a removal
+half-done by hand is finished the same way.
+
+Names are case-sensitive, on every filesystem. A spelling that differs from the
+registered one only in case is refused and names the registered spelling:
+
+```
+$ keryx skills remove Review/review-acme-naming --dry-run
+keryx skills remove: Review/review-acme-naming is not registered under that spelling; the registered spelling is review/review-acme-naming. Skill names are case-sensitive: run `keryx skills remove review/review-acme-naming`. Nothing was changed.
+```
+
+The command deletes a directory recursively and takes its target from a
+registry anyone can edit, so it checks where it is about to reach and refuses
+(exit 1) before changing anything — a refused run leaves the registry, the
+catalog and the disk as they were:
+
+- a bundled skill, or a name that is not a project skill;
+- a skill whose package directory is on disk only under another spelling
+  (`review/Alpha/` for `review/alpha`). On a filesystem that ignores case the
+  two are one directory, so removing the entry and row would leave that package
+  in place and still found as a skill. The refusal names the on-disk spelling;
+  rename the directory to `.metaproject/project-skills/<module>/<name>` and
+  retry;
+- a symlink where something would be deleted: `.metaproject/project-skills`
+  itself, the module directory, the package, or the reports directory
+  `.metaproject/data/gdskills/reports`. It does not delete through the link and
+  does not unlink it; remove the link by hand if that is the intent;
+- a `.metaproject/metaproject.json` or `.metaproject/skills/catalog.md` that
+  resolves outside the project. One reached through a symlink to a file inside
+  the project is rewritten in place, and the row names where the write lands;
+- a registry entry whose `path` is not its own
+  `.metaproject/project-skills/<module>/<name>` — an entry pointing at the
+  module directory or at another skill's package would otherwise delete that;
+- a registry entry whose key is not two plain path segments.
+
+A verification report is removed only when it is this skill's: a report whose
+body names another package (`skillPath`) is left alone even if its file name
+matches.
+
+It leaves in place, deliberately: the rules the import copied into
+`.metaproject/rules/` — `rules/project` included — because other skills may
+cite them; runtime exports under `.metaproject/runtime/skills/`; and learning
+proposals under `.metaproject/data/gdskills/proposals/`. Delete a rule by hand
+once nothing cites it, and check with `keryx review reviewers` that no reviewer
+lists it as unresolved afterwards.
+
+## Refresh when the origin moves
+
+After the overlay's `review-acme-api/SKILL.md` was edited:
+
+```
+$ keryx review reviewers
+…
+- review-acme-api (vendor/acme-overlay/skills/review-acme-api/SKILL.md — changed)
+…
+## origins that moved on
+
+- review-acme-api: `vendor/acme-overlay/skills/review-acme-api/SKILL.md` changed since 2026-09-30T15:49:48.204Z
+…
+$ keryx skills update review/review-acme-api --dry-run
+…
+## would import (1) — dry run, nothing written
+
+- review/review-acme-api (overwrites the existing one)
+…
+$ keryx skills update review/review-acme-api
+…
+- review/review-acme-api: updated — review-orchestrator will dispatch this after `keryx review reviewers` lists it
+```
+
+`changed` does not mean the reviewer is wrong; it still runs, from the older
+text. `keryx skills update <module>/<name>` (or `--all`) re-reads each `Origin`
+and overwrites the project's `SKILL.md`, re-stamping the hash — so an edit made
+to the imported copy is lost. If the project deliberately differs from the
+overlay, make the change in the overlay, or record the divergence and leave the
+row `changed`.
+
+`keryx skills update` refreshes `SKILL.md` only; it reports no rule rows. When
+the overlay's rules moved too, re-run the import. `--force` on the import
+overwrites packages that already exist and replaces a project-slot copy
+(`rules/project/<dir>/<name>.mdc`) that differs from the overlay's:
+
+```
+$ keryx review import --from ./vendor/acme-overlay/skills/review-acme-styling --force
+…
+- review/review-acme-styling: overwritten — review-orchestrator will dispatch this after `keryx review reviewers` lists it
+  - warning: metadata.flags: "--acme_css" dropped — a flag is `--` and a name of lower-case letters, digits and dashes that starts with a letter
+…
+```
+
+An overwrite can also change how a reviewer it leaves alone is dispatched.
+When the new version drops a family flag and one other project reviewer is left
+carrying it, that flag becomes the other reviewer's own and dispatches it past
+its path gate — here the overlay dropped `--api` from `review-acme-api`:
+
+```
+$ keryx review import --from ./vendor/acme-overlay/skills/review-acme-api --force --dry-run
+…
+- review/review-acme-api: would-overwrite — review-orchestrator will dispatch this after `keryx review reviewers` lists it
+  - warning: flag --api is dropped by this version of review-acme-api, which leaves review-house-api its only carrier: --api now dispatches review-house-api outright instead of selecting it path-gated.
+…
+```
+
+An origin that reads `missing` cannot be updated from: pass the new location
+with `keryx skills update <module>/<name> --from <new-origin>`.
+
+## Registration is per clone where `.metaproject/` is ignored
+
+Everything above lives under `.metaproject/`. Many projects git-ignore that
+directory, and then an import registers reviewers in the clone it ran in and
+nowhere else: a teammate, a fresh worktree and CI see none of them until the
+import is run there too. Check with `git check-ignore .metaproject` before
+telling anyone the reviewers are wired for the team.
+
+Where `.metaproject/` is tracked, commit what the import wrote:
+`.metaproject/project-skills/review/`, the registry entry in
+`.metaproject/metaproject.json`, the catalog row, and the rules — including
+`.metaproject/rules/project/`, which `keryx init`, `keryx update` and
+`keryx skills install` (either form) never write or clean, so a clone that lacks it
+silently reads keryx's generic rule under the same name. Keep the overlay at a path that resolves for everyone
+(inside the repository, or the same `~/…` location), or `drift` reads `missing`
+on every machine but the importer's.
+
+## `review-learning.config.json`
+
+Optional, and separate from importing: it names which pull-request comment
+authors `keryx review learn` may turn into lessons for one project skill. The
+file is `.metaproject/review-learning.config.json`:
+
+```json
+{
+  "schemaVersion": 1,
+  "skill": "review/review-acme-api",
+  "repo": "acme/shop",
+  "authors": ["alice", "bob"],
+  "reviewerProfiles": ["alice"]
+}
+```
+
+- `schemaVersion` — required, exactly `1`.
+- `skill` — required, `<module>/<skill>` naming a project skill under
+  `.metaproject/project-skills/`: one `/`, no whitespace. The loader checks the
+  shape only.
+- `repo` — required, `owner/repo`: the repository whose collected comments
+  teach that skill.
+- `authors` — required, at least one GitHub login. Matching is
+  case-insensitive and otherwise exact. A present file with no authors is an
+  error rather than a pass that teaches nothing.
+- `reviewerProfiles` — optional array of logins that also get a per-reviewer
+  profile rule. Every entry must be one of `authors` (case-insensitive);
+  omitted means nobody gets a profile.
+
+There are no defaults: every required field must be present. No file at all is
+the supported "this project does not learn" state and is not an error; a file
+that is present and malformed is refused with the field named.