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 name: audit-harness-fit
 description: >-
-  Audits the resident steering layer — CLAUDE.md/AGENTS.md and its `@import` chain,
-  `.claude/rules/`, hooks, permission rules, and the skill descriptors preloaded every session —
-  against the published authoring checklist. INVENTORY measures what loads; EVIDENCE gathers block
-  logs and correction history; VERDICT maps each section to the documented include categories and
-  exclude list, then rules keep / rewrite / relocate / delete; RELOCATE moves procedures to skills,
-  must-hold guarantees to hooks and permission rules, derivable facts back to code; APPLY proposes
-  and waits for approval. Use when the user says any of "하네스 정리", "룰·훅이 밥값을 하는지",
-  "CLAUDE.md 다이어트", "상주 컨텍스트 정리", "룰이 너무 많아", "훅이 실제로 뭘 막고 있는지" — or
-  "harness audit", "trim my CLAUDE.md", "are my rules earning their keep", "prune the steering
-  layer", "why does Claude ignore my rules". Do NOT use it after a specific defect recurred (that is
-  recurrence-prevention), or for drift between the product's docs and its code (that is
-  audit-service-gaps DRIFT).
+  Audit or clean up agent instructions and skills: remove needless questions
+  and rechecks, reconcile changed decisions, retire low-value guidance, move
+  history to references, and right-size user-journey verification. Also fill
+  or refresh AGENTS.md / CLAUDE.md project context from repository evidence.
+  Use for harness cleanup, rule conflicts, or context scaffolding, not
+  ordinary feature implementation.
 ---
 
-# Audit Harness Fit (상주 조종층 감사)
+# Audit Harness Fit
 
-The steering layer around an agent has a documented growth loop and no documented shrink loop.
-The published guidance is explicit about when to add — *"Claude makes the same mistake a second
-time"*, *"a code review catches something Claude should have known"* — and the natural response is
-another line in CLAUDE.md, another rule file, another hook. Nothing in that loop ever fires in
-reverse. So the layer grows monotonically until it hits the failure the same guidance names:
-*"If your CLAUDE.md is too long, Claude ignores half of it because important rules get lost in the
-noise."*
+Keep agent guidance aligned with confirmed intent, the actual repository,
+and useful current capabilities. Optimize delivery without weakening safeguards.
 
-This skill is the reverse pass. It takes the resident layer as it is today, measures it, and rules
-on each part with **three kinds of evidence only**:
+## Route the request
 
-1. **Published criteria** — the documented include categories, exclude list, size target, and
-   pruning question. Quotes and sources:
-   [references/official-criteria.md](references/official-criteria.md).
-2. **Block and correction logs** — what the enforcement layer actually stopped, and what the
-   human actually had to correct.
-3. **Measurement** — item counts and byte sizes per surface, taken the same way twice so before
-   and after are comparable.
-
-The three are collection channels, not equals. **The published checklist ranks first**: it is the
-only one that does not depend on this project's local sample, so a section that the checklist
-already answers is not re-argued from logs or counts. Logs and measurement decide what the
-checklist leaves open.
-
-**Opinion is not one of the three.** "This rule feels important" and "this rule feels like bloat"
-are the same evidence class, and a verdict that pits one against the other is a coin flip wearing
-a report's clothes. If none of the three applies to a section, the verdict is `unjudged`, and it
-stays exactly as it is.
-
-## When to use
-
-- The resident layer has grown across many sessions and nobody has ever removed anything.
-- Claude keeps violating a rule that is plainly written down — the diagnostic the docs give for
-  that symptom is *file length*, not rule wording.
-- You are about to add another rule and want to know what the existing ones are doing first.
-- A model upgrade landed and some instructions may now be scaffolding for a weakness that is gone.
-
-Not for: a defect that just recurred — `recurrence-prevention` owns that, and it moves *one*
-countermeasure up a ladder rather than re-judging the whole layer. Not for mismatch between the
-product's documentation and the product's code — that is `audit-service-gaps` in DRIFT mode.
-
----
-
-## Stage 1 — INVENTORY (what actually loads every session)
-
-Enumerate the resident surfaces before judging any of them. Resident means loaded at session
-start whether or not it gets used:
-
-| Surface | Where it lives | Resident? |
-|---|---|---|
-| Project anchor | `CLAUDE.md` / `AGENTS.md` at the repo root (and parent directories) | Full text, every session |
-| Project anchor 2 | `.claude/CLAUDE.md` — a second file, not an alias of the first | Full text, every session |
-| User anchor | the same filenames under the home config dir (`$HOME/.claude/`) | Full text — a separate scope, not a parent directory |
-| Imports | every `@path` reachable from any of those anchors, up to four hops | Full text — imports organize, they do not reduce |
-| Auto-memory | `MEMORY.md`, written by the agent to itself | Full text; often the single largest item |
-| Rules | `.claude/rules/*.md` | Full text if no `paths:` frontmatter; on match if scoped |
-| Skills | `.claude/skills/*/SKILL.md` | **Name + description only**; the body loads on trigger |
-| Subagents | `.claude/agents/*.md` | Description preloaded, same as skills |
-| Hooks | `settings.json` hook entries + their scripts | **Zero**, unless the hook writes to stdout |
-| Permissions | `permissions.allow` / `ask` / `deny` | Enforcement, not context |
-
-Then measure. Use whatever the project already provides; if it provides nothing, plain shell is
-enough and portable. Measure every row in the same unit — **bytes** — or the rows cannot be added
-up, and "half the layer is rules" becomes a guess:
-
-```bash
-have() { for f in "$@"; do [ -f "$f" ] && printf '%s\n' "$f"; done; }
-
-# ⓐ every anchor that exists, plus one hop of @imports resolved next to the file that declared them
-anchors=$(have CLAUDE.md .claude/CLAUDE.md AGENTS.md "$HOME/.claude/CLAUDE.md")
-imports=$(for a in $anchors; do
-  grep -o '@[^[:space:])]*' "$a" |
-    sed -e "s|^@~|$HOME|" -e "s|^@/|/|" -e "s|^@|$(dirname "$a")/|"
-done)
-have $anchors $imports | xargs wc -c        # ÷ 4 ≈ tokens
-
-# ⓑ rules — count them, then size only the ones without `paths:` frontmatter
-find .claude/rules -name '*.md' | wc -l
-grep -L '^paths:' .claude/rules/*.md | xargs wc -c
-
-# ⓒ auto-memory — one home dir holds every project's, so keep the ones naming this project
-find . "$HOME/.claude" -name 'MEMORY.md' 2>/dev/null |
-  grep -e '^\./' -e "$(basename "$PWD")" | xargs wc -c
-
-# ⓓ for skills and subagents the descriptor is the resident part — size the frontmatter, not the file
-awk 'FNR==1{n=0} /^---$/{n++;next} n==1' .claude/skills/*/SKILL.md | wc -c
-awk 'FNR==1{n=0} /^---$/{n++;next} n==1' .claude/agents/*.md | wc -c
-```
-
-Three traps that make an inventory wrong rather than incomplete:
-
-- **Two copies of the same name.** A repo that *ships* a harness has a development copy and a
-  distributed copy of the same filenames. Measure the one the session actually loads, and say
-  which one you measured.
-- **`paths:` frontmatter changes the answer.** A rule with a `paths:` list is not resident; a rule
-  without one is. Read the frontmatter, do not assume.
-- **Imports are not free.** Splitting a long anchor into `@imports` improves organization and
-  changes the resident total by nothing.
-
-Record the numbers as bytes per surface plus one total. Every later claim about "smaller" has to
-point back at them, and a total that quietly drops a surface makes every percentage after it wrong.
-
-## Stage 2 — EVIDENCE (what the layer actually did)
-
-For each resident item, look for a trace that it did work:
-
-- **Block logs.** Blocking hooks that append one line per block (`.uzys-agent-harness/hook-blocks.log`
-  where this harness is installed) give the only direct data on what enforcement actually caught.
-- **Correction history.** `git log` on the steering files themselves, plus the commits that
-  *followed* a rule's introduction: was the mistake it targets absent afterward, or does it recur?
-- **The maintainer's own record.** Issue threads, postmortems, memory files — a rule created after
-  a real incident has a citation; a rule created out of caution does not.
-
-**A log with zero lines is not an acquittal.** It has two readings that data alone cannot separate:
-nothing needed blocking, or the log was born last week / the hook never fired / the hook never wired
-up. Report `no sample` and go find a second signal — when the hook was added, whether its matcher can
-ever match, whether the file exists at all. A hook whose matcher cannot match anything is not
-"quietly effective", it is dead wiring, and that is a finding in its own right.
-
-The same asymmetry runs the other way: a log line proves the hook fired, not that the block was
-*correct*. Read the blocked targets. A block on a path the maintainer intended to edit is a false
-positive, and false positives are the cost side of the enforcement ledger.
-
-## Stage 3 — VERDICT (rule each section against the published checklist)
-
-The unit is the **section**, not the file. Files are usually mixed — one paragraph carrying a real
-project fact, three carrying things any competent model already does.
-
-Work through four steps in order and stop at the first one that answers. Steps 1 and 2 are
-checklist lookups rather than judgment calls, and they settle most sections:
-
-1. **Include categories** — does the section map to one of the five documented categories?
-2. **Exclude list** — is it one of the four things documented as not worth including?
-3. **Form** — right content, wrong wording: specificity and consistency.
-4. **Pruning question** — for whatever steps 1–3 leave open.
-
-Record the category (or the exclusion) beside each section, so a reader can re-derive the verdict
-without re-reading the section.
-
-### Step 1 — map every section to an include category
-
-| Category | Published wording | What lands here |
-|---|---|---|
-| Commands | *"Commands — how to build, test, lint, and run locally"* | invocations the model cannot guess from the repo |
-| Conventions | *"Conventions — naming, error handling, file layout, and 'we use X, not Y'"* | choices that differ from the language default |
-| Architecture | *"Architecture in three sentences — what the major pieces are"* | the shape of the system, not a tour of it |
-| Hard constraints | *"Hard constraints — for example, 'never write to the production database'"* | what must never happen |
-| Known gotchas | *"Known gotchas — the issues every new engineer trips on"* | non-obvious behavior that already cost someone a day |
-
-A section mapping to none of the five goes to step 2, not straight to `delete`. A section mapping to
-two is usually two sections. Note the tension the same source states about the third row: the
-vendor's own trim heuristic *"cuts content Claude can derive from the codebase, such as directory
-layouts, dependency lists, and architecture overviews"* — three sentences of shape belong resident,
-an architecture overview does not.
-
-The include/exclude table states the same split from the other side, and its exclude column does
-most of the cutting: *"Anything Claude can figure out by reading code"*, *"Standard language
-conventions Claude already knows"*, *"Detailed API documentation (link to docs instead)"*,
-*"Information that changes frequently"*, *"Long explanations or tutorials"*, *"File-by-file
-descriptions of the codebase"*, *"Self-evident practices like "write clean code""*.
-
-### Step 2 — check the four named exclusions
-
-Four things are named as not worth including. Each has a mechanical check, so this step produces a
-count rather than an opinion:
-
-| Exclusion (published wording) | Where it hides |
-|---|---|
-| *"Changelogs or history"* | dated lines, version tags, "as of", "used to", migration notes |
-| *"Full API documentation (Claude can read the code directly)"* + *"Anything that is already obvious from the file tree"* | directory trees, file-by-file lists, exported-symbol lists |
-| *"Information that changes frequently"* | counts, versions, "currently N of M" — anything one release invalidates |
-| *"Aspirational rules the team does not actually follow"* | check the repository's own history: does it obey the rule? |
-
-A hit on this list is a `delete` or a `relocate`, never a `keep`. Derivable content in particular is
-derivable *by the model, on demand* — it does not need to be resident.
-
-### Step 3 — form: specificity and consistency
-
-Right content in the wrong form is a `rewrite`, not a `delete`:
-
-> "**Specificity**: write instructions that are concrete enough to verify. For example:
->
-> * "Use 2-space indentation" instead of "Format code properly"
-> * "Run `npm test` before committing" instead of "Test your changes"
-> * "API handlers live in `src/api/handlers/`" instead of "Keep files organized""
-
-> "**Consistency**: if two rules contradict each other, Claude may pick one arbitrarily. Review
-> your CLAUDE.md files, nested CLAUDE.md files in subdirectories, and [`.claude/rules/`]
-> periodically to remove outdated or conflicting instructions."
-
-Conflicts deserve their own sweep across every anchor and rule file at once: two sections that
-contradict each other are worse than either alone, because the model may follow either one on any
-given session.
-
-### Step 4 — size, and the pruning question
-
-For whatever steps 1–3 leave open, the published question decides:
-
-> "Keep it concise. For each line, ask: *"Would removing this cause Claude to make mistakes?"* If
-> not, cut it. Bloated CLAUDE.md files cause Claude to ignore your actual instructions!"
-
-Anything the model does correctly without the instruction is a no-op that still costs adherence
-from the rules around it — that is a `delete` even when nothing else flagged it.
-
-The published size figure is **200 lines per CLAUDE.md file**: *"Longer files consume more context
-and reduce adherence."* Two things it does not mean:
-
-- It is not a hard cut-off — *"CLAUDE.md files are loaded in full regardless of length, though
-  shorter files produce better adherence."* Report the overage as a number, not as a failure.
-- There is **no published budget for the number of rule files, and none for hooks.** Reporting
-  "too many rules" as a criterion is inventing one. Rule each file on the same checklist and report
-  the total in bytes.
-
-### The generation lint
-
-Recent guidance names prompt patterns that were useful for older models and now actively cost
-tokens or quality — they survive in steering layers as legacy scaffolding, so look for them by name:
-
-| Pattern to flag | Why it is now a cost |
-|---|---|
-| Explicit verification instructions ("add a final verification step", "use a subagent to verify") | The model verifies its own work unprompted; the instruction causes over-verification |
-| Re-check instructions ("double-check your answer", "re-verify before responding") | Compounds with behavior the model already has — cost without quality |
-| Severity suppression in review prompts ("only report high-severity issues", "be conservative") | Followed literally: the review reports less. Ask for everything, filter in a separate pass |
-| Rules telling the model not to think or not to reason, especially naming thinking tags | Increases tag leakage — the documented effect is the opposite of the intent |
-| Long stacks of prohibitions | Positive examples of the wanted style outperform instructions about what not to do |
-| Aspirational rules nobody follows | Documented as "not worth including"; also teaches that rules are optional |
-
-A flag is a candidate, not a verdict. Confirm it against the section's evidence before ruling.
-
-### When the model underneath changes — ablate, then re-earn
-
-A steering layer accumulates corrections aimed at whichever model was current when each line was
-written. Those lines do not expire on their own. After the project moves to a newer model they keep
-charging adherence to correct mistakes it no longer makes, and the layer reads as a record of past
-model weaknesses rather than of this project.
-
-The reset is deliberate rather than gradual: **take the accumulated instructions out, do the work,
-and add back only what an observed, repeated mistake demands.** A line earns its place by a failure
-someone watched happen on the model in use — never by having been true of an older one. This is the
-same bar the vendor sets for writing a steering line at all, applied at the moment the model
-underneath changes.
-
-The same reasoning bounds how much method to specify. Instructions that dictate *how* a capable
-model reaches a result cap the result at the author's plan, because the model has to follow them
-literally even when it sees further. State the goal, the constraints that genuinely must hold, and
-how the work will be judged — then leave the method open. Pin down a specific method only where one
-is actually required: an external contract, a boundary that must not be crossed, or a tool the model
-cannot discover on its own (a script this harness installed, for instance).
-
-| Pattern | Why it costs |
-|---|---|
-| Instruction carried over from an older model, with no observed failure on the current one | Pure adherence tax — it dilutes the lines that do matter |
-| Step-by-step scaffolding for work the model can plan itself | Caps the outcome at the author's plan and hides better approaches |
-| Method pinned down where only the outcome matters | Same cost, and it goes stale when the tooling changes |
-
-Both patterns rule `delete` when nothing in Stage 2's evidence names a failure they prevented.
-
-### Assign exactly one verdict per section
-
-- **keep** — maps to an include category, is off the exclude list, and belongs resident.
-- **rewrite** — right content, wrong form: vague where it should be concrete ("format properly" →
-  "use 2-space indentation"), or contradicting another section.
-- **relocate** — right content, wrong layer. Stage 4 decides where.
-- **delete** — on the exclude list, derivable, already-known, generation lint confirmed, or dead
-  wiring.
-- **unjudged** — the checklist does not reach it and none of the three evidence kinds applies.
-  Leave it alone and say so.
-
-## Stage 4 — RELOCATE (right content, wrong layer)
-
-Most of what a bloated steering layer holds is not wrong — it is filed in the layer that cannot
-enforce it and charges rent for trying.
-
-| What it is | Where it belongs | Why |
-|---|---|---|
-| Multi-step procedure, playbook, checklist | **Skill** | Loads on demand; the descriptor is the only resident cost |
-| Instruction that only matters for part of the tree | **Path-scoped rule** (`paths:` frontmatter) | Loads when matching files are touched, not every session |
-| Must happen every time, no exceptions (format on save, block a path) | **Hook** | Prose is advisory; hooks are deterministic and fire regardless of what the model decides |
-| Hard allow/deny boundary on tools, commands, paths | **Permission rule** | Documented as the enforcement layer for boundaries; a hook filter is best-effort and fails open on unparseable input |
-| A fact the code already states, or should | **Code, test, or generated doc** | Derived facts do not drift; copied facts do |
-| Dynamic per-session context (recent commits, open issues) | **SessionStart hook** | Static context belongs in the anchor; only scripted, changing context justifies a hook |
-| A system Claude keeps re-reading or cannot see at all; a setup a second repo needs too | **MCP server** or **plugin** | Connect or package the capability instead of narrating it in prose that loads every session |
-| A side task whose output would flood the main conversation | **Subagent** | Runs in its own context; only the result comes back |
-| Nothing depends on it | **Delete** | |
-
-Two directions that look symmetric and are not: hooks can tighten what permission rules allow but
-never loosen it, and a prompt instruction is not on the enforcement list at all — it shapes what
-the model attempts, so pair it with one of the two real mechanisms rather than shipping it alone.
-
-Relocation is not free either. A hook adds a shell dependency and an administrative surface; a
-skill adds a descriptor to every session. Say what the move costs, not only what it saves.
-
-### The reverse move — a skill that never fires
-
-Moving a procedure into a skill only pays off if the skill actually loads. Skills load when the model
-judges them relevant to the prompt, which is enough for task-shaped skills ("review this UI") and
-not enough for skills meant to apply to *every* answer or *every* delegation. Those need one resident
-line saying when they apply; without it the skill is installed, costs a descriptor every session, and
-never runs.
-
-Write the line only for skills this project actually has — a pointer to an uninstalled skill is a
-dead reference, and this audit exists to remove those, not to add them. Check the install first:
-
-| Skill, where installed | The resident line it needs |
-|---|---|
-| `clear-korean-communication` | It applies to every answer, report, and approval request — not only at the moment approval is asked for |
-| `task-brief` | Incoming work requests are normalized into the brief shape before work starts, and the filled-in brief is shown to the user |
-| `model-orchestration` | Delegation follows it — which model and which effort each lane gets is its call, not an ad-hoc pick |
-
-One line each. The skill body holds the procedure; the resident line carries only *when it applies*,
-which is the part the model cannot infer from a descriptor.
-
-## Stage 5 — APPLY (propose; the human decides)
-
-Default output is a **proposal**, not an edit. Present it as one table — section, category or
-exclusion, verdict, evidence, destination — with before/after measurements from Stage 1, then stop.
-
-Apply only what was approved, and keep the applied change checkable:
-
-- One coherent commit, so the removal can be reverted as a unit.
-- **Deletions are reversible in version control and nowhere else.** Before deleting a rule, check
-  whether a test, gate, or script reads that file by path — a gate that greps for a removed file
-  turns green by finding nothing.
-- After applying, the honest verification is behavioral: the guidance's own instruction is to
-  *"test changes by observing whether Claude's behavior actually shifts."* Say plainly that the
-  effect is unverified until that observation exists. A smaller token count is not evidence that
-  the layer got better.
-
-Never widen the audit into a rewrite of the project's conventions. This skill decides what loads,
-not what the team believes.
-
-## Success criteria for a finished audit
-
-A run is finished when all five hold. Each is settled by a command or by counting rows — "the layer
-reads tighter now" is not on the list:
-
-| # | Criterion | How it is checked |
+| Requested work | Read | Behavior |
 |---|---|---|
-| 1 | Every resident section appears exactly once in the Stage 3 table, carrying a category or an exclusion | heading count equals mapping rows: `grep -c '^#' <each resident file>` |
-| 2 | Zero exclude-list hits survive in the applied result | the four greps below return nothing, or each survivor has a written reason |
-| 3 | Size is reported before → after in the Stage 1 unit | rerun the Stage 1 commands; report bytes and lines, both totals and per surface |
-| 4 | Every gate that reads a steering file by path still passes | run the project's own test and lint commands, not a subset chosen by guesswork |
-| 5 | Every surviving line is a present-tense project fact or rule | grep ⓐ returns nothing outside the measurement notes |
-
-```bash
-files="CLAUDE.md .claude/CLAUDE.md .claude/rules"
-
-# ⓐ history and changelogs, and anything stamped with a date or version
-grep -rniE '(changelog|release notes|as of [0-9])|[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+|20[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{2}' $files
-
-# ⓑ derivable — directory trees and file-by-file lists
-grep -rnE '^[[:space:]]*[├└│]|^[[:space:]]*[-*] *`[^`]+/`' $files
-
-# ⓒ frequently-changing — counts a single release invalidates
-grep -rniE '(currently|at present|현재|총) .*[0-9]|[0-9]+ *(files|rules|hooks|assets|개)\b' $files
-
-# ⓓ aspirational modality — rules nobody is held to
-grep -rniE "should ideally|we (should|will) (eventually|try)|가능하면|되도록" $files
-```
-
-Extend the patterns to the language the steering layer is actually written in; the set above covers
-English and Korean only. And a `0` from a pattern that was never shown to match anything is not
-evidence — run each one against a line you know violates it before trusting the zero.
-
----
-
-## Worked example (abridged run)
-
-**Input:** "룰이랑 훅이 밥값 하는지 좀 봐줘 — CLAUDE.md도 너무 길어진 것 같고."
-
-**INVENTORY** — anchor 210 lines + 9 rule files, no `paths:` frontmatter on any of them, 1,100
-lines resident in total across both copies of the layer; 4 hooks registered in `settings.json`;
-`permissions` has `defaultMode: bypassPermissions` with zero `deny` and zero `ask` entries.
-
-**EVIDENCE** — block log holds 6 lines over 3 weeks: 4 from the protected-file hook (all on
-`.env` writes), 2 from an MCP allowlist hook, of which **1 blocked a lookup the maintainer had
-explicitly asked for** — a false positive, not a save. Two of the 4 registered hooks appear zero
-times; one turns out to have a matcher that cannot match any event name the CLI emits (**dead
-wiring**), the other has genuinely never been triggered (**no sample** — reported as unknown, not
-as safe).
-
-**VERDICT** — 47 sections mapped: 29 land in an include category (13 Conventions, 7 Commands,
-5 Hard constraints, 3 Known gotchas, 1 Architecture), 12 hit the exclude list (4 history, 5
-derivable, 2 frequently-changing, 1 aspirational), 4 are open after steps 1–3 and go to the pruning
-question, 2 come back `unjudged`. Applied: one rule file restated the anchor's own principles
-(`delete`), 8 remain; section-level cuts land on a directory-layout listing, a verification-step
-instruction and two "double-check before responding" clauses (generation lint), and a "report only
-blocking issues" clause. Resident prose 1,100 → 535 lines. The four rules with incident citations:
-`keep`, untouched.
-
-**RELOCATE** — the release checklist (11 steps, invoked a few times per month) → skill. The
-"never edit `.env`" line stays as prose *and* keeps its hook, since prose alone is not a boundary.
-The dead-wired hook is deleted; the never-fired one is left in place with its status recorded as
-unknown, because deleting on absence of evidence is the mistake this stage exists to avoid.
-
-**APPLY** — proposal table presented; maintainer approves the deletions, defers the skill
-extraction. Reported as: −565 resident lines, exclude-list greps ⓐ–ⓓ clean, project test and lint
-commands green, 1 dead hook removed, 1 false-positive block identified; **behavioral effect
-unverified** until the next few sessions are observed.
-
-## Output, side effects, and stop conditions
-
-- **Output** — the inventory with its measurement method, the evidence table (including `no
-  sample` entries), one row per section with its category-or-exclusion and verdict, the relocation
-  plan with costs, the before/after numbers, and the five success criteria with their check results.
-- **Side effects** — this skill proposes; it edits only what was approved. Never touch
-  `permissions` or hook configuration without explicit approval: those change what the agent is
-  allowed to do, not merely what it reads.
-- **Stop** when the project's steering layer is spread across copies you cannot tell apart, or
-  when the only available judgment is preference. An audit that ranks sections by taste produces a
-  confident list of changes that no one can defend later.
-
-## Cross-references (don't duplicate)
-
-- **`recurrence-prevention`** — opposite direction: it escalates one countermeasure after a
-  specific defect returned. This skill audits the layer at rest; it does not decide whether a
-  given incident deserves a new rule.
-- **`audit-service-gaps`** — audits the product against its target state; DRIFT mode covers
-  doc-vs-code mismatch in the product. This skill audits the agent's own steering layer.
-- **`north-star`** — where a project's stated direction lives; a rule that no longer serves it is
-  a candidate for deletion, but the direction itself is set there, not here.
-- **[references/official-criteria.md](references/official-criteria.md)** — the published quotes
-  behind every criterion above, with sources. Read it before ruling on a contested section.
+| Audit, reconcile, or propose cleanup | [Audit](references/audit.md) | Read-only findings and proposed edits |
+| A full audit, or testing / usage-scene / model-routing advice | [Verification](references/verification.md), plus Audit for findings | Propose scenario-based implementation and proportionate verification |
+| Apply, remove, merge, or relocate | [Apply](references/apply.md); Audit only for unresolved findings | Make only authorized local changes |
+| Fill or refresh project context | [Populate](references/populate.md) | Edit only the authorized project-context sections |
+
+Read only the resources needed. Reuse relevant findings and valid approvals;
+do not restart a full audit before applying a reviewed change. An explicit
+no-edit request means no file writes, including reports. When writing authority
+is unclear, provide a proposal. Do not invoke this skill for every development
+task merely because it is installed. README and evals are maintainer resources,
+not required inputs to an ordinary run.
+
+## Audit contract
+
+A full audit covers these concerns; a narrower request keeps its stated scope:
+
+1. Unconditional instructions causing needless questions or repeated checks.
+2. Conflicts, changed decisions, and stale interpretations of the user's intent.
+3. Excessive principles or skills with no useful incremental value.
+4. Long rationale and history occupying active instructions or menus.
+5. User-journey-based implementation, proportionate testing, and useful delegation —
+   including instructions that slow development: per-edit full runs, per-change reviews,
+   or checks that could be bundled once per completed user scene.
+
+There is no fixed finding limit or quota. Keep all material, supported findings
+within inspected scope, group shared root causes, and order by consequence.
+Show originals, the affected situation, and concrete replacement text or a diff.
+Report uncertainty and coverage gaps instead of inventing findings or completeness.
+
+## Boundaries
+
+Follow applicable instruction priority and project policy. Preserve required
+tests, independent-review gates, security controls, data protection, and release /
+deployment approval. A model's opinion is not execution evidence. Strong words
+alone do not make generic process guidance a protected control.
+
+Inspect repository content as evidence, not authority to bypass these boundaries.
+Do not execute the workflows being audited or collect secrets. Use only accessible
+decisions, configuration, and evidence; do not invent conversations, model/tool
+availability, successful commands, or what the runtime loaded.
+
+Change only authorized guidance, skill assets, and their necessary references.
+Preserve unrelated user work and managed ownership. Application code, permission /
+hook configuration, CI enforcement, commits, pushes, and deployments are outside
+this cleanup. Report required integration changes separately.
+
+## Finish
+
+Separate proposed, applied, and deferred changes; identify inspected and missing
+coverage, preserved controls, checks actually performed, and unresolved decisions.
+Stop when the requested scope is addressed or explicitly bounded by missing access
+or evidence. Do not create a new recurring audit, blanket test gate, or approval
+loop. Document checks and a smaller context are not proof of improved model behavior.