diff --git a/plugin/.claude-plugin/plugin.json b/plugin/.claude-plugin/plugin.json
index 4a7be8cd..ae191fa1 100644
--- a/plugin/.claude-plugin/plugin.json
+++ b/plugin/.claude-plugin/plugin.json
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
   "name": "grimoire",
   "description": "Grimoire for Claude Code: connects the grimoire MCP server, adds the hooks that deliver live project state and relevant records at the right moment, ships the shared client-neutral Grimoire skills (using-grimoire, writing-plans, reporting-back, systematic-debugging, verification, brainstorming, reusing-code, shape-accounting, family-canon), and syncs your saved Grimoire Processes as skills (/grimoire:sync).",
-  "version": "2026.11.05.0252",
+  "version": "2026.11.05.0301",
   "author": {
     "name": "Bryan Van Deusen"
   },
diff --git a/plugin/skills/using-grimoire/SKILL.md b/plugin/skills/using-grimoire/SKILL.md
index 6530c429..7cb01e7a 100644
--- a/plugin/skills/using-grimoire/SKILL.md
+++ b/plugin/skills/using-grimoire/SKILL.md
@@ -277,16 +277,12 @@ bound — confine the session to it:
 - **Pass that `project_id` to every read** (`search`, `list_tasks`,
   `list_notes`). An unscoped read bleeds every other project's work into your
   context.
-- **Only reference or offer work on the in-scope project.** Don't surface,
-  suggest, or start work on other projects unless the operator explicitly widens
-  scope.
-- **Toward another project, the one change to make is filing an issue**:
-  `create_task(project_id=<theirs>, kind="issue")`, carrying how you found it
-  and the evidence. Editing its files, committing or pushing in its repo, and
-  changing its other records are the operator's call, and the plugin asks them
-  before any of those runs. Reading anything there is fine.
-- If the work itself belongs to a *different* project, say so and **ask before
-  switching** — never silently operate cross-project.
+- **Only reference or offer work on the in-scope project**, unless the
+  operator explicitly widens scope; work that belongs elsewhere, say so and ask.
+- **Cross-project, the one change to make is filing an issue**:
+  `create_task(project_id=<theirs>, kind="issue")` with how you found it and the
+  evidence. Reading there is fine; editing its files, committing or pushing in
+  its repo, or changing its records is the operator's call, and the plugin asks.
 
 ## Read these when the moment comes