feat(systems): read-side teeth — the vocabulary at session start, a search filter, and the state/chronicle instructions
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Step 4 of #278, product half. The audit that motivated it: one System in
project 2, thirty records tagged, nothing since July 28 — three days after the
feature landed. Not a discipline failure; retrieval was completely blind to
the association (zero references in embeddings, knowledge, search, auto-inject,
or enter_project), so tagging was a write-side label with no read-side payoff,
and labels nobody reads don't get maintained.

Three changes, ordered by what makes the others workable:

1. enter_project returns the project's Systems (id, name, first line of the
   charter). Load-bearing for the tagging instruction: you cannot ask an agent
   to check a record against a vocabulary it never sees. Trimmed because it
   rides on every session start; the full charter stays get_system's job.
   Present-and-empty rather than absent when a project has none — "no named
   areas yet" is information the create-the-System instruction acts on.

2. search accepts system_id, MCP and REST (#33). Implemented once in
   semantic_search_notes as an EXISTS against record_systems — an association
   filter deciding candidate-set membership before scoring, like project_id,
   not a ranking signal. The REST route's missing project filter stays #2463's:
   it carries a default-scope UI decision this change must not preempt.

3. The instructions (#119, _INSTRUCTIONS + using-scribe skill; plugin 0.1.25
   for the cache):
   - Tag as you write, with an executable test — "would someone investigating
     that subsystem want this in the pile list_system_records returns?" —
     rather than "tag appropriately", which is what died.
   - Create the System when the area has no record: the two-or-more test
     snippets use, plus "don't wait to be asked to name an area that plainly
     exists", because the agent's default was leaving un-modelled areas
     un-modelled forever.
   - State vs chronicle: dev-logs are written once and never rewritten; durable
     findings live in the System's reference note, updated in place — safe
     because note versions are the changelog, which has existed since the
     feature shipped and was never named as one.

list_system_records' docstring now sells it as the way to READ a subsystem,
reference note first. No auto-inject boost by System — vocabulary and filter
first, measure before adding ranking behaviour (the #2486 lesson).

Refs #278, #2546
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@@ -81,6 +81,25 @@ Two constraints on *how* that's achieved:
(`arose_from_id`) and the subsystem it touches (`system_ids`). Don't bury a
fix as a work-log line on whatever task happened to be open.
7. **Tag records to Systems.** `enter_project` lists the project's Systems —
its named subsystems/areas. When you create or meaningfully update a record,
ask which areas it is *about* and pass `system_ids`. The test: would someone
investigating that subsystem want this record in the pile
`list_system_records` returns? If the area has no System yet, create one
(`create_system`: name + a one-paragraph charter) — an area that plainly
exists deserves naming the moment two records would share it; don't wait to
be asked. A record about no particular area takes none.
8. **State updates in place; chronicles don't.** A dev-log records what
*happened* — write it once, never rewrite it. A durable finding (how a
subsystem works, a measured number) lives in that System's **reference
note** ("«System» — reference"), which you UPDATE as facts change — safe,
because every meaningful edit is snapshotted and the version history is the
changelog. The dev-log then `[[links]]` the reference note instead of
restating state. When a new record outright *corrects* an older one (a
re-measurement, a reversed decision), pass the old id in `supersedes` so the
stale record is demoted and labelled rather than left competing.
## Stay inside the active project's scope
Once a project is in scope — you called `enter_project`, or the working repo is