fix(410): using-scribe states the retrieval reflex once, and the adapter stops restating it (#4039)
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Step 7's live check (#4034 "a real session shows each topic stated once")
found nothing copied across surfaces, but found the owner repeating itself:
using-scribe said "rules are retrieved; ask before a consequential act; an
empty session is not an empty rulebook" in "Do this first", in reflex 2, and
twice more further down reflex 2.

- using-scribe: reflex 2 now holds the one full statement (how rules arrive,
  why that is the surface working, what silence means, when to ask). "Do this
  first" keeps the enter_project step and a short lead-in pointing at reflex
  2. "A retrieved rule outranks a default habit" and "Ask hardest where you
  feel most certain" stay, since each adds something.
- Adapter static context: "Lines injected beside your work" keeps only the
  Claude Code timing and leaves "never the whole set" to the skill. "Keep one
  copy" names CLAUDE.md and auto-memory and points at using-scribe, which
  already says to leave a client's settings as they are.
- The ownership registry's markers and statement for the topic still sit on
  using-scribe, and nothing else changed owner. Plugin version minted.

Sizes: using-scribe 18,823 -> 18,197 chars; scribe_static_context.md
1,797 -> 1,714.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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## Do this first (every session)
**You are not holding the operator's rules, and no call loads them all.**
There is no standing set to pull. A rule reaches you when what you are about to
do matches it — a command, code you are writing, or what the operator just
asked for — and on most turns none will. That is the surface working.
**So the reflex is to ASK, not to load.** Before a consequential act — anything
hard to reverse or outward-facing — `search(content_type="rule")` for the thing
you are about to do. An empty session is not evidence of an empty rulebook.
If the working repo maps to a Scribe project (you're in a known repo, or
`list_repo_bindings` shows a binding), call `enter_project(id)` — it returns the
project plus the rules bound to the areas it works in, open tasks, and recent
notes in one shot.
Do this actively. Nothing is handed to a session up front to stand in for it —
rules arrive by retrieval, when your work or the operator's message matches
one — so asking and entering the project are the reliable path.
Then **ask before you act**: before anything hard to reverse or outward-facing,
search the rules for what you are about to do. Reflex 2 below is why asking,
not loading, is how the operator's rules reach you.
## Scribe holds these functions — keep one copy
@@ -59,12 +50,20 @@ Two constraints on *how* that's achieved:
re-deriving it or opening a duplicate. When a project is in scope, pass its
`project_id` so results stay scoped.
2. **Rules are binding, and silence does not mean there are none.** Nothing
is preloaded, so "no rule arrived" means "nothing matched" — never "no rule
exists". Ask with `search(content_type="rule")` before a consequential act,
and pull a record's full statement with `get_rule(id)` when it is about to
bite. When a project is in scope, `enter_project(id)` also returns the rules
bound to its areas.
2. **Rules are binding, and they reach you by retrieval.** No call loads the
operator's rules and no standing set is handed to a session. A rule arrives
when what you are about to do resembles what it is about — a command, the
code you are writing, the operator's message — and on most turns none will.
That is the surface working: it is what lets a rulebook keep growing, since
a rule costs nothing in a session it has nothing to do with. A rule binds
just as hard for never having been handed to you.
So "no rule arrived" means "nothing matched", never "no rule exists" — an
empty session is not evidence of an empty rulebook. Retrieval fires when
something asks: before a consequential act, `search(content_type="rule")` on
what you are about to do, and pull a record's full statement with
`get_rule(id)` when it is about to bite. When a project is in scope,
`enter_project(id)` also returns the rules bound to its areas.
**`kind` says how much force a record carries, and it is never something to
infer.** A **rule** must be followed: ignoring it breaks something or
@@ -84,17 +83,6 @@ Two constraints on *how* that's achieved:
asks. If what you learned is that something MUST be done a certain way,
that is a rule to propose, not a preference to harden in place.
Every rule is RETRIEVED: one reaches you when a command, the code you are
writing or the operator's message resembles what it is about, and a rule
binds just as hard for never having been handed to you. So before a
consequential act, `search(content_type="rule")` on what you are about to
do. An empty session is not evidence that no rule applies; it is only
evidence that nothing has matched yet, and those are different claims.
Retrieval is what lets a rulebook keep growing — a rule costs nothing in a
session it has nothing to do with — but retrieval only fires if something
asks.
**A retrieved rule outranks a default habit.** Before a hard-to-reverse or
outward-facing act — changing shared state, publishing, deleting, sending
something outside the session — the operator's rules decide what to do, not