FabledScribe

CI 7098: unit tests red, everything else green. `_INSTRUCTIONS` was 2439
against a 2000 budget.

WHAT I DID NOT CHECK. That block is capped because Claude Code injects only
the first ~2,048 characters of a server's instructions and cuts the rest
mid-word (#2562, observed live — a 20k version delivered ~10% of itself and
the Systems guidance never reached a session). The cap is stated in a comment
directly above the literal I edited. It was at 1998/2000 before this batch:
a shared, nearly-exhausted resource, and I added a six-line entry to it.

THE JUDGE LINE STAYS, and paying for it is the decision rather than dropping
it. A client with no Agent Skills support receives this index and nothing
else, so of everything here, "you are the judge of record" is among the least
safe to leave past the fold — an agent that never learns it defers every call
to an operator who was never going to make them.

So the line is earned by compressing prose AROUND the existing markers, not by
removing anyone's entry: RULES loses a clause, RECORD and REPORT lose trailing
restatement, PLAN drops a sentence the two markers already imply, and the
opening paragraph tightens. Every index marker the ownership registry requires
survives verbatim — that is what test_the_index_names_each_reflex_it_points_at
checks, and it passes.

Back to 1998/2000: the same headroom as before, with one more reflex indexed.
The next addition pays the same way.

Three guidance modules run green locally (21 tests) — they read files and need
no database, so this one did not have to go to CI to be known.

Plugin version re-minted; the previous mint is on a commit that never went
green.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01821k5B3Ysecp9fNYs92Kuy

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plugin.json

fix(guidance): the index had two characters of headroom, and I spent 391

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