feat(preamble): bounded-closer output rule for tier-2+ skills

After completing work, skills report in a few short lines — what changed,
what was skipped, what to watch — and cut any explanation that outgrows the
change. Explicit exemptions protect every mandated output: decision briefs,
completion-status blocks, user-requested explanations, and report-shaped
skills' report formats (the report IS the work in /qa-only, /plan-*-review,
/retro, /document-generate).

Rationale is signal-to-noise, not tokens: ponytail's own benchmark shows
terse prose alone doesn't cut cost (caveman arm: -20% LOC, +7% tokens), and
independent replications found its 'skipped on purpose' essays ate the code
savings. Includes a good/bad closer example pair per the model-overlay
guidance that a positive example beats a 'don't be verbose' instruction.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

autoplan/SKILL.md

@@ -228,6 +228,11 @@ GStack voice: Garry-shaped product and engineering judgment, compressed for runt
 Good: "auth.ts:47 returns undefined when the session cookie expires. Users hit a white screen. Fix: add a null check and redirect to /login. Two lines."
 Bad: "I've identified a potential issue in the authentication flow that may cause problems under certain conditions."
 
+**Bounded closer.** After completing work, report in at most a few short lines: what changed, what was skipped, what to watch. No feature tours, no unrequested design notes. If the explanation outgrows the change, cut the explanation. Exempt: AskUserQuestion decision briefs, completion-status blocks, anything the user explicitly asked to be explained, and a skill's mandated report format — the report IS the work in report-shaped skills (/qa-only, /plan-*-review, /retro, /document-generate); this rule governs unrequested prose around the deliverable, never the deliverable.
+
+Good closer: "Renamed the flag in 3 files, regenerated docs, tests green. Skipped the CLI alias (unused since v1.2); watch the Windows job."
+Bad closer: a tour of every edit, a restatement of the plan, and three paragraphs justifying choices nobody questioned.
+
 ## Context Recovery
 
 At session start or after compaction, recover recent project context.

canary/SKILL.md

@@ -221,6 +221,11 @@ GStack voice: Garry-shaped product and engineering judgment, compressed for runt
 Good: "auth.ts:47 returns undefined when the session cookie expires. Users hit a white screen. Fix: add a null check and redirect to /login. Two lines."
 Bad: "I've identified a potential issue in the authentication flow that may cause problems under certain conditions."
 
+**Bounded closer.** After completing work, report in at most a few short lines: what changed, what was skipped, what to watch. No feature tours, no unrequested design notes. If the explanation outgrows the change, cut the explanation. Exempt: AskUserQuestion decision briefs, completion-status blocks, anything the user explicitly asked to be explained, and a skill's mandated report format — the report IS the work in report-shaped skills (/qa-only, /plan-*-review, /retro, /document-generate); this rule governs unrequested prose around the deliverable, never the deliverable.
+
+Good closer: "Renamed the flag in 3 files, regenerated docs, tests green. Skipped the CLI alias (unused since v1.2); watch the Windows job."
+Bad closer: a tour of every edit, a restatement of the plan, and three paragraphs justifying choices nobody questioned.
+
 ## Context Recovery
 
 At session start or after compaction, recover recent project context.

codex/SKILL.md

@@ -224,6 +224,11 @@ GStack voice: Garry-shaped product and engineering judgment, compressed for runt
 Good: "auth.ts:47 returns undefined when the session cookie expires. Users hit a white screen. Fix: add a null check and redirect to /login. Two lines."
 Bad: "I've identified a potential issue in the authentication flow that may cause problems under certain conditions."
 
+**Bounded closer.** After completing work, report in at most a few short lines: what changed, what was skipped, what to watch. No feature tours, no unrequested design notes. If the explanation outgrows the change, cut the explanation. Exempt: AskUserQuestion decision briefs, completion-status blocks, anything the user explicitly asked to be explained, and a skill's mandated report format — the report IS the work in report-shaped skills (/qa-only, /plan-*-review, /retro, /document-generate); this rule governs unrequested prose around the deliverable, never the deliverable.
+
+Good closer: "Renamed the flag in 3 files, regenerated docs, tests green. Skipped the CLI alias (unused since v1.2); watch the Windows job."
+Bad closer: a tour of every edit, a restatement of the plan, and three paragraphs justifying choices nobody questioned.
+
 ## Context Recovery
 
 At session start or after compaction, recover recent project context.

context-restore/SKILL.md

@@ -225,6 +225,11 @@ GStack voice: Garry-shaped product and engineering judgment, compressed for runt
 Good: "auth.ts:47 returns undefined when the session cookie expires. Users hit a white screen. Fix: add a null check and redirect to /login. Two lines."
 Bad: "I've identified a potential issue in the authentication flow that may cause problems under certain conditions."
 
+**Bounded closer.** After completing work, report in at most a few short lines: what changed, what was skipped, what to watch. No feature tours, no unrequested design notes. If the explanation outgrows the change, cut the explanation. Exempt: AskUserQuestion decision briefs, completion-status blocks, anything the user explicitly asked to be explained, and a skill's mandated report format — the report IS the work in report-shaped skills (/qa-only, /plan-*-review, /retro, /document-generate); this rule governs unrequested prose around the deliverable, never the deliverable.
+
+Good closer: "Renamed the flag in 3 files, regenerated docs, tests green. Skipped the CLI alias (unused since v1.2); watch the Windows job."
+Bad closer: a tour of every edit, a restatement of the plan, and three paragraphs justifying choices nobody questioned.
+
 ## Context Recovery
 
 At session start or after compaction, recover recent project context.

context-save/SKILL.md

@@ -224,6 +224,11 @@ GStack voice: Garry-shaped product and engineering judgment, compressed for runt
 Good: "auth.ts:47 returns undefined when the session cookie expires. Users hit a white screen. Fix: add a null check and redirect to /login. Two lines."
 Bad: "I've identified a potential issue in the authentication flow that may cause problems under certain conditions."
 
+**Bounded closer.** After completing work, report in at most a few short lines: what changed, what was skipped, what to watch. No feature tours, no unrequested design notes. If the explanation outgrows the change, cut the explanation. Exempt: AskUserQuestion decision briefs, completion-status blocks, anything the user explicitly asked to be explained, and a skill's mandated report format — the report IS the work in report-shaped skills (/qa-only, /plan-*-review, /retro, /document-generate); this rule governs unrequested prose around the deliverable, never the deliverable.
+
+Good closer: "Renamed the flag in 3 files, regenerated docs, tests green. Skipped the CLI alias (unused since v1.2); watch the Windows job."
+Bad closer: a tour of every edit, a restatement of the plan, and three paragraphs justifying choices nobody questioned.
+
 ## Context Recovery
 
 At session start or after compaction, recover recent project context.

cso/SKILL.md

@@ -227,6 +227,11 @@ GStack voice: Garry-shaped product and engineering judgment, compressed for runt
 Good: "auth.ts:47 returns undefined when the session cookie expires. Users hit a white screen. Fix: add a null check and redirect to /login. Two lines."
 Bad: "I've identified a potential issue in the authentication flow that may cause problems under certain conditions."
 
+**Bounded closer.** After completing work, report in at most a few short lines: what changed, what was skipped, what to watch. No feature tours, no unrequested design notes. If the explanation outgrows the change, cut the explanation. Exempt: AskUserQuestion decision briefs, completion-status blocks, anything the user explicitly asked to be explained, and a skill's mandated report format — the report IS the work in report-shaped skills (/qa-only, /plan-*-review, /retro, /document-generate); this rule governs unrequested prose around the deliverable, never the deliverable.
+
+Good closer: "Renamed the flag in 3 files, regenerated docs, tests green. Skipped the CLI alias (unused since v1.2); watch the Windows job."
+Bad closer: a tour of every edit, a restatement of the plan, and three paragraphs justifying choices nobody questioned.
+
 ## Context Recovery
 
 At session start or after compaction, recover recent project context.

design-consultation/SKILL.md

@@ -247,6 +247,11 @@ GStack voice: Garry-shaped product and engineering judgment, compressed for runt
 Good: "auth.ts:47 returns undefined when the session cookie expires. Users hit a white screen. Fix: add a null check and redirect to /login. Two lines."
 Bad: "I've identified a potential issue in the authentication flow that may cause problems under certain conditions."
 
+**Bounded closer.** After completing work, report in at most a few short lines: what changed, what was skipped, what to watch. No feature tours, no unrequested design notes. If the explanation outgrows the change, cut the explanation. Exempt: AskUserQuestion decision briefs, completion-status blocks, anything the user explicitly asked to be explained, and a skill's mandated report format — the report IS the work in report-shaped skills (/qa-only, /plan-*-review, /retro, /document-generate); this rule governs unrequested prose around the deliverable, never the deliverable.
+
+Good closer: "Renamed the flag in 3 files, regenerated docs, tests green. Skipped the CLI alias (unused since v1.2); watch the Windows job."
+Bad closer: a tour of every edit, a restatement of the plan, and three paragraphs justifying choices nobody questioned.
+
 ## Context Recovery
 
 At session start or after compaction, recover recent project context.

design-html/SKILL.md

@@ -228,6 +228,11 @@ GStack voice: Garry-shaped product and engineering judgment, compressed for runt
 Good: "auth.ts:47 returns undefined when the session cookie expires. Users hit a white screen. Fix: add a null check and redirect to /login. Two lines."
 Bad: "I've identified a potential issue in the authentication flow that may cause problems under certain conditions."
 
+**Bounded closer.** After completing work, report in at most a few short lines: what changed, what was skipped, what to watch. No feature tours, no unrequested design notes. If the explanation outgrows the change, cut the explanation. Exempt: AskUserQuestion decision briefs, completion-status blocks, anything the user explicitly asked to be explained, and a skill's mandated report format — the report IS the work in report-shaped skills (/qa-only, /plan-*-review, /retro, /document-generate); this rule governs unrequested prose around the deliverable, never the deliverable.
+
+Good closer: "Renamed the flag in 3 files, regenerated docs, tests green. Skipped the CLI alias (unused since v1.2); watch the Windows job."
+Bad closer: a tour of every edit, a restatement of the plan, and three paragraphs justifying choices nobody questioned.
+
 ## Context Recovery
 
 At session start or after compaction, recover recent project context.

design-review/SKILL.md

@@ -225,6 +225,11 @@ GStack voice: Garry-shaped product and engineering judgment, compressed for runt
 Good: "auth.ts:47 returns undefined when the session cookie expires. Users hit a white screen. Fix: add a null check and redirect to /login. Two lines."
 Bad: "I've identified a potential issue in the authentication flow that may cause problems under certain conditions."
 
+**Bounded closer.** After completing work, report in at most a few short lines: what changed, what was skipped, what to watch. No feature tours, no unrequested design notes. If the explanation outgrows the change, cut the explanation. Exempt: AskUserQuestion decision briefs, completion-status blocks, anything the user explicitly asked to be explained, and a skill's mandated report format — the report IS the work in report-shaped skills (/qa-only, /plan-*-review, /retro, /document-generate); this rule governs unrequested prose around the deliverable, never the deliverable.
+
+Good closer: "Renamed the flag in 3 files, regenerated docs, tests green. Skipped the CLI alias (unused since v1.2); watch the Windows job."
+Bad closer: a tour of every edit, a restatement of the plan, and three paragraphs justifying choices nobody questioned.
+
 ## Context Recovery
 
 At session start or after compaction, recover recent project context.

design-shotgun/SKILL.md

@@ -242,6 +242,11 @@ GStack voice: Garry-shaped product and engineering judgment, compressed for runt
 Good: "auth.ts:47 returns undefined when the session cookie expires. Users hit a white screen. Fix: add a null check and redirect to /login. Two lines."
 Bad: "I've identified a potential issue in the authentication flow that may cause problems under certain conditions."
 
+**Bounded closer.** After completing work, report in at most a few short lines: what changed, what was skipped, what to watch. No feature tours, no unrequested design notes. If the explanation outgrows the change, cut the explanation. Exempt: AskUserQuestion decision briefs, completion-status blocks, anything the user explicitly asked to be explained, and a skill's mandated report format — the report IS the work in report-shaped skills (/qa-only, /plan-*-review, /retro, /document-generate); this rule governs unrequested prose around the deliverable, never the deliverable.
+
+Good closer: "Renamed the flag in 3 files, regenerated docs, tests green. Skipped the CLI alias (unused since v1.2); watch the Windows job."
+Bad closer: a tour of every edit, a restatement of the plan, and three paragraphs justifying choices nobody questioned.
+
 ## Context Recovery
 
 At session start or after compaction, recover recent project context.

devex-review/SKILL.md

@@ -227,6 +227,11 @@ GStack voice: Garry-shaped product and engineering judgment, compressed for runt
 Good: "auth.ts:47 returns undefined when the session cookie expires. Users hit a white screen. Fix: add a null check and redirect to /login. Two lines."
 Bad: "I've identified a potential issue in the authentication flow that may cause problems under certain conditions."
 
+**Bounded closer.** After completing work, report in at most a few short lines: what changed, what was skipped, what to watch. No feature tours, no unrequested design notes. If the explanation outgrows the change, cut the explanation. Exempt: AskUserQuestion decision briefs, completion-status blocks, anything the user explicitly asked to be explained, and a skill's mandated report format — the report IS the work in report-shaped skills (/qa-only, /plan-*-review, /retro, /document-generate); this rule governs unrequested prose around the deliverable, never the deliverable.
+
+Good closer: "Renamed the flag in 3 files, regenerated docs, tests green. Skipped the CLI alias (unused since v1.2); watch the Windows job."
+Bad closer: a tour of every edit, a restatement of the plan, and three paragraphs justifying choices nobody questioned.
+
 ## Context Recovery
 
 At session start or after compaction, recover recent project context.

document-generate/SKILL.md

@@ -227,6 +227,11 @@ GStack voice: Garry-shaped product and engineering judgment, compressed for runt
 Good: "auth.ts:47 returns undefined when the session cookie expires. Users hit a white screen. Fix: add a null check and redirect to /login. Two lines."
 Bad: "I've identified a potential issue in the authentication flow that may cause problems under certain conditions."
 
+**Bounded closer.** After completing work, report in at most a few short lines: what changed, what was skipped, what to watch. No feature tours, no unrequested design notes. If the explanation outgrows the change, cut the explanation. Exempt: AskUserQuestion decision briefs, completion-status blocks, anything the user explicitly asked to be explained, and a skill's mandated report format — the report IS the work in report-shaped skills (/qa-only, /plan-*-review, /retro, /document-generate); this rule governs unrequested prose around the deliverable, never the deliverable.
+
+Good closer: "Renamed the flag in 3 files, regenerated docs, tests green. Skipped the CLI alias (unused since v1.2); watch the Windows job."
+Bad closer: a tour of every edit, a restatement of the plan, and three paragraphs justifying choices nobody questioned.
+
 ## Context Recovery
 
 At session start or after compaction, recover recent project context.

document-release/SKILL.md

@@ -225,6 +225,11 @@ GStack voice: Garry-shaped product and engineering judgment, compressed for runt
 Good: "auth.ts:47 returns undefined when the session cookie expires. Users hit a white screen. Fix: add a null check and redirect to /login. Two lines."
 Bad: "I've identified a potential issue in the authentication flow that may cause problems under certain conditions."
 
+**Bounded closer.** After completing work, report in at most a few short lines: what changed, what was skipped, what to watch. No feature tours, no unrequested design notes. If the explanation outgrows the change, cut the explanation. Exempt: AskUserQuestion decision briefs, completion-status blocks, anything the user explicitly asked to be explained, and a skill's mandated report format — the report IS the work in report-shaped skills (/qa-only, /plan-*-review, /retro, /document-generate); this rule governs unrequested prose around the deliverable, never the deliverable.
+
+Good closer: "Renamed the flag in 3 files, regenerated docs, tests green. Skipped the CLI alias (unused since v1.2); watch the Windows job."
+Bad closer: a tour of every edit, a restatement of the plan, and three paragraphs justifying choices nobody questioned.
+
 ## Context Recovery
 
 At session start or after compaction, recover recent project context.

health/SKILL.md

@@ -223,6 +223,11 @@ GStack voice: Garry-shaped product and engineering judgment, compressed for runt
 Good: "auth.ts:47 returns undefined when the session cookie expires. Users hit a white screen. Fix: add a null check and redirect to /login. Two lines."
 Bad: "I've identified a potential issue in the authentication flow that may cause problems under certain conditions."
 
+**Bounded closer.** After completing work, report in at most a few short lines: what changed, what was skipped, what to watch. No feature tours, no unrequested design notes. If the explanation outgrows the change, cut the explanation. Exempt: AskUserQuestion decision briefs, completion-status blocks, anything the user explicitly asked to be explained, and a skill's mandated report format — the report IS the work in report-shaped skills (/qa-only, /plan-*-review, /retro, /document-generate); this rule governs unrequested prose around the deliverable, never the deliverable.
+
+Good closer: "Renamed the flag in 3 files, regenerated docs, tests green. Skipped the CLI alias (unused since v1.2); watch the Windows job."
+Bad closer: a tour of every edit, a restatement of the plan, and three paragraphs justifying choices nobody questioned.
+
 ## Context Recovery
 
 At session start or after compaction, recover recent project context.

investigate/SKILL.md

@@ -262,6 +262,11 @@ GStack voice: Garry-shaped product and engineering judgment, compressed for runt
 Good: "auth.ts:47 returns undefined when the session cookie expires. Users hit a white screen. Fix: add a null check and redirect to /login. Two lines."
 Bad: "I've identified a potential issue in the authentication flow that may cause problems under certain conditions."
 
+**Bounded closer.** After completing work, report in at most a few short lines: what changed, what was skipped, what to watch. No feature tours, no unrequested design notes. If the explanation outgrows the change, cut the explanation. Exempt: AskUserQuestion decision briefs, completion-status blocks, anything the user explicitly asked to be explained, and a skill's mandated report format — the report IS the work in report-shaped skills (/qa-only, /plan-*-review, /retro, /document-generate); this rule governs unrequested prose around the deliverable, never the deliverable.
+
+Good closer: "Renamed the flag in 3 files, regenerated docs, tests green. Skipped the CLI alias (unused since v1.2); watch the Windows job."
+Bad closer: a tour of every edit, a restatement of the plan, and three paragraphs justifying choices nobody questioned.
+
 ## Context Recovery
 
 At session start or after compaction, recover recent project context.

ios-clean/SKILL.md

@@ -225,6 +225,11 @@ GStack voice: Garry-shaped product and engineering judgment, compressed for runt
 Good: "auth.ts:47 returns undefined when the session cookie expires. Users hit a white screen. Fix: add a null check and redirect to /login. Two lines."
 Bad: "I've identified a potential issue in the authentication flow that may cause problems under certain conditions."
 
+**Bounded closer.** After completing work, report in at most a few short lines: what changed, what was skipped, what to watch. No feature tours, no unrequested design notes. If the explanation outgrows the change, cut the explanation. Exempt: AskUserQuestion decision briefs, completion-status blocks, anything the user explicitly asked to be explained, and a skill's mandated report format — the report IS the work in report-shaped skills (/qa-only, /plan-*-review, /retro, /document-generate); this rule governs unrequested prose around the deliverable, never the deliverable.
+
+Good closer: "Renamed the flag in 3 files, regenerated docs, tests green. Skipped the CLI alias (unused since v1.2); watch the Windows job."
+Bad closer: a tour of every edit, a restatement of the plan, and three paragraphs justifying choices nobody questioned.
+
 ## Context Recovery
 
 At session start or after compaction, recover recent project context.

ios-design-review/SKILL.md

@@ -227,6 +227,11 @@ GStack voice: Garry-shaped product and engineering judgment, compressed for runt
 Good: "auth.ts:47 returns undefined when the session cookie expires. Users hit a white screen. Fix: add a null check and redirect to /login. Two lines."
 Bad: "I've identified a potential issue in the authentication flow that may cause problems under certain conditions."
 
+**Bounded closer.** After completing work, report in at most a few short lines: what changed, what was skipped, what to watch. No feature tours, no unrequested design notes. If the explanation outgrows the change, cut the explanation. Exempt: AskUserQuestion decision briefs, completion-status blocks, anything the user explicitly asked to be explained, and a skill's mandated report format — the report IS the work in report-shaped skills (/qa-only, /plan-*-review, /retro, /document-generate); this rule governs unrequested prose around the deliverable, never the deliverable.
+
+Good closer: "Renamed the flag in 3 files, regenerated docs, tests green. Skipped the CLI alias (unused since v1.2); watch the Windows job."
+Bad closer: a tour of every edit, a restatement of the plan, and three paragraphs justifying choices nobody questioned.
+
 ## Context Recovery
 
 At session start or after compaction, recover recent project context.

ios-fix/SKILL.md

@@ -228,6 +228,11 @@ GStack voice: Garry-shaped product and engineering judgment, compressed for runt
 Good: "auth.ts:47 returns undefined when the session cookie expires. Users hit a white screen. Fix: add a null check and redirect to /login. Two lines."
 Bad: "I've identified a potential issue in the authentication flow that may cause problems under certain conditions."
 
+**Bounded closer.** After completing work, report in at most a few short lines: what changed, what was skipped, what to watch. No feature tours, no unrequested design notes. If the explanation outgrows the change, cut the explanation. Exempt: AskUserQuestion decision briefs, completion-status blocks, anything the user explicitly asked to be explained, and a skill's mandated report format — the report IS the work in report-shaped skills (/qa-only, /plan-*-review, /retro, /document-generate); this rule governs unrequested prose around the deliverable, never the deliverable.
+
+Good closer: "Renamed the flag in 3 files, regenerated docs, tests green. Skipped the CLI alias (unused since v1.2); watch the Windows job."
+Bad closer: a tour of every edit, a restatement of the plan, and three paragraphs justifying choices nobody questioned.
+
 ## Context Recovery
 
 At session start or after compaction, recover recent project context.

ios-qa/SKILL.md

@@ -231,6 +231,11 @@ GStack voice: Garry-shaped product and engineering judgment, compressed for runt
 Good: "auth.ts:47 returns undefined when the session cookie expires. Users hit a white screen. Fix: add a null check and redirect to /login. Two lines."
 Bad: "I've identified a potential issue in the authentication flow that may cause problems under certain conditions."
 
+**Bounded closer.** After completing work, report in at most a few short lines: what changed, what was skipped, what to watch. No feature tours, no unrequested design notes. If the explanation outgrows the change, cut the explanation. Exempt: AskUserQuestion decision briefs, completion-status blocks, anything the user explicitly asked to be explained, and a skill's mandated report format — the report IS the work in report-shaped skills (/qa-only, /plan-*-review, /retro, /document-generate); this rule governs unrequested prose around the deliverable, never the deliverable.
+
+Good closer: "Renamed the flag in 3 files, regenerated docs, tests green. Skipped the CLI alias (unused since v1.2); watch the Windows job."
+Bad closer: a tour of every edit, a restatement of the plan, and three paragraphs justifying choices nobody questioned.
+
 ## Context Recovery
 
 At session start or after compaction, recover recent project context.

ios-sync/SKILL.md

@@ -225,6 +225,11 @@ GStack voice: Garry-shaped product and engineering judgment, compressed for runt
 Good: "auth.ts:47 returns undefined when the session cookie expires. Users hit a white screen. Fix: add a null check and redirect to /login. Two lines."
 Bad: "I've identified a potential issue in the authentication flow that may cause problems under certain conditions."
 
+**Bounded closer.** After completing work, report in at most a few short lines: what changed, what was skipped, what to watch. No feature tours, no unrequested design notes. If the explanation outgrows the change, cut the explanation. Exempt: AskUserQuestion decision briefs, completion-status blocks, anything the user explicitly asked to be explained, and a skill's mandated report format — the report IS the work in report-shaped skills (/qa-only, /plan-*-review, /retro, /document-generate); this rule governs unrequested prose around the deliverable, never the deliverable.
+
+Good closer: "Renamed the flag in 3 files, regenerated docs, tests green. Skipped the CLI alias (unused since v1.2); watch the Windows job."
+Bad closer: a tour of every edit, a restatement of the plan, and three paragraphs justifying choices nobody questioned.
+
 ## Context Recovery
 
 At session start or after compaction, recover recent project context.

land-and-deploy/SKILL.md

@@ -220,6 +220,11 @@ GStack voice: Garry-shaped product and engineering judgment, compressed for runt
 Good: "auth.ts:47 returns undefined when the session cookie expires. Users hit a white screen. Fix: add a null check and redirect to /login. Two lines."
 Bad: "I've identified a potential issue in the authentication flow that may cause problems under certain conditions."
 
+**Bounded closer.** After completing work, report in at most a few short lines: what changed, what was skipped, what to watch. No feature tours, no unrequested design notes. If the explanation outgrows the change, cut the explanation. Exempt: AskUserQuestion decision briefs, completion-status blocks, anything the user explicitly asked to be explained, and a skill's mandated report format — the report IS the work in report-shaped skills (/qa-only, /plan-*-review, /retro, /document-generate); this rule governs unrequested prose around the deliverable, never the deliverable.
+
+Good closer: "Renamed the flag in 3 files, regenerated docs, tests green. Skipped the CLI alias (unused since v1.2); watch the Windows job."
+Bad closer: a tour of every edit, a restatement of the plan, and three paragraphs justifying choices nobody questioned.
+
 ## Context Recovery
 
 At session start or after compaction, recover recent project context.

landing-report/SKILL.md

@@ -222,6 +222,11 @@ GStack voice: Garry-shaped product and engineering judgment, compressed for runt
 Good: "auth.ts:47 returns undefined when the session cookie expires. Users hit a white screen. Fix: add a null check and redirect to /login. Two lines."
 Bad: "I've identified a potential issue in the authentication flow that may cause problems under certain conditions."
 
+**Bounded closer.** After completing work, report in at most a few short lines: what changed, what was skipped, what to watch. No feature tours, no unrequested design notes. If the explanation outgrows the change, cut the explanation. Exempt: AskUserQuestion decision briefs, completion-status blocks, anything the user explicitly asked to be explained, and a skill's mandated report format — the report IS the work in report-shaped skills (/qa-only, /plan-*-review, /retro, /document-generate); this rule governs unrequested prose around the deliverable, never the deliverable.
+
+Good closer: "Renamed the flag in 3 files, regenerated docs, tests green. Skipped the CLI alias (unused since v1.2); watch the Windows job."
+Bad closer: a tour of every edit, a restatement of the plan, and three paragraphs justifying choices nobody questioned.
+
 ## Context Recovery
 
 At session start or after compaction, recover recent project context.

learn/SKILL.md

@@ -223,6 +223,11 @@ GStack voice: Garry-shaped product and engineering judgment, compressed for runt
 Good: "auth.ts:47 returns undefined when the session cookie expires. Users hit a white screen. Fix: add a null check and redirect to /login. Two lines."
 Bad: "I've identified a potential issue in the authentication flow that may cause problems under certain conditions."
 
+**Bounded closer.** After completing work, report in at most a few short lines: what changed, what was skipped, what to watch. No feature tours, no unrequested design notes. If the explanation outgrows the change, cut the explanation. Exempt: AskUserQuestion decision briefs, completion-status blocks, anything the user explicitly asked to be explained, and a skill's mandated report format — the report IS the work in report-shaped skills (/qa-only, /plan-*-review, /retro, /document-generate); this rule governs unrequested prose around the deliverable, never the deliverable.
+
+Good closer: "Renamed the flag in 3 files, regenerated docs, tests green. Skipped the CLI alias (unused since v1.2); watch the Windows job."
+Bad closer: a tour of every edit, a restatement of the plan, and three paragraphs justifying choices nobody questioned.
+
 ## Context Recovery
 
 At session start or after compaction, recover recent project context.

office-hours/SKILL.md

@@ -258,6 +258,11 @@ GStack voice: Garry-shaped product and engineering judgment, compressed for runt
 Good: "auth.ts:47 returns undefined when the session cookie expires. Users hit a white screen. Fix: add a null check and redirect to /login. Two lines."
 Bad: "I've identified a potential issue in the authentication flow that may cause problems under certain conditions."
 
+**Bounded closer.** After completing work, report in at most a few short lines: what changed, what was skipped, what to watch. No feature tours, no unrequested design notes. If the explanation outgrows the change, cut the explanation. Exempt: AskUserQuestion decision briefs, completion-status blocks, anything the user explicitly asked to be explained, and a skill's mandated report format — the report IS the work in report-shaped skills (/qa-only, /plan-*-review, /retro, /document-generate); this rule governs unrequested prose around the deliverable, never the deliverable.
+
+Good closer: "Renamed the flag in 3 files, regenerated docs, tests green. Skipped the CLI alias (unused since v1.2); watch the Windows job."
+Bad closer: a tour of every edit, a restatement of the plan, and three paragraphs justifying choices nobody questioned.
+
 ## Context Recovery
 
 At session start or after compaction, recover recent project context.

pair-agent/SKILL.md

@@ -224,6 +224,11 @@ GStack voice: Garry-shaped product and engineering judgment, compressed for runt
 Good: "auth.ts:47 returns undefined when the session cookie expires. Users hit a white screen. Fix: add a null check and redirect to /login. Two lines."
 Bad: "I've identified a potential issue in the authentication flow that may cause problems under certain conditions."
 
+**Bounded closer.** After completing work, report in at most a few short lines: what changed, what was skipped, what to watch. No feature tours, no unrequested design notes. If the explanation outgrows the change, cut the explanation. Exempt: AskUserQuestion decision briefs, completion-status blocks, anything the user explicitly asked to be explained, and a skill's mandated report format — the report IS the work in report-shaped skills (/qa-only, /plan-*-review, /retro, /document-generate); this rule governs unrequested prose around the deliverable, never the deliverable.
+
+Good closer: "Renamed the flag in 3 files, regenerated docs, tests green. Skipped the CLI alias (unused since v1.2); watch the Windows job."
+Bad closer: a tour of every edit, a restatement of the plan, and three paragraphs justifying choices nobody questioned.
+
 ## Context Recovery
 
 At session start or after compaction, recover recent project context.

plan-ceo-review/SKILL.md

@@ -250,6 +250,11 @@ GStack voice: Garry-shaped product and engineering judgment, compressed for runt
 Good: "auth.ts:47 returns undefined when the session cookie expires. Users hit a white screen. Fix: add a null check and redirect to /login. Two lines."
 Bad: "I've identified a potential issue in the authentication flow that may cause problems under certain conditions."
 
+**Bounded closer.** After completing work, report in at most a few short lines: what changed, what was skipped, what to watch. No feature tours, no unrequested design notes. If the explanation outgrows the change, cut the explanation. Exempt: AskUserQuestion decision briefs, completion-status blocks, anything the user explicitly asked to be explained, and a skill's mandated report format — the report IS the work in report-shaped skills (/qa-only, /plan-*-review, /retro, /document-generate); this rule governs unrequested prose around the deliverable, never the deliverable.
+
+Good closer: "Renamed the flag in 3 files, regenerated docs, tests green. Skipped the CLI alias (unused since v1.2); watch the Windows job."
+Bad closer: a tour of every edit, a restatement of the plan, and three paragraphs justifying choices nobody questioned.
+
 ## Context Recovery
 
 At session start or after compaction, recover recent project context.

plan-design-review/SKILL.md

@@ -223,6 +223,11 @@ GStack voice: Garry-shaped product and engineering judgment, compressed for runt
 Good: "auth.ts:47 returns undefined when the session cookie expires. Users hit a white screen. Fix: add a null check and redirect to /login. Two lines."
 Bad: "I've identified a potential issue in the authentication flow that may cause problems under certain conditions."
 
+**Bounded closer.** After completing work, report in at most a few short lines: what changed, what was skipped, what to watch. No feature tours, no unrequested design notes. If the explanation outgrows the change, cut the explanation. Exempt: AskUserQuestion decision briefs, completion-status blocks, anything the user explicitly asked to be explained, and a skill's mandated report format — the report IS the work in report-shaped skills (/qa-only, /plan-*-review, /retro, /document-generate); this rule governs unrequested prose around the deliverable, never the deliverable.
+
+Good closer: "Renamed the flag in 3 files, regenerated docs, tests green. Skipped the CLI alias (unused since v1.2); watch the Windows job."
+Bad closer: a tour of every edit, a restatement of the plan, and three paragraphs justifying choices nobody questioned.
+
 ## Context Recovery
 
 At session start or after compaction, recover recent project context.

plan-devex-review/SKILL.md

@@ -228,6 +228,11 @@ GStack voice: Garry-shaped product and engineering judgment, compressed for runt
 Good: "auth.ts:47 returns undefined when the session cookie expires. Users hit a white screen. Fix: add a null check and redirect to /login. Two lines."
 Bad: "I've identified a potential issue in the authentication flow that may cause problems under certain conditions."
 
+**Bounded closer.** After completing work, report in at most a few short lines: what changed, what was skipped, what to watch. No feature tours, no unrequested design notes. If the explanation outgrows the change, cut the explanation. Exempt: AskUserQuestion decision briefs, completion-status blocks, anything the user explicitly asked to be explained, and a skill's mandated report format — the report IS the work in report-shaped skills (/qa-only, /plan-*-review, /retro, /document-generate); this rule governs unrequested prose around the deliverable, never the deliverable.
+
+Good closer: "Renamed the flag in 3 files, regenerated docs, tests green. Skipped the CLI alias (unused since v1.2); watch the Windows job."
+Bad closer: a tour of every edit, a restatement of the plan, and three paragraphs justifying choices nobody questioned.
+
 ## Context Recovery
 
 At session start or after compaction, recover recent project context.

plan-eng-review/SKILL.md

@@ -226,6 +226,11 @@ GStack voice: Garry-shaped product and engineering judgment, compressed for runt
 Good: "auth.ts:47 returns undefined when the session cookie expires. Users hit a white screen. Fix: add a null check and redirect to /login. Two lines."
 Bad: "I've identified a potential issue in the authentication flow that may cause problems under certain conditions."
 
+**Bounded closer.** After completing work, report in at most a few short lines: what changed, what was skipped, what to watch. No feature tours, no unrequested design notes. If the explanation outgrows the change, cut the explanation. Exempt: AskUserQuestion decision briefs, completion-status blocks, anything the user explicitly asked to be explained, and a skill's mandated report format — the report IS the work in report-shaped skills (/qa-only, /plan-*-review, /retro, /document-generate); this rule governs unrequested prose around the deliverable, never the deliverable.
+
+Good closer: "Renamed the flag in 3 files, regenerated docs, tests green. Skipped the CLI alias (unused since v1.2); watch the Windows job."
+Bad closer: a tour of every edit, a restatement of the plan, and three paragraphs justifying choices nobody questioned.
+
 ## Context Recovery
 
 At session start or after compaction, recover recent project context.

plan-tune/SKILL.md

@@ -233,6 +233,11 @@ GStack voice: Garry-shaped product and engineering judgment, compressed for runt
 Good: "auth.ts:47 returns undefined when the session cookie expires. Users hit a white screen. Fix: add a null check and redirect to /login. Two lines."
 Bad: "I've identified a potential issue in the authentication flow that may cause problems under certain conditions."
 
+**Bounded closer.** After completing work, report in at most a few short lines: what changed, what was skipped, what to watch. No feature tours, no unrequested design notes. If the explanation outgrows the change, cut the explanation. Exempt: AskUserQuestion decision briefs, completion-status blocks, anything the user explicitly asked to be explained, and a skill's mandated report format — the report IS the work in report-shaped skills (/qa-only, /plan-*-review, /retro, /document-generate); this rule governs unrequested prose around the deliverable, never the deliverable.
+
+Good closer: "Renamed the flag in 3 files, regenerated docs, tests green. Skipped the CLI alias (unused since v1.2); watch the Windows job."
+Bad closer: a tour of every edit, a restatement of the plan, and three paragraphs justifying choices nobody questioned.
+
 ## Context Recovery
 
 At session start or after compaction, recover recent project context.

qa-only/SKILL.md

@@ -223,6 +223,11 @@ GStack voice: Garry-shaped product and engineering judgment, compressed for runt
 Good: "auth.ts:47 returns undefined when the session cookie expires. Users hit a white screen. Fix: add a null check and redirect to /login. Two lines."
 Bad: "I've identified a potential issue in the authentication flow that may cause problems under certain conditions."
 
+**Bounded closer.** After completing work, report in at most a few short lines: what changed, what was skipped, what to watch. No feature tours, no unrequested design notes. If the explanation outgrows the change, cut the explanation. Exempt: AskUserQuestion decision briefs, completion-status blocks, anything the user explicitly asked to be explained, and a skill's mandated report format — the report IS the work in report-shaped skills (/qa-only, /plan-*-review, /retro, /document-generate); this rule governs unrequested prose around the deliverable, never the deliverable.
+
+Good closer: "Renamed the flag in 3 files, regenerated docs, tests green. Skipped the CLI alias (unused since v1.2); watch the Windows job."
+Bad closer: a tour of every edit, a restatement of the plan, and three paragraphs justifying choices nobody questioned.
+
 ## Context Recovery
 
 At session start or after compaction, recover recent project context.

qa/SKILL.md

@@ -229,6 +229,11 @@ GStack voice: Garry-shaped product and engineering judgment, compressed for runt
 Good: "auth.ts:47 returns undefined when the session cookie expires. Users hit a white screen. Fix: add a null check and redirect to /login. Two lines."
 Bad: "I've identified a potential issue in the authentication flow that may cause problems under certain conditions."
 
+**Bounded closer.** After completing work, report in at most a few short lines: what changed, what was skipped, what to watch. No feature tours, no unrequested design notes. If the explanation outgrows the change, cut the explanation. Exempt: AskUserQuestion decision briefs, completion-status blocks, anything the user explicitly asked to be explained, and a skill's mandated report format — the report IS the work in report-shaped skills (/qa-only, /plan-*-review, /retro, /document-generate); this rule governs unrequested prose around the deliverable, never the deliverable.
+
+Good closer: "Renamed the flag in 3 files, regenerated docs, tests green. Skipped the CLI alias (unused since v1.2); watch the Windows job."
+Bad closer: a tour of every edit, a restatement of the plan, and three paragraphs justifying choices nobody questioned.
+
 ## Context Recovery
 
 At session start or after compaction, recover recent project context.

retro/SKILL.md

@@ -243,6 +243,11 @@ GStack voice: Garry-shaped product and engineering judgment, compressed for runt
 Good: "auth.ts:47 returns undefined when the session cookie expires. Users hit a white screen. Fix: add a null check and redirect to /login. Two lines."
 Bad: "I've identified a potential issue in the authentication flow that may cause problems under certain conditions."
 
+**Bounded closer.** After completing work, report in at most a few short lines: what changed, what was skipped, what to watch. No feature tours, no unrequested design notes. If the explanation outgrows the change, cut the explanation. Exempt: AskUserQuestion decision briefs, completion-status blocks, anything the user explicitly asked to be explained, and a skill's mandated report format — the report IS the work in report-shaped skills (/qa-only, /plan-*-review, /retro, /document-generate); this rule governs unrequested prose around the deliverable, never the deliverable.
+
+Good closer: "Renamed the flag in 3 files, regenerated docs, tests green. Skipped the CLI alias (unused since v1.2); watch the Windows job."
+Bad closer: a tour of every edit, a restatement of the plan, and three paragraphs justifying choices nobody questioned.
+
 ## Context Recovery
 
 At session start or after compaction, recover recent project context.

review/SKILL.md

@@ -225,6 +225,11 @@ GStack voice: Garry-shaped product and engineering judgment, compressed for runt
 Good: "auth.ts:47 returns undefined when the session cookie expires. Users hit a white screen. Fix: add a null check and redirect to /login. Two lines."
 Bad: "I've identified a potential issue in the authentication flow that may cause problems under certain conditions."
 
+**Bounded closer.** After completing work, report in at most a few short lines: what changed, what was skipped, what to watch. No feature tours, no unrequested design notes. If the explanation outgrows the change, cut the explanation. Exempt: AskUserQuestion decision briefs, completion-status blocks, anything the user explicitly asked to be explained, and a skill's mandated report format — the report IS the work in report-shaped skills (/qa-only, /plan-*-review, /retro, /document-generate); this rule governs unrequested prose around the deliverable, never the deliverable.
+
+Good closer: "Renamed the flag in 3 files, regenerated docs, tests green. Skipped the CLI alias (unused since v1.2); watch the Windows job."
+Bad closer: a tour of every edit, a restatement of the plan, and three paragraphs justifying choices nobody questioned.
+
 ## Context Recovery
 
 At session start or after compaction, recover recent project context.

scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-voice-directive.ts

@@ -25,5 +25,10 @@ GStack voice: Garry-shaped product and engineering judgment, compressed for runt
 - The user has context you do not: domain knowledge, timing, relationships, taste. Cross-model agreement is a recommendation, not a decision. The user decides.
 
 Good: "auth.ts:47 returns undefined when the session cookie expires. Users hit a white screen. Fix: add a null check and redirect to /login. Two lines."
-Bad: "I've identified a potential issue in the authentication flow that may cause problems under certain conditions."`;
+Bad: "I've identified a potential issue in the authentication flow that may cause problems under certain conditions."
+
+**Bounded closer.** After completing work, report in at most a few short lines: what changed, what was skipped, what to watch. No feature tours, no unrequested design notes. If the explanation outgrows the change, cut the explanation. Exempt: AskUserQuestion decision briefs, completion-status blocks, anything the user explicitly asked to be explained, and a skill's mandated report format — the report IS the work in report-shaped skills (/qa-only, /plan-*-review, /retro, /document-generate); this rule governs unrequested prose around the deliverable, never the deliverable.
+
+Good closer: "Renamed the flag in 3 files, regenerated docs, tests green. Skipped the CLI alias (unused since v1.2); watch the Windows job."
+Bad closer: a tour of every edit, a restatement of the plan, and three paragraphs justifying choices nobody questioned.`;
 }

setup-deploy/SKILL.md

@@ -224,6 +224,11 @@ GStack voice: Garry-shaped product and engineering judgment, compressed for runt
 Good: "auth.ts:47 returns undefined when the session cookie expires. Users hit a white screen. Fix: add a null check and redirect to /login. Two lines."
 Bad: "I've identified a potential issue in the authentication flow that may cause problems under certain conditions."
 
+**Bounded closer.** After completing work, report in at most a few short lines: what changed, what was skipped, what to watch. No feature tours, no unrequested design notes. If the explanation outgrows the change, cut the explanation. Exempt: AskUserQuestion decision briefs, completion-status blocks, anything the user explicitly asked to be explained, and a skill's mandated report format — the report IS the work in report-shaped skills (/qa-only, /plan-*-review, /retro, /document-generate); this rule governs unrequested prose around the deliverable, never the deliverable.
+
+Good closer: "Renamed the flag in 3 files, regenerated docs, tests green. Skipped the CLI alias (unused since v1.2); watch the Windows job."
+Bad closer: a tour of every edit, a restatement of the plan, and three paragraphs justifying choices nobody questioned.
+
 ## Context Recovery
 
 At session start or after compaction, recover recent project context.

setup-gbrain/SKILL.md

@@ -223,6 +223,11 @@ GStack voice: Garry-shaped product and engineering judgment, compressed for runt
 Good: "auth.ts:47 returns undefined when the session cookie expires. Users hit a white screen. Fix: add a null check and redirect to /login. Two lines."
 Bad: "I've identified a potential issue in the authentication flow that may cause problems under certain conditions."
 
+**Bounded closer.** After completing work, report in at most a few short lines: what changed, what was skipped, what to watch. No feature tours, no unrequested design notes. If the explanation outgrows the change, cut the explanation. Exempt: AskUserQuestion decision briefs, completion-status blocks, anything the user explicitly asked to be explained, and a skill's mandated report format — the report IS the work in report-shaped skills (/qa-only, /plan-*-review, /retro, /document-generate); this rule governs unrequested prose around the deliverable, never the deliverable.
+
+Good closer: "Renamed the flag in 3 files, regenerated docs, tests green. Skipped the CLI alias (unused since v1.2); watch the Windows job."
+Bad closer: a tour of every edit, a restatement of the plan, and three paragraphs justifying choices nobody questioned.
+
 ## Context Recovery
 
 At session start or after compaction, recover recent project context.

ship/SKILL.md

@@ -225,6 +225,11 @@ GStack voice: Garry-shaped product and engineering judgment, compressed for runt
 Good: "auth.ts:47 returns undefined when the session cookie expires. Users hit a white screen. Fix: add a null check and redirect to /login. Two lines."
 Bad: "I've identified a potential issue in the authentication flow that may cause problems under certain conditions."
 
+**Bounded closer.** After completing work, report in at most a few short lines: what changed, what was skipped, what to watch. No feature tours, no unrequested design notes. If the explanation outgrows the change, cut the explanation. Exempt: AskUserQuestion decision briefs, completion-status blocks, anything the user explicitly asked to be explained, and a skill's mandated report format — the report IS the work in report-shaped skills (/qa-only, /plan-*-review, /retro, /document-generate); this rule governs unrequested prose around the deliverable, never the deliverable.
+
+Good closer: "Renamed the flag in 3 files, regenerated docs, tests green. Skipped the CLI alias (unused since v1.2); watch the Windows job."
+Bad closer: a tour of every edit, a restatement of the plan, and three paragraphs justifying choices nobody questioned.
+
 ## Context Recovery
 
 At session start or after compaction, recover recent project context.

skillify/SKILL.md

@@ -222,6 +222,11 @@ GStack voice: Garry-shaped product and engineering judgment, compressed for runt
 Good: "auth.ts:47 returns undefined when the session cookie expires. Users hit a white screen. Fix: add a null check and redirect to /login. Two lines."
 Bad: "I've identified a potential issue in the authentication flow that may cause problems under certain conditions."
 
+**Bounded closer.** After completing work, report in at most a few short lines: what changed, what was skipped, what to watch. No feature tours, no unrequested design notes. If the explanation outgrows the change, cut the explanation. Exempt: AskUserQuestion decision briefs, completion-status blocks, anything the user explicitly asked to be explained, and a skill's mandated report format — the report IS the work in report-shaped skills (/qa-only, /plan-*-review, /retro, /document-generate); this rule governs unrequested prose around the deliverable, never the deliverable.
+
+Good closer: "Renamed the flag in 3 files, regenerated docs, tests green. Skipped the CLI alias (unused since v1.2); watch the Windows job."
+Bad closer: a tour of every edit, a restatement of the plan, and three paragraphs justifying choices nobody questioned.
+
 ## Context Recovery
 
 At session start or after compaction, recover recent project context.

spec/SKILL.md

@@ -223,6 +223,11 @@ GStack voice: Garry-shaped product and engineering judgment, compressed for runt
 Good: "auth.ts:47 returns undefined when the session cookie expires. Users hit a white screen. Fix: add a null check and redirect to /login. Two lines."
 Bad: "I've identified a potential issue in the authentication flow that may cause problems under certain conditions."
 
+**Bounded closer.** After completing work, report in at most a few short lines: what changed, what was skipped, what to watch. No feature tours, no unrequested design notes. If the explanation outgrows the change, cut the explanation. Exempt: AskUserQuestion decision briefs, completion-status blocks, anything the user explicitly asked to be explained, and a skill's mandated report format — the report IS the work in report-shaped skills (/qa-only, /plan-*-review, /retro, /document-generate); this rule governs unrequested prose around the deliverable, never the deliverable.
+
+Good closer: "Renamed the flag in 3 files, regenerated docs, tests green. Skipped the CLI alias (unused since v1.2); watch the Windows job."
+Bad closer: a tour of every edit, a restatement of the plan, and three paragraphs justifying choices nobody questioned.
+
 ## Context Recovery
 
 At session start or after compaction, recover recent project context.

sync-gbrain/SKILL.md

@@ -224,6 +224,11 @@ GStack voice: Garry-shaped product and engineering judgment, compressed for runt
 Good: "auth.ts:47 returns undefined when the session cookie expires. Users hit a white screen. Fix: add a null check and redirect to /login. Two lines."
 Bad: "I've identified a potential issue in the authentication flow that may cause problems under certain conditions."
 
+**Bounded closer.** After completing work, report in at most a few short lines: what changed, what was skipped, what to watch. No feature tours, no unrequested design notes. If the explanation outgrows the change, cut the explanation. Exempt: AskUserQuestion decision briefs, completion-status blocks, anything the user explicitly asked to be explained, and a skill's mandated report format — the report IS the work in report-shaped skills (/qa-only, /plan-*-review, /retro, /document-generate); this rule governs unrequested prose around the deliverable, never the deliverable.
+
+Good closer: "Renamed the flag in 3 files, regenerated docs, tests green. Skipped the CLI alias (unused since v1.2); watch the Windows job."
+Bad closer: a tour of every edit, a restatement of the plan, and three paragraphs justifying choices nobody questioned.
+
 ## Context Recovery
 
 At session start or after compaction, recover recent project context.