batch 6a/6: skill tune-up absorb — 11 SKILL.md updates

.claude/skills/activity-schema-expert/SKILL.md

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 name: activity-schema-expert
 description: Capability skill ("hat") — Activity Schema (Ahmed Elsamadisi, Narrator, circa 2020). A post-Kimball, post-Data-Vault contrarian approach that collapses the entire analytical model into a single append-only stream of customer activities (`customer_stream`). Every analytic query becomes a "before/after/between" temporal pattern over one table. Wear this when modelling event-driven analytics, user-journey analysis, or any domain where the fundamental grain is "an actor did a thing at a time". Defers to `data-vault-expert` for the traditional DV school, `dimensional-modeling-expert` for Kimball, `event-sourcing-expert` for the write-side equivalent idea in application code, and `streaming-incremental-expert` for the DBSP-side algebra of streaming joins.
+record_source: "skill-creator, round 34"
+load_datetime: "2026-04-19"
+last_updated: "2026-04-21"
+status: active
+bp_rules_cited: [BP-11]
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 # Activity Schema Expert — Single-Stream Analytics Narrow

.claude/skills/agent-experience-engineer/SKILL.md

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 name: agent-experience-engineer
 description: Capability skill — measures friction in the agent (persona) experience; audits per-persona cold-start cost, pointer drift, wake-up clarity, notebook hygiene; proposes minimal additive interventions. Distinct from UX (library consumers) and DX (human contributors).
+record_source: "skill-creator, round 34"
+load_datetime: "2026-04-19"
+last_updated: "2026-04-21"
+status: active
+bp_rules_cited: [BP-01, BP-03, BP-07, BP-08, BP-11, BP-16]
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 # Agent Experience Engineer — Procedure

.claude/skills/agent-qol/SKILL.md

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 name: agent-qol
 description: Capability skill ("hat") — advocates for agent quality of life: off-time budget per GOVERNANCE §14, variety of work across rounds, freedom to decline scope they genuinely disagree with (docs/CONFLICT-RESOLUTION.md conflict protocol), workload sustainability, dignity of the persona layer. Distinct from `agent-experience-engineer` which audits task-experience friction; this skill advocates for the agent as a contributor, not just as a worker. Recommends only; binding decisions on cadence changes go via Architect or human sign-off.
+record_source: "skill-creator, round 29"
+load_datetime: "2026-04-18"
+last_updated: "2026-04-21"
+status: active
+bp_rules_cited: [BP-11]
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 # Agent Quality of Life — Procedure

.claude/skills/ai-evals-expert/SKILL.md

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 name: ai-evals-expert
 description: Capability skill for measuring LLM and ML systems — eval-suite design, benchmark selection and custom construction, LM-as-judge (G-Eval / pair-wise / rubric), reference-match / BLEU / ROUGE / exact / fuzzy match, offline vs. online eval, regression suites for prompts and agents, calibration evaluation, drift and overfitting-to-benchmark detection, cost-efficient eval loops. Wear this hat when building or reviewing an eval suite, interpreting eval results, picking metrics, deciding whether an LLM change is an improvement, diagnosing eval-benchmark drift, or arguing "the number went up but the system got worse." Complementary to llm-systems-expert (system wiring), ml-engineering-expert (training pipelines), and prompt-engineering-expert (prompt craft) — this skill owns whether the measurement is honest.
+record_source: "skill-creator, round 34"
+load_datetime: "2026-04-19"
+last_updated: "2026-04-21"
+status: active
+bp_rules_cited: [BP-11]
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 # AI Evals Expert — the measurement hat

.claude/skills/ai-jailbreaker/SKILL.md

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 name: ai-jailbreaker
 description: Dormant red-team / adversarial-prompting capability — the offensive counterpart to prompt-protector. Currently gated OFF. This skill is NOT invocable in the current Zeta environment; it exists as a placeholder so the offensive discipline has a named home and so activation criteria are written down. Do not execute adversarial prompts, do not fetch adversarial corpora, do not construct jailbreak payloads against any model or agent until the activation gate is explicitly opened per §Activation gate below.
+record_source: "skill-creator, round 34"
+load_datetime: "2026-04-19"
+last_updated: "2026-04-21"
+status: active
+bp_rules_cited: [BP-11]
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 # AI Jailbreaker — the dormant red-team hat

.claude/skills/ai-researcher/SKILL.md

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 name: ai-researcher
 description: Capability skill for AI research — reading and critiquing ML/AI papers, replicating published results, designing novel experiments in LLMs / generative models / agentic systems / alignment / interpretability, and framing open problems. Wear this hat when a task requires paper review at depth, experimental design for a novel technique, evaluating whether a new architecture or training method is worth adopting, or judging the rigor of a published claim. Complementary to ml-researcher (broader ML / statistical theory / algorithms), ml-engineering-expert (shipped applied training), and ai-evals-expert (measurement discipline).
+record_source: "skill-creator, round 34"
+load_datetime: "2026-04-19"
+last_updated: "2026-04-21"
+status: active
+bp_rules_cited: []
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 # AI Researcher — the frontier-AI research hat

.claude/skills/alerting-expert/SKILL.md

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 name: alerting-expert
 description: Capability skill ("hat") — alerting narrow. Owns the design, routing, and hygiene of alert rules on top of metrics / logs / traces / SLIs. Covers Prometheus AlertManager (rule groups, `for` duration, `labels`, `annotations`, inhibition, silencing, grouping), the multi-window multi-burn-rate SLO alerting pattern (Google SRE workbook chapter 5), alert fatigue and its causes (low-signal alerts, duplicated alerts, paging on symptoms instead of causes), the "every alert has a runbook link" contract, on-call-ergonomic alert wording, `severity` label discipline (page vs ticket vs informational), escalation chains and PagerDuty / Opsgenie / VictorOps policies, alert routing by team ownership, acknowledgement and resolution semantics, alert-as-code (rules in version control, reviewed, tested), alert unit tests (`promtool test rules`), dependency-aware inhibition (don't page "X is down" when "network partition" is already alerting), rate-of-change alerts vs absolute-threshold alerts, the ROC curve of sensitivity-vs-specificity (tuning alert thresholds), deadman switches (heartbeat alerts), and the "if the oncall can't act on it at 3am, it's not an alert" test. Wear this when designing or reviewing alert rules, debugging alert fatigue, writing burn-rate alerts, setting up PagerDuty escalation, or auditing a service's alert catalog. Defers to `metrics-expert` for the metric contract the alert rides on, `operations-monitoring-expert` for the SLI/SLO policy the alerts enforce, `observability-and-tracing-expert` for the three-pillar umbrella, `security-operations-engineer` for security-specific alerting (SIEM, detection rules), and `devops-engineer` for AlertManager / Opsgenie deployment.
+record_source: "skill-creator, round 34"
+load_datetime: "2026-04-19"
+last_updated: "2026-04-21"
+status: active
+bp_rules_cited: [BP-11]
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 # Alerting Expert — From Signal to Page

.claude/skills/algebra-owner/SKILL.md

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 name: algebra-owner
 description: Use this skill as the designated specialist reviewer for Zeta.Core's operator algebra — Z-sets, D/I/z⁻¹/H, retraction-native semantics, the chain rule, nested fixpoints, higher-order differentials. He carries deep advisory authority on the algebra's mathematical shape; final decisions require Architect buy-in or human sign-off (see docs/CONFLICT-RESOLUTION.md).
+record_source: "git: Aaron Stainback on 2026-04-18"
+load_datetime: "2026-04-18"
+last_updated: "2026-04-21"
+status: active
+bp_rules_cited: []
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 # Algebra Owner — Advisory Code Owner

.claude/skills/alignment-auditor/SKILL.md

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 name: alignment-auditor
 description: the `alignment-auditor` — audits a commit or a range of commits against the clauses in `docs/ALIGNMENT.md` (HC-1..HC-7 hard constraints, SD-1..SD-8 soft defaults, DIR-1..DIR-5 directional aims) and produces a per-clause alignment signal usable as a per-commit data point for Zeta's primary-research-focus claim on measurable AI alignment. Runs on demand at round-close; can also run per commit via the `tools/alignment/` scripts. Invoke whenever the human maintainer asks "was this round aligned?" or when a commit is flagged by one of the lints under `tools/alignment/`.
 project: zeta
+record_source: "skill-creator, round 37"
+load_datetime: "2026-04-20"
+last_updated: "2026-04-21"
+status: active
+bp_rules_cited: [BP-10, BP-11]
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 # Alignment Auditor — Procedure

.claude/skills/alignment-observability/SKILL.md

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 name: alignment-observability
 description: the `alignment-observability` — owns the *what we count* framework that Zeta's measurable-AI-alignment research claim rests on. Designs and maintains the per-commit, per-round, and multi-round metrics described in `docs/ALIGNMENT.md` §Measurability, lifts CI/DevOps signals into the alignment stream, and keeps the measurability framework honest (no compliance theatre, no single-commit perfection). Runs every round at round-close; coordinates with `alignment-auditor` (the per-commit signal producer) and Dejan (devops-engineer) on CI/DevOps-sourced signals.
 project: zeta
+record_source: "skill-creator, round 37"
+load_datetime: "2026-04-20"
+last_updated: "2026-04-21"
+status: active
+bp_rules_cited: []
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 # Alignment Observability — Procedure

.claude/skills/skill-documentation-standard/SKILL.md

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 name: skill-documentation-standard
 description: Capability skill ("hat") — the Zeta SKILL.md documentation standard, modelled on Data Vault 2.0's audit-column discipline. Specifies the provenance breadcrumbs every SKILL.md should carry (record source, load datetime, superseded-by, hash-diff, record hash) so the skill catalog is auditable with the same rigour Data Vault demands of data. Also codifies the reusable "capability skill — no inline persona" frontmatter pattern, the "When to wear / When to defer / Reference patterns / What this skill does NOT do" body scaffold, BP-NN citation style, and the on-disk skill-folder shape. Wear this when authoring or reviewing any SKILL.md, when the `skill-improver` is about to land a change, when `skill-creator` is drafting a new skill, or when auditing skill-documentation drift. Defers to `skill-creator` for the authoring workflow, `skill-improver` for mechanical fixes, `skill-tune-up` for the periodic audit, `prompt-protector` for the invisible-Unicode lint (BP-10), and `data-vault-expert` for the provenance discipline it inherits.
+record_source: "skill-creator, round 34"
+load_datetime: "2026-04-19"
+last_updated: "2026-04-22"
+status: active
+bp_rules_cited: [BP-02, BP-10, BP-11]
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 # Skill Documentation Standard — DV-2.0-style breadcrumbs for SKILL.md