Cut backlog-burndown's Two Narrowing Rows to the Narrowing and Pointer Its Fourteen Restatements

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Class 4 of #1317, scoped to one file, .agents/skills/backlog-burndown/SKILL.md, plus its two generated mirrors and digest.

What changed

• The two narrowing rows are cut to the narrowing itself (backlog-burndown restates two cross-cutting rules AGENTS.md says to reference #1305). "Scope" says the run is narrower than GOVERNANCE.md "Repository Boundaries and Write Safety" requires and no longer repeats what that section says about reads or about the owner bound. "The Two Seats" had no narrowing once the restated rule was cut, since a worker is exactly the dispatched task AGENTS.md "Session Scope" describes, so its worker bullet is a plain pointer.
• Thirteen of the fourteen other inventory rows become pointers, each naming the home by document and heading and keeping only the skill's own consequence: the question-issue prompt in "Ranking", the failed-fetch stop in "Grouping and File Claims", the pre-push pass and the shared-checkout sentence in "Dispatching a Worker", the two tier bullets in "Choosing the Worker's Model Tier", the wait bound and the dirty-tree sentence in "Bounding the Wait on a Worker", the escalation bullet in "Raising a Blocked Question", the operational-model paragraph, step 3, and step 5's rebase sentence in "The Promotion Boundary", and the working-notes bullet in "Run State".
• One row is left as it stands: the inventory's AGENTS.md "Where the Rules Live" condensation at "Dispatching a Worker" is the skill stating its own procedure, and the skill is the home of that. The restatement is AGENTS.md's paragraph about this skill, which is class 8's deletion-and-pointer work.
• One edit outside the inventory's fourteen rows, requested on P2 (decision): Decide backlog-burndown's Shape Before Its 23 Open Defects Are Worked One at a Time #1323: the "Bounding a Prose Group" budget bullet is a pointer at local-strict-review "Disposing of Findings", since P0: Commit a Stop Condition and Round Budget for the Whole-Unit and Local Review Passes #1312 landed the number the bullet used to state a second time.

What did not change

The eight step-refs in this file were class 3 (#1383). The "grant is bounded by the session" and "Closing keywords go on the promotion pull request" statements have no home and stay, per the inventory's class 14 list. The pre-existing findings on #1337 are untouched, this change fixes none of them and states no new claim in their sentences.

Verification

• python3 scripts/build_dist.py --check, python3 scripts/prose_lint.py . --diff origin/develop with the CI check list plus sentence-length, python3 spec/validate.py: clean.
• Carried-content pass: ten units of this file read whole at the fable tier, one reviewer per unit, recorded in reports/canonical-review.json. Counts are in the pull request's read record below.
• Diff pass recorded per local-strict-review.

Read record, introduced over total per read

Ten units read whole at the fable tier, one reviewer per unit, before the first commit. Round 2 read only the two units round 1's introduced findings changed, round 3 read the one unit the first diff pass's finding changed, round 4, a one-round grant past the budget, read the one unit the second diff pass's finding changed, and round 5, a second deletion-only grant, read the two units the third diff pass's findings changed.

Read	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5
Scope	0/0
The Two Seats	1/2	0/0
Ranking	0/1
Grouping and File Claims	0/3			0/2
Bounding a Prose Group	0/1
Dispatching a Worker	0/2
Bounding the Wait on a Worker	0/3				0/3
Raising a Blocked Question	0/1
The Promotion Boundary	1/7	0/6	0/4		0/7
Run State	0/1
Diff pass		1/1	1/1	2/2	0/0

The six introduced findings: the worker bullet attributed the one-worktree rule to AGENTS.md "Session Scope", which never mentions worktrees, the operational paragraph's pointer left "What the model adds ... a direct push" without the clause that anchored it, step 2 of "The Promotion Boundary" still cited "Bounding a Prose Group" as the discipline that sets a budget after that section stopped setting one, the failed-fetch sentence's "pushed since" lost its time anchor when the restated clause was cut, the operational paragraph's "so confirm" drew a cadence question from a premise that no longer stated one, and "doing it by proxy is still doing it" lost its noun when "reaching into a tree" was cut. The first two were fixed before round 2, the third before round 3, which spent the budget, the fourth under the maintainer's first one-round grant before round 4, and the last two, both deletions, under a second grant before round 5. Five of the six are a reference or a connective left standing when the restated clause beside it was deleted, the class 3 curve again, and the third diff pass found two of them on sentences the first two diff passes had read. Every pre-existing finding is on #1337, items 28 to 46, and the repeats of items 3, 13, 15, 22, and 27 are not listed again.

Closes on promotion: #1305

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🟢 Approval recommended

The changes consistently replace restatements with accurate pointers to canonical rule homes and the regenerated mirrors/ledger updates align with the updated source.

Pull request overview

This PR continues the “one rule, one home” effort by trimming backlog-burndown’s rule inventory prose down to the narrowing that is specific to this skill, and converting the remaining restatements into pointers to their canonical homes (primarily GOVERNANCE.md and AGENTS.md). It then regenerates the distributed skill mirrors and updates the canonical review ledger entries for the units that were re-read.

Changes:

• Replace rule restatements in .agents/skills/backlog-burndown/SKILL.md with pointers to canonical sections, keeping only the skill-specific narrowing/consequence text.
• Regenerate the GitHub Copilot and Claude plugin skill mirrors and update the source digest.
• Refresh reports/canonical-review.json entries (digest/hubCommit/stamp/findings) for the re-reviewed backlog-burndown units.

File summaries

File	Description
.agents/skills/backlog-burndown/SKILL.md	Converts inventory restatements into pointers and tightens the two narrowing rows while preserving skill-specific consequences.
.github/skills/backlog-burndown/SKILL.md	Regenerated mirror of the updated skill for GitHub Copilot discovery.
.claude-plugin/fleet-skills/skills/backlog-burndown/SKILL.md	Regenerated mirror of the updated skill for the Claude plugin distribution.
.claude-plugin/fleet-skills/.source-digests/backlog-burndown	Updates the recorded source digest for the distributed backlog-burndown skill.
reports/canonical-review.json	Updates canonical-review ledger entries for the backlog-burndown units that were re-read/recorded on this branch.

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