lift the skill's question cap, which CLAUDE.md lifted and it did not

SKILL.md said "maximum three" clarifying questions while CLAUDE.md §4 said
"there is no cap" — lifted in 25d7045 and never propagated. The constitution is
always loaded and wins, so the skill was simply wrong, and an agent reading only
the skill would have split a six-fork request across turns to stay under a cap
that no longer exists.

The redundancy between the two files is deliberate: the constitution is always in
context and the skill is not, so both state the loop. HARNESS.md now records that
this deliberate copy has drifted twice — this, and the skill's conflict table
still deferring to `[spec]` markers after they were deleted. No gate can catch
it, because both files are prose and each is internally consistent, so the only
mechanism is grepping the other whenever a rule changes in either.

3 files. No rule changed — one restated correctly.

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@@ -59,7 +59,10 @@ thing, and everything in the Hard row without exception. One conflict is worth o
silently reversed decision costs the trust in every other decision.
Then decide what you genuinely do not know. Ask **only** questions whose answer changes the code or
the bytes on disk. Maximum three, one message, up front, each with a **bold** default.
the bytes on disk — but ask every one of those. Batched, one message, up front, each with a **bold**
default so silence answers. **There is no cap** (`CLAUDE.md` §4): a request carrying six real forks gets
six questions, and splitting them across turns to look brisk wastes more of the human's time than asking
once. This file said "maximum three" until the cap was lifted in `CLAUDE.md` and not here.
Never ask about: anything `conventions.md`, `content-model.md`, or an ADR already decides; naming,
formatting, file placement, test style; permission to follow the constitution; "would you like me