diff --git a/.claude/skills/khosra-feature-loop/SKILL.md b/.claude/skills/khosra-feature-loop/SKILL.md
index 4d06012..8c8f744 100644
--- a/.claude/skills/khosra-feature-loop/SKILL.md
+++ b/.claude/skills/khosra-feature-loop/SKILL.md
@@ -104,6 +104,10 @@ of real generated markup, or benchmark numbers.
 
 Budget failure: shrink the change, or stop and propose an ADR raising it. Never raise it silently.
 
+**A standing advisory is a defect.** If a warning fires on correct code and will keep firing, either the
+check is wrong or the code is — resolve which, in that change. Tolerated warnings are how the whole
+channel stops being read, and the count creeping from one to two is the only signal you get.
+
 Never write "should work", "this will now…", or your own diff summarised as a result. If you could
 not run something, say which and why.
 
diff --git a/HARNESS.md b/HARNESS.md
index 26cd0e2..181c9ea 100644
--- a/HARNESS.md
+++ b/HARNESS.md
@@ -124,6 +124,10 @@ is a codebase still navigable by `go doc` and `git log` alone, years from now, w
 instead of `log/slog`, `panic()` outside `cmd/`, and `time.Now()` outside a `clock.go` are stated
 absolutely in `conventions.md`, so they exit non-zero. That last one exists because a Stage that reads
 the clock without an expiry would serve staleness invisibly. A rule enforced as a suggestion teaches the agent to read every rule as one.
+A green run has **no** warnings once code exists. An advisory that fires on correct code gets fixed —
+either the check or the code — because a warning nobody can act on trains you to skim the ones you can.
+Two of these have already been narrowed after firing on code the harness itself mandates.
+
 Softer signals stay advisory: `fmt.Errorf` without `%w`, nesting past 4, exported-and-referenced-once,
 and `any` in an **exported** signature — only exported, because ADR-0002 mandates an open page object,
 so unexported code reading frontmatter takes `any` legitimately and forever.
diff --git a/docs/state.md b/docs/state.md
index 295c5f5..cc0c217 100644
--- a/docs/state.md
+++ b/docs/state.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # State
 
-**Verified against:** `37ccf94` on 2026-07-30 — update this line every change.
+**Verified against:** `8a6857b` on 2026-07-30 — update this line every change.
 If this file disagrees with the code, the code is right and this file is a bug.
 
 ## Inventory
diff --git a/scripts/verify.sh b/scripts/verify.sh
index 6351836..3ffda24 100755
--- a/scripts/verify.sh
+++ b/scripts/verify.sh
@@ -377,7 +377,9 @@ panics=$(echo "$gofiles" | grep -v '_test\.go$' | grep -v '^\./cmd/' | xargs gre
 if [ -n "$panics" ]; then bad "panic() outside cmd/ — request-time failure degrades (conventions.md): $(echo "$panics" | tr '\n' ' ')"; else pass "no panic outside cmd"; fi
 
 head_ "smells (advisory)"
-nowrap=$(echo "$gofiles" | xargs grep -n 'fmt\.Errorf(' 2>/dev/null | grep -v '%w' | wc -l | tr -d ' ')
+# Only calls that actually wrap: fmt.Errorf without an err argument is creating an error, not losing one.
+nowrap=$(echo "$gofiles" | xargs grep -hn 'fmt\.Errorf(' 2>/dev/null |
+  grep -v '%w' | grep -cE '\berr\b' || true)
 [ "${nowrap:-0}" -gt 0 ] && note "$nowrap fmt.Errorf without %w (wrap at package boundaries)"
 # Only exported signatures: conventions.md bans interface{} as an API escape hatch, but ADR-0002 mandates
 # an open page object, so unexported code reading Extra legitimately takes any and always will.