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