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 - **This README** -- the folklore, for humans: verbatim sourced quotes from practitioners, general lessons first, modern transformers and LLM fine-tuning in their own section.
 
-- **[SKILL.md](SKILL.md)** -- what an agent loads: the rituals the folklore implies, each with a trigger, a form to fill, and an artifact to show the user. "Assume you have a bug" becomes "send a subagent to find one and report what it found". This is a bet that a form gets filled where a principle gets skipped, and it is untested. The bet is worth making because the folklore version measured no gain (below), and because forms have their own failure mode: they get filled with plausible content that nobody checked.
+- **[SKILL.md](SKILL.md)** -- what an agent loads: the folklore turned into instructions, each with a trigger, a form to fill, and an artifact to show the user. "Assume you have a bug" becomes "send a subagent to find one and report what it found". This is a bet that a form gets filled where a principle gets skipped, and it is untested. The bet is worth making because the folklore version measured no gain (below), and because forms have their own failure mode: they get filled with plausible content that nobody checked.
 
 - **[PLAYBOOK.md](PLAYBOOK.md)** -- the synthesized long-form: mental models, practitioner priors, step catalogs, symptom tables, the agent debugging loop, triage, and anti-patterns. Menus of hypotheses distilled from the same sources, not quotes. Deeper one-off tricks (loss-surface analysis, stuck-metric diagnosis, sweep reliability) live in [refs/](refs/).