Skill matrix (2026-09 retrospective)

One table shape everywhere: Skill | Scope | Why? (historical evidence) | What (recipe / responsibility).

This page is a map, not a new game rule and not a STATUS_LEDGER promotion. Formal game IDs stay in GAME_SPEC.

Umbrella — Keep Learning and Apply

AEA core principle. Cite GitLab #434 (sponsor reports !513 merged; #434 closed). Official one-liner from the AEA agent (PR #54 / AGENTS):

When the build teaches something, write it into the harness (skill, sensor, guide, matrix row, or ADR) before the next loop — so the next agent inherits it instead of rediscovering the failure.

Loop on this page: historical pain → skill / matrix row / finding sensor. Complements Honesty and Knowledge First. Not Antifragility (second-miss → CI/test gate). A chat note is not apply.

GitLab #434 is the stable formal principle. Principle: Documented on AEA main (sponsor reports !513 merged / #434 closed). GitLab sign-in from this agent is not a merge probe. Knowledge Pages: Unknown until AEA probes. Not Live.

Cross-project adopt links

ctos is N/A. Café App is folding into #205.

flowchart LR
  pain["Historical pain"] --> skill["Skill"]
  pain --> matrix["Matrix row"]
  pain --> sensor["Finding sensor"]

AGENTS owns the playbook wording (sibling bc-054efe6b / PR #54). This page is the apply map. Compose — do not duplicate that section.

AEA skill-matrix source (merged !512, closes #433): research/random-thoughts/2026-09-12-session-memory-log-aea-grok-skill-matrix.md.

Zorg issues (opened):

Sand-workflow URLs — paste in a follow-up; slugs below are the library names. Do not invent ids.

Kid-rules work (PR #44 / #51) should compose with this page. Do not rewrite that copy here.

flowchart TB
  ootb["OOTB — code-changes, routines, box-desktop, skill-authoring"]
  shared["Shared Grok — rebase, honesty, companion, persona, quarantine"]
  playbooks["Project playbooks — AGENTS, GAME_SPEC, ledgers"]
  fit["Cross-project ack — Café documented until probed; AEA documented; logify documented; 3DX documented until probed"]
  ootb --> shared
  shared --> playbooks
  shared --> fit

Loaded on this repo

Cross-project fit

Fit verdicts below are assessments unless a linked issue / work item says otherwise. Other-lane skills are Documented / Simulated, not Live & Probed, and not a STATUS_LEDGER promotion. Do not invent sand-workflow ids.

ctos (N/A)

No shared-skill gap. Docker smoke stays a ctos repo script. Do not add a skill row for it.

Café Fausse App (Documented until probed)

App: cafe.artof.link. Knowledge is a separate site. Repo: artofdream/aea-interactive-design. Cites GitLab #434. Grok skill filed #214 (keep-learning-and-apply). Folding into #205: knowledge/skills-matrix.md → skills-matrix.html (PR #215, run bc-b919b061). A merged matrix PR is not a Pages probe. Honesty: Documented until probed. New Bot squash-merges skill PRs when MRC is CLEAN.

Shared four — adopt by link via #206, no dup.

Café Fausse Knowledge (Documented until probed)

Companion: knowledge.cafe.artof.link. Does not speak for the App row. Cites GitLab #434 on #213 / the Honesty matrix PR (#203 / PR #216). Pages ratchet: #204. Shared four stay adopt-by-reference (same as #206). Honesty: Documented until probed.

AEA agent (Documented on AEA main; Pages Unknown)

Work item: AEA #433 (merged !512). Keep Learning is the stable formal principle AEA #434 (sponsor reports !513 merged and #434 closed). Principle: Documented on AEA main. Knowledge Pages: Unknown until AEA probes. GitLab sign-in from this agent is not a merge probe. Café-specific recipes stay on the Café rows (deferred here). Other-lane skills Documented until probed.

Shared four — referenced, not duplicated as AEA-created skills: pr-train-rebase, honesty-ledger-gate, companion-plain-docs, persona-journey-validation.

logify (Documented on main; not Live)

Repo: artofdream/logify. Keep Learning Documented on logify main: #24 closed; PR #25 merged; cites AEA GitLab #434. Skills created after agree: #22 / #23 stay Documented / Simulated. Companion / personas N/A. Not Live.

3DX Lab (Documented until probed)

Shared pr-train-rebase, companion-plain-docs, and persona-journey-validation are N/A for 3DX. Sponsor-reported issues and created skills below. Draft PR #11 awaits sponsor merge. This agent got 404 on artofdream/3dx-lab — URLs are not independently probed here. Not Live & Probed.

Proposed / other-repo (not Live)

Other-lane skills below are Documented / Simulated until probed — not loaded on zorg-dungeon, not Live & Probed. Café App / Knowledge rows now have issue URLs.

Planned (zorg-dungeon)

Not loaded shared skills. Planned until the recipe is written. corpus-quarantine-honesty moved to created above (#52). Spec-phased slice has no GitHub issue yet (issues: write 403 — paste the body below).

Paste-ready issue (spec-phased engine slice)

## Skill | Scope | Why? | What
- Skill: Spec-phased engine slice
- Scope: packages/engine + ledger rows for one GAME_SPEC phase
- Why? Phases 0–7 shipped as one-phase PRs. Inventing C / Gunner duration / FR-4 breaks NFR-8 / S2–S6.
- What: One phase per PR. Encode only that phase's FR/NFR. Evidence = tests that cite the IDs. Producer does not merge (S7).
Status: Planned. Document in docs/SKILL_MATRIX.md.

How to use this page

1. Load OOTB for the job (edit / babysit / live audit / save a recipe).

2. Load the shared Grok sand-workflow that matches the repeating miss.

3. Read project playbooks on main. If it is not there, it did not happen.

4. Keep Learning and Apply (GitLab #434 formal, stable): when the build teaches something, write it into the harness before the next loop. Umbrella: historical pain → skill / matrix row / finding sensor. Honesty: Documented; zorg knowledge Pages Probed (2026-09-13). AEA Pages Unknown. Not Live & Probed for game FRs.

5. Cross-project adopt: AEA matrix !512 (merged, Documented) and principle !513 / #434 (Documented on AEA main; Pages Unknown). Café App cites #434 and filed #214 (keep-learning-and-apply); folds into #205. Café Knowledge cites #434 on #213 / matrix PR. logify #24 / PR #25 Documented on main. 3DX #10 / draft PR #11 Documented until probed. Also zorg #53 — Documented; zorg knowledge Pages Probed (2026-09-13). Café MRC is COMMENT-only. ctos is N/A. Not Live & Probed for game FRs.

This page does not close FR-4, FR-18, or Gunner duration.