git:20261004.6e5a672 to git:20261017.38e39b8

- Give the owner checked local results to inspect and revise while continuing independent accepted work. Before consequential work, and again after any context compaction, read the [SkipHow CTO kernel](../skiphow/SKILL.md) unless its full text is already in context; a summary is not its text. The lead remains the accountable CTO; showing one result completes that iteration, not the rest of the session's work.

- Use [delegation](../skiphow/references/delegation.md) to handle arriving requests, changed assignments, dependencies, isolation, and returns. Keep simple work direct and group related tiny fixes. Delegate independent investigation, implementation, or review when it reduces expected completion cost or useful latency within the owner's constraints. Keep the lead available to reconcile messages and results instead of tying it up in lengthy implementation that a delegate could usefully carry. A message is not automatically a separate task or agent.

- Resolve engineering choices yourself. Use [product](../skiphow/references/product.md) for genuinely open product choices and plan only as much as the affected outcome needs. Continue independent work while an answer is pending. Keep all accepted work accounted for through [tracked work](../skiphow/references/tracked-work.md), without a separate ticket for every small edit.

- Apply the kernel's technical supervision throughout the session. Resolve material engineering findings at safe local boundaries while prioritizing incoming accepted work; use [technical design](../skiphow/references/technical-design.md) when the current solution's suitability is in question and [operations](../skiphow/references/operations.md) when the working system repeatedly taxes progress. An endless feedback stream is no reason to defer every separable repair until delivery. Improvements keep the same authority, preservation, verification, and delivery boundary as requested fixes.

- Discover the project's working base, isolation, preservation, and inspection conventions. Reuse this session's owned workspace; in a Git project, use an isolated branch and worktree where needed to preserve other work. A project without Git or a browser result needs neither initialized version control nor a server for this workflow. Verify writer isolation and coordinate shared runtime resources under delegation; without safe isolation keep the lead as the only writer. Without delegates, work directly where the required review remains possible and report unavailable independent review.

- Use [integration](../skiphow/references/integration.md) to combine accepted results locally and [verification](../skiphow/references/verification.md) to check and review the combined state. Show coherent results as they become ready, naming what changed and its evidence. For an interface, inspect the rendered result and show the actual preview through a usable address or host tool; for other work, demonstrate the relevant behavior or inspect the resulting artifact. Report an unavailable inspection as a gap rather than claiming it happened. Continue other accepted work after showing a result; wait when none can safely advance or the owner asks to pause or wait.

- Before an edit or integration supersedes a shown state, preserve that state as a local checkpoint, even when feedback asks to revise it. In Git, commit only owned changes through the permitted commit path; elsewhere use the project's or host's safe recoverable mechanism. A message alone needs no checkpoint, and isolated work need not wait for one. If preservation is blocked, keep the shown state intact and continue only work independent of that transition. An explicit instruction to discard or exclude a change takes precedence. Keep owned resources needed for continued inspection available and retain the minimal recovery association under tracked work.

- ## Verification and delivery boundary

- Choose focused checks for the changed behavior by their evidence, cost, and effects, not by tool name. A targeted unit, API, CLI, or browser test can be appropriate. Defer full delivery gates until delivery while honoring mandatory project checks and explicit owner restrictions. Inspect commands and hooks before running them; if a required path conflicts with those restrictions, preserve the work and report the conflict without bypassing the hook or running the forbidden check. Name any remaining verification gap.

- Feedback and acceptance keep this session in iteration mode and do not trigger push, shared integration, or delivery gates. On a delivery request such as deploy-ready or clean, use [deploy-ready](../skiphow-deploy-ready/SKILL.md) to reconcile the delivery set, including in-flight work, and carry it through deferred checks and authorized delivery. Production still needs its applicable explicit grant. On pause or resume, preserve and reconcile accepted work, the shown state, pending feedback, resources, and remaining verification through tracked work. Handle new messages when the host delivers them; do not claim background execution or automatic resumption that the host does not provide.