refactor(skills): execute the audit retire wave — 8 skills retired/merged, 66 -> 58, spine 15 -> 13 (age-skills-audit-fable-l6ic.12)

Executes the age-e3zk decision (fresh disposition pass: docs/audits/
skills-audit-2026-07-06.md; council 2026-07-06 parked this behind age-p2c7,
which landed as d7f950ca8; operator directive 2026-07-07 authorized finishing
all filed work).

RETIRED: red-team (validate --debate absorbs), perf (frontier-generic, zero
repo bindings), flywheel (ao flywheel status CLI is the surface).
MERGED: eval-outcomes -> validate (--mode=pre-impl --target=scenario),
review -> validate (--mode=pr), compile + curate -> post-mortem (mining half;
mechanical surfaces stay ao compile / ao lookup), recover -> status
(--recover mode; deep playbook preserved at status/references/
recovery-playbook.md; delivers l6ic.7 and the l6ic.13 row reconcile).

Mechanics: ao skills retire x8 (trees incl. images/*/skills, terminal ledger
rows via --into, .agy-plugin review bundle removed); absorption tombstones in
docs/SKILLS.md + SKILL-TIERS.md (56 user-facing + 2 internal = 58, counted);
spine gate re-anchored 15 -> 13 (l6ic.11 minimal consistency: review +
red-team leave; membrane 7 + bookkeeper 6); bespoke twins post-mortem/status
hand-mirrored per AGENTS-CODEX; manifest pruned of orphan twin rows (62 -> 57);
overrides catalog pruned of 8 retired rows; gemini verify core_skills +
claude/codex image manifests updated; retired-subject eval
red-team-adversarial-validation.json removed (not canary-listed).

Gates: spine-integrity 13 PASS; wiring-closure PASS; skill-frontmatter 58/58;
codex manifest+artifacts+parity PASS; regen-check ALL GREEN; SKILL-TIERS also
fixed Opus 4.6 -> 4.8, GOALS.yaml -> GOALS.md, flywheel diagram to CLI truth
(l6ic.6 pre-work). Residual prose mentions in non-gated docs are the l6ic.2
debris sweep's scope.

docs/doctrine/effective-feedback-compute.md

@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ When a harness move produces feedback (a gate result, a tool observation, a revi
 - **R?** Is this new, or a repeat of an observation already in the trace? (repeat → discount/stop)
 - **M?** Will this change a later decision, and is it captured where the later decision will see it? (else it evaporates)
 
-A feedback event that fails any of these is `C_raw` masquerading as progress. This lens is the operational test behind `/validate`, `/review`, the gates, and the ratchet.
+A feedback event that fails any of these is `C_raw` masquerading as progress. This lens is the operational test behind `/validate` (incl. the folded `/review` mode), the gates, and the ratchet.
 
 ## Trace-observable scoring recipe (for the future `ao efc`)
 

docs/doctrine/operating-discipline.md

@@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ is advisory doctrine for swarm runs.
 ### D12 — Inference mines and codifies; deterministic code reconciles forever
 The steady-state control loop is deterministic and cheap; inference lives in the learning loop
 (mine → codify into controllers), never inside the control loop it is meant to make reliable.
-**Doctrine** — and the core AgentOps shape: the knowledge flywheel (`/curate`, `ao
+**Doctrine** — and the core AgentOps shape: the knowledge flywheel (`/curate` — retired, folded into `/post-mortem`; `ao
 lookup`) is the learning loop; the deterministic gates/scripts are the control loop. Keep models
 out of the reconcile path; let them propose new deterministic checks, not run inside the gate.