Every loaded SKILL.md and every listed description is paid on every turn of every session, and every delivered message costs its recipient a full turn. scripts/budget.py gains SKILL_WORDS = 600, enforced by test_lock, and test_naming forbids a skill naming its own slash command; 53 descriptions and 10 body lines drop it. The 18 longest skills move details into 31 side files read only in their situation (organize's capacity, succession, peers, offices, relay and lineage; cleanup's docker, worktrees, execute and ask; code-tune, changelog, triage, dream, split and others), so all SKILL.md files shrink from 33866 to 26291 words without dropping a rule; an independent review of HEAD against the new text found no loss in 60 of 64 skills and three weakenings, now restored (WSJF re-estimates after an objective change, cleanup's volume checklist, essence's absolute dates).
The kvb-org-organize Peer protocol sends status that asks nothing to the news board, answers nothing that asks nothing, keeps messages terse, and lets light runs admit themselves in the operator's wording; the skills follow it (operator reads the register, relax and wakeup reply through the news, evening collects them there, wsjf asks only for missing estimates, cleanup and triage batch their questions). Skills that explore code ask the codebase-memory-mcp graph first, subagent briefs scale with the stakes and cap their answers, and the skills that need the full register or council tables call show --wide or list --long.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
kvb-org-evening and kvb-org-sunset narrow the organisation to the session the operator types them in; kvb-org-sunrise undoes it. night.py keeps the state in <council root>/night.json: set makes the caller active and lists the other live sessions, status tells each session its part (active, awake, relax, sleep), wake lifts one session alone, clear ends the night; a missing or invalid state means day. Evening messages every other session to run kvb-agent-relax (finish the task, end its loops, start nothing); sunset messages them in waves of three to run kvb-agent-sleep (park at the next safe point, never cut a running job short, end loops, write a ten-line handover into the project's memory directory, reply asleep), and the operator then sets inbound messages to hold. At night the active session admits its own runs through watch.py and leaves the sleepers' offices alone. Sunrise switches messages back to accept, clears the state and sends kvb-agent-wakeup, which restores loops, jobs and roles from the handover; the operator can also wake one session alone by typing it there.
A peer's request to do less now needs no operator approval in the kvb-org-organize Peer protocol, and kvb-org-robot stops a run at its next safe point when the night reaches it. The README gains the agent category's state meaning and the new nodes; test_night covers set, status, wake, clear and a bad state.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
