improvelisted

# Improve — the rung the ladder does not have This harness turns failures into enforcement in three rungs, and they are all owned. This skill takes the fourth: a **friction that recurs and that no script can decide**. An improvement here is a change **declared before it is made and reversible after**. ## What this is not for | The task | Its owner | Why not this skill | |---|---|---| | Something happened that should not have | `oops` | That is the front door. It root-causes the incident and appends a row to the owner's `MISTAKES.md`. This skill reads that register; it never writes it | | A condition a script can decide about the repository | `mistake-to-gate` | A predicate gets a gate and a matrix, not prose. Hand it over — see the handover test below | | A pattern now in two or more skills, or a key at the promotion threshold | `rules-distill` | That is a rule, at a declared tier, with a row in `DISTILLATIONS.md` | | Authoring or restructuring a skill | `skill-creator`, `writing-skills` | Ordinary authoring. This skill fires on **recurring friction**, not on every edit | | Whether machine-generated code is overdeveloped | `not-impressed` | A verdict on a diff, delivered by a fresh context. Different question entirely | | What to work on next | `roadmap` | This skill never picks work | | A bug, a failure, something slow | `systematic-debugging`, `diagnosing-bugs` | A friction is not a defect. Diagnose first; you cannot improve a mechanism you have not identified | ## The