kernellisted

# X2 Kernel Maintain the three artifacts the method is built from, and keep them honest about each other. Run this whenever the answer to "what must be true", "what exists to be measured", or "what do we actually enforce" is about to change. ## First, decide whether you were given direction **Invoked with no direction, this skill EXPLAINS ITSELF AND STOPS.** Print the orientation below, then end the turn and wait. Do not read the tree, do not run a check, do not pick a verb that looks likely, and do not ask a narrowing question that presumes one. Every verb here changes something a person is accountable for, or reports a state that is only worth reporting when someone asked; guessing which one is meant is how a maintenance tool edits a catalog nobody asked it to touch. **Invoked WITH direction, route it and get on with it.** Most requests name a verb without knowing it: "this claim looks wrong" is `rule`, "does the record still hold" is `verify`, "add a stack" is `edition`. Read the intent and act. Do not make someone who has already said what they want choose from a menu, and do not re-explain the skill to them. ### The orientation, printed verbatim when there was no direction > This skill maintains the kernel: the claims catalog, the editions built against it, and the > conformance record between them. Six things it can do: > > | verb | what it does | say something like | > |---|---|---| > | `status` | reports where everything stands, every number derived from the tre