Fixing the Agentic Harness

Target: $ARGUMENTS (optional path; defaults to project root)

Objective

Refactor the project's harness so the model sees only the rules it needs for the files it touches. CLAUDE.md (and AGENTS.md when present) become a thin always-on critical-rules layer. Domain rules move to .claude/rules/*.md with paths: frontmatter. Permissions and MCP scope live in .claude/settings.json with explicit deny guardrails.

The goal is inference weight, not exhaustive documentation: 10 sharp directives the model references in reasoning beat 200 lines it half-skims.

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