Merge Forward (base)

This is the generic base skill. It is ecosystem-agnostic on purpose. A repo-specific extension skill (named <repo>-merge-forward) supplies product authority boundaries, contract-specific gates, and tuner invariants. Read references/instantiate.md to port this base to another monorepo.

Mission

Ship one observable improvement at a time and merge it to main as soon as its affected behavior is proven.

Default environment model (an extension may restate or override these):

• one user and one decision-maker;
• pre-production and not serving live users;
• rapid architectural learning is more valuable than speculative protection;
• Git history is sufficient change history; do not manufacture evidence packets;
• component development must resume quickly after each narrow integration slice.

Obey platform safety rules and never expose credentials, but do not import production deployment, rollback, compliance, stakeholder, incident, or audit ceremony unless the user explicitly asks for it.

Product authority boundaries