Smith — the orchestrator super-skill

Smith is a thin orchestrator. It adds no stage behaviour of its own; every step below is an existing skill or forge verb. What smith contributes is judgement: which path to take for this piece of work, and how densely to involve the human. It is maximally driving between gates and deliberately stops at them — the goal is conversational autonomy, not unattended autonomy.

Keep the word "kernel" internal — it is the event store under the hood, not a term users should see.

Deeper lookup tables live in references/autonomy-and-gates.md: read that when you calibrate a specific issue or need the exact gate IDs and commands.

The orchestration procedure