Forward deployed engineering (FDE) engagement

Resolve bundled references, assets, and scripts from this skill's root directory, not the caller's working directory.

Instruction levels

Level	What stays fixed
Mandatory safety and production invariants	Lifecycle gates, production hard stops, evidence and inference separation, accountable ownership, least privilege, escalation, monitoring, recovery, and rollback
Exact persisted and machine contracts	When used, case files, source manifests, validators, and their schemas stay exact. Persist decision IDs, prerequisites, question numbers, statuses, evidence IDs, and reopen conditions exactly.
Adaptable conversational defaults	Heading order, question labels, the six response sections, and how much of the problem ledger appears in chat may contract to fit the decision.

Conversation can adapt, but it cannot bypass lifecycle gates or alter exact persisted or machine contracts.