User and repository instructions take priority over stored missions. The skill does not grant permissions, enforce a sandbox, or provide a distributed lock.

Recovery preserves edits, notes, partial outputs, and document revisions. Never run blanket restore/clean/reset. Establish ownership before resuming; age alone does not prove the previous run stopped.

Finishing checks or a draft does not authorize merging, publishing, deployment, or sending messages. After an external-write timeout, inspect whether the result already exists before retrying. Do not self-update during a mission.

Malformed/future state must be diagnosed and preserved, not replaced with defaults. A legacy success marker is not evidence.