refactor(pstack): cut unneeded sections from seven skills
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Summary
Removes sections from seven pstack skills where the agent does the same work without the text: restated rules, generic search steps, evidence checklists, and return-format blocks. The core rule of each skill stays.
Across the 11 touched Markdown files, size drops from 32,508 to 18,711 bytes (-42.4%) and from 5,028 to 2,902 words (-42.3%, counted with wc -w).
Changes
- principle-encode-lessons-in-structure: keeps the judgment fallback and the corollary. Drops the intro, the pattern steps, "Pick the strongest mechanism", the routing paragraph, and the anti-patterns.
- principle-exhaust-the-design-space: keeps the product-design line. The description still carries the rule (build 2-3 prototypes and compare). Drops the intro, "The rule", and the when / when-not lists.
- principle-guard-the-context-window: drops the intro and the "Isolate large payloads" and "Keep frequently used content inline" bullets.
- principle-laziness-protocol: keeps "Consolidate decisions" and "Minimize the diff". Drops the intro, "Prefer deletion", "Maintain a flat call hierarchy", "Question the threading", "Sweat the small leaks", and "The test".
- how: the explorer prompt drops its opening paragraph, the Exploration Instructions section, and the line above the output structure.
- poteto-mode: the babysit playbook drops the step 6 merge-authorization paragraph (step 9 still says babysitting never authorizes merging) and the closing Reply line. The worktree cleanup playbook drops its opening paragraph.
- why: four source playbooks get shorter.
code-archaeology.mddrops the PR-context step (the skill's seed-context step still pulls PR bodies), the evidence checklist, the pitfalls, and the return format.incident-postmortem.mdkeeps only the Linear, Slack, and Git bullets.sentry.mdkeeps "How to search it" and "What to return".slack.mdkeeps "Common pitfalls" and search strategies 1, 3, and 4, with their original numbers. - Bumps pstack to 0.15.19.
No cross-references needed changes. Nothing in pstack links to a removed heading. The architect skill's citations of these principles still resolve, and architect still states "design it twice" and the three-file rule itself.
Test plan
node scripts/validate-plugins.mjspasses.rgoverpstack/finds no link to or mention of a removed section.- The edited files have no empty headings or double blank lines.

