fix: ship-hygiene dead pairings, evidence-gate check prefix, council ballot-file contract gap, bin quoting safety

skills/council/SKILL.md

@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ The full ballot per item is one of:
 
 Before tallying, validate every ballot:
 
-- Save each returned ballot verbatim and run `python3 bin/validate-ballot.py --items <N> --unresolved <comma-separated item numbers> <ballot-file>` from this skill directory. Treat a non-zero exit as malformed and retry once; do not tally an unvalidated ballot.
+- Save each returned ballot verbatim and run `python3 <skill-dir>/bin/validate-ballot.py --items <N> --unresolved <comma-separated item numbers> <ballot-file>` from this skill directory. Treat a non-zero exit as malformed and retry once; do not tally an unvalidated ballot.
 - Invalid criterion name, missing item, or malformed vote -> retry that voter once.
 - `APPROVE` on an `UNRESOLVED MATERIAL` candidate is malformed -> retry that voter once.
 - Still invalid after retry -> mark that item ballot `INVALID`, exclude it from support/reject counts, keep the full odd `M_returned` denominator, and mark the item `UNVERIFIED` if fewer than 3 valid item ballots remain.
@@ -215,7 +215,8 @@ Voter <n>:
 4. **Run discussion** (Stage 3). Use the Stage 3 template, assign every candidate a counterexample survival status, and record additional `D-iN` candidates only when tied to a cross-angle gap.
 5. **Run candidate collation** (Stage 4). Use the Stage 4 template. Drop collator-invented, untagged, or evidence-incomplete items before voting.
 6. **Run voting** (Stage 5). Use at least 3 odd-count independent voters. Use the Stage 5 template. Retry malformed voters, including forbidden approvals over unresolved material counterexamples, once.
-7. **Tally + conclude** (Stage 6). Validate ballots per item, resolve QUALIFY conditions, enforce majority-plus-one support, apply hard-reject vetoes, and produce the final report.
+6a. **Save ballots to files.** For each returned voter, write its ballot output to a temp file (e.g. `/tmp/council-ballot-<voter_n>.txt`).
+7. **Tally + conclude** (Stage 6). Validate each ballot file with `python3 <skill-dir>/bin/validate-ballot.py`, resolve QUALIFY conditions, enforce majority-plus-one support, apply hard-reject vetoes, and produce the final report.
 
 ## Run-until-completion behavior
 

skills/evidence-gate/SKILL.md

@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ state, non-empty diff, and merged target before recording it.
 
 ## Gate completion
 
-Run `check --gate <gate-file>`. Exit `1` means criteria remain uncovered; do not
+Run `python3 <skill-dir>/scripts/evidence_gate.py check --gate <gate-file>`. Exit `1` means criteria remain uncovered; do not
 claim completion. Exit `0` returns a `verification` value containing the
 gate-file path and SHA-256 digest. Pass that value to the parent workflow's
 completion record.

skills/ship-hygiene/SKILL.md

@@ -82,9 +82,7 @@ Skip if: only one PR open, body is short, no recent worklog activity. Overhead n
 
 ## Pairings
 
-- `budget-mode` — apply during the worklog compress step. Terse prose, code untouched.
 - `karpathy-guidelines` — apply during the PR title/body audit step. "Don't refactor what isn't broken" — most PRs need nothing.
-- `systematic-debugging` — apply when CI red is per-PR (not systemic) to actually root-cause each failure.
 - For brittle outputs, invoke `$example-led-instructions`: 0/1/few-shot gate, max 1-3 examples, skip if obvious.
 
 ## Examples

skills/worklog/bin/.gitignore

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+__pycache__/

skills/worklog/bin/cache-purge.sh

@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ if [[ -z "$HITS" ]]; then
 fi
 
 echo "Files ever under .cache/ in history:"
-printf '  %s\n' $HITS
+printf '%s\n' "$HITS" | sed 's/^/  /'
 echo ""
 echo "Commits that touch .cache/: $COMMITS"
 echo ""

skills/worklog/bin/git-hooks/commit-msg

@@ -91,7 +91,6 @@ STATUS_COUNT="$(printf '%s' "$STATUSES" | grep -c .)" || true
 [[ "$SLUG_COUNT" -ne "$STATUS_COUNT" ]] && exit 0
 [[ -z "$STATUSES" ]] && exit 0
 
-DRIFT=0
 paste <(printf '%s\n' "$SLUGS") <(printf '%s\n' "$STATUSES") | \
 while IFS=$'\t' read -r slug trailer_status; do
   [[ -z "$slug" || -z "$trailer_status" ]] && continue

skills/worklog/bin/pre-commit-scan.sh

@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ HITS="$(printf '%s\n' "$ADDED" | perl -ne '
 [[ -z "$HITS" ]] && exit 0
 
 echo "pre-commit-scan: typed-prefix secret patterns found in staged additions:" >&2
-printf '  %s\n' $HITS >&2
+printf '%s\n' "$HITS" | sed 's/^/  /' >&2
 echo "" >&2
 echo "  If false positive, redact / move out of the staged content. Bypass:" >&2
 echo "    WORKLOG_NO_SCAN=1 git commit ...    # one-shot" >&2

skills/worklog/bin/project.sh

@@ -365,7 +365,7 @@ cmd_reap() {
   local f
   for f in people/*/active/*.md; do
     [[ -f "$f" ]] || continue
-    local INFO SID HB
+    local INFO SID
     INFO="$(python3 "$SCRIPT_DIR/_claim.py" read "$f" 2>/dev/null)" || continue
     SID="$(echo "$INFO" | python3 -c 'import json,sys;print(json.load(sys.stdin).get("session_id") or "")')"
     [[ -z "$SID" ]] && continue

skills/worklog/bin/refactor.sh

@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ if [[ "$COUNT" -eq 0 ]]; then
   echo "No other files reference '$OLD_SLUG'."
 else
   echo "$COUNT file(s) reference '$OLD_SLUG':"
-  printf '  %s\n' $ALL_HITS
+  printf '  %s\n' "$ALL_HITS"
 fi
 echo ""
 echo "Plan: rename $OLD_FILE → $NEW_FILE; rewrite '$OLD_SLUG' → '$NEW_SLUG' in the $COUNT files above."
@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ fi
 
 # 1. Rewrite references in other files (sed in-place; word-boundary match).
 if [[ "$COUNT" -gt 0 ]]; then
-  for f in $ALL_HITS; do
+  for f in "$ALL_HITS"; do
     # Use perl for portable word-boundary in-place edit (sed -i syntax differs
     # between BSD/Linux; perl behaves identically everywhere).
     perl -i -pe "s/\\b${OLD_SLUG}\\b/${NEW_SLUG}/g" "$f"
@@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ fi
 # 2. Rename the task file via checkpoint.sh (handles the Worklog-Previous-Slug
 #    trailer). Note: checkpoint only stages NEW_FILE; we stage the rewritten
 #    references too so they all land in one commit.
-git add $ALL_HITS 2>/dev/null || true
+git add "$ALL_HITS" 2>/dev/null || true
   "$SCRIPT_DIR/checkpoint.sh" "$NEW_SLUG" --rename="$OLD_SLUG" --next="Cross-task slug rename: $OLD_SLUG → $NEW_SLUG, $COUNT references rewritten."
 
 echo ""