Refresh Current state: how-i-work consolidation resolved

AGENTS.md

@@ -117,15 +117,13 @@ should carry this so any vendor's agent surfaces pending items at session start:
   git log + ROADMAP item 6).
 - This session: ran `/roundup` (STATUS.md snapshot 2026-06-15); verified & corrected
   `guides/placement.md` with me and committed it (ROADMAP item 7 done); captured a
-  `(ten31-database)` networking-doc fix to `INBOX.md`. **Paused mid-task:** a `how-i-work.md`
-  consolidation pass — analysis is done (promote 3 gap rules: instruction-file structure,
-  verify-by-running, sensitive-data-stays-local; plus a selective trim of now-global
-  duplicates from repo AGENTS.md files) and awaits my go-ahead before any edits.
-- **Next steps:** (1) decide the paused `how-i-work.md` consolidation (which of the 3 gap
-  rules to promote; how aggressive to trim repos given the self-containment tradeoff); (2) the
-  cross-repo quality-gate standard + `/harden` (ROADMAP item 1 — also unblocks `/new-project`'s
-  deferred quality-gate step); (3) the non-git-folder sweep under `~/Projects` (item-6 residual;
-  count ~13).
+  `(ten31-database)` networking-doc fix to `INBOX.md`; and resolved the `how-i-work.md`
+  consolidation — promoted the **instruction-file-structure** convention and added a
+  **promote-without-trim** principle (commit `f7e9e29`), and decided against any fleet-wide
+  trimming (per-repo AGENTS.md files aren't bloated, and in-repo copies aid self-containment).
+- **Next steps:** (1) the cross-repo quality-gate standard + `/harden` (ROADMAP item 1 — also
+  unblocks `/new-project`'s deferred quality-gate step); (2) the non-git-folder sweep under
+  `~/Projects` (item-6 residual; count ~13).
 - Queued elsewhere / specced-not-built: the `ten31-transcripts` mini-retrofit and a new
   `(ten31-database)` networking-doc fix wait in `INBOX.md` for those repos' `/triage`; the
   SessionStart hook (item 3) and inbox-line bootstrap threading (item 4) remain on the ROADMAP.