Scar tissue as documentation

There&rsquo;s a folder on my machine called skills . If you opened it cold you&rsquo;d think it was documentation: how to commit on a shared branch, how to run a bug-fix loop, how to audit a codebase. Neatly structured, imperative voice, the works. It is not documentation. It is a burn ward. Every rule in that folder is a funeral for a specific incident, and I can name the deceased. One of the…