[dtg01100]

docs/skills/package-contract.md is at 510 lines on main, past the
500-line hard budget enforced by tests/test_check_skill_frontmatter.py's
test_real_skill_pages_pass (the contract job's fixture test). The error
message is unambiguous:

error: docs/skills/package-contract.md is 510 lines (hard max 500)

It trips on every PR that needs to rebase against current main
(PR #611's contract run 37528980592 and main's own contract run
37528638545 both fail with the identical message — the failure is not
introduced by either PR). Soft-max warnings on the other four oversized
skill pages (ci-workflows, containerfile, desktop-contract, local-testing)
are unchanged; only this one exceeds the hard limit.

Where the lines came from

Two PRs each added a section with running prose:

• PR fix(packages): consume published Intel media runtimes #397 (fix(packages): consume published Intel media runtimes) added
  the Media packages and codec parity section. The eight-line block
  "gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free and totem-pl-parser are not requested
  because..." alone expanded the prose considerably.
• PR ci(parity): schedule pinned Bluefin contract updates #194 (ci(parity): schedule pinned Bluefin contract updates) added
  the .github/workflows/update-bluefin-parity.yml narrative and the
  "Do not commit overlay fixes" call-out in the Pinned upstream parity reference section.

Together those pushed the file past the hard limit.

What this changes

Pure prose reflow across four sections: Media packages and codec parity,
Repository policy, Install and verify cannot disagree, Pinned upstream parity reference, and Re-runnable parity audit. No technical content is
removed. Adjacent clauses that restate the same point in shorter form are
joined; the running word count fits the same technical content in fewer
lines. The trim drops the file from 510 to 500 lines (the hard max; guard clauses dropped in the first pass were restored).

Verified locally:

• bash scripts/check-skill-frontmatter.sh exits 0 (only soft-max
  warnings on the four pre-existing oversized pages).
• python3 -m unittest tests.test_check_skill_frontmatter tests.test_generate_skill_index
  runs 57 tests, all OK.
• python3 scripts/check-doc-counts.py reports
  61 Bluefin contract, 110 Utah additions, 8 genuinely unavailable
  — unchanged.

The four pre-existing soft-max warnings (ci-workflows 395, containerfile
245, desktop-contract 475, local-testing 480) are out of scope for this
fix and will be addressed in their own PRs.

Fixes #616

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docs-currency

• (low) PR body says "No technical content is removed", but the reflow drops a few guidance clauses that were not restatements. In the Media packages and codec parity section (docs/skills/package-contract.md:85-116 at 97b7ad9): the former "Do not infer that Hummingbird installs a name just because it appears there" caution, the "Consume them only after factory builds and dependency closures resolve against Utah's pinned inputs" instruction for the #383 gap list, and "totem-pl-parser is not a replacement for those thumbnailers" are gone. In the NVIDIA paragraph (:258-269) the "or emit missing-module errors with empty kernel names" half of the empty-release guard description is gone. These are small, but each guards against a specific mistake rather than repeating an adjacent sentence. Either restore them as short clauses (the file is at 499 so there is one line of headroom; several fit inside existing lines) or amend the body to list them as deliberate removals.

Verified at head: wc -l = 499, bash scripts/check-skill-frontmatter.sh exits 0 with only the four pre-existing soft-max warnings plus this file's, tests.test_check_skill_frontmatter 23 tests OK. The "four of those twelve names" rewording matches packages/bluefin.toml:12-27 and packages/utah.toml:151-155.

No findings from: correctness, security, intent-alignment, style.

Confidence: 3/5 (needs attention) — 1 perspective requested changes

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correctness

• (low) docs/skills/package-contract.md:108-110 — the reflow merged two separate steps into "inspect avdec_h264, openh264dec, and vah264dec with gst-inspect-1.0 against a known H.264 sample". gst-inspect-1.0 only prints element metadata; it does not take a media sample. The pre-PR text had "…with gst-inspect-1.0, then test a known H.264 sample" (two actions). The PR body says no technical content changed, but this rewrite drops the actual playback test. Suggest: "…with gst-inspect-1.0, then decode a known H.264 sample." (fits on the same line).

No findings from: security, intent-alignment, style, docs-currency.

Confidence: 5/5 (safe)

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[hanthor]

The skill-budget failure is now resolved on main by merged #527, which moves the full runtime ujust reference into a linked reference file and keeps the policy text intact. Closing this alternative reflow to avoid duplicate edits. The remaining static/pre-commit repairs are tracked in #623.