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# Shared References Shared files describe runtime capabilities and evidence formats. They are context, not permission to start a runtime, tracker, substrate, network call, or external mutation. Just-in-time loading works because a reference read only when a consuming skill needs it cannot silently become a dependency; anything loaded by default eventually gets treated as one. Named failure mode — **reference promotion**: shared prose quietly outranking a source skill contract because it was read more recently. Anti-pattern: citing a shared file as authority for starting a tool or runtime. Corrective: authority comes from the caller or the consuming skill's contract; shared files only describe. - Default to the current agent and local shell. - Use a runtime-native fresh context only when the caller or consuming workflow requests it. - Treat runtime and factory state as adapter evidence; never translate it into core Plan, Candidate, RPI, or verdict state. - Missing optional tools degrade only the optional capability that needs them. - Source skill contracts and executable behavior outrank shared prose. The core loop has no hard dependency on this library.