The lint chapter says its site target writes a render; universal patterns says lint and its targets are read-only renders and that `abcd lint` is documented as performing zero writes.

The lint chapter says its site target writes a render; universal patterns says lint and its targets are read-only renders and that abcd lint is documented as performing zero writes.

A premise contradiction (severity minor) found by the cross-document consistency pass.

• End A: .abcd/development/brief/04-surfaces/16-lint.md:9 — "It is read-only but for one target: bare and every other target perform"
• End B: .abcd/development/brief/05-internals/04-universal-patterns.md:90 — "lint and its targets, capture, intent, guard, --version, rules, spec, identity and banlist are read-only renders, and abcd lint in particular is documented as performing zero writes"

16-lint says the verb is read-only except for one target: the site target renders the site into its output directory when that directory holds no index.html. 04-universal-patterns lists 'lint and its targets' among the read-only renders and says abcd lint is documented as performing zero writes. That is not what the lint chapter documents.

Evidence: .abcd/work/reviews/2026-10-26-consistency/00-summary.md, finding 586.