itd-46 calls bare-invocation-renders-status a universal abcd convention; the skills chapter says it is a convention and not a universal.

itd-46 calls bare-invocation-renders-status a universal abcd convention; the skills chapter says it is a convention and not a universal.

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

• End A: .abcd/development/intents/shipped/itd-46-abcd-intent-quoted-text-create-symmetric.md:18 — "The bare command (zero arguments) keeps doing what the universal abcd convention says it must: shows status and help, never mutates state."
• End B: .abcd/development/brief/05-internals/08-skills.md:66 — "That is a convention rather than a universal"

itd-46 grounds its bare form on the universal abcd convention that a bare command shows status and help. 08-skills says the status-and-help render on bare invocation is a convention rather than a universal, and points to the surfaces index for the places where a parent prints usage instead. Someone building from itd-46 would assume every bare command renders status, and the brief says that is not so.

Evidence: .abcd/work/reviews/2026-10-26-consistency/00-summary.md, finding 1050.

Grounds

• declined: Closed in the 2026-10-27 triage (dcn-2610271112330536) as a duplicate of iss-2610262035089991. Same A line and same word; 08-skills.md says the same as 05-intent.md, so one reword of itd-46 line 18 closes both.