README.md's 'It starts with the brief' section claims in present tense that abcd 'has a skill that ingests that material and produces a plain-language draft of your project's brief' and that you sharpen it with 'a Socratic interview the framework provides' — but abcd ships zero skills (surface is commands-only) and the grill/Socratic interview is an unshipped planned intent (itd-27), an unmarked not-yet-real claim the README's own honesty rule forbids

README.md's 'It starts with the brief' section claims in present tense that abcd 'has a skill that ingests that material and produces a plain-language draft of your project's brief' and that you sharpen it with 'a Socratic interview the framework provides' — but abcd ships zero skills (surface is commands-only) and the grill/Socratic interview is an unshipped planned intent (itd-27), an unmarked not-yet-real claim the README's own honesty rule forbids

Evidence

• README.md "It starts with the brief" — present-tense "abcd has a skill that ingests that material and produces a plain-language draft of your project's brief" and "a Socratic interview the framework provides".
• docs/reference/terminology.md and .abcd/development/brief/05-internals/08-skills.md: "abcd ships zero skills" (commands-only surface); no skills/ dir or SKILL.md exists, and no command/agent drafts a brief.
• The grill / Socratic interview is planned intent itd-27 (.abcd/development/intents/planned/); .abcd/development/brief/04-surfaces/README.md says the intent parent "ships no grill sub-verb yet".
• README.md states its own rule earlier: "every ambitious passage is visibly marked as not yet real" — this passage is unmarked.

Adversarial review

CONFIRMED (substantive) by two independent refuters (one per claim half): both halves name unshipped capability in unmarked present tense, breaking the README's own honesty rule. Fix: mark the passage as a not-yet-real design target in the README's own idiom.