docs: move audit-channel how-to from recipes to a maintainer ops runbook

docs/home/contributing.md

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 Its first inhabitant is the out-of-band audit channel
 (`ctxctl audit list|show|dismiss` plus the `ctxctl audit-relay` hook).
-For what the channel does and how to run an audit, see
-[Out-of-Band Audit Channel](../recipes/audit-channel.md).
+This page covers only building and installing the binary. The full
+workflow (running an auditor, relaying its findings into your working
+session, dismissing them) is its own runbook:
+**[Out-of-Band Audit Channel](../operations/runbooks/audit-channel.md)**.
 
 ### Build and Install
 

docs/operations/index.md

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 | [New contributor](runbooks/new-contributor.md) | Onboarding: clone to first session | New contributors |
 | [Codebase audit](runbooks/codebase-audit.md) | AST audits, magic strings, dead code, doc alignment | Before release, quarterly |
 | [Docs semantic audit](runbooks/docs-semantic-audit.md) | Narrative gaps, weak pages, structural problems | Before release, after adding pages |
+| [Out-of-band audit channel](runbooks/audit-channel.md) | Relay out-of-band audit findings into a working session (`ctxctl`) | Running discipline audits from a separate session |
 | [Sanitize permissions](runbooks/sanitize-permissions.md) | Clean `.claude/settings.local.json` of over-broad grants | After heavy permission granting |
 | [Architecture exploration](runbooks/architecture-exploration.md) | Systematic architecture docs across repos | New codebase onboarding, reviews |
 

docs/recipes/audit-channel.md → docs/operations/runbooks/audit-channel.md

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ title: Out-of-Band Audit Channel
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-![ctx](../images/ctx-banner.png)
+![ctx](../../images/ctx-banner.png)
 
 ## The Problem
 
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 warnings. Agents echo those without filtering, every turn,
 because the relay bypasses judgment.
 
-This recipe shows how to run discipline audits **out of
+This runbook shows how to run discipline audits **out of
 band** (from a separate Claude Code session, on your
 plan-billed subscription, not the working session's API) and
 drop their findings onto the verbatim-relay channel so the
@@ -228,6 +228,6 @@ without touching ctx.
   full design rationale + Open Questions
 - [CONVENTIONS → User-Facing Surface Completeness](https://github.com/ActiveMemory/ctx/blob/main/.context/CONVENTIONS.md):
   the canonical rule the surface audit enforces
-- [Detecting and Fixing Drift](context-health.md):
+- [Detecting and Fixing Drift](../../recipes/context-health.md):
   programmatic drift detection that complements
   judgment-based audits

docs/recipes/index.md

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 ---
 
-### [Out-of-Band Audit Channel](audit-channel.md)
-
-Run discipline audits from a **separate session** and surface
-their findings via **verbatim relay** — the one channel that
-survives agent tunnel vision. The auditor drops a structured
-report into `.context/audit/`; a hook relays it at the next
-prompt; you dismiss it once addressed.
-
-**Uses**: `ctxctl audit list`, `ctxctl audit show`,
-`ctxctl audit dismiss`, `ctxctl audit-relay` (the maintainer-only
-`ctxctl` binary; the auditor that produces reports is
-project-specific — ctx's own `_ctx-surface-audit` is the
-reference example)
+### Out-of-Band Audit Channel
+
+Maintainer-only tooling (the `ctxctl` binary, not the shipped `ctx`),
+so it moved out of these user recipes into the contributor docs. See
+**[Operations → Runbooks → Out-of-Band Audit Channel](../operations/runbooks/audit-channel.md)**.
 
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 above: skip this section unless you are working on maintainer tooling.</p>
 <p>Its first inhabitant is the out-of-band audit channel
 (<code>ctxctl audit list|show|dismiss</code> plus the <code>ctxctl audit-relay</code> hook).
-For what the channel does and how to run an audit, see
-<a href="../../recipes/audit-channel/">Out-of-Band Audit Channel</a>.</p>
+This page covers only building and installing the binary. The full
+workflow (running an auditor, relaying its findings into your working
+session, dismissing them) is its own runbook:
+<strong><a href="../../operations/runbooks/audit-channel/">Out-of-Band Audit Channel</a></strong>.</p>
 <h3 id="build-and-install">Build and Install<a class="headerlink" href="#build-and-install" title="Permanent link">&para;</a></h3>
 <div class="language-bash highlight"><pre><span></span><code><span id="__span-4-1"><a id="__codelineno-4-1" name="__codelineno-4-1" href="#__codelineno-4-1"></a>make<span class="w"> </span>ctxctl<span class="w">            </span><span class="c1"># build into dist/ctxctl</span>
 </span><span id="__span-4-2"><a id="__codelineno-4-2" name="__codelineno-4-2" href="#__codelineno-4-2"></a>make<span class="w"> </span>install-ctxctl<span class="w">    </span><span class="c1"># install dist/ctxctl to /usr/local/bin/ctxctl</span>

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+<td><a href="runbooks/audit-channel/">Out-of-band audit channel</a></td>
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+<td>Running discipline audits from a separate session</td>
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