fix(skills): carry the anti-fabrication authorship rules in every writing skill

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Upstream career-ops keeps two rules in the shared prompt every localized mode imports: never claim the candidate authored or contributed to an open-source project unless their own material attributes it, and reformulate keywords rather than invent them. Neither existed anywhere in CareerRat (grepped every SKILL.md and AGENTS.md for author, open-source, fabricat).

Our structural equivalent of that shared file is the Honesty Firewall section in AGENTS.md, which every writing skill (tailor-application, answer-question, email-comms, optimize-linkedin, coach-gaps, interview-prep, apply-job) runs under by reference, so both rules land there once instead of being restated per skill. The tool-of-trade conflation pattern (candidate uses X, draft says candidate built X) is named explicitly and tied to evidence.yml and honesty.yml as the source of truth.

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Changelog

• ✨ Added anti-fabrication authorship rules to AGENTS.md.
• 🔒 Required explicit evidence before claiming authorship or creation of open-source projects, tools, libraries, or frameworks.
• 🔧 Required evidence-backed keyword reformulation.
• 🔧 Defined evidence.yml and honesty.yml as sources of truth.

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Updated AGENTS.md with rules that prohibit unsupported claims about open-source authorship or tool construction. Drafts must distinguish tool usage from tool creation. Unsupported details must be reformulated or omitted.

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The change adds anti-fabrication safeguards, but its current wording can still allow unsupported authorship or tool-construction claims based only on a conversation; this bounded correctness issue should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merge.

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In `@AGENTS.md`:
- Around line 1183-1184: Update the candidate-inclusion guidance around the “ask
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evidence by itself. Require the confirmation to be recorded in an in-scope
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Two Honesty Firewall rules, prose only, CI green on 3c456e0.

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Two Honesty Firewall rules, prose only, CI green on 3c456e0.