skills: close four drifts found auditing the catalogue against the Standard

[UnbreakableMJ]

What this is

An audit of all 45 first-party skills against the Standard, across nine drift classes. Four real findings — three contradictions or rot, one coverage gap.

1. §13 contradiction

spacecraft-brand-guidelines:91 said:

Apply the palette to Material Design components (the required UI system for Spacecraft Software GUIs).

True until v1.42, wrong since. Material covers Flutter, web, mobile, and cross-platform; GTK 4 takes GNOME HIG and Qt 6 takes KDE HIG. Rewritten to name all three and to state that the palette is system-agnostic — §13 chooses the widget vocabulary, §11 supplies the colors, and the binding is always through the named steelbore theme.

spacecraft-accessibility-support/references/gui.md:123 carried a milder version of the same assumption. It now generalizes the same way — which matters there, because that file documents the GTK and Qt bridges a few lines above.

2. Version-pin rot

brand-guidelines pinned v1.39; theme-factory and steelbore-color-palette pinned v1.42.

Two of the three were written today and were already stale one release later. That is the tell: the phrasing is the defect, not the numbers. Source of truth: The Steelbore Standard v1.42 (§11, §12) is ambiguous between document version and clause version, and rots on every unrelated release.

All three now cite sections rather than a document version. steelbore-color-palette keeps "§11 — last amended in v1.39", which is accurate and stable because it only moves when §11 moves. §12's last real amendment could not be established (the v1.16 entry predates the v1.24 renumbering that shifted §8–§15 → §9–§16), so nothing is asserted about it rather than guessing.

3. Flutter accessibility gap

spacecraft-flutterdart-guidelines had zero mentions of §18, Semantics, or a screen reader anywhere in the skill — while §18.3 names Semantics/SemanticsRole as its required bridge and §18 makes an accessible mode mandatory for every non-game application. GTK had 6 mentions, Qt 7, Flutter 0.

Added: a Core Philosophy clause, an abstraction-choice row, three Required Techniques, a CI gate, five anti-patterns, six checklist items, a cross-reference to spacecraft-accessibility-support, and reference §6 with runnable patterns for Semantics, SemanticsService.announce, CustomPainter.semanticsBuilder (the custom-paint failure case), and meetsGuideline test assertions. Reference sections renumbered 6→7, 7→8.

Now 15 mentions in SKILL.md, 24 in the reference.

4. Constitution → v1.44

Syncs Spacecraft-Software/Standard#23, which fixes the published cross-reference table naming a skill that does not exist (spacecraft-accessibility rather than spacecraft-accessibility-support). This skill's table was already correct, so only the version moves.

Clean on audit

Retired §11.2 tokens (all legitimate Steelbore Classic, un-retired at v1.35) · §4.3 LICENSE symlink direction · §14.2 date offsets · §3.1.1 TypeScript (thoroughly implemented, exemptions included) · §12 fonts · §6.4 outbound publication · every other skill-name reference · §16 checklists (26 items, matching ids).

Verification

Six skills' bundles rebuilt. Description cap across every SKILL.md, reuse lint, and the full bundle drift sweep all pass. Re-running each audit query that produced a finding now returns nothing.

Merge order

Standard#23 first, then this.

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