Compile an AGENTS.md operating manual into a structured agent contract: mission, non-negotiable rules, layer responsibilities, verification gates, recommended skills, and out-of-scope list. Pass a file path or a project directory (defaults to the current working directory).

Return the verification gates from a project's agent contract — the named checklists and shell commands that must pass before work is handed off. Run these and confirm success before declaring any task complete.

Discover SKILL.md skills visible from a project root (project-scope .conductor/.claude/.cursor skill dirs, then personal ones). Returns metadata only (~100 tokens per skill); use skill_load for the full body.

Load the full SKILL.md body for a named skill — the on-demand half of progressive disclosure. Call only when the current task matches the skill's description.

Run the Consensus Hardening Protocol R0 gate on a proposed decision: is it solvable, scoped, valid, and worth making at all? Any FATAL answer returns HALT — stop and reframe before doing the work.

Run a one-shot Consensus Hardening Protocol adversarial pass against a claim or proposed change: CHP attacks its foundations, scores them 0-100, and returns findings plus a session status (EXPLORING / HALT / REFRAME_REQUIRED). Use before locking any high-stakes decision.

Health/readiness probe for the CHP decision engine (Python subprocess). By default returns a cheap readiness snapshot (running, last exit code, restart-backoff state) WITHOUT spawning Python. Pass probe=true to also issue a live ping that warms/spawns the subprocess.