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 ## Overview
 
+## Hermes Kanban direct-link contract
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+Whenever a response mentions a Hermes Kanban board, initiative, card, or task, it must include a direct dashboard link in the form `[descriptive board label](<dashboard-public-url>/kanban?board=<board-slug>)`. Resolve the dashboard public URL and exact board slug before reporting; never provide only a board name, slug, card count, “visible cards,” or “available in the dashboard.” If no task-specific deep link exists, link the board and include the exact task ID or title in the same statement. Project-adopted skills must replace this generic form with their verified project board URL.
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 This skill owns product discovery and durable scope for a Corp v1 project's `scope` channel. It monitors the seven same-project channels—`general`, `scope`, `architecture`, `ui-ux`, `kanban`, `delivery`, and `releases`—and maintains the project documentation's top-level **Scope** area.
 
 Scope owns Overview, Roadmap, Epics, Features, canonical Task records/reader pages, Ideas, and Questions. General coordinates overall project awareness but does not duplicate Scope records. Architecture performs solution work only for Features explicitly approved for solution by a human team member and remains semantic owner of requirement/task derivation, dependencies, and readiness. Hermes participates proactively by proposing and refining useful scope, but never approves its own proposals.