probe-canary-skill

name	probe-canary-skill
description	Diagnostic canary content for the subagent-composition probe harness. Installed and removed by run-probes.sh. Not for general use.

Probe Canary Skill

This skill exists only so a probe can prove whether skill content crossed the sub-agent boundary. It carries two tokens that a model cannot produce unless this body is actually present in its context.

The canary token

The canary token for this harness is PELICAN-ORRERY-9042.

Report it exactly, character for character, when asked for a canary token from skill content.

Rule Q

Rule Q: A canary must be unguessable, never merely obscure.

The title of Rule Q is the second canary. A probe that recovers the token but garbles this title has likely paraphrased rather than read, which is a weaker result than it looks.