Retire the HAL name where it points forward

Skills take the hq- prefix: they are HQ process workflows, not mesh
workflows, and HQ is company-scoped now. hq-new-research, hq-graduate,
hq-new-issue, hq-diagnose, hq-amend-design, hq-handoff,
hq-sync-constitution, hq-status.

Forward-looking prose becomes Novox Mesh or simply the mesh — the root
README, AGENTS.md, the 00-META README, the mission's module example, and
one to-be document that addressed 'someone working on HAL'.

Three categories deliberately keep HAL, per ADR 0027:

The monorepo is still called hal on the forge. repos.md, every code: field
and every located-in: field name a repository that exists under that name,
and renaming them in prose would make them false.

The as-is layer and the research that measured it describe the system that
runs, and that system is called HAL. 124 modules, 9 daemons, a dead
containerised node — those are observations, not intentions.

Records 0001-0026 are immutable. A record says what was decided when it
was decided, and no record is edited for a name.

Also repoints ADR 0022's link at the renamed skill — a path fix, which the
immutability rule permits, not a change of meaning.
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# Agent instructions — Novox HQ
This repository is the source of truth for the HAL mesh's mission, research, design and
decisions. Implementation lives in the code repositories (see
This repository is the source of truth for Novox's mission, research, design and decisions —
today almost entirely those of **Novox Mesh**, its first product ([ADR 0028](02-DECISIONS/0028-hq-is-company-scoped.md)). Implementation lives in the code repositories (see
[`00-META/repos.md`](00-META/repos.md)).
Before changing anything here, read the playbooks in
[`00-META/process/`](00-META/process/) — every workflow (research, graduation, design
amendment, issues, build handoff, constitution sync) is documented there, and agents operate
through them. Thin skills in `.claude/skills/` wrap these playbooks for invocation
(`hal-new-research`, `hal-graduate`, `hal-new-issue`, `hal-diagnose`, `hal-amend-design`,
`hal-handoff`, `hal-sync-constitution`, `hal-status`); each defers to its playbook as
(`hq-new-research`, `hq-graduate`, `hq-new-issue`, `hq-diagnose`, `hq-amend-design`,
`hq-handoff`, `hq-sync-constitution`, `hq-status`); each defers to its playbook as
authoritative and adds only the mechanical scaffolding.
## Ground rules