diff --git a/watchme/SKILL.md b/watchme/SKILL.md
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--- a/watchme/SKILL.md
+++ b/watchme/SKILL.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 ---
 name: watchme
-description: Use when the operator says "watch me", "losing", or "winning?" about a session recorded with `script -f xyz.script` — the typescript is shared ground truth. Unless otherwise stated, the newest `.tmp/*.script` is the file to look at. For "losing", read the tail for what was done and what the machine said, diagnosing from evidence instead of asking for a re-telling. For "winning?", answer one of exactly "Yes, that's as expected; next, do X." or "Yes, as expected. Done!" — no partial verdicts.
+description: Watch me — terminal / shell session recorded with `script -f` (a typescript, `.tmp/*.script`) as shared ground truth. Use when the operator says "watch me", "losing", or "winning?"; when diagnosing a shell session from its recorded transcript instead of asking for a re-telling; when asked how to record a terminal session.
 ---
 
 # Watch Me: a typescript as shared ground truth
@@ -60,8 +60,7 @@ Script done on 2026-09-02 23:48:46-05:00 [COMMAND_EXIT_CODE="0"]
 ```
 
 The header records when, on which TTY, and the terminal geometry; the footer
-records the exit code. `watchme` is a short specimen — the smallest useful
-capture, including the escape noise described below.
+records the exit code.
 
 For a longer session the value is that one file holds both halves of the
 story: the operator's commands and the machine's responses, interleaved in
@@ -69,7 +68,7 @@ order. `tail` it while it is live; `grep` it after the fact.
 
 ## Relationship to the lab notebook
 
-The typescript is raw evidence; the [lab notebook](../lab-notebook-template.md)
+The typescript is raw evidence; a lab notebook
 is interpretation. Read the script to establish what happened, then promote
 the finding — hypothesis, evidence, next question — into a notebook entry so
 it survives independently of the transcript.