Add multi-repo workflow guardrail

.github/copilot-instructions.md

@@ -112,6 +112,17 @@ Never run `npm publish`, never add a publish or release workflow, and never intr
 script that would build or publish on install. If a release is genuinely needed, that is a
 maintainer decision to raise — not an agent action.
 
+## 0.3 Multi-Repo / Multi-Session Guardrail (Critical)
+
+- **Verify the target before repository actions.** Before any commit, push, or pull-request action,
+  check `git remote -v` (or an equivalent authoritative source) and confirm that the remote matches
+  the exact repository named by the task. Never assume.
+- **Scope child sessions explicitly.** An orchestrator that creates child sessions across repositories
+  must state each child's exact repository scope in its task.
+- **Keep authorization repository-specific.** Permission to make a change in one repository does not
+  authorize a matching change in another repository, including for consistency.
+- **Stop on ambiguity.** If a task does not clearly identify its repository, ask before acting.
+
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.github/instructions/cross-repo.instructions.md

@@ -238,6 +238,15 @@ relied upon.
 - **One session ≈ one branch ≈ one PR.** Scope to a single unit of work.
 - **Assign file ownership explicitly** when several sessions edit this repo in parallel, and state
   which paths are off-limits.
+- **Verify repository scope before repository actions.** Before any commit, push, or pull-request
+  action, check `git remote -v` (or an equivalent authoritative source) and confirm that the remote
+  matches the exact repository named by the task. Never infer this from the working directory alone.
+- **State child repository scope.** When orchestrating child sessions across repositories, include the
+  exact repository each child may modify in that child's task.
+- **Keep authorization repository-specific.** Permission to change one repository does not authorize
+  making the same change in another repository for consistency or any similar reason.
+- **Stop on repository ambiguity.** If the task does not clearly identify its repository, ask before
+  taking action.
 - **Push back on instructions that are wrong.** Treat a coordinator's suggestion that touches a
   security invariant as a *question about the invariant* rather than an instruction — the question
   form is self-cancelling when it turns out to be wrong. Some of the most valuable outcomes come