diff --git a/skills/xmm-workstation/SKILL.md b/skills/xmm-workstation/SKILL.md
index f0865a8..1fae407 100644
--- a/skills/xmm-workstation/SKILL.md
+++ b/skills/xmm-workstation/SKILL.md
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ description: >-
   Use when configuring, implementing, debugging, porting, or reviewing XMM or its
   compile-time workstation policy. Distinguish a local config.h edit from a new
   product capability, then rebuild and prove the real path. Do not use for
-  requirements-only authoring, planning, orientation, or unrelated host dotfiles.
+  specification-only authoring, planning, orientation, or unrelated host dotfiles.
 ---
 
 # XMM workstation
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ product slice when the capability does not exist.
 
 ## Choose the owner
 
-Read `AGENTS.md`, the applicable `REQUIREMENTS.md` rows, and `config.def.h` or the
+Read `AGENTS.md`, the applicable `SPEC.md` records, and `config.def.h` or the
 owning production module.
 
 - **Local configuration:** when the request changes only monitor profiles,
@@ -26,9 +26,9 @@ owning production module.
   `config.h`. Copy `config.def.h` first only when `config.h` is absent. Do not
   change requirements or tracked defaults.
 - **Default policy:** when the user explicitly changes shipped defaults, revise
-  requirements first, then `config.def.h`, proof, and orientation as applicable.
+  the specification first, then `config.def.h`, proof, and orientation as applicable.
 - **Capability:** when typed configuration cannot express the requested behavior,
-  revise or obtain requirement authority before changing C11 code or protocols.
+  revise or obtain specification authority before changing C11 code or protocols.
 
 For local setup, inspect only evidence relevant to requested policy: connected
 output connector/EDID/modes, current compositor config, XKB settings, input
@@ -43,9 +43,11 @@ coalesces damage behind one pending flip per output, while `src/render.c` must
 submit through implicit fences without waiting for GPU completion on that loop;
 direct libinput discovery, XKB compilation, typed device
 policy, and event normalization are owned by `src/input.c`; `src/diagnostic_log.c`
-owns the nonblocking stderr mirror and bounded XDG state log; `src/render.c` owns
-the fixed EGL/GLESv2 composition path, nested EGL target, and single-plane
-DMA-BUF EGLImage import; `src/dmabuf.c` owns the bounded linux-dmabuf v5 global,
+owns the nonblocking stderr mirror and bounded XDG state log; `src/scheduling.c`
+owns minimum-`SCHED_RR` compositor elevation plus fail-closed child reset, while
+the installed direct binary's `cap_sys_nice=ep` is host policy; `src/render.c`
+owns the fixed EGL/GLESv2 composition path, nested EGL target, and modifier-aware
+multi-plane DMA-BUF EGLImage import; `src/dmabuf.c` owns the bounded linux-dmabuf v5 global,
 feedback, parameter validation, wl_buffer lifetime, and release handoff; `src/presentation.c` owns presentation-time feedback lifetime while
 `src/direct.c` supplies page-flip timestamps and refresh and `src/xmm.c` binds each
 presented surface commit to that observation;
@@ -76,8 +78,9 @@ matter. Keep pinned source/data mechanisms (currently Spleen glyphs and the
 minimal libgrapheme UAX #29 implementation/tables) at their owning local seam
 with URL, revision/version, checksum, license, and modifications; do not replace
 them with ambient host font or locale behavior. Keep reusable server-global
-state machines such as activation and core data devices in their dedicated
-`src/` modules, with seat/focus/surface policy supplied by the compositor owner
+state machines such as activation, core data devices, and trusted same-session
+ext-data-control clipboard access in their dedicated `src/` modules, with
+seat/focus/surface policy supplied by the compositor owner
 in `src/xmm.c`. Pinned xdg-shell and xdg-decoration XML, scanner generation, and
 decoration negotiation remain one protocol slice; server-side mode suppresses
 client titlebars and must not grow a drawn decoration framework. Write the
@@ -98,7 +101,10 @@ Never substitute sleeps, blind retries, ambient config, mock-only platform
 claims, or line coverage for observable proof. The current `make check` nested
 journeys require a running Sway host plus `swaymsg`, `grim`, `jq`, `xkbcli`, and
 virtual-keyboard and virtual-pointer support; they also rebuild and repeat under
-ASan/UBSan. Direct frame-stage diagnostics are compile-time-only: rebuild with
+ASan/UBSan. Load-qualified direct input additionally requires the final `xmm`
+executable to expose `cap_sys_nice=ep`; verify XMM is minimum `SCHED_RR` and its
+children are `SCHED_OTHER` before saturating normal-priority workers. Direct
+frame-stage diagnostics are compile-time-only: rebuild with
 `-DXMM_PERF_TRACE` when a live timing journey needs input, spawn/surface-map,
 client SHM copy, latch, upload, KMS-submit, and page-flip timestamps; summarize
 stderr with `tools/xmm-perf-report.sh <log>`. A trace build also accepts `SIGUSR1`
@@ -116,7 +122,7 @@ never copy product semantics into it.
 
 ## Handoff
 
-Report `owner: local config | shipped default | capability`, requirement impact,
+Report `owner: local config | shipped default | capability`, specification impact,
 changed anchors, tests and live journeys, and remaining target-specific risk. If
 the real boundary is unavailable, name the blocked proof rather than claiming
 support.