Telling the agent not to give minutes, in a template that has no
minutes, pays load to say nothing — and naming the banned behaviour
makes it more available, not less. The absence does the work.
- SKILL.md: drop the "never give a time estimate" paragraph and the
"stage takes no duration" note; the example stage already shows it.
- template.sh: drop the two comments about not printing minutes.
- docs: drop the sentence about there being no estimate.
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The wizard always told the human how many minutes the procedure would
take and how many were left. The number was invented at authoring time
and never true, so it is gone.
- template.sh: drop TOTAL_MINUTES and _MINUTES_ELAPSED, the "about N
minutes" banner line, and the "(~N min left)" stage suffix. stage()
takes a name only; progress is a stage count.
- SKILL.md: state the rule — no minutes in the script, in stage
headers, or in what the agent tells the user.
- docs: the Stages section counts stages, not minutes.
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