feat(mcp): the server carries the working method, and describe fans out

**A subagent inherits its session's MCP tools; it does not inherit its skills.**
So the method A3 put in the skill reaches the main thread and no arm running
below it, and the one place every caller sees is the server's own
`instructions` and its tool descriptions. Both are truncated by Claude Code at
2 KB, and truncation is worse than rejection here -- a reader gets the first
half of a method and no sign the rest existed -- so what travels is the SHORT
form and the long one stays in the skill, which has no such cap. A test holds
it under the limit WITH a control, so the assertion is a measurement and not a
tautology.

`okf_describe` without `bundle_id` now describes every served bundle, where it
refused and `okf_ask` in the same position fanned out. The tool a caller is
told to read FIRST was the one requiring a name it did not have yet, and a
tool that refuses the call its sibling accepts is a shape a client must be
told out of band -- the configuration this server exists to remove. The named
call's shape is byte-unchanged, and so is every one-to-one server's: the
fan-out replaces an ERROR, so no caller's bytes move.

`okf project`'s closing lines and the README's first screen carry the one line
the USER runs to register the server on user scope, verified against Claude
Code's own MCP documentation (`claude mcp add [options] <name> -- <command>`).
Nothing here starts Claude Code, and the line says whose it is. Measured:
a project bundle at `<root>/<project>/.okf/<id>` is depth 3, inside
`MAX_DISCOVERY_DEPTH`, so a `--root` server finds what `okf project` wrote --
a test builds one and discovers it rather than reasoning about the walk.

A5, and it was free: `okf skill` without `--out` now refuses in the same
`refused (<code>)` form as every other refusal in this chain. The exit code
does not move -- 2 was already right, "the run did not happen" -- what was
wrong was that a caller parsing our form got argparse's line on the one flag
everybody forgets.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@ -179,6 +179,15 @@ def summarise(
[
"",
f"NEXT: start claude again in {out} and ask your question.",
"",
"To reach this bundle -- and every other bundle under one directory --",
"from ANY project, register the server once instead. You run this line;",
f"{CLI_ID} never starts claude:",
"",
f" claude mcp add --scope user okf -- okf mcp --root {out.parent}",
"",
"Then no skill has to be installed per project, and nothing has to be",
"regenerated when a bundle is rebuilt.",
]
)
return "\n".join(lines)