docs(i18n): briefed update path in the workflow, contract, and Agent Note

The dsh-translate-docs skill now triages updates onto a briefing-driven
path — gen-translation-brief output as the translator's whole working
set, orchestrator-applied mechanical fence edits, scoped record/check —
while the whole-document path for new pairs is unchanged. The i18n
README documents the scoped gate forms and the briefing tool;
development.md lists the new command; the new bilingual Agent Note
records the decision and the ten-example benchmark behind it (briefed
path ~1/3 the tokens and wall clock of the corpus-loading path at equal
judged quality; whole-document re-translation rejected on preservation
collapse). Counterpart updates in this commit were produced with the
new briefed path; the new note's Chinese side is a whole-document
translation.

.agents/notes/implemented/process/2026-07-02-bilingual-docs-and-pairing-gate.md

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ This repo's documentation corpus is read by people and agents inside and outside
 ## Decision
 
 - **Paired sibling files with equal authority.** A documentation pair is three sibling files: English `foo.md`, Chinese `foo.zh.md`, and a consistency record `foo.i18n.yaml`. Neither language is canonical — a document may be authored and reviewed Chinese-first and translated to English afterwards, or the reverse; what binds the pair is that both sides must say the same thing, and pairs merge whole (both languages plus the record, never one alone). Policy: [docs/i18n/README.md](../../../../docs/i18n/README.md); translation rules: [docs/i18n/translation-rules.md](../../../../docs/i18n/translation-rules.md); terminology source of truth: [docs/i18n/terminology.md](../../../../docs/i18n/terminology.md).
-- **A sidecar record of both blob hashes makes consistency checkable.** `foo.i18n.yaml` holds the full git blob hash of each side as of the last confirmed-consistent state. An edit to either side without re-confirming the pair is then mechanically detectable as a pure content comparison — no history lookup — and the hashes are computable for files edited in the same PR, which a commit-hash record is not. Re-recording (`verify-translation-pairing --write`) produces a reviewable yaml diff: confirming consistency is an explicit, visible act in the PR.
+- **A sidecar record of both blob hashes makes consistency checkable.** `foo.i18n.yaml` holds the full git blob hash of each side as of the last confirmed-consistent state. An edit to either side without re-confirming the pair is then mechanically detectable as a pure content comparison — no history lookup — and the hashes are computable for files edited in the same PR, which a commit-hash record is not. Re-recording (`verify-translation-pairing --write <pair>`, which requires naming the confirmed pairs — bulk re-record is an explicit `--write --all`) produces a reviewable yaml diff: confirming consistency is an explicit, visible act in the PR.
 - **`verify-translation-pairing` joins `doc-sync`.** The gate ([scripts/verify-translation-pairing.ts](../../../../scripts/verify-translation-pairing.ts)) enforces: every discovered, non-excluded source has a complete pair; every existing pair is complete (all three files) and consistent (both hashes match, switcher links both ways, structural signatures identical); and excluded generated, instruction, or bilingual-by-construction files stay unpaired. [scripts/translation-pairing.manifest.json](../../../../scripts/translation-pairing.manifest.json) contains only explicit exclusions, so no requirement can bypass discovery and receive a weaker check. Source-oriented code gates consume a `.zh.md` fence sequence as a derivative only when its unsuffixed sibling has the same tracked fences in the same order with byte-identical bodies; an incomplete, reordered, reclassified, or changed sequence stays independent, so the owning code gate or pairing gate reports the mismatch.
 - **One corpus-wide requirement.** Every document in scope requires a complete pair from creation; the policy has no per-file rollout state, date cutoff, or README-specific class. README discovery covers every case-insensitive README basename outside vendored, dependency, and ignored build-output trees, including future top-level directories. A site-published pair uses `pairedPages()` so the root locale projects `.zh.md` and `/en/` projects `.md`; creating a counterpart alone does not publish it.
 - **Pairing records are metadata, not Cordis Loader configuration.** Cordis configuration discovery accepts actual `.cordis.yml` and `.cordis.yaml` files while excluding `*.i18n.yaml`, even when the document name contains `cordis`. This preserves validation of executable Loader entries without parsing translation hashes as configuration.
@@ -41,4 +41,4 @@ Paired sibling files with locale suffixes are the dominant Chinese big-tech conv
 - When the two sides disagree, no mechanical rule picks a winner — the PR review does. That is the price of equal authority, accepted deliberately: the alternative (a canonical language) forbids Chinese-first authoring.
 - Generated docs (`cordis-catalog/`, `tool-catalog/`, `module-graph.md`) are excluded for now; the planned follow-up is to teach their generators to emit Chinese alongside English, at which point they leave the exclusion list.
 - The exclusions-only manifest makes every current and future in-scope document mandatory through the same path. There is no explicit requirement, cutoff, or class entry that can fall outside discovery while appearing enforced.
-- The recorded hashes double as the update tool (`git cat-file -p <hash>` recovers either side's last-confirmed text for a minimal diff-based update), so re-translation of whole files is never forced by the mechanism.
+- The recorded hashes double as the update tool: [gen-translation-brief](2026-07-26-briefed-minimal-translation-updates.md) recovers either side's last-confirmed text from them and assembles the minimal-update briefing, so re-translation of whole files is never forced by the mechanism.