What is the Skills Layer in plain terms?

Most systems assemble instructions at runtime by concatenating text, so precedence is decided by position and phrasing. Under conflict the outcome is unpredictable, and an instruction planted inside a retrieved document competes on equal footing with organizational policy.

Centralpoint indexes skills the way it indexes content and loads them in five tiers — governance, behavioural, syntactic, domain, style. Governance loads first, is force-loadable, and cannot be overridden by anything after it. All skills load before any content record. The practical result is that a hostile or accidental instruction inside a document argues against rules already resident rather than against rules the model is weighing in the moment.