diff --git a/{{cookiecutter.project_name}}/.github/pull_request_template.md b/{{cookiecutter.project_name}}/.github/pull_request_template.md
index 944e99e..2edff44 100644
--- a/{{cookiecutter.project_name}}/.github/pull_request_template.md
+++ b/{{cookiecutter.project_name}}/.github/pull_request_template.md
@@ -1,23 +1,29 @@
-## Changes
+<!-- The details of what this PR did, final once it merges; a task PR is summarized in its task README. Every
+heading stays; a section with nothing to say reads "None." -->
 
-<!-- Please remove this section if this PR does not change an existing feature -->
+**Task:** <link to the task README, or None>: <its question, in one line>
 
--   ...
+## Deliverables
 
-## Bug fixes
+<!-- What this PR adds or changes, and where. -->
 
-<!-- Please remove this section if this PR does not fix any bugs -->
+## Method and decisions
 
--   ...
+<!-- What was done, in a few lines; then each decision, with who took it and why: the evidence, what was rejected,
+the diagnostics that changed the method. -->
 
-## New
+| decision | value | by | why |
+| --- | --- | --- | --- |
+| <what> | <the choice> | <human or agent, YYYY-MM-DD> | <the evidence, e.g. a file in `results/`> |
 
-<!-- Please remove this section if this PR does not implement a new feature -->
+## Findings
 
--   ...
+<!-- What the deliverables show, with their numbers. -->
 
-## Related issues
+## Needs you
 
-<!-- Please list related issues. If none exist, open one and reference it here. -->
+<!-- Sign-offs (write-back keys, a promotion's path), decisions the agent took alone, open questions. -->
 
-Closes #
+## Related
+
+<!-- PRs and issues this one depends on or opened. -->
diff --git a/{{cookiecutter.project_name}}/AGENTS.md b/{{cookiecutter.project_name}}/AGENTS.md
index 0759c3e..5ce31b0 100644
--- a/{{cookiecutter.project_name}}/AGENTS.md
+++ b/{{cookiecutter.project_name}}/AGENTS.md
@@ -34,3 +34,6 @@ test config.
 | Run Python | `pixi run python script.py` |
 | Run tests | `pixi run test` |
 | Add a conda / PyPI package | `pixi add <package>` / `pixi add --pypi <package>` |
+
+The `gpu` environment (Linux with NVIDIA) adds rapids-singlecell: use it over scanpy for neighbors, UMAP and
+clustering on more than about 100k cells, in a GPU job.
diff --git a/{{cookiecutter.project_name}}/README.md b/{{cookiecutter.project_name}}/README.md
index 23d6b2d..42af25f 100644
--- a/{{cookiecutter.project_name}}/README.md
+++ b/{{cookiecutter.project_name}}/README.md
@@ -153,12 +153,9 @@ Or edit `pixi.toml` directly and run `pixi install`.
 <summary><strong>📓 Data and notebook conventions</strong></summary>
 
 - **Notebook naming**: `[INITIALS]-[YYYY]-[MM]-[DD]_description.ipynb`
-- **Data layout** (one folder per dataset, gitignored):
-    - `data/<dataset>/raw/` — bytes as they arrived; never written by analysis
-    - `data/<dataset>/resources/` — curated inputs that are not data: gene lists, marker tables
-    - `data/<dataset>/processed/` — objects code loads to do new work, as AnnData `.zarr`
-    - `data/<dataset>/results/` — a notebook's own outputs, file names prefixed with the notebook's stem
-- **Figures**: `figures/<topic>/`
+- **Data layout and the notebook lane**: the analysis-workflow skill's
+  [Data](https://github.com/quadbio/analysis-workflow/blob/main/skills/analysis-workflow/SKILL.md#data) and
+  [Two lanes](https://github.com/quadbio/analysis-workflow/blob/main/skills/analysis-workflow/SKILL.md#two-lanes)
 - **Import paths** via the local package:
 
 ```python
diff --git a/{{cookiecutter.project_name}}/REVIEW_GUIDE.md b/{{cookiecutter.project_name}}/REVIEW_GUIDE.md
index bc5f484..ec2ade7 100644
--- a/{{cookiecutter.project_name}}/REVIEW_GUIDE.md
+++ b/{{cookiecutter.project_name}}/REVIEW_GUIDE.md
@@ -4,9 +4,8 @@ PR review playbook for **review agents running on GitHub**. Imperative voice.
 
 **Scope: review only.** Comment and suggest. Do not push commits or apply fixes.
 
-> Everything above "This repo" comes from the analysis template, which takes it from the analysis-workflow
-> plugin; change it there and pull it with `cruft update`. Reviewers cannot load the plugin, which is why this
-> copy exists.
+> Everything above "This repo" comes from the analysis template; change it there and pull it with `cruft update`.
+> It tells reviewers, who cannot load the analysis-workflow plugin, what to check of its rules.
 
 The code has usually already run. That is not a reason to lower the bar: requiring a rerun in better shape is a
 normal outcome. Say what to redo, not just what was wrong.
@@ -35,24 +34,24 @@ A write to a working object goes through `commit_adata`, gated behind a dry run.
 ### 2. Promotions, which leave no diff
 
 `data/` is gitignored, so an object written into `data/<dataset>/processed/` appears nowhere in the diff; the task
-README's `Write-back` section is the only trace. The right subdirectory is not guessable. Check that the PR *says*
-where it went and that it was agreed, while moving it is still cheap.
+README's `Write-back` section is the only trace. The right subdirectory is not guessable. Check that the README
+*says* where it went, that the PR body flags it for sign-off and that it was agreed, while moving it is still cheap.
 
 ### 3. The task contract
 
-Agent work belongs in a task directory `analysis/<topic>/.../<name>_vN/` with a `README.md` naming real inputs,
-outputs and write-back keys. Outputs go through `task_paths(__file__)` to the task's own `results/`, `reports/`,
-`figures/`, `outputs/`. Writes to `data/<dataset>/results/` or the central `figures/` are the human lane and are a
-finding.
+Agent work belongs in a task directory `analysis/<topic>/.../<name>_vN/`. Check that its README's content is real:
+the actual input files, the deliverables agreed with the human, a short summary of each PR. An edit to an earlier
+task's directory is a finding: analysis moves forward, and a new version names the one it follows. Writes to
+`data/<dataset>/results/` or the central `figures/` are the human lane and are a finding.
 
 Every key committed to a shared object carries the task's version suffix **and** appears in that README: an
 unrecorded key can't be traced back, an unsuffixed one collides with the next version.
 
 ### 4. Scientific correctness
 
-The point of the repo. Check that the claim in the PR body follows from what the code computes: the right cells,
-the right grouping, a control where one is needed, and a comparison not confounded by condition, time point,
-sample or batch. A number that reaches a figure is worth more scrutiny than anything below.
+The point of the repo. Check that each finding in the PR body follows from what the code computes: the right cells,
+the right grouping, a control where one is needed, and a comparison not confounded by condition, time point, sample
+or batch. A number that reaches a deliverable is worth more scrutiny than anything below.
 
 ### 5. Reinvention
 
@@ -60,15 +59,18 @@ New code needs a reason to exist. Look outward before accepting it: scverse and
 repo's sibling code packages, then earlier task directories; a near-match found by grep counts. Name the
 candidate and what's wrong with it rather than concluding nothing fits.
 
-The acute case is a helper defined twice in one task or copied between tasks: copies drift, and when they compute
-a quantity compared *across* tasks, the result is a wrong conclusion. Copying figure code between versions of one
-task is fine.
+The acute case is a helper defined twice in one task or copied between tasks: copies drift, and when they compute a
+quantity compared *across* tasks, the result is a wrong conclusion. Copying code from the version a task follows is
+fine.
 
 ### 6. Conciseness
 
 Prose is reviewed like code. READMEs, docstrings, comments and the PR body: no restating the diff, no filler
 preamble, no exhaustive caveats. Padding rots the same way dead code does, and these docs are load-bearing for
-the next agent.
+the next agent. Among the files that keep changing, each fact is written once: findings in the deliverables, the
+overview in the task README, which gives each PR a short summary. A PR's body, laid out by
+`.github/pull_request_template.md`, is its record as of the merge and may state what the deliverables showed then. A
+living file that restates another instead of linking to it is a finding, because the copies drift.
 
 ## Do not report
 
@@ -76,13 +78,15 @@ the next agent.
 - Lock files, and anything under `data/`.
 - Committed notebook outputs: review changed cells' code, never the output blobs.
 - Absolute paths built from `main_checkout()`: task outputs are anchored there deliberately.
+- A task directory's layout and its README's headings: a hook holds them to the plugin's task template.
 - Worktree, temp-dir and cwd-relative `data/`/`figures/` path literals in `analysis/` code: a hook blocks them
   before the file is written.
 
 ## Drift older than the diff
 
 Parts of a repo may predate these rules. When a PR touches such a file, report the drift once at the lowest
-severity and don't block; it gets fixed when a task next touches it. Search the open issues before filing one.
+severity and don't block; it gets fixed when a task next touches it. Earlier task directories are not drift: they
+stay as they are. Search the open issues before filing one.
 
 ## This repo