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Implement lazy resource loading (progressive disclosure) #687

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Context

Audit finding AUDIT-005 from spec conformance review.

Problem

Agent Skills spec mandates progressive disclosure:

  1. Metadata (~100 tokens): loaded at startup for all skills
  2. Instructions (<5000 tokens): loaded when skill activated
  3. Resources (as needed): loaded only on demand

Zeph implements steps 1 & 2, but prompt.rs eagerly loads ALL reference files on skill activation, violating progressive disclosure. This causes context bloat and unnecessary I/O.

Fix

  1. Remove eager reference injection from format_skills_prompt()
  2. Implement on-demand resource loading API (e.g. get_skill_resource(skill, path))
  3. Agent requests specific references when needed

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