fix(trogonstack-protobuf): stop teaching provenance as payload fields

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• The skill showed created_by and created_at on events, which led schemas to copy the issuing principal and append time into payloads and let commands carry caller-supplied identity, letting anyone claim to be someone else.
• The worked example did not compile, so it could not be trusted as a reference.

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PR Summary

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Documentation-only updates to agent skills and reference markdown; no runtime code or schema generation behavior changes.

Overview
Event-sourced protobuf guidance now treats actor and lifecycle times as envelope/platform metadata, not payload fields. Principle 5 in SKILL.md is expanded accordingly, and event-sourced-contracts.md adds a full section on provenance vs domain data: callers must not supply identity on commands, infrastructure must guarantee envelope actor/times across replay and restore, and payload timestamps are only for domain meaning (due_at, etc.)—with envelope vs occurrence vs domain time spelled out.

The worked example (example-project-schema.md) is aligned with that model: UserId, created_by, and event *_at fields are removed, buf.validate enum syntax is fixed, and the choice table documents envelope provenance. Review surfaces (review-checklist.md, units-money-and-time.md) gain checks and a cross-link so reviewers catch identity-in-payload and mistaken “created_at” on events.

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Walkthrough

The protobuf design guidance now assigns event issuer and time provenance to envelope metadata rather than command or event payloads. The example schema and review checklist reflect this distinction.

Changes

Event provenance guidance

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Define envelope provenance plugins/trogonstack-protobuf/skills/protobuf-design-messages/SKILL.md, plugins/trogonstack-protobuf/skills/protobuf-design-messages/references/event-sourced-contracts.md, plugins/trogonstack-protobuf/skills/protobuf-design-messages/references/units-money-and-time.md, plugins/trogonstack-protobuf/skills/protobuf-design-messages/references/review-checklist.md	The guidance places issuer and time provenance in runtime-written envelope metadata, distinguishes it from domain facts, and adds related checklist checks.
Apply the guidance to schema examples plugins/trogonstack-protobuf/skills/protobuf-design-messages/references/example-project-schema.md	The example removes creator and timestamp payload fields, renumbers remaining ProjectCreated fields, updates the choice table, and combines enum validation rules.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 1279c

This documentation change could give schema authors inconsistent guidance about occurrence time and unwarranted confidence in issuer capture. Align those statements before relying on the skill; the example’s tag changes do not affect a real service.

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Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title clearly identifies the main change: removing provenance fields from payloads in the protobuf guidance.
Description check		The description directly explains the provenance-field and non-compiling-example issues addressed by the changes.
Docstring Coverage		No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 0…
Linked Issues check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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@plugins/trogonstack-protobuf/skills/protobuf-design-messages/references/event-sourced-contracts.md:
- Line 62: Update the event-sourced contract guidance so producer-reported
occurrence time such as occurred_at belongs in event context, not the payload;
reserve payload time fields for distinct domain facts such as due dates, while
keeping occurrence time distinct from recorded_at.
- Line 33: Update the event-store provenance guidance to require typed context
at the append boundary; specify that the runtime writes the authenticated actor
to event context and the append time to record metadata, keeping both in the
event envelope rather than command or event payload fields.

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