fix(dreaming): read the case signal the way the writer meant it (v0.281.1)

[vikasprogrammer]

Follow-up to #492, found by actually running a reflect pass on two live tenants instead of trusting the synthetic fixture.

v0.280.0 replaced the unwinnable topic stop-list with an allow-test on shape — a topic must be written as a name. Correct idea, but case alone isn't enough. The guidance line (which rides in every agent's system prompt) came back:

instapods:  the fleet frequently works on: claude.md, drafts, support, sweep, automated
instawp:    the fleet frequently works on: handed, really, read-only, server, freescout

Every leaked word came from a construction where the capital wasn't a choice:

Construction	Real example from the corpus	Fix
Shouted header	AUTOMATED INCREMENTAL SUPPORT SWEEP — runs every 2h… (one prompt, ×10)	an acronym must be short and isolated — a real one (SSL, FPM) sits among lowercase words
Title Case line	headings	skipped — case separates nothing within them
Emoji-prefixed template	✅ Really done: / ⛔ Handed back: (the OS's own poke-back cards)	anything with no letters before it is a sentence start
Enumerated label	Phase 1, Tier 2	a capital followed by a number is a heading
Also written lowercase	Publish/publish, Phase/phase	a real name is consistently capitalized; evidence counted per distinct line so one repeated template can't outweigh every real name
Filename	claude.md, placeholder yyyy-mm-dd.md	qualify on the base name, not the extension (the dot rule was for hostnames/versions)

Plus the OS's own tool vocabulary as stop-words (publish/recall/remember/notify, joining the existing report/update) — plumbing that describes how an agent worked.

Measured on the live corpora

Read-only snapshots, both tenants, driving the real dream():

instapods (258 episodes)
  before: claude.md, drafts, support, sweep, automated
  after:  composio, dataforseo, monday, library, instapods.com

instawp (760 episodes)
  before: handed, really, read-only, server, freescout
  after:  read-only, freescout, wait, bunny, shield

Residual, stated honestly: instawp still surfaces read-only and wait — both are emphasis words in automation prompts (Read-only. Then report., run it in the FOREGROUND and WAIT) that are genuinely almost always capitalized in that corpus, so no case rule can catch them. 3 of 5 real (was 1 of 5). The line is advisory prose, not a gate; I'd rather leave two soft words than start re-growing a blocklist.

137/137 governance + 18/18 tier-A policy, typecheck, web build.

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