diff --git a/.claude/skills/audit-ara-portfolio/SKILL.md b/.claude/skills/audit-ara-portfolio/SKILL.md
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--- a/.claude/skills/audit-ara-portfolio/SKILL.md
+++ b/.claude/skills/audit-ara-portfolio/SKILL.md
@@ -114,9 +114,27 @@ durable, compounding output of every audit.
 ## Notes
 
 - Read-only on the DB. `run_modelling_e2e` is a dry run.
+- **Audit the default plan only** — every check, and every characterisation
+  query, must filter `plan.is_default = TRUE` (the FE-shown plan). The runner's
+  `_QUERY`/`_ROLLUP_QUERY` already do; keep ad-hoc SQL consistent or the counts
+  mix superseded plans into the picture.
+- **The stored default plan can be STALE vs the live model** — the persisted plan
+  is the output of an *earlier* modelling run; `run_modelling_e2e` re-models
+  against current logic + live EPC/solar. A stored-vs-live gap is the single
+  biggest driver of MEDIUM/HIGH anomalies on a not-yet-re-modelled portfolio, and
+  it spans more checks than the one below names. The fix is operational
+  (**re-model the portfolio, then re-audit**), not a code change — confirm a
+  sample with `run_modelling_e2e` before debugging the calculator.
 - **Expected, not bugs** (until the override-aware-rebaseline + persistence-fidelity
-  PR deploys and the portfolio is re-modelled): much of `zero-works-post-differs`
-  and `plan-score-below-baseline` is the pre-fix baseline-vs-plan divergence and
-  should shrink after re-model — note it, don't re-debug it.
+  work — see `docs/adr/` — is re-modelled into the portfolio): much of
+  `zero-works-post-differs`, `plan-score-below-baseline`, `already-meets-goal-with-works`,
+  and the non-fuel-switch slice of `negative-bill-savings` is the same stale
+  stored-plan-vs-live divergence and should shrink after re-model — note it,
+  don't re-debug it. Confirm a sample's stored plan differs from `run_modelling_e2e`
+  (stored `air_source_heat_pump` for tens of £k where the live plan is a cheap
+  profitable `solar_pv`; stored works on a property the live model leaves at £0
+  because it already meets goal). The `negative-bill` certs that DO carry an
+  `air_source_heat_pump` are a genuine gas→electric fuel-switch (bills rise at
+  current price ratios) — expected by design.
 - Adding a check is one decorated `(PropertyAudit) -> Optional[str]` function in
   `scripts/audit/anomalies.py`; see its module docstring.