diff --git a/skills/sjskills/SKILL.md b/skills/sjskills/SKILL.md
index 5842d98..e239776 100644
--- a/skills/sjskills/SKILL.md
+++ b/skills/sjskills/SKILL.md
@@ -72,7 +72,9 @@ Use the ordinary Skills CLI workflow to discover source skill names or perform
 requested ad hoc installs. Never pass `--all` there: it also selects every agent
 and can recreate shared `~/.agents/skills` installs. For a project managed by `sjskills`, record external
 skills in `[[direct]]` and reconcile through `sjskills`; undeclared ad hoc
-installs in managed roots become quarantine candidates. Use the repository's
+installs in managed roots become quarantine candidates. A skill the project
+develops in its own tree is also a `[[direct]]` entry with a local path source;
+never copy or symlink it into a managed root by hand. Use the repository's
 plugin workflow for Codex plugins. Local catalog validation and publication are
 not reconciliation.
 
diff --git a/skills/sjskills/evals/evals.json b/skills/sjskills/evals/evals.json
index 087477c..7534cef 100644
--- a/skills/sjskills/evals/evals.json
+++ b/skills/sjskills/evals/evals.json
@@ -105,6 +105,11 @@
       "id": 21,
       "prompt": "Use $sjskills to sync a previously managed desired skill whose current tree equals the published content but differs from the saved provenance hash.",
       "expected_output": "The skill treats the reviewed local-modification update as an authorized quarantine and verified replacement, preserving actual current bytes and establishing fresh installation provenance. It verifies the final plan and reports the quarantine identifier."
+    },
+    {
+      "id": 22,
+      "prompt": "Use $sjskills to make the skill this project keeps at skills/team-tool/ load as a native skill here, and keep it in sync as I edit it.",
+      "expected_output": "The skill adds a [[direct]] entry named after the SKILL.md name with a forward-slash local source such as ./skills/team-tool, without access or full_depth, instead of copying or symlinking into .agents/skills or .claude/skills. It reviews sjskills plan, applies when installation was requested, re-plans to exact state, and explains that later edits appear as verified updates applied by rerunning plan and apply."
     }
   ]
 }
diff --git a/skills/sjskills/references/project-selection.md b/skills/sjskills/references/project-selection.md
index 5700a6e..b6269d5 100644
--- a/skills/sjskills/references/project-selection.md
+++ b/skills/sjskills/references/project-selection.md
@@ -3,8 +3,9 @@
 Profiles are named collections defined centrally in `agent-scripts`'s
 `skill-registry.json`; `sjskills profiles` lists them. A project selects those
 names, but cannot define new profiles in its manifest. It can independently add
-skills from other repositories with `[[direct]]`, without changing the central
-registry or publishing those skills in `agent-scripts`.
+skills from other repositories, or skills it develops in its own tree, with
+`[[direct]]`, without changing the central registry or publishing those skills
+in `agent-scripts`.
 
 Inspect the access policy in `sjskills profiles` before selecting a profile.
 `kicpa` is public; `kicpa-private` uses the enrolled private GitHub catalog.