refactor: replace agent identity directives with context directives

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Summary

The directive system had 3 "agent identity" directives that each created a competing AI persona on top of the memory files (SOUL.md, MEMORY.md) that already define who the agent is.

Old model — directives define identity:

• ChatAgentDirective (priority 15): "You are a decisive configuration specialist"
• PipelineCoreDirective (priority 10): "You are an AI content processing agent"
• SystemAgentDirective (priority 20): "You are a system infrastructure specialist"

These fired before memory files (priority 20), overriding the agent's real identity before it even loaded.

New model — memory files define identity, directives provide context:

• ChatContextDirective (priority 25): "This is a live chat session..."
• PipelineContextDirective (priority 25): "This is an automated pipeline step..."
• SystemContextDirective (priority 25): "This is a background system task..."

All at priority 25, after memory files at 20. They tell the agent what it's doing, not who it is.

Bug fix: 3 directives silently not loading

Discovered that SiteContextDirective, DailyMemorySelectorDirective, and SystemAgentDirective had add_filter side effects but no require_once in bootstrap.php — so their filters never registered. Added the missing requires.

System task prompt rewrites

All 4 AI-using system tasks rewritten to drop "you are a system agent" framing and reference the agent's own memory instead.

BEFORE:                                          AFTER:
P10  PipelineCoreDirective (identity)            P20  CoreMemoryFilesDirective (identity)
P15  ChatAgentDirective (identity)               P25  ChatContextDirective (context)
P20  CoreMemoryFilesDirective (identity)         P25  PipelineContextDirective (context)
P20  SystemAgentDirective (DEAD - never loaded)  P25  SystemContextDirective (context)
P80  SiteContextDirective (DEAD - never loaded)  P80  SiteContextDirective (now loads)

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Tooling versions

• Homeboy CLI: homeboy 0.78.0+a74ba80e
• Extension: wordpress from https://github.com/Extra-Chill/homeboy-extensions
• Extension revision: unknown
• Action: Extra-Chill/homeboy-action@v1

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