# Changelog — EAC/CAE Habré skill

## [1.0.1] — 2026-07-06

### Fixed
- Shortened the `SKILL.md` frontmatter `description` below the 1024-character limit enforced by Claude Skills (reported by a user during installation). The triggering function is preserved — institutions, flagship cases, founding instruments, and the verification-first rule remain; the exhaustive enumerations live on in the skill body and references.

## [1.0.0] — initial release

### Added
- `SKILL.md` — entry point, verification-first discipline, standard workflow, institutional architecture (Accord UA-Sénégal 22 août 2012, opérationnel 8 février 2013 – 27 avril 2017, hybrid Senegalese-AU composition), source hierarchy, citation format, the four core decisions (indictment 13 février 2015, Jugement 30 mai 2016, Décision sur les Réparations Civiles 29 juillet 2016, Arrêt 27 avril 2017), audit mode, sensitive contexts (40,000 victims, Habré died 24 août 2021, Trust Fund operational concerns)
- `references/foundational-texts.md` — Accord UA-Sénégal du 22 août 2012, Statut des CAE (Arts. 3 compétence ratione temporis 7 juin 1982 – 1er décembre 1990, Arts. 4-7 crimes, Art. 8 modes of liability, Art. 9 no head-of-State immunity, Art. 10 imprescriptibilité, Arts. 11-12 hybrid composition, Arts. 27-28 reparations and Trust Fund), Code de procédure pénale sénégalais, Lois 2007-04 and 2007-05, antecedent jurisprudence (ICJ *Belgium v. Senegal* 2012, ECOWAS Court *Habré v. Senegal* 2010), Convention against Torture Art. 7
- `references/authoritative-sources.md` — Tier 1 (forumchambresafricaines.org principal mirror, chambresafricaines.org historical, legal-tools.org, au.int, icj-cij.org, ECOWAS Court archives), Tier 2 (HRW/Reed Brody Tier 1-in-practice for procedural milestones, Amnesty International, REDRESS, Sarah Williams JICJ 2013, *The President on Trial* OUP 2020, Nordic Journal of Human Rights 34(3) 2016, JusticeInfo.net), French as authoritative procedural language
- `references/citation-format.md` — four citation modes (foundational texts, EAC decisions, antecedent jurisprudence, civil parties Abaïfouta and others designation), three chamber designations (Chambre d'Instruction, Chambre d'Assises, Chambre d'Assises d'Appel), document types (Ordonnance, Jugement, Décision sur les Réparations Civiles, Arrêt), quick reference tables for four core decisions and reparations figures, names and spellings discipline (Hissein not Hissène), status of accused
- `references/verification-workflow.md` — fallback ladder (forumchambresafricaines → chambresafricaines → Wayback → legal-tools → AU → ICJ → HRW Tier 1-in-practice → REDRESS/JusticeInfo Tier 2), **7 EAC-specific traps**: (1) EAC is hybrid, not Senegalese national nor pure international ; (2) Trial Chamber 30 mai 2016 vs Appeals Chamber 27 avril 2017 with reversal of direct rape count Khadidja Hassan Zidane ; (3) temporal jurisdiction strictly 7 juin 1982 – 1er décembre 1990 ; (4) Habré alone before EAC (co-accused tried separately in Chad March 2015) ; (5) "Hissein" vs "Hissène" spelling ; (6) Trial Chamber per-victim amounts vs Appeals Chamber total 82.290 milliards CFA ; (7) Habré death 24 août 2021 — criminal execution extinguished but substantive findings remain and reparations obligation transferred to Trust Fund
- `references/jurisprudence-map.md` — 9 sections: establishment and antecedent jurisprudence (ICJ 2012, ECOWAS 2010), universal jurisdiction with treaty anchoring as distinctive jurisdictional basis, Trial Judgment 30 mai 2016 substantive holdings (CAH/war crimes/torture, sexual violence direct and command, life sentence), Reparations Decision 29 juillet 2016 (individual per-category amounts), Appeals Judgment 27 avril 2017 (confirmation + acquittal on direct rape Khadidja Hassan Zidane + reparations total fixed), command/superior responsibility doctrinal innovation for state-apparatus configuration, no immunity for heads of State (cumulative not innovative, but practically historic), civil party participation Senegalese civil-law tradition (7,396 named civil parties), reparations execution by AU Trust Fund (continuing concern as of 2026)
- `examples/example-verification.md` — verifying the EAC reparations citation (Appeals Chamber 27 April 2017, 82.290 billion CFA, 7,396 victims), avoiding Trap 6 (Trial Chamber per-victim vs Appeals Chamber total)
- `examples/example-audit.md` — two audits (Habré described as convicted on all counts including direct rape — Trap 2; EAC characterised as Senegalese national court — Trap 1)

### Skill scope at v1.0.0
- Covers the EAC's entire lifecycle (créée 22 août 2012, opérationnelle 8 février 2013 — clôture 27 avril 2017) plus post-EAC reparations execution by AU Trust Fund
- Encodes the same verification-first methodology as the other skills in this repository
- Specifically equips the user to handle the EAC's institutional novelty (first African universal jurisdiction trial; first AU prosecution of an African former Head of State) and the post-Habré-death (24 août 2021) status of the criminal sentence and reparations obligation
- Maps the four core decisions exhaustively (the EAC's documentary corpus is finite — one accused, four decisions, well-bounded body of jurisprudence)

### Known limitations
- The EAC corpus is small and well-mapped; this is a feature, not a bug. The skill covers the entirety of the EAC's substantive output.
- Reparations execution by the AU Trust Fund is **ongoing and minimal**; subsequent developments (asset recovery, voluntary contributions, victim disbursements) will require updating.
- The Chadian national prosecutions of March 2015 (against six DDS officials and others) are **outside the scope of this skill** — they are domestic Chadian proceedings, not EAC proceedings, and should not be conflated.
- The doctrinal debate on the EAC's construction of JCE and command responsibility (Sarah Williams and others) is flagged but not resolved — the skill enables accurate citation of the EAC's findings; the doctrinal debate is left to the user.