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Add a deontic-reasoning agent skill#183

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Stacked on #180.

This exposes the deontic engine to the agent as a skill. With it the agent can load a theory, run the reasoning and check compliance from inside its own loop, so defeasible and normative inference becomes an action it can take rather than something external to it. It adds src/skills_deontic.metta.

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A non-monotonic + normative reasoner — Defeasible Logic DL(d) (Nute; Antoniou
et al.), Standard Deontic Logic (Governatori: O/P/F, F p =def O not-p,
contrary-to-duty reparation chains, dilemmas), Event Calculus + the 13 Allen
interval relations + temporal deadlines, and weakest-link trust. Complements
lib_nal/lib_pln: they grade how much a fact is believed; this decides what
defeasibly holds and what one ought to do.

Theories and plans are ordinary .metta files read by PeTTa's native loader (no
bespoke parser; .dfl arrow syntax also accepted). API: dl-run / dl-run-deontic /
dl-run-at, deontic-compliance / deontic-dilemmas, the non-monotonic queries
(dl-what-if / dl-why-not / dl-abduce / dl-requires), Event Calculus, and trust.
Golden test suite under tests/deontic/. Docs: docs/reference-lib-deontic.md.
The same theory runs through either the fast indexed Prolog kernel or the
atomspace-native MeTTa engine (ground.metta / reason.metta) with identical
conclusions; select with (dl-engine! native) or $OMEGACLAW_DL_ENGINE=native.
Native grounding uses a semi-naive frontier fixpoint. prolog stays the default —
native grounding is ~4-5x slower on grounding-heavy theories (per-operation
MeTTa-eval overhead, see the perf note in ground.metta), while native is ideal
for propositional plans and inspection. Docs: docs/deontic/README.md.
Exposes the lib_deontic engine to the agent as a skill (load a theory, reason, check compliance), so the agent can invoke defeasible and normative reasoning. Stacked on lib_deontic. Adds src/skills_deontic.metta.
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