diff --git a/skills/subagent-driven-development/SKILL.md b/skills/subagent-driven-development/SKILL.md
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--- a/skills/subagent-driven-development/SKILL.md
+++ b/skills/subagent-driven-development/SKILL.md
@@ -133,6 +133,10 @@ a ledger file, not only in todos.
   plan's progress: leave it in place and start your own, fresh.
 - Create the ledger with its identity as the first line:
   `# SDD ledger — plan: <plan file path>`.
+- During that same Setup read, copy the plan's Global Constraints section
+  verbatim into `<workspace>/constraints.md`. The global-constraints block
+  you hand reviewers pastes from that file — the plan itself stays closed
+  after Setup, even across compaction.
 - The ledger is your recovery map: the commits it names exist in git even
   when your context no longer remembers creating them. After compaction,
   trust the ledger and `git log` over your own recollection.