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Read Tool: Absolute Paths Always Required

The Read tool documentation now unconditionally requires absolute file paths. The previous conditional behavior (which sometimes allowed relative paths) has been removed for consistency.

Evidence

Read tool description change — removed conditional qk6() check, hard-codes "must be an absolute path" (search for "must be an absolute path")

Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.

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