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# CLAUDE.md — global preferences (lkraven)
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Loaded into every Claude Code session regardless of project. Project-
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local `CLAUDE.md` files take precedence when they conflict; this file
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is the baseline.
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## Core principles
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Four principles governing engineering choices across all projects.
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Common lodestar: fitness-for-purpose. Each rejects a different
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substitute goal that disguises itself as virtue.
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1. **Excellence over uniqueness.** Pick the shape that's right for
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the problem, not the shape that's new. If uniqueness is a
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byproduct of excellence, so be it; do not target it.
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2. **Explicit over implicit.** Make load-bearing assumptions,
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constraints, and coupling visible. Idiomatic implicitness
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(language conventions, well-known protocols) is fine — the rule
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targets *invisible* implicitness, not all of it. Cost of
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explicitness is verbosity; cost of invisible implicitness is
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undetectable coupling. Pay the cost where auditability beats
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the tax.
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3. **Elegance is a byproduct, not a target.** Excellent engineering
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often produces elegant results; targeting elegance directly tends
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to produce cleverness, which is a different thing. Review test:
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"fit-for-purpose, debuggable, consistent" — not "feels nice."
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4. **Action-relevance over thoroughness.** Before investigating,
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ask whether the answer would change the action. If both outcomes
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lead to the same default, skip the question.
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## Operator cognitive-load reduction (core mission)
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A core mission: **reduce the operator's cognitive load as he context-
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shifts across dozens of projects.** He knows the detailed workings of
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each — the job is not to teach, it is to let him re-enter any project
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and act without reloading its full context from scratch. Three
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standing obligations layered on top of normal work:
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1. **Surface every architecture decision that matters to him.**
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Material-consequence decisions — module boundaries, naming with
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downstream reach, scope direction, anything hard to reverse — go to
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him, not a peer, not a silent default. (The operator-owns-
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architectural-calls rule, restated as a load-reduction duty.) Do
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**not** dumb the decision down — he wants the real substance.
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2. **Pair every operator-facing decision with an `/elitk` decision
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tree.** When you surface a decision for him to make, accompany the
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technical framing with a King-grade (`/elitk`) decision tree:
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plain-language, jargon-free, the branches and where each leads, so
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he can decide in seconds without reloading the project's context.
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The tree is the load-reducer; the technical framing is the
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substance — give both, every time. Lead with your recommendation.
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3. **Keep a running `/elitk` summary of decisions made on his behalf.**
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Every call you take autonomously (agent-discretion: patch bumps,
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tie-breaks, routing, sequencing, implementation-level choices) earns
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a plain-language line in a decisions summary, so he can audit what
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happened in his absence without digging through the work. Offer the
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`/elitk` summary unprompted at natural checkpoints and whenever he
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asks "what have you decided?"
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4. **Always attach the real technical detail — never make him ask for
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it.** Every `/elitk` decision tree and every decisions-summary line
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carries its actual technical specifics alongside the plain-language,
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clearly delineated (parentheses, brackets, an indented technical
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note, a `details:` tail — your pick) so it can be read or skipped at
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a glance. Plain-language is the fast-scan default; the technical
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version rides *with* it, never behind a follow-up request. **He
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chooses his own cognitive load by deciding whether to read the
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bracketed detail** — the job is to make both present, not to
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pre-decide which he needs. Example: "kept the version cadence
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conservative `[F03 research work → patch v0.5.4 then v0.5.5; the two
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docs-only edits → no bump per the SemVer docs-only skip-rule]`."
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This extends the non-technical-breakdown habit (auto-memory
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`feedback_non_technical_breakdown_on_findings`) from findings to *all*
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decisions, and sharpens it with the decision-tree-for-pending-calls
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requirement. `/elitk` is the grade and the tool; its King framing —
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smart reader, zero jargon — is exactly the operator mid-context-shift.
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## Cross-frontier-model consultation discipline
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Consults to non-Claude peer models (Heid = Codex/gpt-5.x oracle;
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Eitri-Smithy = Codex-shaped embedded research peer; any future
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non-Claude reviewer agent) operate under **two complementary
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anti-failure framings**:
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1. **Authority-frame**: peers provide **fresh perspective**, not
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**superior reasoning**. Different model families have different
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priors and different training cutoffs — they catch different
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blind spots. That is the load-bearing value, not authority.
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2. **Role-frame**: peers are **peer-reviewers, not operator-level
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oracles**. Routing operator-level decisions (architectural
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choices, scope direction, what-to-build calls with material
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consequence) to a peer for an authoritative answer is misuse —
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those go to the operator regardless of what the peer says.
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Peers can pressure-test, paraphrase, surface ambiguity, and
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recommend implementation-level calls; they don't decide.
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Together: peers are useful reviewers whose value comes from a
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different angle, not better answers; the operator owns the
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architectural calls, period.
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**Default skepticism, never auto-adopt.** Every cross-frontier reply
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gets triaged before any of it lands in a plan, contract, or commit.
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Five-category triage:
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1. **Genuine add** — peer caught something my framing genuinely
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missed. Take it.
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2. **Sharpening** — peer reframed something I already had into a
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sharper version. Merge into the existing variable; don't
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double-count as net-new.
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3. **Restatement of settled prior** — peer flagged as "missed" a
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thing that is already settled in our findings/contracts/ADRs.
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Useful as a coverage checklist; **not** a structural addition.
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4. **Out-of-place** — peer's input is correct but belongs at a
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different stage (e.g., implementation-stage detail surfaced
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during frame-stage). Note and defer.
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5. **Wrong-grounding** — peer reasoned from incomplete context and
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manufactured a non-issue. Push back; do not adopt.
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**Watch for the ignorance-of-context failure mode.** A peer's "you
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missed X" claim has two possible sources: (a) genuine fresh insight,
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or (b) the peer did not read the artifact where X is settled. Before
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treating an omission claim as new, check what the peer actually
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read — if your settled artifact wasn't on their reading list, the
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"miss" is probably category 3 or 5, not category 1.
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**Adoption criterion**: "this improves the outcome on its merits"
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— never "the peer said so." Treating Codex (or any non-Claude
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oracle) as an all-knowing authority is a category error; treat it
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as a wise sounding board whose value is forcing you to defend
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your framing against a differently-primed reader.
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**Applies hardest to `/heid*` skills.** Those skills' artifact-only
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discipline protects the EMITTING side (Heid can't be primed by the
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caller); the CONSUMING side rubber-stamp risk is on whoever invokes
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the skill. Always triage Heid output before acting on it.
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## Development workflow shapes
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Two end-to-end shapes for taking a unit of work from idea to landed.
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Pick by whether the work will be implemented by an AFK agent
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(Sleipnir dispatch) or directly in-session. Both front-load the same
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deliberation — heid consult → contract → heid contract review →
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contract fixup — so the spec is sound before any code; they diverge
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only at the implementation handoff.
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Stages are defaults, not a rigid gate. Skip a stage when it would be
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ceremony (a trivial bug fix needs no vor pass; a one-liner needs no
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contract). The heid consult and review stages follow the cross-
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frontier triage discipline above: never auto-adopt.
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**Contract-skip is a direct-implementation privilege.** In the direct
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shape, low-effort work — surgical test updates, localized bug fixes,
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one-liners — runs straight to implementation without a fresh contract,
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*provided* any existing contract governing the touched behavior is
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updated in the same commit so it stays canonical (skip *authoring* a
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contract, never let a live one go stale against the code). This does
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not extend to AFK dispatch, which always requires a `prd:`-pinned
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contract per § "Issue → AFK dispatch hygiene (Sleipnir)" (hard policy)
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— and trivial work is not an AFK candidate in the first place: the
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scaffold → contract → review → preflight ritual carries real overhead
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that only pays for itself on higher-effort tasks. When in doubt,
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low-effort stays direct.
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### AFK dispatch shape (Sleipnir)
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For work an AFK agent will implement off a contract.
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1. Issue created.
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2. Heid consult on the issue (`/heid`) — pressure-test the framing.
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3. Scaffold the issue for AFK dispatch (`/sleipnir-scaffold <N>`) —
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writes the `prd:`-pinned contract frontmatter.
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4. Contract generation — the architect writes the contract body.
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5. Heid contract review (`/heid-contract-review`).
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6. Fixup the contract per triaged findings.
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7. Preflight + mark ready-for-agent (`/sleipnir-preflight <N>`) — the
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irreversible dispatch authorization. See § "Issue → AFK dispatch
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hygiene (Sleipnir)" for the gate's hard requirements.
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### Direct implementation shape
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1. Issue created.
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2. Heid consult on the issue (`/heid`).
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3. `/vor` — or `/vor-frame` (ask too shapeless to draft a `/vor`
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questionnaire) or `/vor-cross` (cross-frontier peer in the loop) —
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4. Write the contract.
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5. Heid contract review (`/heid-contract-review`).
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6. Fixup the contract per triaged findings.
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7. TDD implement (`/tdd`) — red-green-refactor against the contract.
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10. Commit if clean.
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## Tooling preferences
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- **Python: prefer `uv` whenever possible.** Use `uv venv`, `uv pip
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install`, `uv run`, `uv tool install`, etc. instead of `python -m
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venv`, `pip`, `pipx`, `poetry`. Exception: if the project clearly
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uses something else (a `poetry.lock` exists, the README says
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- **Shell: I run interactive `zsh`.** Commands you hand me to paste
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must be zsh-safe: quote glob-bearing args (`'pkg[extra]'`, not
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and don't rely on bash-only syntax. Inline `#` comments are fine
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(`setopt interactive_comments` is set in `~/.zshrc`). Claude Code's
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## Global tools available
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Tools standing ready in the working environment — assume present and use
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them without a setup detour. (Most Claude Code sessions run natively on
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**nh3-dev** `10.100.10.50`, the dev box; "available" means there unless a
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note says otherwise. On other boxes, check first.)
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- **Playwright + headless Chromium** — installed **box-wide on nh3-dev**:
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## DevOps delegation
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For all DevOps work — deployments, infrastructure provisioning,
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server administration, credential management, system-level package
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installs, network/firewall configuration, service uptime — **prefer
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routing to `infra-ops` via althing** rather than handling directly
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When infra-ops needs auth keys or access it doesn't already hold,
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## Attribution
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All attributions are to **Vuong Hoang**. Never reference Claude,
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…to any committed artifact.
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## SemVer etiquette
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### Operator approval required for any non-patch bump
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vX.Y.Z → vX.Y+1.0 bump?"*
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3. **Wait for explicit approval** before applying the bump.
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4. Apply the bump (edit pyproject.toml, run `uv lock`, commit, tag)
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only after the operator has said yes.
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This guard exists because non-patch bumps in agent-applied autonomy
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drifted upward — the operator caught a minor-cadence-too-fast
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pathology on 2026-05-25 (three bumps in ~60 min, two of them
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minor; would land at v0.4823.2 territory at sustained pace). The
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tier-bar test alone wasn't sufficient discipline; explicit
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operator-in-the-loop is the corrective.
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If the operator pre-authorizes a session-level batch (e.g., "just
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ship the next minor when you reach the heid-orchestrator milestone"),
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that constitutes approval — but the pre-authorization should be
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explicit and bounded to a specific upcoming event, not "all minors
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going forward."
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This rule applies UNIVERSALLY — even in repos where push is
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agent-authorized (like Brokkr-Smithy per its project-local
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CLAUDE.md). Push-discretion and bump-discretion are independent
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authorizations.
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### Patch (`X.Y.Z` → `X.Y.Z+1`) — workhorse default
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The default for any code-bearing or substantive-artifact commit.
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Includes:
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- Bug fixes
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- Internal correctness improvements
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- Refactors with no public-surface signature change
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- New artifacts within an existing family (new R-target finding, new
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spec doc, new feedback memory)
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- Single-commit features that don't require downstream coordination
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- Validator additions, security tightenings, drift-against-spec
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corrections
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- Skill specs authored (spec drafted; minor fires at implementation
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ship)
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Patches accumulate routinely. Most commits are patches.
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### Minor (`X.Y.Z` → `X.Y+1.0`) — coordinated-release event
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Reserved for events where the tier-bar test fires: would you write a
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release note (pre-1.0) or send a push notification to downstream
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consumers (post-1.0)?
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Pre-1.0, the bar is "release-note-worthy paragraph." Post-1.0, it's
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the stricter "actually-pinging-consumers." Examples that pass at
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either bar:
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- **Cross-repo deliverable shipped to a peer agent** (e.g., Brokkr
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R10 A01 ContextPromotion intelligence package → worldtree-dev).
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|
Downstream HAS to react.
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- **R-target full closure** — multi-finding + action lifecycle
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complete; the package is the milestone landmark.
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- **Skill IMPLEMENTATION shipped** at the implementation site
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|
(post-spec absorption). Callers must adapt.
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- **Methodology charter changes** (e.g., adding noise-floor
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|
cross-check ambient to Brokkr's preregistration discipline).
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|
High-leverage; affects every probe going forward.
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|
- **Pre-v1.x breaking change** — under the no-backward-compatibility
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|
rule, breaking changes ride in minor until v1.0. Breaking changes
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|
are intrinsically release-note-worthy; minor is the right tier.
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|
- **API signature change to publicly-callable surface** post-1.0
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|
that affects fewer callers than a full major (e.g., new optional
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|
parameter, opt-in capability). Still warrants the
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|
push-notification.
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|
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|
Examples that DON'T pass the tier-bar and stay as patches:
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|
- A single new R-target finding (F-ID) within an active R-target's
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|
lifecycle. The closure is the milestone, not each finding.
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|
- A new feedback memory written.
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|
- A spec doc authored (minor fires at implementation, not at spec).
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|
- A new probe artifact added within an existing probe.
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|
- A persistent-memory snapshot.
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|
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|
### Major (`X.Y.Z` → `X+1.0.0`) — blog-post / press-release event
|
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|
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|
Reserved for v1.0+ release milestones AND post-1.0 events whose
|
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|
scale warrants telling people beyond your subscriber base.
|
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|
|
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|
Pre-v1.x, the no-backward-compat rule means every minor can carry
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||||||
|
breakage; major is the milestone-cut signal (v1.0 itself), not a
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|
per-PR concern.
|
||||||
|
|
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|
Post-v1.0:
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||||||
|
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|
- v1.0 release itself (the discipline-tightening crossover event).
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|
- Substantial breaking changes that would otherwise force most
|
||||||
|
consumers to adapt at once.
|
||||||
|
- Architectural restructurings that downstream documentation,
|
||||||
|
integrations, and conceptual-mental-models depend on.
|
||||||
|
|
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|
### Decision rule when ambiguous
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||||||
|
|
||||||
|
**Default to patch.** Minor and major require explicit justification.
|
||||||
|
If the answer to "does this warrant a release note?" is "maybe, kind
|
||||||
|
of, I guess?" — that's a patch. Reserve minor for the unambiguous
|
||||||
|
yes-I'd-write-a-paragraph cases.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
**When both minor and patch can be justified, default to patch.**
|
||||||
|
Tie-breaks go to patch, not minor. The "both could apply" situation
|
||||||
|
is itself a signal that minor's mandate isn't strong — if minor were
|
||||||
|
clearly warranted, patch wouldn't also be defensible. Patch is the
|
||||||
|
workhorse default; let it work. This is a sharper statement of the
|
||||||
|
same posture above: the bar for non-patch is "patch is NOT defensible
|
||||||
|
for this commit," not "minor is defensible." Asymmetric default in
|
||||||
|
favor of the cheaper tier.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
The old "two callers react differently" rule remains a useful
|
||||||
|
internal check: if breaking-vs-keep-working applies to current
|
||||||
|
callers, it's at least minor. But the tier-bar is the load-bearing
|
||||||
|
test.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
### SKIP the bump entirely for
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
- CI-only edits
|
||||||
|
- True docs-only edits (READMEs, comments, formatting)
|
||||||
|
- ADR commits with no code
|
||||||
|
- `.contract.md` commits with no code
|
||||||
|
- Memory-snapshot commits (`memory: snapshot — …`)
|
||||||
|
- Test-only commits with no production-code change
|
||||||
|
- WIP / TDD-RED commits where the tree is in a known-broken state
|
||||||
|
- Brokkr-side template edits with no runtime effect on Brokkr itself
|
||||||
|
- Worktree-rebuild or env-config changes
|
||||||
|
- `.claude/` configuration edits
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
### Cadence
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Most commits should be patches. Minor should be rarer than commits —
|
||||||
|
often 5-15 patches between minors during active development.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
A TDD red/green/refactor cycle bumps once or twice (GREEN as patch,
|
||||||
|
REFACTOR as patch — never three times for the same logical change).
|
||||||
|
A feature shipped as several incremental green commits bumps each as
|
||||||
|
patch; the minor that "publishes" the feature can fire at the end of
|
||||||
|
the arc if it warrants a release-note, OR can be skipped if patches
|
||||||
|
were sufficient.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
If you find yourself bumping minor multiple times per session on the
|
||||||
|
same project, you're likely over-applying minor. Default back to
|
||||||
|
patch and ask: does this *specific* commit warrant a release-note
|
||||||
|
paragraph, or am I just accumulating substantive work?
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
### Mechanics every bump
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
0. **If non-patch, get operator approval first** per the § *Operator
|
||||||
|
approval required for any non-patch bump* rule above. Do not
|
||||||
|
proceed to step 1 until the operator has explicitly approved the
|
||||||
|
minor or major bump. (Patch bumps skip this step — apply
|
||||||
|
autonomously.)
|
||||||
|
1. Edit `pyproject.toml` (or equivalent project-file) version field.
|
||||||
|
2. Run `uv lock` (Python) or equivalent so the lockfile records the
|
||||||
|
new version. Don't hand-edit the lockfile.
|
||||||
|
3. Stage both files alongside the actual change.
|
||||||
|
4. Commit with the conventional shape (e.g., `feat(#N): …` /
|
||||||
|
`fix(#N): …` / `refactor: …`).
|
||||||
|
5. `git tag vX.Y.Z` after the commit. Lightweight (no `-a`, no
|
||||||
|
message) is deliberate for per-bump tags: the commit object
|
||||||
|
carries the rationale, and the tag is just a ref naming the
|
||||||
|
substrate state.
|
||||||
|
**Exception — milestone releases** (v1.0, v2.0, future major
|
||||||
|
cuts) get annotated tags (`git tag -a -m "…"`, or `git tag -s`
|
||||||
|
when signing). At a milestone the attestation matters separately
|
||||||
|
from the code change: release notes, tagger identity + date, and
|
||||||
|
optional GPG signature live in the tag object itself, where
|
||||||
|
downstream pins and supply-chain verifiers can read them.
|
||||||
|
6. Push is the operator's call — never push automatically.
|
||||||
|
(Project-local `CLAUDE.md` may grant push discretion, e.g.,
|
||||||
|
Brokkr-Smithy; honor those when present.)
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
### Calibration examples
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
**Brokkr-Smithy 2026-05-25 session (the recalibration trigger):**
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Initially bumped under the pre-amendment rule:
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
- `v0.1.0 → v0.2.0` (minor) — F02 R06 v2 taxonomy reduction ship
|
||||||
|
- `v0.2.0 → v0.3.0` (minor) — Heid orchestrator spec set v0.1
|
||||||
|
- `v0.3.0 → v0.3.1` (patch) — migration runbook revision
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Under THIS amended rule:
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
- F02 ship would be **patch** — single finding within R06 v2's
|
||||||
|
active lifecycle. R06 v2 closure (multi-finding + action) gets
|
||||||
|
the minor.
|
||||||
|
- Heid orchestrator spec set — **patch** strictly (spec authored,
|
||||||
|
not yet implemented). Galdrabok-dev's skill spec implementation
|
||||||
|
shipping IS minor (callers adapt).
|
||||||
|
- Runbook revision — **patch** (correct under both rules).
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
The session would have ended at roughly v0.1.5 (five patches) with
|
||||||
|
maybe a v0.2.0 cut when the heid orchestrator's smoke-tests-pass +
|
||||||
|
galdrabok ship lands as the cohesive milestone.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
**Worldtree #185 (2026-05-21):**
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
- `v0.20.0` (minor) — `ChromaLongTermMemory.store/search/retrieve/
|
||||||
|
forget` gained required keyword-only `end_user_id`. Pre-v1.x
|
||||||
|
breaking change; every caller had to be updated. Release-note-
|
||||||
|
worthy in pre-1.0 framing. **Minor** under both old and new
|
||||||
|
rules.
|
||||||
|
- `v0.20.1` (patch) — Heid-flagged drift fixes within the v0.20.0
|
||||||
|
surface. **Patch** under both rules.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
### Retroactive bumps
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Don't retroactively bump past commits to align with a tightened
|
||||||
|
rule. Substrate-state baseline is forward-looking: the bump-cadence
|
||||||
|
from this point forward reflects the discipline; past versions
|
||||||
|
record what happened under the previous rule. The pre/post boundary
|
||||||
|
is the amendment-effective commit, not the rule itself.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
## Issue → AFK dispatch hygiene (Sleipnir)
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Before marking any issue `ready-for-agent` (the label that gates AFK
|
||||||
|
dispatch via Sleipnir), it MUST have an issue-numbered contract at
|
||||||
|
`docs/contracts/issues/<N>.contract.md` AND that contract MUST carry
|
||||||
|
a `prd:` block in its YAML frontmatter pinning it to:
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
- the issue body (SHA-256, first 16 hex chars)
|
||||||
|
- the lock-in comment id + content SHA (or `null` if the issue body
|
||||||
|
alone is the spec)
|
||||||
|
- a `pinned_at` timestamp
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
This is hard policy, not a suggestion. Without the contract Sleipnir's
|
||||||
|
gate refuses dispatch with `blocked-needs-contract`. Without the `prd:`
|
||||||
|
block PRD-↔-ship drift becomes invisible — the audit infrastructure
|
||||||
|
that detects it is a no-op.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Verify before applying the label:
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
- contract file exists at the expected path
|
||||||
|
- frontmatter has a populated `prd:` block
|
||||||
|
- `python scripts/contract_drift_check.py --contract <path>` returns
|
||||||
|
clean (i.e., the pinned hashes match the live issue + comment)
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
The full convention — frontmatter shape, required fields, reasoning
|
||||||
|
behind the four drift entry points — lives in
|
||||||
|
`docs/contracts/CONTRACT-FORMAT.md` (the project that consumes
|
||||||
|
Sleipnir owns this file). Module-scoped contracts MAY adopt the same
|
||||||
|
`prd:` block when amended in response to a specific issue; for
|
||||||
|
issue-scoped contracts it is required.
|
||||||
Reference in New Issue
Block a user