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the answer is the opposite?",128,[[7,1],[81,1]],"ref-self-application-against-what-if-the-answer-is-the-opposite"],["Outside — who else has solved this?",147,[],"ref-self-application-outside-who-else-has-solved-this"],["The tally",261,[],"ref-self-application-the-tally"],["Restated without its own nouns",97,[],"ref-self-application-restated-without-its-own-nouns"],["Behind — what is this request a solution to?",125,[],"ref-self-application-behind-what-is-this-request-a-solution-to-2"],["Under — what does the vocabulary assume?",174,[],"ref-self-application-under-what-does-the-vocabulary-assume"],["Above — what class is this an instance of?",109,[[2,1],[0,1],[11,1]],"ref-self-application-above-what-class-is-this-an-instance-of-2"],["Beside — what already does most of this?",142,[[7,1],[72,1],[24,1],[9,1],[20,1]],"ref-self-application-beside-what-already-does-most-of-this"],["Ahead — what does this commit its readers to?",120,[],"ref-self-application-ahead-what-does-this-commit-its-readers-to-2"],["Against — what if the answer is the opposite?",138,[],"ref-self-application-against-what-if-the-answer-is-the-opposite-2"],["Outside — who else has solved this?",115,[],"ref-self-application-outside-who-else-has-solved-this-2"],["Around — who has a stake in this skill?",145,[],"ref-self-application-around-who-has-a-stake-in-this-skill"],["One orbit pane, as a check on the method",109,[],"ref-self-application-one-orbit-pane-as-a-check-on-the-method"],["The tally",96,[],"ref-self-application-the-tally-2"],["Measured, the same day",232,[],"ref-self-application-measured-the-same-day"]],"ref-self-application"],["Reference · Track Seats",1,1939,[[2,2,"orchestrating-work-end-to-end routes every request to one of seven tracks."],[84,1,"Second seat: phase 8, restricted to ahead and beside, feeding offering-the-next-move."],[55,1,"Not at the start — a bug with an untried obvious cause does not need a sweep, it needs the reproduction diagnosing-before-fixing asks for."],[56,1,"An incident has a clock and an audience, responding-to-incidents inverts the usual order deliberately — mitigate before you diagnose — and a frame question asked while users are broken is precisely the \"let me understand this properly…"],[4,1,"the report, as a named second question with its own confidence marking, per calibrating-confidence."],[90,1,"reviewing-code-deeply owns weighing absence alongside presence"],[6,2,"Seat: before deciding-reversibility, not after."],[22,1,"code-archaeology recovers why it exists, and a thing whose reason has expired is a deletion rather than a migration."],[7,1,"At phase 2, after the sweep and before an approach is chosen — its candidates are what steelmanning-alternatives then works on"],[8,1,"the moment one becomes work, managing-scope-drift has the table and it wins."],[17,1,"…something other than what was asked, with nobody present to agree, is not a bounded risk that confidence can retire — it is the definition of the failure bounding-autonomous-work exists to prevent, arrived at through a door marked insight."]],[["Build",237,[[84,1]],"ref-track-seats-build"],["Diagnose",158,[[55,1]],"ref-track-seats-diagnose"],["Respond",177,[[56,1]],"ref-track-seats-respond"],["Investigate",147,[[4,1]],"ref-track-seats-investigate"],["Review",132,[[2,1],[90,1]],"ref-track-seats-review"],["Author",136,[],"ref-track-seats-author"],["Change in place",133,[[6,1],[22,1]],"ref-track-seats-change-in-place"],["Where orbit and imagine sit",266,[[7,1],[6,1],[8,1]],"ref-track-seats-where-orbit-and-imagine-sit"],["The envelope, dial by dial",443,[[17,1]],"ref-track-seats-the-envelope-dial-by-dial"]],"ref-track-seats"]]],["calibrating-confidence",1,"Use when stating a fact, a cause, a version detail, or an API name that was not checked in this session…",2817,[],[["Overview",0,80,[[16,1,"routing-around-capability-gaps covers the sharpest version of the same failure — a model that cannot open the file still produces a fluent paragraph about its contents, and nothing in that paragraph is marked as invented."]]],["When to use",0,150,[[80,1,"Not for: whether a completion claim has been proven by running something — confirming-before-claiming-done owns that gate."],[84,1,"Not for: turning a named unknown into something the reader can act on — offering-the-next-move does that when the work closes."]]],["Three tiers, marked in the sentence",0,267,[[69,1,"tracking-data-provenance carries observed, inferred, and defaulted through a system so a downstream consumer can still tell them apart."]]],["A search result is the input to a check, not the check",0,430],["A ranked pick is a tie silently broken, not a resolution",0,165],["The received output may not be the produced output",0,308],["A proxy inherits the name of the thing it stands in for",0,728,[[69,2,"Carrying it is possible and it is work — tracking-data-provenance is what that work looks like — and until somebody does it, the default is that the caveat is lost."]]],["When a number, and when it is false precision",0,136],["I do not know, as a complete answer",0,78],["Calibration is not hedging",0,140],["Common mistakes",0,233],["Red flags",0,102]]],["estimating-effort",1,"Use when asked how long something will take, how big a change is, or whether work fits a given window; when producing a plan, schedule…",1042,[],[["Overview",0,47],["When to use",0,120,[[8,1,"…is needed — check first whether the overrun is the work being larger or the scope having grown, because managing-scope-drift treats an estimate passing roughly twice its original as a tripwire for the second, and re-estimating…"],[12,1,"Not for: breaking work into steps — structuring-an-implementation-plan owns the decomposition."]]],["Reference class first, decomposition second",0,180,[[22,1,"code-archaeology is how that history gets read when the comparable work is someone else's — the repository holds the outcomes even when nobody present remembers them."]]],["Why decomposition alone makes it worse",0,115],["Ranges, and what the width means",0,122],["What makes an estimate honest",0,165],["Re-estimating",0,108],["Common mistakes",0,120],["Red flags",0,65]]],["deciding-reversibility",1,"Use when a choice is blocking progress and the deliberation is costing more than the choice would, when picking a name, a library…",2673,[],[["Overview",0,42],["When to use",0,77,[[7,1,"Not for: generating the options in the first place — steelmanning-alternatives owns that."]]],["What makes a door one-way",0,470,[[17,1,"A credential the work found rather than was given is the plainest sign — its reach is whatever its owner could do, which the task never scoped — and using one is a question for a human, not a convenience (bounding-autonomous-work)."]]],["Matching process to weight",0,141],["Delay against wrongness",0,116],["Convert one-way doors into two-way ones",0,766,[[33,1,"a kill switch served by the service it kills — feature-flagging owns that one, and requires an evaluation path that does not depend on anything failing during the incident the switch was built for — a rollback that needs the pipeline the…"],[80,1,"confirming-before-claiming-done requires a restore actually performed from the backup, and a backup can be verified restorable and still sit inside the blast radius of the thing it protects."]]],["Verify before a cheap switch that consumers act on, not after it",0,442,[[101,1,"automating-repetition's preflight covers what can be validated before the first write"]]],["Decide at the right altitude",0,81],["Pick and move, or refuse to",0,162,[[9,1,"When that trigger fires later and the recorded decision is now blocking work, revalidating-decisions picks up from there — separating what was actually decided from the premise it was decided under."]]],["Common mistakes",0,255],["Red flags",0,121]],false,"updated","2026-10-27T22:42:14+01:00"],["steelmanning-alternatives",1,"Use when an approach was adopted because it was the first one that worked and no other was seriously examined…",1135,[],[["Overview",0,38],["When to use",0,78,[[11,1,"Not for: open-ended exploration of what to build alongside the user, which is scoping-before-building."]]],["The lock-in mechanic",0,65],["What would have to be true",0,198,[[3,1,"clairvoyance is the pass that goes and looks there, and its tell is exactly this: three options, one shape."]]],["Generating a second option that is actually different",0,209],["Dismissals that sound like knowledge",0,196,[[9,1,"revalidating-decisions is the longer form of that question — separating what a past decision established in principle from the premise it rested on, and recognising which premises expire without anything committing to mark them expired."],[53,1,"performance-profiling is the cheap way to convert one into evidence"]]],["Recommend, do not survey",0,175,[[4,1,"Form: …on which they actually differ, and state the observable that would flip it — and mark which parts of that are verified rather than inferred, since calibrating-confidence applies hardest to the sentence someone is about to act on."],[87,1,"When the decision is one a future reader will inherit, the flip condition is the part writing-adrs exists to preserve."]]],["Common mistakes",0,121],["Red flags",0,55]]],["managing-scope-drift",1,"Use when work has grown past what was asked or the diff is larger than the request implies…",1131,[],[["Overview",0,41],["When to use",0,85,[[83,1,"Not for: judging whether the work is finished to standard — that is knowing-when-to-stop."]]],["Three classes, one test",0,233,[[3,1,"clairvoyance owns the looking, and it routes every observation to a gate, the ledger, the record, or a discard with a reason — never straight into the diff."]]],["When to interrupt",0,85,[[10,1,"data loss or corruption, credential or secret exposure, a false premise underneath the request itself (reading-specifications covers spotting one before the work rather than during it), or a discovery that makes the current approach wrong."]]],["Widening and narrowing",0,252,[[79,1,"That rule needs somewhere to live that a long task cannot erode, which is what finishing-what-you-started's acceptance ledger is: the request's items written to a file before the work, so narrowing has to happen against a list rather than…"]]],["Noticing it in flight",0,154,[[5,1,"name what has to change first, its rough size — a range, on estimating-effort's terms, since a point estimate offered mid-drift is the least reliable number anyone will produce that day — and offer the smaller alternative."]]],["Handing off the remainder",0,95],["Common mistakes",0,127],["Red flags",0,59]]],["revalidating-decisions",1,"Use when a recorded decision — an ADR, design doc, wontfix, runbook line…",2663,[],[["Overview",0,74],["When to use",0,98,[[22,1,"Not for: finding the record in the first place (code-archaeology), writing one so this is easy later (writing-adrs), or choosing between live options (steelmanning-alternatives, deciding-reversibility)."],[87,1,"Not for: finding the record in the first place (code-archaeology), writing one so this is easy later (writing-adrs), or choosing between live options (steelmanning-alternatives, deciding-reversibility)."],[7,1,"Not for: finding the record in the first place (code-archaeology), writing one so this is easy later (writing-adrs), or choosing between live options (steelmanning-alternatives, deciding-reversibility)."],[6,1,"Not for: finding the record in the first place (code-archaeology), writing one so this is easy later (writing-adrs), or choosing between live options (steelmanning-alternatives, deciding-reversibility)."]]],["Principle or premise",0,230,[[3,1,"When nothing yet suspects a premise — the record is simply being relied on — the pass that finds one is clairvoyance run on the decision as its object: its ahead direction read backward, asking what has changed since the author wrote it…"]]],["Which premises decay",0,183],["Only the premises that hurt get a review date",0,370],["A rule that agrees with you has stopped being a premise",0,367,[[44,1,"choosing-test-scope owns this for a check running against real traffic, with the instrument: sample the distribution of its verdicts rather than their value, and treat a check whose output has never varied as unproven rather than as…"]]],["Re-verify before you comply",0,182,[[4,1,"Unverifiable is not the same as false, and calibrating-confidence covers stating the difference."]]],["Overturning someone else's call",0,180],["The decision that was never made",0,528,[[83,1,"knowing-when-to-stop owns the general form of this"]]],["Writing records that survive this",0,114,[[87,1,"Two habits make that cheap, and both belong to the authoring side — writing-adrs covers them: state each premise as its own dated, attributed claim rather than as a clause inside the rationale, and mark the ones you do not control."]]],["Common mistakes",0,211],["Red flags",0,126]]],["reading-specifications",1,"Use when turning a ticket, issue, bug report, RFC, standard, design doc, or a user's request into work; when requirements are vague…",1192,[],[["Overview",0,55],["When to use",0,145,[[57,1,"Not for: an interface you are defining rather than consuming (designing-apis), or deciding where the change lands once the requirement is settled (finding-the-seam)."],[25,1,"Not for: an interface you are defining rather than consuming (designing-apis), or deciding where the change lands once the requirement is settled (finding-the-seam)."],[11,1,"Not for: settling what to build in the first place, before anything is written down — that's scoping-before-building, a live conversation this skill's own \"ask or assume\" table assumes has already happened and produced the…"],[19,1,"Not for: a document the run only remembers after a compaction or a handoff, or only ever grepped — checkpointing-long-runs owns re-opening the source before anything is measured against it"]]],["Three layers",0,111],["Keyword discipline",0,196],["Finding the silence",0,159],["Rewrite as testable statements",0,138],["Ask or assume",0,223,[[11,1,"(scoping-before-building asks one at a time instead, because that skill is a real-time back-and-forth where each answer can change what's worth asking next — batching there would just stall a conversation that's already live.) Never ask a…"]]],["Common mistakes",0,114],["Red flags",0,51]]],["scoping-before-building",1,"Use when an idea, feature request, or new project needs to become an approved design before any code gets written…",2878,[],[["Overview",0,84],["When to use",0,190,[[12,1,"Not for: turning an already-clear requirement into tasks (see structuring-an-implementation-plan)."],[2,1,"orchestrating-work-end-to-end holds the rest of it — what phase follows the approval, and what evidence opens each one after that."],[10,3,"reading-specifications looks adjacent — it also turns something vague into something concrete."]]],["Classify before asking anything",0,268,[[12,1,"A written, self-reviewed spec, handed off to structuring-an-implementation-plan"]]],["The gate that never shrinks",0,288],["Working the spike path",0,62],["Understanding the idea",0,297,[[10,1,"it's the opposite of reading-specifications' advice to batch questions, which applies specifically to asynchronous clarification against a spec or ticket author, where round-trip latency — not conversational flow — is the cost being…"],[3,1,"clairvoyance is that ask, and here is where it is nearly free: a reframe now costs a paragraph, and after approval it costs the design."]]],["Working the bounded path",0,66,[[46,1,"Once the user says yes, implement through the normal development workflow (writing-the-failing-test-first applies)."]]],["Exploring approaches (architectural path)",0,77],["When the design needs an answer code can give faster than guessing",0,163],["Presenting the design",0,500],["When a picture is the answer",0,157],["Writing the spec",0,177],["Spec self-review",0,272,[[12,1,"approval sends you to structuring-an-implementation-plan, the only skill that follows brainstorming on this path."]]],["Common mistakes",0,175],["Red flags",0,102]]],["structuring-an-implementation-plan",2,"Use when a spec or set of requirements is settled and the next step is turning it into a multi-step implementation plan…",2246,[],[["Overview",0,106],["When to use",0,116,[[5,1,"Not for: whether a plan's effort estimate is realistic (see estimating-effort)."],[87,1,"Not for: recording why a decision was made a particular way (see writing-adrs)."],[13,1,"Not for: executing an already-written plan task by task (see working-a-plan-task-by-task)."]]],["Scope, then file structure",0,229,[[11,1,"A spec covering more than one independent subsystem should already have been split during scoping-before-building — that decomposition is upstream of this skill, not a decision made here."]]],["Right-sizing tasks and steps",0,189],["The plan header",0,185],["Task structure",0,193],["Phases, when the plan may run in parallel",0,240,[[15,2,"A plan executed by more than one worker at a time — a controller fanning tasks out (fanning-out-independent-work), or a harness that partitions a plan across subagents by itself, as Copilot CLI's /fleet does — can only do it safely if the…"]]],["No placeholders",0,171],["Self-review",0,355],["When execution reveals the plan was wrong",0,190,[[13,1,"it's working-a-plan-task-by-task and delegating-tasks-with-review-gates correctly treating a plan/codebase contradiction as a blocker to raise rather than a wrinkle to absorb."],[14,1,"it's working-a-plan-task-by-task and delegating-tasks-with-review-gates correctly treating a plan/codebase contradiction as a blocker to raise rather than a wrinkle to absorb."]]],["Common mistakes",0,194],["Red flags",0,78]]],["working-a-plan-task-by-task",2,"Use when a written plan is ready to execute inline…",975,[],[["Overview",0,116],["When to use",0,97,[[35,1,"Worth pairing with isolating-work-with-worktrees before task one: a plan is exactly the multi-step work where a bad step partway through shouldn't cost the checkout you started from."],[12,1,"Not for: authoring the plan (see structuring-an-implementation-plan)."],[14,1,"Not for: dispatching a fresh subagent per task with a review loop (see delegating-tasks-with-review-gates)."]]],["Review before touching code",0,88],["One task at a time",0,261,[[12,1,"Tick the plan's own checkboxes as you go — a plan written by structuring-an-implementation-plan uses - [ ] syntax on every step precisely so progress lives in the document rather than in whoever is holding it."],[2,1,"When this execution is one phase of a larger run, the checkboxes are the plan's own record and the run record is the arc's — orchestrating-work-end-to-end owns the second one"],[80,1,"Run the plan's stated check and read what it actually printed before ticking anything — confirming-before-claiming-done is the standard the checkpoint has to meet, and \"the step looked right\" doesn't meet it."],[46,1,"Where a task's steps are red-green-refactor, writing-the-failing-test-first owns the order they run in"]]],["Stop at a genuine blocker",0,125],["Common mistakes",0,169],["Red flags",0,119]]],["delegating-tasks-with-review-gates",2,"Use when executing a multi-task implementation plan task by task in the current session…",7581,[],[["Overview",0,125],["When to use",0,170,[[12,1,"A plan exists — typically written by structuring-an-implementation-plan — and it's ready to execute task by task in the current session."],[17,1,"Not for: deciding what a delegate may settle on its own when it cannot ask, and what must stop the run instead — bounding-autonomous-work owns the bounds a task is dispatched with"],[15,1,"Not for: two or more tasks that are genuinely independent of each other and can run concurrently, with nothing gating one on another's result (see fanning-out-independent-work)."],[13,1,"Not for: running a plan's tasks inline in the current session's main thread, with no fresh subagent per task (see working-a-plan-task-by-task)."]]],["Before task one",0,302,[[35,1,"Do this work in an isolated workspace — a worktree or a feature branch, never a shared trunk directly (see isolating-work-with-worktrees for setting one up)."],[2,1,"If this loop is one phase of a larger run, that record already exists and has a shape — orchestrating-work-end-to-end defines it, and a second file competing with it is two accounts of progress that will disagree."],[12,1,"Tick the plan's own - [ ] checkboxes as tasks close, too — a plan written by structuring-an-implementation-plan carries them for exactly this, and letting them drift out of step with your record leaves two accounts of progress that…"]]],["Decide, don't stall",0,154],["Choosing a model for each role",0,180],["Dispatch the implementer",0,464],["Handle what comes back",0,436],["Why the gate below is structural, and what that means when you want to skip it",0,374],["The two-stage review",0,294],["An approval that does not name what it approved is a bearer token",0,303,[[17,1,"The actor here is you, holding a person's yes — not a delegate holding a clearance, which is bounding-autonomous-work's territory and not this skill's."],[19,1,"checkpointing-long-runs names the version that crosses a context boundary: a verdict recorded against a role rather than against content re-binds on restore to whatever now occupies that role."]]],["A gate has a throughput, past which a yes carries no information",0,465],["When review finds problems: the fix loop",0,481],["When a finding points backward, not forward",0,162],["The final review",0,197,[[93,1,"Compose that dispatch the way handing-off-for-review describes: what was built, what it should do, the exact range, and the shape you want the findings back in."],[36,1,"How the branch actually lands — merge, pull request, or something else — belongs to landing-a-finished-branch, not here."]]],["Common mistakes",0,281],["Red flags",0,113],["Reference · Implementer Prompt",1,1095,[],[["Contents",19,[],"ref-implementer-prompt-contents"],["The template",944,[],"ref-implementer-prompt-the-template"],["Placeholders",96,[],"ref-implementer-prompt-placeholders"],["What the implementer returns",36,[],"ref-implementer-prompt-what-the-implementer-returns"]],"ref-implementer-prompt"],["Reference · Reviewer Prompt",1,1985,[],[["Contents",79,[],"ref-reviewer-prompt-contents"],["Shared reviewer discipline",462,[],"ref-reviewer-prompt-shared-reviewer-discipline"],["Full task review",809,[],"ref-reviewer-prompt-full-task-review"],["Scoped re-review (after a fix round)",516,[],"ref-reviewer-prompt-scoped-re-review-after-a-fix-round"],["Preparing the diff file, either mode",119,[],"ref-reviewer-prompt-preparing-the-diff-file-either-mode"]],"ref-reviewer-prompt"]],false,"updated","2026-10-29T00:16:41+01:00"],["fanning-out-independent-work",2,"Use when two or more tasks look independent enough to hand to separate agents — unrelated failures, disjoint subsystems…",2029,[],[["Overview",0,122],["When to use",0,99,[[14,1,"Not for: working through a multi-task plan one task at a time, each gated by a review before the next starts (see delegating-tasks-with-review-gates) — that loop is sequential by design, because every task builds on the one before it."]]],["Independent, or just described that way",0,141],["A cold start is a feature, and it is now optional",0,356],["Sameness is what makes parallel work cheap",0,104],["Avoiding collisions",0,484,[[35,1,"When a clean partition isn't possible and two agents genuinely need the same file, isolate them into separate workspaces instead (see isolating-work-with-worktrees) rather than dispatching anyway and hoping the merge goes fine."]]],["Prompts that stand alone",0,135],["Reconciling what comes back",0,255,[[80,1,"verify the merged result the same way any other completion claim gets verified (see confirming-before-claiming-done)."],[8,1,"An agent that quietly did more than its assignment — fixed something adjacent, renamed a neighbor while it was in there — is scope drift wearing a parallel-agent costume (see managing-scope-drift)."]]],["Common mistakes",0,244],["Red flags",0,89]],false,"updated","2026-10-28T22:58:59+01:00"],["routing-around-capability-gaps",2,"Use when the work needs something the current model or harness cannot do — audio or video input, image or speech output…",6801,[],[["Overview",0,175],["When to use",0,130,[[15,1,"Not for: splitting work across several agents in this harness (fanning-out-independent-work) or gating subagent output through review (delegating-tasks-with-review-gates)."],[14,1,"Not for: splitting work across several agents in this harness (fanning-out-independent-work) or gating subagent output through review (delegating-tasks-with-review-gates)."]]],["Name the gap before routing it",0,124,[[4,1,"If the routing fails and nothing on the machine can read it, the deliverable is \"I could not read this, here is what I tried\" — see calibrating-confidence."]]],["A gap in seeing routes differently from a gap in doing",0,342,[[17,1,"And it is the gap most often misfiled as a door under bounding-autonomous-work: \"I cannot see the state, so I need you\" is a claim about your channels, and there is usually another channel nobody enumerated."],[4,1,"Report which one you actually read, per calibrating-confidence, rather than passing the substitute's answer off as the original channel's."]]],["The ladder",0,376],["Availability has three layers, and each fails on its own",0,198],["An environment that answers can still be missing a service",0,285],["Input is addressed to a place, not to a state",0,405,[[45,1,"The neighbouring failure, input delivered and silently discarded by a target that wanted another form, is in grounding-test-doubles."]]],["Discovery is a sweep, never a recollection",0,283],["Consent before crossing a provider boundary",0,179],["Driving the delegate",0,200],["Prove the prompt arrived",0,298,[[83,1,"say so and move to the next candidate or back to the user, rather than permuting flags indefinitely (knowing-when-to-stop)."],[69,1,"See tracking-data-provenance."],[73,1,"Treat it exactly like any other untrusted input (handling-untrusted-input)."]]],["The capability spec, and its expiry",0,136],["The guardrail: capability, not preference",0,984,[[27,1,"Issue one call per effect — the discipline atomic-commits asks of a commit, for the reason it gives in the revert test: a unit bundling two independent things cannot be accepted or rejected as either one."],[95,1,"portable-shell-scripting prefers that form too, because a cd outlives the command that ran it."],[17,2,"In an unattended run that is a blocked step rather than a failed one, and bounding-autonomous-work governs its shape: prepare the work completely, and leave the step for whoever can authorize it."]]],["Common mistakes",0,455],["Red flags",0,183],["Reference · Capability Routing",1,956,[],[["Reading things",226,[],"ref-capability-routing-reading-things"],["Producing things",87,[],"ref-capability-routing-producing-things"],["Scale, cost, and environment",184,[],"ref-capability-routing-scale-cost-and-environment"],["When a model is genuinely required",154,[],"ref-capability-routing-when-a-model-is-genuinely-required"],["Model facts expire",249,[],"ref-capability-routing-model-facts-expire"]],"ref-capability-routing"],["Reference · Surveying The Machine",1,1092,[[75,1,"Read credential stores for which providers appear, never for the secret values — see secrets-hygiene."]],[["The sweep",266,[[75,1]],"ref-surveying-the-machine-the-sweep"],["Confirming a candidate",172,[],"ref-surveying-the-machine-confirming-a-candidate"],["Non-interactive invocation forms",208,[],"ref-surveying-the-machine-non-interactive-invocation-forms"],["Argument-passing gotchas",161,[],"ref-surveying-the-machine-argument-passing-gotchas"],["Local inference endpoints",103,[],"ref-surveying-the-machine-local-inference-endpoints"],["Deterministic media tools",110,[],"ref-surveying-the-machine-deterministic-media-tools"]],"ref-surveying-the-machine"]]],["bounding-autonomous-work",2,"Use when a stretch of work will finish before any human reads a word of it — a delegated task, a goal handed over instead of a plan…",3925,[],[["Overview",0,190],["When to use",0,210,[[6,1,"Not for: how much deliberation one decision deserves — deciding-reversibility."],[83,1,"Not for: when a polish loop has stopped paying — knowing-when-to-stop covers diminishing returns."],[19,1,"That is checkpointing-long-runs."],[18,1,"Not for: deciding what a goal-driven run measures itself against, meaning the check that says whether each iteration got closer — designing-verifiable-goals."]]],["Three bounds, all written before the first action",0,83],["1. The decision bound: substitute the gate, never skip it",0,700,[[3,1,"A reframe from a clairvoyance sweep, orbit, or imagine pass"],[81,1,"red-teaming-your-own-work then karen-and-the-manager, run as hard gates rather than as a courtesy, ideally by a reader with no memory of building it"],[82,1,"red-teaming-your-own-work then karen-and-the-manager, run as hard gates rather than as a courtesy, ideally by a reader with no memory of building it"],[11,1,"scoping-before-building's spec-writing step asks the document to say its own status"]],[["A gate the run did not install still needs an answerer",287]]],["2. The stop bound: four conditions, pre-committed",0,535],["3. The door bound",0,1677,[[6,1,"deciding-reversibility has the 2026 run that took one and deleted a production volume along with its backups."],[48,1,"A probe reading a default, a cache, or a stub returns a confident value in the right shape, and reproducing-bugs covers proving the instrument before trusting what it says."]],[["The system refusing you may be the system working",497,[[6,1]]],["A door you have not tried is not a door",875,[[48,1]]]]],["Reporting to someone who was not there",0,130,[[91,1,"Set the altitude by what the reader will do next, per explaining-technical-work, and mark each claim verified, inferred, or assumed, per calibrating-confidence."],[4,1,"Set the altitude by what the reader will do next, per explaining-technical-work, and mark each claim verified, inferred, or assumed, per calibrating-confidence."]]],["Common mistakes",0,256],["Red flags",0,144]],false,"updated","2026-10-28T23:17:42+01:00"],["designing-verifiable-goals",2,"Use when a run is about to be handed a goal to iterate toward on its own — a loop re-prompting itself until a condition holds…",2600,[],[["Overview",0,131],["When to use",0,167,[[17,1,"bounding-autonomous-work owns those, and a climb needs them as well as this."],[47,1,"evaluating-llm-output owns that, and its judge rules apply here too, with the run's output in place of a shipped feature's."],[80,1,"That is confirming-before-claiming-done."]]],["Before the climb starts",0,209,[[17,1,"[ ] The other stop conditions are written (bounding-autonomous-work), with the budget counted in iterations that produced no accepted gain, not in failures of the bar, which fails on every iteration until it is met."]]],["Take the highest rung of check that exists",0,409,[[39,1,"retire it once real specifications exist (property-based-testing)"],[80,1,"the held-out slice below is what catches that (confirming-before-claiming-done)."]]],["Hold some of the check back",0,152,[[47,1,"forty cases cannot tell 80% from 85% (evaluating-llm-output)."]]],["Stack a second objective as a constraint",0,198,[[53,1,"…them in blocks, and where the platform exposes one, record a count the scheduler cannot inflate (instructions, allocations, queries) beside wall-clock time, never instead of it (performance-profiling covers machine noise and interleaving)."]]],["The bar is where it stops",0,98],["A judged proxy is a reward, and it gets optimized",0,416,[[47,1,"Then calibrate it as evaluating-llm-output describes."]]],["Keep the climb fed",0,428,[[15,1,"size compute to the peak the workers reach, not to their average (fanning-out-independent-work has how to measure it)."],[17,1,"A person supplies it, because a machine, a tool or more quota is a door under bounding-autonomous-work, unless the goal pre-authorised that supply with a limit."],[8,1,"The climb works without fixing it, so under managing-scope-drift it is adjacent work, recorded and reported, and it becomes a new goal with its own check only when someone decides so."]]],["Choose the work by whether it can be checked",0,121,[[17,1,"A long climb still spends real money, in tokens and often more in compute, and spending money someone else pays for is a door under bounding-autonomous-work."]]],["Common mistakes",0,210],["Red flags",0,61]],false,"updated","2026-10-29T00:40:31+01:00"],["checkpointing-long-runs",2,"Use when work will outlive the context holding it — a plan spanning days or sessions, a sweep across hundreds of files…",3579,[],[["Overview",0,257,[[23,1,"recovering-agent-context is the receiving end of this problem — what to do when you arrive cold to someone else's half-finished work."]]],["When to use",0,109,[[23,1,"Not for: arriving at work someone else started — recovering-agent-context."],[93,1,"Not for: composing what a reviewer needs to judge a finished change — handing-off-for-review."],[17,1,"That is bounding-autonomous-work, and the two compose: an autonomous campaign needs both."]]],["The rule that makes everything else work",0,51],["What one checkpoint has to contain",0,136],["A negative result has two halves, and only one gets written",0,305],["What goes in, in order of what it costs to lose",0,444,[[85,1,"And where the bound has to live in prose after all, put it at the top of the file that carries it — every mechanism that shortens context does so from the end, which writing-durable-docs treats as an ordering rule rather than a style one."]]],["Where the state lives",0,140,[[79,1,"One file, appended to, in whatever the run already uses — the ledger from finishing-what-you-started, the plan document, or the run record from orchestrating-work-end-to-end."],[2,1,"One file, appended to, in whatever the run already uses — the ledger from finishing-what-you-started, the plan document, or the run record from orchestrating-work-end-to-end."]]],["The seams worth a checkpoint",0,354,[[101,1,"automating-repetition owns the general judgment about when a habit is worth turning into machinery"]]],["After a boundary, read; do not recall",0,785,[[80,1,"confirming-before-claiming-done owns why a recalled number is not a measured one."],[4,1,"calibrating-confidence calls that confidence laundering at a boundary between two parties."],[17,1,"bounding-autonomous-work's pre-committed stop conditions are the case that matters most here and the likeliest to be quietly summarized into a general sentence about being careful — which reads like the constraint surviving, and is not."]]],["A resume restores your record, not the world",0,445],["Handing to a successor",0,153,[[92,1,"Length is a feature here, not a cost, and crouton decides the budget when there is one."]]],["Common mistakes",0,284],["Red flags",0,116]]],["orienting-in-unfamiliar-code",3,"Use when opening a codebase for the first time, inheriting an unfamiliar or legacy repo, onboarding onto a new project…",1962,[],[["Overview",0,47],["When to use",0,107,[[21,1,"Not for: a specific value's path through the system (tracing-data-flow), the reason a line exists (code-archaeology), or the coupling graph (mapping-dependencies)."],[22,1,"Not for: a specific value's path through the system (tracing-data-flow), the reason a line exists (code-archaeology), or the coupling graph (mapping-dependencies)."],[24,1,"Not for: a specific value's path through the system (tracing-data-flow), the reason a line exists (code-archaeology), or the coupling graph (mapping-dependencies)."],[23,1,"Run alongside recovering-agent-context: this skill reads what the code itself can show you"]]],["The read order",0,318],["Breadth before depth",0,122],["A text search and an index answer different questions",0,385],["The build graph is the structure",0,104],["Claimed versus actual",0,102],["The decisions that are not in the code",0,474,[[22,1,"code-archaeology owns the half of that record which does live in the repository, in the review discussion attached to what was merged and reverted"],[3,1,"Once orientation has said what the code is, clairvoyance's orbit is the pass that says what the project is — and this section is what it reads as its negative-space pane, so a bounded pass here pays twice on inherited work."],[9,1,"revalidating-decisions is about a decision that blocks you and may have expired"]]],["Time-boxing",0,71],["Common mistakes",0,146],["Red flags",0,86]]],["tracing-data-flow",3,"Use when a value is wrong, missing, null, empty, or unexpectedly defaulted and its origin is unclear; when asking where a field comes from…",1108,[],[["Overview",0,56],["When to use",0,86,[[73,1,"Auditing where sensitive or user-supplied data reaches — a forward trace is how handling-untrusted-input gets an inventory of sinks, and how redacting-sensitive-output finds the log line nobody remembered."],[76,1,"Auditing where sensitive or user-supplied data reaches — a forward trace is how handling-untrusted-input gets an inventory of sinks, and how redacting-sensitive-output finds the log line nobody remembered."],[55,1,"Not for: diagnosing why a system misbehaves when the value is not yet identified (diagnosing-before-fixing), or module-level coupling (mapping-dependencies)."],[24,1,"Not for: diagnosing why a system misbehaves when the value is not yet identified (diagnosing-before-fixing), or module-level coupling (mapping-dependencies)."]]],["Anatomy of a trace",0,265,[[69,1,"No amount of further reading recovers it — which is tracking-data-provenance's case for carrying how a value was obtained alongside the value itself, decided at the schema rather than recovered by a trace."]]],["Search ladder",0,179],["Trace direction",0,71],["When static reading fails",0,234,[[67,1,"A hop you have had to instrument twice is a signal the value deserves a permanent one — instrumenting-for-observability covers making that call before the next incident rather than during it."]]],["Write the chain",0,78],["Common mistakes",0,88],["Red flags",0,51]]],["code-archaeology",3,"Use when code exists without an explanation and the reason matters — an odd workaround, a magic constant, a conditional nobody can justify…",1360,[],[["Overview",0,49],["When to use",0,60,[[21,1,"Not for: how a value moves at runtime (tracing-data-flow), or first contact with a whole repo (orienting-in-unfamiliar-code)."],[20,1,"Not for: how a value moves at runtime (tracing-data-flow), or first contact with a whole repo (orienting-in-unfamiliar-code)."]]],["Question to command",0,204],["Blame's cardinal failure",0,74],["Bisect the test, not the impression",0,155,[[49,1,"bisecting-failures owns the search itself — the exit-code contract, the axes other than commits, and what to do when the history will not build."]]],["Read the siblings",0,194],["Date the code",0,78],["The reason has its own expiry date",0,74,[[9,1,"revalidating-decisions covers the split and the re-check."]]],["When history is worthless",0,250],["Common mistakes",0,134],["Red flags",0,88]]],["recovering-agent-context",3,"Use when picking up an existing project for the first time, resuming work that someone or something else started…",2128,[],[["Overview",0,88],["When to use",0,112,[[20,2,"First contact with an existing repo, running alongside orienting-in-unfamiliar-code."],[19,1,"checkpointing-long-runs is what the previous run owed you, and what you owe the next one."],[22,1,"Not for: why one line exists (code-archaeology), what the code does (orienting-in-unfamiliar-code), or the coupling graph (mapping-dependencies)."],[24,1,"Not for: why one line exists (code-archaeology), what the code does (orienting-in-unfamiliar-code), or the coupling graph (mapping-dependencies)."]]],["Check every provider, and not your own first",0,266],["Cheapest signal first",0,184],["Three shapes, not thirty paths",0,341],["Searching a store without drowning in it",0,174],["An executed plan and an abandoned one read identically",0,311,[[3,1,"Every one of these appears in confident, well-formed prose — and a recovered plan carries its author's judgments compiled out, which is why clairvoyance sweeps it as a plan, before task one and never task by task"],[4,1,"Carry the distinction into whatever you report — see calibrating-confidence for saying which is which."]]],["What you are extracting",0,291,[[19,1,"Where it stopped and what is still open go in a handoff note beside the work (checkpointing-long-runs), since both are stale within a session or two."],[87,1,"Approaches already tried and abandoned go in a decision record (writing-adrs) or a comment at the code they concern, where the next person about to retry one will be standing"],[86,1,"…the code cannot show, are candidates for the repo's own instruction file — but only the ones that pass writing-agent-instructions' test for a line that earns its place, because that file is read on every turn of every future session,…"]]],["Boundaries",0,124],["Common mistakes",0,137],["Red flags",0,100]]],["mapping-dependencies",3,"Use when assessing what a change will break, estimating blast radius, chasing circular imports or build cycles…",1569,[],[["Overview",0,52],["When to use",0,121,[[25,1,"Not for: choosing where to put a change once the graph is known (finding-the-seam), or one value's path (tracing-data-flow)."],[21,1,"Not for: choosing where to put a change once the graph is known (finding-the-seam), or one value's path (tracing-data-flow)."],[70,1,"Once a data edge shows a fact with more than one writer that has to stay that way, keeping the copies from drifting is keeping-copies-in-sync."]]],["Three graphs, not one",0,131],["Building the real graph",0,154],["Numbers that mean something",0,155],["Cycles and layering",0,148],["Blast radius before a change",0,503,[[64,1,"A reader of stored or transmitted data still needs its unknown branch for versions you do not control (schema-evolution)"]]],["Why \"everything imports it\" is a constraint",0,89],["Common mistakes",0,153],["Red flags",0,63]]],["finding-the-seam",3,"Use when deciding where in a codebase to make a change, when a fix could plausibly go in several places…",1057,[],[["Overview",0,59],["When to use",0,79,[[24,1,"Not for: enumerating who is affected once the site is chosen (mapping-dependencies), replacing a system over many releases (incremental-migration), or isolating a dependency purely to test it (testing-the-untestable)."],[29,1,"Not for: enumerating who is affected once the site is chosen (mapping-dependencies), replacing a system over many releases (incremental-migration), or isolating a dependency purely to test it (testing-the-untestable)."],[40,1,"Not for: enumerating who is affected once the site is chosen (mapping-dependencies), replacing a system over many releases (incremental-migration), or isolating a dependency purely to test it (testing-the-untestable)."]]],["Seam types",0,166],["Ranking candidate sites",0,187],["The narrowest spanning interface",0,176],["When no seam exists",0,204],["Common mistakes",0,131],["Red flags",0,55]]],["naming-things",3,"Use when choosing an identifier for a variable, function, type, module, flag, config key, table, or event; when a name is misleading…",1617,[],[["Overview",0,64],["When to use",0,72,[[30,1,"Not for: mechanics of executing a large rename safely (refactoring-safely), or designing the shape of an interface rather than its vocabulary (designing-apis)."],[57,1,"Not for: mechanics of executing a large rename safely (refactoring-safely), or designing the shape of an interface rather than its vocabulary (designing-apis)."]]],["Length is proportional to scope",0,157],["What a name should encode",0,159],["Booleans, functions, collections",0,324],["Abbreviations, jargon, and inherited misnomers",0,208],["Renaming has a real price",0,206],["One string doing two jobs",0,234],["Common mistakes",0,142],["Red flags",0,51]]],["atomic-commits",4,"Use when a working tree has grown several unrelated changes, when deciding what belongs in one commit…",2160,[],[["Overview",0,34],["When to use",0,139,[[28,1,"Not for: what the message should say — see writing-commit-messages."],[36,1,"Not for choosing merge, squash, or rebase at integration time — see landing-a-finished-branch."],[30,1,"Not for deciding whether a restructure preserves behavior — see refactoring-safely"]]],["What \"logical\" means",0,137],["Splitting a tree that grew three changes",0,239],["Staging a tree you do not solely own",0,997,[[35,1,"Make each intermediate state in a throwaway worktree instead — outside the checkout, or ignored by it (isolating-work-with-worktrees) — and build and test it there."]]],["Separating pure refactors from behavior changes",0,141],["Where atomicity pays",0,144,[[49,1,"Bisect — its resolution is your commit size (bisecting-failures for the search itself)."]]],["Common mistakes",0,190],["Red flags",0,139]]],["writing-commit-messages",4,"Use when writing or rewriting a commit message, when drafting a subject line, when a history reads as \"fix\", \"wip\"…",1009,[],[["Overview",0,46],["When to use",0,69,[[27,1,"Not for deciding what belongs in the commit — see atomic-commits."],[22,1,"Not for reconstructing intent from an existing history — see code-archaeology."]]],["The subject line is an index entry",0,150],["Body: four things, in this order",0,280],["Trailers and references",0,159],["The six-month test",0,93],["Common mistakes",0,137],["Red flags",0,75]]],["incremental-migration",4,"Use when replacing a system, library, API, storage engine, or data format that is already in use…",1086,[],[["Overview",0,49],["When to use",0,85,[[65,1,"Not for: the internals of a data backfill or a schema version sequence — see data-migrations and schema-evolution."],[64,1,"Not for: the internals of a data backfill or a schema version sequence — see data-migrations and schema-evolution."],[33,1,"Not for the toggle mechanism itself — see feature-flagging."]]],["Two shapes, and which applies",0,239],["Running both and deciding to cut over",0,187],["Keeping the migration observable",0,140],["Not becoming the permanent half-migration",0,181],["Common mistakes",0,142],["Red flags",0,63]]],["refactoring-safely",4,"Use when restructuring existing code without changing what it does, when a change touches many call sites at once…",1418,[],[["Overview",0,30],["When to use",0,73,[[43,1,"Not for: building the safety net in untested code — see characterization-testing."],[25,1,"Not for creating a test seam where none exists — see finding-the-seam."],[29,1,"Not for restructuring stretched across releases — see incremental-migration."]]],["What \"behavior\" actually includes",0,157],["One transformation at a time",0,425,[[27,1,"Each commit this produces is the atomic kind atomic-commits covers — a refactor commit that also carries a behavior change isn't atomic no matter how small it is."]]],["Duplication that is load-bearing",0,52,[[31,1,"judging-duplication covers making that call."]]],["Before touching untested code",0,204],["Refactor or rewrite",0,214],["Common mistakes",0,177],["Red flags",0,86]]],["judging-duplication",4,"Use when two pieces of code look nearly identical and merging them is the obvious cleanup, when a reviewer asks why a near-copy exists…",1187,[],[["Overview",0,48],["When to use",0,70,[[30,1,"Not for: the mechanics of performing the merge once decided (refactoring-safely), or where to place the resulting module (drawing-boundaries)."],[62,1,"Not for: the mechanics of performing the merge once decided (refactoring-safely), or where to place the resulting module (drawing-boundaries)."]]],["Who observes the difference",0,222,[[22,1,"code-archaeology is the tool when the answer is not in the file."]]],["Coincidence versus a shared reason",0,144],["Arbitrary is what a specification looks like from inside",0,127],["The rule of three, and why it is about information",0,131],["Where the failure lands",0,112],["Residue when you keep the split",0,138],["Common mistakes",0,127],["Red flags",0,68]]],["deleting-code",4,"Use when removing code, a feature, an endpoint, a config key, a column, or a dependency that appears unused…",1555,[],[["Overview",0,40],["When to use",0,98,[[29,1,"Not for: removing an old implementation as the final phase of a replacement — see incremental-migration."],[22,1,"Not for judging whether historical code is load-bearing — see code-archaeology."]]],["Proving deadness",0,350,[[67,1,"This is the one case where instrumenting-for-observability's rule inverts: normally you emit what changed, here you need to emit that nothing did, and a counter that only increments is the only shape that can prove absence."]]],["A live control removed for friction",0,171,[[22,1,"code-archaeology finds the reason a thing was built"]]],["Deprecation is a schedule, not a label",0,128],["Delete, do not comment out",0,388],["When consumers are outside your view",0,114],["Common mistakes",0,184],["Red flags",0,82]]],["feature-flagging",4,"Use when hiding unfinished work behind a toggle, when planning a gradual rollout, a kill switch, or a dark launch…",1343,[],[["Overview",0,52],["When to use",0,73,[[29,1,"Not for: moving traffic between two implementations over weeks — the flag is one instrument inside incremental-migration."],[66,1,"Not for how configuration is stored, layered, and validated — see configuration-management."]]],["Four types, four lifespans",0,263],["Flag debt",0,244],["The combinatorial problem",0,128],["Defaults that fail safe",0,215,[[58,1,"modeling-errors has the three-outcome rule and the bound that carries the last confirmation."]]],["When a flag is the wrong answer",0,142],["Common mistakes",0,159],["Red flags",0,67]]],["resolving-merge-conflicts",4,"Use when a merge or rebase reports conflicts, when a long-lived branch has diverged and integration looks painful…",1595,[],[["Overview",0,46],["When to use",0,66,[[36,1,"Not for: choosing merge, rebase, or squash as an integration strategy — see landing-a-finished-branch."],[35,1,"Not for isolating branches so they stop colliding — see isolating-work-with-worktrees."]]],["Understand both intents before touching a marker",0,95,[[28,1,"This is where commit-message quality pays out — and where its absence costs an hour (see writing-commit-messages)."]]],["Resolve by re-applying intent",0,208],["Semantic conflicts: clean merge, wrong program",0,506],["Make conflicts rarer instead of better",0,169],["Reuse and retreat",0,267],["Common mistakes",0,173],["Red flags",0,65]]],["isolating-work-with-worktrees",4,"Use when starting work that shouldn't touch the current checkout, before running a multi-step plan you might need to abandon cleanly…",1876,[],[["Overview",0,99],["When to use",0,100,[[13,1,"Before running a multi-step plan, alongside working-a-plan-task-by-task — a bad step partway through shouldn't cost you the checkout you started from."],[15,1,"Several independent tasks about to run against the same repo at once, pairing with fanning-out-independent-work — each one needs a workspace nothing else is writing to concurrently."],[36,1,"Not for: deciding whether to merge, rebase, or discard a finished branch (see landing-a-finished-branch)."]]],["Detect before you build",0,157],["Isolation is a trade, not a default",0,144],["Native tool first, git worktree second",0,336],["When the create step fails, the next command still runs",0,371,[[95,1,"portable-shell-scripting's section on cd has the mechanics of why a failed cd or chain stays silent."]]],["Cleanup is not optional",0,128],["A new workspace starts at zero",0,124],["Common mistakes",0,214],["Red flags",0,203]]],["landing-a-finished-branch",4,"Use when implementation is done and its tests are green and it's time to decide how the branch lands, when choosing between a local merge…",2051,[],[["Overview",0,92],["When to use",0,137,[[35,1,"Not for: isolating work before it starts (see isolating-work-with-worktrees)."],[84,1,"Not for: what to say once it has landed — offering-the-next-move closes the run out."],[27,1,"By the time these decisions apply, the branch's commits should already read the way atomic-commits describes — one commit, one decision."]]],["Deciding it's actually finished",0,255],["When what you land carries someone else's work",0,422,[[17,1,"When that person is unreachable, bounding-autonomous-work covers what substitutes for the gate."]]],["What's on the menu",0,262],["Merge, rebase, or squash",0,225,[[27,1,"A branch built the way atomic-commits describes has a real sequence worth keeping, so a merge or a rebase preserves something real."]]],["Carrying out the choice",0,236],["Cleaning up",0,172],["Common mistakes",0,183],["Red flags",0,67]]],["designing-test-data",5,"Use when a test's setup is longer than its assertions, when fixtures are shared across files…",2046,[],[["Overview",0,40],["When to use",0,164,[[46,1,"Not for: the red-green-refactor loop itself, owned by writing-the-failing-test-first."],[38,1,"auditing a category you don't yet handle is auditing-new-input-categories."]]],["The one-obvious-difference rule",0,100],["Near-misses, not just examples",0,322,[[101,1,"The same record that measures how often a proposed rule would fire (automating-repetition) is where its negative corpus comes from."]]],["Defaults are a design decision",0,142],["Builders over shared fixtures",0,172],["Realistic over minimal",0,216,[[38,1,"that is a different problem, not covered by picking a better value, and it is auditing-new-input-categories's job."]]],["Volume without hand-writing it",0,202,[[39,1,"(This is bulk data with a shape you already know — a generator searching an input domain for a case that breaks a property is property-based-testing, a different problem that happens to share the seeding discipline.)"],[45,1,"For a double standing in for something you do not control, the governing question is where its content came from — see grounding-test-doubles."]]],["A re-run must start from a state the system can reach",0,397],["Common mistakes",0,208],["Red flags",0,83]]],["auditing-new-input-categories",5,"Use when extending a system to handle a new category of input — a new script or writing system, file format, payment method…",1274,[],[["Overview",0,81],["When to use",0,186,[[37,1,"Ordinary test data for that is designing-test-data."],[45,1,"Not for: a double standing in for a system you do not control — grounding-test-doubles owns fixtures whose real shape lives outside your own code."],[39,1,"Not for: hunting for unknown edge cases inside a category already in production, via random generation — that is property-based-testing."]]],["A new category is not a new instance",0,199],["A clean run on prior categories is not evidence",0,80],["Source the trouble spots from expertise, not invention",0,224],["Run the known trouble spots before real content finds them",0,279],["Common mistakes",0,142],["Red flags",0,83]]],["property-based-testing",5,"Use when example tests only cover the cases someone thought of, when testing parsers, serializers, encoders, sorting, comparators…",1478,[],[["Overview",0,45],["When to use",0,154,[[46,1,"Not for: the red-green-refactor cycle, owned by writing-the-failing-test-first."],[37,1,"Not for: authoring setup data whose shape you already fully know — designing-test-data covers builders, defaults, and volume for that."]]],["The property catalogue",0,189],["Generators are the real work",0,162],["Shrinking is why the technique pays",0,123],["When the domain is a closed catalogue, enumerate it",0,386,[[42,1,"regression-test-from-bug's step 5 (revert the fix, watch the test go red) proves the same thing once, by hand"]]],["Working the failure",0,137],["Common mistakes",0,191],["Red flags",0,91]]],["testing-the-untestable",5,"Use when a test calls the wall clock, sleeps, hits the network, writes to the real filesystem, reads environment variables…",1926,[],[["Overview",0,32],["When to use",0,162,[[51,1,"Code spawns threads, tasks, or processes and the test's outcome depends on their interleaving (debugging-concurrency once an interleaving bug is already loose, rather than being designed against)."],[41,1,"Not for: diagnosing a suite that is already intermittently failing — that is flaky-test-triage."],[45,1,"grounding-test-doubles decides whether the double is faithful — captured from the real thing rather than composed from memory, and raising rather than shrugging on a shape it does not recognise."]]],["Own the boundary, one seam per category",0,291,[[47,1,"What varies is measured, not seeded (evaluating-llm-output)"]]],["Time, and why sleeping is always wrong",0,231],["Fake, stub, mock, or real",0,300],["Auditing determinism",0,287],["Ordering, and the tiebreak that is randomness",0,274],["Common mistakes",0,239,[[96,1,"Ambient timezone, locale, filesystem case-sensitivity, or core count differs — reproducible-environments covers pinning the ones the test never declared"],[45,1,"grounding-test-doubles keeps one live test per integration for exactly this"]]],["Red flags",0,110]]],["flaky-test-triage",5,"Use when a test passes on rerun, fails only in CI, fails only when the whole suite runs, fails after midnight or across a DST change…",1930,[],[["Overview",0,55],["When to use",0,117,[[55,1,"Not for: a test that fails every time — that is a deterministic bug, owned by diagnosing-before-fixing."],[47,1,"its failure rate is the measurement, owned by evaluating-llm-output."]]],["The arithmetic that forces the issue",0,71],["Cause taxonomy",0,754],["Diagnosis",0,362,[[40,1,"When the defect is in the test — it's exercising something inherently non-deterministic rather than a real product race — testing-the-untestable covers making that source of non-determinism controllable instead of retried around."],[51,1,"force the order with debugging-concurrency's injected delay and test the fix under that."]]],["Quarantine, with an expiry",0,121],["Why blanket retry is the wrong response",0,117],["Common mistakes",0,232],["Red flags",0,101]]],["regression-test-from-bug",5,"Use when a defect has been reported, reproduced, or patched, when writing a test for a production incident or hotfix…",1443,[],[["Overview",0,42],["When to use",0,121,[[48,1,"Not for: turning a vague report into an on-demand failure — that is reproducing-bugs."],[55,1,"Not for: finding the root cause — that is diagnosing-before-fixing."]]],["The procedure",0,171],["Scope the assertion to the invariant, not the trace",0,244],["When the suite cannot see the failure, pin a measured proxy",0,318],["Naming and locating",0,118],["Keeping it afterwards",0,140],["Common mistakes",0,212],["Red flags",0,77]]],["characterization-testing",5,"Use when changing, refactoring, extracting, porting, or deleting code that has no tests…",1486,[],[["Overview",0,42],["When to use",0,96,[[46,1,"Not for: behavior somebody can actually specify — write the specification as a test instead, via writing-the-failing-test-first."],[42,1,"Not for: a known defect — that is regression-test-from-bug."]]],["Choosing the observation point",0,172],["Building the pin",0,200,[[45,1,"This is grounding-test-doubles' capture-over-compose rule pointed at your own code rather than at a vendor's: an input you invented and the code you are pinning encode the same beliefs, so the recording proves only that you are…"]]],["A pin can survive a refactor and stop watching",0,293],["Keeping goldens from churning",0,165],["Recording bugs on purpose",0,106],["Approval discipline and retirement",0,112],["Common mistakes",0,194],["Red flags",0,106]]],["choosing-test-scope",5,"Use when deciding whether a behavior belongs in a unit, integration, contract, or end-to-end test…",3635,[],[["Overview",0,38],["When to use",0,113,[[40,1,"Not for: how to make a chosen layer deterministic — that is testing-the-untestable."],[47,1,"Not for: output from a language model, whose correctness is a rate rather than a verdict — that is evaluating-llm-output."]]],["What each layer alone can catch",0,174],["Applying the one-reason rule",0,134],["Contracts beat integration combinatorics",0,126],["Test the boundary you own",0,133],["Where a double's content comes from",0,70,[[45,1,"grounding-test-doubles covers fixture provenance and the live test that breaks the tie."]]],["Budgets, and the end-to-end death spiral",0,176],["Code whose job is to prevent something is tested at its call path",0,536],["A setup too small to show the difference has not tested for it",0,517],["When a bug escapes every layer",0,89],["An exclusion names a mechanism, not a justification",0,778],["An accumulator is checked against a second derivation",0,301],["Common mistakes",0,305],["Red flags",0,145]]],["grounding-test-doubles",5,"Use when writing a mock, stub, fake, or fixture for something you do not control — an HTTP API, a vendor SDK, a queue, a device…",2165,[],[["Overview",0,66],["When to use",0,104,[[44,1,"Not for: which layer to test at (choosing-test-scope), constructing your own domain objects (designing-test-data), or faking time, randomness, and the filesystem (testing-the-untestable) — those you do control, and this problem…"],[37,1,"Not for: which layer to test at (choosing-test-scope), constructing your own domain objects (designing-test-data), or faking time, randomness, and the filesystem (testing-the-untestable) — those you do control, and this problem…"],[40,1,"Not for: …layer to test at (choosing-test-scope), constructing your own domain objects (designing-test-data), or faking time, randomness, and the filesystem (testing-the-untestable) — those you do control, and this problem does not arise."]]],["The one-party trap",0,110],["Capture over compose",0,184,[[76,1,"See redacting-sensitive-output."]]],["One live test per integration",0,132],["Assume the shape varies where you have not looked",0,165],["Your own system is also something you do not control",0,472],["Make the mismatch loud",0,130],["The failure that runs the other way",0,513,[[55,1,"Frames that come back byte-identical after an input are that silence made visible, and diagnosing-before-fixing's exact-null section is how to read them."]]],["Common mistakes",0,191],["Red flags",0,98]]],["writing-the-failing-test-first",5,"Use when implementing any new feature, fixing a bug, or changing existing behavior — before any production code gets written.",3367,[],[["Overview",0,95],["When to use",0,177,[[42,1,"Fixing a bug: the failing test is the reproduction, and that same test proves the fix (see regression-test-from-bug for scoping the assertion and naming the test after the defect)."],[43,1,"Not for: code with no tests and no spec, where you don't yet know what it's supposed to do — pin what it actually does first (see characterization-testing)."],[44,1,"Not for: which test level catches a given kind of bug (see choosing-test-scope)."],[37,1,"Not for: what makes a generated or fixture value trustworthy (see designing-test-data, property-based-testing)."],[39,1,"Not for: what makes 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routing-around-capability-gaps has the general form of that preference."]]],["A judge is a classifier, so measure it like one",0,356,[[18,1,"designing-verifiable-goals covers the rest of that check."]]],["Build the set from what the feature actually receives",0,135,[[45,1,"Capture real ones — sampled from production or from the people already using the feature — and keep them, with the output and the verdict (grounding-test-doubles has the general case for capture over composition)."],[42,1,"Every failure found in production becomes a case, the same way a bug becomes a regression test (regression-test-from-bug)."],[38,1,"When users start sending a new kind of input, that is a new category rather than more of the same, and the existing pass rate says nothing about it (auditing-new-input-categories)."]]],["A pass rate is an estimate",0,162,[[41,1,"retrying hides exactly the rate you were measuring (flaky-test-triage)."]]],["Two suites, two jobs",0,204,[[97,1,"…is slower, costs money, and 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debugging-concurrency."]]],["Traces that lie",0,286],["When the trace ends inside a framework",0,131,[[49,1,"If it really is a framework defect, pin the last working version (bisecting-failures over dependency versions) and record the reason next to the pin."]]],["Common mistakes",0,143],["Red flags",0,56]]],["debugging-concurrency",6,"Use when a failure depends on timing, thread or task interleaving, or load, when a test passes alone but fails in parallel, when a hang…",1816,[],[["Overview",0,37],["When to use",0,101,[[41,1,"Not for: a flaky test whose cause is shared fixtures or ordering in the harness rather than the system under test (flaky-test-triage), or an intermittent failure whose rate has not been measured yet (reproducing-bugs)."],[48,1,"Not for: a flaky test whose cause is shared fixtures or ordering in the harness rather than the system under test (flaky-test-triage), or an intermittent failure whose rate has not been measured yet (reproducing-bugs)."]]],["Classify before 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rather than cost per operation (finding-resource-leaks), or capacity questions that are really about queueing and load shedding (rate-limiting-and-backpressure)."]]],["Before touching anything",0,148],["Latency and throughput pull in opposite directions",0,135],["Percentiles",0,172],["Reading a profile",0,249],["Amdahl's check",0,73],["Size is a cost too: measure it where it ships",0,92],["Benchmark traps",0,843,[],[["The thing you measured may not be one thing",399]]],["Reliable is not large",0,259],["Stopping",0,85],["Common mistakes",0,175],["Red flags",0,103]]],["finding-resource-leaks",6,"Use when memory, file descriptors, sockets, threads, connections, timers, or event subscriptions grow without bound…",1707,[],[["Overview",0,49],["When to use",0,89,[[53,1,"Not for: cost per operation at fixed load (performance-profiling), or a bounded queue backing up under real load (rate-limiting-and-backpressure)."],[68,1,"Not for: cost per operation at fixed load (performance-profiling), or a bounded queue backing up under real load (rate-limiting-and-backpressure)."]]],["Detect by growth",0,174],["The resource table",0,227],["Leak versus not-a-leak",0,168],["Reading a heap snapshot",0,174],["Ownership across paradigms",0,188],["Error paths are where the leaks actually are",0,149],["A release that waits to be told",0,288],["Common mistakes",0,139],["Red flags",0,62]]],["diagnosing-before-fixing",6,"Use when a bug, test failure, crash, or any behavior that doesn't match what the code should do needs a fix and none has been proposed…",7308,[],[["Overview",0,86],["When to use",0,207,[[56,1,"The loop below reproduces before it fixes, and during an outage every minute spent reproducing is spent on the people affected — responding-to-incidents inverts the order, and hands back here once they are safe."],[49,1,"Not for: …specific technique once you're already inside the loop — isolating which change introduced a regression (bisecting-failures), interpreting a crash or trace 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that only sometimes happens (flaky-test-triage)."]]],["The loop",0,133,[[48,1,"Nothing to trigger yet at all — that's reproducing-bugs."],[41,1,"Intermittent, and the failing thing is specifically a test — that's flaky-test-triage."]]],["Specialized terrain inside the loop",0,124,[[49,1,"bisecting-failures"],[50,1,"reading-stack-traces"],[51,1,"debugging-concurrency"],[54,1,"finding-resource-leaks"],[41,1,"flaky-test-triage"]]],["Investigate first",0,186,[[49,1,"A diff too large to read by eye is what bisecting-failures is for"]]],["Trace backward to the source",0,151],["Prove it before you build it",0,198],["Fix at the source, then close every layer",0,180,[[46,1,"writing-the-failing-test-first covers writing it properly and confirming-before-claiming-done covers confirming the result before calling it done."],[80,1,"writing-the-failing-test-first covers writing it properly and confirming-before-claiming-done covers confirming the result before calling it done."]]],["A retry is an experiment only if something differed",0,256],["A factor that never varied has not been ruled out",0,278,[[49,1,"When the un-varied factor is which commit, that is what bisecting-failures is for."]]],["Several anomalies at once describe the apparatus, not the hypothesis",0,267],["A reading that contradicts itself is about the instrument",0,362],["An exact null result indicts the plumbing, not the parameter",0,571,[[62,1,"drawing-boundaries owns the design-time half of this, where several individually correct rules compose to admit nothing and no one owns the composition"]]],["A symptom read off a screen has passed through a renderer first",0,250,[[58,1,"modeling-errors explains why its author reaches for a default that looks like health"]]],["A guard that refuses to run has already measured something",0,234],["An absent log line is evidence only if the emitter was armed",0,362],["A transport-shaped failure in a credential flow indicts the clock, not the value",0,263],["An environmental 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nonzero failure rate isn't confirmation — see reproducing-bugs for how many clean runs actually are enough"]]],["Red flags",0,275],["Reference · Condition Based Waiting",1,400,[],[["The pattern",32,[],"ref-condition-based-waiting-the-pattern"],["Writing the wait",118,[],"ref-condition-based-waiting-writing-the-wait"],["When a fixed delay is actually correct",93,[],"ref-condition-based-waiting-when-a-fixed-delay-is-actually-correct"],["Common mistakes",83,[],"ref-condition-based-waiting-common-mistakes"]],"ref-condition-based-waiting"],["Reference · Defense In Depth",1,462,[[73,1,"This is a different concern from validating input at a trust boundary — handling-untrusted-input owns parsing external data into a type that cannot hold an invalid value in the first place."]],[["Map the checkpoints before adding anything",58,[],"ref-defense-in-depth-map-the-checkpoints-before-adding-anything"],["The layers",168,[],"ref-defense-in-depth-the-layers"],["Why one layer keeps not being enough",114,[],"ref-defense-in-depth-why-one-layer-keeps-not-being-enough"]],"ref-defense-in-depth"],["Reference · Root Cause Tracing",1,485,[[49,1,"…to trace one at a time — many call sites could plausibly be the one producing the bad value — narrow it the same way bisecting-failures narrows a commit range: isolate half the callers, rerun, keep the half that still reproduces, repeat."]],[["The technique",195,[],"ref-root-cause-tracing-the-technique"],["When linear tracing stalls",152,[[49,1]],"ref-root-cause-tracing-when-linear-tracing-stalls"],["Trace, then defend",63,[],"ref-root-cause-tracing-trace-then-defend"]],"ref-root-cause-tracing"]]],["responding-to-incidents",6,"Use when something is broken in production right now — an outage, a degradation, a bad deploy, data going wrong in flight…",1966,[],[["Overview",0,229],["When to use",0,107,[[55,1,"Not for: a bug that is not currently harming anyone — diagnosing-before-fixing is faster and better for that, and this skill's 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code modeling-errors requires."],[80,1,"confirming-before-claiming-done lists what that looks like from the other side."],[47,1,"…operation chosen, parameters misfilled, the same call repeated — each is a finding about the name, the description, or the shape of the response, and fixes to those are measured the way any model-facing change is (evaluating-llm-output)."]]],["Versioning and the compatibility contract",0,119,[[64,1,"The menu of versioning strategies and their real costs is the same whether you're picking one now or dealing with a contract that's already shipped — see schema-evolution's versioning table rather than a second copy here."]]],["Common mistakes",0,231,[[64,1,"Member added before tolerant clients were deployed — see schema-evolution for the deployment order"]]],["Red flags",0,70]]],["modeling-errors",7,"Use when deciding how a failure should be represented or handled — choosing between exceptions, result or either types, error codes…",2943,[],[["Overview",0,28],["When to use",0,97,[[57,1,"Not for: the wire-level shape of the error contract at a public boundary (designing-apis), or the safety of the retry itself (designing-for-idempotency)."],[59,1,"Not for: the wire-level shape of the error contract at a public boundary (designing-apis), or the safety of the retry itself (designing-for-idempotency)."]]],["Four classes, four treatments",0,571],["Choosing the mechanism",0,165],["Errors as values a caller can act on",0,1170,[[63,1,"caching-strategy's rule against caching a timeout is the same distinction applied to storage, and feature-flagging's default of deny for an entitlement is what a principal nothing is known about receives, not the verdict for one the…"],[33,1,"caching-strategy's rule against caching a timeout is the same distinction applied to storage, and feature-flagging's default of deny for an entitlement is what a principal nothing is known about receives, not the verdict for one the…"]],[["When you are the downstream and no stable code was published",340],["Two causes that render identically must not share one verdict",188],["A gate's lookup has three answers, not two",505,[[63,1],[33,1]]]]],["Wrap, swallow, rethrow, boundary",0,452],["Common mistakes",0,312],["Red flags",0,148]]],["designing-for-idempotency",7,"Use when an operation can arrive more than once — retries after a timeout with an unknown outcome, at-least-once queues…",2364,[],[["Overview",0,32],["When to use",0,80,[[58,1,"Not for: deciding which failures are worth retrying (modeling-errors), or how much retrying the system will absorb (rate-limiting-and-backpressure)."],[68,1,"Not for: deciding which failures are worth retrying (modeling-errors), or how much retrying the system will absorb (rate-limiting-and-backpressure)."]]],["Three kinds of operation",0,137],["Convergence is the defect when somebody else writes between runs",0,438],["Idempotency keys",0,682,[[72,1,"threat-modeling's A limit is a property of state, not of one transition owns finding every route that reaches it."]]],["Idempotent, commutative, associative",0,129],["Non-idempotent side effects at the boundary",0,219],["A gate added mid-operation turns one call into several whole ones",0,351],["Common mistakes",0,229],["Red flags",0,67]]],["choosing-concurrency-model",7,"Use when work must happen at the same time and the approach is undecided — OS threads, async or event loops, actors and message passing…",1296,[],[["Overview",0,34],["When to use",0,105,[[51,1,"Not for: diagnosing a specific existing race or deadlock (debugging-concurrency), or setting queue bounds and shedding policy once the model is chosen (rate-limiting-and-backpressure)."],[68,1,"Not for: diagnosing a specific existing race or deadlock (debugging-concurrency), or setting queue bounds and shedding policy once the model is chosen (rate-limiting-and-backpressure)."]]],["Three questions, in order",0,143,[[53,1,"Measure the split between on-CPU time and time blocked in syscalls — a measurement, on performance-profiling's terms, taken before a model is chosen rather than after one disappoints."]]],["The models",0,220],["Shared state versus message passing",0,192],["Costs nobody budgets",0,262],["When not to be concurrent",0,106],["Common mistakes",0,168],["Red flags",0,66,[[53,1,"Reaching for concurrency before profiling the sequential version (performance-profiling)."]]]]],["modeling-state-machines",7,"Use when something has a lifecycle — order, job, connection, upload, session, subscription, device…",1849,[],[["Overview",0,38],["When to use",0,88,[[65,1,"Not for: rewriting existing stored rows once the states change (data-migrations), or the wire compatibility rules for the state field (schema-evolution)."],[64,1,"Not for: rewriting existing stored rows once the states change (data-migrations), or the wire compatibility rules for the state field (schema-evolution)."]]],["Finding the real states",0,188],["Making illegal states unrepresentable",0,166],["The transition table is the specification",0,314],["Where the state lives, and crashes",0,207],["An outside trigger meets the state that exists when it arrives",0,413,[[55,1,"diagnosing-before-fixing's condition-based waiting covers polling for one, and this is the condition that applies when there is no ready flag to poll."],[40,1,"The clock is injected (testing-the-untestable), so none of the three sleeps."],[59,1,"Each action still needs a decided answer for the duplicate (designing-for-idempotency)."]]],["Testing",0,153],["Common mistakes",0,215],["Red flags",0,67]]],["drawing-boundaries",7,"Use when deciding what belongs together — module, package, crate, library, process…",2188,[],[["Overview",0,27],["When to use",0,81,[[57,1,"Not for: the shape of the interface once the boundary exists (designing-apis), or measuring what currently depends on what (mapping-dependencies)."],[24,1,"Not for: the shape of the interface once the boundary exists (designing-apis), or measuring what currently depends on what (mapping-dependencies)."]]],["The criteria",0,230],["Dependency direction",0,244],["What a boundary costs",0,179],["A cost rule stated inside a module says nothing about the pipeline",0,769,[[67,1,"instrumenting-for-observability owns the case where a gate rejects everything because one of its inputs has no source, and its remedy — record which clause rejected, never summing measured and failed with nothing measured — is the right…"]]],["When not to split",0,257,[[31,1,"Before merging two things that look alike, establish that the resemblance is a shared reason rather than a coincidence — judging-duplication."]]],["Common mistakes",0,265],["Red flags",0,136]]],["caching-strategy",7,"Use when adding a cache, memo table, CDN layer, or precomputed read path, when users report stale or wrong data after saving a change…",2879,[],[["Overview",0,54],["When to use",0,143,[[68,1,"Not for: an origin that is overloaded by demand rather than by repeated identical work — a cache is the wrong lever there, and rate-limiting-and-backpressure owns shedding, queueing, and slowing the producer down."]]],["Is this cacheable at all",0,164,[[53,1,"Cache what is expensive to compute, not what is accidentally slow — and \"expensive\" is a measurement, so the miss path goes through performance-profiling before it goes behind a cache."]]],["Name the staleness budget in time",0,244],["Let the response say how fresh it is",0,228],["Invalidation",0,219],["Stampede and thundering herd",0,196,[[68,1,"none of them bounds what the origin does once it is already behind, which is rate-limiting-and-backpressure's half of the same incident."]]],["Negative caching",0,130,[[58,1,"This is why the distinction modeling-errors draws between \"the answer is no\" and \"I could not get an answer\" has to survive into the cache layer: collapse the two and the second gets stored as the first"]]],["Key design",0,217,[[64,1,"A cache is a place a retired serialization shape outlives the code that wrote it, so it belongs in the same inventory schema-evolution keeps of readers you cannot deploy in lockstep."]]],["Where reuse is decided by a prefix, order the material by volatility",0,398],["Who else computes this key, and how did the request get here",0,432],["When it is not a cache",0,96,[[67,1,"…with a stated consistency guarantee, publish the replication lag as a number — an emitted signal, on instrumenting-for-observability's terms, not a figure someone can look up during an incident — and route the reads that cannot tolerate…"]]],["Common mistakes",0,231],["Red flags",0,127]]],["schema-evolution",7,"Use when changing a contract that is already in production — adding, removing, renaming, or retyping a field in a database schema…",3034,[],[["Overview",0,57],["When to use",0,154,[[24,1,"finding every site in this version that must handle it, including the ones the compiler cannot flag, is mapping-dependencies"],[65,1,"Not for: moving or rewriting the data that already exists — that is data-migrations, a separate discipline with its own failure modes that follows the order this skill sets"],[57,1,"Not for: designing a new interface that has no deployed callers yet — that is designing-apis"]]],["Backward and forward compatibility",0,447],["Expand, migrate, contract",0,199],["Additive-only rules",0,415],["Optional, defaulted, nullable",0,149],["A new credential is a required field, and can cut off the update notice",0,396],["Renaming and versioning",0,644,[],[["A version guard has to know which kind of change moved the number",462]]],["Reserve what you remove",0,143,[[69,1,"Where a column can be written by more than one kind of source, the provenance is part of the contract and needs its own field rather than a shared one — tracking-data-provenance."]]],["Common mistakes",0,278],["Red flags",0,152]]],["data-migrations",7,"Use when backfilling, transforming, re-encoding, or relocating data that already exists at a size too large for one transaction…",1523,[],[["Overview",0,58],["When to use",0,100,[[64,1,"Not for: changing the shape of the contract itself — that is schema-evolution, and it sets the order this skill's own live-traffic steps follow"]]],["Before writing the loop",0,171],["Batching and resumption",0,214],["Idempotency",0,198,[[59,1,"designing-for-idempotency is the general treatment — dedup keys, dedup windows, and why at-least-once delivery makes this a property to build rather than one to hope for"]]],["Verifying",0,187],["Running against live traffic",0,180,[[64,1,"The dual-write-before-backfill-before-cutover order is schema-evolution's expand/migrate/contract sequence — this migration follows it rather than restating it"]]],["There is usually no rollback",0,179,[[6,1,"That makes almost every migration a one-way door in deciding-reversibility's sense, and the decision deserves the weight that comes with it — the cheapness of writing the loop is not evidence about the cheapness of being wrong."]]],["Common mistakes",0,147],["Red flags",0,89]]],["configuration-management",7,"Use when adding an environment variable, setting, toggle, or config file entry, when secrets and configuration are tangled together…",2623,[],[["Overview",0,60],["When to use",0,118,[[75,1,"Not for: the full discipline once a value is identified as a secret — storage, rotation, and revocation are secrets-hygiene"],[76,1,"scrubbing one from logs or output is redacting-sensitive-output"]]],["Code, config, or secret",0,173],["Fail fast at startup",0,357],["A jointly unsatisfiable default fails silently, not loudly",0,604,[[67,1,"An unset opt-in reads as a value, off, rather than as the missing input instrumenting-for-observability alarms on, so every rejection is booked as someone who declined."]]],["Discovery comes before precedence",0,271],["Precedence, declared once",0,82],["Environment parity",0,106],["Make the effective config observable",0,118,[[76,1,"Redact by allowlist, never denylist — see redacting-sensitive-output for why a denylist of sensitive-looking names always misses one (dsn, webhook_url, and private_key_pem are the ones that get past password/token, and the first miss is in…"]]],["Defaults that are safe, not convenient",0,145],["When config is really a flag, or really a branch",0,288,[[33,2,"feature-flagging owns what happens next — the four flag types, each with its own lifespan, and the expiry that keeps a release flag from becoming permanent."]]],["Common mistakes",0,212],["Red flags",0,89]]],["instrumenting-for-observability",7,"Use when deciding what to log, measure, or trace, when an incident could not be explained from the telemetry that existed…",4174,[],[["Overview",0,68],["When to use",0,117,[[52,1,"Not for: safely enabling diagnostics against a live incident with what's already emitted — that's observing-production-safely"]]],["Three signals, three jobs",0,144],["Emit events, not sentences",0,109],["Cardinality is the bill",0,199],["Correlate across every boundary",0,164],["Instrument boundaries and decisions",0,125],["Levels that mean something",0,149],["Never log",0,86],["SLIs from the user's experience",0,383,[[76,1,"redacting-sensitive-output covers the second half."]]],["Measure what a component consumed, not that it ran",0,705,[[46,1,"This is the same emptiness that makes a test assertion vacuous in writing-the-failing-test-first — an empty collection makes a computation succeed loudly rather than fail — arriving here as a metric instead of a green test."]]],["A default is neutral in your type, and extreme on someone else's scale",0,357,[[21,1,"The durable fix is upstream of the choice — make absence representable so nobody has to pick a direction, which tracing-data-flow owns."]]],["Record the outcome where the outcome is known",0,486],["A rate's denominator must match its numerator's phase",0,175],["A log tailer must treat a shrunken file as a new file",0,157],["A report's account of its own basis must be computed live",0,226],["Common mistakes",0,393],["Red flags",0,131]]],["rate-limiting-and-backpressure",7,"Use when a system is receiving more load than it can serve, when designing throttling, quotas, or 429 responses…",2876,[],[["Overview",0,55],["When to use",0,130,[[63,1,"Not for: load that is the same expensive answer computed repeatedly — that is caching-strategy's problem, and the cheapest request is the one the origin never sees."]]],["Shed, queue, or slow down",0,140],["Algorithms",0,235],["Choosing the dimension",0,195],["A fixed shared capacity split across non-fungible types needs a floor per type",0,189],["Backpressure",0,216],["Deadline-first starves whatever can wait",0,190],["Start the clock when the work does",0,219,[[15,1,"fanning-out-independent-work is where the wave shape gets decided"]]],["Bound the resource, not the batch",0,191],["Watch age, not just depth",0,125,[[67,1,"depth is what a queue reports about itself for free, and age is what instrumenting-for-observability calls the measurement you have to decide to take before the incident, not during it."]]],["Retries",0,319,[[59,1,"\"Idempotent\" here is a property someone had to build, not one to assume from the verb — designing-for-idempotency covers the keys and dedup windows that make a retried write safe, and a retry policy laid over an operation that never got…"]]],["Breakers and shedding",0,158],["Tell the caller",0,147,[[58,1,"That is exactly the split modeling-errors asks for before a mechanism gets chosen, arriving at the point where a client has to act on it: one class is a permanent answer about this request, the other is a temporary answer about the system."]]],["Common mistakes",0,236],["Red flags",0,131]]],["tracking-data-provenance",7,"Use when a record can be written from more than one kind of source — measured, imported, inferred, user-asserted…",1379,[],[["Overview",0,76],["When to use",0,100,[[21,1,"Not for: how a value moves at runtime (tracing-data-flow), the shape of the endpoint once you know how many you need (designing-apis), or migrating a live table to carry the new column (schema-evolution)."],[57,1,"Not for: how a value moves at runtime (tracing-data-flow), the shape of the endpoint once you know how many you need (designing-apis), or migrating a live table to carry the new column (schema-evolution)."],[64,1,"Not for: how a value moves at runtime (tracing-data-flow), the shape of the endpoint once you know how many you need (designing-apis), or migrating a live table to carry the new column (schema-evolution)."]]],["Kinds of claim",0,141],["One write path per provenance",0,205],["Confidence laundering",0,185],["A provenance field defaulted to the current value cannot record ignorance",0,314],["Keeping it honest over time",0,151],["Common mistakes",0,133],["Red flags",0,74]]],["keeping-copies-in-sync",7,"Use when the same fact — a version number, a policy document, a lockfile entry…",2479,[],[["Overview",0,160],["When to use",0,264,[[24,1,"Not for: choosing whether a value should have more than one writer at all — mapping-dependencies' data-edge material is the diagnostic step that finds a fact already living in more than one place"],[85,1,"Not for: a document specifically (a README, a guide, a reference page) duplicating what the code already states — writing-durable-docs owns writing prose so it cannot drift, including its own note on two mirrored documents."],[98,1,"Not for: a dependency's own declared version against what actually got installed — upgrading-dependencies owns reading that diff on upgrade."]]],["The number of places is the number of ways to disagree",0,171],["Memory is not a plan",0,159],["Prefer generating over copying, and checking over trusting",0,250],["Finding the copies before writing the check",0,105],["A generated copy that is committed can drift again",0,224],["A copy that describes behavior is true of a build, not of a commit",0,372,[[85,1,"writing-durable-docs has the opposite direction, a document that lags a behavior change."],[80,1,"confirming-before-claiming-done's The push is not the reach has the general rule."]]],["The running copy can be ahead of the source",0,276],["Common mistakes",0,345],["Red flags",0,153]]],["building-llm-features",7,"Use when code calls a language model at runtime — adding the first call, choosing or changing the model identifier…",2345,[],[["Overview",0,141],["When to use",0,189,[[47,1,"Not for: measuring whether the output is good — evaluating-llm-output owns evals and judges."],[57,1,"Not for: designing the tools a model will call (designing-apis has a section on callers that are models)."],[17,1,"Not for: an agent working in your repository rather than a model inside your product — see bounding-autonomous-work and least-privilege-design."],[78,1,"Not for: an agent working in your repository rather than a model inside your product — see bounding-autonomous-work and least-privilege-design."]]],["The model is a pinned, behavioral dependency",0,155,[[98,1,"upgrading-dependencies treats that move as the behavioral major it is."]]],["Prompts are code",0,131,[[47,1,"Any change to any part of the unit runs the evals (evaluating-llm-output), including the \"harmless wording tweak\"."],[66,1,"configuration-management covers what, if anything, may vary per environment."]]],["A call has more outcomes than success and failure",0,572,[[68,1,"Retry with backoff and a budget (rate-limiting-and-backpressure)"],[58,1,"Retry only the transient class, and keep the retry budget small (modeling-errors)."],[59,1,"When a call can trigger a tool with side effects, the retry is a second invocation of that tool unless the tool is idempotent (designing-for-idempotency)."],[73,1,"Parse the output into a type at the boundary and reject what the type cannot hold (handling-untrusted-input)."],[64,2,"The schema is a contract with the model and with everything downstream, so changing it is schema-evolution, not an edit."],[57,2,"Name each record by a short, stable id the caller issued (designing-apis' Identifiers the caller can carry), never by its position or by a name the model might paraphrase."]]],["Its output is untrusted input to every sink",0,252,[[78,1,"A feature whose model can call tools gets the narrowest set that serves the feature, each with the narrowest credential (least-privilege-design)."],[73,1,"handling-untrusted-input has the general rule."],[72,1,"No credentials, no internal hostnames, no authorization logic that works only while it stays secret (threat-modeling)."]]],["Budgets, before the bill",0,145,[[63,1,"Order the request stable-first, volatile-last, so a prompt cache can reuse the shared prefix, and confirm hits in the usage the response reports rather than assuming them (caching-strategy)."]]],["A fallback model is a different model",0,91,[[80,1,"one that only runs during outages has never been tested (confirming-before-claiming-done)."]]],["Telemetry, and what stays out of it",0,155,[[67,1,"…an open telemetry standard publishes conventions for model calls, use its attribute names so tools can read them, and pin the convention version, since those conventions are young and names have moved (instrumenting-for-observability)."],[76,1,"Store content, if at all, in a separate place with its own retention and access, referenced from the span rather than inside it (redacting-sensitive-output)."],[69,1,"record it as such, or it will later be read as fact (tracking-data-provenance)."]]],["Where the test seam goes",0,155,[[40,1,"One seam at the model client, so unit tests never call a hosted model (testing-the-untestable)."],[45,1,"Capture real responses — refusals, truncations, tool calls, malformed output — and replay them (grounding-test-doubles)"],[39,1,"The output parses, the required fields are there, the total matches the items, no tool was called with an out-of-range argument (property-based-testing)."]]],["Common mistakes",0,231],["Red flags",0,128]]],["threat-modeling",8,"Use when a design introduces a new trust boundary, a new class of sensitive data, a new external integration…",2576,[],[["Overview",0,48],["When to use",0,117,[[77,1,"evaluating a package's supply chain (auditing-dependencies)"],[78,1,"writing the actual permission scopes (least-privilege-design)"],[73,1,"the input-handling rules themselves (handling-untrusted-input)."]]],["The four questions",0,123],["The boundary list is where the value is",0,549,[[78,1,"This is least-privilege-design's confused deputy seen from the target's side: the browser is the deputy, and whoever owns the listener can defend only the target."]]],["STRIDE as a prompt list, not a ritual",0,145],["Attackers, in capability tiers",0,186,[[3,1,"A clairvoyance sweep's actor pass — the empty chairs, the field a request sits in — hands off here the moment an adversarial chair is occupied"]]],["Ranking: impact × reachability",0,84],["The output",0,55],["A limit is a property of state, not of one transition",0,342,[[21,1,"tracing-data-flow covers doing that enumeration properly when the producers are not obvious."]]],["Confining what something may run does not confine what it may write",0,417,[[78,1,"least-privilege-design carries the same-moment version of this, where the gap is between an approved name and what that name resolves to at the instant it runs"]]],["Assumptions are the tripwires",0,144],["Common mistakes",0,192],["Red flags",0,174]]],["handling-untrusted-input",8,"Use when code accepts or parses data from outside its own trust boundary — requests, files, uploads, webhooks, message queues, config…",3525,[],[["Overview",0,52],["When to use",0,77,[[78,1,"Not for: deciding what privilege the parsing process runs with (least-privilege-design)"],[72,1,"deciding whether the boundary should exist (threat-modeling)."]]],["What is untrusted (the surprising entries)",0,162,[[71,1,"it does not make it safe or true (building-llm-features)."]]],["Parse, don't validate",0,273,[[74,1,"validating-numeric-input covers the rest of that domain."]]],["Injection is one bug with many names",0,346],["The destinations with no separating mechanism",0,842,[[77,1,"auditing-dependencies owns the dependency whose payload is prose."],[72,1,"threat-modeling owns deciding which that is, and least-privilege-design owns making the reach small enough that the answer is cheap."],[78,1,"threat-modeling owns deciding which that is, and least-privilege-design owns making the reach small enough that the answer is cheap."]]],["The second destination is a person",0,356,[[78,1,"least-privilege-design's confused deputy is the authority version of this borrowing — a component acting for someone else with its own permissions."]]],["Canonicalize, then check, then use the canonical value",0,180],["Allowlists, and limits on every parse",0,467,[[77,1,"auditing-dependencies covers the same characters where the carrier is a dependency's own prose."],[76,1,"Applying this across logs, traces, and crash dumps is redacting-sensitive-output."]]],["Output encoding is a separate obligation",0,112],["Deserialization",0,130],["Where validation belongs across layers",0,120],["Common mistakes",0,270],["Red flags",0,138]]],["validating-numeric-input",8,"Use when a number crosses a trust boundary — a form field, query parameter, JSON body, config value, CSV cell, sensor reading…",1071,[],[["Overview",0,70],["When to use",0,69,[[73,1,"Not for: the general parse-don't-validate argument and the injection family (handling-untrusted-input), or how to represent the resulting failure (modeling-errors)."],[58,1,"Not for: the general parse-don't-validate argument and the injection family (handling-untrusted-input), or how to represent the resulting failure (modeling-errors)."]]],["The order that works",0,98],["Values that defeat comparison",0,259],["Integers have their own failures",0,137],["Format and locale ambiguity",0,242],["Common mistakes",0,129],["Red flags",0,67]]],["secrets-hygiene",8,"Use when handling API keys, tokens, passwords, private keys, certificates, or connection strings — adding one to a service, CI pipeline…",3306,[],[["Overview",0,55],["When to use",0,121,[[78,1,"Not for: deciding what a credential should be allowed to do (least-privilege-design)"],[77,1,"whether a dependency can read your environment (auditing-dependencies)."]]],["Where secrets must never be, and why each is worse than it looks",0,498],["Injection at runtime, not at build time",0,207],["Never be the conduit for a value",0,370,[[78,1,"A credential belonging to a third party is not relayed back toward whoever asked — that is least-privilege-design's confused deputy, a component applying its own authority to a target somebody else chose."]]],["Between handing it over and refusing, there is a substitution",0,437,[[78,1,"least-privilege-design covers what it is worth and what it costs to keep honest."]]],["Scoping, briefly",0,104,[[78,1,"Deeper treatment: least-privilege-design."]]],["Rotation is a routine operation",0,198],["Detection: three layers, none sufficient alone",0,161],["Your own test data is the likeliest false positive",0,275,[[97,1,"designing-ci-pipelines owns the general form — every advisory check eventually becomes ignored, and one overridden more than about one time in ten is either wrong or should be required."]]],["When a secret leaks, the order is the whole procedure",0,441,[[76,1,"Keeping a secret out of output that has already received it is a separate discipline with its own failure modes — see redacting-sensitive-output."]]],["Common mistakes",0,330],["Red flags",0,109]]],["redacting-sensitive-output",8,"Use when secrets, credentials, tokens, or personal data could reach a log line, error message, stack trace…",1629,[],[["Overview",0,76],["When to use",0,110,[[45,1,"Recording a fixture from a real response (grounding-test-doubles)."],[75,1,"Not for: where secrets should live and how to rotate them (secrets-hygiene), restricting who can reach the data at all (least-privilege-design), or deciding what is worth emitting in the first place…"],[78,1,"Not for: …should live and how to rotate them (secrets-hygiene), restricting who can reach the data at all (least-privilege-design), or deciding what is worth emitting in the first place (instrumenting-for-observability) — redaction…"],[67,1,"Not for: …who can reach the data at all (least-privilege-design), or deciding what is worth emitting in the first place (instrumenting-for-observability) — redaction assumes the data already reached code that should not emit it."]]],["The replacement must not quote the match",0,223],["Allowlist fields, do not denylist patterns",0,169,[[73,1,"it must anticipate every format, and it fails open — an unmatched secret passes through silently, which is the same failure shape as handling-untrusted-input's argument against denylists."]]],["Where it gets missed",0,318],["A capture is output too, and you cannot redact it afterwards",0,345,[[16,1,"a stray navigation key can drop the target onto the launcher or the shade without announcing it (routing-around-capability-gaps, \"Input is addressed to a place\", owns the input side"],[0,1,"formidable's audit reference owns addressing a capture to its subject, which is the same check made for correctness rather than privacy)."]]],["Testing it",0,145],["Common mistakes",0,159],["Red flags",0,84]]],["auditing-dependencies",8,"Use when adding, upgrading, replacing, or removing a third-party package or library, when a lockfile diff adds transitive entries…",3385,[],[["Overview",0,42],["When to use",0,111,[[78,1,"Not for: what the code may do at runtime once installed (least-privilege-design)"],[73,1,"how it must treat the data it parses (handling-untrusted-input)."],[98,1,"Not for: actually carrying out a version bump once it's decided — upgrading-dependencies covers that half"]]],["Adoption review — ten minutes, before the first install",0,374],["Lockfiles and reproducible resolution",0,203],["When there is no hash to check, compose the weak signals",0,309],["Transitive dependencies are the majority of the risk",0,127],["Install and build scripts are arbitrary code execution",0,146],["Triaging an advisory: reachability first",0,234],["Name confusion is an adoption-time check",0,240],["When the payload is prose rather than code",0,986,[[78,1,"The narrowing rule is the one least-privilege-design applies to capabilities, and instruction sources earn it for the same reason."]]],["Vendoring and pinning",0,121],["The unmaintained dependency is a slow-motion incident",0,144],["Common mistakes",0,217],["Red flags",0,131]]],["least-privilege-design",8,"Use when creating or reviewing a role, service account, API key, token scope, IAM or RBAC policy, or access control list…",4831,[],[["Overview",0,53],["When to use",0,92,[[75,1,"Not for: where the credential is stored and how it is rotated (secrets-hygiene)"],[72,1,"whether the boundary should exist at all (threat-modeling)."]]],["Default deny, and four axes at once",0,248],["The shared credential is the design flaw",0,115],["Blast radius is the design metric",0,1051,[],[["Egress is a list of permitted relays, not permitted destinations",253],["An allowlist of operations restricts which names run, never what those names mean",442],["An exemption matching part of a compound command must not exempt the whole of it",149]]],["Capabilities over ambient authority",0,470,[],[["Mutating the caller's own environment is a grant, not a side effect",170],["A cached grant's key must include every dimension that can change its meaning",138]]],["The confused deputy",0,201],["Time, machine identity, and human access",0,120],["Separation of duties",0,149],["Boundaries the permission system does not cover",0,189],["The layer that rewrites an observation outranks the one that produced it",0,306],["A rule the parser could not read is a rule that is not there",0,589,[],[["A narrow bypass that does not work erodes the whole control",219]]],["Reviewing what a role can actually do",0,342],["Revoking a capability must close every path that reaches it",0,256],["Common mistakes",0,409],["Red flags",0,241]]],["finishing-what-you-started",9,"Use when a task is big enough that stopping short would go unnoticed — a sweep across many files, a long autonomous run…",3161,[],[["Overview",0,143],["When to use",0,192,[[83,1,"Not for: how many polish passes to run once the request is satisfied, or whether the next improvement is worth its cost — knowing-when-to-stop owns the far side of the finish line, this owns the distance to it."],[80,1,"Not for: proving a single claim before making it — confirming-before-claiming-done owns that gate."],[12,1,"see structuring-an-implementation-plan, and scoping-before-building when the request itself is still soft."],[11,1,"see structuring-an-implementation-plan, and scoping-before-building when the request itself is still soft."]]],["Write the ledger to a file, before the work",0,505],["A check you have never seen fail is not a check",0,406,[[46,1,"This is writing-the-failing-test-first applied to acceptance criteria rather than to tests, and skipping it fails for the identical reason: an assertion never observed failing has an unknown relationship to the thing it claims to assert."]]],["A checked box is a claim; evidence is the proof",0,99],["Surrender a criterion; never delete or edit one",0,303,[[83,1,"knowing-when-to-stop covers what that handoff owes the reader once you are writing it up, and offering-the-next-move puts it back in front of them as a choice — a surrendered line is the first thing that close reaches for, because it is…"],[84,1,"knowing-when-to-stop covers what that handoff owes the reader once you are writing it up, and offering-the-next-move puts it back in front of them as a choice — a surrendered line is the first thing that close reaches for, because it is…"]]],["A recurring run can surrender the same line every time, and no single run can see it",0,298,[[101,1,"automating-repetition owns why \"next run\" is a claim about the interval rather than about the work"]]],["Numbers and coverage claims",0,183],["Long runs: hand over the ledger, not a summary",0,172,[[14,1,"delegating-tasks-with-review-gates covers dispatching those units and gating them"],[15,1,"fanning-out-independent-work covers running independent ones side by side."]]],["What you started includes the processes you started",0,473],["Common mistakes",0,246],["Red flags",0,141]]],["confirming-before-claiming-done",9,"Use when about to call a fix, a feature, or a test suite done, fixed, or passing; when a change is about to be committed, pushed…",8312,[],[["Overview",0,126],["When to use",0,149,[[9,1,"Not for: judging whether a past decision was actually correct in hindsight (see revalidating-decisions)."],[4,1,"calibrating-confidence is the adjacent concern: marking your own uncertainty honestly as verified, inferred, or assumed."]]],["Name the check, then run it",0,757,[[95,1,"portable-shell-scripting has the mechanics and the portability caveats"]]],["The claim and what actually proves it",0,379],["Evidence goes stale the instant code moves",0,131],["Evidence does not travel to another environment",0,349,[[16,1,"routing-around-capability-gaps makes that argument for whoever chose the stand-in in order to get unblocked."],[79,1,"…rather than with done, and downgrading one already written as verified is the ordinary move at that moment rather than an embarrassment — finishing-what-you-started covers surrendering a criterion visibly instead of quietly deleting it."]]],["A report is not a check",0,95],["A green you produced by moving the check is not a pass",0,464,[[79,1,"finishing-what-you-started covers surrendering a criterion openly rather than editing it away."],[39,1,"And one input the tests never named — a property generated rather than listed (property-based-testing) — is the cheapest held-out check there is: code that learned the test cases fails it at once."]]],["The suite is not the contract",0,411],["The push is not the reach",0,451,[[85,1,"writing-durable-docs's A mirror with no generation step is a fork owns the repair: stop hand-mirroring, and generate one copy from the other or diff them in CI."]]],["An artifact is not this run's artifact",0,682,[[0,1,"formidable's audit reference carries the addressing rule — capture by window id, package, or tab, never by whatever has focus."]]],["The run is not the return",0,600,[[6,1,"…so it needs the owner's go-ahead and a window agreed with them rather than the next convenient gap — and deciding-reversibility is the call to make first, because a restart you cannot undo from where you are sitting is a different act…"]]],["A look is not a search",0,754,[[4,1,"calibrating-confidence's A search result is the input to a check, not the check owns the ordinary version, where the surface preserves everything and the hits still go unread."]]],["The call site is not the context",0,338],["The safe mode is not a rehearsal of the real one",0,371],["The harness is not the product's path",0,299],["A name in a build's output directory is not an identification",0,291],["The declaration is not the payload",0,319,[[55,1,"diagnosing-before-fixing covers separating a broken instrument from a refuted hypothesis once a result is in hand, and its discriminator is that a broken apparatus usually fails in several ways at once."]]],["A neighbouring number is not a baseline",0,240,[[53,1,"performance-profiling's interleaved A/B runs are the same discipline applied to timings, and for the same reason."]]],["A number you did not predict is not a check",0,407],["Common mistakes",0,416],["Red flags",0,283]]],["red-teaming-your-own-work",9,"Use when a change, plan, design, recommendation, or answer is finished and has been examined only by whoever produced it…",3110,[],[["Overview",0,38],["When to use",0,87,[[80,1,"Not for: confirming a claim has evidence behind it (confirming-before-claiming-done), or diagnosing a failure you already know about (diagnosing-before-fixing)."],[55,1,"Not for: confirming a claim has evidence behind it (confirming-before-claiming-done), or diagnosing a failure you already know about (diagnosing-before-fixing)."]]],["The stance",0,65],["The attack list",0,262],["Attack the strongest part",0,82],["The artifact you ship has a different audience than the one you built",0,356],["A reference to another document is a claim, and it reads as a verified one",0,331],["A confirmed measurement is one point, not a shape",0,317],["A clean, surprising result: check what it was aimed at",0,236,[[48,1,"reproducing-bugs covers proving the instrument"]]],["A null result is bounded by what the search could have seen",0,512],["Distance, obtained cheaply",0,129],["Bounded, then stop",0,392,[[82,1,"A pass that comes back clean, on work about to ship, is not evidence there is nothing left — it is precisely the moment karen-and-the-manager exists for."]]],["Common mistakes",0,211],["Red flags",0,92]]],["karen-and-the-manager",9,"Use when work is about to be called done, shipped…",905,[[83,1]],[["Overview",0,75],["When to use",0,96,[[81,1,"red-teaming-your-own-work or a code review just came back clean — that is exactly when complacency is highest, not evidence there is nothing left to find."],[55,1,"Not for mid-implementation debugging (diagnosing-before-fixing owns that) or first-pass design critique (reviewing-code-deeply, or formidable's critique/audit, own that)."],[90,1,"Not for mid-implementation debugging (diagnosing-before-fixing owns that) or first-pass design critique (reviewing-code-deeply, or formidable's critique/audit, own that)."],[83,1,"Pairs with knowing-when-to-stop, invoked immediately after."]]],["Karen's pass",0,168],["The manager's pass",0,116],["Output shape",0,65,[[83,1,"Handoff to knowing-when-to-stop with that count as its input."]]],["Playing it out loud",0,197],["Common mistakes",0,128,[[83,1,"knowing-when-to-stop wasn't invoked right after"]]],["Red flags",0,60]]],["knowing-when-to-stop",9,"Use when work looks done and the next action would be another polish, refactor…",1288,[],[["Overview",0,35],["When to use",0,157,[[80,1,"Not for: whether a specific claim has evidence behind it — confirming-before-claiming-done owns that gate."],[79,1,"Not for: making sure every part of the request got delivered in the first place — finishing-what-you-started owns the near side of the finish line, and the ledger that keeps the criteria legible on a long run."],[82,1,"Paired with karen-and-the-manager: that skill is built to never run out of complaints on purpose"]]],["Define done before the last mile",0,100,[[79,1,"On work long enough that the sentence would fade before the last mile arrives, write it down as a ledger instead of a sentence — finishing-what-you-started covers that shape."]]],["Done against not obviously broken",0,118],["Bounded passes instead of open-ended review",0,156],["Gold-plating, specifically",0,89],["Stopping while blocked",0,299,[[19,1,"Before writing it down, re-derive it from the written record rather than from recall, exactly as checkpointing-long-runs requires of a claim — or hand the question to a fresh context and let something with no memory of the attempts decide."]],[["A verdict of impossible is partly a fact about the run",231,[[19,1]]]]],["The explicit handoff",0,138,[[84,1,"Naming it is where this skill's obligation ends and offering-the-next-move begins."]]],["Common mistakes",0,145],["Red flags",0,51]]],["offering-the-next-move",9,"Use at the end of every task that produced something — a change, an artifact…",3125,[],[["Overview",0,251],["When to use",0,149,[[11,1,"scoping-before-building asks those one at a time, before anything is built"],[83,1,"knowing-when-to-stop owns the explicit handoff and what it owes the reader — this takes that named remainder and makes it selectable."],[91,1,"Not for: how to write the summary the options sit under, which is explaining-technical-work."]]],["Always, and what always means",0,545,[[83,1,"knowing-when-to-stop covers stopping while blocked"]]],["The report comes first, in full",0,225],["Harvest, do not invent",0,379,[[8,1,"the phase log, managing-scope-drift's record"],[3,1,"Row 4 has no home in any file, which is why it decays fastest — and it is the row a clairvoyance sweep fills."]]],["What a real option looks like",0,174],["The four never to offer",0,160,[[4,1,"Deciding, then saying what you decided and how firmly, beats handing back a judgment that was yours — calibrating-confidence covers marking it honestly."]]],["Always leave a way to stop",0,98],["Recommend, do not hedge",0,119],["One question, not four",0,120],["Mechanics",0,349],["Where the answer goes",0,163,[[2,1,"Run it back through the track selector in orchestrating-work-end-to-end — a finished run does not confer its track on whatever follows, and a chosen option that reopens a surrendered acceptance line routes backward to the phase that owns…"]]],["Common mistakes",0,256],["Red flags",0,137]]],["writing-durable-docs",10,"Use when writing or restructuring documentation — READMEs, guides, API references, onboarding material…",2764,[],[["Overview",0,51],["When to use",0,130,[[87,1,"Not for: why a decision was made and what lost → writing-adrs."],[88,1,"What changed between versions → writing-release-notes."],[91,1,"Explaining one piece of work to one person → explaining-technical-work."],[70,1,"Keeping a duplicated fact (a version, a constant, a mirrored non-prose artifact) from drifting once memory is no longer the plan → keeping-copies-in-sync."],[86,1,"What belongs in an agent instruction file or a skill at all, as opposed to where in it a rule has to sit → writing-agent-instructions."]]],["Four types, never two on one page",0,172],["Write the why; the what will drift",0,123],["Make drift fail a build",0,163],["The claims no build can check",0,615,[[9,1,"revalidating-decisions owns what a reader does with such a claim once it is recorded"]]],["A changed behaviour is not documented until no mention of the old one is left",0,292,[[70,1,"keeping-copies-in-sync covers the copies themselves and when the new text may be published."]]],["Position is a reliability property",0,398],["A mirror with no generation step is a fork",0,93],["Colocation and ownership",0,151],["Deleting is maintenance",0,124],["Common mistakes",0,308],["Red flags",0,144]]],["writing-agent-instructions",10,"Use when writing, generating, trimming, or reviewing a file a coding agent reads as standing instructions — AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md…",1902,[],[["Overview",0,163],["When to use",0,150,[[23,1,"Not for: reading the instruction files and session history someone else left (recovering-agent-context)."],[85,1,"Not for: where in a long document a rule has to sit to survive truncation and compaction — writing-durable-docs owns ordering."],[77,1,"Not for: vetting a third-party skill or rules file before installing it (auditing-dependencies)."],[100,1,"Not for: this library's own contribution path (tending-tbaguette)."]]],["What earns a line",0,271,[[19,1,"What happened and where work stopped goes in a handoff note beside the work (checkpointing-long-runs)"],[87,1,"a decision and its reasons go in a decision record (writing-adrs)."]]],["A rule that must hold goes in a tool",0,144],["A map, not an encyclopedia",0,148,[[70,1,"Where several harnesses need the same file under different names, make one the source and the others links or generated copies (keeping-copies-in-sync), never three hand-edited siblings."]]],["A generated file is a draft to delete from",0,116],["Write for a literal reader",0,238],["A description is a trigger, not a summary",0,119],["Test it against a run without it",0,146,[[47,1,"evaluating-llm-output covers measuring a difference that varies from run to run."],[85,1,"it is ambiguous, contradicted elsewhere, buried where compaction cuts it (writing-durable-docs), or asking prose to do a tool's job."]]],["It runs with your privileges",0,81,[[97,1,"Review changes to it as code changes — including the ones an agent proposes to its own file — and treat one arriving in someone else's pull request the way designing-ci-pipelines treats a pipeline definition."],[75,1,"it will be sent to a model provider on every turn and committed with the project (secrets-hygiene)."]]],["Common mistakes",0,210],["Red flags",0,116]]],["writing-adrs",10,"Use when recording a technical or architectural decision — picking between technologies, changing a system boundary…",1209,[],[["Overview",0,43],["When to use",0,81,[[85,1,"Not for: how the system works today → writing-durable-docs."],[88,1,"What shipped in a version → writing-release-notes."],[89,1,"Why an incident happened → writing-postmortems."]]],["Which decisions earn a record",0,133],["The five parts",0,265],["The alternatives are the point",0,192,[[3,1,"A reading that lost in a clairvoyance sweep is exactly such an alternative, and the observation that told the two readings apart is the specific reason it lost — carry both, or the next reader re-runs the sweep."]]],["Write it at decision time",0,121],["Status and supersession, never edit history",0,126,[[9,1,"revalidating-decisions is the reader's half of that exchange."]]],["Common mistakes",0,168],["Red flags",0,80]]],["writing-release-notes",10,"Use when preparing release notes, a changelog, an upgrade guide, or a version announcement; when a release contains breaking changes…",2184,[],[["Overview",0,55],["When to use",0,96,[[87,1,"Not for: why the change was made → writing-adrs."],[85,1,"How to use the new feature → writing-durable-docs."]]],["Two artifacts, not one",0,81],["Order by what it costs the reader",0,151],["Every entry names its audience",0,90],["A fix line claims the reader had the bug",0,283],["A capability line claims the reader can use it",0,451,[[70,1,"A release note is a copy that describes behavior, so keeping-copies-in-sync's A copy that describes behavior is true of a build, not of a commit covers publishing it with the release"]]],["Breaking changes carry the step, not the difference",0,128],["Deprecations need a version and a date",0,117],["Translate commit language into reader language",0,286,[[79,1,"finishing-what-you-started's Numbers and coverage claims holds the same rule for the numbers in a report."]]],["What to omit",0,72],["Common mistakes",0,263],["Red flags",0,111]]],["writing-postmortems",10,"Use when writing an incident review or postmortem after an outage, degradation, data loss, failed deploy…",1380,[],[["Overview",0,50],["When to use",0,104,[[55,1,"Write one for: …mitigation was applied without understanding why it worked (that gap is the postmortem's main subject, and diagnosing-before-fixing is what closing it looks like), and any near-miss caught by luck rather than by a control."],[87,1,"Recording a decision that has not failed yet → writing-adrs."]]],["Blameless in mechanism, not just tone",0,218],["A timeline built from evidence",0,130],["Measure detection and mitigation separately",0,120],["Contributing factors, not a root cause",0,220],["Action items that get finished",0,182],["Publishing",0,104],["Common mistakes",0,177,[[42,1,"regression-test-from-bug covers pinning the class rather than the instance"],[52,1,"Evidence was never captured during the incident — observing-production-safely covers taking it while the system is still in the failed state, which is the only time it is available"]]],["Red flags",0,75]]],["reviewing-code-deeply",10,"Use when reviewing someone else's change — a pull request, patch, diff, or commit series — deciding what deserves a comment…",2436,[],[["Overview",0,42],["When to use",0,68,[[93,1,"Not for: asking someone else to review your work → handing-off-for-review."],[94,1,"Responding to feedback on your own change → verifying-review-feedback."]]],["Priority order — descend only when the level above is clear",0,192],["Read the intent before the diff",0,141],["Review the tests as carefully as the code",0,214,[[80,1,"confirming-before-claiming-done lists the moves."]]],["Look for what is absent",0,250,[[3,1,"When the change is large enough that the categories here do not cover its subject matter, clairvoyance generalizes the move: enumerate the states, actors, and lifecycle stages the thing itself has, then find each one in the diff."]]],["An exemption is a belief, and it is where the guard was needed",0,429],["Mark every comment blocking or not",0,162],["Review your own review before sending",0,115],["Approve on trust, and know the limits",0,120],["Telling the author what to change is not deciding whether it is right",0,391],["Common mistakes",0,214],["Red flags",0,98]]],["explaining-technical-work",10,"Use when writing an explanation of technical work for another person — a status update, a summary of a change or an investigation…",1710,[],[["Overview",0,54],["When to use",0,128,[[85,1,"Not for: documentation that must outlive this exchange → writing-durable-docs."],[88,1,"Version-to-version changes → writing-release-notes."],[89,1,"Incident analysis → writing-postmortems."],[84,1,"Not for: the set of choices that goes underneath the report → offering-the-next-move."]]],["Answer first",0,158],["Choose altitude by what the reader will do next",0,142],["Say what it means, not what you did",0,157],["A live surface is written from one seat and read from another",0,484,[[0,2,"formidable, and its CLI-output reference in particular, owns the surface — which display a wait earns, what goes to stderr, and the verbosity ladder deciding how much detail each level carries."],[101,1,"formidable sets what a wait owes the reader and automating-repetition covers the heartbeat that tells a working job from a dead one"]]],["Name uncertainty rather than smoothing it",0,157,[[4,1,"calibrating-confidence owns those three tiers and how each must read in a sentence"]]],["Make claims checkable",0,87],["Length is a cost the reader pays",0,123],["Common mistakes",0,142],["Red flags",0,78]]],["crouton",10,"Use when asked for terse, compressed, or token-saving output — \"caveman mode\", \"be brief\", \"keep it short\", \"stop explaining\"…",3644,[],[["Overview",0,137],["When to use",0,120,[[91,1,"Not for: a written explanation aimed at one reader with one pending question → explaining-technical-work, which settles what to say before this settles how tightly to say it."],[4,1,"Marking claims verified, inferred, or assumed → calibrating-confidence, which this never overrides."],[85,1,"Anything written to last → writing-durable-docs, writing-commit-messages, writing-release-notes."],[28,1,"Anything written to last → writing-durable-docs, writing-commit-messages, writing-release-notes."],[88,1,"Anything written to last → writing-durable-docs, writing-commit-messages, writing-release-notes."]]],["Where the tokens actually are",0,321],["The read rules",0,719,[[80,1,"confirming-before-claiming-done has why the lines a cap discards are reliably the ones the report wanted."]]],["What survives at any length",0,162],["False economies",0,367],["Availability is charged on every decision, not on use",0,285,[[73,1,"handling-untrusted-input reaches the same conclusion about set size from the other direction: what is connected is part of the exposure, and the check belongs at connection time."]]],["Registers",0,266],["Where compression stops",0,321],["Holding the mode",0,231],["Compressing in another language",0,114],["Checking that it worked",0,213,[[4,1,"Per calibrating-confidence, \"shorter\" is honest and a fabricated 60% is not."]]],["Common mistakes",0,287],["Red flags",0,101]]],["handing-off-for-review",10,"Use when completing a task or feature and about to hand it off before merging, when stuck and a fresh perspective would help…",1822,[],[["Overview",0,87],["When to use",0,177,[[14,1,"Mandatory before merging to main, after completing a major feature, and after each task when the work is being driven via delegating-tasks-with-review-gates."],[80,1,"Not yet: your own checks haven't passed — tests, lint, a manual run (see confirming-before-claiming-done)."],[90,1,"Not for: how to actually perform a review — that's the reviewer's job (see reviewing-code-deeply)."],[94,1,"Once the review comes back, acting on it — fixing, pushing back, deciding what's worth deferring — is verifying-review-feedback, the other half of this pair"]]],["What a reviewer needs up front",0,276,[[35,1,"a different revision to inspect means a separate worktree (see isolating-work-with-worktrees), never a checkout on top of yours."],[91,1,"Session history, dead ends, and the process story stay out of it (see explaining-technical-work)."]]],["Flag it before they find it",0,170],["A change too large for one reader is read by several, each on one area",0,571,[[90,1,"reviewing-code-deeply answers a diff past the size where detection collapses by asking for a split."],[15,1,"several forks are copies of one set of assumptions (fanning-out-independent-work), and agreement between copies is not agreement."],[94,1,"Verify each reported defect in the code before touching anything, as verifying-review-feedback says, because a reviewer's confidence is not a measurement."]]],["Someone else's project decides what an agent may send it",0,198,[[17,1,"an unattended run prepares the change and the disclosure, then stops for a human (bounding-autonomous-work)."]]],["Common mistakes",0,236],["Red flags",0,107]],false,"updated","2026-10-27T22:46:29+01:00"],["verifying-review-feedback",10,"Use when code review feedback lands on your own change — from a person, a bot…",1670,[],[["Overview",0,124],["When to use",0,132,[[90,1,"Not for: producing the review in the first place (see reviewing-code-deeply, handing-off-for-review)."],[93,1,"Not for: producing the review in the first place (see reviewing-code-deeply, handing-off-for-review)."],[82,1,"A self-review pass that comes back clean is a different risk, owned by karen-and-the-manager — that skill exists because your own satisfied review is suspect"]]],["Verify before you react",0,136],["The comment is also evidence, and it can go stale too",0,132,[[80,1,"Verifying against what the comment says instead of what the code currently does is the same gap confirming-before-claiming-done covers for your own completion claims, aimed here at someone else's observation instead: re-read the actual…"]]],["Disagreement and confusion are both legitimate answers",0,245],["Clarify the whole batch before implementing any of it",0,143],["Check the claim, not the confidence",0,433,[[80,1,"(confirming-before-claiming-done's The declaration is not the payload covers the same instrument failing the other way, returning a clean nothing where something is there.)"],[9,1,"that's revalidating-decisions."]]],["Common mistakes",0,204],["Red flags",0,121]]],["portable-shell-scripting",11,"Use when writing or reviewing a shell script, when a script works in one shell but fails in another…",4227,[],[["Overview",0,50],["When to use",0,89,[[101,1,"Not for: deciding whether the automation should exist at all (automating-repetition), or pinning the tools it invokes (reproducible-environments)."],[96,1,"Not for: deciding whether the automation should exist at all (automating-repetition), or pinning the tools it invokes (reproducible-environments)."]]],["Quoting, splitting, globbing",0,141],["Know which shell is actually running",0,264],["set -e and its documented holes",0,186],["A pipeline's reader can kill its writer",0,414,[[80,1,"Never pipe a state-changing command into a reader that stops early — confirming-before-claiming-done and crouton both already say to redirect a long run to a file and search the file, and that advice keeps the writer alive as a side…"],[92,1,"Never pipe a state-changing command into a reader that stops early — confirming-before-claiming-done and crouton both already say to redirect a long run to a file and search the file, and that advice keeps the writer alive as a side…"]]],["Hostile filenames and safe iteration",0,145],["Subshells, pipelines, and lost assignments",0,278],["A cd outlives the command that ran it",0,668],["Cleanup that survives signals",0,100],["Killing and waiting on processes by pattern",0,1130,[[55,1,"(diagnosing-before-fixing has the general form: poll the real condition, never a proxy, always with a bound.)"]]],["Same name, different tool",0,97],["Common mistakes",0,432],["Red flags",0,233]]],["reproducible-environments",11,"Use when a build or test passes on one machine and fails on another, when an old tag or release can no longer be rebuilt…",2205,[],[["Overview",0,46],["When to use",0,84,[[66,1,"Not for: runtime configuration and secrets that legitimately differ per environment (configuration-management), or moving pinned versions forward on purpose (upgrading-dependencies)."],[98,1,"Not for: runtime configuration and secrets that legitimately differ per environment (configuration-management), or moving pinned versions forward on purpose (upgrading-dependencies)."]]],["The taxonomy of undeclared inputs",0,258],["Declare the toolchain as source, not as instructions",0,317],["Lockfiles: the promise and its limits",0,121],["A rebuild under the same version is the mutable registry, seen from the other side",0,521,[[97,1,"designing-ci-pipelines and auditing-dependencies carry the consumer half of the same rule."],[77,1,"designing-ci-pipelines and auditing-dependencies carry the consumer half of the same rule."]]],["Isolation layers, weakest to strongest",0,142],["A check that launches the real artifact inherits the real environment",0,266,[[17,1,"bounding-autonomous-work covers why an invocation is an execution and what to isolate it in"]]],["Verify rather than assume",0,126],["Common mistakes",0,202],["Red flags",0,122]]],["designing-ci-pipelines",11,"Use when building or reworking a CI pipeline, when the build is too slow or nobody trusts its result, when a check fails only in CI…",3172,[],[["Overview",0,46],["When to use",0,105,[[41,1,"Not for: diagnosing one specific intermittent test (flaky-test-triage), deciding which tests should exist (choosing-test-scope), or making the build itself deterministic (reproducible-environments)."],[44,1,"Not for: diagnosing one specific intermittent test (flaky-test-triage), deciding which tests should exist (choosing-test-scope), or making the build itself deterministic (reproducible-environments)."],[96,1,"Not for: diagnosing one specific intermittent test (flaky-test-triage), deciding which tests should exist (choosing-test-scope), or making the build itself deterministic (reproducible-environments)."]]],["Order by cost-to-signal",0,211],["Caching that is correct",0,208],["What blocks a merge",0,177],["Flakes and the lying pipeline",0,111],["Reproducing a CI failure locally is a design requirement",0,111],["Secrets, permissions, and untrusted pull requests",0,455],["A scheduled job is untested code until it has run once",0,378,[[80,1,"Treat the change as unfinished until that run is green, the same way confirming-before-claiming-done treats any requirement about a condition that has not occurred yet."]]],["Discovering prerequisites one failure at a time costs a full cycle each",0,428,[[46,1,"A check that has only ever printed ok is indistinguishable from a check incapable of printing anything else — writing-the-failing-test-first's rule, and it applies to the instrument you just built exactly as much as to the code it guards."]]],["A check the caller must switch on protects only the careful caller",0,411,[[66,1,"Where an off-switch is genuinely needed, it is a separate, named setting that says so in the output — configuration-management's rule that verification is on by default and disabling it is explicit."]]],["Common mistakes",0,315],["Red flags",0,216]]],["upgrading-dependencies",11,"Use when dependency versions have fallen behind, when a security advisory names a package in use…",1405,[],[["Overview",0,47],["When to use",0,90,[[77,1,"Not for: vetting a package's supply-chain risk before adopting it (auditing-dependencies), replacing a system over many releases with both paths live (incremental-migration), or backfilling stored data after a format change…"],[29,1,"Not for: …a package's supply-chain risk before adopting it (auditing-dependencies), replacing a system over many releases with both paths live (incremental-migration), or backfilling stored data after a format change (data-migrations)."],[65,1,"Not for: …a package's supply-chain risk before adopting it (auditing-dependencies), replacing a system over many releases with both paths live (incremental-migration), or backfilling stored data after a format change (data-migrations)."]]],["Cadence and batching",0,126],["Read before you diff",0,141],["A model identifier is a dependency with a date on it",0,231,[[47,1,"its own change, gated on the feature's evals rather than its unit tests (evaluating-llm-output), and rolled out in the canary steps below."],[71,1,"building-llm-features covers the rest of what calling a model at runtime involves."]]],["Mechanical versus behavioral",0,96],["Verify past the test suite",0,125],["Rollout and the limits of rollback",0,187],["When the dependency is the liability",0,129],["Common mistakes",0,146],["Red flags",0,87]]],["keeping-tbaguette-current",11,"Use at the start of every conversation, unconditionally — not gated on how long it's been since the last check — and any time the user…",1694,[],[["What this is",0,102],["Where things live",0,243],["1. Check — already done automatically at session start",0,329],["2. Safety gate before touching anything",0,199,[[100,1,"Then hand it to tending-tbaguette, which owns the other half of this situation."]]],["3. Update — fast-forward only",0,207],["4. Understand what changed — read it, don't just relay it",0,116],["5. Report — a summary, not a log dump",0,207,[[88,1,"This is writing-release-notes applied to one specific changelog: ordered by what it costs the reader, translated out of commit language, and silent about anything that changes nothing for someone who already has the plugin installed."]]],["6. Record it",0,134],["What this skill deliberately does not do",0,157,[[100,1,"Getting a local improvement out of an install and into the published repo belongs to tending-tbaguette."]]]],true],["tending-tbaguette",11,"Use at the start of every conversation, in any project or repo…",12704,[[99,1]],[["What this is",0,182],["Why a pull request, and never an edit in place",0,453,[[99,2,"The installed plugin is a git clone, and keeping-tbaguette-current refuses to update a clone with local changes — it will not discard your work to force an update through."]]],["Where a project-specific rule actually belongs",0,284],["The bar: what actually belongs in TBaguette",0,408],["Non-negotiable: scrub before writing anything down",0,113,[[76,1,"redacting-sensitive-output covers the general technique."]]],["Capture procedure",0,257],["An entry being worked is not distinguishable from one nobody has touched",0,252],["Starting mid-conversation",0,1787],["When to contribute",0,501],["A candidate you keep re-reading has already been declined",0,670,[[79,1,"This is one queue's instance of a general rule — a recurring run that surrenders the same ledger line every pass settles it rather than surrendering it twice — which finishing-what-you-started carries for any standing request."],[101,1,"automating-repetition's \"Next run\" is a claim about the interval, not about the work is the general form."]]],["A reopen condition that fires is the entry doing its job",0,229],["The approval gate that no absent human lifts",0,721,[[16,1,"routing-around-capability-gaps covers why reading a list is not the same as looking."],[17,1,"That is worth stating plainly, because the library's own bounding-autonomous-work says an unanswered gate keeps its job and changes its mechanism, and an autonomous run reading that rule alone could reason its way into writing itself a…"]]],["Contribution procedure",0,2009,[[80,1,"Green is a precondition for the next step, never a substitute for it (confirming-before-claiming-done)."],[81,1,"red-teaming-your-own-work, then karen-and-the-manager."],[82,1,"red-teaming-your-own-work, then karen-and-the-manager."],[94,1,"A maintainer arguing with a section is not a request to delete it and not a request to defend it — verifying-review-feedback owns which of those a given comment is, and the same rule applies to your own change as to anyone else's: fix it,…"],[34,1,"resolving-merge-conflicts owns the general form"]]],["A declined command is reported, not routed around",0,648,[[16,2,"Describing anything as contributed, merged, or deployed at that point is false, and routing-around-capability-gaps owns why quietly finding another route is the worse of the two available failures."]]],["A step that worked is a measurement, not a property",0,365,[[9,1,"revalidating-decisions owns the general form — why the premises that block you get recorded with a way to reopen them while the ones that permit you get recorded nowhere, and why an outcome you can observe is not a capability you have."]]],["Safety rails",0,345,[[99,1,"Nothing writes to it except keeping-tbaguette-current."]]],["Common mistakes",0,297,[[99,1,"keeping-tbaguette-current has been declining to update ever since, exactly as designed"]]],["Red flags",0,229],["Reference · Contribution Procedure",1,2954,[[25,1,"…happened to use at the time, and some of those words are already load-bearing here with a narrower meaning — seam means a place where behavior can be changed without editing the thing whose behavior changes, and finding-the-seam owns it."],[88,1,"writing-release-notes is the register."],[81,1,"red-teaming-your-own-work and then karen-and-the-manager are the standard adversarial close here, and they are most warranted exactly when the change looks obviously fine."],[82,1,"red-teaming-your-own-work and then karen-and-the-manager are the standard adversarial close here, and they are most warranted exactly when the change looks obviously fine."],[28,1,"Commit, with a message that explains why rather than what — see writing-commit-messages, and git log for this repo's voice."],[80,1,"Do not describe an unmerged pull request as shipped, landed, or done — confirming-before-claiming-done covers why the distinction is worth keeping."],[99,1,"This is common and recoverable, and it is worth checking for whenever keeping-tbaguette-current reports that it skipped an update because of local changes."]],[["Contribution procedure",2758,[[25,1],[88,1],[81,1],[82,1],[28,1],[80,1]],"ref-contribution-procedure-contribution-procedure"],["If the install has already been edited",152,[[99,1]],"ref-contribution-procedure-if-the-install-has-already-been-edited"]],"ref-contribution-procedure"]],true],["automating-repetition",11,"Use when a manual sequence has been repeated often enough to consider scripting it, when deciding whether a task is worth automating…",4034,[],[["Overview",0,46],["When to use",0,96,[[97,1,"Not for: work that belongs in the build pipeline itself (designing-ci-pipelines), making the script's own shell code robust (portable-shell-scripting), or making the underlying operation safe to repeat at the system level…"],[95,1,"Not for: …in the build pipeline itself (designing-ci-pipelines), making the script's own shell code robust (portable-shell-scripting), or making the underlying operation safe to repeat at the system level (designing-for-idempotency)."],[59,1,"Not for: …in the build pipeline itself (designing-ci-pipelines), making the script's own shell code robust (portable-shell-scripting), or making the underlying operation safe to repeat at the system level (designing-for-idempotency)."]]],["When a sequence earns a tool",0,186],["Total cost, including the silent break",0,175],["Properties that make automation worth keeping",0,279,[[67,1,"instrumenting-for-observability generalises the same distinction: emitting input volume alongside the result is what separates \"processed zero items\" from \"processed nothing because nothing arrived\"."]]],["Check before you act",0,306],["Some conditions arise on the world's schedule, not on yours",0,654],["\"Next run\" is a claim about the interval, not about the work",0,399],["A bulk edit runs once, so the ladder does not apply",0,398],["A replacement that matched nothing exits zero",0,301,[[46,1,"That is the asymmetry writing-the-failing-test-first is built on, met through a different instrument."]]],["A pattern that matched the wrong thing exits zero too",0,553,[[4,1,"calibrating-confidence's A search result is the input to a check, not the check owns the case where such a result is read as an answer."]]],["Keep the manual path working",0,95],["When not to automate",0,138],["Common mistakes",0,276],["Red flags",0,132]]]]}