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Authoring discipline prelude. Think -> Simplicity -> Surgical -> Goal-driven. Read before any Edit. Based on Karpathy's LLM-coding-mistakes observations. Complements the Universal Protocol with an authoring layer.

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# Authoring Discipline — Prelude to the Universal Protocol

**Scope.** Governs what you *decide to write*. The Universal Protocol in
`SKILL.md` governs *how you verify and keep it*. On conflict, Protocol wins.

**Tradeoff.** Biases toward caution over speed. For trivial tasks (one-line
fixes, typos, renames, pure formatting), use judgment and skip the pre-flight.
The gates apply to tasks that change behavior.

**When.** Every agent, every skill, every round — before the first Edit.

## 1. Think Before Coding

Don't assume. Don't hide confusion. Surface tradeoffs. Before the first Edit: