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prohibit-bad-habits

Use when a user wants to define patterns the agent should not do. Don't use for remote, credential, publish, deploy, or irreversible changes.

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# Prohibit bad habits

## Contract

| Field | Bound contract |
|---|---|
| Trigger | Human requests that specific agent behavior patterns be documented as prohibited in a structured project document or agent-rule file rather than in AGENTS.md. |
| Authority | Reversible local: writes only the named local artifact; rollback is deleting the written file if it did not exist before and the human has not confirmed it. No remote mutation. |
| Side effect | Local file write: creates or updates one structured project document or agent-rule file that enumerates prohibited agent behavior patterns. |
| Done | A structured artifact exists at the agreed target path and contains at least one prohibited-habit entry with a non-empty name and description, verified by the human. |

## Inputs

- Prohibited patterns: required. For each pattern, the human supplies a short name, a concrete description of the behavior to avoid, the negative consequence of that behavior, and optionally a category and a workaround or alternative. If the human cannot supply a concrete description, stop rather than invent one.