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capturing-golden-rules
Use when the same mistake or bad pattern recurs, when a code-review comment is really a convention worth enforcing, or when you catch AI-generated drift/slop and want it to never happen again. Encodes the lesson as a durable rule in golden-rules.md — the feedback-flywheel / harness-layer-learning ratchet — instead of a one-off fix. Generic (language-agnostic).
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# Capturing Golden Rules
A one-off fix repairs today's symptom. A **golden rule** repairs the whole class — it makes the
harness learn so the same mistake can't recur. This skill is the **ratchet**: turn a recurring
failure into a durable, checkable rule in `golden-rules.md`.
> Hashimoto's principle: *"Anytime an agent makes a mistake, engineer a solution so it never makes
> that mistake again."* The fix is a guardrail, not a scolding — **blame the process, not the agent**.
> You're improving the environment, not the model.
## When to capture
Capture when the signal is **recurring**, not a one-off:
