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The rules that hold underneath the spec and the loop. Four locality principles, three contract principles, three quarantine principles. Plus what the audit corr

How spec.md becomes the anchor for a repeatable workflow that prevents drift across turns. Why plan mode is the cheapest insurance, and why skipping the spec is

The shape of the document that anchors a feature across agent sessions, the field that stops agents from drifting, and a complete example.

Six patterns that earned their place when humans were the primary readers. Plus three I expected to be anti-patterns that turned out to be defensible.

How agents actually read code, why re-derivation cost has a unit, and why this doesn't go...

Same feature, same verification, two architectures. What three coding-agent codebases...