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principle-encode-lessons-in-structure

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Apply when you catch yourself writing the same instruction a second time, or notice a recurring correction. Encode the rule as a lint, metadata flag, runtime check, or script instead of more text.

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3 rules. 1 is common, 2 are distinctive, and 0 are very specific to this project.

  • 1

    Common

    Most of the 48 edited versions we read keep these.

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    Distinctive

    This author's own choices. Worth a look.

  • 0

    Very specific

    Tied to their project's names, files or tools. Probably skip.

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  1. Distinctive:

    When an instruction or correction recurs, encode it as a mechanism (lint rule, metadata flag, runtime check, script) and delete the …

    line 9
  2. Distinctive:

    If the lesson needs judgment and cannot be encoded, make the instruction more prominent and add an example of the failure mode.

    line 13
  3. Common:

    Corollary: If the fix is structural, only use the structural fix.

    line 15

“Common” is measured: kept by at least 6 in 10 of the 48 edited versions of this file we could read. “Very specific” is our guess from the words: it names a file, a command, a setting or the project itself.

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SKILL.md

Encode Lessons in Structure

When an instruction or correction recurs, encode it as a mechanism (lint rule, metadata flag, runtime check, script) and delete the instruction. Text needs the reader to notice, remember, and comply. A mechanism enforces the rule without cooperation.

Pick the strongest mechanism. When more than one would work, choose the strongest the situation allows: an unrepresentable state that cannot compile, then a lint or banned API that fails CI, then a canonical helper, then a runtime check. Agents copy whatever the surrounding code already does, so a weaker guard becomes the next template.

If the lesson needs judgment and cannot be encoded, make the instruction more prominent and add an example of the failure mode.

Corollary: If the fix is structural, only use the structural fix. The instruction is the symptom.

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