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I cut my agent's always-loaded instructions by 62% and weakened no rule

The thin instruction kernel: CLAUDE.md from 54,825 bytes to 21,026 with no rule weakened. Invariants, a routing table, and enforcement declarations.

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What should survive when you change AI tools

Project state, methods, authority rules, coordination, and evidence: five things open agent infrastructure should preserve across AI tools and clients.

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"All tests pass" is a warning, not a clearance

Why a green test suite after a schema change should trigger suspicion, not confidence. A verification methodology that catches what tests structurally cannot —

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Managing AI agent skills at scale: a three-repo architecture

A three-repo architecture for managing public, private, and team AI agent skills with provenance tracking, drift detection, and synthesis merge — the first stan

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Synthesis Skills: install methodology directly into your AI workflow

22 open-source Agent Skills encoding synthesis coding and synthesis engineering methodology. One command installs code review, content quality, project manageme

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