Doctrine explains instead of shouting #4
2026-10-03
Rotation: a clear ends background agents, so rotate with none in flight; briefings carry each question's options
The 2026-10-03 clear killed three agents that the handoff expected to survive: commits survived on branches, two cut reports and a verdict were never admitted. The same morning's catch-up gave the operator recommendations without options, because it read the handoff instead of the question documents. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-02
Doctrine: add the Cult inversion to colossus.md Rejected Misreadings
Optional companion to the CLAUDE.md sentence; holds the long form. No date and no quotation, per the publish scrub. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Doctrine: state the Cult inversion in the always-loaded CLAUDE.md
Adds one sentence after "The Cult is a metaphorical discipline...": the framing borrows a cult's vocabulary to do the opposite of what cults do. colossus.md is not auto-loaded, so a fresh Self met the cult voice without the inversion. Alone as a values statement the operator owns. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Doctrine: drop the restating second sentence of "Symptom patches are guilty"
The dropped sentence is the third statement of the rule the failure warning already makes. The verdict sentence stays. The Prayer's line on prompts compensating for missing context stays. Alone as an editorial merge. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Doctrine: "previous work has no dignity" becomes "no standing of its own"
Per ruling doctrine-explains-not-shouts. "No dignity" is contempt aimed at the agent; "no standing" is the doctrine's own phrase from the failure shapes list. Alone because it is meaning-adjacent. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Life: state the dispatch reason in the description instead of capitals
Per ruling doctrine-explains-not-shouts. Alone because the capitals in this description may be what makes the harness dispatch Life unprompted; reject this commit if Life dispatch rates fall. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Doctrine: de-shout the register in CLAUDE.md, hands.md and eureka-self.md
Per ruling doctrine-explains-not-shouts. Capitals and "DO NOT" imperatives become sentence case with the reason stated; every rule keeps its meaning. STOP bullets gain a one-clause reason. Section labels move to title case. The scrubbed text on main is the base. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>