From 6286bae6c8869995452f29a8da5295e54448e0cf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eureka Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2026 09:32:51 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Three tiers: judge a task by the output it brings back, not how simple it looks Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 --- SKILL.md | 7 ++++++- references/changelog.md | 2 ++ 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/SKILL.md b/SKILL.md index 646eca6..eb50985 100644 --- a/SKILL.md +++ b/SKILL.md @@ -80,7 +80,12 @@ it would fill the tier's context with detail its job never reads (wide reading, a long build, many files), or when it needs a context the doer must not share: work is never verified by the party that wrote it, so a consequential change still gets its Soul pass from a separate context however small it is. The weight of the -machine therefore scales with the task. +machine therefore scales with the task. Measure a task by what it brings back, not +by how simple it looks: every tool result stays in the context that ran it, so a +quick check that returns thousands of lines of output spends the higher tier's +context, which is meant for goals and coordination, as surely as real work does. +Do directly what returns little; hand down what returns a lot, and ask for the +conclusion, not the dump. The operator tier talks to its Self the way an operator talks to this session: it can push a message at any time, and every reply comes back to it as a message diff --git a/references/changelog.md b/references/changelog.md index ed84dd6..429c3d6 100644 --- a/references/changelog.md +++ b/references/changelog.md @@ -21,6 +21,8 @@ Evidence. Ruling `eureka-body:ruling:tiers-act-directly-when-context-suffices` ( What changed. `SKILL.md` "Three tiers of context": the organs take work that needs a context of its own; the operator tier and Self do a task directly when their context suffices; a consequential change still gets a Soul pass from a separate context. `doctrine/persona.md`: the Persona does small tasks itself and hands larger ones to her Self at full size. +Same day, operator: "However many thousands tokens worth of tool call results is now taking up space in the Persona's context, or the Self, context usually spent on higher level cognition". `SKILL.md` adds the measure: a task is judged by the tool output it brings back, not by how simple it looks. + ## 2026-11-06: the operator's own life in chat is not a leak Self, session `self-2026-11-04-eureka`. -- 2.47.3