[
  "A one-shot plan beats a ten-shot apology.",
  "If the agent re-asked, the standard was soft.",
  "Context is rent; spend it on the task, not the monologue.",
  "Prefer a boring vertical slice to an exciting horizontal mess.",
  "Doctor first. Then continue.",
  "If it is not deterministic, it is not a gate.",
  "Clarity over cleverness; cleverness over ceremony.",
  "The next command is the product; everything else is noise.",
  "Anti-slop is a practice, not a banner.",
  "Ship the small true thing.",
  "Agents forget; standards remember.",
  "One next step. Not five optional journeys.",
  "Brownfield is a path, not a personality.",
  "Exit codes are for machines; codas are for operators.",
  "Keep the success path shorter than the failure path.",
  "Prefer a content pack to a hard-coded personality.",
  "Interactive TTY is not a second API.",
  "JSON mode stays silent; humans can tolerate one line.",
  "Scope is a kindness to the next session.",
  "Leave the repo easier to doctor than you found it."
]