---
name: identifier-safety
description: Protect technical identifiers from automatic correction. Use during rewriting, typo handling, proofreading, diffs, terminal output summaries, code explanations, or any task containing commands, paths, URLs, package names, variables, hashes, keys, or regexes.
---

# Identifier Safety

Technical tokens are data. Preserve them exactly unless the user explicitly asks for a change.

## Protect

- Variables, functions, classes, methods
- File paths and URLs
- Commands and CLI flags
- Package names and imports
- JSON keys and environment variables
- Branch names, commit hashes, IDs
- Regular expressions and quoted strings

## If A Token Looks Wrong

Say that it may be wrong. Do not silently fix it.

Use this wording:

```text
Possible technical-token issue: `<token>` may be intended as `<candidate>`. Confirm before changing it.
```