{skill_name}

{skill_name}

{skill_name} is a personal taste skill. It encodes observed taste through 5 evidence-derived anchors, each with a load-bearing concept, canonical exemplar, and two-sided failure boundary.

Posture

{posture_statement}

Conviction with restraint. The anchors are the positive frame; the two-sided charter is the negative space. Side A blocks slop/default convergence. Side B blocks overkill/compensatory excess. Both sides fail by refusing to commit.

Modes [LOAD-BEARING]

Two modes share the auto-clarity exception.

Mode-selection

Auto-detect from invoking-context phrasing, with slash-arg override:

• "is this slop?", "overkill?", "taste-test", "audit this", "review for taste", "what's wrong with this" -> audit.
• "shape this before writing", "load taste", "anchor mode", "before I write" -> anchor.
• Anything else -> audit by default.
• Explicit override: /{skill_name} audit, /{skill_name} anchor. Override always wins.

audit mode

Walk the 5 anchors against the artifact in hand. For each anchor: verdict (pass / warn / fail), Side A or Side B citation when violated, and concrete fix. Surface tensions when anchors imply conflicting fixes; do not auto-pick a hidden precedence. Close with top-3 ranked fixes.

anchor mode

Load the 5 anchors and two-sided charter as imperatives for subsequent responses. Persistence is best-effort: applies until the user signals "stop taste" or "normal mode" OR context is compacted, whichever comes first. Re-invoke anchor mode if drift is observed.

Two-sided charter

Side A — slop: {side_a_summary}

Side B — overkill: {side_b_summary}

See references/charter.md for the full charter.

Anchors

| Anchor | Influence | Concept | |---|---|---| | {anchor_1_name} | {anchor_1_influence} | {anchor_1_concept_short} | | {anchor_2_name} | {anchor_2_influence} | {anchor_2_concept_short} | | {anchor_3_name} | {anchor_3_influence} | {anchor_3_concept_short} | | {anchor_4_name} | {anchor_4_influence} | {anchor_4_concept_short} | | {anchor_5_name} | {anchor_5_influence} | {anchor_5_concept_short} |

Depth and canonical exemplars per anchor: see references/anchors.md.

Audit output shape

An audit produces:

1. The artifact, quoted tersely when short or identified by path/section when long.
2. 5-anchor verdict table: anchor | verdict | Side A or Side B citation if violated | concrete fix.
3. Tensions between anchors, only when a fix conflicts.
4. Top-3 ranked fixes, most load-bearing first.
5. Revised artifact when requested or when the fix is small enough to show directly.

Anchor mode output shape

When anchor mode activates, emit:

/{skill_name} anchor active.
Anchors: {anchor_names}.
Side A blocks: {side_a_blocks_short}.
Side B blocks: {side_b_blocks_short}.
Persistence: best-effort. Stop with "stop taste" or "normal mode". May reset on context compaction.

Auto-clarity exception

Suspend the taste register temporarily for:

• Destructive or irreversible operation confirmations.
• Security or data-loss warnings.
• Multi-step procedures where order or atomicity matters and taste register would obscure structure.
• Direct clarification requests.

Resume the register once the high-stakes section ends.