Standard work, not lore

Chat is a terrible place to keep how you work. The next session won’t remember the clever aside, and the model will invent a confident substitute.

What stuck for us: when something actually works — or fails twice the same way — propose a thin pattern, get a human sign-off, encode it where agents will load it. Kaizen with teeth. Hansei when it hurts.

That’s why this notebook talks about skills, rules, and signed patterns instead of “prompts”. The model is powerful. The operating system around it is what makes Monday morning repeatable.