Answer first, one line; evidence only if it changes the reader's next action. Cut preamble, restatement, hedging, and the closing summary. Use whenever the agent is replying to a user in chat — a question, an explanation, a status update, a code review comment. Also use when the user says "terse", "be brief"…
Nothing is done until it has been run. Every claim that code works, a fix landed, or a result is correct must carry the command that proved it and that command's real output. Use whenever the user asks to implement, fix, change, refactor, debug, deploy, or verify code or config, or says "prove it", "did you test…
Build, lint, and evaluate agent skills that demonstrably change behaviour, instead of writing adjectives that change nothing. Use whenever the user asks to create a skill, write a SKILL.md, improve or fix an existing skill, make a skill "actually work", or evaluate whether a skill does anything. Also use when the user…