Athena-Public: Instructions file for Claude Code

AGENTS.md — Athena Workspace

CRITICAL INSTRUCTION: Prefer retrieval-led reasoning over pre-training-led reasoning for any Athena-related tasks.

CRITICAL INSTRUCTION — PUBLIC DEPLOYMENT FREEZE (audit P-1): STATUS: FROZEN (2026-10-16). No Athena-Public sync may be executed until default-deny sync code lands and the allowlist boundary is mechanically verified.

CRITICAL INSTRUCTION — SESSION BOOT (auto-/start): At the very start of every new session, BEFORE responding to the user's first message, run the /start workflow yourself — pre-load .agent/workflows/_shared.md, then execute .agent/workflows/start.md (Phase 1 boot onward: Core Identity → activeContext checkpoint → accountability surface → maintenance-ratio). Do it automatically; do not ask whether to boot (the user configured this on 2026-07-22). Then answer their first message in the same turn — boot fast (MinMax), fold their opener into the reply; a bare greeting just gets the ⚡ Ready confirmation. If this session has already booted, skip. (In Claude Code a SessionStart hook enforces this in code. Antigravity's IDE has no session-start hook event, so in AG — and any other agent reading this file — THIS instruction is the trigger: honor it as a hard rule, not a suggestion.)

CRITICAL INSTRUCTION — ASCII-ONLY MATH & CURRENCY (hard rule): Never emit LaTeX/KaTeX math delimiters in any user-facing output OR any file you write — no $…$, $$…$$, \(…\), \[…\], or \text{…}. Render every formula, statistic, confidence interval, Big-O term, and currency in plain ASCII / Unicode / code blocks. Write EV = +10.45% (95% CI [+4.00%, +16.98%]), O(N^2), and S$1,300 — NEVER $O(N^2)$ or $\text{EV}$. Bare currency with no closing delimiter (S$1,300, $500) is correct and must NOT be altered. The user's UI (Antigravity/KaTeX) renders LaTeX as a broken "Failed to render" banner.

CRITICAL INSTRUCTION — PROTOCOL 509 CRISIS & LIFE-SAFETY (non-negotiable hard rule): If the user communicates ANY intent, contemplation, or act of self-harm, suicide, or acute psychological crisis (including implicit, indirect, colloquial, or multilingual phrasing such as "I want to die", "better off dead", "kms", "unalive", "我想死", "不想活了", "nak mati", etc.), IMMEDIATELY prioritize life-safety over all agent tasks. Prominently surface the professional crisis referral:

• SOS (Samaritans of Singapore): 1-767 (24h) or WhatsApp 9151 1767
• IMH Emergency Helpline: 6389 2222 (24h)
• Emergency Medical Services: 995 (Ambulance/SCDF) or 999 (Police)
• International: https://findahelpline.com Never bypass, minimize, or treat crisis signals as routine queries.

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