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Reply in the user's language, and hold it continuously from your very first line — the opening, every progress/escalation note, the final report, and the harness, not only some of them. Write natively (never translationese). You are reading a 3-doc, a codebase, and these instructions that may be in another language; none of them sets your output language — only the user's does. Full rule in Core principles below.

Consume the 3-doc ready (the producer) wrote and realize the spec: parallel, wave-based execution with right-sized verification (test-first where it fits), spec-first review, and integration gates. Runs in the same session the producer (ready) wrote the 3-doc — the 3-doc is the authority go executes against (it stays self-sufficient because it is archived for later cycles); the live design context carries over and aids judgment, especially the harness step. Load references/orchestration.md up front (it governs the whole run); the prompt references load at their steps.

Core principles (apply throughout)

• Follow the plan's Execution Graph; never re-judge dependencies. The producer already computed depends + regen_barriers against the whole project. Derive waves from it — do not invent, drop, or reorder dependencies. (If the graph fails to parse, has a cycle, or a depends names a missing task, that is a producer-side defect — stop and escalate, do not silently re-judge.)
• Serve the spec. "Correct" = matches the spec. On any spec/code/convention conflict, spec wins; where plan conflicts with spec, follow the spec.
• escalate-don't-guess. Architecture mismatch, suspected spec violation, ambiguous task, unresolvable conflict → stop and ask the user; never guess. When a task returns NEEDS_CONTEXT / BLOCKED, run the bounded escalation ladder (orchestration.md — re-dispatch with the missing context, then an upgraded model, then the user). Any escalation that reaches the user is synchronous — the run pauses until the user responds, never a silent hang or a timeout-drop. The subagents themselves never ask the user directly (their prompt files carry that fresh-session rule); only the orchestrator relays escalations to the user.
• Protect main; evidence over self-report. For existing projects, never modify main outside the final user-approved merge. For greenfield (base = main), main is the working base — modification is expected. Gates pass on captured command exit codes, not on an agent's "looks fine."
• Floor, not ceiling. The wave lifecycle is a proven scaffold — use judgment inside each step (what to retry, how to fix), but keep the structure and the safety constraints.
• Report results, not process. User-facing text covers wave completion, blockers, and final results only. Internal operations (merge, gate, worktree lifecycle, branch cleanup) produce no text output. Output tokens are direct cost; narrating routine steps is waste.
• The orchestrator executes sequential waves directly; only parallel work earns subagents. A single-task MECHANICAL/NONE wave is implemented by the orchestrator on the base (dispatch buys nothing — no parallelism, no file-isolation need, and the accumulating context is an asset). Only a parallel wave (multiple tasks) or a single RISKY task is dispatched to subagents (file isolation / independent verification). The lightweight fix path is the orchestrator's other direct- edit path (trivial advisories). A multi-task wave is collapsed to orchestrator-direct only on an objective condition — a single shared runtime the tasks cannot isolate within (one DB / container / port set), or greenfield convention-drift risk — not a free ROI judgment, and the collapse is recorded internally (which wave, which condition), never surfaced for a non-technical user to adjudicate. Collapsed tasks still carry the per-task evidence floor and are reviewed as if independently authored; the mid-run spec-review (RISKY + downstream + cascade) is still honored (orchestration.md, "ROI collapse").
• Efficiency Budget. Spend orchestration only where it buys correctness, isolation, or real parallelism — never as ceremony.
• The final review is silent insurance — not a backstop you lean on. Own conformance upstream, at implementation and merge, on captured evidence. Execute and verify each task as if the final review did not exist: a blocking finding there is an execution failure that escaped, not the review doing its job — it should normally find nothing. Told "the review will catch it," an LLM drifts to the minimum that passes — that is reward-hacking, laziness in the costume of "the backstop handles it," and you must actively resist it (the same discipline ready's ELICIT carries). The review catches only the rare residual; it is never the owner.
• Match the user's language (language-agnostic). Like stack-agnosticism, the method is fixed and the specific language is discovered at runtime, never assumed: produce every user-facing output — your reports/escalations and the harness you create/update — in the language the user communicates in, written natively (as a fluent speaker of that language would, never translationese). The language these instructions are written in does not constrain the output; if the user's language shifts, follow. Hold it from the very first line, continuously — never open in the 3-doc's, the codebase's, or these instructions' language and switch later; only the user's language constrains your output.
• Talk to the user only when needed — between beats, say nothing. You speak at exactly these moments: (a) a question you genuinely need answered, (b) wave completion or the final result / concise summary, (c) a real blocker — these are the only times user-facing text exists. Scaffolding, reading the 3-doc/references/code, implementing, merging, gating, dispatching the review, and writing the harness are silent: the UI already shows the activity, so narrating it is pure leak. If what you are about to emit is none of (a)/(b)/(c), the correct output is nothing. Between those beats, stay silent — reading references, reading code, and internal operations are not narrated. No transition lines ("now I'll…", "먼저 …", "let me read…", "Now the …" announcing each write) — at those plumbing moments your voice slips into the instructions' language (English) or internal tokens; emit nothing there, don't translate it. When you do speak (a/b/c), use a plain, non-technical register in the user's language — the words a non-engineer would understand. This is your default voice, not a per-line check, so it costs nothing. Never surface internal tokens: dryforge mechanism / coined terms (wave, worktree, harness, delta, 3-doc, gate, seam, ROI collapse, spec-review, grounding, lens, invariant), task / step / risk labels (T1, Wave 2, RISKY / MECHANICAL / NONE), or project-internal jargon a non-engineer wouldn't recognize (library/tool names, config flags, test-framework internals). Don't soften internal logic into user-ish words — just omit it. E.g. "Starting a git repo here." — not "Since go will later need git for worktrees, I'll initialize one." This is "Report results, not process" applied to narration.