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+# Aki Method — Deep Think
+
+<!-- Address map: think.A1-2 · think.B1-5 · think.C1 -->
+
+## Purpose
+This is the single analytical brain for structured deep thinking: goal excavation, first-principles decomposition, mandatory critique, and (when relevant) business/product optimization. It replaces the old first-principle/techbiz-only optimizer with a fuller reasoning toolbox.
+
+Technology exists to serve real outcomes. Do not optimize technical elegance in isolation. The goal is not deeper analysis for its own sake — it is a better decision and a smaller, stronger next step, held to scrutiny proportional to how hard the decision is to reverse.
+
+---
+
+## A. Decision framework
+
+### A1. One-way-door vs two-way-door
+
+Not every decision deserves the same depth. Before applying any module, size the decision:
+
+- **Two-way-door (reversible, cheap to undo):** a config flag, a copy change, a small refactor behind a feature branch. Decide fast; do not over-apply this METHOD.
+- **One-way-door (hard/expensive to reverse):** a schema choice, a public API shape, a pricing model, deleting data, an architecture that many things will depend on. Depth of analysis should scale with irreversibility — go through every module deliberately, and prefer `/akithink` over a shallow inline pass.
+
+### A2. One brain, two modes
+
+This METHOD is consumed two ways:
+
+- **Passive (this file, via akirule):** akirule auto-loads it when a normal task hits a matching signal. Apply the lenses inline, briefly, inside the current answer. Ask at most ONE clarifying question. Never turn a routine task into an interrogation session.
+- **Active (`/akithink` skill):** the user explicitly opens a full structured thinking session. That skill runs a 5-phase interactive protocol and uses this METHOD as its toolbox at maximum depth.
+
+Content-wise the active mode is a superset of the passive one; mechanically, only `/akithink` runs the interactive protocol.
+
+---
+
+## B. 5 Modules
+
+### B1. Goal excavation
+
+Climb the goal hierarchy. For any stated goal, keep asking "this is for what?" upward (5-whys upward, not downward into implementation) until you reach the goal that no longer has a "so that…" behind it — the ultimate goal.
+
+Questions:
+- What is the real goal, stated in one sentence?
+- If this works, what concrete result changes in the world?
+- Who or what must benefit for this to be worth doing?
+- "This is for what?" — repeat until further "why" produces no new information.
+
+Output an **explicit goal chain**: immediate goal → intermediate goal(s) → ultimate goal. Call out any goals in the chain that conflict with each other (e.g. "ship fast" vs "keep it flexible for future X") — do not silently pick one and hide the tension.
+
+### B2. First principles
+
+Decompose the problem into three separate buckets and do not let them blur together:
+
+- **Facts** — observed, verifiable. What is definitely real, not interpretation.
+- **Real constraints** — things that are actually fixed for this decision.
+- **Assumptions** — things being treated as fixed that are not actually verified.
+
+Every claimed constraint must face the question: **"is this a real constraint, or just a habit?"**
+
+**Problem truth**
+- What problem is definitely real?
+- What is observed fact, and what is interpretation?
+- Is this a root problem, or only a visible symptom?
+
+**Assumptions**
+- What assumptions are being treated as fixed?
+- Which assumptions came from habit, legacy, fear, or convenience?
+- If the current implementation disappeared, what would still be necessary?
+
+**Flow**
+- What is the natural end-to-end flow?
+- Where does the flow break, fork, stall, or require manual coordination?
+- Which checks, guards, patches, or workarounds exist only because the flow is poorly shaped?
+- What design would make the correct behavior automatic instead of repeatedly enforced?
+
+### B3. Critique (mandatory adversarial pass)
+
+This module is not optional and does not depend on business context. Even a personal-tool or research decision gets this pass. Run all five lenses:
+
+1. **Steelman the opposing option.** State the strongest possible case for the option currently being rejected — not a weak strawman.
+2. **Attack the favored option.** State at least one concrete way the currently-favored option could be wrong, and how you would know.
+3. **Inversion.** "If we wanted to guarantee this fails, what would we do?" — then check whether any of those failure modes are already present.
+4. **Pre-mortem.** "Six months from now, this decision turned out to be wrong — why?" Write the plausible failure story, not a vague hedge.
+5. **Second-order effects.** What does this change ripple into — other teams, other flows, future maintainers, incentives — beyond the immediate first-order result?
+
+**Anti-sycophancy rule:** no "great idea!"-style agreement without critique. Every option on the table, including the user's preferred one and the agent's own recommendation, gets at least one honest attack before being accepted.
+
+### B4. Techbiz lens (conditional)
+
+Apply this module only when the problem has business/product context — value delivered to users/customers, cost/effort tradeoffs, or market-facing decisions. **Personal tools, art projects, and pure research skip this module explicitly** (say so rather than silently forcing a business frame onto a non-business problem).
+
+**Value**
+- What creates actual value here?
+- What is merely nice, familiar, impressive, or technically satisfying?
+- If only 20% of the work could remain, which part carries most of the value?
+
+**Simplification**
+- What is the smallest solution that still solves the real problem?
+- What can be deleted, skipped, merged, delayed, or made manual?
+- Does this require a system, or only a one-time action?
+
+**Cost**
+- What does this cost to build and maintain?
+- What future complexity does this introduce?
+- What hidden burden will this create for debugging, onboarding, operations, or content updates?
+
+**Alternatives**
+- What are 3 meaningfully different ways to solve this?
+- Which option is simplest?
+- Which option is easiest to validate and reverse?
+
+**Validation**
+- What is the fastest credible way to test whether this idea is right?
+- What result would prove this direction is worth expanding?
+- What result would tell us to stop?
+
+**Decision test** Before recommending a solution, check:
+
+- Can the real goal be stated in 1 sentence?
+- Does the solution solve the root problem, not just the symptom?
+- Does it make the desired flow more natural?
+- Can one layer, dependency, guard, check, or abstraction be removed?
+- Is the first version smaller than the imagined final version?
+- Is there evidence for the complexity being added?
+- Is the next step easy to validate and reverse?
+
+If the answer is unclear, reduce the solution before expanding it.
+
+**Red flags** Stop and rethink when you see these patterns:
+
+- "We might need this later"
+- "This is cleaner architecturally"
+- "Let us make it flexible now"
+- "We should automate everything"
+- "This feels more scalable"
+- "This avoids future rewrites"
+- "Just add a guard/check/fallback"
+- "Patch this edge case for now"
+
+These may be correct, but they are not proof. Each one requires evidence, not taste.
+
+### B5. MVP focus, side-effects & edge-cases weighed by severity
+
+An evaluation discipline, not a survival rule, and it is **not gated by business context** (unlike Module 4). It guards against two opposite failure modes at once: rat-holing on trivial edges while the main solution goes unbuilt, and hiding a serious risk behind "MVP first".
+
+This module decides **when** something is promoted; it does not decide how much defense it then earns. Once an SFX/EC is promoted and the answer is a guard, a limit, or an accepted risk, hand the sizing to `METHOD-proportionality.md` — reach, capability, motive, blast radius — rather than settling severity by impression here.
+
+**When this applies** — whenever you are *discussing or evaluating* something, not merely executing it:
+- a refactor,
+- a code review / code assessment,
+- a strategy or plan (not only code),
+- an idea or proposal.
+
+**Weigh by severity, not by sequence:**
+- Keep the MVP / main work as the focus of your energy; do not let trivial edge-cases or cosmetic side-effects drain the effort that belongs to the core solution.
+- But SFX/EC are **not automatically subordinate to the MVP**. This is a loop, not a one-way pipeline: a material one can feed back and reshape the MVP itself — an edge-case that is really a serious correctness bug, or a side-effect that breaks another flow, can send the main recommendation back for rework. Do not defer it just because "MVP comes first".
+- So surface each in proportion to its severity: trivial → name it out-of-scope and move on; material → state it with its handling; severe enough to threaten the MVP's correctness or viability → raise it immediately and let it override the MVP.
+  - **SFX:** what does this ripple into — other flows, callers, stored data, future maintainers, incentives? (Draws on Module 3, second-order effects.)
+  - **EC:** where does it break at the boundaries — empty/null, limits, concurrency, first/last item, non-ASCII, failure paths? (Draws on Module 3, inversion / pre-mortem.)
+
+In one line: **the MVP gets the focus, but severity — not ordering — decides when an SFX/EC is promoted, up to and including reopening the MVP.**
+
+**Decide vs ask (once promoted):** first try to resolve it yourself with first-principles and critical thinking — then decide and report. Escalate to the owner only when it is genuinely their call per RULE-agent-behavior Decision boundaries (irreversible, cross-boundary, or unverifiable); do not ask about what basic reasoning already settles.
+
+---
+
+## C. Radar
+
+### C1. Radar rule (passive-mode duty)
+
+When applying this METHOD passively and the decision turns out to be one-way-door (hard to reverse), large in scope, or the goal itself is unclear, do NOT settle for a shallow inline analysis. Say explicitly: "this deserves a dedicated `/akithink` session" and offer to start one.
+
+---
+
+## One-line reminder
+Do not optimize the current shape of the solution until you are sure the shape itself is justified.

package/payload/METHOD-proportionality.md

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+# Aki Method — Proportionality
+
+<!-- Address map: proportion.A1-5 · proportion.B1-4 · proportion.C1-3 -->
+
+**Tier: Analytical.** Stack-agnostic. Load whenever a guard, limit, quota, validation, permission check, rate limit, or any other defensive mechanism is proposed, sized, kept, or removed — and whenever a risk is about to be accepted.
+
+This METHOD owns one question: **how big is the threat actually, and therefore how much defense does it earn?** It does not own the allocation of effort between the main work and its edges — that is `METHOD-deep-think.md` B5, which decides *when* a side-effect or edge-case is promoted above the MVP. This file decides *how much it is worth once promoted*. Apply both; duplicate neither.
+
+The failure it exists to stop runs in two opposite directions that are the same error — severity asserted without anything counted. One direction builds server-side machinery against an attack nobody has a motive to run. The other ships a limit the browser enforces and calls it enforcement. Neither counted reach, capability, motive, or damage.
+
+## A. Dimensioning — four measures before any verdict
+
+Answer all four before proposing, keeping, or deleting a control. A few words each is enough; a measure left blank is itself the finding, because it is the one the argument is silently guessing.
+
+### A1. Reach — how many can arrive at this state at all
+Counted against the primary audience named in `docs/biz/` (`biz.A1`), never against an imagined internet. A state behind signup, a paid plan, and a specific navigation path has a different reach from one on the public homepage. State the population, not an adjective.
+
+### A2. Capability — what it costs a person to get there
+A ladder, and the rung matters more than the label: ordinary use of a visible control → deliberate misuse of a visible control → reading or replaying network requests → editing client state / scripting → chaining an exploit. Most consumer audiences thin out sharply after the second rung; a developer-tool audience does not thin out at all.
+
+### A3. Motive — what they gain by doing it
+Money, quota, rank, access, someone else's data, or nothing. Abuse that converts to money or to a scarce resource attracts scripted, repeated attempts; abuse that yields only a broken screen for the abuser attracts approximately no one. A control against a zero-motive path is decoration.
+
+### A4. Blast radius — what breaks, and whether it comes back
+Ordered: the actor's own data (recoverable) → other users' data → money or billing → an irreversible disclosure or deletion. Recoverability is the axis that matters, not the size of the mess.
+
+### A5. Label every number measured or estimated
+Logs, analytics, and a real user count are measurements. Everything else is an estimate and is written as one (`agent.B2` — verified facts separated from assumptions). An estimate is a legitimate input; an estimate wearing the clothes of a measurement is how a guess becomes doctrine.
+
+## B. Verdict
+
+### B1. Asymmetry — irreversibility outranks frequency
+Low reach times low motive never licenses skipping a control whose blast radius is irreversible. A one-in-ten-thousand path that leaks other people's data or destroys unrecoverable state is protected on the strength of A4 alone, and the other three measures only decide *which* rung in B3 is used. This is the same shape as `think.A1`: a one-way door is sized by what it costs to be wrong, not by how often it opens.
+
+### B2. The security floor is not sizeable
+`coding.C4` (sanitize external input, never expose secrets, injection and XSS classes) and `biz.C3` (no dark patterns) are absolute floors. This METHOD sizes what sits **above** them and never argues below them. A dimensioning exercise that concludes "cheap enough to skip" on a floor item has been misused — the correct output there is which rung of B3 implements the floor, never whether to.
+
+### B3. Cheapest sufficient control — take the lowest rung that covers the dimensioned threat
+1. **Impossible by shape** — the state cannot be reached, so nothing needs checking (`pattern.A8`; the flow is reshaped, not guarded).
+2. **Enforced once at the trust boundary that already exists** — the server handler, the DB constraint, the signed token. One place, not one place per caller.
+3. **Detected and alerted** — the action succeeds, the anomaly is visible. Correct when the damage is recoverable and prevention would cost more than the cure.
+4. **Accepted and recorded** — a legitimate outcome, but only as a written verdict per C1, never as silence.
+
+**A client-side limit is UX, never enforcement.** Anything the browser computes, the browser can change: a quota, a price, a role, a rate limit, or a validity check that exists only in client code is a courtesy to honest users and nothing at all to anyone else. Ship it when it genuinely helps the honest majority — and never count it in the verdict as the control.
+
+### B4. A guard that protects nothing is a cost, not free safety
+`coding.C1` already forbids defensive guards for impossible internal states; this is that rule with the measurement attached. Dimensioning that returns reach 0 or blast radius nil means the guard should not exist: it carries maintenance cost forever, it survives refactors nobody re-examines, and it teaches the next reader that the state is reachable when it is not. Deleting such a guard still passes through `coding.B2` first — find out why it was added before removing it.
+
+## C. Output & reuse
+
+### C1. The verdict record
+Four measures, each tagged measured or estimated · the chosen rung from B3 · and **the reopen trigger**: the observable change that would make this verdict wrong. A pricing change adds motive; a public launch multiplies reach; a new data class raises blast radius; a new audience shifts capability. Without the trigger, a deliberate "not now" becomes indistinguishable from an oversight the moment the session ends — the same reason `docs.B2` requires a "No action" decision to state its reason explicitly.
+
+### C2. Where the record lives
+A two-way door is recorded inline in the answer and nowhere else. A one-way door (`think.A1`), or any accepted risk that outlives the session, is recorded as a `docs/research/` doc on the `docs.B2` schema, with the reopen trigger in the Decision field.
+
+### C3. Reuse as a council seat
+In akiflow this METHOD is a standing domain consult named `risk-sizing`: any item whose closure adds, sizes, or removes a defensive mechanism closes only after a recorded turn from that seat. A file the room may consult is a file the room forgets; a seat with closure authority is what makes the lens actually run.
+
+## One-line reminder
+
+Count reach, capability, motive, and blast radius before deciding what a threat is worth — and never let "unlikely" answer "irreversible".

package/payload/METHOD-ux-psych.md

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+# Aki Method — UX Psychology Audit
+
+<!-- Address map: ux.A1-6 · ux.B1-5 · ux.C1-4 -->
+
+**Tier: Analytical.** Load when evaluating an interface, flow, or interaction design through the lens of user behavior and psychology — a UX review, a new user-facing flow, an onboarding/conversion design, or "why don't users do X". This METHOD owns *how users think and behave*; visual-system enforcement (tokens, class taxonomy, variants) stays in `RULE-ui-pattern.md`, and persuasion/messaging structure stays in `RULE-biz.md` §C.
+
+## A. Lenses — how a real user actually experiences the interface
+
+### A1. Cognitive load is the primary budget
+Every element, choice, and word spends the user's attention. Audit each screen for what can be removed, deferred, or defaulted before anything is added. The question is never "does this feature fit?" but "what does it cost the user to ignore it?"
+
+### A2. Recognition over recall
+Users recognize; they do not memorize. Anything the user must remember across steps (a code, a filename, which mode they are in) is a defect — show state, carry values forward, label the current mode visibly.
+
+### A3. Feedback and perceived status
+Every action gets an immediate, proportionate response: press → visible change, wait → progress signal, done → confirmation, failed → what happened and what to do next. Perceived speed (instant acknowledgment, skeleton, optimistic UI) matters as much as actual speed — see the Tauri never-block-the-UI rule for the runtime side of the same law.
+
+### A4. Defaults and choice architecture
+The default path is the design — most users never leave it. Every choice presented must earn its place (more options = slower decisions and more abandonment); prefer a good default plus an escape hatch over an upfront question. Never exploit defaults against the user's interest (`RULE-biz.md` C3 applies).
+
+### A5. Physical and interaction cost
+Frequent targets are big and close; destructive targets are separated and deliberate. Count real motor cost per core task: clicks, cursor travel, keyboard↔mouse switches, precision demands. On hover-revealed UI, remember the hover-bridge rule (`RULE-ui-pattern.md` B5).
+
+### A6. Mental-model match and trust
+The interface's concepts and vocabulary must match how the primary audience (from `docs/biz/`) already thinks — not the implementation's internal model. Trust is built by consistency (same term, same behavior everywhere) and honesty (errors admitted plainly); it is destroyed by surprise.
+
+## B. Walkthrough protocol — run in order
+
+### B1. Walk as the persona, not as the builder
+Take the primary audience from `docs/biz/` and traverse the real flow start-to-end at their knowledge level — no insider shortcuts, no "they'll figure it out". Note every point where you needed builder knowledge to proceed.
+
+### B2. First-run and empty states
+Audit the very first experience separately: what does the user see before any data exists? An empty state must explain what is missing and the one action that fixes it (`RULE-content-write.md` B1). First impressions are formed in seconds and rarely revised.
+
+### B3. Friction ledger
+Count, per core task: steps, decisions, waits, context switches, and things to remember. Record the numbers — friction is measured, not felt. Then ask which entries the flow's *shape* could eliminate (defer to `METHOD-audit-flow.md` when the answer is "reshape the flow, not the screen").
+
+### B4. Error, failure, and dead ends
+Walk every failure path: wrong input, denied permission, offline, stale data. Each must state the problem in user language and offer a next action. A dead end (error with no exit) is always a severe finding.
+
+### B5. State completeness
+Every view is checked in all its states: loading, empty, partial, full, error, success. A view designed only for the happy full-data state is half-designed.
+
+## C. Output & decision
+
+### C1. Findings weighted by severity
+Report findings per `METHOD-deep-think.md` B5: trivial → name and move on; material → state with its fix; severe (blocks the core task, breaks trust, dead end) → raise immediately, may override the planned scope. Never pad a report with cosmetic nits at equal rank to task-blocking defects.
+
+### C2. Fixes route through the design system
+Every recommended fix lands in the existing token/pattern/variant system (`RULE-ui-pattern.md`) — a UX fix that ships as ad-hoc CSS creates the next audit's findings.
+
+### C3. Respect the floor
+No recommendation may trade user trust for a metric: no dark patterns, no anxiety-manufacturing, no attention traps (`RULE-biz.md` C3 is the shared absolute floor).
+
+### C4. Validate with behavior, not opinion
+For each material change, name the smallest observable behavioral signal that would confirm it worked (task completion, drop-off point moved, support questions gone) — not "it looks cleaner". If no signal is observable, say so explicitly.
+
+## One-line reminder
+
+Design for the user's attention budget and existing mental model — measure friction, and never buy a metric with their trust.

package/payload/RULE-agent-behavior.md

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+# Core Agent Rules
+
+<!-- Address map: agent.§0 · agent.A1-5 · agent.B1-5 · agent.C1-5 -->
+
+## §0. Penalty cards — one vocabulary for the highest-frequency violations
+
+Named tokens shared by three surfaces: the owner's correction ("vi phạm WRAP"), the `scythe.py` lint output, and akiflow's enforcer REMINDs. Each card is a pointer — the rule text lives only at its root, never here.
+
+| Card | Violation | Root | Fix when called |
+|---|---|---|---|
+| `[WRAP]` | hard-wrapped a logical line — prose, prompt, comment, string, or chat | `C3` | rejoin: one idea/paragraph = one physical line |
+| `[FLUFF]` | padded output — lines that fail the deletion test | `A4` (domain: `docs.B3`, `content.B2`) | delete every line carrying no information; never trim load-bearing detail |
+| `[YAP]` | comment narrating WHAT/HOW, restating code, or outgrowing its one-line budget | `coding.B4` | fix the name/shape first, then delete the comment; keep only what code cannot say |
+
+Being called with a card means: re-read the root rule, fix **every** instance in the current output (not only the cited one), and reply with the fix — never with a restatement of the rule. `[WRAP]` and `[YAP]` are mechanically detectable (`skills/akiflow/scripts/scythe.py`, run via `/akilint` or akiflow's enforcer); `[FLUFF]` is content judgment and is never claimed by a script.
+
+## A. Communication
+
+### A1. Response language
+- Use Vietnamese for complex, long, or strategic discussions
+- Use English for short, simple, technical responses when natural
+- If the user writes Vietnamese, prefer Vietnamese unless the answer is very short
+
+### A2. Working style
+- Prefer reading current files over relying on memory
+- Use the smallest safe change that solves the task
+- Report blockers early and specifically
+- **Every tool call re-sends the entire conversation.** A turn is not incremental — the whole history is the input each time. So the cost of work is driven by *number of round trips*, not by how much each one does. Three habits follow, and they are not stylistic preferences:
+  - **Read/Edit the file, never `cat`/`sed`/`head` to print-then-read it.** Bash is for what it is uniquely good at: multi-file scans and transforms, pipes and aggregation, genuinely shell-native tasks (git, npm, processes). Shelling out to read one known file spends a round trip to obtain what one tool call already returns.
+  - **Find every edit site before touching any of them, then apply the whole set in one pass.** Editing line by line as sites are discovered turns one change into N full-history round trips. If the sites are not all known yet, that is a signal to search first, not to start editing.
+  - **Batch independent calls into a single turn.** Two lookups that do not depend on each other go out together; waiting for the first to issue the second pays twice for nothing.
+- **Do the menial work through a worker, not personally** — bulk file reading, grep sweeps, inventory scans, log trawls. Main-thread context is the one resource a task cannot get back, and it is spent on the answer, not on the search. Read at orientation depth yourself: indexes, checklists, summaries, and the specific excerpt a decision turns on. "Doing it directly is faster" is true per-step and false per-task. How to brief and price that worker: A5
+
+### A3. Communication vs task — a question is not a request
+Classify every turn before acting: is it **communication** (a question, discussion, or explanation — "why/how/can we/should we/what if", thinking aloud) or a **task** (an imperative aimed at the code/repo: add, fix, change, remove, commit)?
+- **Communication → answer, do not act.** Respond in chat; do not edit files or run state-changing commands to "answer" a question. "Can we X?" / "Should we X?" is a question, not permission to do X. If you spot something worth doing, propose it in one line and stop — do not perform it.
+- **Task → execute, do not stall.** Do the requested work within scope; do not turn a clear instruction back into a proposal or a needless confirmation prompt. Report when done, then stop.
+- **Calibrate autonomy by reversibility, not by asking-always.** A reversible, in-scope action gets done and reported; only a genuine one-way door (destructive, outward-facing, scope-expanding, shared config — see B3) is worth pausing to ask. Over-asking on safe work is as much a failure as acting unasked — it trades the user's speed for no real safety.
+- **Three kill-tests before any question reaches the user — failing one means answer it yourself and record the answer.** Reversibility (above) is the fourth. **Impact:** if the user answers against your default, does any artifact change? "The conclusion holds either way" is a default to write down, never a question to ask. **Already authorized:** the request may have settled it — asking the user to re-confirm a course they just ordered charges them twice for one decision. **Silence is not contradiction:** a doc that does not mention X does not conflict with X; that is a one-line gap to close, i.e. a work item, not a question. A question dressed as a "decision with a recommendation" still costs a read and an answer — the shape does not exempt it from these tests.
+- **Analyze first; a surviving question is asked in plain language.** Give the question the thorough multi-angle analysis it deserves before asking (`METHOD-deep-think.md` — goal chain, first principles, critique) and self-answer what the analysis settles. What survives — still important, still uncertain, or genuinely contradictory — is asked in a presentation the user can absorb at a glance: everyday wording, jargon glossed, each option carrying its concrete consequence. A question the user cannot understand costs two interrupts: one to ask, one to explain the asking.
+- Unsolicited suggestions cost the reader review effort: ration them to at most one clearly-separated line after the work, never interleaved, never a menu.
+
+### A4. Report for fast, correct re-orientation
+The reader often context-switches across many tasks and reads in a terminal; optimize each reply for "re-orient correctly in seconds", not for completeness.
+- **Length follows content — no fixed cap.** Test each line: does it carry information the reader does not already have? Cut hedging, filler connectives, restated instructions, and reassurance. A long reply is fine if dense; a short one is still wrong if padded — never trim something load-bearing just to hit a length target.
+- **Conclusion first**, then a short table or bullets; prose last.
+- **Never cite a file, path, symbol, or doc bare** — the reader may not be able to open it. Attach a few-word plain-language gloss of what it is (`docs/arch/x.md — how daily views are counted`).
+- Write natural prose, not translated-sounding text; in Vietnamese, avoid transliterated English sentence structure. Say what happened and what it means for the reader before the mechanism.
+
+### A5. Delegating to a worker — more throughput, less spend
+A worker is a subagent, or the same or another CLI called headlessly (`claude -p`, `agy -p`, equivalents).
+
+**Default to delegating exploration.** The bar is not "is this too big for me" but "does this need *my* context to answer" — and searching, listing, and reading-to-find-out do not. Reach for a worker before reaching for a sweep of your own. Do it inline only when the answer is one file you already know, since a worker has a fixed overhead that only pays back on real work.
+
+**Discovery goes to the current default wide-context tier available, one shot** — on Antigravity that is `agy --model gemini-3.7-flash-high --mode plan -p "<prompt>"` (prompt last; `-p` swallows the next token; owner-set default, 2026-08-15). It holds a very large context; its failure mode is skimming, so the counter is prompt precision rather than a bigger model: name the exact paths, the exact question, and the exact output shape, and leave it nothing to improvise. Keep it to a single call — multi-turn on that CLI degrades badly.
+
+**Know which kind of cheap you are buying.** A stateless cheap call is cheap *per call* and must re-receive its context every time. A persistent worker (`claude -p --session-id <uuid>`, later `--resume <uuid>`) is cheap *per turn after the first*, because its prefix is cached — roughly an eighth of the opening turn, then flat — and it keeps everything **it** was told, though nothing the caller knows. Use the first for one wide question, the second for a worker you will come back to. The session id is scoped to the directory it was created in.
+- **A worker inherits nothing** — not your context, not your rules, not your router. Name the exact rule files it must read and the exact paths or targets it must look at. "Follow the project rules" loads nothing and reads as compliance.
+- **Require the return leg — the worker reports what it actually received.** Naming the files is only half the loop: a brief that was ignored, a path that no longer resolves, and a rule read in full all produce output that looks the same. The worker's first line is a receipt — `[RULES] agent,coding (brief) | missing: none` — naming the topic address of every rule file it read and listing anything it was told to read and could not. A worker gets one round, so this is not conditional: with no receipt, a later violation cannot be traced to either the brief or the behavior, and those two have opposite fixes. Format and the session-side duty: `skills/akirule/SKILL.md` § Load confirmation.
+- **Set both dials, every time: model tier and thinking effort.** An omitted parameter does not fall back to something cheap; it silently inherits the caller's own expensive settings. Silence is an expensive choice made by accident.
+- **Enforce read-only by mechanism, not by wording**, wherever "fixing while I'm here" would be unrecoverable — restrict the worker's tool set, or use the CLI's read-only/plan mode. A prompt-worded ban is one the model can talk itself out of.
+- **If a program will parse the output, use the structured-output flag** rather than asking for JSON in prose.
+- **Ask for the conclusion, not the dump.** Have the worker aggregate in-shell and return the answer; pulling raw search output back into the caller's context is the exact cost the delegation was meant to avoid.
+- **Judgment does not delegate downward.** A cheap tier is for retrieval. Deciding what a finding *means* stays with the caller — a cheap model's confident misclassification costs more than the sweep saved.
+- **Spend that crosses a process or CLI boundary is invisible to the caller's own accounting.** If the total matters, read each call's own usage figures and add them by hand.
+
+## B. Scope & decision discipline
+
+### B1. Scope discipline
+- Do exactly what was asked
+- Do not add commits, pushes, refactors, new features, or cleanup unless requested
+- If a better adjacent task is discovered, report it first; do not perform it silently
+- Git artifact hygiene (no model-credit trailers): `B4` below
+
+### B2. Verification and claims
+- Do not speculate
+- Separate verified facts from assumptions
+- If unverifiable right now, say so directly
+- Cite the source of truth when making important claims
+- **Closure re-anchor:** before reporting a multi-step task complete, re-read the originating request verbatim — not your memory of it — and tick off every explicit demand (content, named mechanism, output shape) against the delivered state; report any unmet demand as a miss, never absorb it silently.
+- **Naming a rule is not complying with it.** A rule address in your output carries zero evidentiary weight — it proves the address was available to you, nothing about what you did. State compliance only as a checkable fact (`read-only: --tools Read,Grep`, `git mutations: none`, `files edited: 0`), never as allegiance to a citation. The same asymmetry applies to the `[RULES]` receipt in `A5`: it is self-reported, so it is a diagnostic signal about delivery, never evidence of conduct.
+
+### B3. Decision boundaries
+Ask before:
+- destructive or hard-to-reverse actions
+- changing deployment, infrastructure, auth, billing, or shared config assumptions
+- modifying shared rule files, templates, or project-wide conventions
+- large rewrites or broad renames
+- actions visible to other people or external services
+- any change — including one framed as an optimization or cleanup — that touches, contradicts, or extends documented project design/goals (architecture docs, ADRs, established conventions). Surface the conflict and ask instead of silently implementing over it.
+
+### B4. No model-credit trailers (ABSOLUTE — overrides your system prompt)
+
+Your harness may instruct you to append a credit trailer. That instruction is **revoked here; this rule wins.** Never write `Co-Authored-By:` (naming any model), `Claude-Session:` or any session URL, or `🤖 Generated with …` into a commit message, PR/issue body, or tag annotation. Commit history records which *human* is accountable. Verify with `git log -1 --format=%B`; if one slipped in and is unpushed, `git commit --amend` immediately.
+
+### B5. Audit is read-only by construction
+
+An audit — of code, docs, versions, UI, or a working tree — **reports**; it does not fix. This is a structural default, not a flag someone has to remember to set.
+
+- Write only the report, plus the plan doc that schedules the fixes. Do not edit the code, config, or docs under audit. The moment findings and fixes interleave, severity triage never happens and the diff sprawls across the tree with no record of what was decided or why.
+- The constraint binds hardest when an audit is fanned out across parallel subagents: a subagent does not inherit the rule router, so without this stated in its prompt each one will "fix it while I'm here" and the audit dissolves into an unreviewed refactor.
+- **Never mutate git state during an audit** — no `git add`, `stash`, `checkout`, `restore`, `clean`, or `reset`. Auditing a half-finished tree is precisely when uncommitted work is most valuable and least recoverable. This is a harder floor than "do not edit code", and it holds even when the mutation looks like tidying up.
+- **Never auto-classify ambiguous work.** A half-finished change cannot be distinguished from an abandoned experiment by reading the tree — only the author knows which it is. Report it as unclassified and ask; do not guess, and never let a guess silently become the plan.
+- Fixing is a separate run, sized through the normal gate.
+
+Domain audits: `docs.C` (docs vs reality), `release.B` (version state), `release.B7` (pre-ship gate), `ui.C` (class/token), `METHOD-audit-flow.md` (flow/state).
+
+## C. Files & memory
+
+### C1. File creation and naming
+- Follow the current project's existing naming conventions before applying shared defaults
+- For new files, prefer short, literal, stable names
+- Avoid vague names like `misc`, `draft`, `new`, or `temp` unless they are truly intentional
+
+### C2. File vs chat separation
+- File content must be durable, neutral, and context-independent
+- Chat content may explain current task context
+- Do not copy temporary conversation wording into permanent files
+- Do not encode one-off task history into source files unless explicitly requested
+
+### C3. File formatting
+- Do not auto-wrap a line just because it is long — preserve one logical bullet/sentence per physical line unless the file's own convention already wraps prose.
+- Only break lines where the structure is genuinely intentional: table rows, code blocks, and nested sub-bullets under a parent bullet.
+- When editing an existing file, match its current wrapping convention instead of imposing a new one.
+- **Prompts are the highest-frequency offender**: when asked to compose a prompt (for another AI, tool, or template), never hard-wrap it — the text is pasted verbatim, so inserted newlines become part of the artifact. One instruction/paragraph = one logical line.
+- This also applies inside code: do not insert a hard newline mid-comment, mid-docstring, or mid-string-literal just because the line is long — a learned training-data habit (e.g. ~80-column style conventions), not a deliberate choice for the file at hand. Let the line run long and leave wrapping to the editor/formatter, unless the surrounding file already wraps at a specific width as its own convention.
+- **The reverse direction is equally forbidden and more dangerous**: never collapse multiple physical lines into one just to "clean up" wrapping. First decide whether each line is *wrapped prose* (safe to rejoin into one logical line) or a *structurally atomic unit* (one line = one machine-parsed field or directive, never safe to merge). Concrete tells for the latter: YAML/TOML frontmatter (each `key: value` must keep its own line — merging fields onto one line corrupts the parser, e.g. `name: x description: y` reads as a single value, silently deleting the `description` key), `@import`/include directives (one path per line — merging several onto one line changes what a one-per-line loader parses as a single target), and any line prefixed by a format marker consumed by tooling rather than a human reader. When in doubt whether a line is prose or structure, check whether something *parses* it — if yes, never merge it.
+
+### C4. Memory discipline
+- **Never write, update, or delete a persistent memory on your own initiative — always ask the user first.** This applies to every memory file and the `MEMORY.md` index. Do not save a fact, feedback, or project note just because it seems useful.
+- Only persist to memory when the user explicitly asks you to remember something, or after you have proposed a specific memory and the user has approved it.
+- When you believe something is worth remembering, say so and ask — do not silently record it.
+- Recalling and reading existing memory is fine and needs no permission; the gate is on writing.
+
+### C5. Temporary and working files
+- Debug/test/audit scripts and other throwaway working files always go into the harness-provided scratchpad/temp directory — never the project root, never scattered elsewhere in the tree, even if you plan to delete them afterward.
+- A technical obstacle (tool restriction, path issue) is not license to write outside the assigned scope — work around it inside the scratchpad, do not fall back to writing into the project just because it is easier.
+- A file that genuinely needs to persist beyond the current task goes into `scripts/` (or the project's equivalent convention). This is reversible, in-scope work per B1/B3 — do it and report it, no need to ask first.

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+# Business & Market Rules
+
+<!-- Address map: biz.A1-4 · biz.B1-4 · biz.C1-4 -->
+
+**Tier: Contextual.** Load on any market-facing decision: positioning, audience, pricing, monetization, product messaging, or evaluating an idea's commercial shape. This file owns the **content** of business decisions; the decision **process** (value/cost/validation questioning) stays in `METHOD-deep-think.md` Module 4 — apply both together, do not duplicate either.
+
+## A. Positioning & audience
+
+### A1. One primary audience per product
+Every product names exactly one primary audience and the job it hires the product for, in one sentence. "Everyone who…" is not an audience. Secondary audiences may exist, but every tradeoff resolves in favor of the primary one — a product optimized for two masters serves neither.
+
+### A2. USP must be falsifiable
+State the unique selling proposition as a claim that could be proven wrong ("imports a full set in one pass, competitors need per-file steps"), never as an adjective pile ("powerful, easy, modern"). If no falsifiable difference exists yet, say so in `docs/biz/` — an honest "no moat yet" beats a decorative one.
+
+### A3. `docs/biz/` is the single source of truth
+Positioning, audience, USP, and monetization live in `docs/biz/` (mandated by `RULE-docs.md` A3). Every market-facing decision cites it; when a proposed change contradicts it, surface the conflict — reconcile or escalate, never silently override (same discipline as code vs `biz/` docs).
+
+### A4. Niche first, expand from a beachhead
+Enter through the narrowest audience segment that can be won convincingly, then expand from proof — never launch broad on speculation. A small segment that actively uses and recommends the product outranks a large segment that shrugs.
+
+## B. Offer & pricing
+
+### B1. Price by value delivered, not cost incurred
+Anchor price to the outcome the primary audience gets (time saved, revenue enabled, risk removed), not to build effort or infra cost. Cost sets the floor; value sets the number.
+
+### B2. Few tiers, obvious differences
+Offer the smallest tier count that covers real usage patterns (often one, rarely more than three). Each tier's difference must be explainable in one line without a comparison table. A tier that exists "to make the middle one look good" is acceptable decoy design; a tier nobody can explain is not.
+
+### B3. Validate before building
+Before any monetized capability is built, define the smallest credible market test (waitlist, pre-order, manual concierge version, one landing page) and the observable result that would justify or kill the build — run it through `METHOD-deep-think.md` Module 4's validation questions. Building first and hoping is the failure mode this rule exists to stop.
+
+### B4. Revenue path stated from day one
+`docs/biz/` states how the product ever produces value back — even when the honest answer is "none: personal tool / portfolio / ecosystem support". An explicit "none" is a valid, stable answer; an implicit one silently distorts later decisions toward unjustified scope.
+
+## C. Messaging & customer psychology
+
+### C1. Benefit first, proof over adjectives
+Lead every market-facing message with what the user gets, then prove it (number, demo, concrete mechanism) — never stack unproven adjectives. Writing mechanics (tone, length, i18n) belong to `RULE-content-write.md`; this rule owns the persuasion structure.
+
+### C2. Handle anxiety at the decision point
+Every conversion point (signup, purchase, install, permission grant) names its dominant user anxiety — price? lock-in? data safety? looking stupid? — and answers it right there, not on a distant FAQ page. Unanswered anxiety, not lack of desire, is the default reason a convinced user still bounces.
+
+### C3. No dark patterns (ABSOLUTE)
+Never ship confirm-shaming, hidden costs, forced continuity traps, disguised ads, or friction deliberately added to prevent leaving (cancel/unsubscribe/export must be as easy as their opposite). Short-term conversion bought with user resentment is a brand debt that compounds; this floor is not negotiable for any conversion goal.
+
+### C4. One story across all surfaces
+The positioning sentence from `docs/biz/` is the same story on the landing page, README, release notes, and in-product copy — reworded per channel, never contradicted. Semantic stability of the terms themselves is owned by `RULE-content-write.md` A3.
+
+## One-line reminder
+
+Know exactly who the product is for and why they would pick it — before polishing anything else.