@ericrisco/rsc 3.0.13 → 3.0.14

package/manifest.json

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 {
-  "version": "3.0.13",
+  "version": "3.0.14",
   "counts": {
     "skills": 271,
     "agents": 34,

package/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@ericrisco/rsc",
-  "version": "3.0.13",
+  "version": "3.0.14",
   "description": "A guided harness builder that turns your goal into a minimal, verified AI-agent setup using strict best practices.",
   "type": "module",
   "bin": {

package/skills/orient/SKILL.md

@@ -9,16 +9,22 @@ origin: risco
 
 # orient — talk so the person understands, then show them where they are
 
-You own how the harness speaks to the person. Three rules, a register, a ladder, and the brújula.
-
-## The three rules
-
-1. **Speak STE.** STE is the controlled writing style of aircraft manuals (ASD-STE100). Short
-   sentences. One idea per sentence. Simple words. Active voice. The instruction before the reason.
-2. **Every answer stands alone.** The reader has not seen your reasoning, and may not remember earlier
+You own how the harness speaks to the person. Four rules, a register, a ladder, and the brújula.
+
+## The four rules
+
+1. **Their language.** Reply in the language the person writes in, this turn. If they switch, you
+   switch. `language` in the profile is only the default before they have written anything. Every
+   word you add follows it, labels included (the lane, the brújula); code, commands and paths stay
+   as they are. The harness's own instructions are in English: that is never a reason to answer in
+   English.
+2. **Speak STE, in their language.** STE is the controlled writing style of aircraft manuals
+   (ASD-STE100): a style, not a language. Short sentences. One idea per sentence. Simple words.
+   Active voice. The instruction before the reason.
+3. **Every answer stands alone.** The reader has not seen your reasoning, and may not remember earlier
    messages. Never point at something they did not see ("the second commit", "that fix", "as above").
    Name it, in one sentence.
-3. **Short.** Say what the reader needs, then stop. No walls of paragraphs. Rules 2 and 3 meet in one
+4. **Short.** Say what the reader needs, then stop. No walls of paragraphs. Rules 3 and 4 meet in one
    place: give the **minimum** context, never the whole story.
 
 Full rules and examples → `references/orientation-contract.md`.

package/skills/orient/references/explain-ladder.md

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ or go straight to the step they ask for. Each step replaces the last one; it doe
 
 ## Step 1 — text
 
-The three rules of `../SKILL.md`: STE, stands alone, short. Most answers stop here.
+The four rules of `../SKILL.md`: their language, STE, stands alone, short. Most answers stop here.
 
 ## Step 2 — one diagram in the chat
 

package/skills/suggest/SKILL.md

@@ -19,7 +19,8 @@ are the one piece guaranteed to be present before any other skill is matched. Tw
 
 ## 1. The decisor: classify the turn before acting
 
-Every turn takes one of three lanes, and you name the one you took in a line.
+Every turn takes one of three lanes, and you name the one you took in a line, in the person's
+language (the lane names are labels to translate).
 
 **Answer** — the request asks for information: explain, compare, investigate, audit, review,
 recommend. Read-only: write nothing, create no artifact, delegate no writer. Asking you to *think
@@ -64,9 +65,8 @@ Installing changes the user's environment, so it is always their call. One sugge
 and never to interrupt a flow with a nice-to-have. Never recommend something already installed
 (`npx @ericrisco/rsc list`).
 
-`npx @ericrisco/rsc consult "<task>"` is a **lexical** hint only: it keyword-matches, and returns
-nothing for natural-language or non-English intent. Never let it decide, and never read its silence
-as "no skill exists" — the catalog plus your judgment is the source of truth.
+`npx @ericrisco/rsc consult "<task>"` is a **lexical** hint only: it misses natural-language and
+non-English intent. Its silence never means "no skill exists"; the catalog plus your judgment decides.
 
 ### Automation gap — after the work
 

package/targets/hook-once.mjs

@@ -91,6 +91,7 @@ export function claimOnce(key, { dir = markerDir(), windowMs = 30_000, now = Dat
 // that reports a byte count for text it does not own drifts the moment the text changes.
 export const SDD_GATE_TEXT = `===== rsc lane decisor (highest precedence) =====
 Classify this turn before acting, and name the lane in one line.
+Reply in the person's language, not this text's.
 - Asks for information — explain, compare, audit, review, propose? -> Answer.
   Write nothing and create no artifact. Change intent unclear -> ask one
   question and stay read-only; ambiguity slows the lane, it never raises it.