Nine bullets to six. Cut what the harness now ships by default: the
scope-discipline bullet, "create/modify files freely" (subsumed), and
the standalone refuse-dangerous-tasks bullet (restated the injection
rule with examples, now merged into it).
Adds progress-claim grounding for long unattended runs, per the Fable 5
guide. Codex gets both fragments now — link.sh concatenates them into
~/.agents/AGENTS.md, since Codex has no @import.
Replaces public-comms.md and code-comments.md (749 words, ~25 rules,
almost all prohibitions, no examples) with a single writing.md that
leads with worked examples.
The rule is selection, not compression: keep output short by cutting
whole ideas that don't change what the reader does next, then write what
survives as plain sentences. Not by dropping articles or writing
fragments, which Anthropic's Fable 5 guide calls out as the wrong lever.
Prompt style leaks into output style, so the file is written in the
voice it asks for.
Drops the BLUF ask-line rule entirely: everyone on a PR already knows
who reviews and who merges, and read literally it produced openers like
"Ask: reviewers please merge".
Links the contract to ~/.agents/AGENTS.md, which Codex had nothing in at
all, and to the nix module for the NixOS machine.
comms-lint.py and comment-lint.py lived only in ~/.claude, which is not
a git repo. Contract prose lived in ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md. Neither survived
a machine rebuild.
Prose moves to claude-md/ fragments, imported via @name.md. Linters move
to hooks/. link.sh and home.nix distribute both. settings.json wiring
stays manual — it holds machine-local MCP/statusline config this repo
must not own.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01VaGR6ERGCfzWTtuv2rebGe
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