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lauren e8d856f027 pstack: density and mannered-prose pass across the skills, two new principle leaves (#329)
* docs(pstack): port the September skill audit cuts from the internal tree

Port of the 2026-09-01 to 2026-09-07 audit program on the internal skill
tree. Deletion-only density cuts and the mannered prose pass applied
wherever the OSS sentence is the same sentence. Two new principle leaves,
Attack the Premise and Test Behavior Not Implementation, with their index
lines. Critique mode removed from how and its callers. PR-body briefing
rules in opening-a-pr and technical-writing. Model pins stay on the
setup-pstack role mechanism. No internal path, slug, or name added.

* docs(pstack): restore the autopilot chooser rule that multi-phase-plan cites

multi-phase-plan step 4 picks between autopilot-full and autopilot-stack
"per the rule at the end of playbooks/autopilot-stack.md". The density
pass removed that paragraph and left the pointer dangling. Restore the
paragraph verbatim. The chooser is a rule, not a restatement, and no
other file states it.

Addresses the Bugbot finding on PR #329.

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Co-authored-by: Cursor Agent <cursoragent@cursor.com>
2026-09-07 15:14:11 -07:00

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principle-redesign-from-first-principles Apply when integrating a new requirement into an existing design. Redesign as if the requirement had been a foundational assumption from day one, instead of bolting it on. true

Redesign From First Principles

When integrating a change, don't bolt it onto the existing design. Redesign as if the requirement had been there from the start.

  • Read all affected files and understand the current design
  • Ask: "if we were writing this from scratch with this new requirement, what would we build?"
  • Propagate the change through every reference: types, docs, examples, rationale sections
  • Think about the whole redesign, then deliver it incrementally

This is the method for preserving option value when integrating changes into an existing design.