feat!: rewrite the skill around measured evidence - #11
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Phase A measured twelve practices against seven neutral baselines. Six were applied reliably with zero prompting — including complete idempotency on money-moving endpoints in 6 of 6 runs — and are now cut. The skill ships only what the model demonstrably misses, in two parts: habits absent from every baseline (API versioning, feature flags, circuit breakers) and habits present only when the task cues them (deadlines on every I/O including the database, work off the request path, business-metric counters, tombstone-aware reads). - SKILL.md: 254 -> 137 lines. Description rewritten to pure triggers; the old one enumerated all twelve practices, creating a shortcut agents took instead of reading the body. Each habit gains a "Skip it when" conditional. - README: repositioned around the measurement, scorecard published. - evals/: protocol, the three neutral scenario prompts, results, and the two places our own methodology was wrong. - CONTRIBUTING: a habit now ships only with evidence the model omits it. - Manifests and issue templates realigned. BREAKING CHANGE: field-limited responses, validation at the boundary, idempotency keys, graceful degradation, and intention-revealing naming are removed from the skill. Pin v1 if you depend on their presence.
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Phase A measured twelve practices against seven neutral baselines. Six were applied reliably with zero prompting — including complete idempotency on money-moving endpoints in 6 of 6 runs — and are now cut. The skill ships only what the model demonstrably misses, in two parts: habits absent from every baseline (API versioning, feature flags, circuit breakers) and habits present only when the task cues them (deadlines on every I/O including the database, work off the request path, business-metric counters, tombstone-aware reads).
BREAKING CHANGE: field-limited responses, validation at the boundary, idempotency keys, graceful degradation, and intention-revealing naming are removed from the skill. Pin v1 if you depend on their presence.
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