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STOW v0.3.6: a writing-discipline skill that governs every LLM response

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@theislampill theislampill released this 20 Jul 20:14
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v0.3.6
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What STOW is

STOW is a writing-discipline skill for Agents.

When it is active, it governs every user-facing response.

It obeys the exact output contract.

It keeps supplied literals byte-for-byte exact.

It validates structured regions before delivery.

It holds terminology steady.

It shapes clear prose and adds no fabricated detail.

It ships as a filesystem skill with a compact kernel and routed references.

A turn loads only the material its request needs.

What is in this release

  • A kernel (SKILL.md) that sets the precedence bands, the region classification, the always-on rules, and the activation map.
  • The primary rule set in twenty grouped corpus modules. Each rule has a stable ## STOW-XXX-NNN heading anchor. The README carries the full catalog.
  • Four writing profiles, a machine-readable conflict registry, and a routing map checked against the kernel.
  • Meta-code schemas and templates for handoffs, plans, audits, runbooks, state records, task packets, and event streams.
  • A structured-output validator, a prose linter, a profile resolver, and a rule lookup helper.

What changed in 0.3.6

This release changes version metadata only.

No functional file changed from 0.3.5. The packaged payload stays byte-identical.

It promotes the exact package that passed the deployment campaign.

That campaign verified the installed bytes.

It ran an installed dogfood with no package fault. It proved every primary rule usable through the skill.

Each rule was engaged, retrieved through the bounded lookup, and applied to a planted violation.

The skill identified and corrected each violation.

Every callable check fired on the violation and cleared on the correction.

Rule meanings, corpus wording, and profile and conflict semantics stay unchanged.

Provenance

  • Commit: 173df2cbc64b653c24198cfa5d5aedd888e0ce0d
  • Asset: STOW.skill
  • Asset SHA-256: 04cd2ddd64177caaee71883f29bbbf4477ee8be73dbb50a1b57b4b12768912f4

Verify the asset before you install it:

shasum -a 256 STOW.skill

Install

STOW.skill is a ZIP whose single top-level directory is stow/.

Extract it into a host skills directory.

The skill then resolves at <skills-dir>/stow/SKILL.md.

The runtime helpers need two packages:

pip install ruamel.yaml jsonschema

This release note was written under the STOW controlled-technical-guided profile.

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