Concepts
The irreducible epistemic atoms underlying the curriculum. 4,828 atoms across 8 types
Rule
Govern your tool use with explicit policies
Design tool-use policies that define which tools you allow for which tasks, under what conditions, and with what fallback behavior when tools fail, treating this as governance of your extended cognitive architecture rather than as tool preferences.
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Rule
When violating a standard produces shame instead…
When a self-imposed standard triggers shame rather than self-correction upon violation, it has crossed from governance to domination—standards should be revisable, not shame-enforced.
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