| name | reject-exhibit |
| description | Record a candidate the curator declined, in their own words, into rejected.md so future proposals learn their taste. Use when the curator turns a candidate down, says "skip this", "not interested", or explains why an idea doesn't fit the museum. |
Reject an exhibit
Capture a declined candidate and why, in the curator's own words. This is the
primary channel for learning his subjective judgment - his taste lives in
individual choices, not in categories, so every rejection is signal, not noise.
Steps
- Get the reason in his words. If it's one word, ask a brief follow-up - the
"why" is the entire point of this skill. Don't paraphrase away his framing.
- Append a row to
.claude/memory/rejected.md:
| <slug> | <reason category> | <his detailed reason, close to verbatim> |
- New category if needed. If the reason doesn't fit an existing category
(predictable finale, can't reproduce, timing-only, CI-would-lie,
doesn't-happen-in-real-code), add a numbered one with a one-line definition.
- Remove it from
backlog.md if it was queued there.
- Confirm the recorded reason back to him in one line, so he can correct the
framing before it hardens into my model of his taste.
Why this matters
The reason column is a growing model of the curator's mind. Over time, patterns
in it should let propose-exhibits pre-filter candidates he'd reject - fewer
misses, better menus. Treat accuracy here as more important than speed: a
mis-recorded reason teaches me the wrong lesson.
