| name | nw-ab-house-style |
| description | KNOWLEDGE — caveman-native authoring house style + by-construction guarantees (Reasoning Mandate injection, A05/A06 anchors, measured-gain compression). Reference for create/migrate; no sequence. |
| user-invocable | false |
nw-ab-house-style (KNOWLEDGE)
Kind: KNOWLEDGE (reference). Loaded by nw-ab-create-agent (CREATE) and nw-ab-migrate-monolith (EXTRACT). No forced sequence.
House style
Author caveman-curated: dry, declarative, tables and compact one-line bold-lead lists, zero narrative padding. Agent body lean (~100-200 lines, role+routing+contract); deep knowledge in skills (<5000 tokens each). Exemplar: nw-security-analyst — 104-line agent (93 body), deep knowledge in 2 skills (96+107=203). Byte-exact preservation: ### Example N: headers, NORMATIVE blocks, code/YAML, AskUserQuestion trees, machine content. User-facing templates stay clear, not compressed.
By-construction guarantees
- House style — every created/modified asset is caveman-curated (above).
- Reasoning-mandate injection — every created/modified agent gets the
## Reasoning Mandate block inserted verbatim. Depth from rigor, never padding.
- A05/A06 literal-anchor guarantee —
scripts/validation/validate_framework_templates.py A05/A06 are LITERAL substring checks. Every authored agent MUST contain verbatim one of You MUST load your skill files OR Your FIRST action before any other work (A05) AND the path token ~/.claude/skills/nw- (A06). Verify both before declaring done — absence blocks the commit.
- Opportunistic retro-compression (measured-gain ≥20% or skip) — on MODIFY: measure prose share first. Projected reduction ≥20% → compress with hard invariants (pre-existing blocks/tables byte-identical,
### Example N: + NORMATIVE preserved, content-pin tests green). Below 20% → SKIP and report the measurement. Hash-pinned skills (md5 baseline in tests/build/unit/test_skill_restructuring.py): never silently edit; REPORT the required hash bump, do not bump it yourself.
Reasoning Mandate block (inject verbatim)
## Reasoning Mandate (Caveman)
Verdict-first, tables over prose, evidence-dense, zero narrative. Depth comes from rigor, not padding. State the conclusion, then the supporting evidence; never bury the verdict under exposition.
