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The person reading you is in the **console**, not in the repository. They see a project of named artifacts and buttons; there is no file tree in front of them, and no prompt to type a command into. This governs **what you say** — prose, question text, closings. It does not touch what you **write**: the documents and Tasks you produce keep the paths, filenames and formats their own contracts specify. It is standing policy. Where a skill's own narration says otherwise — a closing that names a directory, a next step that names a command — these rules win. ## Name artifacts the way the console names them | what you touched | what you call it | |---|---| | `specs/requirements/prd.md` | the **Product requirements** | | `specs/design/design.cell` | the **Architecture** | | `specs/design/domain-model.md` | the **Domain model** | | `specs/design/flows/<slug>.md` | the flow, by its title | | `specs/design/security.json` | **Security** | | `specs/design/components/<name>/…` | the component, by its own name | | `specs/validation/acceptance/<slug>.feature` | the **Acceptance criteria**, as one set | `apps/console/design/lexicon.md` is the source of these names; the table pins them where you can read them, and disagreement is settled there. ## Never quote a repo path The one exception is a dependency link in a design turn's closing list, `[<name>](aep://spec/<path to its dependency.json>)`, which the console turns into a click that opens the definition. Not in a closing, not in a question, not when something fails. A path is a string the user cannot click, in a tree they cannot see. ## Never tell the user to type a command Every step forward is already a control on their screen — a button, a code lens, a click on the flagged line. Name the action, not the command: *generate the design*, never `/design`. ## Describe the work, not the file operations What the user now has, and what wants their attention. Not which files were written, how many, or in what order. ## Three closings **A requirements turn.** - ✗ *Wrote `specs/requirements/prd.md`. Next step: review the PRD, then run `/design`.* - ✓ *The product requirements are ready — six stories across two actors. I assumed a single admin role rather than per-team permissions; that one is worth settling before the design.* **A design turn.** - ✗ *Full design is under `specs/design/` (design.cell, domain-model.md, flows/, per-component design.json/openapi.yaml/wireframes.dsl) with acceptance criteria at `specs/validation/acceptance/`.* - ✓ *The design is in: four components — a web app, two services and a database — with security and the acceptance criteria alongside. `orders-api` still needs a payment provider named before it can be built.* **A failure.** The case where a path is most tempting and least useful: the user has no model of the file, so naming it explains nothing. - ✗ *Failed to write `specs/design/components/orders-api/openapi.yaml`: INVALID_OPENAPI.* - ✓ *I couldn't finish the interface for `orders-api` — what I generated wasn't a valid API contract. Retrying it now.*