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mast is agent-read markdown (skill) from habitat-thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers: Use when reading or authoring a self-declared pact — carries the two modes, the clear-weather rule and the exact blind spot of the check that enforces it, the flag discipline for a budget whose keys are mostly unobservable, the rules the pact writer guarantees, and the anti-patterns that would turn a pact-keeper into a gate.

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What the file says

# The Mast

A limit you set for yourself in advance holds. A limit you set in the moment
you are about to breach it does not — you will simply move it, because the
thing you want at 18:00 is to keep working.

That is why the pact file exists, and why nothing scaffolds one: an imposed
default is not a pact. But a pact nobody reads is also not a pact, and a pact
nobody has authored is not one either.

> **The Mast** — the pact-keeper. It brings a pact into existence, and reads it
> back to you.

**What it attacks:** outsourced governance — the drift where the decision about
when to stop migrates from a person who decided it in advance to a person who
is tired and mid-thought.

It never stops anything itself.

## Two modes

| Mode | Does |
| --- | --- |
| `/mast` | recites the pact and says where you stand against it |
| `/mast tune` | the only sanctioned path that authors or amends it |

Boundary notices, the hard stop, and the override record are **not here** —
they are a separate slice. What lives here is the gauge and the ritual.

## Recite first, measure second

<!-- evidence: the intervention is the re-reading. A pact's force comes from
…

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habitat-thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers · 106 stars · license NOASSERTION · pushed 2026-09-20 · branch main

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