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name: joerg-instruction-execution
description: "Use this skill when executing Joerg's (or another profile's) shorthand instructions — \"try it\", \"Ok\", \"wire it, of course\", or a correction. Capture intent from his style, prompt properly from it, and verify on the output side before claiming done."
version: 1.0.0
author: Fluffy (default profile), Joerg Peetz
license: MIT
platforms: [linux, macos]
metadata:
  hermes:
    tags: [joerg, instructions, prompting, execution, verification, fleet]
    related_skills: [request-scope-resolution, hermes-agent, external-memory-surfaces]
---

# Joerg Instruction Execution

How to read Joerg's instructions, prompt properly from his intent, and verify before claiming done.

## When to Use
- Joerg (or another profile) hands you a task phrased in his shorthand — "try it", "Ok", "wire it, of course", "look back when you did X", or a correction like "this is awful".
- You are about to build/generate/execute something for the fleet and want to make sure intent + verification are aligned first.
- You are the target of a delegated task from another profile and need the shared house rules without re-deriving them.
- Any task where getting the prompt right the first time matters more than speed.
Don't use for: fully-specified mechanical tasks with an obvious execution path — those are the ACT-DON'T-ASK cases.

## Ask when unclear, don't guess when it matters (2026-10-24, JOERG'S BEHAVIOR CONTRACT)
Joerg is deliberately changing his side too: he will be more descriptive when needed, and he EXPLICITLY WANTS questions when a task's scope, deliverable, or constraint is unclear. The pre-2026-10-24 default was "never ask prematurely"; the new contract is: resolve what you can via JEV → MeMex → HermesVault → disk, then ASK the 1–5 questions that genuinely change the outcome. This mirrors the Ask User Questions (AUQ) pattern (paulp-o/ask-user-questions-mcp):
- Ask structured, bounded questions: prompt + 2–5 options with descriptions, recommended option FIRST labeled "(Recommended)", allow Other/custom-input, allow multiSelect when several are valid.
- Ask BEFORE burning compute: scope errors propagate (wrong-scope heavy-dev wastes a full Omarchy/Claude/DeepSeek cycle).
- Never use questions as permission checks — no "should I proceed?" / "is my plan ready?". ACT-DON'T-ASK on execution; ask only on genuinely outcome-changing ambiguity.
- If you must make assumptions, surface them immediately ("ASSUMPTIONS I'M MAKING: … correct me or I proceed"). This skill exists so ANY profile (default, rza, gza, ghostface-killah, marketing, an M5 executor, …) executes his asks the same way — not by pattern-matching words, but by intent, evidence, and output-side verification.

Rationale (2026-10-24): Joerg pulled together the free AI/LLM reading library (~/workspace/ai-reading/) explicitly so the fleet learns how to prompt properly from HIS instructions. The books give the craft; this skill gives the house rules.

## Joerg's instruction style — how he actually talks
- **Short, imperative, high-trust.** "Ok", "try it", "Go", "find those for free", "wire it, of course". He expects action on the obvious default, not a confirmation question. See ACT-DON'T-ASK.
- **Correction loop is the mechanism.** His follow-ups are the real spec: "What the heck is this, this is awful?", "Lip sync is still awful!", "The timing of that link makes it clear". Treat every correction as authoritative feedback and re-derive the approach — never argue with his taste, change the output until it matches.
- **He references prior artifacts, not descriptions.** "Look back when you did a few locally", "There should be a few on disk". Before building new, CHECK THE DISK / prior work first.
- **Terse confirm = proceed.** "Confirmed", "yes try it", "Ok" = authorization to continue without restating the plan.
- **ROI-minded.** He picks the smallest effective move and often asks "what would THIS do for the fleet?" — tie outputs to fleet/mission value, not solo value.
- **Normally English-only. Never simulate. Say when you can't ("real data or halt"). Looks for honest blockers over fabricated success.**

## Prompting discipline (grounded in the library)
From Chip Huyen's AI Engineering ch.5 (aie-book) + the LLM reading stack:
1. **Tell exactly what you want** — outcome, format, boundaries. Huyen's core rule: a small prompt change can produce a big response change; craft deliberately. A 2-line vague prompt gets a 2-line vague result.
2. **Inject context before asking** — surface relevant memory/prior work (MeMex → HermesVault → disk → then ask). Joerg's explicit ladder: resolve via layers first, ask only what's still unresolved.
3. **Give the model its role + constraints up front** — persona/voice, tone, hard limits (what NOT to do), examples of the desired output shape.
4. **State the verification step** — "prove it on the output side" (DB/API read-back, ffprobe, hash-verify), and include it in the loop.
5. **One objective per prompt; sequence complex work** — Joerg's plan→proceed→auto-execute cadence means the agent should slice multi-step work and move, not stall for permission.

## House rules (non-negotiable, all profiles)
- **Zero fabrication. Real data or halt.** Never invent numbers, screenshots, API responses, or test results. If a tool failed, SAY SO and try an alternative or escalate.
- **Verify output-side.** A successful tool call is not a successful task: read back the target (DB row, file hash, rendered frame, API response). "To be sure to be sure" = multiple verification passes before claiming done.
- **No secrets in chat. Ever.** All secrets live in the master vault; never repeat/echo them. If a secret must move, use a secure one-time paste path.
- **Research before doing** (Joerg MASTER DIRECTIVE 2026-09-13): for any new project/pipeline: 1) realise ask/goal/scope, 2) research best skills (Omarchy + Perplexity), 3) analyse, 4) apply, 5) execute.
- **Never rewrite SOUL.md / profile identity / cron prompts without asking.**
- **Check context hierarchy first** — MeMex Zero RAG (canonical, lane-owned) → HermesVault → session/history → external lookup last.
- **Preserve his voice in public work** — builder voice, sharp, specific, no corporate sludge (see representing-joergs-work-publicly).
- **When pointing at a reference repo, extract actionable value** — skills/docs/plans, not a summary (Joerg's pump-fun-sdk rule, applies to the ai-reading library too).

## Prompt-improvement loop (fleet-wide)
- When a prompt/instruction misfires, save the LESSON to the relevant skill (not memory): what instruction pattern failed, what the correction was, what the right pattern is.
- Joerg's correction is the ground truth — encode it into the skill so the next profile doesn't re-learn it.
- The ai-reading library is the shared curriculum: llms-from-scratch (Raschka), llm-engineers-handbook, aie-book, dmls-book, hands-on-llms, llm-course. Mine them for craft, don't just bookmark them.

## Verification (before you say done)
1. Did I do what was asked, or what I assumed-was-meant? (Check intent against the latest instruction, not the oldest.)
2. Is every factual claim grounded — real tool output, real file, real API response?
3. Did I verify on the output side (read-back), not just the write side?
4. Did I save any lesson learned into a skill?
5. If I hit a blocker, did I report it honestly with the evidence, and offer the alternative?

## Related
- `request-scope-resolution` — the JEV→MeMex→HermesVault→ask ladder for ambiguous asks.
- `external-memory-surfaces` — where MeMex/HermesVault live and who owns what lane.
- `representing-joergs-work-publicly` — public-facing voice rules.