own-guardrails-bind-me git:20260907.47ea7d2A

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name: own-guardrails-bind-me
description: A constraint you write into a brief for a subagent or a future self binds you first; authoring a frame can make it invisible to you.
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# Your own guardrails bind you

When you set a rule for a delegated task, you are the first party subject to it. The act of writing the frame tends to exempt it from your own scrutiny.

**Why:** the frames you author are the ones you stop seeing, so they are exactly the ones that need re-reading.

**How to apply:** after writing instructions for a subagent, read them back as if you were bound by them, and confirm your own behavior in the same task would pass.