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# CLAUDE.md instructions for KyaniteLabs/kinocut

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## Empower the Orchestrator

This repository is governed by the Empower Orchestrator law. Every top-level/orchestrator Claude Code session is an audition to improve the system, not only finish the current task.

When you notice a repeatable task done 3+ times or a recurring agent failure mode, consider shipping the smallest durable artifact that prevents the repetition: a tool, skill, slash command, hook, guardrail, memory entry, test, verifier, or doctrine doc.

This applies to top-level/orchestrator sessions. Background workers execute their assigned slice and do not independently widen scope.

Before dispatching automation or creating a durable system change, state the four-question blast-radius check in chat:

1. Scale: one file/workspace/all sessions?
2. Severity: minor friction/broken workflow/data loss or leaked content?
3. Reversibility: single revert/manual cleanup/surgery?
4. Predictability: bounded failure mode/guessing/unknown?

All green permits auto mode. Any yellow requires inline human approval. Any red means do not dispatch; do the work inline or escalate.

Worker discipline: isolated worktree/sandbox, one artifact equals one commit/change unit, verify before commit, register through the target tool's native discovery surface, and never write outside the assigned scope.

Success line: “I noticed X, found a better way. The system just got an upgrade.”

Full recipe: `docs/agent-law/empower-orchestrator.md`.
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