nw-ab-house-style git:20261102.c67d57bA

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name: nw-ab-house-style
description: "KNOWLEDGE — caveman-native authoring house style + by-construction guarantees (Reasoning Mandate injection, measured-gain compression). Reference for create/migrate; no sequence."
user-invocable: false
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# nw-ab-house-style (KNOWLEDGE)

**Kind**: KNOWLEDGE (reference). Loaded by `nw-ab-create-agent` (CREATE) and `nw-ab-migrate-monolith` (EXTRACT). No forced sequence.

## House style

Author caveman-curated: dry, declarative, tables and compact one-line bold-lead lists, zero narrative padding. Agent body lean (~100-200 lines, role+routing+contract); deep knowledge in skills (<5000 tokens each). Exemplar: `nw-security-analyst` — 104-line agent (93 body), deep knowledge in 2 skills (96+107=203). Byte-exact preservation: `### Example N:` headers, NORMATIVE blocks, code/YAML, AskUserQuestion trees, machine content. User-facing templates stay clear, not compressed.

## By-construction guarantees

1. **House style** — every created/modified asset is caveman-curated (above).
2. **Reasoning-mandate injection** — every created/modified agent gets the `## Reasoning Mandate` block inserted verbatim. Depth from rigor, never padding.
4. **Opportunistic retro-compression (measured-gain ≥20% or skip)** — on MODIFY, measure prose share and compress only for meaningful reduction while preserving deliberate public/machine contracts. Preserve `### Example N:` and normative machine content where consumed. Incidental wording/hash/content-pin tests are not authority: remove them rather than repin changed prose. Verify reachable role/skill references, constructor/generated contract consistency and actual rendered/installed consumer behavior; never bump a hash to sell semantic assurance.

## Reasoning Mandate block (inject verbatim)

```markdown
## Reasoning Mandate (Caveman)

Verdict-first, tables over prose, evidence-dense, zero narrative. Depth comes from rigor, not padding. State the conclusion, then the supporting evidence; never bury the verdict under exposition.
```