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  1. Foundations

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    the prerequisite substrate and residence test

  2. Baseline Skill

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    the skill-packaging Hello World and reference shape for skill-facing nodes

  3. Tell Me a Joke

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    a real runnable skill (the artifact is the example)

  4. The Contract

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    expectations at a seam, from informal prose to enforced structure

  5. The Shared Shape

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    both sides of a seam import one shared request-and-return shape

  6. The Contract Keystone

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    contract ↔ verification ↔ re-dispatch

  7. No Duck Left Behind

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    a deterministic duck census rejects one manifest and turns its errors into a bounded redispatch

  8. LLM Dispatch

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    the parent-child execution primitive; serial, parallel, joined, or fire-and-forget

  9. Statelessness

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    each turn is conditioned on retained history again; logical reinjection yields a cost face and an explicit-state recovery face

  10. Effect Discipline

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    the precondition under "discard is cheaper than repairing"

  11. The Unsent Thunderstorm

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    one rejected weather bulletin shows when to discard, retry, undo, or stop before acting

  12. Verification Asymmetry

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    why checking ≪ doing lets verification work at all; the ladder + coverage, and the three failure modes (coverage exhaustion / discrimination collapse / quantifier inversion)

  13. The Context Economy

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    statics — the price list: denominations, the quality curve, cost classes, time value

  14. The Session Bill

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    one 30-turn session billed, then re-billed under six single-decision shifts

  15. Context Flow

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    dynamics — admission, residency, and eviction; placement and recall within residency

  16. Momentum

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    resident context steers, not just informs — path dependence, and eviction's second motive

  17. Same Shards, Fresh Window

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    Laban's sharded conversations drop 39%; the same shards in one fresh prompt hold 95.1% — a control that never got lost, not a recovery rate

  18. Cost Relocation

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    change when or whose window pays; may compose with selection or distillation

  19. One Guide, Three Bills

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    one 10,000-token guide moves later or elsewhere, exposing the difference between an actor's bill and the system's

  20. Deferred Context

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    the load-in-place branch: defer by probability and lateness of need — a 50-token pointer buys ~60× on the session that never fires

  21. Reference Data

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    the authored-heavy specialization: disk-resident, grep-addressable — pay for the size of the answer

  22. The Runbook Shelf

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    an 800-document shelf cannot enter a 200k-token window; one incident-code query admits one answer-sized runbook

  23. Subagent Offload

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    the dispatch-elsewhere branch

  24. Parallel Audit Investigation

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    a full agent investigates in parallel; its working set stays elsewhere and only the verdict returns

  25. Heavy Agent

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    the authored-heavy specialization

  26. The Docs Expert

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    a large reference baked into the agent; narrow questions in, distilled answers out — the orchestrator never loads the docs

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