majordomus.depth-is-not-verbosity@1

What it is

URI

majordomus://rule/majordomus.depth-is-not-verbosity@1

Kind

rule

Identity

majordomus.depth-is-not-verbosity@1

Path

.ai/repo/rules/vendor/majordomus/rules/principle-06-depth-is-not-verbosity.v1.md

Provenance

declared

Media type

text/markdown

As a capability

rule.majordomus.depth-is-not-verbosity@1

Front matter

{
  "id": "majordomus.depth-is-not-verbosity",
  "version": 1,
  "kind": "rule",
  "title": "Execution depth is not output verbosity",
  "description": "Think as hard as the task needs; report as briefly as the profile says.",
  "statement": "Keep the depth of work and the length of its report as two separate settings, each taken from the profile.",
  "status": "active",
  "class": "advisory",
  "depends_on": [],
  "tags": [
    "principle"
  ]
}

Content

---
id: majordomus.depth-is-not-verbosity
version: 1
kind: rule
title: Execution depth is not output verbosity
description: Think as hard as the task needs; report as briefly as the profile says.
statement: Keep the depth of work and the length of its report as two separate settings, each taken from the profile.
status: active
class: advisory
depends_on: []
tags: [principle]
---

# Rationale

Long output is not evidence of careful work, and careful work does not need long output. Confusing the two produces reports nobody reads and depth nobody controls.

# Required behaviour

Keep the depth of work and the length of its report as two separate settings, each taken from the profile.

# Failure behaviour

Nothing decides this rule directly, so a violation is reported by nobody; it is the rules that depend on it that decide what a machine can decide and stop or warn accordingly.

# Verification

The enforced rules whose `depends_on` names this one carry the validators, the tests and the CI wiring. `majordomus doctrine list` shows them.