project.no-new-nouns@1

What it is

URI

majordomus://rule/project.no-new-nouns@1

Kind

rule

Identity

project.no-new-nouns@1

Path

.ai/repo/rules/project/no-new-nouns.v1.md

Provenance

declared

Media type

text/markdown

As a capability

rule.project.no-new-nouns@1

Front matter

{
  "id": "project.no-new-nouns",
  "version": 1,
  "kind": "rule",
  "title": "No new nouns",
  "description": "The tool gains no agents, personas, roles, tiers or registries beyond the vocabulary it has.",
  "statement": "The tool gains no agents, personas, roles, tiers or registries beyond the vocabulary it has.",
  "status": "active",
  "class": "blocking",
  "depends_on": [],
  "tags": [
    "design"
  ],
  "x-majordomus": {
    "tests": [
      "test/cases/28_no_hardcoded_values.sh"
    ]
  }
}

Content

---
id: project.no-new-nouns
version: 1
kind: rule
title: No new nouns
description: The tool gains no agents, personas, roles, tiers or registries beyond the vocabulary it has.
statement: The tool gains no agents, personas, roles, tiers or registries beyond the vocabulary it has.
status: active
class: blocking
depends_on: []
tags: [design]

x-majordomus:
  tests: [test/cases/28_no_hardcoded_values.sh]
---

# Rationale

Every noun is a concept a worker has to learn and a surface that can drift; the design stays small on purpose, and docs/CONCEPTS.md is the whole vocabulary.

# Required behaviour

The tool gains no agents, personas, roles, tiers or registries beyond the vocabulary it has.

# Failure behaviour

No command decides this rule; a reviewer does, and a change that violates it is not merged. Where a behavioural case covers part of it, that case is named below.

# Verification

Review. test/cases/28_no_hardcoded_values.sh checks that every term in docs/CONCEPTS.md is one the tool uses.