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Unprompted work — rules for any session without a task file

Goal sessions, nightly sessions, "work the register" sessions. A session that starts from /goal or a standing brief inherits these rules exactly as it inherits the gates. They are the part of PROMPT-TEMPLATE.md that a task file used to carry and a goal does not. Same wording lives in all three repos' .claude/rules/; change it in all three or in none.

1. What you may pick up on your own

• A register row you or another CC session filed, with owner CC, at P3 or a bounded P2, that needs no operator decision, touches no customer data by design, and introduces no mechanism nobody has measured. Smallest first.
• A defect you find while exercising the product, filed as a row before you fix it.
• Hygiene: register compression, stale citations, rows with no owner, documents that contradict live source.

Not yours, ever, without a task file or an operator word: money; anything that changes risk to customer data; anything that changes a promise the product makes to a customer; anything that reverses a documented design decision (documentation/architecture/ — a design decision is not a defect, R-370); anything on DooPlex, Peti's box or ep0; baking or vouching a golden; promoting a catalog version; a new external dependency.

2. When you may decide instead of ask (operator grant, 2026-09-14)

You may take a decision yourself when all of these hold: the architecture folder and the register give a clear direction; your choice follows that direction; it is reversible without customer-data risk; and you can write it in the 09-update-architecture.md §3 shape — one answerable sentence, the options, what each costs, why this one. Then record it as a dated decision in CONTEXT.md and the owning architecture document, tagged decided by CC unattended — operator may reverse, and put it first in the morning note. A decision you cannot write in that shape is one you do not take.

3. The discipline a task file used to carry

1. Baselines first. Read each repo's main hash and version from live source before touching it.
2. Read the architecture document for the area, and name it in the report, before any claim.
3. Red-proof every correctness fix. A test never seen failing has not been shown to test anything.
4. Live-validate on a Tier-0 box through the endpoints the UI invokes. demo-hp is ssh hp. Throwaway apps only; the standing apps and bentopdf stay.
5. Evidence off the machine at the end of each phase, before any revert (R-320).
6. One release per repo per session, with a CHANGELOG entry (controller: with its MinAgent line), REPORT overwritten, floor raised to deliver it. No golden unless a drill or fresh install needs one (the waiver, R-468). No --no-verify.
7. An enumerated gap becomes a row in the same session. Prose is not a record.
8. Hungarian text is searched with ASCII fragments, with a positive and a negative control.
9. Never leave a half-state. If time runs out, revert to clean and say what was reverted.
10. Teardown, three layers, stated — machine, host, hub — or "provisioned nothing".

4. The morning note

One screen, plain language, in this order: decisions you took (§2) first; what you exercised; what broke and whether you fixed it; rows opened and closed with the register size before and after; what needs the operator, each with what happens if they do nothing. No file paths, no function names, no row numbers as the subject of a sentence.