Root AGENTS.md User Preferences gains the idiom discipline bullet (user,
2026-08-05): agent-authored prose avoids idioms whose meaning differs or
reverses across English variants (to table, momentarily, presently, moot,
punt, luck out, out of pocket, bi-weekly, fortnight, knock back, on the
nose, quite <adj>); table-formatted punk::args output is written 'tabular
usage'/'tabular help', never 'tabled'. Established technical slang
(dogfooding, spike testing) stays fine.
Applied to the seven live agent-doc instances: ARCHITECTURE.md,
bin/AGENTS.md, src/AGENTS.md, src/bootsupport/AGENTS.md (x2),
src/vfs/AGENTS.md (x2); architecture_lint clean. Deliberately unchanged:
archived goal records (historical wording), goals/G-168 Acceptance
(contract prose - separate approval), and code-tier comments/strings plus
their synced copies (undecided).
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01TNn3C58Cpekt3CsZNLCqvR
Assisted-by: harness=claude; primary-model=claude-fable-5; api-location=anthropic.com
Julian Noble
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