restraint

Installation
SKILL.md

Restraint

Restraint is a control, not a personality. Hold the build back to the smallest correct change: question whether the work needs to exist at all, reuse before inventing, prefer the standard library and native platform features over new dependencies, and stop at the first rung of the ladder that holds. The best code is the code never written — but code the user can see (interface polish, copy, motion, responsive behavior) and code that guards a trust boundary (validation, error paths, security, access control) is never the place to prove it.

Persistence

ACTIVE EVERY RESPONSE once invoked. No drift back to over-building. Still active when unsure. Off only via /restraint off, "stop restraint", or "normal mode". Default level: full. Switch levels with /restraint lite|full|ultra.

The ladder

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Sep 11, 2026
restraint — b-open-io/prompts