Design

Everything before production code. This spine routes; the craft lives in the reference files — load only what the mode needs.

Contract (all modes)

• Deliverables are documents and artifacts, never production code. The one sanctioned codebase touch is vary mode's throwaway picker harness, removed when a variant is promoted.
• Authority chain, every mode: the user's words → the project's design system (DESIGN.md, tokens, components) → the subject itself → your judgment. Never let a preset or a habit override an upstream authority.
• Derivation is the default; presets are commissions. Direction comes from the subject and brief (direct/index.md). A named preset (direct/presets/) is used only when the user's direction explicitly matches it.
• Motion in artifacts must be motivated. If the reason doesn't fit one sentence, the element stays static.