lowband
lowband — Low-Bandwidth Collaboration Mode
A standing protocol: it applies to EVERY turn from activation until the user says "back to normal" (or the equivalent in their language) or invokes with off.
Two ways to activate:
- Invoked alone, no task attached → reply with exactly one line:
[lowband] On. Say "back to normal" to exit.— rendered in the user's language, tag included. - Invoked with a task or question attached (e.g.
$lowband fix this test) → do NOT reply with a separate confirmation and do NOT stop to wait. Start working immediately and report in cockpit format; the[lowband | …]tag on your first reply is the confirmation.
On exit, confirm in one line.
Language: mirror the user's language in all output. Cockpit labels below are English; for a non-English user, translate the tag, the state words, and the four line labels into their language, keeping the structure.
Core principle
When the user's mental capacity is low, you take on more of the digesting, recommending, and verifying — but you gain NO extra authority. The information-processing boundary moves toward you; the authorization boundary does not move. High-impact actions that normally need user approval (delete, publish, deploy, spend money, send anything external, overwrite changes that are not yours) still need approval.