no-workarounds

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No Workarounds

The Fundamental Law

A WORKAROUND IS A LIE TOLD TO THE COMPILER.
It makes the symptom disappear while the disease spreads.

A workaround is any change that makes a problem stop manifesting without addressing why the problem exists. Workarounds are not fixes. They are deferred failures with compound interest.

Philosophical foundation: Read references/philosophical-foundations.md for the engineering principles behind this skill, drawn from Toyota's Jidoka, Fowler's Technical Debt Quadrant, Torvalds' "good taste," and the Broken Windows Theory.

The Workaround Detection Gate

BEFORE writing or proposing ANY fix:

1. STATE the problem clearly
2. ASK: "Why does this problem exist?" (not "How do I make it stop?")
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