Restraint

This skill cuts a change down to the ask. It removes extra interface, options and code and treats "remove" as delete.

Build the ask

An element, option or code path the user did not ask for is a finding unless the ask needs it to work. Work that has not shipped carries no backwards compatibility. A cut the user has not approved is a proposal, not an edit.

Label wording belongs to copy. Reusing an existing part belongs to reuse.

Nothing beside the ask

Add no sections, badges, counts, captions, footers, icons inside buttons, sounds or decorative effects the user did not request. A count badge on every row is restraint-no-unrequested-ui.

No feedback the screen already gives

Do not add a toast or a dialog for an action whose result is already on screen. That is restraint-no-redundant-feedback.

The smallest build that works