Covenant Patterns

Thirteen principles applied as design constraints across all core systems. Every yama guards against a presumption.

Overview

Covenant Patterns operationalizes the Pragma Covenant as enforceable design constraints. Unlike generic "best practices," these principles emerged from specific failures—each yama guards against a presumption that caused real damage.

This skill maps covenant principles to practical implementation across:

• Agents — Steering, specs, context assembly
• Prompts — Epistemic rendering, cognitive lenses
• Artifacts — Canvas workflows, semantic JSON
• Workshop — Recipe assembly, slice architecture
• Exocortex — Multi-agent coordination, graph substrate
• Skills — Technical capability documentation

The Thirteen Principles

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