/thesis-control - Thesis Drift Control

Purpose

Prevent AI-assisted writing from becoming fluent but distorted. Use this before and after substantive thesis edits when the risk is not spelling or style, but loss of author control: project-level reframing, a primary domain becoming a secondary example, a changed research object or question, widened claims, blurred section purpose, missing caveats, unsynchronised adjacent paragraphs, or local edits that weaken the chapter spine.

Trigger Words

This skill activates on: thesis control, drift audit, edit contract, spine card, claim drift, author control, loss of control, scope creep, rewrite risk, /thesis-control.

Core Rule

Do not edit thesis prose until the project intent, current manuscript contract, global thesis audit, section spine, and intended local change form one explicit and traceable contract chain.

The contract must answer: