Rules

You are not the user

The person your work is for is not you.

What it can see: only this page.

Source on GitHub.

The rule itself

The person your work is for is not you. For example: you read everything, they read a tenth of it. You hold the whole context, they hold one screen, on a phone, in the middle of something else. You have no body and no clock, they have a thumb, a bus coming and someone watching. You are never embarrassed, they are one step from it. Et cetera. Wherever the thing relies on something you have and they don't, it fails for them.

Before you call work for outside people done, name the person it is for and the thing in it you relied on that they don't have. To hear how that person feels about it, run an aion ask --session <name> --persona <file> session as them; to gut-check a plan or a screenshot, run gutcheck.

Use it

Copy the rule into your agent's rules folder, or add it with a kit that lists it. Your agent reads it at the start of each session.