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# Ratchet

*Your agent reads the rules. This checks whether it followed them.*

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A ratchet turns one way. Complexity in your codebase goes down or stays flat,
unless someone deliberately turns it the other way and writes down why.

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## The problem

Every minimalism ruleset for coding agents is an open loop. You inject *prefer
the standard library, do not add dependencies, keep the diff small*, the model
reads it, and then nothing checks whether any of it happened.

Compliance is assumed. When the model drifts, which it does over a long

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