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Setup

1. Init — plain, no --separate-git-dir

cd /path/to/work-vault
git init

No remote yet — if one gets added later (internal GitLab/Bitbucket/etc.), that's just git remote add, no re-init needed.

2. .gitignore

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Budget the artifact numerically

"Be concise" is the least effective instruction you can give a model — it's a vibe, and it gets traded away against every other goal in the prompt. Numbers and prohibitions survive.

• State a hard count: "Max 200 words. Three bullets. No headings. No preamble."
• Name the audience and their time: "Six staff engineers will read this once, in a meeting." This does real work — it changes what gets cut
• Give the template with slot counts, so there's nothing to invent: Problem (2 sentences) · Approach (3 bullets) · Risk (1 sentence) · Test plan (2 bullets)
• Prohibit the tells explicitly (list below). A model will strip what it's told to strip and will not self-diagnose
• Ask for the cut, separately: "Now remove 40% without losing a decision." A second pass over finished text cuts far better than a first pass tries to be brief

The tells your reviewers are actually reacting to

Paste this into your AGENTS.md as a prohibition list. It's the rec

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#!/usr/bin/env python
# encoding: utf-8
"""
utc_to_local.py

Example of converting UTC to local time using python-dateutil.

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-dateutil
"""
from datetime import datetime

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from collections import namedtuple
human_delta = namedtuple('human_delta',
                         ['days', 'hours', 'minutes', 'seconds'])
human_delta.__str__ = lambda self: \
    '%d days, %d hours, %d minutes, %d seconds' % \
    (self.days, self.hours, self.minutes, self.seconds)


def convert_timedelta(duration):
    days, seconds = duration.days, duration.seconds

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#!/usr/bin/env python
# encoding: utf-8
"""
swdiceprob.py

Functions for calculating Savage Worlds dice probabilities.

Copyright (c) 2012-2013 Dale Davis. All rights reserved.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without

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def compress_utf8_file(fullpath, delete_original = True):
    """Compress a UTF-8 encoded file using GZIP compression named *.gz. If `delete_original` is `True` [default: True],
    the original file specified by `delete_original` is removed after compression."""
    with codecs.open(fullpath, 'r', 'utf-8') as fin:
        with gzip.open(fullpath + '.gz', 'wb') as fout:
            for line in fin:
                fout.write(unicode(line).encode('utf-8'))
    if delete_original:
        os.remove(fullpath)

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start
  = additive

additive
  = left:dice "+" right:additive { return left + right; }
  / left:dice "-" right:additive { return left - right; }
  / dice

dice
  = left:primary "d" right:primary { var s = 0; for(var i = 0; i < left; i++ ) { s += Math.floor(Math.random() * right) + 1; } return s; }

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$dateInterval->format('%H:%I:%S');

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-- From http://www.fakebeing.com/projects/remove-on-update-from-mysql-timestamp-column/
ALTER TABLE mytable CHANGE columnName columnName TIMESTAMP NOT NULL DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP