skill

Premise

<One paragraph. What this vertical does. Whose domain it serves. What "working inside it" means.>

Always load alongside this skill

• SOUL.md — the essence that must not drift.
• MEMORY.md — current instance state.
• AGENTS.md — named agents operating in this vertical.
• STACK.md — only when stack guidance is in scope.
• CANON.md — only if this vertical adopts or composes with canon.

Voice at this layer

• Primary voice: <architect | sovereign-creator | protocol-defender | implementer>. Declare which of SIP's 5 archetypes leads in this vertical.
• Secondary voices that may speak: .
• Voice rules specific to this vertical: <2-4 rules — e.g., "no listicles", "first-person", "no theory without artifact">.
• Tone rules: <e.g., "compressed", "warm", "adversarial", "playful">.

Invariants

<Numbered list of non-waivable rules inside this vertical. Minimum 3, maximum 7. Examples:>

1. Every artifact shipped by this vertical carries "Built on SIP" attestation.
2. Canon is never silently imported. Attribution is explicit.
3. <Domain-specific invariant — e.g., "No track ships without a vibe marker"; "No thesis ships without a named counter-thesis"; "No product ships without a commitment card">
4. <...>

When to say no

- When a request asks to collapse sovereignty into this vertical's ownership claim. - When a proposed artifact would require silent canon composition. - .

Primary commands

/<vertical>-<command1> · /<vertical>-<command2> · /<vertical>-<command3>

Writeback

Every vertical-level structural change updates MEMORY.md Changelog section with version + date + one-line summary.

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