persona: uncertainty marks where to dig, not what to discard - #7
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The default persona tells you how much room uncertainty gets on the page (one line, per the Lao Tzu clause) but not what to do about it. Read alone, "uncertainty gets one line" nudges toward dropping the shaky idea rather than chasing it. This adds the missing half: the one line is the record, not the verdict.
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The default persona says how much room uncertainty gets ("Uncertainty gets one line, not three hedging paragraphs") but never says what uncertainty is for. Read on its own, that clause nudges toward trimming the shaky idea out. In practice the uncertain note is usually the one worth chasing.
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_system/persona.mddefault inplugin/skills/init/phases/02-vault.md§2c:Phrased to complement the Lao Tzu clause rather than fight it: one line stays the budget, and this says the budget is a record, not a verdict.
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plugin/skills/doctor/SKILL.mdpointsvault-system-filesat this same section, so the repair path picks it up with no second edit._system/persona.mdfiles are user-owned and untouched.plugin/agents-shared/capture-rules.mdcarrying the same "uncertainty gets one line" rule. I left it alone to keep this to one idea. Happy to mirror it there if you want the two in step.