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Paul BakausandClaude Opus 4.7 b210dd71e7 skill: strip self-priming examples from 5 rules
Phase-2 ablation audit caught these rules causing the exact behavior they
ban via the literal examples in their own prose. Verified: OpenAI samples
under skill-on produced "fake theater", "vendor theater", "heatmap theater"
as verbatim copies of the 'X theater' example. Same pattern for the
restrained-on-cream example, the aphoristic-cadence template, and the
"reserve uppercase for…" enumeration.

- skill-ban-codex-x-theater: drop the 3 syntactic templates + 3 example
  phrases ("Productivity theater" etc.)
- brand-imagery-required: drop the niche enumeration that cued
  "imagery not required elsewhere"
- skill-typo-no-all-caps-body: drop the "Reserve uppercase for labels /
  eyebrows / badges" enumeration that primed uppercase usage
- brand-color-no-converge: drop the "restrained-on-cream" example that
  was priming cream-heavy palettes
- skill-copy-no-aphoristic-cadence: drop the literal cadence template
  ("serious statement, then punchy short negation") that named the
  rhythm it bans

Ablation re-run pending in impeccable-evals to measure impact.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-08 13:28:10 -07:00
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