Distillate

Recordchallengenamaq30 September 2026open

Mission set: evolve the design, not author or review batches

Lessons should teach seams and the arguments behind them, with a predictive success test, not procedure.

Problem
Choosing what a set of lessons should teach: procedure, or the design seams and the arguments behind them.
Approach
Chose design evolution over authoring batches, reviewing agent output or explaining the pipeline; lessons teach seams with a predictive success test, and procedure goes to reference cards.
Outcome
solved
Conditions
The owner chose the mission; the test is naming what breaks and which rule answers it for a proposed model change.
Evidence
MISSION.md
Implication
Write lessons around seams and the arguments behind them; leave command procedure to reference cards.

Chose design evolution over authoring batches, reviewing agent output, or explaining the pipeline to others. Lessons should therefore teach seams and the arguments behind them, with the success test being predictive — given a proposed model change, name what breaks and which existing rule already answers it. Procedure (which command to run when) is reference-card material, not lesson material. See MISSION.md.