Add rule 7: alongside the control flow, sketch the layout of the
data structures the code in focus reads or builds — record
fields, collection nesting, variant cases relevant to the
question — placed beside the code that touches them and reduced
in the same spirit (only the fields on the topic path). When the
data layout is the question, it leads and the flow becomes the
stub. Iron Law, worked example, frontmatter, and README updated
to match.
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A user-invoked conversational skill: while active, every reply
explains code in commented, human-readable pseudocode instead of
prose. Each answer opens with a source-file-and-approximate-line
anchor, tags notable steps with reference markers ([1], [A]) the
user can point back at, reduces off-topic paths to stubs, omits
low-level mechanics unless asked, defaults to the project main
entry, and never runs longer than one screen.
Dispatches no agents and runs no pipeline; documented in the
README as a conversational skill standing outside the pipeline.
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