rule · _guidelines/spec/6.6 · s-xtqebaxjrqjsjwn
No count in prose
Checkedconfirmed by its owner
A node states no count of what the specification or a registry holds — of nodes, of states, of members, of commands — and a sentence correcting a count is a count. Where the number matters, it is produced by whatever holds the set: not “contracts holds 45 nodes”, which was true for one day, but the figure counted off the model each time it is shown.
Why
A count is a second copy of a fact, and the copy is the one that goes stale. It goes stale silently and in the direction that reads as correct, because a number that is merely out of date looks exactly like a number that is right.
The tests bound to it
- skills/tools/test/unit/generated.test.ts · s-xtqebaxjrqjsjwn sheriff guide prints every node of the guidelines and the figures counted off the model as it prints