docs(plugin): the instruction surfaces teach moments - reading a line that arrived at one, correcting a misfire, and giving a new rule its moments (milestone 458 step 8, #4926)
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Until now only the tool arguments knew moments existed. The guidance
surfaces described rules as reached by resemblance alone:

- using-scribe: a short reflex paragraph and a new reference file,
  moments.md. It covers reading "at <moment>, reached by <action>", the
  reply held once at reply.report, map_action / unmap_action offered in
  one line, and the step 7 proposal line answered with judge_rule_moments.
- writing-records: asks WHEN a rule applies as well as what it is about.
  A rule, preference or process about a point in the work gets
  moments=[...] as it is written, and the trigger stays as the net.
- missed-retrieval: a missed WHEN is mounted or mapped, not reworded. A
  misfire is unmounted or unmapped.
- _INSTRUCTIONS: one clause (list_moments; mount rules about WHEN),
  1594 of 1600 chars.
- static context: injected lines include the rules mounted on a moment
  that was reached.
- test_guidance_ownership: three owned topics, so the text cannot quietly
  drop out.

Plugin minted.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@@ -87,6 +87,12 @@ Two constraints on *how* that's achieved:
then the global rules plus that project's own, never another project's. `enter_project(id)` lists the project's own
rules by title.
**A rule about WHEN arrives at its moment, by lookup.** A rule mounted on a
moment of work (`list_moments`: `work.deliver`, `reply.report`, …) arrives
whenever an action reaches that moment, in a line naming both — nothing
said needs to resemble it. [moments.md](moments.md) says how to read those
lines, how to correct a moment that misfires, and when to mount one.
**`kind` says how much force a record carries, and it is never something to
infer.** A **rule** must be followed: ignoring it breaks something or
crosses a boundary. A **preference** records how the operator wants work
@@ -288,6 +294,9 @@ moment rather than on every turn:
before giving a note a check.
- [missed-retrieval.md](missed-retrieval.md) — a rule that missed the moment it
governed, or keeps arriving where it doesn't apply.
- [moments.md](moments.md) — a line that says a rule arrived *at* a moment, a
reply held for one read, an action that reached the wrong moment or none,
and a line proposing a mount.
## You are the judge of what the record says
@@ -11,6 +11,21 @@ does **either noticer**: the operator saying *"that should have fired"*, and you
noticing it yourself — you reached for a rule nobody offered you, or you were
handed the same rule five times and set it aside five times.
**First ask whether it missed a WHEN or a WHAT.** A rule about a point in the
work — it governs delivering, finishing, verifying, reporting, whatever the
work is about — is not a trigger to reword: no wording resembles every piece
of work that reaches that point. Mount it on the moment instead
(`update_rule(moments=[...])`, from `list_moments`); a mount is a lookup, and
it arrives every time the moment happens. When it is already mounted and still
did not arrive, the action did not reach the moment on this install — offer
`map_action` for that action. The reverse — a mounted rule arriving where it
does not apply — is a mount or a mapping that is wrong: take the moment off
the rule, or `unmap_action` the action that reached it. Each of these
changes what the operator's sessions receive, so offer it in one line and make
it on their yes. [moments.md](moments.md) has the
detail. A rule about a subject missed its WHAT, and the rest of this page is
for that.
**Take it to the record first and the dial second.** A rule's `when_to_apply`
IS the text its similarity score is computed against, so when a rule misses a
moment it governs, the overwhelmingly likely cause is that its trigger does not
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# Moments — rules that arrive when the work reaches a point
Part of the using-scribe skill. Read it when a line says a rule arrived *at* a
moment, when a reply is held for one read, when an action reached the wrong
moment or none, and when a line proposes mounting a rule.
## What a moment is
Most rules reach you by resemblance: what you are doing looks like what the
rule is about. A rule about WHEN — finishing, delivering, verifying,
reporting — resembles nothing said at that point, so resemblance misses it.
Such a rule is **mounted** on the moments of work it belongs to, and arrives
by lookup whenever an action reaches one. `list_moments` names them, each
with what is happening at it and the kinds of action that typically reach it:
`work.deliver` when work is sent beyond the place it was made, `work.finish`
when a piece of work is declared done, `reply.report` at the reply that ends a
turn, and so on. A named procedure is its own moment, `skill.<name>`, reached when it is
loaded.
Which ACTIONS reach a moment is the install's: one operator delivers with a
push, another with a deploy script. Shipped defaults cover the common ones,
and each install corrects them for itself.
## Reading a line that arrived at a moment
The line names the moment and the action that reached it — *"at work.deliver,
reached by `git push`"* — and the rule, with `get_rule(N)` to read it. Read it
as you would any rule that arrived beside your work: it binds just as hard,
and it came because of what you are doing now, not because of what you said.
The reply that ends a turn is a moment too. When a rule mounted at
`reply.report` has not been opened this session, the reply may be held once
with its name: open it, then send the reply — unchanged, if it already does
what the rule asks. The same rule is never held twice.
## When the moment is wrong — correct it in the session
A moment can fire on an action that is not that moment here, or an action can
plainly be a moment and fire nothing. Either way the fix is one call, and it
belongs in the session that noticed, not on a settings page:
- **An action reached the wrong moment** — the line names a moment that is not
what you did: offer `unmap_action(tool, moment, match, reason)`.
- **An action was a moment and nothing arrived** — the operator ships with
their own script, and nothing mounted on `work.deliver` came:
offer `map_action(tool, moment, match, reason)`.
Offer it in one line, the way the operator would say it ("that deploy script
is a deliver and nothing fired — map it?"), and make it on their yes. The
correction lasts for every later session on the install; `list_moments` shows
what each action reaches now.
## When a line proposes a mount
A rule that keeps being opened just after the same moment, across several
sessions, probably belongs on that moment. A line says so, naming the rule,
the moment and how often. It is a question for the operator, not a change you
make: offer it in one line, and record their answer with
`judge_rule_moments` — `confirm` mounts the rule, `reject` with their reason
stops the question being asked again.
The same tool answers proposals from a pass over the rules
(`rules_to_mount`, `propose_rule_moments`, `rule_moment_proposals`): a pass
proposes, and only the operator's yes mounts. Writing a NEW rule is different
— its moments are part of writing it, and
[writing-records.md](writing-records.md) says how.
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# Writing a rule, a lesson, or a note that asserts a fact
Part of the using-scribe skill. Read it before `create_rule`,
`create_project_rule`, `create_preference` or `create_lesson`; when a lesson
`create_project_rule`, `create_preference`, `create_process` or
`create_lesson`; when a lesson
arrives that names the situation you are actually in; when the operator
decides how some area of the work must behave; and before filling
`verify_with` or `expires_when` on a note.
## Contents
- Where a new rule goes — its home, its trigger, what already covers the moment
- When it applies — the moments a rule, a preference or a process is for
- A ruling goes on the System it governs
- A lesson grows each time it proves itself
- A lesson names the rule it is an instance of
@@ -39,6 +41,22 @@ with no trigger is not a quiet rule, it is an unreachable one. Write the moment
in the words a session actually produces — the command, the error, the
half-formed ask — not the category it belongs to.
**Then ask WHEN it applies, as well as what it is about.** A trigger is
matched by resemblance, and a rule about a point in the work — finishing,
delivering, verifying, reporting, asking — resembles nothing said at that
point. Give such a rule its moments as you write it: `list_moments` names
them, and `moments=[...]` on `create_rule`, `create_project_rule` or
`create_preference` mounts it, so it arrives whenever an action reaches one.
Keep the trigger anyway: it is the net for the moments nobody mapped. A rule
about a subject — a library, a file, a style — has no moment; it is reached
by meaning, and leaving `moments` empty is the answer, not an omission. A rule
often has both: a point in the work, and the words a session uses at it.
A stored **process** says the same about itself: `create_process(moments=…)`
names the moments the procedure is for, so loading it reaches them and the
rules mounted there arrive with it. A rule that only applies inside one
procedure mounts on that procedure's own moment, `skill.<name>`.
**Before writing one, ask what already covers that moment.**
`what_might_apply("the moment you are about to write a record for")` — fifty
candidates and no bar, so an existing record cannot hide under a threshold the