# Baseline — instructions-files-diet — 2026-08-02

Trigger: operator ruling 'rule on the surface-weight ceiling: do the diet pass'
Surface at 2600/2600 green ceiling (floor 1859), zero headroom.

     375 AGENTS.md
      27 CLAUDE.md
      77 .claude/rules/adr-audit.md
      28 .claude/rules/agent-failure-modes.md
      51 .claude/rules/agents-md-map-doctrine.md
      58 .claude/rules/brief-heading-conventions.md
      54 .claude/rules/changelog-release-notes.md
     142 .claude/rules/chores.md
     115 .claude/rules/cli.md
     122 .claude/rules/complexity-doctrine.md
      98 .claude/rules/complexity-thresholds.md
      50 .claude/rules/cross-platform.md
      55 .claude/rules/gate5-runbook-code-covenant.md
      56 .claude/rules/gh-cli.md
     120 .claude/rules/governance-core.md
      62 .claude/rules/guardrail-feedback-prose.md
     129 .claude/rules/hexagonal-architecture.md
      73 .claude/rules/model-selection.md
      49 .claude/rules/models.md
      55 .claude/rules/mx-mode.md
      98 .claude/rules/pythonic.md
      45 .claude/rules/security-sensitivity.md
     193 .claude/rules/skill-surface-sync.md
     122 .claude/rules/task-discovery.md
     168 .claude/rules/tests.md
     137 .claude/rules/token-block-discipline.md
      41 .claude/rules/tool-skill-runbook-alignment.md
    2600 total
