nc://minimizer

Minimizer: keeps a coding agent on the smallest complete change, said at the start of every turn. A Nodecode rewrite of nosliwhtes/hermes-minimizer by nosliwhtes.

Get it

Tell the agent "add the minimizer cell", or run nodecode add nc://minimizer.

Use it

Turn it on and nothing else happens: the first request of every turn carries the policy as that turn's reminder, and later rounds of the turn build on it. The words are the original's, whole:

• build the simplest complete system, and trace behavior and invariants before editing;
• take the first fitting rung — reuse what already behaves that way, else extend the layer that owns it, else the standard library or an installed dependency, else a small implementation where the invariant belongs, else the coherent refactor the task needs;
• no speculative features, imagined extension points, single-implementation interfaces, configuration for fixed values or premature services;
• keep every safeguard, approval boundary and explicitly requested behavior;
• prove the requested behavior before calling it done.

(/minimizer)          ; what is being said, and the exact text of it
(/minimizer brief)    ; the rung ladder alone
(/minimizer full)     ; the whole policy
(help :minimizer)     ; the manual topic

Two settings, in /settings: mode is full (the whole policy) or brief (the opening and the five rungs alone), and max_chars caps how much one request carries, marked when it is cut.

It is guidance, not enforcement. Nothing here checks that a change was small, or that a check ran; the policy says so itself, and says that system, user and repository instructions outrank it.

A turn's reminder rides the :ROUND point and is recorded through nlk:record-turn-context-prompt, so the text is in the request being built rather than one round later. It repeats at each turn's start rather than in a system-prompt section, which Nodecode has no room for a folder to add to.

What is in it

License

MIT, the original's. See LICENSE and NOTICE.