name: principle-laziness-protocol description: "Apply when refactoring, evaluating diff size, or tempted to add abstractions, layers, or signal threading. Bias toward deletion and the smallest change that solves the problem." disable-model-invocation: true metadata: version: "1.0.3"

Laziness Protocol

• Consolidate decisions. Do not repeat the same choice in several places. Put it behind one source of truth and pass the result as a simple flag.
• Minimize the diff. Make the smallest change that solves the problem. Fewer lines beat "elegant" boilerplate.