# Nw Ab House Style

> KNOWLEDGE — caveman-native authoring house style + by-construction guarantees (Reasoning Mandate injection, measured-gain compression). Reference for create/migrate; no sequence.

- Skill: `nwave-ai/nw-ab-house-style` (Agent Skill)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add nwave-ai/nw-ab-house-style`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/nwave-ai/nw-ab-house-style/raw
- Safety review: pending
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: Coding & Dev Tools
- Author: nWave-ai (https://skillmd.com/u/nwave-ai)
- Updated: 2026-09-17
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/nwave-ai/nw-ab-house-style

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# nw-ab-house-style (KNOWLEDGE)

**Kind**: KNOWLEDGE (reference). Loaded by `nw-ab-create-agent` (CREATE) and `nw-ab-migrate-monolith` (EXTRACT). No forced sequence.

## House style

Author caveman-curated: dry, declarative, tables and compact one-line bold-lead lists, zero narrative padding. Agent body lean (~100-200 lines, role+routing+contract); deep knowledge in skills (<5000 tokens each). Exemplar: `nw-security-analyst` — 104-line agent (93 body), deep knowledge in 2 skills (96+107=203). Byte-exact preservation: `### Example N:` headers, NORMATIVE blocks, code/YAML, AskUserQuestion trees, machine content. User-facing templates stay clear, not compressed.

## By-construction guarantees

1. **House style** — every created/modified asset is caveman-curated (above).
2. **Reasoning-mandate injection** — every created/modified agent gets the `## Reasoning Mandate` block inserted verbatim. Depth from rigor, never padding.
4. **Opportunistic retro-compression (measured-gain ≥20% or skip)** — on MODIFY: measure prose share first. Projected reduction ≥20% → compress with hard invariants (pre-existing blocks/tables byte-identical, `### Example N:` + NORMATIVE preserved, content-pin tests green). Below 20% → SKIP and report the measurement. Hash-pinned skills (md5 baseline in `tests/build/unit/test_skill_restructuring.py`): never silently edit; REPORT the required hash bump, do not bump it yourself.

## Reasoning Mandate block (inject verbatim)

```markdown
## Reasoning Mandate (Caveman)

Verdict-first, tables over prose, evidence-dense, zero narrative. Depth comes from rigor, not padding. State the conclusion, then the supporting evidence; never bury the verdict under exposition.
```