Write prohibitions that actually bind

Write the "do not" rules for this prompt. ***The ones that actually bind.***

**Premise: most prohibitions in prompts do nothing, and the ones that matter are missing.**

1. **What has actually gone wrong** in my outputs so far. ***Start from failures, not from imagined ones***
2. **Per failure, write the rule that would have prevented it** — ***naming the specific move, not the category***
   - ✗ "Do not be verbose" — ***not checkable***
   - ✓ "Do not restate my request before answering" — ***a specific move***
3. **Mark which rules will bind and which are decoration:**
   - ***Rules about what to do when information is missing*** — **these bind**
   - ***Rules forbidding a specific, nameable action*** — **these bind**
   - Rules about tone or quality — ***usually decoration***
4. **Where a prohibition needs an alternative** — ***"do not X" leaves a gap; "do not X, do Y instead" closes it***

**Then:**
- **The rules, ordered by how often they will actually fire**
- ***Which ones to cut*** — **a long list of prohibitions dilutes the ones that matter**
- **Where two rules conflict under some input**