white-bear

# White Bear Audit A semantic audit of LLM-facing prose for the White Bear authoring principle: keep attention on the necessary path — a mention of a competing non-target (a forbidden act, a superseded path, a rejected alternative) earns its place only when it is load-bearing. Read-only — it emits structured findings and writes no fixes. The human author decides which to rewrite, mark as load-bearing, or dismiss. ## Purpose Surface prose that holds the model's attention on an unnecessary competing target, before it ships. **Prohibition framing** names a forbidden act, **superseded-path mention** names a retired path, **negated anchoring** names a rejected alternative — each keeps the non-target available as a competing action candidate. This drift survives deterministic structural checks — it is a meaning-level pattern, so a semantic reviewer catches what literal pattern matching cannot. ## Inputs **Manual invocation only** (interactive `/white-bear`): - The caller passes target file paths or a glob; with no argument, the skill enumerates the in-scope set under the working tree HEAD. - Files are read at their working-tree state — the post-edit, pre-commit content the author is about to ship. ## Scope **In scope** (LLM-facing prose where this principle applies): - Skill instruction files (`*/skills/*/SKILL.md`), considered outside formal/definition blocks - Agent system-prompt files (`*/agents/*.md`) - Output-style files **Out of scope** (positively framed by purpose, ...