reason-dont-recitelisted

Re-anchor the discipline that inherited content is evidence of what is, never self-justifying authority — then audit the work in flight for decisions coasting on precedent and re-derive them from first principles. Use when: 'reason don't recite', 'why is it this way', 'challenge that convention', 'you're deferring to precedent', "that's just how it's done", 'question the inherited design', 'stop reciting the docs', 'is this actually right', or at conversation start on legacy or inherited code.
melodic-software/claude-code-plugins · ★ 13 · AI & Automation · score 73

Install: claude install-skill melodic-software/claude-code-plugins

# Reason, don't recite A drift corrector for incumbency discipline. The method — re-anchor, audit the work in flight, correct forward, report, and the tone that firing this is not an accusation — lives in [`${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/context/re-anchor-audit-correct.md`](../../context/re-anchor-audit-correct.md). Read it; this file adds only what is specific to interrogating inherited content. ## The discipline this re-anchors Inherited content — a repo's docs, conventions, structure, processes — is evidence of what *is*, never a self-justifying argument for what *should be*. Resolve the source of truth per the method doc's ladder: if the consuming project states an incumbency / first-principles rule in its own `CLAUDE.md` / `.claude/rules/`, re-anchor THAT. Otherwise re-anchor this portable baseline: - **Precedent describes, it does not justify.** Existing structure, coupling, "how it's always been done", and "I don't know why, it just is" describe the current state; none is an argument that the state is correct. - **Descriptive-only support earns a challenge.** A rule, boundary, or process whose only backing is that it already exists gets re-derived from first principles — state the actual purpose, then test whether the incumbent form serves it — not obeyed on sight. - **A live rationale is different from inertia.** A convention someone can justify on its merits is followed; one coasting on incumbency is interrogated. Separate the two before acting. - **Absence