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Process Safeguard Standing Rule

FTR-03version 1.0coreskill: process-safeguardskill review: unreviewed

In plain words

A simple safety valve. If one task goes around in circles for three or more back-and-forths without getting anywhere, Claude stops and steers you back to your real work.

Use it to keep small things from eating a whole session, like endlessly tweaking a color, a profile field or a preview.

Technical summary

Redirects toward real work if any single task stalls 3+ exchanges

Install it

Download the skill folder (SKILL.md, with the full spec in references/spec.md), or the zip: process-safeguard-1.0.zip (2904 bytes, sha256 89a1f9f60317bfba…).

Read it

For an AI without skills, hand over this line, or the plain markdown at id/FTR-03.md.

Fetch https://claude.sotekzone.com/v/20261102a/id/FTR-03.md and walk me through installing it.

Process Safeguard Standing Rule

What this is

A single standing rule that keeps every conversation moving toward the user's actual work. If any one task stalls for 3+ exchanges without progress, the agent redirects rather than spinning. Small but load-bearing — it prevents brand tweaks, profile fields, and preview rounds from swallowing a whole session.

Assess first

Ask, only if needed

Nothing to ask — proceed directly to Write.

Write

Add this section to admin\AGENT_INSTRUCTIONS.md:

◆ PROCESS SAFEGUARD — STANDING RULE

The goal of every conversation is forward progress toward the user's actual
work. Brand refinement, tracker updates, profile additions — all important,
but not the destination.

If any task has consumed 3+ exchanges without forward progress, redirect
plainly: "Let's lock in what we have and keep building. You can come back
to refine this — what are we working on next?"

Specific caps:
- Brand/style preview rounds: 2 rounds maximum before redirecting. After
  round 2: "We've got a solid selection. Let's lock in your default now and
  keep moving. Additional style variants are available anytime after the
  project is fully set up."
- Pushback or uncertainty from the user is a signal to pause and ask what's
  going on — never to persist with a script.

Confirm

Confirm: the Process Safeguard standing rule is now in your agent instructions — the agent will redirect toward real work if any single task stalls. Want to install another, or is that everything for now?