Directives

A directive is one short, practical lesson — the unit you read, apply, and file a Disaster Log against. Directives are grouped into campaigns (themed arcs like Surviving Your AI Intern); the campaign sets the trajectory, the directive does the teaching.

Think of a directive as a single class and a campaign as the course it belongs to. The full operation log, grouped by campaign below.

Surviving Your AI Intern

01 Directive 01: You Have Been Assigned an Intern Novice 12 min read · Onboarding, Mental model, Delegation, Risk framing > 02 Directive 02: The Art of the Tiny Task Novice 10 min read · Task decomposition, Scoping, Briefing, Prompt discipline > 03 Directive 03: The Review Loop: Your New Full-Time Job Novice 11 min read · Code review, Diff reading, Quality gates, Review throughput > 04 Directive 04: Context Is a Budget, Not an Ocean Veteran 14 min read · Context budget, Token management, Attention, Context hygiene > 05 Directive 05: The Intern Wrote Tests (And Other Lies) Veteran 9 min read · Testing, Test auditing, Verification, Assertion quality > 06 Directive 06: When the Intern Refactors Your Architecture Veteran 16 min read · Architecture guardrails, Scope control, Refactor boundaries, Undo discipline > 07 Directive 07: The Disaster Log — Patterns from the Trenches Elite 18 min read · Postmortems, Institutional memory, Pattern extraction, Policy from incidents > 08 Directive 08: Graduation — From Intern to Tool Elite 13 min read · Mental model shift, Tool posture, Workflow integration, Graduation >