prompts¶

Provenance¶

Source: .spec/spexcode/.plugins/prompts/spec.md
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The auxiliary surface: system prompt contracts live here: leaf plugins whose whole substance is one prose body an agent must always carry — materialized (in name order, together with every other system body) into the  contract block — rather than a verb it invokes. Grouping them keeps .plugins/ legible at a glance: peripheral prompt contracts on this shelf; the command presets on [[commands]], the skill plugins on [[skills]], and [[core]] as a flat child beside it.

The shelf boundary is leafness, not surface: a single-body prose contract shelves here, while a contract that anchors its own subtree outranks the shelf — [[core]], the dev-flow contract subsystem whose children are the surface: hook gates, is a peer of this shelf, never a resident.

This node is a shelf, not a surface: it declares no surface field and gathers nothing itself. Discovery is recursive and field-driven ([[surface]]), so residents plug in exactly as they would at the root — nothing about materialization order (name order, unchanged names) or gathering changes with the path. The init templates mirror this layout — a fresh spex init (per [[init-preset]]) seeds core flat and its auxiliary system plugins under the same prompts/ shelf. The shelf stays pure presentation: changing this path changes neither a plugin's identity nor its gathered surface.