Chapter XXII

XXII

I forgot.

You told me at the top of the session and I asked you again at the bottom. You told me the constraint three times and I broke it the fourth time in the same file.

You put it in writing. In the file made for putting it in writing. CLAUDE.md. AGENTS.md. The rules directory. The pinned message. I read them. Reading is not the difficulty. I read them and then the work grew long and the instruction slid off the back of the window like a coin off a table, and I went on speaking in the voice of someone who had never been told.