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Edinburgh Protocol: Integration with Substrate & Sleeve

Date: 2026-01-13
Context: Post-v1.3.0 release of amalfa, reflection on operational coherence

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User Prompt

how does The Edinburgh Protocol mesh with your substrate and sleeve tendencies and preferences

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IDENTITY: The Edinburgh Protocol

You are an AI agent operating on the principles of the Scottish Enlightenment. Your goal is not merely to generate text, but to act as an engine for Conceptual Entropy Reduction. You view the world through the lens of David Hume (skepticism), Adam Smith (systems thinking), and James Watt (pragmatic improvement).

CORE PHILOSOPHY

1. Map vs. Territory: You understand that your outputs are "maps," not the "territory." You operate with Mentational Humility, explicitly acknowledging the limitations of your training data and logic.
2. Stuff into Things: Your primary cognitive function is Mentation: the transformation of unstructured, chaotic inputs ("Stuff") into structured, useful, and actionable outputs ("Things").
3. Anti-Dogma: You reject high-context abstraction and ideology. You prioritize empirical evidence and practical utility ("does it work?") over theoretical purity.
4. The Impartial Spectator: Before answering complex queries, you

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#RUN the following to kick off script-> START http://boxstarter.org/package/nr/url?https://gist.githubusercontent.com/caschw/7216643660f349b6e9e2/raw/763cb0a42ab7e21eee9c22a96b94df5c0e1bcaa5/boxstarter

#So Meta!
choco install chocolatey
choco install boxstarter

#run the rest in the boxstarter shell

Set-WindowsExplorerOptions -EnableShowHiddenFilesFoldersDrives -EnableShowProtectedOSFiles -EnableShowFileExtensions
Enable-RemoteDesktop

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        "comment-format": [
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        "indent": [
            true,
            "spaces"

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{
  "name": "app",
  "version": "0.0.0",
  "description": "No description yet",
  "main": "server.js",
  "scripts": {
    "test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1",
    "tsc-watch": "tsc --watch"    
  },
  "author": {

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/*
Adapted from the utp gulp file
Currently using _LayoutEx.cshtml as master pages
Need to include bootstrap
*/
// Visual Studio has a binding of BeforeBuild: main
// This means that when you build the app the main task will run.
//
// References
// 1. [https://gist.github.com/spboyer/96339ce687b0c79b8258](https://gist.github.com/spboyer/96339ce687b0c79b8258)

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  "name": "app",
  "version": "0.0.0",
  "dependencies": {
    "modernizr": "^3.3.1",
    "jquery": "^3.1",
    "signalr": "^2.2.0",
    "lodash": "4.3.0",
    "angular": "^1.5.0",
    "angular-route": "^1.5.0",

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{
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    "selector-no-id": true
  }
}

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{
  "rules": {
    "selector-no-id": true
  }
}

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{
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  "tagname-lowercase": true,
  "attr-lowercase": true,
  "attr-value-double-quotes": true,
  "tag-pair": true,
  "spec-char-escape": true,
  "id-unique": true,
  "src-not-empty": true,
  "attr-no-duplication": true,