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Matt Pocock 0847bb31bc writing-great-skills: add Negation and Negative Space failure modes 
Two adjacent Steering failure modes about how language you think of as
"off" still steers:

- Negation — a prohibition names the forbidden behaviour and makes it
  more available, not less (don't-think-of-an-elephant). Cure: prompt
  the positive.
- Negative Space — what you omit is delegated to the agent's priors,
  not left neutral. Cure: read a draft for what it's silent on and
  decide each omission deliberately.

Each carried as a full GLOSSARY entry plus a SKILL.md failure-mode
bullet, matching every other failure mode.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-06 13:54:46 +01:00
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GLOSSARY.md writing-great-skills: add Negation and Negative Space failure modes 2026-07-06 13:54:46 +01:00
SKILL.md writing-great-skills: add Negation and Negative Space failure modes 2026-07-06 13:54:46 +01:00