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ManifestoChapter V: commitments

Chapter V: commitments

The Manifesto ends with a short set of pledges for practitioners:

  • Establish baselines before tuning
  • Account for the full cost of a token
  • Right-size models by task
  • Edit prompts without deleting what the model needs
  • Keep agent state bounded
  • Track spend beside quality and speed
  • Stop treating length as a proxy for rigor

It argues that cheap-seeming inference was partly an accounting illusion — costs were real but deferred. The invitation is to engineer inference deliberately rather than treat verbosity as free quality.

For implementation, start with Practice. For enforceable production rules, see the Constitution.

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