refactor(directives): strip metadata header from v1.md (45-51 of 51; meta extracted to meta.md)

conductor/directives/tdd_red_green_required/meta.md

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+# tdd_red_green_required
+
+## v1
+
+**Why this iteration:** Lifted verbatim from `conductor/workflow.md` §"Standard Task Workflow" steps 4-6 (lines 78-100). This is the baseline encoding — the numbered-step style currently in production.
+Future variants will test alternative encodings (rationale-first, tabular) against this baseline.
+**Source:** `conductor/workflow.md:78-100`
+
+---
+**Lifted:** 2026-07-02 (Phase 1 harvest by Tier 3 worker; user directive 2026-07-02 moved the header into this meta file)

conductor/directives/tdd_red_green_required/v1.md

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-# tdd_red_green_required — v1
-
-**Why this iteration:** Lifted verbatim from `conductor/workflow.md` §"Standard Task Workflow" steps 4-6 (lines 78-100). This is the baseline encoding — the numbered-step style currently in production.
-Future variants will test alternative encodings (rationale-first, tabular) against this baseline.
-
-**Source:** `conductor/workflow.md:78-100`
-
----
-
 4. **Write Failing Tests (Red Phase):**
    - **Pre-Delegation Checkpoint:** Before spawning a worker for dangerous or non-trivial changes, ensure your current progress is staged (`git add .`) or committed. This prevents losing iterations if a sub-agent incorrectly uses `git restore`.
    - **Zero-Assertion Ban:** You MUST NOT write tests that contain only `pass` or lack meaningful assertions. A test is only valid if it contains assertions that explicitly test the behavioral change and verify the failure condition.

conductor/directives/test_sandbox/meta.md

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+# test_sandbox
+
+## v1
+
+**Why this iteration:** Lifted verbatim from `conductor/code_styleguides/test_sandbox.md` §"The 4-Layer Model" + §"The `--config` CLI Flag" + §"The `--basetemp` Rule" (lines 5-58). This is the baseline encoding — the layered-table-plus-mechanism style currently in production.
+Future variants will test alternative encodings (rule-only, before/after) against this baseline.
+**Source:** `conductor/code_styleguides/test_sandbox.md:5-58`
+
+---
+**Lifted:** 2026-07-02 (Phase 1 harvest by Tier 3 worker; user directive 2026-07-02 moved the header into this meta file)

conductor/directives/test_sandbox/v1.md

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-# test_sandbox — v1
-
-**Why this iteration:** Lifted verbatim from `conductor/code_styleguides/test_sandbox.md` §"The 4-Layer Model" + §"The `--config` CLI Flag" + §"The `--basetemp` Rule" (lines 5-58). This is the baseline encoding — the layered-table-plus-mechanism style currently in production.
-Future variants will test alternative encodings (rule-only, before/after) against this baseline.
-
-**Source:** `conductor/code_styleguides/test_sandbox.md:5-58`
-
----
-
 ## The 4-Layer Model
 
 | Layer | Mechanism | Where | Default-on? |

conductor/directives/type_hints_required/meta.md

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+# type_hints_required
+
+## v1
+
+**Why this iteration:** Lifted verbatim from `conductor/code_styleguides/python.md` §2 (lines 23-31) + `conductor/product-guidelines.md` §"AI-Optimized Compact Style" (line 58). This is the baseline encoding — the imperative-bullet style currently in production.
+Future variants will test alternative encodings (rationale-first, before/after) against this baseline.
+**Source:** `conductor/code_styleguides/python.md:23-31 + product-guidelines.md:58`
+
+---
+**Lifted:** 2026-07-02 (Phase 1 harvest by Tier 3 worker; user directive 2026-07-02 moved the header into this meta file)

conductor/directives/type_hints_required/v1.md

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-# type_hints_required — v1
-
-**Why this iteration:** Lifted verbatim from `conductor/code_styleguides/python.md` §2 (lines 23-31) + `conductor/product-guidelines.md` §"AI-Optimized Compact Style" (line 58). This is the baseline encoding — the imperative-bullet style currently in production.
-Future variants will test alternative encodings (rationale-first, before/after) against this baseline.
-
-**Source:** `conductor/code_styleguides/python.md:23-31 + product-guidelines.md:58`
-
----
-
 ## 2. Type Annotations
 
 - **All functions and methods** must have return type annotations.

conductor/directives/typed_dataclass_fields/meta.md

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+# typed_dataclass_fields
+
+## v1
+
+**Why this iteration:** Lifted verbatim from `conductor/code_styleguides/data_oriented_design.md` §8.5 (lines 175-198).
+This is the baseline encoding — the rationale-then-table style currently in production.
+Future variants will test alternative encodings (rule-list, before/after only) against this baseline.
+**Source:** `conductor/code_styleguides/data_oriented_design.md:175-198`
+
+---
+**Lifted:** 2026-07-02 (Phase 1 harvest by Tier 3 worker; user directive 2026-07-02 moved the header into this meta file)

conductor/directives/typed_dataclass_fields/v1.md

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-# typed_dataclass_fields — v1
-
-**Why this iteration:** Lifted verbatim from `conductor/code_styleguides/data_oriented_design.md` §8.5 (lines 175-198).
-This is the baseline encoding — the rationale-then-table style currently in production.
-Future variants will test alternative encodings (rule-list, before/after only) against this baseline.
-
-**Source:** `conductor/code_styleguides/data_oriented_design.md:175-198`
-
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-
 ### 8.5 The Python Type Promotion Mandate (added 2026-06-25)
 
 **C11/Odin/Jai semantics in a Python runtime.** This codebase is written in Python because of practical constraints (time, dependencies, LLM codegen ability), but the convention is to make Python behave as close to a statically-typed value-typed language as the runtime allows. **LLMs default to opaque types (`dict[str, Any]`, `Any`, `Optional[T]`, `hasattr()` polymorphism) because that's what idiomatic Python training data looks like. That defaults to mediocrity; this rule overrides it.**

conductor/directives/ui_delegation_for_hot_reload/meta.md

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+# ui_delegation_for_hot_reload
+
+## v1
+
+**Why this iteration:** Lifted verbatim from `conductor/product-guidelines.md` §"Code Standards & Architecture" (line 41). This is the baseline encoding — the imperative-bullet-with-rationale style currently in production.
+Future variants will test alternative encodings (rationale-first, before/after) against this baseline.
+**Source:** `conductor/product-guidelines.md:41`
+
+---
+**Lifted:** 2026-07-02 (Phase 1 harvest by Tier 3 worker; user directive 2026-07-02 moved the header into this meta file)

conductor/directives/ui_delegation_for_hot_reload/v1.md

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-# ui_delegation_for_hot_reload — v1
-
-**Why this iteration:** Lifted verbatim from `conductor/product-guidelines.md` §"Code Standards & Architecture" (line 41). This is the baseline encoding — the imperative-bullet-with-rationale style currently in production.
-Future variants will test alternative encodings (rationale-first, before/after) against this baseline.
-
-**Source:** `conductor/product-guidelines.md:41`
-
----
-
 From `conductor/product-guidelines.md` §"Code Standards & Architecture":
 - **UI Delegation for Hot-Reload:** All complex ImGui rendering logic must be extracted from the `App` class into module-level functions named `render_xxx(app: App)`. The `App` class should only contain thin delegation wrappers (`def _render_xxx(self): render_xxx(self)`). This architecture is mandatory for supporting state-preserving hot-reloads of the UI logic.

conductor/directives/verbose_commit_message_ban/meta.md

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+# verbose_commit_message_ban
+
+## v1
+
+**Why this iteration:** Lifted verbatim from `AGENTS.md` §"Process Anti-Patterns" #7 (lines 170-173). This is the baseline encoding — the symptom-rule-pair style currently in production.
+Future variants will test alternative encodings (rule-only, tabular) against this baseline.
+**Source:** `AGENTS.md:170-173`
+
+---
+**Lifted:** 2026-07-02 (Phase 1 harvest by Tier 3 worker; user directive 2026-07-02 moved the header into this meta file)

conductor/directives/verbose_commit_message_ban/v1.md

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-# verbose_commit_message_ban — v1
-
-**Why this iteration:** Lifted verbatim from `AGENTS.md` §"Process Anti-Patterns" #7 (lines 170-173). This is the baseline encoding — the symptom-rule-pair style currently in production.
-Future variants will test alternative encodings (rule-only, tabular) against this baseline.
-
-**Source:** `AGENTS.md:170-173`
-
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-
 ### 7. The Verbose-Commit-Message Pattern (kill it)
 
 **Symptom:** Your commit message is 50 lines. It contains the root cause analysis, the alternatives you considered, the side effects you considered, the cross-references, the "what this doesn't fix", the "what to verify", and a personal essay. The commit message is longer than the diff it describes.

conductor/directives/workspace_paths/meta.md

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+# workspace_paths
+
+## v1
+
+**Why this iteration:** Lifted verbatim from `conductor/code_styleguides/workspace_paths.md` (lines 1-103). This is the baseline encoding — the rule-plus-forbidden-patterns-plus-rationale-history style currently in production.
+Future variants will test alternative encodings (rule-only, tabular) against this baseline.
+**Source:** `conductor/code_styleguides/workspace_paths.md:1-103`
+
+---
+**Lifted:** 2026-07-02 (Phase 1 harvest by Tier 3 worker; user directive 2026-07-02 moved the header into this meta file)

conductor/directives/workspace_paths/v1.md

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-# workspace_paths — v1
-
-**Why this iteration:** Lifted verbatim from `conductor/code_styleguides/workspace_paths.md` (lines 1-103). This is the baseline encoding — the rule-plus-forbidden-patterns-plus-rationale-history style currently in production.
-Future variants will test alternative encodings (rule-only, tabular) against this baseline.
-
-**Source:** `conductor/code_styleguides/workspace_paths.md:1-103`
-
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-
 # Test Workspace Paths — Hard Rule
 
 ## TL;DR