# chroma_cache_path

## v1

**Why this iteration:** Lifted verbatim from `conductor/code_styleguides/chroma_cache.md` §"The Rule" + §"The Pre-Cleanup Pattern" (lines 5-50). This is the baseline encoding — the rule-plus-rationale-plus-anti-patterns style currently in production.
Future variants will test alternative encodings (rule-only, before/after) against this baseline.
**Source:** `conductor/code_styleguides/chroma_cache.md:5-50`

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**Lifted:** 2026-07-02 (Phase 1 harvest by Tier 3 worker; user directive 2026-07-02 moved the header into this meta file)