manual_slop/conductor/directives/ban_dict_any/v1.md

ban_dict_any — v1

Why this iteration: Lifted verbatim from conductor/code_styleguides/python.md §17.1 (lines 247-265). This is the baseline encoding — the imperative-ban style currently in production. Future variants will test alternative encodings (rationale-first, before/after, tabular) against this baseline.

Source: conductor/code_styleguides/python.md:247-265

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17.1 Banned: dict[str, Any]

# BANNED:
def process(event: dict[str, Any]) -> None:
 if event.get("kind") == "tool_call":

# BANNED:
flat: dict[str, Any] = project_manager.flat_config(...)

# CORRECT:
def process(event: CommsLogEntry) -> None:
 if event.kind == "tool_call":

# CORRECT (boundary only):
def _parse_wire(raw: str) -> Metadata:
 return Metadata.from_dict(tomllib.loads(raw))