Principlev1
During maintenance reviews, strip accumulated cruft by
During maintenance reviews, strip accumulated cruft by removing steps, exceptions, and scope expansions that have made the agent more complex than its essential function requires.
Why This Is a Principle
Grounded in Working Memory Capacity Limit (working memory limits), Behavior follows the path of least resistance due to the (systems follow path of least resistance under energy constraints), and Abstraction Necessarily Discards Information (abstraction requires discarding information). The dental cleaning metaphor prescribes removing accumulated complexity that makes execution harder.