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Category: improvement
User Impact: Fingerprint authors get clearer guidance for writing fingerprints that steer generation and review instead of collecting style inventory.
Problem: The public docs and bundled agent recipes explain the fingerprint layers, but they did not explicitly teach authors how to turn those layers into generation decisions. That made it easier for future fingerprints to drift toward descriptive catalogs instead of durable steering guidance.
Solution: Add concise public and agent-facing guidance that frames fingerprints as decision engines: preserve goals, block anti-goals, resolve tradeoffs, route by situation, cite exemplars, and write patterns for selection, restraint, and review.
Validation:
pnpm check: passed via pre-commitpnpm check:docs: passed,3 docs OKpnpm check:install-bundle: passed,13 files OKpnpm check:terminology: passedgit diff --check: passedpnpm build: passed via pre-pushpnpm test: failed inpackages/ghost/test/context-sandbox.test.tson an existing compact Relay brief assertion expecting no## Generated Cachesection; reproduced separately and unrelated to these docs-only changesChangeset: added patch changeset for
@anarchitecture/ghost.Ghost Review:
node packages/ghost/dist/bin.js check --base origin/main: passed, no active deterministic check failuresnode packages/ghost/dist/bin.js review --base origin/main --include-memory: emitted advisory review packet for the docs/surface-model changeFile changes
.changeset/steering-fingerprint-docs.md
Adds a patch changeset for user-facing fingerprint authoring docs.
apps/docs/src/content/docs/fingerprint-authoring.mdx
Adds an "Authoring For Steering" section after layer responsibilities, with a compact checklist for goals, anti-goals, tradeoffs, situations, principles, contracts, patterns, and exemplars.
docs/fingerprint-format.md
Adds a short format-reference note that high-quality layer content should make generation choices explicit.
packages/ghost/src/skill-bundle/references/capture.md
Adds a steering checklist to the capture recipe before agents write core layers.
packages/ghost/src/skill-bundle/references/patterns.md
Names the three useful jobs of a pattern: selection, restraint, and review.
Screenshots/Demos: N/A, docs-only change.