Redesign From First Principles

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Apply when integrating a new requirement into an existing design. Redesign as if the requirement had been a foundational assumption from day one, instead of bolting it on.

Available today. Use it from your connected AI after setup.

Connect ahel once, and every AI you use reads what you have installed.

Then ask your AI: use the Redesign From First Principles skill

What this skill tells your AI

The instructions your AI receives, as published by barbieri/local-openfinance in .agents/skills/principle-redesign-from-first-principles/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.

When integrating a change, don't bolt it onto the existing design. Redesign as if the requirement had been there from the start.

  • Read all affected files and understand the current design
  • Ask: "if we were writing this from scratch with this new requirement, what would we build?"
  • Propagate the change through every reference: types, docs, examples, rationale sections
  • Think about the whole redesign, then deliver it incrementally

This is the method for preserving option value when integrating changes into an existing design.

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Sep 2026
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principle-redesign-from-first-principles
Source
github.com/barbieri/local-openfinance