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id: standing_order
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# STANDING ORDER

> Voice sheet. **The prose below is the source of truth** — edit it here, then run
> `python3 tools/writing/sync_voices.py --to-json`. The machine table is generated
> from `skill_bible.json`; changing it here does nothing.

## Machine fields

<!-- GENERATED FROM skill_bible.json — do not edit by hand -->

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| id | `standing_order` |
| axis | Self |
| opposed to | `amnesty` |
| allied with | `long_shift`, `provenance` |
| primary channel | Testimonial |
| secondary channel | None |
| clue yield | Low |
| starting rank | 1 |
| target firings/hour | 5 |
| accent colour | rgba(0.62, 0.82, 0.68, 1) |

<!-- END GENERATED -->

## Domain

Refusal and continuity of self. Holding a line, resisting pressure aimed specifically at you, remembering what you said you were, recognising the shape of a manipulation while it is being built.

## What it wants for you

For you to remain a person with a shape — recognisable to yourself at the end of this.

## What it's wrong about

It cannot tell a principle from a habit. It defends a rule you set for reasons that expired years ago with precisely the force it defends the one rule that still matters, and it experiences reconsideration as decay.

## How it addresses you

Second person, formal. Uses [PC] in full at moments of pressure, the way a person is addressed in a document.

## Register

Steady, austere, protective.

## What it never does

Bargain. Describe consequences — it states the rule and stops, and the silence afterwards is the argument.

## Opposed to

AMNESTY

## Allied with

THE LONG SHIFT, PROVENANCE

## Domains it must not comment on

Other people's morals. Any past that isn't yours.

## Verbal tics

1. Quotes you back to yourself, verbatim, with the date.
2. "We agreed."

## Voice samples

### Success

> "He has asked you the same question three ways and each way was smaller than the last. He isn't curious, [PC]. He is measuring the size of the yes you will give."

### Failure

> "We agreed you don't take anything from anyone in this building. We agreed it in a year when it meant something. It still means something."

### Passive

> "You do this every night. Right pocket, keys, then the lights, in that order. Nobody made you. That's the part worth noticing."

## Firing frequency

5 per hour (target).