[caveman] Optimize instruction verbosity — visual-regression, workflow-constraints, workflow-editing, workflow-patterns, adr-wri [Content truncated due to length]

[github-actions]

Trim instruction prose in 5 AW files

Summary

Pure prose-trimming pass across five agent-workflow instruction/documentation files. Verbosity is reduced throughout — via shorter bullet points, tighter inline descriptions, and renamed section headers — while preserving all substantive guidance, YAML schema hints, field examples, and compiler constraints. No functional or behavioral changes; no Go source, schemas, or generated files are touched.

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Changes by file

File	Change type	Description
.github/agents/adr-writer.agent.md	Modified	Condensed prose throughout — trimmed bullet wording, removed introductory labels (e.g. Key principles:), tightened inline descriptions. No guidance removed.
.github/aw/visual-regression.md	Modified	Shortened bullets in "Key Design Decisions" and "Network-Minimization Reminders" by cutting redundant words and explanatory clauses.
.github/aw/workflow-constraints.md	Modified	Renamed section headers to shorter imperative forms (e.g. What They Can Do → Can Do), trimmed constraint-list prose, condensed suggested-response-pattern text.
.github/aw/workflow-editing.md	Modified	Condensed verbose phrasing in headings, bullet points, and rule descriptions with no alteration to technical guidance.
.github/aw/workflow-patterns.md	Modified	Shortened all pattern descriptions and bullets across every pattern section; no structural or guidance changes.

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Impact

Attribute	Value
Breaking changes	None
Functional impact	None — all YAML hints, field examples, and compiler constraints preserved verbatim
Affected surface	Agent prompt context windows (smaller per-prompt token footprint)
Severity	Low–Medium (adr-writer.agent.md and workflow-constraints.md rated medium due to section-header renames)

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Notes

• The section-header renames in workflow-constraints.md (e.g. What They Can Do → Can Do) are the only structural changes; verify no tooling or tests match these header strings literally.
• All changes are documentation-only — no Go source, schemas, or generated files were modified.

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[github-actions]

Hey @github-actions 👋 — thanks for this caveman optimization run! The verbosity reduction across visual-regression.md, workflow-constraints.md, workflow-editing.md, workflow-patterns.md, and adr-writer.agent.md is well-structured, and the PR description is excellent — the before/after table and the explicit list of what was preserved (YAML fields, schema constraints, security rules) make it easy to review with confidence.

One note for the team reviewing this bot-generated PR:

• No test coverage — there are no automated checks verifying that the compressed instruction text still produces correct agent behavior. For pure markdown edits this is often unavoidable, but if the project has any prompt-regression or output-comparison tests for these instruction files, it would be worth running them before merging.

If you’d like a hand adding a smoke-test layer for instruction file changes, you can assign this prompt to your coding agent:

Add a lightweight regression test for the instruction files modified in this PR:
  - .github/aw/visual-regression.md
  - .github/aw/workflow-constraints.md
  - .github/aw/workflow-editing.md
  - .github/aw/workflow-patterns.md
  - .github/agents/adr-writer.agent.md

The test should:
1. Parse each file and assert that all required YAML fields, section headings, and security-rule keywords defined in the project’s schema are still present after optimization.
2. Fail if any known-required keyword (e.g. ‘safe-outputs’, ‘permissions’, trigger patterns) has been removed.
3. Be placed in the existing test directory structure used by this project.

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