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-## MANDATORY: WAVE_AXIOMS — Load-Bearing Rules for Wave-Pattern Work
+## MANDATORY: WAVE_AXIOMS
 
-**READ `WAVE_AXIOMS.md` FIRST when invoking `/wavemachine`, `/nextwave`, `/assesswaves`, or `/prepwaves`.** That file is the canonical, load-mandatory constitutional layer for wave-pattern execution. Each axiom binds to a specific observed-and-forbidden agent behavior; violation is a bug, not a judgment call.
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-The nine axioms (full text in `WAVE_AXIOMS.md` at the cc-workflow root):
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-1. **Serial is a valid wave topology.** Wave campaigns are justified by autonomous batched execution, not parallelism.
-2. **The campaign is autonomous from invocation to terminal state.** No mid-campaign questions. No "shall I continue?"
-3. **The Legal Exits list is closed.** Plan-reality drift, hard fault, explicit user halt. No others.
-4. **When unsettled, use the Concerns Channel. Do not stop.** Post `[concern]`, ping if urgent, continue.
-5. **Continuing is cheaper than stopping. Default forward.** Continuation costs revertible commits; stops cost unrecoverable wall-clock.
-6. **Approval frequency is set by the invoked command.** `/nextwave` = per-wave; `/wavemachine` = at terminal state. The agent never adds gates.
-7. **`/assesswaves` measures justification, not topology suitability.** YES whenever count ≥ 4 or per-issue wall-clock is non-trivial.
-8. **These axioms supersede agent judgment in their domain.** Disagreement is a reason to PR `WAVE_AXIOMS.md`, never to override in the moment.
-9. **User attention is the cost. Autonomy is the protection.** Autonomy clauses in `/wavemachine`-class skills protect the user's attention; the legal-exits list is exhaustive (Axiom 3); plan-reality drift is the only legitimate stop beyond hard faults and explicit halts.
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-Disagreement with an axiom is a reason to update `WAVE_AXIOMS.md` via PR — never to override it in the moment.
+**Read `WAVE_AXIOMS.md` before any wave-pattern work.** Nine binding axioms — violation is a bug. Disagreement is a reason to PR the file, never to override in the moment.
 
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