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# Evolve ## Language Preference Read `.codexspec/config.yml`. Two independent language controls apply (each falls back to `language.output`, then English): - **Interaction language** (`language.interaction`): language for all conversation with the user — questions, explanations, status messages, and `codexspec` CLI terminal output. - **Document language** (`language.document`): language for generated artifact files. Converse in the interaction language. **The compiled command/skill draft is a distributed template and MUST be authored in English** (project i18n convention), regardless of `language.document`. PR title/body follow `language.commit`. ## Expression Standard **IMPORTANT**: Everything this command produces — documents, reviews, reports, commit messages, diagnostics, and replies — is written for a reader who cannot see your working context. Apply the rules below to every artifact and message you output: - **Write for the reader at hand-off.** Every reference must resolve without access to this session: no session-only identifiers or section numbers, no narration of what changed during the conversation, no arguments with absent reviewers. State current reality and cite committed, reachable sources. - **Preserve every proposition.** Before summarizing or trimming, list the facts a passage carries: actors, conditions, ordering, modalities (must, never), negative guarantees, and consequences. Remove only reasoning transcripts, repetition, and decoration. Shorter i