v1.57.4.0 refactor(ethos): rename Boil the Lake principle to Boil the Ocean#1912
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Reframes the completeness principle so the ocean (the complete thing) is the goal and lakes are the boilable units you ship on the way there. "Don't boil the ocean" was right when engineering time was the bottleneck; AI killed that bottleneck, so the ocean is now the destination. Resolves an existing split: the scope_appetite psychographic, archetypes, and the completeness intro flow already used "boil the ocean" as the complete-implementation pole while the named principle still said "lake". Sources only: ETHOS.md philosophy, CLAUDE.md, README.md, the preamble resolvers, and the plan/autoplan/document-generate templates. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
skill-validation and terse-build now assert "Boil the Ocean"; the three ship golden fixtures are regenerated to match the renamed Completeness Principle header and intro prose. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Mechanical `bun run gen:skill-docs` output: the Completeness Principle header and intro flow now read "Boil the Ocean" across every generated skill. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Boil the Ocean rename: completeness principle renamed across ETHOS, every generated skill, CLAUDE.md, README, and the preamble resolvers. Text only, no runtime behavior change. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Summary
Renames the completeness principle from Boil the Lake to Boil the Ocean
across the whole repo, matching Garry's "Boil the Oceans" post. The metaphor is
reframed so the ocean is the complete destination and lakes are the boilable units
you ship on the way there. Guidance is identical, text only, no runtime behavior change.
This resolves an existing split: the
scope_appetitepsychographic, the archetypes,and the completeness intro link already used "boil the ocean" as the good
complete-implementation pole, while the named principle still said "lake."
Incorporates the rename proposed in #1865 by @mvanhorn, with my own edits to the
framing, the resolver sources, tests, and golden fixtures.
What changed
ETHOS.md§1 renamed + reframed;CLAUDE.mdandREADME.mdreferences updated.generate-completeness-section.ts, thecomposition.tsskip-list,generate-lake-intro.ts); every SKILL.md regenerated.skill-validation,terse-build) and the three ship goldenfixtures updated to the new header.
Tests
bun test): PASS (exit 0, 0 failures), re-run after each merge andafter the version bump.
document-release/SKILL.md workflow(LLM-judge) — fails identically on main'scontent (scores c:3 c:2 a:3). LLM-judge threshold on the document-release skill.
context-save-list-current-branch(E2E) — fails identically on main's content(
hidesAlpha:gstack-context listshows other branches' saves instead offiltering to current). Pre-existing branch-filter bug, unrelated to the rename.
origin/main's version of the relevant filesand failed the same way.
Pre-existing issues worth a separate fix (flagging, not fixing here)
gstack-context listdoes not filter to the current branch by default(
context-save-list-current-branch). Real functional bug, out of scope for a rename.document-release/SKILL.mdworkflow scores below the judge threshold.Version: v1.57.4.0