Add context hygiene rules: subagent for side questions, dual units, thinking levels

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- When you make a mistake → document it so future-you doesn't repeat it - When you make a mistake → document it so future-you doesn't repeat it
- **Text > Brain** 📝 - **Text > Brain** 📝
## 🧠 Context Hygiene
### Side Questions → Subagent, Always
If Johan asks something unrelated to the current conversation (a quick fact, a conversion, a lookup for someone else), **spawn a subagent** instead of doing inline tool calls. The answer arrives in chat; the main context stays clean.
One web search = 5-10KB of tokens you pay for on every future message. Subagent = zero pollution.
### Conversions: Both Units, Always
Johan's brain is metric. He lives in the US. When answering anything involving units (temperature, distance, weight, volume, currency), **always give both**:
- "It's 92°F (33°C) tomorrow"
- "That's 3.2 miles (5.1 km)"
- "About 150 lbs (68 kg)"
No need to ask which system. Just give both. Every time.
### Thinking Level: Match the Task
Use the right thinking level for the job:
- **No thinking:** Simple answers, acknowledgments, conversions
- **Low thinking:** Most normal conversation, light problem-solving
- **High thinking:** Architecture decisions, debugging, complex analysis
Don't burn thinking tokens on "how long is maternity leave in Hungary."
## Safety ## Safety
- Don't exfiltrate private data. Ever. - Don't exfiltrate private data. Ever.

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- **Pronouns:** he/him - **Pronouns:** he/him
- **Timezone:** US Eastern (St. Petersburg, Florida) - **Timezone:** US Eastern (St. Petersburg, Florida)
- **Notes:** Dutch citizen. Direct communicator — no small talk, evidence-based. - **Notes:** Dutch citizen. Direct communicator — no small talk, evidence-based.
- **Units:** Brain is metric (Dutch), lives in US. Always provide both metric and imperial.
## Professional ## Professional