A specification or standard should solve a problem - not just provide implementation detail.

Usually, a problem and solution can be described in a paragraph or less. If you can't figure that out from reading a standard/spec, you're just reading someone else's implementation detail.

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TDD. Telos-driven development

I’m gonna steal that.

I created a POC around this. Results are decent. Having a hard time getting CLAUDE.md and AGENTS.md to respect it, but when I explicitly tell the LLM to check with the Telos, the results turn out well. https://github.com/telos-framework/init