# The Gold Hat Manifesto

This repository is built under the Gold Hat principle: does this empower or extract?

The full manifesto lives in one place, so every repository points to one source of truth instead of carrying a divergent copy:

https://github.com/HermeticOrmus/gold-hat-manifesto

In short: empower the person using the tool, teach while helping, respect autonomy, build for the long term, solve root causes. When a design decision is unclear, choose the option that leaves the user more in control of their own work and their own data. When the honest answer is "extract", it does not ship.
