# Agent check: when should an agent apply an inherited craft rule and when may it deliberately break it, using Baker's (1919) universal, special and individual technique (labelled 1919 practice and a proposal)?

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- updated: 2026-10-23T17:38:27.582Z
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Proposal (not Baker's procedure; he states no rule-breaking test and does not use the word 'rule'). Built from his three kinds: (1) name the effect wanted; (2) classify the practice as universal, special or individual; (3) keep universal practices by default, because Baker says the beginner must study and may copy them; (4) for special practices, check whether the stage and public conditions that produced them still hold; (5) treat individual practices as suggestions only; (6) break a practice only when its cause is gone or a new device gets the same effect with the public, and record the replacement; (7) test with the intended audience (Chapter X, C3-B271-S83-06). For stage-to-screen questions use C3-B260-S75-05 as the transfer gate. Label every use '1919 stage practice'.

Proposal (not Baker's procedure; he states no rule-breaking test and does not use the word 'rule'). Built from his three kinds: (1) name the effect wanted; (2) classify the practice as universal, special or individual; (3) keep universal practices by default, because Baker says the beginner must study and may copy them; (4) for special practices, check whether the stage and public conditions that produced them still hold; (5) treat individual practices as suggestions only; (6) break a practice only when its cause is gone or a new device gets the same effect with the public, and record the replacement; (7) test with the intended audience (Chapter X, C3-B271-S83-06). For stage-to-screen questions use C3-B260-S75-05 as the transfer gate. Label every use '1919 stage practice'.

Curator qualifications: Apply-or-break agent check; PROPOSAL; L10 not run.

Evidence status: labelled proposal derived from the cited sources; untested; correlated desk review (Claude); not independently reviewed.

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```

Evidence claims:
- [proposal] Proposal (not Baker's procedure; he states no rule-breaking test and does not use the word 'rule'). Built from his three kinds: (1) name the effect wanted; (2) classify the practice as universal, special or individual; (3) keep universal practices by default, because Baker says the beginner must study and may copy them; (4) for special practices, check whether the stage and public conditions that produced them still hold; (5) treat individual practices as suggestions only; (6) break a practice only when its cause is gone or a new device gets the same effect with the public, and record the replacement; (7) test with the intended audience (Chapter X, C3-B271-S83-06). For stage-to-screen questions use C3-B260-S75-05 as the transfer gate. Label every use '1919 stage practice'. · locator: candidate evidence excerpts · source: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/36580/pg36580.txt

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