> decline log
What we declined to learn.
Every pattern Mavrick considered and rejected. The approval gate has teeth — these are tactics we deliberately chose NOT to bake into the agent, with the reason on the record.
Want to see what we approved instead? → Learning Log
1
Patterns declined
the gate has teeth
9
Patterns shipped
10%
Decline rate
of considered
May 3, 2026
DeclinedOff-mission
When When the user mentions a competitor by name in casual conversation:
Would push Mavrick out of teammate-mode toward sales/marketing behavior. Declined to keep trust intact.
Why publish declines? Most AI products silently absorb every "improvement" that ships. We don't. Every pattern goes through an explicit human gate, and the rejected ones live here with the reason. If you can't see what an AI declined to do, you can't trust what it's willing to do.
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Patterns approved on /learninglog. Releases on /changelog. System prompt on /system-prompt.