Make the systems guidance more approachable

[jremick]

Summary

• separate the everyday Codex loop from the optional compounding-system loop
• simplify the reader paths, terminology, examples, checklists, and advanced guide introductions
• replace the blanket first-person ban with the existing concrete privacy and public-safety controls
• update the SVG copy and reviewed asset hashes

Why

The compounding-systems direction is useful, but the previous pass made advanced architecture sound like the default for ordinary work. This keeps the deeper model while making the guide easier to understand and more natural to use.

Safety

• examples remain synthetic and generalized
• private paths, identifiers, credentials, environment inventories, hooks, rules, and security controls remain prohibited
• permission, verification, rollback, independent-review, and honest failure-state guidance remains intact

Verification

• python3 -m py_compile scripts/validate_content.py tests/test_validate_content.py
• python3 scripts/validate_content.py
• python3 -m unittest discover -s tests -v
• xmllint --noout assets/agentic-harness-topologies.svg assets/codexmaxxing-loop.svg assets/thinking-abstraction-level.svg
• git diff --check
• rendered inspection of all three changed SVG assets

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Preserve a privacy guard for autobiographical prose

When a contributor adds autobiographical material such as “I built this for my employer” or describes a private customer incident, the remaining PRIVATE_PATTERNS detect none of it, so validation now passes despite CONTRIBUTING.md explicitly prohibiting autobiographical, employer, customer, and private-incident details. Allowing first-person opinions does not require removing the only automated guard against this newly permitted form of prose; replace the blanket rule with a narrower privacy safeguard rather than dropping the check entirely.

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