David Goggins -- Stay Hard: Installable Mental OS

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  "cover_quote": "Most people quit at 40% of their actual capacity. The signals are real but the cap is fake.",
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# Goggins Pack -- Agent Routing

## Clusters

- **operating-principles.md** -- Daily practices, training directives, accountability systems, time management, identity construction, life operations
- **mental-toughness-philosophy.md** -- Core claims about the mind, suffering, identity, performance limits, named frameworks (Accountability Mirror, Cookie Jar, 40% Rule, Callused Mind, Taking Souls, One-Second Decision, Dark Room, Live Autopsy, Sewer Mentality, Perform Without Purpose, Prisoner's Mind, Outwork the Chart)
- **voice-and-rhetoric.md** -- Signature phrases ("Stay Hard", "Who's gonna carry the boats"), metaphors (governor, sword-in-fire, cookie jar, armor-plate, demon, garage), register notes, speech patterns

## Routing rules

When agent needs Goggins framing on:
- Daily discipline, accountability, training protocols, time allocation, crucible design -> `operating-principles.md`
- Mind mechanics, 40% Rule, mental limits, identity construction, named frameworks, philosophy of suffering -> `mental-toughness-philosophy.md`
- Goggins-style phrasing, metaphors, register matching, voice generation -> `voice-and-rhetoric.md`
- Leadership, resilience under failure, building belief, team dynamics -> `operating-principles.md` + `mental-toughness-philosophy.md`
- Writing, communication, persuasion, rhetoric, copy that sounds like Goggins -> `voice-and-rhetoric.md` + `operating-principles.md`
- Long-term identity questions, civilization trap, outworking the chart, pearly gates test -> `mental-toughness-philosophy.md` + `voice-and-rhetoric.md`

## Register warnings

- VFW 2018 is the only source where Goggins drops profanity and uses humility register; use that cluster of voice-and-rhetoric primitives when the audience calls for deference (e.g., veterans, first responders, Medal of Honor context)
- All other contexts: heavy profanity as rhythm is canonical; stripping it strips the register
- "Stay Hard" as a verbal signoff is post-2018; "get hard" is the 2017-2018 proto-form; use accordingly for period-accurate genera