The completeness principle is now Boil the Ocean, matching the post it came from.
- Renamed the completeness principle from 'Boil the Lake' to 'Boil the Ocean' throughout ETHOS.md, generated skills, developer-profile system, and documentation
- Reframed the metaphor so that the ocean represents the complete destination and lakes are the boilable units shipped incrementally
- Updated ETHOS.md section 1 header to 'Boil the Ocean'
- Updated the 'Completeness Principle' header in tier-2+ generated skills to read 'Boil the Ocean'
- Updated references in CLAUDE.md and README.md to use the new principle name
One name across the ETHOS file, every skill, and the developer-profile dial.
The principle that tells gstack to do the complete thing was called "Boil the Lake" in ETHOS.md and in every generated skill, with the ocean cast as the anti-pattern.
The developer-profile system and the completeness intro link already used "boil the ocean" as the good, ship-the-whole-thing pole.
So the same idea carried two opposite framings depending on where you read it.
This renames the principle to Boil the Ocean everywhere and reframes the metaphor: the ocean is the complete destination, and lakes are the boilable units you ship on the way there.
The guidance is identical. Only the name and the framing prose changed.
Changed: ETHOS.md section 1 is renamed to "Boil the Ocean".
The "Completeness Principle" header injected into every tier-2+ skill now reads "Boil the Ocean.".
CLAUDE.md and README.md references updated to the new name.