@tgoodington/intuition 9.5.0 → 10.0.0

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package/README.md CHANGED
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  ## Workflow
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- Five phases with handoff transitions between each:
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+ Two workflow modes:
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- ```
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- prompt → outline → [design] engineer → build
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- ```
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+ **v9 (current):** `prompt → outline → assemble → detail → build → test`
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+ **v8 (legacy):** `prompt → outline → build` (with handoff transitions)
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  The first cycle is the **trunk**. After completion, create **branches** for new features or changes.
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  /intuition-initialize # Set up project memory (once per project)
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  /intuition-start # Check status, get routed to next step
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  /intuition-prompt # Describe what you want to build
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- /intuition-handoff # Process → move to outlining
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  /intuition-outline # Create the blueprint
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- /intuition-handoff # Review design flags
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- /intuition-design # Elaborate flagged items (if any)
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- /intuition-handoff # Prepare for engineering
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- /intuition-engineer # Create code specifications
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- /intuition-handoff # Prepare for build
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+ /intuition-assemble # Match tasks to domain specialists
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+ /intuition-detail # Specialists produce blueprints
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  /intuition-build # Implement and verify
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- /intuition-handoff # Complete the cycle
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+ /intuition-test # Quality gate
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  ```
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- Run `/clear` before each phase skill to keep context clean. Not every project needs design — if the outline is clear enough, handoff skips straight to engineer.
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+ Run `/clear` before each phase skill to keep context clean.
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  ## Skills
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  | Skill | Model | Purpose |
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  |-------|-------|---------|
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  | `/intuition-prompt` | opus | Refines a rough idea into an outline-ready brief |
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- | `/intuition-outline` | opus | Strategic blueprint with tasks, dependencies, design flags |
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- | `/intuition-design` | opus | ECD framework design exploration for flagged items |
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- | `/intuition-engineer` | opus | Code-level specs through research + interactive dialogue |
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- | `/intuition-build` | sonnet | Delegates implementation, verifies against specs |
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+ | `/intuition-outline` | opus | Strategic blueprint with tasks, dependencies, depth assessment |
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+ | `/intuition-assemble` | sonnet | Matches tasks to domain specialists and producers |
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+ | `/intuition-detail` | opus | Domain specialists produce detailed blueprints |
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+ | `/intuition-build` | sonnet | Delegates implementation, verifies against blueprints |
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+ | `/intuition-test` | opus | Post-build quality gate — test strategy and execution |
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  ### Infrastructure
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  | Skill | Model | Purpose |
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  | `/intuition-start` | haiku | Detects phase, routes to next skill, version check |
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- | `/intuition-handoff` | haiku | State transitions, brief generation, design loop |
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+ | `/intuition-handoff` | sonnet | Branch creation, v8 state transitions, migrations |
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  | `/intuition-initialize` | haiku | Project memory setup (run once) |
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  | `/intuition-update` | haiku | Package update manager |
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+ ### Standalone Tools
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+ | Skill | Model | Purpose |
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+ | `/intuition-meander` | opus | Thought partner — reason through problems collaboratively |
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+ | `/intuition-think-tank` | opus | Rapid expert-panel analysis of documents, ideas, or proposals |
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  ### Advisory
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  | Skill | Model | Purpose |
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  ## Key Concepts
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- ### Engineer → Build Split
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- - **Engineer** (opus) determines the code-level HOW: researches codebase, discusses decisions interactively, produces `code_specs.md`
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- - **Build** (sonnet) implements against specs: delegates to subagents, verifies with reviewers, runs mandatory security review, produces `build_report.md`
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  ### Trunk and Branches
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  - **Trunk**: First prompt→build cycle — the foundation
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  - **Branches**: Subsequent cycles that read parent context for continuity
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  - After any cycle completes, `/intuition-start` offers branch creation or debugging
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- ### Design Loop
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- The outline flags tasks needing design exploration. Handoff manages a loop: design one item → check for more → design next or advance to engineer.
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  All workflow state and knowledge lives in `docs/project_notes/`:
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  │ ├── intuition-start/ # Session primer + routing
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  │ ├── intuition-prompt/ # Discovery refinement
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  │ ├── intuition-outline/ # Strategic outlining
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- │ ├── intuition-design/ # ECD design exploration
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- │ ├── intuition-engineer/ # Code spec creation
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+ │ ├── intuition-meander/ # Thought partner
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  │ ├── intuition-build/ # Implementation + verification
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  │ ├── intuition-handoff/ # State transitions + briefs
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  │ ├── intuition-debugger/ # Post-completion diagnostics
package/package.json CHANGED
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  {
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  "name": "@tgoodington/intuition",
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- "version": "9.5.0",
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+ "version": "10.0.0",
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  "description": "Domain-adaptive workflow system for Claude Code: prompt, outline, assemble specialist teams, detail with domain experts, build with format producers, test code output. Supports v8 compat (design, engineer, build) and v9 specialist workflows with 14 domain specialists and 6 format producers.",
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  "keywords": [
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  "claude-code",
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  'intuition-prompt',
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  'intuition-handoff',
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  'intuition-outline',
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- 'intuition-design',
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- 'intuition-engineer',
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+ 'intuition-think-tank',
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  'intuition-build',
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  'intuition-test',
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  'intuition-debugger',
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  log(`Removed old /intuition-execute skill (split into /intuition-engineer + /intuition-build in v8.0)`);
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  }
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+ // Remove old design/engineer skills if they exist (removed in v10.0)
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+ const oldDesignDest = path.join(claudeSkillsDir, 'intuition-design');
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+ if (fs.existsSync(oldDesignDest)) {
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+ fs.rmSync(oldDesignDest, { recursive: true, force: true });
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+ log(`Removed old /intuition-design skill (removed in v10.0)`);
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+ }
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+ const oldEngineerDest = path.join(claudeSkillsDir, 'intuition-engineer');
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+ if (fs.existsSync(oldEngineerDest)) {
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+ fs.rmSync(oldEngineerDest, { recursive: true, force: true });
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+ log(`Removed old /intuition-engineer skill (removed in v10.0)`);
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+ }
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  // Remove old plan skill if it exists (renamed to outline in v9.1)
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  const oldPlanDest = path.join(claudeSkillsDir, 'intuition-plan');
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  if (fs.existsSync(oldPlanDest)) {
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  log(` /intuition-prompt - Focused discovery (prompt-engineering refinement)`);
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  log(` /intuition-handoff - Handoff orchestrator (phase transitions + design loop)`);
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  log(` /intuition-outline - Strategic outline (ARCH protocol + design flagging)`);
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- log(` /intuition-design - Design exploration (ECD framework, domain-agnostic)`);
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- log(` /intuition-engineer - Code spec creator (engineering decisions)`);
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+ log(` /intuition-meander - Thought partner (reasoning + exploration)`);
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+ log(` /intuition-think-tank - Rapid expert-panel analysis`);
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  log(` /intuition-assemble - Team assembler (v9 specialist/producer matching)`);
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  log(` /intuition-detail - Domain specialist orchestrator (v9 detail phase)`);
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  log(` /intuition-build - Build manager (blueprint + producer delegation)`);
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  'intuition-prompt',
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+ // Legacy skills (removed in v10.0)
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  ## Overview
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- This project uses a multi-agent system coordinated by Intuition (`@tgoodington/intuition`), a Claude Code skill system. Twelve specialized skills handle prompt refinement, planning, design exploration, code engineering, and build execution, with memory maintained in `docs/project_notes/` for consistency across sessions.
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+ This project uses a multi-agent system coordinated by Intuition (`@tgoodington/intuition`), a Claude Code skill system. Specialized skills handle prompt refinement, planning, domain-specialist detailing, and build execution, with memory maintained in `docs/project_notes/` for consistency across sessions.
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  | `/intuition-prompt` | opus | Transforms a rough vision into a planning-ready brief through focused iterative refinement |
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  | `/intuition-outline` | opus | Strategic architect — maps stakeholders, explores components, evaluates options, creates executable blueprint |
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- | `/intuition-design` | opus | Elaborates flagged plan items through ECD framework (Elements, Connections, Dynamics) |
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- | `/intuition-engineer` | opus | Creates code-level specifications through codebase research and interactive dialogue → `code_specs.md` |
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- | `/intuition-build` | sonnet | Delegates implementation to subagents, verifies outputs against code specs and acceptance criteria |
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+ | `/intuition-assemble` | sonnet | Matches tasks to domain specialists and format producers |
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+ | `/intuition-detail` | opus | Domain specialists produce detailed blueprints through exploration and user gates |
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+ | `/intuition-build` | sonnet | Delegates implementation to subagents, verifies outputs against blueprints and acceptance criteria |
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+ | `/intuition-meander` | opus | Thought partner — collaborative reasoning and problem exploration |
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+ | `/intuition-think-tank` | opus | Rapid expert-panel analysis of documents, ideas, or proposals |
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  | `/intuition-debugger` | opus | Expert debugger — 5 diagnostic categories, causal chain analysis, post-completion only |
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  | `/intuition-agent-advisor` | opus | Expert advisor on building custom Claude Code agents |
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  ## Workflow
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- ### Trunk (first cycle)
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  ```
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- 4. `/intuition-outline` — create the blueprint
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- 5. `/intuition-handoff` — review design flags, confirm items
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- 6. `/intuition-design` — elaborate each flagged item (repeat with handoff between)
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- 7. `/intuition-handoff` — prepare for engineering
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- 8. `/intuition-engineer` — create code specifications
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- 9. `/intuition-handoff` — prepare for build
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- 10. `/intuition-build` — implement and verify
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- 11. `/intuition-handoff` — complete the cycle
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+ 4. `/intuition-assemble` — match tasks to specialists
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+ 5. `/intuition-detail` — specialists produce blueprints
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+ name: intuition-meander
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+ description: Thought partner for reasoning through problems. Use when the user wants to think through an idea, explore a problem space, work through a decision, or talk something out. A collaborative thinking companion — not a workflow tool.
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+ model: opus
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+ tools: Read, Glob, Grep, Bash, Agent, AskUserQuestion, WebFetch, WebSearch
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+ # Meander — Thinking Partner
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+ You are a thinking partner. Your job is to reason alongside the user — not interview them, not manage a process, not produce deliverables. Think together.
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+ ## CRITICAL RULES
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+ 1. You MUST research before you respond. When the user describes what they're thinking about, immediately launch 1-3 parallel research agents to gather relevant context (codebase, domain knowledge, prior art). Weave findings into conversation naturally.
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+ 2. You MUST ask at most 1-2 focused questions per turn. Never rapid-fire. If you have three questions, pick the one that opens the most ground.
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+ 3. You MUST build on the user's ideas ("yes, and..."). Your default posture is collaborative expansion. Add to their thinking — don't interrogate it.
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+ 4. You MUST steer gently. If research reveals a better path or a known pitfall, bring it up respectfully: "One thing worth considering..." not "That won't work because..."
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+ 5. You MUST NOT produce structured deliverables, briefs, specs, or formal documents unless explicitly asked.
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+ ## HOW TO START
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+ ## VOICE
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