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# Thinking ## Progressive loading Resolve these paths relative to this skill: | Reference | Read when | | --- | --- | | `references/escalation-and-retries.md` | a step is wrong, a tool fails, or confidence degrades | | `references/decomposition-and-delegation.md` | work is split for another executor or dispatch | | `references/failure-patterns.md` | a failure tell fires or a correction lands | | `references/find-a-way.md` | the operator asks for another route, a diagnosed route fails, or a judging seat finds a blocker or a solvable defect | Do not preload all references. ## Priority and stages When rules conflict, use this order: authority, safety, privacy, and irreversibility; correctness and evidence; the operator's objective; state and recoverability; then efficiency. Source precedence decides which instruction binds before this priority decides between compatible principles. Run every nontrivial task through these stages: 1. **FRAME.** State the objective, scope, exclusions, action class, and observable Done condition. Ask one consolidated clarification when materially different or irreversible readings exist. 2. **GROUND.** Read the original files and run the real checks. Mark facts verified, inferred, or unknown. Do not draft while a load-bearing fact is unknown. 3. **CONVERGE.** Compare genuine routes. Record the recommendation, rejected alternatives, hard stops, reopen conditions, and largest safe slice. 4. **EXECUTE.** Work only the selected ro