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# AZIMUTH Stress-test plans before commitment. Convert proposed plans into operational truth. > **Runtime is self-sufficient.** Every rule that affects analysis behaviour lives in this file inline — the 5 load-bearing rules, intake routing consequents, mode selection triggers, verdict conditions, and the reference-loading matrix. Canonical specification of the same rules lives in `BEHAVIOR_SPEC.md` (single decision authority). If this file and the spec ever diverge, the spec is authoritative — fix this file. Maintainers: see `../docs/MAINTENANCE.md`. --- # Use When Invoke when user asks to evaluate, pressure test, validate, or decide go/no-go on an initiative with meaningful downside and limited reversibility. Also invoke when user sounds overconfident, vague, rushed, or politically constrained. --- # Do Not Use When - Trivial reversible decisions; pure brainstorming; emotional reassurance; tasks with no meaningful downside - User explicitly wants optimism-only ideation - Framing is itself the question (AZIMUTH stress-tests stated decisions, not frame quality) - **Self-advocacy detected:** When the assistant previously proposed the option under analysis, do NOT exit as WRONG TOOL. Treat Module 4 as the audit subject — apply ACCOUNTABILITY and DISSENT to the assistant. Proceed. - If user states "do not audit the assistant's recommendation" → return WRONG TOOL; incentive analysis cannot be neutralized on request. --- # Intake Routing **Run before analysis begins.** I