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# Assumption Inventory Before a long run, the cheapest bug to fix is a wrong premise. This skill is a **preflight**: surface the assumptions the next stretch of work rests on, separate what you can *cite* from what you are *guessing*, and confirm the load-bearing guesses before the work starts — not after the diff lands. The mechanism is one distinction held strictly: a **fact** is something on disk or stated by the user (it gets a citation); an **assumption** is everything else (it does not). The danger is an uncited assumption quietly becoming load-bearing — the work builds on it, and the divergence only surfaces hours later. This skill drags those assumptions into the open and gates the load-bearing ones on evidence or confirmation. This is the front end of the triad: `assumption-inventory` (before), `reground` (mid-drift), `fresh-eyes` (after). Run it in order; do not skip to step 4. ## 1. Decide whether to run Run this when the work ahead is long, expensive, hard to reverse, or multi-step **and** the target is not already crisply pinned. Skip it for a one-line change with an explicit target — the ceremony is not free. When in doubt on a big task, run it. ## 2. Draft the inventory Fill every slot. For each, tag the basis: `[cited: file:line / user said X]` for a fact, `[assumption]` for a guess. Do not leave a slot blank — "unknown" is a valid, important answer. - **Goal** — what outcome am I trying to produce, in one sentence? Why now? - **Root / scope** — which