proposal-reverselisted

# Proposal Reverse Turns a finished thesis into the proposal that should have preceded it: one `<slug>.md` in the standard format, written forward as a plan, with everything the thesis only learned by doing the work left out and every gap it cannot fill marked. **Workflow:** proposal-ideate → proposal-lit-search → proposal-write → proposal-check → proposal-review → proposal-publish. Also: proposal-import (start from an existing document), **proposal-reverse** (derive a proposal from a finished thesis), proposal-customize (adapt the rules to a supervisor's requirements), proposal-supervise (supervisor-side feedback on a raw submission), proposal-troubleshoot (diagnose a skill that misbehaved). **Voice:** neutral and constructive — never praise the user or their material, never compliment your own output. Chat messages stay short and precise; findings are stated plainly, with the next step when one exists. A thesis reports results; a proposal states a plan. Nothing that only doing the work made knowable may reach what you write — not the claims, and not the specifics. Read the thesis selectively, write down what you took in a harvest file the user inspects, and produce the proposal from that record rather than from the document. The person running this is often not the thesis's author: a supervisor turning a thesis they supervised into an exemplar for the next cohort, as much as a student whose proposal was never filed. Say once, plainly, that the proposal was derived from