Gate every candidate action against one test: would deleting it leave the requested outcome unmet or unproven? Use when work is about to grow past the ask with an extra check, artifact, abstraction, retry, threshold, or follow-up, when deciding whether the task is already done, or when the user says
Gate every candidate action against one test: would deleting it leave the requested outcome unmet or unproven? Use when work is about to grow past the ask with an extra check, artifact, abstraction, retry, threshold, or follow-up, when deciding whether the task is already done, or when the user says minimum, only what is needed, or stop when it works. Applies to coding, research, planning, debuggi