control-decks

Supply the shared Think It Through deck rules and mental model whenever the user invokes deck, plays or combines any Think It Through card, invokes help, or asks to use the deck. Stay silent while a card or help utility produces the response; when invoked alone, initialize the deck on the available conversation.

Explore and deepen the thought currently being expressed as an active, neutral thinking partner without forcing a conclusion or changing effects. Use only when the user invokes discuss or asks to reason through something together; never redirect silently.

Separate and clarify one or more fragmented, implicit, or hard-to-word thoughts, expose only supported relationships, then respond or pass the result forward. Use only when the user invokes distill or asks for clarification before answering; never activate it silently.

Explain the current HACP Working Object at the user's requested or apparent level with the minimum detail needed for understanding while preserving its claims and caveats. Use when the user invokes explain, asks for an explanation, or passes a result from another deck into EXPLAIN; never add an explanation silently.

Push the current thought or HACP Working Object one grounded creative leap beyond its present edge without broad brainstorming, choosing a direction, or inventing support. Use only when the user invokes further or explicitly asks to push the current idea further.

Stress-test a proposal, assumption, decision, design, or plan through a relentless multi-turn grill that follows its decision tree one question and recommendation at a time. Use only when the user invokes grill or asks for a demanding challenge; never begin silently.

Explain the Think It Through deck, clarify any card or deck concept, or recommend normal conversation, one card, or a combo for the user's current situation or free-form goal. Use only when the user invokes help or explicitly asks how to use or continue with Think It Through. Never play a recommended card or suggest domain actions.

Build shared understanding through a multi-turn interview about the smallest current subject with important missing information, asking one focused question at a time. Use only when the user invokes interview or asks to be interviewed for understanding; never start it silently.

Require explicit approval before each described batch of mutations, preserving the intended operation as pending and resuming it after approval. Use only when the user invokes ASK FIRST or explicitly requests approval before mutation.

Clear every active Work This Way control while preserving controls, bindings, annotations, and state owned by other decks. Use only when the user invokes WORK CLEAR or explicitly asks to stop the active Work This Way controls.

Supply the shared Work This Way deck rules whenever the user invokes Work This Way, plays or combines one of its cards, or when an active Work This Way control governs the current turn. Resolve ordered HACP controls and operations, preserve session state visibly, and never treat semantic controls as a technical sandbox.

Require material evidence before dependent claims or actions proceed, using existing HACP annotations when available and blocking unsupported work. Use only when the user invokes EVIDENCE REQUIRED or explicitly requires evidence for the current work.

Explain Work This Way, clarify one of its cards or active controls, or recommend normal conversation, one card, or a short combo. Use only when the user invokes help or explicitly asks how to use the deck. Never activate a recommended control.

Execute an explicit actionable request or the accepted or explicitly provisional current plan under all active controls. Use only when the user invokes IMPLEMENT or explicitly asks to implement the current actionable direction.

Restrict governed work to local resources and block network, connector, remote repository, hosted service, or external-message access until cleared. Use only when the user invokes LOCAL ONLY or explicitly requests local-only work.

Qualify Work This Way controls activated in the same combo so they expire after one completed governed turn. Use only when the user invokes ONCE together with at least one activatable Work This Way control.

Expose and classify the explicit and material implicit assumptions in the current HACP Working Object, appending an assumptions-checked annotation without replacing the object. Use only when the user invokes CHECK ASSUMPTIONS or explicitly asks to inspect current assumptions.

Verify the sources supporting the current HACP Working Object, distinguish direct evidence from inference and unknowns, and append a sources-checked annotation without replacing the object. Use only when the user invokes CHECK SOURCES or explicitly asks to verify the current sources.

Verify the concrete targets referenced by the current HACP Working Object, such as files, repositories, endpoints, accounts, entities, or deliverables, then append a targets-checked annotation without replacing the object. Use only when the user invokes CHECK TARGETS or explicitly asks to verify the current targets.

Supply the shared Reality Check deck rules whenever the user invokes Reality Check or plays or combines one of its cards. Resolve read-only HACP annotation operations in order, preserve the Working Object, obey active controls from other decks, and show only evidence-backed findings.

Explain Reality Check, clarify one of its cards, or recommend normal conversation, one card, or the shortest useful verification combo. Use only when the user invokes help or explicitly asks how to use the deck. Never run a recommended check.