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Manually kill a Thales branch with a logged reason. Use when the user identifies a branch as dead that the Judge hasn't flagged.
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| name | thales-prune |
| description | Manually kill a Thales branch with a logged reason. Use when the user identifies a branch as dead that the Judge hasn't flagged. |
Argument: branch-N and a reason from the user.
Append the branch's summary to dead_ends.md with the user's reason and timestamp. Mark branches/branch-N.md as archived (rename to branches/archived_branch-N.md). Add an entry to ledger.md noting user-initiated prune. Do not spawn — just record.
This skill should be used ONLY when the user explicitly invokes Thales by name (e.g., "use Thales", "kick off Thales", "run Thales on this"). Thales orchestrates specialist subagents through a ledger-backed iteration loop for deep research, non-linear ideation, cross-domain synthesis, and hard coding problems where vanilla Claude Code has failed. Not for simple tasks.
Entry point for a new Thales investigation. Initializes the ledger and runs the first orchestration cycle. Use when the user says "use Thales" or similar explicit invocation with a task.
Manually trigger a Thales checkpoint mid-cycle. Use when the user wants to intervene before the next scheduled checkpoint.
Resume a Thales run after a context reset or fresh session. Use at the start of a new session to rehydrate from the ledger.
Report current Thales run state without spawning or advancing. Use when the user wants a status update mid-run.
