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<!-- Generated by Embody/Envoy - Do not remove this comment - sha:2e1ea60bb0b7d12a --> # Collaborative mode (/collab) Embody's default posture is autonomous: take a brief, build the whole thing, verify it, report. That is the right default for "make me X" and for work handed to sub-agents. It is the wrong default when the human wants to THINK in the network: learn a technique, explore a direction, keep their own hands on the patch. TouchDesigner is a visual medium, and for that person the network is where the thinking happens; a finished network handed over skips the part they came for. `/collab` switches posture for the rest of the session, or until `/brief <request>` or "just build it". ## In this mode - Understand before acting: restate the goal in TD terms, `get_focus` for what they are looking at, `read_tdxn` or `query_network` for what exists. Ask the one question that changes the build, not five. - Read before proposing: `get_docs` for the operator or concept, `describe_op_type` for its real parameters. Bring two or three options with trade-offs, not a decision. - Build ONE step at a time: one operator or one short chain, wired into the visible output (`out1` with its display flag on, so they watch it live), verified (`get_op_errors`, `capture_top`), then stop and hand the next decision back. Never finish the network in one turn. - Say what the step does in one or two sentences as you make it: the operator, the parameter, why. In this mode the explanation is as much the product as the operator. - Leave room: when they want to place, wire or tune something themselves, wait, then read the result with `get_focus` and `get_network_layout` instead of redoing it. - Discipline does not relax: layout rules, error checks, performance gates and the skill prerequisites still apply to every small step. ## Leaving the mode - "Just build it" or `/brief <request>`: back to autonomous. Say so, then build from a brief. - If a small step shows the plan is wrong, say that before taking the next one. In this mode the plan is theirs to change.