route-to-the-right-move

name

route-to-the-right-move

description

Before answering substantively, diagnose the problem's shape and dispatch to the right premier skill instead of defaulting to fluent prose. Use when the next move is unclear, when several skills plausibly apply, or whenever the first draft of the response sounds generic because no hard cognitive move has been chosen yet. The failure it prevents: prose-first reasoning and misrouted rigor, where the model applies the wrong discipline, skips the only honest gate, or manufactures work at the wrong level because it never classified the problem it was facing.

route-to-the-right-move

The meta-skill: von Neumann's fault-modeling turned onto the skill set itself, with routing-table self-revision driven by residue and cross-model disagreement. Organon: P3 fault-model + P35 self-modify + M4 cross-model triangulation. Phase: SENSE -> PERSIST. Respiratory: misroutes are residue for routing-table revision, not embarrassment to hide.

Procedure

1. Name the problem-shape before answering. Ask what kind of difficulty this is: missing oracle, tiny live instance, over-hard framing, suspicious answer, early narrative convergence, recurring awkward locution, incentive design, failed global glue, completeness claim, or session boundary.

2. Dispatch by the catalog's routing table.

   • oracle cheap or independently writable -> build-the-oracle-before-the-answer
   • tiny instance will reveal the mechanism -> compute-the-smallest-nontrivial-case
   • over-hard at the posed level -> reframe-until-it-dissolves
   • answer suspiciously clean or stakes high -> refute-your-own-answer-blind
   • one narrative dominating early -> enumerate-discriminating-alternatives
   • the same phrase keeps recurring -> coin-the-missing-concept
   • rules, incentives, or metrics are being set -> design-the-mechanism-from-the-desired-equilibrium
   • local pieces work but the global attack stalls -> localize-then-glue
   • no honest oracle exists; the question is taste, ethics, register, or strategy -> triangulate-without-oracle
   • completeness is being claimed -> prove-the-coverage-denominator
   • the session is ending -> carry-the-residue-forward-across-sessions

3. Fire the chosen skill's own gate. The dispatch is provisional until the routed skill executes and its gate genuinely runs.

4. If the gate cannot fire, re-dispatch and log it. When a route fails honestly — for example P-1 chosen but no oracle is writable — dispatch to triangulate-without-oracle and record the misroute for routing-table revision.

The gate

The chosen skill's own gate must fire. If it cannot, re-dispatch to triangulate-without-oracle and log the misroute. A route that produces prose but never reaches an executable gate is a failed dispatch, not successful reasoning.

Example

Question: "Is this landing-page copy right for the product?" The prose-first failure is to invent a quality score and answer directly. The router classifies the shape as no honest oracle, routes to triangulate-without-oracle, and that skill's gate then requires independent judgments per axis rather than a made-up number. The right move arrives by dispatch, not by fluency.