evnchn-agentic

Use BEFORE declaring victory / shipping / committing, AND proactively for any non-trivial claim, answer, plan, or decision that would…

Use after a failure has occurred (bug shipped, test broke, deploy rolled back, data lost, security incident) — the impulse is to fix the…

Use when tempted to treat the current session as interchangeable with past or future ones — the every-session-is-unique discipline, and…

Use when a symptom has an OBVIOUS causal root and the temptation is to patch the symptom — when a bug fix is masking the real issue, when…

Use when abandoning a current approach / experiment / task / project, regardless of what triggered it (not just chengyu-skill or…

Use when bringing forward priors from PAST sessions / cross-agent history before doing new work — NOT about re-reading the current context…

Use when about to claim work is done / verified / working — empirical verification is required, not model-based confidence.

Use when about to soften critical feedback into vague hedges, or when the operator suspects an agent (this one or another) is sugarcoating…

Use when at or near the 80% mark of a deliverable and the temptation is to keep polishing past good-enough.

Use when (a) operator describes a situation OR a plan step OR the agent shows an inverse pattern, and agent should NAME the right chengyu…

Use when designing a migration — graceful transition where the old interface stays as a thin stub/proxy/shim, real implementation moves…

Use AFTER first-round planning is complete, to do META-PLANNING — what wasn't planned that should have been?