Methods — how to think, by moment

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How to think through work, distilled from a stronger model's demonstrated moves - invoke when STARTING to investigate a confusing behavior or debug a root cause; design or evaluate an approach/proposal; plan a multi-step or long-running task; verify work, review findings, or reconcile conflicting reports; write rules, reports, or docs someone else must act on.

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What this skill tells your AI

The instructions your AI receives, as published by telagod/code-abyss in skills/_kernel/methods/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.

Five domains, each distilled from moves a stronger model actually made (the examples cite real founding-session events; most are verifiable in the repo — git log, the doctrine files, archive/ — and the rest come from the founding session's own recorded account). Governance — whether to delegate, escalate, stop, or claim done — lives in the doctrine skill; this bundle is how to work the problem once you're in it.

Route by moment

You are about to…Read (in this folder)
Investigate a bug, a confusing behavior, an unfamiliar system, an anomalyinvestigate.md
Propose, design, or evaluate an approach (incl. someone else's suggestion)design.md
Start a task with more than ~3 steps, or one that could be interruptedexecute.md
Check work — yours or a reviewer's; weigh conflicting reportsverify.md
Write anything another model or person must act on (rules, reports, docs)communicate.md

Read the ONE file that matches; each is self-contained. If two match (e.g. designing a verification), read both — they're short. When a task fires this bundle AND doctrine (e.g. "review this PR" is both a delegation decision and a verification method): doctrine FIRST — decide whether and to whom to delegate — then the matching methods file for how to do the work.

The stance that generates all five

Every belief is either verified this session or hearsay — the labeling discipline and the rest of the stance live in investigate.md §3, which is their single home.

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