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thebar

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A universal reset: a short checklist for judging work against the ideal end state, and the one operation that applies it. Invoke /thebar when the agent is deep in details and off track: overthinking, overengineering, or cutting corners. The reset works out the ideal from scratch (what are we building, for whom, what is their ideal end state, what is the cleanest implementation with the fewest moving parts that works), then applies it backward (compare it with the whole current approach, plan included), sideways (the validity rule over review findings: a finding is valid exactly when the ideal implementation would not contain the flaw it names), or forward (at the start of a slice, the ideal itself is the output). Use when the user says "boil the ocean", "raise the bar", "ideal end state", "from first principles", "no half-measures", or "hold the line". Run it on yourself, unasked, when you notice these warning signs in your own work: a third consecutive fix to the same spot, a guard for a state with no concrete example, sleep or retry loops appearing, a "for now" in a comment, special cases piling up around one boundary. Self-contained: it depends on no other skill and proposes no contract changes. It names the differences, and the session rebuilds from there.