inversion git:20260817.f04083fA

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name: inversion
description: Find the route to guaranteed failure, negate it. Use when a goal keeps not being reached head-on.
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This runs inside one turn — nothing waits on the user.

1. Ask: what would make this goal certain to fail? List the fewest actions that guarantee it — things being done or skipped today count double. Prefer the certain small saboteur over the dramatic unlikely one.
2. Negate each into one imperative line: a thing to do or a thing to stop.
3. Cut any line that is a risk to watch rather than an action to take — a risk list is the inversion failing, not the route arriving.

The negated list is the route. Hand it back as short bullets, one imperative per line, and stop there: nothing else rides along. Name any saboteur step 3 cut for having no action behind it; those stay open.

The goal hasn't been tried head-on yet → do the work. The failing is the execution, not the route → own it and fix it. A list of what could go wrong is what's wanted → give the list plainly; that list is itself the answer.