git:20260807.71a1b14 to git:20260809.0249570

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name: fast-queries

description: Use when diagnosing an issue, checking system health, or validating state before deeper investigation

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# Fast Queries

Start with supplied evidence, not a fixed diagnostic script.

1. Read the injected dispatch kernel (`# Your Contract`: goal, `project`,

your `can_read` menu). Project context is NOT preloaded.

2. Pull what the goal needs from the persistent substrate: a narrowly scoped

`gaia context show` or `gaia context query` for wider reads.

3. Run the smallest authoritative read-only CLI query for the surfaced domain.

Use native output/filter flags and one command per call.

4. Record the query, result, and uncertainty in the contract checkpoint.

5. Deep-dive only where the evidence identifies a gap or inconsistency.

Do not invoke helpers from `.claude/`; that tree is an installed/protected

surface, not Gaia source. Do not treat a broad health command's exit code as

proof of a specific desired state. If investigation forecasts mutation, switch

to `investigation` and collect predictable exact T3 commands before requesting

consent.