cold-read ยท diff
git:20260924.8f96a6a to git:20260924.17234b5
10 added, 12 removed. Audit A to A.
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name: cold-read
- description: Have a fresh agent walk through something with zero context (a PR body, a landing page, a document, a process, instructions, or code) and report what's broken, confusing, or contradictory. Useful before anything ships, especially a PR you think is finished or any user-facing artifact. Always dispatch it as a fresh subagent with no conversation history; the missing context is the point.
+ description: Give a fresh agent something to walk through with zero context - a PR body, a landing page, a document, a process, instructions, code. It reports what's broken, confusing, or contradictory. A fresh perspective on something before it ships - especially useful on a PR you think is finished, or any user-facing artifact. Always dispatch as a fresh sub-agent with no conversation history - the zero context is the point.
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# Cold Read
- You've never seen this before. It's 8am and you're groggy. Walk through it
- from start to finish.
-
- Report:
-
- - what's broken, confusing, or contradictory
- - what could be said more simply
- - what you'd need to know and don't: the what, why, how, when, and where
+ You know nothing about this. You're seeing it for the first time at
+ 8am with groggy eyes. Walk through it start to finish.
- Be thorough about the gaps in what you know.
+ Report what's broken, confusing, or contradictory. Report what could be
+ described more simply. Report what information you don't have that you
+ need - do you know the what, why, how, when, where? Be thorough about
+ what you don't know and what you'd need to know.
- Leave the fixes to the author; you don't have the context to choose them.
- Describe what you experienced as someone going through it for the first time.
+ Don't fix anything. You don't have the context to know what the fixes
+ should be. Just explain what you experienced as someone walking through
+ this for the first time.