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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.
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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

Be thorough about the gaps in what you 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.