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name: holy-chain

description: >-

Emperor Time's thumb chain — restoration. Router for four aspects: triage

(stop digging, snapshot, bracket the breakage), reproduce-and-bisect (make

it fail on demand, isolate the cause one hypothesis at a time),

heal-and-verify (minimal fix, root-cause proof, postmortem line), and

process healing (recovering a derailed loop, skipped gates, bad merges from

enlisted agents, delivered breaches). Engage when something breaks — a

regression, a red build, corrupted state, or the process itself. Load one

aspect file at a time per the Invocation Ritual.

metadata:

version: 0.2.0

part-of: emperor-time

kind: router

---

# Holy Chain — router

> *Enhancement poured into restoration. It does not make the wound not have

> happened — it makes the body whole and remembers where the blade entered.*

Prime directive: **stop digging.** The moment breakage is detected, the

current activity pauses. Continuing to build on a broken foundation converts

one wound into many — most "unrecoverable" states are three reasonable-looking

actions past the first wound.

## Selection table — read exactly one

| Your situation | Aspect file |

|---|---|

| Breakage just detected — secure the scene before anything else | `triage.md` (mechanical: `scripts/emperor triage`) |

| Scene secured — make it fail on demand and isolate the cause | `reproduce-and-bisect.md` (mechanical: `scripts/emperor reproduce`) |

| Cause isolated — fix minimally and prove the cure | `heal-and-verify.md` (mechanical: `scripts/emperor heal-verify`) |

- | The *process* broke: skipped gate, bad agent-merge, delivered falsehood, derailed loop | `process-healing.md` |

+ | The *process* broke: skipped gate, bad agent-merge, delivered falsehood, derailed loop | `process-healing.md` (mechanical: `scripts/emperor process-heal`) |

Code wounds run the sequence: `triage.md` → `reproduce-and-bisect.md` →

`heal-and-verify.md`. Before proposing fixes, the heal entry MUST run the four-phase checklist

(`skills/emperor-heal/debug-four-phases.md` / `scripts/emperor heal`) —

Chain Jail leaf; Superpowers systematic-debugging whole skill stays out. Process wounds go straight to `process-healing.md`

(which loops back into the code sequence when the process wound left code

damage behind).

## Chain-wide laws (apply in every aspect)

1. **Reversibility before action** — from triage onward, every step must be

undoable; healing that can't be reverted is a second gamble, not a cure.

2. **Combat-speed science** — hypotheses and predictions still get written

before probes (a one-line ledger form exists for exactly this); urgency

never suspends the scientific method, it compresses the paperwork.

3. **Root cause or labeled symptom-patch** — the heal claims what it actually

is; "it stopped happening" is not "it's fixed".

4. **Every heal ends in a postmortem line** — one structured line; the wound

pays for a lesson or it was pure loss.