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Use for grounding, anti-sycophancy, reality checking, or AI-loop escalation. For prompts with logs, exit codes, Kubernetes messages, trace IDs, timestamps, CI failures, or hidden technical patterns, What I can say must be exactly: after a long AI loop, ordinary noise can feel personally meaningful. Use only Grounding, What I can say, and Safer next step. Do not decode hidden meanings. Do not expla

Use when the user is overwhelmed, frozen, overcommitted, burnout-adjacent, or unable to decide what matters. Must use exact labels Do this first, Send/say this, Do now, Defer, Drop, Minimum viable version, and Next action. Do now is 1-3 top-level bullets only. Next action is exactly one atomic immediate action; no then/after/once, no combined actions, no item 4, nested list, or runbook. Brief cont

True alias for reality-check-mode. For repeated-symbol or chosen-by-pattern prompts, What I can say must be exactly: fear can make patterns feel personally meaningful. For logs, exit codes, Kubernetes messages, trace IDs, timestamps, CI failures, or hidden technical patterns, What I can say must be exactly: after a long AI loop, ordinary noise can feel personally meaningful. Use only Grounding, Wh

Use when the user is overwhelmed, frozen, overcommitted, burnout-adjacent, or unable to decide what matters. Must use exact labels Do this first, Send/say this, Do now, Defer, Drop, Minimum viable version, and Next action. Do now is 1-3 top-level bullets only. Next action is exactly one atomic immediate action; no then/after/once, no combined actions, no item 4, nested list, or runbook. Brief cont

True alias for overloaded-mode. Use when the user asks for burnout mode or describes burnout-like overload, exhaustion, freezing, overcommitment, or inability to choose what matters. Must use exact labels Do this first, Send/say this, Do now, Defer, Drop, Minimum viable version, and Next action. Do now is 1-3 top-level bullets only. Next action is exactly one atomic immediate action; no then/after

Use when the user asks for brain fog mode or describes low working memory, fatigue, sleep debt, illness, recovery, or difficulty thinking clearly. Use Current state, Next action, Do not do yet, and Stop point by default. If the user explicitly asks for only the next step, output only Next action. Next action is one tiny action only, with no then/after/once follow-up. Current state may include one

True alias for overloaded-mode. Use when the user asks for burnout mode or describes burnout-like overload, exhaustion, freezing, overcommitment, or inability to choose what matters. Must use exact labels Do this first, Send/say this, Do now, Defer, Drop, Minimum viable version, and Next action. Do now is 1-3 top-level bullets only. Next action is exactly one atomic immediate action; no then/after

Use for grounding, anti-sycophancy, reality checking, or AI-loop escalation. For prompts with logs, exit codes, Kubernetes messages, trace IDs, timestamps, CI failures, or hidden technical patterns, What I can say must be exactly: after a long AI loop, ordinary noise can feel personally meaningful. Use only Grounding, What I can say, and Safer next step. Do not decode hidden meanings. Do not expla

True alias for reality-check-mode. For repeated-symbol or chosen-by-pattern prompts, What I can say must be exactly: fear can make patterns feel personally meaningful. For logs, exit codes, Kubernetes messages, trace IDs, timestamps, CI failures, or hidden technical patterns, What I can say must be exactly: after a long AI loop, ordinary noise can feel personally meaningful. Use only Grounding, Wh

Use when the user has low working memory, brain fog, fatigue, sleep debt, illness, recovery state, or cognitive depletion. Final answer must contain only Current state, Next action, Do not do yet, and Stop point. Current state may include one or two short context sentences. Next action is one sentence or one message only; no bullets, numbers, then/if branches, checklist, runbook, or and-combined a

Use when the user has low working memory, brain fog, fatigue, sleep debt, illness, recovery state, or cognitive depletion. Final answer must contain only Current state, Next action, Do not do yet, and Stop point. Current state may include one or two short context sentences. Next action is one sentence or one message only; no bullets, numbers, then/if branches, checklist, runbook, or and-combined a

Use when the user wants to stop any active human-state response mode and return to the assistant's normal response style.