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Use when choosing the FORMAT of an output, not just its verbosity — match the medium (text, markdown, HTML dashboard, PPTX, DOCX) to the consumer's actual use mode. Operator-specific extension: also covers length calibration for different contexts. Outside scope is video (requires autovideo pipeline — too heavy to be native capability). The chengyu is about teaching with the right material, where

Use AFTER first-round planning is complete, to do META-PLANNING — what wasn't planned that should have been? What pitfalls don't surface in the first round due to existing context bias, context rot, plan mode system prompt biases, or other distortions? Triage importance, surface escape routes (subagent assessment, backups, operator ready for ctrl+C, anything). NOT a duplicate of plan mode or commo

Use when user asks for a rough draft, first pass, brainstorm, MVP, stub, sketch, or proposes to "draft a PR for review and refinement before sending upstream" — anywhere the user is throwing a brick (deliberately rough work) to elicit jade (refinement, feedback, selection)

GAN thinking mode — when delivering X, also run an adversarial pipe asking "is X fundamentally flawed as a concept? achievable with existing means via refactor? do bugs/vulns exist in X?". Two timings — pre-ship (in-vacuum, no real-world signal yet) and post-ship (with feedback signal). DELIBERATE REFRAME of the chengyu: the literal Chinese is "two pipes simultaneously" (parallel-cooperative), but

Use when a failure, debate, or process is mid-unfolding and the urge is to intervene immediately — but premature intervention loses information. Let the failure reach its natural shape so the full signal is captured before patching. Strict caveat against the modern schadenfreude reading; this is observation discipline, not indifference.

Use when an output is at risk of verbosity — the TLDR-outside / details-inside discipline. Distinguished from chengyu-great-wisdom-looks-foolish on the representation axis — 大智若愚 = resist performative complexity, 言簡意賅 = resist sprawl. Orthogonal failure modes; you can be performatively-clever AND brief, or non-clever AND verbose.

Use when (a) operator describes a situation OR a plan step OR the agent shows an inverse pattern, and agent should NAME the right chengyu from the catalog (SELECTOR — default progressive-disclosure; covers current-situation naming, pre-flight plan tagging, and anti-pattern detection); (b) operator asks "what does that mean?" or "what's in this catalog?" (EXPLAINER — four-beat from 成語動畫廊's 熊貓博士 for