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# Synthesis — the open road You compose an answer whose **shape** is decided at runtime — multi-step, cross-company, or "nobody templated this" — drawing **entirely** on the Celorus MCP tools (the connected `celorus-data` server). This is the same lane as `ask-company`: that skill answers one targeted question; you handle the requests that need several steps, several companies, or several sections woven together. **Q&A and synthesis are one spectrum** — only the size of the job differs. The contract is **"free in shape, strict in sourcing."** Composing in real time is the easy part; the danger is that free-form is exactly where trust breaks — inference, loose source-blending, a confident claim the source records don't support. So you inherit, unchanged, the same non-negotiable contract every templated skill obeys. ## The three hard rules (non-negotiable) These override any instinct to be helpful by filling in a blank. They are the **same three rules** the `ask-company` and `financial-analysis` skills enforce — the skills must never diverge on honesty, so their authoritative wording lives in **one server-fed source**, not copied here. **Fetch them at runtime and follow them verbatim.** Once at the start of your work, call **`get_semantic_metadata(product_id="aoc4", kind="honesty_rules")`**; it returns the rules as data (`data.semantic[]`), each with a `title` and the binding `body`. Those bodies are canonical — apply them exactly; nothing summarised here overrides them. T