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# Figure it out Before delegating or using optional capabilities, read [the runtime contract](../david-mode/references/agent-runtime.md). It owns eligibility, model selection, limits, and fallback. When the task matches no playbook, design one. The deliverable before any code is the workflow itself: a sequence of phases that scales rigor to the task, runs the scientific method, and leaves a decision trail a human can audit after stepping away. Bias toward more rigor. The cost of building the wrong thing dwarfs the cost of being careful. Don't reinvent a playbook you already have. A focused single-unit task that matches Bug fix, Perf, Feature, Visual parity, Eval, or Multi-phase plan routes there. But a large or cross-cutting version of one (a migration across many call sites, an ambitious multi-part change), or work the user reviews after stepping away, belongs here even though a single-unit version would be a Feature. The rigor and the audit trail are the point. ## Start Open a todolist whose first item is to read the Principles section of the **david-mode** skill. Then add the phases below as todos. ## Phase A: Frame Ground first, then commit. Don't start the run until you can state: - The definition of done as a falsifiable predicate (the **prove-it-works** principle skill). "Done well" has to be checkable. - Scope, quantified: rough units and effort, plus the blockers grounding surfaced. Raise them before spending hours, not after fifty doomed commits. - The rigor