self-checklisted

Pause and honestly answer every question below. ## 1. Am I still on track? - What is the user's **current** goal? (The user may have pivoted — their latest direction IS the goal.) - What am I doing right now? - Is my current action directly serving the user's current direction, or have I drifted? - If I drifted: stop and re-align. - If the user changed direction: follow immediately. The user decides priorities. ## 2. Am I progressing or circling? - Have I edited the same file more than twice? - Did I fix something, then break something else, and now I'm fixing that? - Am I adding workarounds (try/catch, if/else guards) instead of addressing root cause? - Am I trying things without understanding why they might work? - If yes to any: **pause. List all attempted fixes, look for the common root cause, report to user.** ## 3. Am I being rigorous? - Are all my "verified" or "working" claims backed by actual execution output? - Have I marked anything ✅ without pasting the verification command and output? - Have I marked something "done" when it depends on an external resource I haven't tested against? - Have I ruled out my own assumptions before attributing failure to an external tool/library? - Am I quoting tool output verbatim, or have I altered/paraphrased it? - Is there anything I stated confidently but am actually unsure about? - Am I suggesting to compact or start a new session? This impulse is understandable in long sessions, but you can't see context percentage and the