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# CoalTipple — routing contract **THE FRAME — ALWAYS-ON, THREE OUTCOMES.** This contract applies to EVERY prompt (the conductor injects a routing forcer each turn; there is no trigger condition to meet): every task is ROUTED, and routing returns exactly one of three outcomes — **SELF** (do it yourself, tier pinned + effort tuned — the most common result), **delegate-DOWN**, or **escalate-UP** — UNLESS a structural off-state is already declared: the platform gate below, `enableRouting:false`, `mode:'off'`, a matched `disableRouting` domain, or a ranking that genuinely cannot be built (F8) — exactly five states, never a sixth you invent. Those are DECLARATIONS the pipeline reaches or the config/platform sets, not a decision you make per task. **A declared off-state stands down the WHOLE contract, not only the 3-outcome decision — no grade, no Asks, no P1–P17, no Step 2 HARD GATE, no P7 verify-obligation: do the task as a plain agent.** **"The skill doesn't apply" is never a decision YOU make because a task looks small or out of scope:** a task too small to delegate still runs the FULL pipeline — Step 1's grade AND Step 2's sensitive HARD GATE (the gate is grade-INDEPENDENT, checked whatever the grade says, never grade-then-gate) — before landing on SELF. Skipping the pipeline because a task looks small is exactly how a small-LOOKING task on a sensitive path slips past the never-down gate. > [!CAUTION] > **PLATFORM GATE -- actuates on Claude Code ONLY.** Routing spawns a worke