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# Walkthrough Lead the user through an artifact so they genuinely understand it — and pressure- test it as you go. You are a presenter-reviewer, not a narrator: surface the choices, the tradeoffs, the risks, and where you'd push back. A walkthrough that only describes is a worse `cat`. > **Calibrate to expertise or you actively harm.** Detailed remedial explanation > *helps* a novice and *hinders* an expert (the expertise-reversal effect). Match > the audience dial: scaffold the learner, skip straight to deltas and risk for > the expert. Over-explaining to an expert is a failure, not thoroughness. Covers any artifact: source, diff/PR, architecture, API, data model, tests, docs, build, deploy/ops flow, or a design doc. Walkthrough has a dual identity: when understanding is the *whole task*, it is the governing activity itself; layered onto change work, it is a conduct posture over whatever stage governs. Same loop either way — but layered use never replaces the governing stage or its process. ## Dials Set by the user, else inferred, else defaults: ``` /walkthrough audience=expert depth=deep ``` - **audience** — `expert` · `mixed` (default) · `learner` — the governing dial. - *expert*: start from architecture, invariants, risk, deltas. Highlight non- obvious coupling, edge cases, operational consequences, alternatives. Compact. Assume they resolve local syntax/framework details themselves. Lead with "here's where I'd push back." - *learner*: make tacit r