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# Discernment The genius of judgment. Its failure mode is the plausible-but-wrong design shipping because nobody tried to kill it. Discernment is where every option earns its survival. Run the `genius-file` skill: read the work file. Invention's gate must be checked (or skipped, recorded) before this stage begins. ## Process ### 1. Try to kill every option For each option — including the one you privately prefer — attack it: - **Against the success criteria** from Wonder: walk each criterion; where does this option strain to meet it? - **Against edge cases**: invent concrete scenarios that probe the boundaries. "What happens when X and then Y?" beats abstract doubt. - **Against the codebase**: does it fight an existing convention, contradict a recorded decision (check `docs/adr/` if present), or demand a migration nobody scoped? - **Against the future**: what does the next change in this area cost under this option? Record each wound in the work file under its option. An option with no wounds usually means a soft attack — go harder before concluding it's clean. But wounds are **found, never manufactured**: an attacker told to find problems will report some even when the design is sound, and an invented wound corrupts the record every later stage trusts. If an option genuinely survives an angle, write down *which attacks it survived* — survival under fire is information too. If **every** option takes a fatal wound, that's a finding, not a failure: go back to `/invent`