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# Proplasma Protocol Expose direction unknowns through divergent-discard instantiation before commitment. Type: `(DirectionUnrecognizable, Hybrid, PREVIEW, DirectionProspect) → DirectionalContrast`. ## Definition **Proplasma** (πρόπλασμα): the preliminary clay model a sculptor shapes before committing to marble. A dialogical act for the moment right before a direction commitment when the candidate directions cannot be recognized from their descriptions: the AI derives the axes on which the candidates genuinely diverge, the user settles those axes and the placeholder policy at a spec gate, the AI instantiates two to four cheap placeholder probes that commit different values on the settled axes, presents them probe-first with a per-axis contrast, and the user constitutes the direction decision on recognized futures. Probes are discard-committed instruments — never evidence, never promoted. ``` ── FLOW ── Proplasma(X) → detect(X, route) → [¬pre_commit(X) ∨ |direction_candidates(X)| < 2] requires_fail_relay → exit (checkpoint failed: state which requirement; fewer than two candidates (one or none) is row ③ territory — /ideate (heuresis) diverges the thin field as the primary target; /frame · /elicit remain correct only for their own narrower cases (frame absent; substrate-implicit coordinates); not activated) [futures recognizable from text] no_deficit_relay → exit (regular gate suffices; not activated) [route ∈ {①, ②, ③}] route_away_relay(matched row) → exit (route...