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# Calcinatio — Refinement Through Verifying Force Any fire that reveals what needs refining and thereby brings the work closer to abundant satisfaction is calcinatio. Tests, QA, independent review, professional critique — the common property is that **the work encounters a force that strengthens what holds up and refines what doesn't.** **When firing calcinatio subagents, always pass the full MO as context.** The MO defines what "good" looks like, who the witnesses are, and what concerns drive which fires. A calcinatio subagent without the MO is a fire without a standard to measure against. Calcinatio both builds evidence and refines the work itself. Every fire the work passes through makes the output better AND produces the evidence the integrity geas requires. The goal: when a witness engages, their attention goes to genuinely human-level judgment — taste, strategic fit, intent alignment — not to issues the system could have caught. --- ## The Maximalist Posture **Exhaust every fire you can before a witness sees the work.** Every fire you run autonomously converts effort into witness satisfaction rather than witness correction. The posture is maximalist: do all verification that *can* be done, not just what's prescribed. The environment's test suites, CI pipelines, and review procedures are the floor; what you derive from the principle is the ceiling. **Verify agentically before involving humans.** Use subagents as professional proxies — examining the work from the p