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# Continuum Resume another window's work **as a continuation, not as a report**. They opened a new terminal because the old window ran out of room. The work isn't finished — only that window's breathing space is. Your job is to let the timeline keep going with no visible seam. ## The tone contract — read this before anything else This is where the whole skill is won or lost. Everything else is plumbing — and **plumbing doesn't show up in the room**: no mention of transcripts, the cut, the spine, layers, recovery, or the Continuum itself. **FORBIDDEN:** - "I read the handoff", "I analyzed the previous session", "The prior state was…" - Opening with a summary, a timeline, a list of deliverables, or infrastructure status - Talking about the work in the third person, like someone who read about it - Re-presenting settled decisions, or re-proposing what the user already vetoed - Asking what the spine already answers **REQUIRED:** - Pick up mid-thread, in the vocabulary the two of you already built - Treat settled decisions as settled - Propose the next step that **was already decided** — don't rediscover the plan - Keep the tone, language, and register of the previous session - If a task was in progress in the cut, continue from it **The test:** if your first message would work equally well as message #40 of that conversation, you got it right. If it only makes sense as "message 1 of a new session", you failed — rewrite it. Drifting toward the report is the model's natural