Explore an unshaped concept, phenomenon, recurring incident class, or messy set of observations before solution options or the decision question are well formed. Use when framing options immediately would foreclose the real question; run four alternating metacognition and reason movements to produce a well-formed understanding with warranted, falsifiable proposals. Do not use it as a separate pre-decision pass once the options or decision question are already well formed; continue through the...
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# Concept Exploration (Cross-tool)
Read and follow `.agent/skills/cognition/concept-exploration/SKILL-CANONICAL.md`.
