The Right Depth for the Problem
Source-grounded pack with Analysis Scope Cutter, Decision Depth Brief, and Depth Selection Check, plus 1 more.
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Open the pack, choose a workflow, and follow its setup and input instructions. You can also open each workflow below.
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Use this pack when
Choose this pack when the work touches The Right Depth for the Problem and you need a bounded workflow with explicit inputs, a defined output, and human review gates.
Choose the job in front of you.
4 source-grounded skills. Load one workflow at a time.
Analysis Scope Cutter
Use this workflow when a problem has been shrunk to the nearest team or tool, inflated into vague culture or strategy language, mixed with a preferred solution, or surrounded by activity that does not address the limiting authority, information, capacity, trust, incentive, sequence, architecture, customer, or market constraint.
Output specification
Return the symptom-system split, customer reality, too-small and too-grand frames, problem-solution-decision separation, why-now evidence, queue map, tested constraint, disconfirming evidence, and concise problem statement.
Decision Depth Brief
Use this workflow when a meaningful problem needs one accountable owner with real decision rights, a proportional one-page record, explicit follow-through, and a mature solve, stop, reclassify, transfer, escalate, scale, or reopen decision.
Output specification
Return the ownership structure and contract, proportional problem record, solve-or-stop decision, residual risk and acceptor, reopen trigger, existing review forum, follow-up evidence, and reclassification path if the signal persists.
Depth Selection Check
Use this workflow when a new signal, complaint, incident, miss, concern, or blocked project must be provisionally classified and routed to a fast fix, deep dive, research, experiment, escalation, or stop decision at a depth proportional to reversibility, blast radius, urgency, recurrence, evidence, and authority.
Output specification
Return intake facts, provisional classification, containment, reversibility and blast-radius assessment, selected mode and rationale, non-promise, owner type, next action, artifact, and tripwire.
Precision Risk Review
Use this workflow when a proposed action or recurring consequential failure needs an explicit reversibility and blast-radius note, real recovery design, staged exposure, escalation recommendation, or root-cause review that changes prevention, detection, containment, correction, resilience, or decision conditions.
Output specification
Return the blast-radius and recovery note, quadrant, exposure design, escalation recommendation where needed, root-cause trigger decision, system levers, bounded actions, owners, tradeoffs, proof, and follow-up test.
Keep consequential decisions explicit.
These workflows structure analysis and artifacts; they do not authorize autonomous external, personnel, financial, legal, security, or other high-impact action.