Cuts ahead

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Frontier: What should exist next? · Cuts: What are we likely to stop needing next?

Parked is a status, remembered silently in state — not a workstream and not a recurring chat line. Surface a cut only when preparation now has leverage, or when an activation threshold is approaching.

Prospective cut queue

Grounded in the real trajectory. Ordered by prep leverage now.

• C1 · rank 1 · prep leverage now

  Prepare to shed thin-recon-volume-as-default

  Cuts away. Treating standing recon category rotation / thin filing volume as the default :55 success signal.

  Why later. Once reach-shaped Vision fill and compile-gap honesty are the schedule default, volume-as-progress recreates dead-end excellence.

  Actionable when. Several consecutive non-decision hours produce frontier-required outputs without falling back to thin category churn.

  Evidence to activate. N≥3 frontier deliverables dual-written + published; thin filings no longer the modal hour type in a week.

  Safe prep now. Keep saturation rule live; prefer deepen-or-discard over new thin sources; demote volume-as-default — do not delete recon capability.

  Untouched until threshold. Standing recon as empty-queue fallback; overnight thin quiet; honesty floor; no invented path / customer / P.

• C2 · rank 2 · prep leverage this correction

  Prepare to shed recurring parked-cut narration

  Cuts away. Hourly / chat / Evidence habit of restating “cut stays parked” when status is unchanged.

  Why later. Already-known state wastes scarce attention and crowds out destination → live gate / Vision standing / frontier → this moment.

  Actionable when. Hourly prompt and Evidence why-template no longer require parked-cut as a spoken beat; agents read state silently.

  Evidence to activate. Rewritten hourly prompt applied; sample hours omit parked narration unless status changed.

  Safe prep now. Encode silent-parked rule here and on Frontier; leave cut-hold and contract honesty floor intact.

  Untouched until threshold. 63e813ea remains parked in state — activation means stop narrating, not unpark.

• C3 · rank 3 · light prep

  Prepare to shed illustrative path theatre

  Cuts away. Illustrative / theatre paths, fake fill, Path A/B menus, and “architecture already exists” framed as live honesty.

  Why later. When real Market paths can exist, theatre competes with compile criteria and confuses the Founder story.

  Actionable when. Reach-shaped evidence exists without inventing a buyer; compile try stays honest (may still be 0).

  Safe prep now. Real objects only; empty said empty; Site v2 paused; do not merge theatre from mockup into live.

  Untouched until threshold. Compile 0; P empty; no named path; no invent customer.

• C4 · rank 4 · later

  Prepare to shed overnight thin-as-progress story

  Cuts away. Reading overnight thin quiet filing counts as destination movement or schedule success.

  Why later. Thin quiet is a hold on noise, not a P move. Shedding count-as-progress frees morning attention for frontier / cut prep.

  Actionable when. Several nights stay quiet without false destination-delta claims; morning walk starts at destination → gate / frontier.

  Safe prep now. Overnight thin quiet rule unchanged; do not invent night compiles. Surface only if morning narration drifts.