Pause and reassess direction mid-execution

Zoom out from detail-mode and reassess direction

Breaking out of detail-mode spirals and resetting framing when implementation details are distracting from strategic direction.

• · Current conversation context (deep in implementation details)
• · User trigger: 'reflect', 'step back', 'zoom out', 'sanity check', 'bigger picture', or similar

• · 5-dimension reassessment (strategic direction, assumptions, bias, framing, next actions)
• · Honest pattern recognition (stuck loops, overthinking, misaligned goals)
• · Reset recommendations (if framing is off)

• · stdlib-only (pure reasoning, no external APIs)

• · Prior conversation context must be rich enough to reassess (thin context may require forcing clarifier)
• · One forcing clarifier allowed if invocation context is too thin
• · User must be open to disagreement (skill is designed to surface hard truths)

• · May surface uncomfortable truths that users resist (design feature, not a bug)
• · Cannot fix structural problems (only surface them — user owns next steps)
• · Overly thin context may force clarifying question instead of running analysis

• · Source spec in PR #657 (megaprompts/02-reflect-megaprompt.md)
• · 5-dimension analysis is proven coaching structure (direction/assumptions/bias/framing/actions)
• · Pure reasoning (no external APIs) makes it most portable in the collection