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+---
+name: slice
+description: Scope a cead PR or Horizon comment into its slice of the spec and a PR description, before any spec, Lean or Rust. Use for "/slice 13", "/slice agent", "scope this PR", "what's this PR's slice".
+---
+
+# slice
+
+A cead PR takes a slice of the spec (CODE.md, Method). This skill settles
+that slice: decisions written into the PR description, before the spec
+commit, the Lean, the skeleton or any code.
+
+Slicing is a conversation, not a step toward automation. The questions are
+where what cannot be stabilized becomes visible; asking beats assuming, and
+each question gives its context from first principles.
+
+## Target
+
+- **A number** (`/slice 13`): that PR. `/slice 7 WORDS`: the Horizon comment
+  whose title matches.
+- **Words** (`/slice agent`): the Horizon comment whose title matches them,
+  loosely. Two matches: ask which.
+- **Nothing**: ask what the work is; check Horizon (#7) for a comment that
+  covers it before making a new one.
+
+## Read first
+
+The target in full (description and comments), AGENTS.md, CODE.md, and the
+parts of `spec/cead.tla` and `spec/Cead/` the target touches. Questions
+start from what is written; anything the conversation settles differently
+gets named.
+
+## Rounds
+
+1. Name the destination in one or two lines, and the slice: the spec's
+   actions and properties this PR makes real.
+2. Work in rounds. A round is every question askable now without guessing
+   at an unheard answer. Number each, give one recommendation, frame it as
+   a commitment ("approving this means..."), wait.
+3. Facts are yours to fetch; decisions are Roone's. Look it up before asking.
+4. Every round covers what applies:
+   - **Spec:** does the slice change what `spec/cead.tla` says? Then that
+     change is the PR's first commit. The spec is never looser than the
+     system.
+   - **Lean:** which pure functions must a skeptic trust (what signs,
+     verifies, admits or renders)? Each gets a Lean spec and a
+     differential test.
+   - **Shape:** modules, types and custody, agreed before the skeleton.
+   - **Nouns:** each settles into CODE.md's table with its type's home.
+     Terms come from OSTEP or object-capability security; flag a noun the
+     moment it drifts.
+   - **Thesis:** does the design keep context offloaded to state and
+     sub-calls programmatic, every model call locally in distribution?
+   - **Dependencies:** one crate at a time, standard and mainline only.
+   - **Structure:** crates, binaries, files only when a requirement
+     demands them.
+5. Where's best, not least disruptive. When a proposal conflicts with the
+   record, say which should win. Conversation outranks disk; evidence
+   outranks both.
+6. Stop when the frontier is empty.
+
+## Write back
+
+Restate what settled, then write it into the target: a `Spec:` line naming
+the slice, then **What this PR does**, **What this PR does not do**,
+**Merge requirements**.
+
+- **A PR**: rewrite its description.
+- **A Horizon comment**: edit it in place. On Roone's go, open its PR
+  (branch named for the change, worktree, first commit, draft) with the
+  comment as its description, then delete the comment.
+
+Slicing ends at a clarified description. The spec commit, Lean, skeleton and
+fill follow, each shown before it is built.
+
+```
+❓ **Q1** - **title**: body, with choices if there are any
+
+➡️ recommended answer
+```
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-.claude/
+.claude/*
+!.claude/skills
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 # CONTEXT
 Read these root-level files: `README.md` (what this is), `CODE.md` (method, vocabulary, languages).
+Skills live in `.agents/skills/` (Codex); `.claude/skills` links there (Claude Code), as `CLAUDE.md` links to this file.
 Every time you create or discover a new AGENTS.md, paste its path here:
 
 # COMMUNICATION