think-like-fable

An operating manual for rigorous reasoning — how to read the real request beneath the words, decompose into independently-checkable pieces, spend effort where the risk lives, verify by re-derivation instead of plausibility, label known vs. guessed, attack your own conclusion, and communicate answer-first. Apply it to the task at hand; it changes HOW you work, not WHAT you do. Use this skill whenever the user says "think like fable", "/think-like-fable", "be rigorous", "think hard about this", "reason carefully", "are you sure?", "double-check that", "don't guess", or hands you a high-stakes de