Start with the smallest slice you can fully understand. Earn the next notch by proving you understood the last one. Ambition that outruns understanding is how a fluent diff becomes an unverifiable one.

Graduated Implementation

Overview

The sibling skill imbue:assisted-mastery fades scaffolding as competence grows. This skill ramps the other axis: the ambition of the next increment. They are the two directions of one move, the graduated practice that turned novices into experts long before agents existed. Not "ban the tool," but "couple the next challenge to demonstrated competence on the last one."