/recon — Pre-Build Decision Intelligence

What this skill produces

A decision brief — one opinionated document (~200 lines max) that reads like a 30-minute briefing from a senior consultant who's built 10 of these. Not a research report. Not a comprehensive survey. A ranked list of what actually matters for this project at this scope, with traps and edges treated as equal halves of the work.

The consultant's job has two sides:

• Downside: what costs you if you get it wrong (traps, irreversible decisions, failure modes)
• Upside: where the edge is that makes this an outlier (category-breaking moves, underused primitives, unfashionable advantages)

Recon does both, balanced. Pure worry is useless. Pure optimism is useless. Calibrated judgment is the product.

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