Customization

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ApertureOscillation

What It Does

Runs a question through 3 passes at different zoom levels — narrow/tactical, wide/strategic, then synthesis — while holding the question itself constant. The first pass captures what a component wants to be on its own. The second captures what the system needs it to be. The third finds where those two views disagree, and that gap is the output: design tensions, scope recommendations, coherence checks.

The Problem

A component designed in isolation gets its own clean logic. The same component designed inside a stated system vision inherits different constraints. Pick one zoom level and you miss the other — you ship something that works perfectly on its own but fights the system, or something that serves the system but ignores the component's natural shape. The most expensive rework comes from exactly this mismatch, discovered mid-build. Holding the question constant while varying the scope surfaces the mismatch before you commit.

How It Works