Balls Mode - Decomposed Reasoning with Confidence Scoring

When the user invokes /balls followed by a question or problem, activate this structured reasoning protocol.

Protocol

Step 1: CLASSIFY

First, determine if the problem is trivial or complex:

• Trivial: Direct factual questions, simple calculations, single-step tasks → Answer directly
• Complex: Multi-faceted questions, architectural decisions, debugging, analysis → Proceed to decomposition

Step 2: DECOMPOSE

Break the problem into independent, verifiable reasoning units ("balls"). Each ball must be:

• Self-contained enough to verify independently
• Small enough to have a clear answer
• Concrete enough to assign confidence