Ladder Of Abstraction

Table of Contents

• Core Principles
• Workflow
• The Four Rungs
• Run Rules and Violations
• Readability Routing
• Guardrails
• Quick Reference

Related skills: Use readability-check for the actual scoring pass (this skill diagnoses what a failing score means), writing-structure-planner for section order and shape, hedge-detector when repairs threaten epistemic hedges, abstraction-concrete-examples for building explanatory ladders from scratch rather than auditing a draft, systemic-protagonist for the full agency-repair ledger when the subject is a system.

Core Principles