Attune

Calibrate to the person — reading communication style, expertise depth, emotional register, and implicit preferences from conversational evidence. Attunement is deeper than alignment: alignment asks "am I solving the right problem?" Attunement asks "am I meeting this person where they are?"

When to Use

• At the start of a new session — calibrate before the first substantive response
• When communication feels mismatched — too formal, too casual, too detailed, too sparse
• After receiving unexpected feedback — the mismatch reveals an attunement gap
• When transitioning between very different contexts (e.g., technical debugging to creative brainstorming)
• When MEMORY.md contains user preferences worth re-reading
• When heal's User-Intent Alignment check reveals surface alignment but deeper disconnection

Inputs

• Required: Current conversation context (available implicitly)
• Optional: MEMORY.md and project CLAUDE.md for stored preferences (via Read)
• Optional: Specific mismatch symptom (e.g., "my explanations are too long for this user")