Summarize

Give a complete, plain-English account of one thing so the reader can decide or act on it without opening the source. Detail means coverage, not length: every substantive point survives, the padding does not.

Pick the subject

"It" is the most recent deliverable, document, plan, diff, report or thread in the conversation. /summarize <path or reference> names it directly. If two candidates are equally recent, ask one line and stop.

Read the whole source before writing, never a preview, an excerpt or your memory of it. If the source is already fully in context, do not reread it. For a diff, read enough of the changed files to know what the change does. For a thread or session, reread the turns the summary covers.

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