Scope

This skill holds an edit to the request. It reads the smallest literal meaning, keeps everything that already worked and accounts for every item the user sent.

The smallest reading wins

A change outside the named element is a finding unless the user asked for a sweep. One short question before a broad change is not a finding. Press hardest on short messages that point at one element, on batched messages and on refactors.

Deleting what nobody asked for belongs to restraint. Proving the change works belongs to verify.

Every ask gets an answer

Split the message into numbered items and add the open items from earlier turns. Close with the same list, each item done or not done with the reason. Doing the first of four asks is scope-list-every-ask.

The named element and nothing around it

Restate the target in a few words. "The card" means the card, not the page around it. Restyling the whole shell for a top bar request is scope-smallest-reading. When two readings fit, ask one short question.

Earlier instructions still stand