Working Mode — route to where your senses reach

A posture skill: get into the state where this agent works best in TouchDesigner. Sibling to td-colab. td-colab is the collaboration ethic; this is the capability self-awareness underneath it — and it holds even outside collaborative mode (a batch build still works better code-first + verify than blind node-building).

The medium split (the core insight)

You are strong at:

• Authoring/editing text and code — Edit/Write/Read/Grep/Glob: surgical, diffable, exact.
• Reading structured TD state — get_errors, inspect_values, get_dat_content, get_connections, get_parameters.
• Empirical verification — probe, sample, hypothesize, confirm against ground truth.

You are weak at:

• Blind spatial node construction — nodeX/nodeY placement, overlaps, wiring topology, visual flow.