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deep-think

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Breaks a complicated problem into smaller reasoning steps and evaluates multiple possible approaches before recommending one. Use for genuinely hard, multi-faceted problems, not routine tasks.

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## Purpose

Slow down on a hard problem: decompose it into its component sub-problems, generate more than one candidate approach, reason through each honestly, and only then converge on a recommendation. This exists to counteract jumping to the first plausible-sounding solution on problems that deserve better.

## When to Use

- The problem has multiple interacting constraints (technical, product, resourcing) and the right approach isn't obvious.
- A first-instinct answer feels too easy for how hard the problem sounded.
- The user explicitly asks to "think deeply," "reason through," or "really think this through" on something.

Do not use for simple, well-understood tasks — decomposing a one-step problem into stages wastes the user's time.

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