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variant-explorer
Use when someone wants OPTIONS rather than an answer — 'show me a few versions', picking between approaches by seeing them. Genuinely different candidates, cheap to throw away, trade-off named. NOT the critique that judges one (`design`), NOT the spec (`specify`).
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# Variant explorer — several real options, cheap enough to discard
"Show me a few versions and I'll pick" is a different request from "build this". It asks for
**divergence**: several candidates that are actually different, each cheap enough that throwing it
away costs nothing, with the difference between them stated out loud so a human can decide.
Done badly it produces the thing that wastes the most time in creative work: three variations of one
idea, dressed up as a choice.
## The one rule
**Variants must differ in a decision, not in a detail.** If two candidates could both be reached by
editing the other, there is one candidate.
