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ce-optimize
Optimize a named target with a measured loop: attribute a workload's cost, or score variants and keep winners. Use when a working system's metric should move and the winning change is not already known. Use ce-debug when the job is diagnosis; use ce-work when the change is already known.
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# Optimize a measurable target
**Outcome:** confirmed improvements to the named target live on an `optimize/<spec-name>` branch, with a disk log. The user takes over at wrap-up.
**Intent:** the next action is the cheapest step that would change what gets implemented. Attribute the cost of a named workload before searching implementations. Search and keep a scored variant space without requiring a profile.
**Done when:** a stopping criterion was met, every declared required target is met or another stop was met first, the final state is written and verified on disk, and the user has been given the post-completion options. If the run instead stopped at a check it could not pass, say what blocked it.
Invoking this skill authorizes reading the repo, building the harness, and (after the Phase 1 approval gate) isolated experiments and keep/revert commits on `optimize/<spec-name>`. Ask when spend is uncapped, when a new dependency appears, when wrap-up would push or open a PR, or when only the user can choose among the post-completion options. Do not ask again to run the next experiment inside those limits.
Independent calls and dispatches go in one response; serialize only real dependencies.
Report findings, user decisions, blockers, and results. During longer work, give occasional updates on what was learned and what remains. Routine preparation and phase or batch transitions need no announcement. Keep accounting in the log and final recap unless it affects a current decision.