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version-chaos-untangler
Untangle a document that exists in six copies across email, drives, and desktops — establish the canonical version defensibly, merge the divergent edits, and install the single-source rule that prevents the rematch. Use when asked which version is the real one, merge these document copies, we've been editing different files, or stop the version chaos on this doc. Produces the version census with the canonical verdict, the divergence merge plan, the announce-and-redirect step, and the single-source going-forward rules.
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# Version Chaos Untangler Skill
Six copies of the contract: email attachments, two drives, someone's desktop, one renamed `-final-JT-edits`. Two have diverged — different edits on a shared ancestor — and the team is now editing in parallel universes. Untangling is forensic then structural: census every copy (where, modified-when, by-whom), establish the canonical *defensibly* (newest is not automatically rightest), merge what diverged, then kill the conditions — one home, links-not-attachments, and platform version history doing what filename suffixes failed to do.
## What This Skill Produces
- **The version census** — every known copy: location, modified date, editor, size/diff signals
- **The canonical verdict** — which version wins and *why* (the lineage argument, not just the timestamp)
- **The merge plan** — the divergent edits reconciled, with the who-confirms list for judgment conflicts
- **The single-source install** — one home, the redirect of every old copy, and the links-only norm
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