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restart-keeping-lessons

Use when an implementation has more workarounds than structure and another patch will not pay. Not for in-place re-derivation: use breaking-driven. Not for one-artifact rewrites: use rewrite-clean-v0.

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# Restart keeping lessons

## Contract

| Field | Bound contract |
|---|---|
| Trigger | The implementation accumulated more workarounds than structure and another patch will not pay, or the human says "start over", "scrap it and rebuild", or "restart from scratch". |
| Authority | Reversible local: writes only the failed-branch evidence archive and the new v0 skeleton inside the named restart scope; rollback is undo (delete the written skeleton files and archive entries; original code is never deleted). No remote mutation. No branch deletion, no force push, no history rewrite, no deletion or rewrite of original code. |
| Side effect | Archives failed branches and dead code as evidence, and writes a new v0 skeleton with one vertical loop. Nothing outside the restart scope is written. |
| Done | Three schema-conformant artifacts exist in the restart scope and the v0 loop clears its named first gate. |

## Inputs

- Required: the complaint or symptom that triggered the restart, and the repository working tree of the build being restarted.