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Use when asked to judge whether to adopt, switch, reject, or revisit technology, library, pattern, or architecture, or a second opinion. Not for scoping: use brainstorm. Not for forks: use decide.

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# Pov

## Contract

| Field | Bound contract |
|---|---|
| Trigger | Explicit invocation to judge a technology, library, pattern, platform, or architecture against the current project, or to give a mid-session second opinion. |
| Authority | Reversible local: writes only a run-specific scratch directory, the project-profile cache under `/tmp/odin/repo-profile/`, and an optional local report at a user-supplied path; rollback is deleting those artifacts. No project-file, VCS, credential, paid, or remote mutation. |
| Side effect | Cache a question-agnostic repository profile and scout dossiers locally; return the verdict in chat by default. Delete the run scratch directory, any cache entry created by this run, and any optional report to roll back local writes. |
| Done | A compact graded verdict passes both evidence floors, states its reversibility tier and confidence, cites the decisive evidence, records conditions and a tier-sized reversal trigger (Tier 2/3 only), and gives the computed next action; or an exact Hold result identifies the failed floor. |

## Inputs

Required: the subject to judge and the intended decision (adopt, migrate, compare, determine fit, reject, or revisit). For a mid-session invocation, take the question and claims to verify from the surrounding conversation, but do not treat them as evidence. If the intent is ambiguous, obtain one answer before research.