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thinking-ooda

Use under time pressure when the situation is still changing and you must act before certainty — cycle Observe→Orient→Decide→Act on ~70% confidence, then re-observe.

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# OODA Loop

**Core rule:** For reversible moves under time pressure, act on ~70% confidence, then immediately re-observe. Cycle faster than the situation compounds; a late perfect plan loses to a fast loop.

## When to Use

- Incident response, outage, or ongoing degradation where state is still moving.
- Debugging a moving target (intermittent failure, live traffic shift).
- Any time-bounded decision where waiting for full certainty costs more than a reversible action.

## When NOT to Use

- The situation is static and you have time — deliberate analysis or a hypothesis differential wins.
- The next action is irreversible or high blast-radius — raise the evidence bar; 70% is not enough.