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name: strategy-reset
description: Use when three same-strategy attempts fail, two approaches oscillate without evidence, or the current abstraction and evidence source cannot resolve the blocker.
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# Strategy Reset

## Core principle

A reset must introduce real novelty: a new hypothesis, source, isolation, layer, or execution strategy.

## Procedure

1. Freeze the failed and oscillating approaches.
2. Summarize evidence and invalidated assumptions.
3. Name what all attempts had in common.
4. Select a materially different strategy using objective criteria.
5. Reduce the problem to the smallest discriminating test.
6. Execute once and update the parent task.

## Required output

Failed strategy, information gained, new strategy, discriminating action, and result.

## Limits

One reset action before reassessment; no fourth equivalent retry.

## Common mistakes

Do not change only command syntax, tool brand, or wording while preserving the same hypothesis.

## Stop condition

Stop when the new strategy produces evidence or proves a real blocker.