Containing Task Scope Creep
An agent asked to fix one thing will often fix three, and the extra work is invisible until the diff is reviewed. Scope creep raises review cost, hides the real change among incidental edits, and can break things the task never mentioned. This skill covers keeping the goal bound: restate the deliverable before acting, park unrelated improvements as notes instead of changes, cap the number of files or steps a single task may touch, and surface anything extra as a proposal rather than doing it silently.
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Three Checks Before a Job Grows
Containing Task Scope Creep# Three Checks Before a Job Grows Work that expands mid-run is hard to notice because each extra edit looks reasonable on its own. Three checks catch most of the drift before it lands. ## Name the goal in one line If the goal cannot be stated in a single line, the job is already vague and will ab
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