First Principles Review

Purpose

Use this as a lightweight decision review before another Aegis workflow makes a directional choice. It is a compositional skill, not a standalone workflow.

Do not replace brainstorming, systematic-debugging, writing-plans, requesting-code-review, or verification-before-completion. Use it to clean the decision surface those skills will act on.

When this review materially changes the direction, surface Aegis Visibility in natural prose: name the first principle, dropped assumption, smallest sufficient path, or owner / retirement falsifier that changed the decision. Keep it advisory and task-specific; do not turn the lens into approval authority or a generic skill trace.

Use When