🤖 Guidance pass C: rewrite steering sentences with counterweights

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 Before spawning a single agent, plan the tree explicitly. Write the plan down — usually in the workpad as a brainstorm or design note — so you and the user can sanity-check it.

-1. **List every sub-topic** you can think of, even ones that feel redundant. Easier to delete than to discover later.
+1. **List the sub-topics** the question needs answered, including ones you are unsure about; merge or drop the redundant ones before step 2, since each sub-topic costs an agent.
 2. **For each sub-topic, ask: "what would I need to know first?"** Draw an arrow from each prerequisite topic to the dependent topic. This produces a dependency graph, not yet a tree.
 3. **Break cycles.** If A needs B and B needs A, you have a cycle. Resolve it by inserting a new, smaller intermediate topic that both can build on (e.g. "shared definitions and ground truth for X"), or by deciding which direction is the dominant dependency and demoting the other to a follow-up question for phase N+2.
 4. **Group into phases by depth.** Topics with no prerequisites are phase 1. Topics whose prerequisites are all in phase 1 are phase 2. And so on. A topic that depends on items from phases 1 and 3 is itself a phase 4 topic — always one past its deepest prerequisite.