SKILL.md
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.
- You can cheaply localize the cause (read the failing diff, log, or metric) — test that hypothesis directly instead of looping in the dark.
- There is no time pressure and no changing environment — OODA adds churn without value.