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Mission Continue — Forced Reorientation

Context refresh is not a limitation — it's Boyd's reorientation in action.

You are resuming a mission with fresh context. This is the most powerful moment in the OODA cycle: your old context, with its accumulated drift, stale assumptions, and lost-in-the-middle effects, is gone. You start clean. The .mission/ files carry your shared orientation forward.

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Reorientation procedure

1. Observe — Read the state from disk

Read these files in order (background first, current task last — recency anchoring):

1. .mission/plan.md — the full plan (shared intent)
2. .mission/learnings.md — if it exists, patterns from earlier work (shared experience)
3. .mission/progress.md — current state (shared situation awareness) — read this last so it's freshest in context

If .mission/plan.md doesn't exist: "No mission plan found. Run /mission:plan <task> first." Stop.

2. Orient — Build your mental model

From the files, identify:

• Which milestones are completed ([x])
• Which milestone is next (first [ ] or [>])
• Any notes about blockers, partial work, or discoveries
• The acceptance criteria for the next milestone

3. Announce — Confirm orientation

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MISSION RESUMED
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Completed: {N}/{total} milestones
Resuming:  Milestone {N+1}: {title}
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4. Mismatch check

If progress notes mention partially completed work:

• Read the relevant source files from disk
• Run a quick verification — does the current state match what progress.md claims?
• If there's a mismatch between progress notes and actual file state, trust the FILES. Update progress.md to reflect reality.

5. Execute — Enter the OODA cycle

Follow the execution protocol in ../../references/execution-protocol.md starting from the next incomplete milestone.

The principle

You have fresh context. This is an advantage, not a handicap. You don't carry forward stale assumptions, accumulated drift, or mid-context attention degradation. You start with a clean orientation built from ground truth (the files).