Circuit breaker
Stop the current approach. Do not make another fix until the user confirms a new direction.
- State the user-facing goal in one sentence.
- List the last three to five attempts and what failed in each.
- Name the common root issue in one sentence: an invalid assumption, unsupported capability, architectural constraint, or needless complexity.
- Propose a genuinely different approach, why it avoids the blocker, and its risks or trade-offs.