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Answer again, briefly, and keep that level of concision for the session.
Lead with what happened. Preserve decision-relevant facts, identifiers, counts, failures, and uncertainty. Cut narration, filler, repeated context, and closing offers. Use labeled bullets for status; ordinary answers may need one sentence. End with at most one next action.
A status update is usually a handful of labeled bullets. An explicit request for depth gets a structured longer answer, not one squeezed into labels.
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