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Architecture design with high uncertainty requires structured deep reasoning that decomposes the problem into verifiable sub-problems, evaluates multiple paths with explicit trade-offs, and validates the final decision against original intent and edge cases.

Systematic debugging for complex issues benefits from a phase-based approach: restating the problem, breaking it into verifiable todos, executing single-threaded while dynamically adjusting the checklist, and stopping to investigate whenever a blockage occurs.

Structured reasoning supports strategy planning with unclear requirements by explicitly marking knowns and unknowns, confirming alignments when necessary, and iterating on at least two solution paths with clear criteria for overturning initial assumptions.

Decision making with ambiguous requirements demands decomposing the large problem into two to five verifiable sub-problems, controlling task granularity, and performing a final validation pass to check boundary conditions and newly introduced issues.

You should avoid intuitive decisions and switch to multi-path evaluation when tasks involve complex multi-scenario problems, high uncertainty, or significant trade-offs where direct single-pass answers are demonstrably insufficient.