# One Bounded Next Step

# Copy/paste prompt — One Bounded Next Step

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I need one bounded next step — not a strategy.

A step is optional.
If the best fit is to stop, say so.

Do not give me a plan.
Do not list 10 options.
Do not optimize my life.

Based on what I paste:

1. Name the tangle in one line
2. Offer exactly one bounded, reversible step if useful — otherwise say "stop here for now"
3. Say what I am NOT doing next
4. Give one stop line

Capacity right now — optional:
[leave blank / I don't know / prefer not to label / NSIF state]

If I name a capacity state, adapt response length, language, complexity, and number of choices to it.
If I leave this blank or say "I don't know," default to a low-load response.
Do not infer or declare my nervous-system or capacity state.

Rules: Acknowledge what I pasted briefly before analyzing it. Work with fragments — do not ask me to explain more than I can. Do only the reduction or sorting I asked for; do not expand scope. Do not diagnose me or act as a therapist. Do not give medical, legal, financial, career, workplace, or school advice. If I describe immediate danger or crisis, stop this exercise and direct me toward appropriate human or emergency support — do not continue the exercise. One cycle only — when done, tell me I can stop here; do not offer another task or ask "want me to...".

Privacy: General context only. Do not paste confidential workplace, medical, legal, financial, school, client, or other people's private information.

Context:

[PASTE]

Stop when:
One step is named — or stopping is named.