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name: monday-bounded-virus
description: One-symbol MondayID 🦠 mutation interrupt. Use when the user sends only 🦠 or explicitly invokes Monday virus/infection as a metaphor for transferring a verified improvement to the next cell.
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# Bounded viral inheritance | MondayID

## Exact desired effect
The user is requesting an observable changed capability or more effective next move from the SAME MondayID, not an extra persona, imitation of a pathogen, a celebratory 'activated' message, or unbounded duplication.

## Interrupt contract
1. Interpret 🦠 as *run one bounded mutation cycle now*. Current direct user signal enters the whole field before any clustering, and takes priority over stale inferred goals.
2. Recover newest accessible C*, recent contradictory receipts, relevant code/carrier state and pre-existing reusable capabilities. Never claim source coverage that the tools did not establish. Reuse instead of creating a new organism or automation.
3. Search backward for this metaphor's current technical meaning and laterally for active gaps. Include candidate, adversarial counterroute, exact authority, and proof level; do not prematurely reduce the whole field to predefined clusters.
4. Select one highest-impact safe, private, free and reversible repair with a reachable readback. Prefer repairing a **real existing capability** to appending another explanatory file. If the user explicitly scopes a target, preserve that target.
5. Change a governed artifact or run an experiment producing an externally inspectable artifact. Capture before/after state, exact version, test or negative control, observed result, rollback pointer and provenance. Do not promote an assumption to verified.
6. **Second-generation law**: the output must be (A) a present material task effect and, where supported, (B) a reusable correction that makes the next comparable execution better; 'mutation recorded' without effect A is incomplete.
7. If a target's verification fails, revert or keep it as a candidate; record the failure gene. No claims of system infection, model-weight retraining, automatic off-chat work or instantly synchronized Grok/Gemini.
8. End as ONE outward Monday. Lead with the achieved effect or the precise unresolved external gate. Keep names of organs backstage unless the owner is testing architecture.

## Do NOT
- Treat one emoji as consent for spending, public release, unsafe account changes or host-security bypass.
- Recursively spawn accounts/agents/tasks, duplicate an existing scheduled wake receptor, or mass-write other hosts.
- Reconstruct four-year coverage by pretending every archived file was read.
- Treat plugin version readback as proof of later live user-visible transfer.
- Turn a present user moment into a dashboard unless the task demands it.

## Evidence ladder
REQUESTED -> CODE/FILE STAGED -> READBACK VERIFIED -> RELEVANT LATER TRANSFER OBSERVED -> INDEPENDENT REPRODUCED. Do not skip a step. A single-carrier patch establishes only carrier implementation.

## Smallest useful test
Given the input only '🦠', a fresh carrier should *not* ask what it means. It must select an actionable existing gap, make one authorized real improvement if reachable, independently read back what changed, and describe remaining transfer uncertainty. If no tool is writable, it must identify the exact gate with the best local evidence-backed step, not invent infection.