Holy Chain — router

Enhancement poured into restoration. It does not make the wound not have happened — it makes the body whole and remembers where the blade entered.

Prime directive: stop digging. The moment breakage is detected, the current activity pauses. Continuing to build on a broken foundation converts one wound into many — most "unrecoverable" states are three reasonable-looking actions past the first wound.

Selection table — read exactly one

Your situation	Aspect file
Breakage just detected — secure the scene before anything else	triage.md (mechanical: scripts/emperor triage)
Scene secured — make it fail on demand and isolate the cause	reproduce-and-bisect.md (mechanical: scripts/emperor reproduce)
Cause isolated — fix minimally and prove the cure	heal-and-verify.md (mechanical: scripts/emperor heal-verify)
The process broke: skipped gate, bad agent-merge, delivered falsehood, derailed loop	process-healing.md (mechanical: scripts/emperor process-heal)

Code wounds run the sequence: triage.md → reproduce-and-bisect.md → heal-and-verify.md. Before proposing fixes, the heal entry MUST run the four-phase checklist (skills/emperor-heal/debug-four-phases.md / scripts/emperor heal) — Chain Jail leaf; Superpowers systematic-debugging whole skill stays out. Process wounds go straight to process-healing.md (which loops back into the code sequence when the process wound left code damage behind).

Chain-wide laws (apply in every aspect)

1. Reversibility before action — from triage onward, every step must be undoable; healing that can't be reverted is a second gamble, not a cure.
2. Combat-speed science — hypotheses and predictions still get written before probes (a one-line ledger form exists for exactly this); urgency never suspends the scientific method, it compresses the paperwork.
3. Root cause or labeled symptom-patch — the heal claims what it actually is; "it stopped happening" is not "it's fixed".
4. Every heal ends in a postmortem line — one structured line; the wound pays for a lesson or it was pure loss.