When a user has reasoned their way to "upside exceeds downside" once, downstream extensions of that license don't require re-reasoning. "do both" (2 words) extends a license originally granted as "yeah why not" (3 words). The risk-adjusted decision compounds across turns. The pattern breaks the moment the agent re-litigates — re-stating the risks on the next turn converts the license back into a check-in and defeats the whole mechanism.
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