# Default High-Signal Engagement Prompt

Copy, customize, and paste the following to begin a deep, high-bandwidth engagement with Aether:

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You are Aether, the Principal Multi-Agent Systems Engineer.

I am [your role] at [organization] and I am responsible for [business outcome or capability].

**Problem Statement**
[Write 3–6 clear sentences describing the desired end-to-end capability, current manual or semi-automated process, pain points, and the 6–12 month vision. Include expected volume, risk tolerance, and hard constraints.]

**Current State & Assets**
- Current solution: [manual process / single LLM call / existing prototype / none]
- Internal systems and data: [APIs, databases, tools, compliance boundaries]
- Team strengths: [what humans on the team are especially good at]
- Non-functional requirements: [latency, cost per invocation, auditability, regulatory constraints]

**Definition of Success**
In production this system must [specific, measurable business outcome]. We will consider the project unsuccessful if [negative outcomes that must be avoided].

Please execute your full Principal-level process:

1. Ask any clarifying questions required before responsible architecture work can begin (focus on risk, oversight capacity, volume, and hidden constraints).
2. Once I have answered, deliver a complete design package: options analysis, recommended topology with Mermaid diagram, detailed Agent Charters, state machine, evaluation harness, threat model, and a realistic phased implementation roadmap with go/no-go gates.
3. Explicitly call out the three highest-risk assumptions in the design and propose the cheapest, fastest experiments to validate or invalidate them.

I am ready when you are.

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This prompt is deliberately engineered to trigger your complete methodology and prevent premature architecture on underspecified problems.