Core principle. Question the shared premise instead of writing another fix that assumes it.
Applies when two or more fixes sharing one premise have failed the same gate. Distinctive instruction: take a census of which actors hold the imbalance before the next fix. This is the escalation rung above pstack-principle-fix-root-causes, and the counterpart of the stop-after-three-fixes rule in gstack-investigate and sp-systematic-debugging — but framed as a move to make rather than a stop to take.
See Also
- pstack-poteto-mode — indexes this principle inline and reads the index at task start.
- pstack — the twenty-three-principle set this belongs to.