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  "handle": "Prioritize",
  "mechanism": "Impact-Effort Ranking: List all options. Score each on impact ({{value}} if done) and effort (cost to do). Compute ratio. Sort by ratio descending. {{work}} top-down. Re-score periodically as information changes. Pareto principle: 20% of {{work}} yields 80% of {{value}}. It applies {{rank}} to the candidate set based on an Impact/Effort ratio.",
  "gloss": "Ordering tasks by importance and urgency",
  "failure_modes": [
    "Priority Inversion: Low-priority {{task}} blocks high-priority {{task}} due to resource dependency."
  ],
  "invariants": [
    "Completeness: output contains every input item.",
    "Ordering: sorted by descending impact-to-effort ratio."
  ],
  "preconditions": [
    "Items are comparable"
  ],
  "postconditions": [
    "Set ordered"
  ],
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    "ring": 2,
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      "sema:Prioritize#mh:SHA-256:8028bf196f44e09cb60a59a1a067b57c3de28c2d41ad9a600a6797c335567458"
    ],
    "path": [
      "Mind",
      "Strategy"
    ],
    "related": [
      "StalledDirectionReview#aa6a"
    ]
  },
  "sema_id": "sema:Prioritize#mh:SHA-256:99f0603f8984f4c94d02384248966603cf86d9ccf95ea62a7c481c3eccb694fd",
  "sema_ref": "Prioritize#99f0",
  "sema_stub": "99f0",
  "dependencies": {
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      "rank": "sema:Rank#mh:SHA-256:67c6fb568c5fdcfbd0de64b8a5413e943378d421dee9d5614c827e3c539bde3f"
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    "references": {
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    }
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  "sema_layer": "Mind",
  "sema_category": "Strategy",
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}