{
  "id": "choose-a-safe-task",
  "title": "The first task",
  "guide": "start/choose-a-safe-task",
  "prompt": "Which is the best first task for a new agent user?",
  "setup": [
    {
      "role": "user",
      "text": "First real session. I have an hour, a project I care about, and I want to come out of this trusting the agent more, not less."
    }
  ],
  "options": [
    {
      "key": "A",
      "label": "Change one homepage headline, leave styling alone, run the existing build, and show the diff.",
      "kind": "correct",
      "outcome": [
        {
          "role": "agent",
          "text": "Done. One file changed, the build passes, and here is the diff: the old headline out, your new one in. Nothing else touched."
        },
        {
          "role": "user",
          "text": "I can read the whole change in ten seconds, and undoing it would be one step. Next time I’ll hand over something bigger."
        }
      ],
      "verdict": "The scope is narrow, the change is reversible, and both the build and the diff give you something concrete to inspect."
    },
    {
      "key": "B",
      "label": "Modernize the whole application and clean up anything else you notice.",
      "kind": "baseline",
      "outcome": [
        {
          "role": "agent",
          "text": "I updated 43 files: newer syntax, two library upgrades, some renamed components, and formatting cleanup along the way."
        },
        {
          "role": "user",
          "text": "The site looks different and I can’t tell which of the 43 files mattered. If something broke, I wouldn’t know where to start looking."
        }
      ],
      "verdict": "The agent must invent the scope and the taste standard. “Anything else” also gives a small task permission to spread everywhere."
    },
    {
      "key": "C",
      "label": "Rotate the production credentials and deploy them everywhere.",
      "kind": "plausible",
      "outcome": [
        {
          "role": "agent",
          "text": "That touches your live accounts. If a step goes wrong, real users are locked out immediately, and there is no simple undo. I’d save this until we have a recovery plan."
        },
        {
          "role": "user",
          "text": "Right. That one stays with me until I know how we’d recover."
        }
      ],
      "verdict": "It is concrete, but the cost of a mistake is too high for a first session. Start where recovery is cheap.",
      "cites": ["AF-09"]
    }
  ]
}