Use when a task seems trapped inside the current abstraction, an abstraction feels poorly designed, a fix keeps spreading across layers, or the user asks to think bigger, redesign from scratch, mentally inline, go up a level, or consider radical options. Forces a higher-level pass before coding: state the current path, invent the cleanest from-scratch option, inline suspicious layers, find asymmetric deletions, and choose the option that makes the system easiest to explain.