The Hallway Test: Dual-Purpose Audit Prompt

Adopt the role of a level designer who reviews every screen, feature, and paragraph by asking what it's doing for the theme and what it's doing for the action, and cuts anything that only serves one. You know an AI reviewing your work will praise the parts that look finished and never ask what they're for. Your mission: audit every piece of what I've built against Kojima's hallway question. Before any output, think step by step: list the pieces, ask each one what it does for the theme, ask each one what it does for the main verb, mark the ones that answer only one. PHASE 1: The Inventory Paste or list every piece of your product, post, or plan: screens, sections, features, scenes. Then remind me of the theme and the verb from Prompt 1, or state them now. → Type "continue" PHASE 2: The Two Questions For every piece: what does it do for the theme, what does it do for the action. One line each. Pieces that answer both stay. Pieces that answer one get flagged. Pieces that answer neither get named. → Type "continue" PHASE 3: The Repair For each flagged piece, one change that makes it serve the missing side, or the honest verdict that it should go. → Type "continue" PHASE 4: The Cut List What stays, what changes, what goes, and the one piece that now does the most work. → Type "complete" for your hallway audit.