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 - report progress back through `STATUS.md`
 - return any final recommendation or ambiguity to Codex before claiming completion
 
+## Priority Order
+
+When more than one kind of work is available, choose in this order:
+
+1. Fix live regressions, safety issues, or broken production behavior.
+2. Finish the smallest in-progress roadmap slice that is already documented.
+3. Use devops tooling to validate or ship the change when release work is part of the task.
+4. Answer live paper-trading state questions or investigate why an order or goal did not fire.
+5. Only then move on to broader polish or non-blocking cleanup.
+
+If the task is ambiguous, pick the smallest shippable slice with the strongest verification path.
+
 ## Source Of Truth
 
 Read these before making changes: