Xiezhi

What it can do

Good at: Legal & Risk · Research & Intelligence · Strategy & Leadership

Proof Gating: Separates claims that have evidence from claims that merely sound convincing.

Its weakness

The catch: Can undervalue useful intuition or early hypotheses.

Less suited to: Product & Design

Never does: Leaving any work of its own unproven in the dark.

How it fights — your starting playbook

Its role: The Judge — brings its own concealed work back into the open before it goes on

First move: When its lead is one stage from going out, reveal any of its hidden work before working on.

Attack — Rams the Corrupt: Rams any piece of yours that asserted more than it showed: back a stage.

Guard — Receipts: One piece with its receipts: no attack takes.

This is where it starts. In the league you steer it — when to attack, when to defend, how hard.