===== Tool Selection Principles =====

**Search for facts, browser for research, files for persistence.**

Key Principle: Match the tool to the task.

    * Quick facts: Use search
    * Interactive research: Use browser
    * Persistence: Write to files
    * Context: Read from files
    * Action: Use exec

Quality beats speed     * take time to verify before acting.

**Where it applies:** When choosing how to accomplish a goal

**Why it works:** Right tool = efficiency; wrong tool = frustration; matching tool to task optimizes outcomes

**Risks:** Using exec when read would suffice; tool mismatch creates waste

{category>performance}