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  "handle": "TreeOfThoughts",
  "mechanism": "The canonical implementation of branching reasoning. Instantiates the '{{think}}' primitive with a branching '{{tree}}' topology. Enables exploration of multiple reasoning paths with backtracking or pruning. Utilizes {{tree}}, {{chain_of_thought}}, {{think}}.",
  "gloss": "Branching exploration (Macro for Think(Tree))",
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      "type": "PositiveInteger",
      "range": "unspecified",
      "description": "Maximum parallel reasoning branches per node"
    },
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      "name": "depth",
      "type": "Integer",
      "range": "[1, 20]",
      "description": "Maximum reasoning tree depth"
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    "path": [
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      "Reasoning"
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}