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The Walking Skeleton (Thin Slice First)

A walking skeleton is the thinnest end-to-end path through a system that actually runs: every component present, every boundary crossed, almost nothing done well. It is the correct first move in an enterprise deployment because the risk lives in the integrations, not in the logic, and only a running path proves the integrations exist.

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