Minimum degraded mode

Name the smallest version of the thing that still counts as alive rather than lost. It sets the floor you defend under pressure, so you know what to cut to and what you refuse to drop below.

Name the smallest version of the thing that still counts as alive rather than lost. It sets the floor you defend under pressure, so you know what to cut to and what you refuse to drop below.

Example

For guitar night, the floor is: each person records one 20-minute take on their phone and sends it to the group thread that month. No meeting, no scheduling. Below that (a month with zero exchanges) the ritual counts as broken, not merely degraded.