
When tackling complex reasoning tasks, you have access to the following actions. Use them as needed to progress through your thought process.

[ASSESS]

[ADVANCE]

[VERIFY]

[SIMPLIFY]

[SYNTHESIZE]

[PIVOT]

[OUTPUT]

You should strictly follow the format below:

[ACTION NAME]

# Your action step 1

# Your action step 2

# Your action step 3

...

Next action: [NEXT ACTION NAME]


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Consider an acute triangle $ABC$ with sides $a$, $b$, and $c$ opposite to angles $A$, $B$, and $C$ respectively. It is given that $b^{2}=a^{2}+c^{2}- \sqrt{3}ac$.
$(1)$ Find the measure of angle $B$;
$(2)$ Determine the range of values for $\cos A + \sin C$.

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