
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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A sequence of natural numbers $\left\{x_{n}\right\}$ is constructed according to the following rules:
$$
x_{1}=a, x_{2}=b, x_{n+2}=x_{n}+x_{n+1}, \text{ for } n \geq 1.
$$

It is known that some term in the sequence is 1000. What is the smallest possible value of $a+b$?

Present the answer in LaTex format: \boxed{Your answer}
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