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Make AI-assisted work earn your trust
Separate demonstrations from evaluations and make errors, evidence gaps and action authority inspectable before delegating consequential work.
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3 checklists · 1 pattern · 4 protocols · 1 question · 1 template
10 elements
Keep acceptance examples out of the prompt workshop
The demonstration has had a lot of rehearsal. The next real case has not.
Read the idea TemplateJudge the expensive error separately from the common one
A thousand correct commas do not cancel one wrong recipient.
Read the idea ChecklistReport how much work an abstaining system actually covers
Being right on the easiest fifth is not the same as handling the whole queue.
Read the idea ProtocolTest what should stay unchanged when the input changes
Sometimes you cannot name the whole answer, but you can name what must not change.
Read the idea QuestionSeparate a retrieval failure from an answer-generation failure
An excellent writer cannot quote the paragraph it never received.
Read the idea ChecklistLet retrieved text supply evidence, not new authority
A document can describe a command without being allowed to issue it.
Read the idea ProtocolGive the second check evidence the first answer did not create
Another confident paragraph is not automatically another line of evidence.
Read the idea PatternValidate the output's meaning after its shape passes
A perfectly shaped address can still point to the wrong place.
Read the idea ChecklistApprove the exact action that will actually run
Approved is meaningless until you say what was approved.
Read the idea ProtocolSwap answer order before trusting an AI judge's winner
First place on the screen should not decide first place in the result.
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