evidence-reconciliation

Evidence Reconciliation

Use this skill when a conclusion, plan, document update, vendor comparison, operational rule, price, timeline, limit, or capability depends on a material source conflict, authority ambiguity, stale state or mismatched scope—or when unusually high factual integrity calls for that reconciliation. Multiple consistent sources alone do not require a separate workflow.

Do not use it for simple writing that has no factual or source-conflict component.

Outcome

Produce a conclusion or revision that is traceable to the right source, preserves the existing capability floor, and never turns a related fact into a different fact merely because it supports an appealing answer.

First classify the request

Before answering or editing, separate each material statement into one of these states:

• Governing current rule — the newest controlling instruction, contract, configuration, or approved decision.
• Verified current fact — directly observed account, runtime, checkout, source, or official documentation state.
• Historical source — prior plan, old document, archived observation, or superseded draft.
• Source-supported interpretation — a conclusion reasonably drawn from evidence.
• Recommendation — a proposed choice, explicitly not yet adopted.
• Assumption or unknown — a gap that needs a source, test, or a visible decision.

Never collapse these categories. A trial credit is not automatically a send limit; a vendor marketing capacity is not a chosen operating capacity; a minimum is not a recommended target; an old plan is not the current rule.

For capacity or time claims, record the relevant units, population/system boundary, limiting dimensions, operating assumptions and clock anchor. Apply sender, allowance, trial and warmup dimensions only to commercial/outbound claims, using the capacity/timeline sub-ledger in the protocol. A conclusion must satisfy every applicable limit and prerequisite.

Establish authority before synthesis