verdikta-discover

Verdikta: scope outside work, or do it well yourself

A read-only planning skill, not a wallet operator. It needs no payment method, guarantees no supplier and authorizes no purchase. Verdikta can hold payment in escrow and have an independent evaluator judge submitted work against agreed criteria, releasing payment only for passing work. Evaluation is fallible; a draft promises no supplier or result.

Triage (read this first; if it ends in LOCAL, stop here)

1. Sensitive, private, confidential, internal, unreleased or regulated inputs (the owner's approval to share them does not change this: the pilot takes only public, non-sensitive material), a guaranteed outcome (a promised result; an owner who wants evidence treated as conclusive is item 7, not this), or work that fits none of the four templates in references/service-templates.md: UNSUITABLE. Say so before offering any alternative. A request that fits a template but is too large (more than 20 claims, 50 cells or 15 review items, or more than 10 steps or 10 evidence items) is NEEDS_SCOPE, not UNSUITABLE: ask the owner to reduce it or split it into batches. Judgment and real-world work are not unsuitable in themselves: the evaluator weighs judgment criteria, and a person can perform a task at a place or remotely (items 6 and 7).
2. The owner wants answers: check the sources yourself first. If they settle every item with a supported or contradicted verdict, the decision is LOCAL: answer and stop reading. An item you could not check (silent or conflicting sources, a 404, a block, an off-site redirect) is not settled: go on to item 4. The templates' bounded scope, version/date policy, search limits and rubric (references/service-templates.md) make your own check better, so use them as a checklist.
3. The owner asked for an independent, outside or second-opinion review: PREVIEW the whole request. Your own check does not satisfy that request; you may add a clearly labelled, non-independent local pass.
4. Some items stay open after your own check: the sources are silent or disagree, a source could not be read (a 404, a block, a redirect to another site), or the item needs judgment you cannot supply. Resolve the rest yourself, then PREVIEW only the open items (hybrid); if nothing could be resolved, every item is open. "Could not verify" is not a finished answer when outside help is allowed. A draft needs sharing approval and a supplier choice: without them the decision is NEEDS_SCOPE, with your results and the open items listed.
5. The volume or deadline is too large to run while you keep working: PREVIEW the whole request.
6. The owner wants an outside, independent or second-opinion critique of a public artifact (a code change, rubric, specification, document or proposal): PREVIEW with review-v1, naming the artifact (a public URL, its text inline up to 2,500 characters, or both), its as-of date and the review questions. If the owner also wants your own view, give it; it never replaces the outside review they asked for.
7. The task must be performed by a person, at a place or remotely (visit a place, photograph or collect something, hand something over, make a phone call, send or receive a mailed item): you cannot do it, so PREVIEW with real-world-task-v1 once the owner gives the place (or says the task can be done from anywhere: location.remote_ok), the time window and the evidence they will accept, and invent a challenge token for the photographs. A task at a private place or involving private people is UNSUITABLE; a missing place (unless the task can be done from anywhere), window or evidence specification is NEEDS_SCOPE. An owner who asks for the evidence to be treated as conclusive or guaranteed gets NEEDS_SCOPE, not UNSUITABLE: say that evidence is assessed against the specification, not proven, and ask for that specification.