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Check local docs, ADRs, interfaces, schemas, and primary upstream sources before guessing. Use when work depends on APIs, frameworks, repo conventions, architecture decisions, or policy. NOT for purely local refactors or cases where code is the only source of truth.
alinafe82/cognitive-deadlift · ★ 0 · Code & Development · score 72
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# Read The Docs First ## Purpose Prevent unsupported claims about tools, APIs, frameworks, and repo decisions. ## Preserves Source-based reasoning. ## Required Evidence - Claim, plan, or task that depends on documented behavior. - Local docs, ADRs, schemas, interfaces, or primary upstream sources. - Version or date when external behavior may have changed. ## Failure Signs - Memory is cited as documentation. - Inference is presented as a source-backed fact. - A docs gap is hidden instead of named. ## When To Use - The task depends on external API, framework, CLI, or runtime behavior. - The repo may already document a decision in `CONTEXT.md`, ADRs, schemas, or interfaces. - The user states a rule or convention that could be outdated. - AI proposes behavior without citing a primary source. ## When Not To Use - Purely local refactors whose behavior is fully determined by code. - Cases where the user supplied the authoritative source in the prompt. - Cases where no docs exist and code is explicitly the source of truth. ## Inputs Expected - Claim, plan, or task that depends on documented behavior. - Relevant repo files, docs, ADRs, package names, API names, or version constraints. - Whether external browsing is allowed when upstream docs are needed. ## Output Expected ```md Sources checked: Relevant constraints: Inference: Docs gap: Next action: ``` ## Process 1. Check local `CONTEXT.md`, `CONTEXT-MAP.md`, `docs/adr/`, README files, schemas, and interface definit