arming-thought

A fact-first reasoning framework establishes observable evidence validation before routing tasks to downstream skills, ensuring the agent avoids premature conclusions and maintains disciplined scope control for sub-agent work.

Validate evidence by applying explicit attention to observable facts before completion, triggering downstream skill routing only when clearly useful for analysis, investigation, or planning tasks.

Metacognition in assistant orchestration evaluates incomplete evidence to select appropriate methods, routing tasks to specialized skills only when clearly useful while maintaining disciplined scope control.

Use fact-first validation when evidence is incomplete or multiple skills may fit, ensuring observable facts are checked before conclusions are reached and downstream delegation occurs.

No, fact-first routing should be skipped for narrow concrete sub-agent tasks, as scope control instructions explicitly exclude delegated sub-agent work from this validation framework.

Premature conclusions occur when a reasoning framework lacks fact-first discipline, failing to validate observable evidence before routing to downstream skills for analysis or planning.