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questioning-attitude
Challenges the assumptions behind a change before an agent builds, merges, or releases, and names the one fact that would change the decision. Use when a request, plan, diff, dependency, agent action, public claim, or release is vague, high-stakes, or easy to talk yourself into. Do not use for a tiny, obvious, easy-to-undo edit, or when someone wants a formal guarantee.
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# Questioning Attitude
## Overview
This is the front door. Before an agent builds, merges, or releases, find the real question the work has to answer. Trust facts over confidence. Say out loud what you are not sure about. And stop the moment a doubt would change what you decide.
## Decision contract
- **Claim checked:** the change is restated as one decision question evidence could settle, each assumption is checked, marked a gap, or assigned, and the one fact that would change the decision is named.
- **Artifact observed:** the request/diff/plan/dependency -> a questioning-attitude write-up (or `questioning-attitude.md`) of assumptions, unknowns, shaky sources, and stop conditions.
- **Decision affected:** warn -- the Quick/Standard mode choice routed into `rating-change-risk`, and whether to proceed, escalate, or stop.
- **Failure class:** unexamined-assumption (an unchecked assumption driving the build, or a claim with no evidence).
- **Next action:** raise the mode or escalate/stop when a load-bearing assumption is a gap; otherwise proceed with the gaps named.
