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reporting-triage-validation

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Validate a finding BEFORE you write it up — kill false positives, confirm real impact, check scope, and deduplicate. Load after a candidate bug and before reporting-bug-bounty-writeup or reporting-pentest-report. Signals: "I think I found", "is this reportable", a scanner hit, a reflected value, a 500 error, an open redirect, a CORS wildcard, "should I submit this".

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# Triage & validation — earn the right to report

## When it applies
You have a *candidate* finding and you are about to spend an hour writing it up. Run this gate
first. It applies double on bug bounty (an invalid/duplicate report costs your signal and the
triager's time) and still matters on a pentest (a false positive in the report costs your
credibility with the client).

## Why it works
Most "findings" die on one of a few predictable questions. Asking them up front — cheaply, in
order — kills the weak ones before they cost report-writing time, and forces the survivors to
carry the evidence a triager actually needs. The rule is simple: **one failed gate = stop.**

## Method — four gates, in order
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