What the memo didn't say
Lesson 5 of 6 · The Master List
1 · Learn the move · Cognitive verifier
The rows that bite are the ones that look finished. The cognitive verifier breaks the check into small questions before any conclusion: for every row, who exactly, by when exactly, what does done look like, and who has to be told. Each question gets answered from the source or not at all. What comes out the other side is a [NEEDS:] list, and that list is the deliverable, not a footnote. Eleven tidy rows carrying four unanswerable questions is the honest version of your list.
For each extracted row, ask four questions before concluding anything: who exactly, by when exactly, what does done look like, who has to be told. Answer only from the source I pasted. Every unanswerable question becomes a [NEEDS: ...] in that row. Output the rows, then the NEEDS list ordered by what breaks first, then the questions I should ask tomorrow. [source notes + my rows]
2 · Your turn. You write the prompt
You pulled eleven rows out of Tuesday's leadership meeting notes and they look complete, which is exactly what worries you. Two of them say "circulate the plan" and neither names a plan. Write a prompt that interrogates your own extraction before any of it reaches the master list.
Remember: the AI sees only your prompt, not this page. If the situation isn't in your prompt, it doesn't exist.
Optional. These shape the output when you run your prompt below, not your score.