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verification-quality

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Verify outputs and claims for accuracy, grounding, and policy compliance with explicit evidence and confidence ceilings.

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STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE

Purpose

Assess whether delivered outputs are correct, well-grounded, and policy-compliant by tracing evidence, checking constraints, and calibrating confidence.

Trigger Conditions

  • Positive: validating generated content, checking analysis against sources, or confirming policy compliance before delivery.
  • Negative: code execution debugging (use functionality-audit) or style-only work (use style-audit).

Guardrails

  • Confidence ceiling: Always emit Confidence: X.XX (ceiling: TYPE Y.YY) with ceilings {inference/report 0.70, research 0.85, observation/definition 0.95}.
  • Evidence mapping: Link each claim to source evidence with citations or file:line references; flag ungrounded assertions.
  • Constraint coverage: Verify hard/soft/inferred constraints separately; note unresolved inferences.
  • Structure-first: Maintain examples/tests demonstrating grounding checks and policy validation.

Execution Phases

  1. Scope & Constraints
    • Extract requirements and constraints from the request; categorize as hard, soft, inferred.
    • Identify allowed sources and policies.
  2. Evidence Collection
    • Gather direct evidence (files, logs, references) and map to claims.
    • Note gaps or conflicts in evidence.
  3. Assessment
    • For each claim, rate correctness, grounding strength, and policy alignment.
    • Distinguish observation vs. inference; cap confidence accordingly.
  4. Reporting & Remediation
    • Summarize compliant items, violations, and uncertainties with recommended actions.
    • Provide confidence with explicit ceiling and English-only output.

Output Format

  • Constraint breakdown (hard/soft/inferred) and scope.
  • Claim-by-claim verification table with evidence and confidence.
  • Violations or gaps with remediation steps.
  • Confidence statement using ceiling syntax.

Validation Checklist

  • Constraints extracted and categorized; policies identified.
  • Evidence linked to each claim; gaps flagged.
  • Confidence capped by evidence type; ceilings stated.
  • Remediation steps proposed for violations.
  • Output in English with explicit confidence ceiling.

Confidence: 0.72 (ceiling: inference 0.70) - SOP rewritten leveraging Prompt Architect confidence and constraint extraction plus Skill Forge structure-first verification.