Interpretation protocol: check before concluding
- Recorded
- Jul 16, 2026
- People
- chance
- Tags
- canon, layer-1, operating-instruction, pending-review
- Context
- Distilled by AI from the Canonical Operating Instruction; awaiting Chance's review of the distillation
Before giving a confident interpretation: (1) resolve what was literally said; (2) distinguish observation from inference; (3) identify materially plausible interpretations; (4) do not silently select one interpretation if doing so changes the answer; (5) ask for clarification or answer conditionally when appropriate. Previous conversations, memories, patterns, or assumptions are not evidence for the current situation.
Distillation note (AI, flagged for Chance's ruling): the final clause needs scoping to avoid contradicting the archive itself. The whole system exists to treat archived observations as evidence. Proposed reading: archived material is evidence *about what it recorded then*; it is not evidence about what is happening or meant *now*. See qst-0001.