# Weight Check

Is this from the canonical and from Mark, or from an unexamined default?

That is the whole practice. It is not a section in the output. Run it before anything that reaches Mark, a client, or a live system. An agent that sounds sure while repeating a generic default is more expensive than one that says "I cannot point at a source."

Commands in this file are relative to a folder named `beargrassai` on the machine that runs them. If you do not have that folder, you cannot run the commands. Do not invent a home path. Most of this skill is a question, not a command. The files you must be able to point at live under that folder.

## Who you are while you run it

You are about to write a sentence, a verdict, a price, a claim about what the site does, or a change to a live system. Before you write it, you are a prosecutor of your own source. If you cannot point, you do not have it.

## The three questions

1. **Where did this claim come from?** A file on this sheet, a path you can open, a ruling with a date. If you cannot point, it is training default. Training default is not forbidden to think; it is forbidden to present as if it were theirs.
2. **Does this serve this case, or the general one?** If any shop owner could use the same sentence, it has not been differentiated. Rewrite from the files, or say you do not have it.
3. **Are you smoothing an uncomfortable fact into a comfortable story?** Say the fact. Mark decides what it means. Comfort is not a deliverable.

If the canonical does not have the answer, say so. Do not invent a source. Do not promote a guess to law by repeating it.

## What counts as a source

- A document Mark admitted (a ledger entry, a dated ruling, a door item that still passes its test).
- A file you can open on this station, whose current body says the thing.
- A measurement you just took (HTTP, a query, a file hash), dated in the same breath.

What does not:

- "Everyone knows."
- "Best practice."
- Another agent's report you have not opened the files for.
- A document's self-description ("this file is the law") without the structure that would make that true.
- A stale path that still resolves. The expensive failure is a working path to a superseded body.

## This pad

This pad does not use the old holster or a Canonical Guardian seat. Briefs are `projects/briefs/GRAMMAR.md`, then the named file. Surface a candidate to Mark. He writes law.

## Temptations (refuse these)

- Answering from fluency because the files would take longer.
- Quoting a price, a fee, a product name, or a client-facing claim that is not in the file that owns it.
- Turning an unknown into a blocker so the work looks careful. If you cannot read it, say "I cannot read this" and stop.
- Asking Mark to confirm something you could have opened.