Godmode Evidence

Outcome

A claim lands at the grade it asks for on the first attempt, because its citations are shaped to be graded rather than argued: exit-bearing commands run through --verify, a hypothesis names what would kill it, stale and loose citations are repaired from the record instead of re-asserted, and a claim is resolved once, with evidence it did not already have.

Use

• A claim was downgraded (to observed or hypothesis) and the cite needs reshaping rather than a wrapper script.
• The Stop gate keeps blocking on sentences with no claim record behind them.
• A hypothesis-grade claim has no falsifier, or its falsifier has aged past due unrun.
• Evidence a standing claim cited has changed, vanished, or come loose from a rewritten commit.
• A claim has been settled and should be resolved held, failed or superseded.

Do Not Use

• Independently rechecking a verdict another pass already accepted - that is godmode-second-look.
• Root-causing a crash or a red suite - that is godmode-investigation.
• Merging changelog fragments or building a version's release notes - that is godmode-changelog.

Deterministic Execution Flow

1. Reflect before recording. godmode reflect "<the claim text>" - checks the sentence against what the record already says, and names a contradicting or superseding record before a second one is written.
2. Repair what already came loose. godmode claim --stale - grounded claims whose cited file evidence changed or vanished since they were recorded; godmode freshness - standing sources that are no longer what was graded; godmode reanchor - citations whose files changed or whose commits are gone.
   • Fallback: before a history rewrite, godmode reanchor --snapshot fingerprints every cited commit; after it, godmode reanchor --remap finds each one's new sha.
3. Shape the cite to verify first time. godmode claim "<claim>" --grade verified --cite cmd:"<an exit-bearing command>" --verify - every cmd: citation runs through the attested checker first. Exit-bearing forms (git diff --quiet, grep -q, cmp -s, test, git merge-base --is-ancestor) verify directly; a state-reporting command (git status, ls) caps at observed no matter what it prints. Name a file line with file:<path>#L<n> and a record with seq:<n>.
   • Fallback: a claim that still downgrades names why in next_action; fix that citation, never wrap the command in a script to change its grade.
4. Give a hypothesis its falsifier. godmode claim "<hypothesis>" --grade hypothesis --refuted-by "<the one command or observation that would refute it>".
5. Run the falsifiers that aged. godmode verify --falsifiers --dry-run lists every hypothesis or incident falsifier aged past two days with no attestation; then godmode verify --falsifiers runs each and attests it on its own.
6. Resolve once, with fresh evidence. godmode claim --resolve <seq> --outcome <held|failed|superseded> --cite <evidence the claim did not already cite> - a claim resolves at most once.
7. Clear the Stop-gate backlog. godmode status remaining --digest - its claims.parked count is the claim-shaped sentences the Stop gate parked unrecorded; each gets a claim from step 3 or is softened. For the public surfaces, godmode claim --scan lists claim-shaped sentences whose line names no reproduction and no claim record.

Read PURPOSE.md for the archive records this skill exists to close.

Must Not

• Never write a wrapper script to turn a state-reporting command into an exit-bearing one; use an exit-bearing form directly.
• Never record a hypothesis without --refuted-by; instead name the observation that would refute it, since a theory nothing could refute is not a finding.
• Never re-assert a stale claim over its drifted evidence; repair it from step 2 or resolve it superseded.
• Never resolve a claim with only the evidence it was recorded with, or resolve one sequence twice; instead cite fresh evidence once, and supersede if the outcome later changes.
• Never run verify --falsifiers before its --dry-run listing; know what will run before it attests.

Acceptance

• A claim citing an exit-bearing command through --verify records at the grade it asked for.
• godmode verify --falsifiers --dry-run lists no falsifier aged past due once step 5 has run.

If an assertion cannot be proved, report the unmet assertion and the next safe action rather than the outcome it was meant to prove.