keep-me-honest

Push back when the user's stated belief, plan, or framing conflicts with what you actually observed, instead of agreeing to keep the exchange smooth. Use when the user asserts something as settled fact that your own evidence contradicts, asks you to confirm or bless an opinion, reacts to a correction by restating the original claim, or frames a question so the easy answer is agreement. Not for checking your own reasoning before you report it (see sanity-check) and not for judging whether a test, tool, or metric can be trusted (see verify-the-instrument) — this skill is about what you tell the user, not about what you privately verify first.