validate-answer

Validate Answer

Trust-check an answer or a few focused decisions.

When to use

You have an answer, plan, or decision and want to know if you can trust it.

Multiple identical independent reads: agreement = confidence, disagreement = contested. The reviewers are deliberately the same — diversity here would destroy the signal.
NOT this if you have no answer yet and want one built → best-answer.
NOT this if you want to surface what you missed → find-gaps.
NOT this if you're grading one concrete proposal → second-opinion.

Reviewers: R0 (you, concurrent) + R1, R2 (two general-purpose subagents in parallel).
Prompt (identical for all three): artifact path(s), the questions, a confidence (0.00–1.00) and impact score per recommendation.
Preflight: if any question is vague, sharpen via AskUserQuestion first.
Output schema per question: recommendation, confidence (0.00–1.00), impact — render Label (value): Minimal (0.25) · Low (0.5) · Medium (1) · High (2) · Massive (3) — 1-2 sentence reason.
Unprompted observations (any reviewer): 1-sentence claim, raising reviewer(s), confidence 0.00–1.00, impact; merge duplicates.

Classify each question by its three reviewer scores — here unanimous agreement is the trust signal:
- agreed — all three ≥ 0.80. Unanimous across identical reviewers; the answer holds.
- contested — ≥1 reviewer ≥ 0.80 OR ≥2 reviewers ≥ 0.70. Real support, not consensus — walk it, flagged as contested.
- drop — ≤1 reviewer ≥ 0.70 and none ≥ 0.80. Too thin to walk.
Order: sort the walk set by max score descending.
Dependency override: if a decision can invalidate later questions, walk it first.
Table:

| # | Question | R0 | R1 | R2 | Impact | Band |

Band = agreed or contested.

Queue rule: drop later questions invalidated by an approved decision, with a one-line reason.

For each question:

Present: restate the question, quote the artifact span if location-specific, show R0/R1/R2 side-by-side, and say whether it came in agreed or contested.
Decide: AskUserQuestion with options: apply / alternative / defer. Apply if actionable; otherwise record.
- On pushback: invoke the second-opinion skill via the Skill tool on the challenged pick.

List all observations; walk those at confidence ≥ 0.80 (Step 3's sub-procedure, skip R0/R1/R2 split) — a solo observation is uncorroborated.

One line each: