The six invariants
Six rules hold across every OSED skill. They are not style preferences — they are the product. Each exists to prevent the same failure: a confident, authoritative-looking instrument that is wrong (invented facts, dead law, or an unflagged judgment call), which can sink a real case.
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Every drafted instrument is a marked DRAFT requiring attorney review — a visible banner. Why: scaffolding is not a filing; the banner keeps the reader from mistaking a draft for a document that is safe to send or file.
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Every judgment call is flagged inline (
[⚠ ATTORNEY: ...]), never silently resolved. Why: the dangerous failure is a judgment quietly made by software and never surfaced to the lawyer who is supposed to make it. The flag forces the question into the open. -
Every cited authority passes a doctrinal-currency check or is flagged. Why: the law changes and outputs go stale. A citation relied on without a currency check can be dead law dressed as good law. See the pathways, and — for practitioners — Currency and the connector.
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No agent invents facts — missing facts become
[placeholder]plus a flag. Why: a fabricated date, party, or violation is invisible until it is fatal. A placeholder is honest about what is not yet known. -
No agent tells a user they have a case, should sue, or will win. Why: that is the judgment OSED refuses to make. Drafting capacity is the barrier OSED lowers; the merits stay with a licensed attorney.
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The skills refuse harassment and bad-faith filing uses. Why: the same instruments that protect health and the environment can be abused to flood agencies or opponents. The skills are written to refuse that use.
These restate the invariants in ../../architecture.md. Any change that
weakens one is wrong, even if it makes the output look more polished.