Companion files
The truth-layer templates
The four files from Appendix A of The AI Operator Method, as editable plain text. They are printed in full in the book — these just save you the typing. No email, no signup, no cost.
- TRUTH.jsonAppendix A.1
The canonical fact registry: objective, live and dead lanes, brand rules, the numbers that get misquoted. Every agent reads it before acting, and it wins every conflict.
- FAILURES.mdAppendix A.2
The append-only failure journal. Date, what went wrong, the root cause under the obvious cause, and the executable rule it produced.
- dispatch.mdAppendix A.3
The ops ledger: a queue with one owner per task, and a shipped log where nothing lands without its receipt and its reversal path.
- quality_check.mdAppendix A.4
The pre-ship gate. Every claim the deliverable makes, the observation that proves each one, the banned-pattern scan, and a SHIP or HOLD verdict.
How to use them
Fill the angle-bracket blanks with your own facts, then put all four in the root of the project your agent works in. Point your agent instruction file at TRUTH.json as canonical and at FAILURES.md as required reading before any task that resembles a past entry. That is the whole install — it takes about twenty minutes, and it is the difference between a fleet and a mess.
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