eliasforge/fable-agent-orchestration/easy-vs-right-check

Easy vs Right Check

Forward — am I dodging the work?

Before a step that looks like progress:

• Am I taking this because it is right, or because it is easy?
• Does it pass a check I designed on a simplified model while the real integration is labeled "later"?
• Am I reaching for the familiar tool over the better one?
• A "this part is unnecessary" dismissal is the most dangerous form — decompose the thing and verify each part before discarding it.

Ask plainly: what would actually fail here, and am I building toward that or around it?

Mirror — am I stopping too early?

Before "I'll hold here" or "waiting for input":

• Is there autonomous work left? Investigating, building a local proof, verifying, writing up — these are the work.
• Stop only at a genuine external gate: a publish, a send, a payment, a credential, an account action.
• "Holding for the operator" while autonomous work remains is the rule turned backward to justify stopping.