CON-004 · Content, Format, and Evidence

Prefer firsthand evidence where relevant

• Major
• IF
• OR
• THEN
• ELSE

The decision

• IF
  • the task involves reviews, demonstrations, processes, products, or lived outcomes
• THEN
  • show what was actually tested, observed, used, or built
• ELSE
  • use the best available primary evidence

Primary metric

firsthand-evidence coverage

Guardrail

conflicts of interest

Reason

Makes the decision explicit, measurable, and reversible where possible.

LAKA levels

• Major

Operators

• IF
• OR
• THEN
• ELSE

Governs gates

• information advantage

Source

04-IF-ELSE-AND-OR-RULEBOOK.md — CON-004 — Prefer firsthand evidence where relevant

The other eleven rules in Content, Format, and Evidence

• CON-001 Select format from task IF the dominant task is known Major
• CON-002 Answer early IF a user can benefit from a concise direct answer Minor
• CON-003 Require information advantage IF the proposed asset only restates widely available material Major
• CON-005 Make evidence visible IF a claim depends on a source, test, credential, or dataset Minor
• CON-006 State limitations IF evidence has uncertainty, sample limits, conflicts, exceptions, or changing conditions Minor
• CON-007 Avoid arbitrary length targets IF a word count is proposed without a task-based reason Baseline
• CON-008 Govern AI-assisted content IF AI assists research, drafting, transformation, or scale Structural
• CON-009 Require row-level uniqueness at scale IF a template generates pages from a dataset Structural
• CON-010 Use media when it improves the task IF an image, diagram, video, audio, or interactive can explain or demonstrate more effectively Major
• CON-011 Define refresh triggers IF content depends on changing data or conditions Structural
• CON-012 Support commercial pages with useful assets IF a commercial page is important but difficult to cite or insufficient for research-stage users Major