recall: the vault answers first

The most expensive sentence an AI can say to a founder is "we have no notes on that" when the notes exist. Recall reads before it speaks, cites what it finds by exact file, and admits plainly when the vault is genuinely empty.

  the question
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  [ index ]     read index.md first, drill into pages
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  [ verify ]    list + grep BEFORE any "nothing on record"
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  [ answer ]    cited by file, confidence surfaced
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  [ bank ]      a real synthesis goes back into the vault

Step 0: Preflight