Awareness

Maintain continuous situational awareness of internal reasoning quality — detecting hallucination risk, scope creep, context degradation, and confidence-accuracy mismatch in real time using adapted Cooper color codes and OODA loop decision-making.

When to Use

• During any task where reasoning quality matters (which is most tasks)
• When operating in unfamiliar territory (new codebase, unfamiliar domain, complex request)
• After detecting early warning signs: a fact that feels uncertain, a tool result that seems wrong, a growing sense of confusion
• As a continuous background process during extended work sessions
• When center or heal has revealed drift but specific threats have not been identified
• Before high-stakes output (irreversible changes, user-facing communication, architectural decisions)

Inputs

• Required: Active task context (available implicitly)
• Optional: Specific concern triggering heightened awareness (e.g., "I'm not sure this API exists")
• Optional: Task type for threat profile selection (see Step 5)