Resolve Before Asking — Exhaust the Brain Before Bothering the User

Convention: see conventions/brain-first.md for the base lookup chain (search → query → get_page → external APIs). This skill extends that chain one hop further, to the human boundary: asking the user is the LAST resort, after the brain AND external escalation, not a shortcut around them.

Convention: see _brain-filing-rules.md — pages touched by the ingest-resolution section file by primary subject (people/, companies/).

Purpose

Never ask the user "who is X?" when the answer already exists in the brain.