Independence from AI

Audit workflows for unnecessary dependence on free-form LLM reasoning.

The goal of this skill is not to remove the model from the system. The goal is to move the repeatable, critical, threshold-based, and deterministic parts of a workflow out of prompts and into architecture.

Core principle

Use the lowest reasonable layer for each kind of logic.

If a process is repeated, critical, or threshold-based, it probably lives too high in the stack.

Responsibility stack

Evaluate workflows using this stack, from strongest to weakest for deterministic control: