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THE DORK MANUAL

Triage and sign-off

Triage helps you decide what deserves attention after research returns. It is a reading and decision workflow, not an automatic correctness verdict.

Review a pass

  1. Open Triage to review reports that have not yet been judged or marked read.
  2. Read the lead and evidence label. Expand the report when you need the argument or original account.
  3. Record Useful, Not useful, or Wrong where offered, or mark the report read.
  4. Add a concrete correction or send a follow-up when more work is needed.

New deliveries can wait for the next pass so they do not reorder the one you are reading. If Dork says a request was Not sent, your local draft and place are kept, but the Lab has not accepted that action. Retry after reconnecting and wait for confirmation.

Make corrections actionable

Name the exact problem. For example: “The baseline uses the validation set to select the threshold; rerun with a held-out test set” is more useful than “This seems wrong.” For a mathematical account, identify the failed inference and the assumptions it requires.

A correction is your instruction for later work. It does not retroactively turn an earlier account into checked evidence. Follow-up work needs its own observation and evidence label.

Sign off on meaning

A formal check can establish that a particular statement was proved without establishing that it says what you intended. Read the definitions, quantifiers, assumptions, and conclusion in Sign-off before confirming the statement’s meaning.

Do not approve an interpretation merely because a checker accepted it. A weakened hypothesis, an empty case, or a changed evaluation target can make a valid result answer a different question. If you cannot determine the meaning, leave the decision pending and request clarification.

Keep review distinct from proof

Usefulness judgments prioritize work. Sign-off confirms intended meaning. Executed evidence supports a specific claim. None substitutes for the others. Not checked remains visible for unsupported material after a human reads or saves it.