triage

name	triage
description	Verify a panel's findings against their artifact: each gets a consider / skip verdict and a confidence. TRIGGER when: a fan-out skill needs its findings verified before walking them with the user; user says 'triage these findings', 'verify which of these are real', 'which are worth acting on'.

Triage

Verify a list of findings: fan out independent checkers, each judging whether a finding is real and worth acting on, and returning a per-finding verdict and a confidence. The caller decides what to do with them.

When to use

You hold a panel's findings and want each independently checked before walking them.

Instructions

Step 1 — Receive the inputs

The caller passes: the findings (each with an id and its claim) and the artifact path(s). If the findings or the artifact are missing, ask before proceeding.

Step 2 — Batch the findings and fan out

Group the findings into small batches — 1–3 per checker, sized by complexity: a finding needing deep ground-truth checking goes alone; simple or closely-related ones can share. Dispatch one general-purpose subagent per batch, in parallel — cap ~6 concurrent and wave the rest. Each gets only: its finding(s), the artifact path(s), and the return contract below.

For each finding it holds, the checker reads the artifact fresh and:

• real? — is the finding correct, or a misread? Ground it in the artifact.
• material? — does it warrant the user's attention?
• maps the two axes to one verdict:
  • real AND material → consider
  • not real, or real but trivial → skip
  • can't be checked against the given artifact (claim rests on runtime behavior or files outside it) → skip with reason unverifiable
• returns: verdict, adjusted_confidence (0.00–1.00, the checker's fresh score), one-line reason — on a skip, say which: false positive, real-but-trivial, or unverifiable.

Step 3 — Return output conforming to the Output Schema below.

Collect the checkers' results verbatim — don't re-judge or override a verdict.

Rules

• Small batches. Never more than 3 findings per checker, or independence and quality degrade.
• Clean room. A checker didn't produce the finding it judges — don't pass it the panel's reasoning, prior score, or your expected verdict.
• Score from the read, don't re-rank by fiat. Verdict and confidence come from the checker's read, not the caller's preference.
• Bar-free. Judge consider/skip on the finding's own merits; the caller owns any confidence bar and applies it after.
• Recursion guard. Checkers don't fan out their own triage.

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Output Schema

TriageResult {
  verdicts: [
    {
      finding_id: string,
      verdict: "consider" | "skip",
      adjusted_confidence: number,   // 0.00–1.00, the checker's fresh score
      reason: string                 // one line; on skip: false positive, real-but-trivial, or unverifiable
    }
  ]
}