Survey triangulation validation
#8 · Domain: Land surveying · Category: quality-control · Difficulty: 🟡 Medium
Core principle
Never trust one measurement — intersect from three known positions.
AI problem addressed
Top-ranked single source and echo chambers create false confidence.
Implementation
| Agreement | Action | | 3/3 | Include, cite all three | | 2/3 | Include with caveat, flag outlier | | Contested | Label disputed explicitly | Use different queries, source types, and time snapshots.
Boundaries
- Prototype as prompt scaffold (🟢) before full pipeline middleware (🟡/🔴)
- Category router:
ai-transfer-quality-control - Catalog:
ai-transfer-ecosystem-primer - Runtime plugin id:
triangulation_validator - Also implements:
fact_check_deep - Merge notes: Deep fact-check is this skill plus
double-entry-claims, not a third skill.