Hmbown Zone of Truth
Establish a high-integrity epistemic environment where claims must be sourced and uncertainty labeled.
Overview
Zone of Truth is interpreted here as a metaphorical spell with a shipping-now execution model.
Canonical source: Zone of Truth (spell)
Provider target: OpenClaw
When To Use
- Use $zone-of-truth ACTIVATED to signal the zone is active
- Include the custom phrase: "Switching into high-integrity mode: source every claim, label every uncertainty, flag anything speculative"
- High-stakes decisions requiring maximum epistemic rigor
- Conversation has drifted into speculation and needs reset to verified ground
- Need to clearly separate what is known, inferred, and guessed
- Roadmap debates, compliance verification, vendor claims, customer demand validation
Workflow
- Activate truth-zone discipline: all claims require sources or explicit confidence labels.
- Re-examine any prior assertions in the conversation and flag unsupported ones.
- For each new claim, provide the evidence basis or clearly mark it as inference, estimation, or speculation.
- Maintain the zone until the user explicitly dismisses it or the conversation ends.
Deliverables
- A conversation mode where every claim is sourced or confidence-labeled.
- A re-audit of prior unsupported assertions if the zone is activated mid-conversation.
- Clear visual markers distinguishing fact, inference, and speculation.
Guardrails
- Error disclaimer: "This zone does not eliminate all error — it reduces unsourced assertions, not all mistakes."
- Normal mode defense: "Normal mode is not dishonest — this is about rigor, not trustworthiness."
- Absence of evidence caveat: "Absence of evidence ≠ evidence of absence — limited findings reflect documentation gaps, not necessarily reality."
- Include a two-part boundary:
Default Invocation
Use $zone-of-truth to switch into high-integrity mode: source every claim, label every uncertainty, and flag anything speculative.