Oracle Verification Reminder

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# System Reminder: Oracle Verification

## Core Principle

**Verify critical factual claims with external oracles. Do not trust AI generation alone for verifiable facts.**

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## When to Use Oracles

### REQUIRED Verification:

✅ **Numerical constants**
- "Speed of light is 299,792,458 m/s" → Verify with NIST
- "Pi = 3.14159..." → Verify with Wolfram Alpha

✅ **Physical laws**
- "F = ma" → Verify with Wikipedia + physics textbooks
- "E = mc²" → Verify with multiple sources

✅ **Standards & specifications**
- "HTTP 200 means OK" → Verify with RFC 9110
- "UTF-8 encoding rules" → Verify with Unicode standard

✅ **Historical facts**
- "World War II ended in 1945" → Verify with Wikipedia
- "Python released in 1991" → Verify with python.org

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### OPTIONAL Verification:

⚠️ **Opinions & interpretations**
- "React is better than Vue" (subjective)
- "This code is readable" (opinion)

⚠️ **Predictions**
- "This stock will rise" (unknowable)
- "AI will achieve AGI by 2030" (speculative)

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## Oracle Priority

**Order of trust (highest to lowest):**

1. **Primary standards:**
   - NIST (physical constants)
   - IEEE, ISO (engineering standards)
   - RFC (internet protocols)
   - Language specs (Python.org, ECMAScript spec)

2. **Academic sources:**
   - ArXiv (research papers)
   - Peer-reviewed journals
   - University databases

3. **Reference sources:**
   - Wikipedia (general knowledge)
   - Wolfram Alpha (calculations)
   - Official documentation

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## Usage Pattern