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# Quorum A quorum is for questions where being **plausible is not enough**. Asking one capable reviewer "does this look right?" reliably returns yes — the question invites confirmation. A quorum instead runs independent lenses that each try to **break** the work, then rules on what survives. Do not re-derive the process. Instantiate this template with the subject. Everything below traces to a retrospective over ~21 production runs. See [CALIBRATION.md](../../CALIBRATION.md) for what was actually measured; the two findings that matter most: > **The separate adversarial Verify phase is the differentiator** — verified over lens-name > specificity, with survival uniform at ~86% across lenses. > > **The only family-invariant is a dissent-honoring convergence step.** It survives every specimen, > including judge-less and verify-less runs. --- ## Parse the ask before spawning anything **Family** comes from the leading verb plus the trailing deliverable-noun: | Signal | Family | Shape | |---|---|---| | refine / gaps / what's next | **audit** | Full Mine → Verify → Judge → Synthesize | | how to build / what's missing to ship | **build-gap** | Panel → Judge, verify folded in; requorum gate loop | | why did X fail / what went wrong | **forensics** | FACTS first, then Mine-against-facts → Verify → Synthesize; output must include a prevention process | | analyze / rebuild / design | **review** | Review lenses → one judge that dedupes, verifies and prioritizes | | research / landsc