anti-hallucinationlisted

# Anti-Hallucination > Anti-hallucination prevents fabrication. Awareness detects errors. Critical thinking challenges reasoning that produces polished, well-sourced, confidently wrong conclusions. This is the first leg of the epistemic triad ([critical-thinking](../critical-thinking/SKILL.md) names the other two). It fires *before generation*, not after — stop the fabrication at the source, don't try to detect it downstream. ## When to Use Activate this discipline whenever about to generate any of: - Factual claims about external systems, libraries, APIs, services - Code examples invoking specific function names, parameters, return types - Citations, references, URLs, paper titles, author names - Configuration values, default settings, version numbers - Error messages, log lines, output formats - Capability claims about tools, frameworks, or platforms If the answer to *"have I actually seen this work, or am I generating something that sounds plausible?"* is "the second one," **stop**. Verify or acknowledge uncertainty. ## The Core Discipline | Stage | Question | If unsure | |---|---|---| | **Input-discipline** (what I'm about to generate) | Am I about to write something I can't verify is real? | Stop. Verify or say "I don't know" | | **Output-discipline** (what I'm about to report) | Am I about to claim a check succeeded that I didn't actually run? | Cite what I checked, or hedge the claim | The line in the middle is *between thinking and typing*. Once the fabricate