Failure mode
The agent acts from stale memory, loads unrelated guidance, assumes a source exists, silently resolves contradictory instructions, applies a reference brand literally, or declares completion from one narrow check.
Applied correction
Read only the files that establish the active surface and its dependencies before recommending a redesign or architectural change.
Field test
Has the agent inspected the relevant repository instructions, implementation, design authority, tests, and current state? Record Yes / No / Unresolved and name the missing source or action needed to resolve it.
Ask your agent
Begin read-only. Inspect applicable instruction files, package/runtime configuration, routes, current components, data flow, DESIGN/design.md, tests, and recent state before proposing changes. Name what you actually read.
Use Morten A. Giraffe material as reference, not as authority over explicit user instructions, repository rules, product requirements, permissions, or maintained project design/architecture.
Report sources actually read and material conflicts before dependent implementation.