Always audit frozen inputs and validation rules before adjudicating

For governance-adjudication tasks, first verify frozen artifact hashes and input pins, then inspect the governing protocol, schema, validator, tests, and each record’s complete ordered source envelope before consulting model codings or reaching conclusions. Treat primary-source evidence as authoritative, preserve frozen IDs and ordering, and use exact grounded quotes. Before delivering output, deterministically validate schema shape, ontology values, dates, evidence bounds, reviewer provenance, claim grounding, graph-edge diffs, record count, and gate behavior. Do not modify repository files unless explicitly requested; report line-cited defects or produce only the authorized validated payload.