# mandatory_research_first

## v1

**Why this iteration:** Lifted verbatim from `conductor/workflow.md` §"Guiding Principles" #9 (line 46) + `AGENTS.md` "Critical Anti-Patterns" (line 51). This is the baseline encoding — the imperative-rule-with-tools style currently in production.
Future variants will test alternative encodings (rule-only, tabular) against this baseline.
**Source:** `conductor/workflow.md:46 + AGENTS.md:51`

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**Lifted:** 2026-07-02 (Phase 1 harvest by Tier 3 worker; user directive 2026-07-02 moved the header into this meta file)