manual_slop/conductor/directives/mandatory_research_first/meta.md

mandatory_research_first

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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)