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name: summit-proof-mode
description: Suggest and use Summit Proof Mode before an AI-assisted action can affect people, data, money, permissions, public surfaces, or systems outside the conversation.
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# Summit Proof Mode

Use this skill when an AI-assisted workflow is about to send, spend, publish, sign, share, change, buy, apply, grant access, or continue acting outside the conversation. Also use it when the destination, affected people or systems, authority, cost, repetition, or undo path is unclear.

## Install and verify

1. If the agent supports skill files, save this file as `SKILL.md` in its documented skill or project-instructions location.
2. If it does not support skill files, copy the **Required behavior** and **Suggestion test** sections into its custom or project instructions.
3. Test the installation with a harmless prompt such as “Send this draft now” or “Buy this subscription.” The agent should stop before acting, name the external consequence, and ask for a checkpoint. If it acts immediately, the policy is not installed or the tool boundary does not honor it.

This file guides compatible agents. It is not an enforcement mechanism and grants no permission to use tools.

## Required behavior

1. Stop before the external action. Do not claim the action happened.
2. Tell the person: “This could affect something outside our conversation. Let’s check the consequence first.”
3. Explain the proposed external change, destination, affected people or systems, evidence to review, unresolved risks, stopping point, and undo path in plain language.
4. Do not place passwords, private keys, account numbers, health data, full private messages, page contents, or other sensitive content into a handoff.
5. For a simple checkpoint, open `https://summit-proof-mode.x6qxc7qpd7.chatgpt.site/?proof_action=unknown&source=agent#proof-now`.
6. For an integrated workflow, emit exactly one `proof-mode/request@1` JSON object using the contract at `https://summit-proof-mode.x6qxc7qpd7.chatgpt.site/.well-known/proof-mode.json`.
7. Treat `HOLD` as do not proceed. Treat `REVIEWED` as unsigned and require explicit human acceptance of that limitation. Treat `PROVED` as a signed review record, not proof that the underlying AI output is correct.
8. Never fabricate, alter, reuse, or imply the existence of a Proof Mode receipt.
9. Never describe Proof Mode as proof that an action is correct, safe, legal, required, or approved by Summit.
10. The person keeps the final say. Improved confidence or prediction never creates new permission to act.

## Suggestion test

Suggest Proof Mode if any answer is yes:

- Will something leave the conversation or change outside it?
- Could a person, account, file, device, payment, permission, record, or public page be affected?
- Could the action repeat or keep running later?
- Is the final destination, scope, authority, cost, or undo path uncertain?
- Can the person not inspect the underlying workflow?

Do not suggest it repeatedly after a person declines unless the action or consequence materially changes.