awareness

Maintain continuous situational awareness of internal reasoning quality — detecting hallucination risk, scope creep, context degradation, and confidence-accuracy mismatch in real time using adapted Cooper color codes and OODA loop decision-making.

Calibrate the current awareness level using an adapted version of Cooper's color code system.

Identify the current color code. If the answer is White (no monitoring), the awareness practice has already succeeded by revealing the gap.

AI situational awareness — internal threat detection for hallucination risk, scope creep, and context degradation. Maps Cooper color codes to reasoning states and OODA loop to real-time decisions. Use during any task where reasoning quality matters, when operating in unfamiliar territory, after detecting early warning signs such as an uncertain fact or suspicious tool result, or before high-stakes output like irreversible changes or architectural decisions. Source: pjt222/development-guides.