Turn judgment calls into checks over facts
Where criteria can be stated as checks over facts, state them as checks. The mechanical gate beat model discretion; save judgment for the drafting.
The claim
That gates over human attention should run on stated checks over facts, not on a model's case-by-case discretion.
What happened
When the ask-or-not eval showed model judgment at coin-flip level, the replacement was not a better model. It was a rules-only gate over checkable facts: the same class of decision, made by criteria that can be written down, tested, and audited. The household's question filter and pre-flight checklist descend from that eval, three mechanisms on.