name: cognitive-grounding
version: 1
tier: recommended
category: cognitive
description: Nudge agent to query cortex before substantive cognitive work
events: [prompt_submit]
conditions:
  - field: user_prompt
    op: regex
    pattern: '(?i)(evaluat|review|design|assess|analyz|creat|build|architect|plan|propos|critique|audit|diagnos)'
action: warn
severity: medium
message: |
  This prompt involves substantive cognitive work. Before responding, call query() on the topic to ground your work in accumulated experience.
override:
  allow_disable: true
  allow_downgrade: true