---
type: Skill
title: Source Review
description: Use when asked to understand documents, repositories, specifications, tutorials, transcripts, or other source artifacts.
tags: [skill, source-review, evidence, reading, okf]
timestamp: 2026-06-26T00:00:00-03:00
okf_version: "0.1"
source_status: distilled
source_name: private dogfood skill pattern
risk_level: low
requires_review: false
---

# Source Review

## Trigger

Use when asked to understand documents, repositories, specifications, tutorials, transcripts, or other source artifacts.

## Inputs

- Source artifacts.
- User-stated goal, if any.
- Existing project or bundle context, if relevant.

## Procedure

1. Read the source before forming conclusions.
2. Identify the source's native concepts and terminology.
3. Separate facts, decisions, assumptions, and open questions.
4. Distinguish what the source says from what is inferred.
5. Identify unknowns explicitly.
6. Report findings before proposing changes.

## Verification

- Claims are grounded in source artifacts.
- Source terminology is preserved where it matters.
- Inferences are labeled as inferences.
- Unknowns are stated explicitly.

## Failure Modes

- Skimming and inferring intent.
- Replacing source ontology with familiar patterns.
- Reporting conclusions before understanding the source.
- Treating generated summaries as source artifacts.