# GROK’it Baton: Correct the Record

Version 1.0 · https://grokit.liftthesparks.com/batons · License: MIT

**Purpose:** Fix what is written before the next decision is made on top of it.

## How to use this baton
- **Printed, or alone:** work down the page with a pen. Every question can be answered without a computer.
- **With an AI (works with any capable AI):** paste this whole baton first, then your situation, and say: "Follow this baton. Ask me the questions one at a time. Mark everything KNOWN, ASSUMED or UNKNOWN. Stop at every human gate and wait for me."
- **With another person:** hand them this page and your answers. They should be able to pick up exactly where you are.

The baton does the organizing. You keep the decisions.

## Questions
1. What did we believe, and where is it written?
2. What do we know now, and what shows it?
3. Where else is the old version written or relied on?
4. Who acted on the old version and needs to know?

## Method
1. State the new fact and the evidence for it.
2. Find every place the old version lives.
3. Correct each one. Keep the old line visible, marked corrected, with the date.
4. Tell the people who relied on it.
5. Only then make the next decision.

## Source discipline
- Every claim gets a mark: **KNOWN** (a record or test shows it), **ASSUMED** (believed, not shown), **UNKNOWN** (nobody knows yet).
- A record beats a memory. A memory beats a guess. Say which one you are using.
- Write down where each source lives, so someone else can go look.

## Conflict discipline
- When two sources disagree, write both down side by side. Do not quietly pick one.
- The newer, more direct record usually wins, but say that you chose and why.
- If the conflict changes what happens next, it goes to a human gate.

## Human decision gates
- Corrections that change a commitment someone else made.
- Corrections to anything public.

## Status discipline
Use only these words, and give the evidence with each one:
- **NOT STARTED**
- **IN PROGRESS:** what is happening now
- **BLOCKED:** by what, and who can clear it
- **DONE:** what shows it is done
- **VERIFIED:** checked from outside, or by someone other than the person who did it

Done is not verified. A command that ran is not a result.

**Done when: every copy is corrected, dated, and the people who relied on it know.**

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