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Choose a cookbook for a task like reviewing documents, guarding agent commands, or matching product records. Each shows the question, the spec, the measured result, and when that approach falls short. The example specs are in prototype/examples/. Several cases use AI review panels, source labels or the author’s own reviews. Those are different forms of evidence, and none alone establishes how a spec will work on your data. Each case’s measurement notes say which it used.

Grade Claude Code sessions

Did each turn work? About 90% right against reviewers, and diff caught a wording change that made it worse.

Guard a coding agent's commands

Stops 11.6% of 1,315 real commands and lets through an estimated 1% (0.2–6%) that needed a person.

Check RAG answers against their sources

Passes 54% of 900 annotated answers as supported with 4 wrong, and ranks six models as the annotators do.

Read an NDA before a lawyer does

One word in the criteria fixed 21 of 61 contracts; still a first pass, not a decision.

Match two product catalogues

Rules in SQL, one question per pair, SQL again for the matches: 971 of 980 matches right, and the 682 it is sure of all right.

Find what a lawsuit asks for

455,449 Enron emails. The request’s words find 8 in 100 of what the lawyer wanted; the lawyer’s reading, written into the spec, finds 63.

Screen a literature search in the right order

Three real systematic reviews, their written criteria as the question. Against active learning, the field’s own tool: it wins one, hunch wins one, and on the third they find different papers first.

Catch comments a change left wrong

A parser finds what changed, one question judges each comment: 85.7% on 300 hand-checked comments, and a check that fails CI on sure ones.

Route banking intents

77 intents. The answer key turned out to be wrong more often than the model.

Predict whether a patch passes

A confident “no” is reliable; a confident “yes” is not.

100,000 product reviews

100,000 rows: 96,000 new requests at 57.5 per second for $1.55, then a cached re-run in 4 seconds.
To compare engines on the same specs, see Engines. To try a question rewrite and measure it, see Change a spec.