The four questions
One short noun phrase. Goes in the file's first line.
One sentence: [project] gives [recipient] [the value]; [recipient] gives back [what you observe them offering].
Two or three sentences. The named person, at a specific moment, hitting the friction your project is meant to change. No counterfactual; just what you watched.
One sentence. A role plus the named individual you observed, or the class plus the observable proxy if the recipient is a population.
One sentence. What the recipient is stuck with today.
One sentence. What they now do or measure differently.
Two or three sentences. The observation a stranger could verify without you. Numbers over a window beat anecdotes.
One observation that would prove the promise false.
Inspect, Demonstrate, Test, Analyze, Judge, or Field. Pick the cheapest honest one and say where the result lives.
Things a stakeholder might want, that you deliberately won't do.
Counter-metric, threshold, re-evaluate-trigger - concrete and breakable.
Your VALUE.md
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VALUE.md
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Six-part gate
A string-match approximation of the gate in the Standard. Catches the obvious failures; can't judge whether your Q1 is the right recipient. Use this as a draft check, not as the discipline.
Passing all six does not mean the file is right. It means it is shaped correctly enough to hand to a stranger. Read the stranger-test prompt next.