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title: "epistemic-self-monitoring"
description: "Observation-vs-conjecture discipline for coding agents. Bundles the epistemic-self-monitoring skill (the 'what': claims carry their evidence and a named falsifier; only verified claims become facts or closures) with per-"
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last-updated: 2026-09-16
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# epistemic-self-monitoring
Observation-vs-conjecture discipline for coding agents. Bundles the epistemic-self-monitoring skill (the 'what': claims carry their evidence and a named falsifier; only verified claims become facts or closures) with per-host hooks (the 'when'). Non-blocking by default; an opt-in strict mode gates closures on a complete [EPISTEMIC CLOSE] block. Portable core: the skill only; hooks are host-specific (hooks/ for Claude Code, cursor/ for Cursor).
- Slug: epistemic-self-monitoring
- Publisher: David Giordano
- Repository: https://github.com/3dgiordano/agent-plugins
- Manifest: plugins/epistemic-self-monitoring/plugin.json
- Version: 0.1.2
- License: Apache-2.0
- Category (editorial): other
- Skills: 1 (epistemic-self-monitoring)
- MCP servers: 0
- Stars: 0
- Repository created: 2026-09-15
- Repository last pushed: 2026-09-15
- Publisher type: User
- Listing: https://agentpluginsdirectory.com/plugins/epistemic-self-monitoring
- Schema: https://agent-plugins.org/schemas/1.0.0/plugin.schema.json

## What epistemic-self-monitoring does, in the publisher's words

Observation-vs-conjecture discipline for coding agents. Keeps what the agent saw apart from what it thinks it means, and makes the difference visible: a claim carries its evidence and a named falsifier, and only a claim that survived that falsifier may become a fact, a defect entry, or a closure.

It answers "is what I concluded actually true?": the sibling of executive-self-monitoring, which answers "am I doing what the plan asks?".

Being wrong is fine. Recording an unverified conjecture as a fact is not.

- Skill (skills/epistemic-self-monitoring/SKILL.md): the protocol, the claim ladder, the rival-explanation checklist, the closure checks, and the [EPISTEMIC CLOSE] block format. Single source of truth; every host loads the same file.
- Hook adapters: three layers, same on both hosts:

From the project README, punctuation lightly normalized. Full text: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/3dgiordano/agent-plugins/HEAD/plugins/epistemic-self-monitoring/README.md

## Skills

- epistemic-self-monitoring: Observation-vs-conjecture discipline for diagnosis and closure. Every claim carries its evidence and a named falsifier; only a verified claim may become a fact, a defect entry or a closure. Not a blocker: a way of writing that keeps what you saw apart from what you think it means. Triggers: debuggi…

Descriptions come from the frontmatter of each SKILL.md, punctuation lightly normalized.