Field Guide · Judgment and ops

Clear-eyes ops

Operational habits for privacy, logging, and judgment when AI touches real work.

Ops is part of craft

If a prompt touches customers, money, or health-adjacent data, treat it like production software.

Minimum bar

  • Know what leaves your environment
  • Redact before you paste
  • Prefer private or approved tools for sensitive work
  • Log decisions, not secrets

Judgment calls

When unsure, do not ask the model for permission to be careful. Be careful, then ask the model for help inside that boundary.