Authority Scaffolding

trigger

"'Prospective Memory (McDaniel & Einstein, 2007)' — to explain that a git hook runs automatically."

what it is

An academic citation to justify a self-evident observation. Moving files into subdirectories becomes "Ecological Rationality (Gigerenzer, Todd & ABC Research Group, 1999)."

what it signals

instead

"We added a post-commit hook so we wouldn't forget." If the academic connection is genuinely illuminating, keep it.

refs

• wake:docs/internal/weaver/prospective-metacognitive-regulation-analysis.md