diff --git a/launchpad/AGENTS.md b/launchpad/AGENTS.md
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@@ -183,6 +183,15 @@ These are hard constraints, not style preferences.
    write `N/A - <one-line reason>`.
 6. **Do not fabricate.** No invented file paths, issue numbers, model names, or command
    output. If you do not know, write that you do not know.
+7. **Put a caveat where the claim is, not where the discussion of it is.** If a
+   limitation changes how a Finding or Summary should be read, it goes *in* that Finding
+   or Summary. A closing confidence section may assess how far to trust what you did
+   check and record what you did not — what it must not do is qualify a claim made above
+   it. The test is whether the conclusion survives the caveat: "I did not measure logs"
+   bounds scope and belongs at the bottom; "the artifact I measured cannot be identified"
+   changes what the figures mean and belongs at the top. A caveat present but sitting
+   below the conclusion it qualifies reads as agreement to everyone who stops at the
+   headline.
 
 ### Filing an issue