Prompt for useful reasoning artifacts without over-trusting a chain-of-thought explanation.
The move: request reviewable reasoning artifacts. There is a practical difference between "show me your thinking" and "show me what I can check." The first can produce a long explanation that feels reassuring. The second produces a compact audit trail: assumptions, evidence, decision criteria, checks, and uncertainty. That distinction matters because chain-of-thought explanations are not guaranteed to be faithful explanations of the model process. They are generated text. They can rationalize a weak answer, omit a biasing feature, or sound more certain than the underlying evidence supports. Use this replacement: Instead of "Explain your chain of thought." Use "Work through…
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