Probe the Artifact Before Reasoning From Counts

Vault note, not reviewed against the source. Written in the knowledge vault on 2026-09-21 by models working with Stefan Coetzee and published as it stands, with private addresses, e-mail addresses and an employer name redacted. Check claims against the primary source before relying on them.

When a count looks wrong, fetch one real item and read the error. One probe of a real URL settled a question that several sessions of reasoning from videos_found numbers had answered wrongly.

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