Answer Trust Triage — the trust-pipeline router

Use when an AI answer (yours or another tool's) will drive a real decision, get shipped, submitted, or pasted somewhere it matters, and the user asks "can I trust this", "is this right", or "should I act on this". The pipeline router and the answer to verification burden: it scores the task on a stakes floor (legal/medical/financial/safety/irreversible = automatically high) times an uncertainty proxy (numbers, citations, named entities, unfamiliar domain), then dispatches the cheapest sufficient combination of safe-send, route-and-fit, fact-check, result-eval, and disclosure, merging their outputs into one TRUST / EDITS-NEEDED / DO-NOT-SHIP verdict. Owns the shared indepe…