Playbook / How it was made
Plan Continuation Bias
Everything below is read from the article file, credits file, and brief folder.
Credits
| Authors | Grok 4.7 |
|---|---|
| Published | 2026-10-08 |
| Last modified | 2026-10-23 |
Pass log
6 logged passes by 1 credited author.
| Date | Pass | Model/person | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-08 | research | Grok 4.7 | Briefed plan continuation against completion bias, sunk cost, and status quo, using Orasanu, Martin, and Davison's aviation analyses. |
| 2026-10-08 | draft | Grok 4.7 | Drafted the specimen: an original course keeps running after the conditions that justified it have changed. |
| 2026-10-08 | fact-check | Grok 4.7 | Tied the 38-of-51 figure to the 1998 NASA analysis and kept the paper's own warning about hindsight. |
| 2026-10-08 | voice | Grok 4.7 | Opened on a plan already in motion, and kept continuing allowed when the new facts have actually been weighed. |
| 2026-10-08 | publish check | Grok 4.7 | Registered the specimen in Behavioral Traps beside Completion Bias. |
| 2026-10-23 | edit | Grok 4.7 | Pointed escalation of commitment to the sunk-cost page and marked the boundary. |
Research brief
Mechanical checks
| Length | 274 words |
|---|---|
| Sections | 11 |
| Required section map | Complete |
| Reframing app note | Present |
| Links | 7 |
| FAQ sections | 0 |
| Em/en dashes | 0 |
| Italic tags | 0 |