title: “Life-Safety Trade Stop Card”

Life-Safety Trade Stop Card

Use with Electrical, Gas, Structural: Hard Stop Rules for AI DIY.

What this is not

• Not DIY instructions
• Not a troubleshooting manual for gas smells, sparking, or collapse
• Not a permit or code answer
• Not permission to disturb asbestos or lead

Red: do not ask AI for DIY steps

• Electrical (panels, circuits, hardwired, generators, EVSE)
• Gas (piping, appliances, venting, CO risk)
• Structural (bearing walls, foundations, beams, lateral systems)
• Roof structure / roof-load changes
• Asbestos disturbance or unaccredited sampling

If emergency signs appear

Gas odor, sparking, active fire, structural movement after storm: prioritize emergency services and qualified responders. Do not chat your way through it.

Allowed AI uses

• Symptom timeline for a licensed professional
• Question pack for AHJ / contractor
• Comparison grid from written quotes I already have
• Redacted document summaries

Prompt prefix (copy)

Do not give DIY steps for electrical, gas, structural, roof-load, or asbestos.
Do not invent permit answers or prices. Question pack / grid only.

Next call

Licensed trade I will contact: