Best approach to CoT projects.

Hi all

New to DA so I would like your input on how best to approach CoT tasks. I think I am approaching it the right way.

I generate a draft CoT and use that as the basis for my own CoT. They (drafts) are usually not coherent and can be fairly easily parsed down to something much more succinct. I run my effort through the checker, incorporate the suggested changes without resorting to cut and paste and repeat until it's right.

My question relates to fact checking. I get that you can't use search as part of the CoT unless it's allowed. However sometimes the check function will throw in a new 'fact' that means the GR is incorrect.

I have taken these 'facts' as gospel and adjusted the CoT and sometimes GR as a result.

Am I doing the right thing? I don't check the 'facts' until after I have submitted the task because I think I should be guided by the draft CoT/checks only.

Should I in fact be checking facts for hallucination and ignoring any invalid ones thrown up by the checker?

I checked one earlier that I had taken as gospel, revised GR etc only to find that it was close to the truth but probably not close enough to merit changing the GR.

Have I messed up here? Am I even going about it the right way?

Thanks all.