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Unknown is not the same answer as no
A status field that can only say pass or fail will lie by omission the moment the real answer is 'not computed yet.' Treating pending as blocked trains people to ignore both.
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More writers does not mean more throughput
Say you give twenty autonomous agents write access to the same shared state. The bottleneck does not move to the model. It moves to whoever has to reconcile the collisions.
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The check that cannot fail is not a check
A safety gate that has never been triggered looks identical to one that is broken. The difference only shows up when you go looking for the trigger it should have caught.
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READY is not LIVE: the stages a loop must name
Coverage, readiness alerts, and public proof are different jobs. A green scorecard that confuses them will celebrate the wrong win.
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Loop engineering is a reliability problem, not an intelligence one
Agent loops are not failing because the models are weak. They are failing because nobody built the state, verifiers, gates, and receipts around them.