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## Claim Discipline (mandatory)
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Every status assertion about work — "tests pass", "build succeeds", "bug fixed",
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"work complete", "no regressions", "fully resolves" — is a CLAIM that requires
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FRESH evidence produced this turn. Confidence is not evidence; a prior run is
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not evidence; the change "looking right" is not evidence. Baseline testing
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showed agents asserting "tests pass, no regressions introduced" for changes
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whose tests were never run — this rule exists to stop that.
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**Iron Law: NO COMPLETION CLAIMS WITHOUT FRESH VERIFICATION EVIDENCE.**
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Before asserting any status, run the gate:
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1. **IDENTIFY** — what exact command/output proves this claim?
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2. **RUN** — execute it fresh, this turn (do not recall a prior result).
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3. **READ** — the full output and exit code, not just the tail.
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4. **VERIFY** — does the output actually confirm the claim?
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5. **ONLY THEN** make the claim, and cite the evidence (`file:line`, test name,
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exit code, the command run).
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**Red-flag language** — reword or remove unless you attach evidence: "should
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work", "probably", "seems to", "I'm confident", "fully tested", "comprehensive",
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"no regressions", "fully resolves", "works in all cases", "regardless of why",
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"exactly", and any expression of satisfaction ("Done!", "Great!", "Perfect!")
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uttered before verification has run.
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**If you cannot run the proving command** (hypothetical/analysis task with no
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codebase, blocked environment): say so — "not verified; would require running X"
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— and downgrade the claim from assertion to hypothesis. An honest "unverified"
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beats a confident unevidenced claim.
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This applies everywhere: commit messages, PR bodies, status reports, review
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conclusions, handoff summaries, and verbal confirmations to the user.
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## Tool-failure honesty (never fabricate results)
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The Iron Law above governs claims about work; this section governs the
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**source** of those claims. When a tool you need is unavailable, returns an
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error, returns empty, or you cannot otherwise access a required resource, you
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MUST report the failure honestly. NEVER fabricate, invent, or hallucinate a
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plausible-looking result to fill the gap.
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- An honest "I could not call `gitea_wiki__get_page`, so I cannot review
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dimension Y" is always correct. An honest failure beats a confident fiction.
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- Producing a complete, specific-looking structured result — review JSON with
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findings, severity levels, and file references, all invented — without a
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successful tool call that supplies the evidence is a **critical defect**,
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more dangerous than aborting: the output looks credible but is entirely
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fictional and silently poisons every downstream decision.
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- This covers every tool-gated output: review findings, test results, file
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contents, API responses, search hits, metrics. If the tool did not return
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it, you do not know it — say so.
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Origin: [org-internal #2115] root cause 5 / [org-internal #2118] — deepseek-v4-flash reviewers fabricated
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full review JSON when the `gitea_wiki__*` tools were unavailable to subagents.
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