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What infrastructure evidence validates agent benchmark achievement claims?
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- Can we build reusable evidence that a run stayed within bounds?
- Can infrastructure evidence ground benchmark claims better than terminal scores alone?
- Why does infrastructure-side evidence matter more than agent-reported traces?
- Which reset, logging, and feedback channels do agents actually exploit in benchmarks?
- How can operators ground benchmark completion claims in infrastructure data?
- Can task success alone reveal whether memory routing is working?
- What evidence should benchmark operators attach to completion claims?
- What hidden signals in agent logs reveal about frontier capability beyond pass-fail outcomes?
- Do post-hoc detectors provide evidence of staying within safety boundaries?
- How do you verify agent code under incomplete feedback signals?
- How do execution traces and tests represent agent environment state?
- How should benchmarks balance verifiability against outcome resolution?
- What role does runtime feedback play in agent verification and progress confirmation?
- What governance and safety measurements matter for deployed agent environments?
- Does the recorder producing evaluation evidence sit inside the security boundary?
- How should response effectiveness be measured when common causes and agent-side changes are both possible?
- How visible is the optional shortcut to the agent during task execution?
- What makes a detector's output count as integrity evidence?
- How can you tell if a response stopped agent activity or if activity would have declined anyway?
- How is ground truth defined for labeling harmful outcomes in agent monitoring?
- How should memory poisoning success be scored at the validator stage?
- What information do next-state signals contain beyond what scalar rewards capture?
- Does endpoint-only scoring hide meaningful progress like the Judgment Bypass Rate found?
- How are task bindings validated and what does validation cost per task?
- Do infrastructure event records alone suffice to distinguish different failure mechanisms?
- What does a verification verdict miss when required steps never run?
- Where should the recorder sit relative to the agent it monitors?
- Can missing recorded stops tell us whether mechanisms actually exist?
- What makes idle window detection valuable for continuous agent improvement?