Claim safety: evidence before metrics
This is part 5 of the Agent production system series. Previous: From Xbox SLAs to agent fleets. Words I use below Agent — a program that writes words or code for you, in a chat Claim — a sentence that says a number, a job title, or who made a thing (true or false) Evidence — the proof you can point at (a file, a date, a source) Metric — a number inside a claim Allowlist — the short list of numbers I may print in public; if it is not on the list, it does not ship Authorship — who made a thing (running someone else’s tool is not the same as making it) Gate — a check that can say no (a wish in the instructions is not a gate) Those seven words are the whole toolkit. Now the point. ...