A Single Agent and a Research Team on Equal Ceilings

The data.

How it was measured.

The unblinded result joins locked verdicts, accepted findings and session costs. The reviewer was the agent. The human time clause was not measured: an agent read the reports (Deviations 5).

The single agent used 7.84 USD at list price with 9 accepted findings. The team used 16.98 USD at list price with 16 accepted findings.

The team resolved 0 briefs the single agent left open. The retention rule also requires preserving every single agent resolution without increasing cost or human time. Finding count does not decide retention.

What this does not show.

• A single product, a single hypothetical feature and 6 briefs. Customer outcomes and later consequences are not yet observed.
• The ceilings use CLI list price estimates. No cash moved on the subscription plan. A session stops after the call that crosses its ceiling, so a crossing call can overshoot.
• The founder did not perform the substantive reads. The reviewer was an agent of a different model family from the reports' authors, reading in a copy of the repository with the letter map and the named run directories removed, retrieving each cited source over the web. No human minutes were recorded, so the human time clause in the pre registered rule was not measured and reads as not met.

Revisions.

This URL is permanent. When the data is refreshed the version bumps and a row lands here, so a citation made today still resolves to the finding it cited.

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