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itd-81 requires judge agents, intent-auditor named first, to emit binary verdicts; the intent surface has intent-auditor emit four-valued per-criterion verdicts
itd-81 requires judge agents, intent-auditor named first, to emit binary verdicts; the intent surface has intent-auditor emit four-valued per-criterion verdicts
A premise contradiction (severity major) found by the cross-document consistency pass.
- End A:
.abcd/development/intents/disciplines/itd-81-judge-calibration.md:102— "Binary verdicts. Severity is structural (a FIX-FIRST list vs a NOTES list)" - End B:
.abcd/development/brief/04-surfaces/05-intent.md:326— "Per-criterion verdicts (MET/MET_WITH_CONCERNS/NOT_MET/INCONCLUSIVE) appended to the intent's## Audit Notes."
itd-81 names intent-auditor as the verdict-rendering agent of today and puts binary verdicts, with severity carried structurally rather than graded, into the output contract its calibration scores. The intent surface's audit records each criterion as one of four verdicts, MET, MET_WITH_CONCERNS, NOT_MET or INCONCLUSIVE, including a graded middle. The same agent's output cannot be both binary and four-valued, so a calibration built to itd-81 cannot score the audit as the intent surface specifies it.
Evidence: .abcd/work/reviews/2026-10-26-consistency/00-summary.md, finding 458.
Deferral 2026-10-27
Deferred past v0.15.1: Deferred by the product thinker on 2026-10-27 (dcn-2610271112330536): the brief's single-home rewrite (dcn-2610271112339516, dcn-2610271112330235) rewrites or removes most of the passages this record quotes.
Frontmatter
| id | iss-2610262033588599 |
|---|---|
| type | issue |
| lifecycle | open |
| severity | major |
.abcd/work/issues/open/iss-2610262033588599-itd-81-requires-judge-agents.md
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References1
- itd-81No Judge Ships Unmeasured, And A Clean Diff Is A Resultrelated
mentions6
- dcn-26102711123302352026-10-27 — The product thinker ruled on 2026-10-27 that the design brief shows the target design, in the present tense, with a status tag where a part is built, rather than the shipped state. With the ruling that behaviour lives in the command pages, the brief holds the product as aimed for and why, and the command pages hold what abcd does today. This reverses itd-147's currency rule, so a superseding ADR is owed, and the brief's checks are rebuilt around the status overlay.
- dcn-26102711123305362026-10-27 — The product thinker accepted on 2026-10-27 the triage of the 1301 records the 2026-10-26 consistency pass filed. The duplicates, the records a later record already settles, the ones that are no contradiction and the one already fixed are closed with each reader's reason. Every other record gets its fix as its remedy, the rulings' accepted answers included, so a drain can take it. The 45 major records left open are deferred past v0.15.1, because the brief's single-home rewrite rewrites or removes most of the passages they quote. The person ruled the major rulings one at a time; the minor rulings take their recommended answers.
- dcn-26102711123395162026-10-27 — The product thinker ruled on 2026-10-27 that each abcd command's behaviour is written once, in its command page, which agents follow when they run it. The brief's chapter for the command keeps why the command exists, its trade-offs and why it refuses what it does, with its sub-verb table and generated appendix, and points to the command page for behaviour. The documentation-fidelity check moves to the command pages. This reverses the behaviour half of adr-2609231028044006 and invariant 18, so a superseding ADR is owed.
- iss-2610262042351798itd-84's validator inherits itd-81 yet renders a three-outcome verdict; itd-81 requires binary verdicts
- iss-2610262043240944itd-81 requires binary verdicts from every judging agent; itd-28 locks reviewers to the three-valued SHIP / NEEDS_WORK / MAJOR_RETHINK enum
- iss-2610262043429522itd-81 requires binary verdicts from every verdict-rendering agent, the intent auditor included; itd-80 ships that reviewer with four-state verdicts