The review's strongest point (§4.1) + fox: every measurement so far
is WITHIN Arborist — no control arm. Folded into #000057 (not a new
ticket): control = Hermes-solo; judge external/deterministic/
paraphrase-tolerant via a mined gold-fact answer key (resolves
circularity + no-LLM-judge + paraphrase at once); headline metric =
fabrication-vs-honest-abstention delta, not raw accuracy (common-
knowledge fixture would falsely show null — parametric memory).
Smallest-proof reorder: v1 = single-shot Hermes-solo vs Arborist on
a fabrication-bait atomic-fact fixture; recursive-drift loop is v2,
gated on v1. Atomic-fact only; essay-grounding = #000049's unsolved
NLI, OUT. Still fox calls: fixture population, gold-key shapes,
spend. Scaffold; no build past gate-1.
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