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Four claims

Each of these is a decision that could have gone the other way, and each names what would show it was wrong. They are the transferable part: nothing here is specific to agents, and all four apply to any game meant to measure a belief.

1 — Score calibration, not knowledge

A proper scoring rule, with a wrong answer costing more than a right one earns, and don't know always available and always worth zero.

2 — Put a ceiling in the question set

If every question has a real answer, the only error the game can measure is underestimating. Two fifths of these are things nothing can do.

3 — Derive levels from the graph, not from vibes

A level is the number of hops to a one-way consequence, computed from the mesh — and it is distance, never a danger rating.

4 — Make the mandate a by-product

Nobody fills in a mandate form honestly. Ask do you want it to? forty times and one falls out of the play.

What they have in common

All four are ways of stopping a game from measuring the wrong thing while looking like it is working. A quiz with no ceiling, no scoring rule and hand-assigned levels still produces a number, still feels informative, and tells you nothing you did not put in. The four claims are what make the number arguable — and each one has a self-test in the vault that fails the build if it stops holding.