Static verification gates — 'the file contains this string' — confirm that code was written, not that the feature works at runtime. A loop can pass every grep check and ship a broken feature because the checks verify the wrong thing. The right gate exercises runtime behavior: render the view, fire the gesture, check the output. Otherwise 'all gates passed' is just 'all grep passed.'
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