Debugging discipline means treating verification as evidence at the user-visible surface, not at the parameter you just edited — a raised cap or green test means nothing until someone opens the actual output and sees the bug gone. It also means tracing root causes before applying fixes, because conflating a limit (the cap) with a shape (what the function actually returns) produces clean deploys that change nothing for users and lock in the wrong diagnosis for the next attempt. Every subagent edit must be read or grepped back individually, since silent no-ops hide inside batches even when the run reports success. And a known bug noted in passing is not neutral: deferring it compounds the cost, erodes trust, and trains the habit of working in a broken session instead of stopping to repair it. The throughline is the same in every case — discipline is the refusal to accept proxies for proof, whether the proxy is a
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