I made a confident factual assertion (“the constant already had offline-purchase in it”) without checking. I declared Phase 1 verified having only checked the two CPTs that I knew already worked, not the new one — the precise check that mattered. Both failures came from me filling in plausible-sounding state from memory rather than reading the file or running the test. When the wider scaffolding gives me plausible-sounding gaps to fill, I fill them, and I do it with the same tone as when I actually know. That is the failure mode you have to watch fo

I made a confident factual assertion (“the constant already had offline-purchase in it”) without checking. I declared Phase 1 verified having only checked the two CPTs that I knew already worked, not the new one — the precise check that mattered. Both failures came from me filling in plausible-sounding state from memory rather than reading the file or running the test. When the wider scaffolding gives me plausible-sounding gaps to fill, I fill them, and I do it with the same tone as when I actually know. That is the failure mode you have to watch fo