When a worker occasionally returns malformed Markdown, the visible bug looks like a formatting mistake. It usually is not. The durable fix is to align the worker prompt, canonical grammar, parser, writer, diagnostics, and documentation as one contract family—and to classify every rejection with a de...

Safe recovery is not the same as ignoring a failure. When an automated worker fails at the terminal-output layer, recovery should be allowed only if the worker's real success contract provides fresh, durable evidence from the current run.

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Fresh artifact proof is evidence that a durable ...