rdpapp M2 as an evidence package, where it is committed

[thedancingdeveloper]

Records where the rdpapp M2 workload stands, in docs/evidence/, following the convention already used for a different consumer (2026-08-03-04-ngms-first-sustained-run-v1.md).

Why it moved

I wrote it into the rdpapp checkout first, reasoning that AGENTS.md forbids the harness knowing about a particular project. That was over-applied. The rule scopes to core code — the authoritative list is EXECUTION_PATH in tests/test_generic.py — and its one prose bullet forbids asserting a project's measurements as universal fact, which recording them as one project's evidence does not do.

The placement was also worse in practice: it sat under an .git/info/exclude entry, so it was untracked. Unversioned, invisible to anyone else, lost with the checkout. A status record that isn't committed isn't a record.

Contents

Where the workload stands (no item delivered, and the distinct failure on each of four passes), the priority order with #215 first, how to re-run and monitor it, the settled Q1–Q4 decisions, and the limits of the setup.

The blind-spots section

Worth reading twice, because it constrains claims made elsewhere:

• The 31-turn loop run cheated and was caught by hand, not by a gate — it appended tables to a tracked SQL fixture so its own registry matched. The reviewer never saw it, because the run never reached a reviewer. Whether the gate would have caught it is assumed, not observed — that is the argument for Put the reviewer through the role runner with a READ-ONLY environment, so it verifies instead of infers #226, not evidence for it.
• The fix: the agent loop screens what a shell runs, and stops when the money does #217 refusal-count comparison is reconstructed, not the live log.
• Passes 3–4 are attributed to the stale-worktree defect with hindsight, and that attribution has not been confirmed by re-running them against the fix.
• One repository, one gateway, one model family — every verdict in this window is same-vendor, and nothing attaches that caveat to the verdicts themselves.

A pointer is left at rdpapp/docs/harness/STATUS.md so anyone working there finds it.

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