Audit Choices

Given a good decision, an agent implements it faithfully; wherever the task is underspecified, it makes the decision itself — silently, and the diff won't flag it. Reviewing thousands of changed lines doesn't scale, and it inspects the execution, which was probably fine. The audit that scales is of the choices: surface every decision the implementer made on its own, judge that list, and record the verdicts.

This is about architecture more than bugs. An implementation can work perfectly and still rest on decisions the user never made — a data shape, a storage location, a dependency, an API contract, a tradeoff of memory for speed — and every one of them is load-bearing for future work. The user needs to know them not because they're wrong, but because they now own them.