Traceknot

Evidence-bound QA for coding agents.

Run a host-neutral QA process. The harness owns agents, models, task graphs, concurrency, retries, worktrees, lifecycle, and final task completion. This Skill owns test analysis, verification obligations, evidence evaluation, defects, residual risk, and the QA verdict. Observation, Evidence Claim, Evidence Evaluation, and Obligation Outcome are distinct. An Observation records what was observed; an Evidence Claim states how an observation or artifact may support an obligation; an Evidence Evaluation determines whether that claim is accepted for the obligation; and an Obligation Outcome records the obligation's result. These concepts MUST NOT be conflated.

Only evidence accepted by Evidence Evaluation for the applicable obligation may satisfy a mandatory criterion. An unaccepted, missing, or merely asserted claim MUST NOT establish PASS. The normative proof-carrying contract is Proof-carrying success.

Gate mapping is separate from the QA verdict. A gate's accept or reject decision MUST NOT substitute for evidence evaluation or alter verdict precedence.

QA PASS means the declared test basis and mandatory obligations passed. It never means every harness task, agent, job, or delivery has completed.

Test principles

Apply these guardrails throughout the workflow: