HALT as Deliverable

Problem

A quality discipline (pre-registration, pre-flight check, sanity gate) refuses to produce the intended result because it detected an inconsistency in the surrounding state. The engineer reflex is to fix the inconsistency and re-run, treating the HALT as a setback — which discards the most valuable artifact the work produced. A discipline-gate catching its own author's accidental falsification, before any contaminated result ships, is an uncopyable credibility signal: it proves the discipline works on real, unrehearsed material. Where the framework's credibility matters more than the specific result, the HALT is the higher-value deliverable.

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