Outcome Judging

Use this skill when the evidence is mostly about final outputs rather than the full agent trajectory. The main job is to produce a locked, evidence-anchored comparison of end-state quality.

Read references/outcome-techniques.md when you need the benchmark rationale for locked rubrics, bias-aware outcome judging, calibration, or skepticism toward unsupported chain-of-thought.

When to use this skill

• Final-output judging, pairwise response comparison, or benchmark-style answer ranking.
• Cases where reference, criteria, or explicit outcome artifacts matter more than the full process trace.
• Prompt-candidate comparisons where the decisive evidence is the quality of the final answer, final file, or end-state response.

Do not use this skill as the only judging contract when tool traces, side effects, runtime failures, or intermediate artifacts are central to the verdict. In those cases, switch to a process-aware judging contract instead.

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