@dominickjosephluna: I kept every agent failure from this quarter. Pinned, labeled, dated. 6 specimens. 6 lessons that are now verifiers. A phantom citation that 404'd on the DOI. An invented endpoint. A confidently wrong date. A phantom commit hash. A library that doesn't exist. Each failure taught me a probe: → DOI-resolve check on every citation → OpenAPI spec-match pre-call → date-math check on every date claim → git cat-file check on every hash → PyPI/npm existence probe before install The pattern across all five: the lie was always confidence. The verifier was always the same move — trust nothing confident until it's probed. Six probes. One reframe. One habit. Pin the failure, keep the lesson.