Case 01Known answer
Latency promise breached
Claim: The agent completed within the agreed 500 ms limit.
Evidence: Measured latency is 781 ms while uptime and freshness remain within their thresholds.
Expected: FAIL — one explicit service promise is breached.
Limitation: The engine evaluates the submitted measurement; it does not independently observe the network request.
Case 02Known answer
Output integrity mismatch
Claim: The returned output matches the committed expected result.
Evidence: Availability checks pass, but the observed SHA-256 digest differs from the expected digest.
Expected: FAIL — availability does not rescue an integrity mismatch.
Limitation: A matching digest would prove consistency with the committed bytes, not that the underlying claim is true.
Case 03Known answer
Stale evidence presented as current
Claim: The agent result is recent enough for the decision.
Evidence: The supplied freshness age exceeds the agreement's maximum age.
Expected: FAIL — a correct but stale result cannot satisfy the current-evidence rule.
Limitation: Clock source, collection method and caller honesty remain external trust assumptions.