Closing ask: your evals are measuring the wrong thing

If the dominant failure mode is anachronistic compositing and your E valves measure fluency and personality consistency, which they do, then your E valves cannot detect the dominant failure. So, here's where I'll leave you. If you ship character bots, companion AI, pedagogical agents, historical simulations, anything where a persona is supposed to reason from a record, your E valves are measuring the wrong thing. The instrument that catches what they miss is pre-registered. It's reproducible by any team with a frontier model in a context window. It scales as a build time gate, not a run time bottleneck, and it only works with a humanist in the loop, which I've shown you is a technical requirement, not a courtesy. The protocol, the questions, the rubric, and the predictions, the historians sealed vignettes, all of it will be published with this paper with Rick and Shawn. Not here with results. I'm here with an instrument and an invitation. The archive is open. The laboratory is built. Run it with us. And let what comes through be measured not by how it sounds, but by whether it's true. Thank you.