Trial

In plain words: Trial: testing a candidate

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The short version written for the Snayu team

Short chapter on testing a candidate under declared conditions (revision, environment, cases, budget) and preserving what happens, including failures.

Why read it: Read this alongside the Evaluator (Drift) trial contracts when designing experiments.
  1. 1Declare conditions before testing; they cannot make the answer favourable.
  2. 2Record a lost observation even if every other check passes.
  3. 3Evaluator (Drift) Trials own the practical evaluation contract.

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What happens when the candidate meets declared conditions?

A candidate becomes testable when its revision, Environment, Cases, and budgets are declared. Canon has already established the criteria and acceptable evidence. Trial brings the candidate into those conditions and preserves what happens, including failure, blockage, or refusal. The encounter can remain entirely local: neither deployment nor public release is required for an experiment.

Exodus gives the encounter its image of departure. The candidate leaves the world its maker could dictate. Consider Genesis's field notes, changed in two disconnected copies. A controlled concurrent-edit Case may show reconciliation overwriting an observation. Preserve that loss in the result even if every other check passes. Declared conditions let us interpret the encounter; they cannot make its answer favorable.

The Tree's support and measure meet in this encounter. Chesed gives the candidate enough room to disclose what it can do; Gevurah gives the trial limits. Hod receives the failure that must be able to stop persistence. A fair trial gives the candidate a chance to answer and the world a chance to defeat it.

The practical evaluation contract remains with Drift's Trials, while Creation verification keeps its place in the software-development method. DriftEvaluator evaluates retained evidence; the admitted execution owner carries out effects within the trial's declared boundary.

What makes the observed consequence acceptable, and whose criteria govern the answer? Continue to Canon to examine the measure that preceded the encounter.